On This Day

RichardTheBruce

September 3rd

1939: Recognizing the German invasion of Poland and a refusal to withdraw, Britain and France declare war.

1943: Valerie Perrine is born--Galveston, Texas.

1963: Serena Gordon is born--London, England.

1984: A View to a Kill films at the Ascot Race Course--Ascot, Berkshire, England.

2002: The Telegraph announces Revlon's limited edition 007 Colour Collection, a Die Another Day tie-in.

Discover your inner Bond girl with
bullet-shaped mascaras and 007 blushes

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG4795038/Discover-your-inner-Bond-girl-with-bullet-shaped-mascaras-and-007-blushes.html
Jenni Baden Howard on a new to die for range from Revlon
BY Jenni Baden Howard | 03 September 2002[/center]
With two months to go before the British premiere of Die Another Day, prepare to discover your inner Bond girl. The 007 film archives have always provided an irresistible source of inspiration for make-up artists and hair stylists (Ursula Andress's surf-tousled exit from the sea in Dr No has been recreated in endless magazine spreads), but Revlon has gone one step further and come up with a make-up range based on the latest 007 instalment.

Halle Berry, who stars in the new film, is one of the beauty brand's current faces (former Revlon models who have also been Bond girls include Kim Basinger, Talisa Soto and Carey Lowell), and the company has collaborated with the makers of Die Another Day to create a cosmetics line which is inspired by its two femme fatales: Halle, whose character is called Jinx, and young British actress Rosamund Pike, who plays Bond's M16 agent, Miranda Frost.

The limited edition 007 Colour Collection will be launched here on November 7 to coincide with the film's release. Revlon obviously had a lot of fun dreaming up the product names, which are predictably loaded with Bond-style puns and innuendo.

There is a gold, bullet-shaped mascara in Bond Black, which features a clear lash primer; lipsticks in Mission Mauve and Berry Avenger; a blush imprinted with the famous 007 pinwheel motif and eyeshadow compacts named after Halle and Rosamund's characters.

The range was developed in collaboration with the film's make-up artist and stylist, who advised on the looks and mood of the two characters. Shades and textures range from the warm and vibrant to the cool and frosted (much of the action takes place in an ice palace in Iceland, which was inspired by Sweden's ultra-trendy Ice Hotel). But the Lash Fantasy mascara stands out as a must, as it creates the essential, glamorous Bond babe flutter.

2004: A 1937 Bentley 4¼ Litre Gurney Nutting Drophead Coupé auctioned at Bondham's.

Still in good shape.

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_76164-Bentley-41-4-Litre-B129JY-1937.html

2006: Wiley publishes The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films by Loish H, Grish and Robert Weinberg.

From the Back Cover

The science behind the gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world′s greatest spy

From the sleek Aston Martin that spits out bullets, nails, and passengers at the push of a button to the microjet that makes hairpin turns to avoid a heat–seeking missile, the science and technology of James Bond films have kept millions of movie fans guessing for decades. Are these amazing feats and gadgets truly possible?

The Science of James Bond takes you on a fascinating excursion through the true science that underlies Bond′s most fantastic and off–the–wall accoutrements. The acclaimed science–fiction authors Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg provide a highly entertaining, informative look at the real–world achievements and brilliant imaginations behind such singular Bond gadgets as the buzz–saw Rolex, the car that turns into a submarine, and the ever–popular rocket–firing cigarette. They examine hundreds of Q Division′s ingenious inventions; analyze Bond′s astonishing battles beneath the earth and sea, in the skies, and even in outer space; and ask intriguing questions that lead to enlightening discussions about the limits of science, the laws of nature, and the future of technology.

Filled with entertaining anecdotes from Bond movie shoots and supplemented with "tech" ratings for all of the Bond movies, The Science of James Bond separates scientific fact from film fantasy with some very surprising results.

About the Author

LOIS H. GRESH is the author of seventeen books, including four novels. She has written dozens of suspense and science–fiction stories and has been nominated for national fiction awards six times. Gresh and Robert Weinberg have coauthored several books, including The Science of Superheroes and The Science of Supervillains, both from Wiley.

ROBERT WEINBERG is the author of sixteen novels and seventeen nonfiction books. He also scripted comic books for DC, Marvel, and Moonstone Publishers. Weinberg is the only World Fantasy Award winning author who has served as the grand marshal of a rodeo parade.

2015: A new poster for Spectre showcases classic Bond elements and The Day of the Dead.

2017: Scene Therapy looks at Bond's ancestral home in Skyfall.

Fictional Homes: James Bond’s Ancestral Home, Skyfall

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https://scenetherapy.com/fictional-homes-james-bonds-ancestral-home-skyfall/

The infamous ’Skyfall’ house from the 007 movie of the same name [2012 MGM/Sony/Columbia] is supposed to be situated in the barren rural lands of Glen Coe, Scotland, however the property was purpose-built from scratch at Hankley Common, Surrey, England. The lodge was built to resemble the weather-beaten stone builds of the Highlands, complete with creeping moss and small mullioned windows.

Skyfall Lodge James Bond Stag Gate

Skyfall Lodge Interior 3 Scenetherapy.com

Skyfall Lodge Exerior Scenetherapy.com

Skyfall Lodge Entrance Hall

Skyfall Lodge Interior 4 Scenetherapy.com Judi Dench, M, Film set

The interiors, created and shot on a soundstage at Pinewood Studios, feature all the classic features of an ancestral British country lodge, such as wood panelling, oil paintings, grandfather clocks, stone fireplaces, stag-themed paraphernalia and antique furniture.

The Skyfall Lodge, created by Art Director Dean Clegg, was designed, built and filmed in six months.

2020: A new trailer for No Time To Die introduces action from the film.

NO TIME TO DIE | Trailer 2

2021: newsline promotes the Land Rover Defender V8 Bond Version.

Expertise James Bond’s unique SUV

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https://newsline.news/expertise-james-bonds-unique-suv/

September 3, 2021

Experience James Bond's exclusive SUV

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2022: James Bond Movie Trivia Game! 25 Questions Live! Online event.

James Bond Monthly Online Trivia Game

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2022: Last night for Bonking James Bond at Aukland, New Zealand.

Bonking James Bond

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http://www.ellerslietheatre.co.nz/ets/default.asp?prod=49

Ellerslie Theatre
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Current production
The Ellerslie Festival of One Act Plays 2022
Sat 3 Sep, 8pm.

Bonking James Bond
written by April Phillips
directed by Kevin Murray
sponsored by
Première

A tale of a disillusioned housewife’s discovery that her husband of 20 years is unfaithful—what to do?—the answer—create a fantasy lover. A lover that calls her on the phone, sends her flowers. Make him jealous. That should do the trick.

This play won the 2010 Playwrights Assn. of N.Z. one act play competition. It’s funny, it’s witty.

Group A
Matinee - Sat 3 at 2pm
One play of six selected for the AMI Ellerslie One Act Play Festival 2011

Cast
Betty Robertson - Julia Leathwick
Jeffrey Robertson - Bryce Jones
Penelope / Svetlana - Christy Quilliam
James - Rob Holland

RichardTheBruce

September 4th

1932: Edward James de Souza is born--Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

1966: The Los Angeles Times reports on You Only Live Twice filming in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me starts its South London theater booking.

1983: Random House publishes an updated version of Steven Jay Rubin's The James Bond Films - A Behind the Scenes History. Includes the latest films Octopussy and Never Say Never Again.

1993: Hervé Villechaize dies at age 50--North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 23 April 1943--Paris, France.)

Hervé Villechaize

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervé_Villechaize

Villechaize in 1977

Born Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize 23 April 1943, Paris, France
Died 4 September 1993 (aged 50), North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Cause of death Suicide by shooting
Resting place | Ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean
Occupation | Actor
Years active | 1966–1993
Notable work
Nick Nack in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Spider in Seizure (1974)
King Fausto in Forbidden Zone (1980)
Smiley in Two Moon Junction (1988)
Height 3 ft 11 in (119 cm)
Television Fantasy Island
Spouse(s)
Anne Sadowski | (m. 1970; div. 1979)
Camille Hagen | (m. 1980; div. 1982)

Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (French: [ɛʁve vilʃɛz]; April 23, 1943 – September 4, 1993) was a French American actor. He is best remembered for known for his role as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, and for playing Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the 1977–1984 American television series Fantasy Island, where his catch phrase was "Ze plane! Ze plane!"

Early life
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was born in Paris, France on April 23, 1943. to English-born Evelyn (Recchionni) and André Villechaize, a surgeon in Toulon. The youngest of four sons, Villechaize was born with dwarfism, likely due to an endocrine disorder, which his surgeon father tried unsuccessfully to cure in several institutions. In later years, he insisted on being called a "midget" rather than a "dwarf". Villechaize was bullied at school for his condition and found solace in painting. He also had a brief modeling career.[citation needed] In 1959, at age 16, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study art. In 1961, he became the youngest artist ever to have his work displayed in the Museum of Paris.

In 1964 he left France for the United States. He settled in a Bohemian section of New York City and taught himself English by watching television.[citation needed]
Career

Villechaize initially worked as an artist, painter and photographer. He began acting in Off-Broadway productions, including The Young Master Dante by Werner Liepolt and a play by Sam Shepard, and he also modeled for photos for National Lampoon before moving on to film.[citation needed]

His first film appearance was in Chappaqua (1966). The second film was Edward Summer's Item 72-D: The Adventures of Spa and Fon filmed in 1969.[8] This was followed by several films including Christopher Speeth's and Werner Liepolt's Malatesta's Carnival of Blood; Crazy Joe; Oliver Stone's first film, Seizure; and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. He was asked to play a role in Alejandro Jodorowsky's film Dune, which had originally begun pre-production in 1971 but was later cancelled.

His big break was getting cast in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), by which time he had become so poor he was living out of his car in Los Angeles. Prior to being signed up by Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli, he made ends meet by working as a rat catcher's assistant near his South Central home. From what his co-star Christopher Lee saw, The Man with the Golden Gun filming was possibly the happiest time of Villechaize's life: Lee likened it to honey in the sandwich between an insecure past and an uncertain future. In addition to being an actor, Villechaize became an active member of a movement in 1970s and 1980s California to deal with child abuse and neglect, often going to crime scenes himself to help comfort abuse victims. Villechaize's former co-workers recalled that despite his stature, he would often confront and chastise spousal and child abusers when he arrived at crime scenes. In the 1970s, on Sesame Street, Villechaize performed Oscar the Grouch as a pair of legs peeping out from a trash can, for scenes which required the Grouch to be mobile. These appearances began in the second season and included the 1978 Hawaii episodes.

Though popular with the public, Villechaize proved a difficult actor on Fantasy Island, where he continually propositioned women and quarreled with the producers. He was eventually fired after demanding a salary on par with that of his co-star Ricardo Montalbán. Villechaize was replaced with Christopher Hewett, of Mr. Belvedere and The Producers fame.

In 1980, Cleveland International Records released a single by The Children of the World, featuring Villechaize as vocalist: "Why" b/w "When a Child is Born"

He starred in the movie Forbidden Zone (1980), and appeared in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), and episodes of Diff'rent Strokes and Taxi. He later played the role of the character Rumpelstiltskin in the Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre episode Rumpelstiltskin.

In the 1980s, he became popular in Spain due to his impersonations of Prime Minister Felipe González on the television show Viaje con nosotros (Travel with us), with showman Javier Gurruchaga.

He made his final appearance in a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of The Ben Stiller Show.

Personal life and death
Villechaize was married twice. He met his second wife Camille Hagen, an actress and stand-in double, on the set of the pilot for Fantasy Island.[2] They resided at a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) San Fernando Valley ranch which also was home to a menagerie of farm animals and pets.

In 1983, for a television program That Teen Show which included messages directed at depressed and suicide-prone teenagers, Haywood Nelson, star of the sitcom What's Happening!!, interviewed Villechaize about his many suicide attempts. Villechaize said then that he had learned to love life.

In the early morning hours of September 4, 1993, Villechaize is believed to have first fired a shot through the sliding glass patio door to awaken his longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self, before shooting himself at his North Hollywood home. Self found Villechaize in his backyard, and he was pronounced dead at a North Hollywood facility. Villechaize left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems. Villechaize was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his small body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily.

At the time of his suicide, Cartoon Network was in negotiations for him to co-star in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which was in pre-production at the time. Villechaize would have voiced Space Ghost's sidekick on the show.

His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean off Point Fermin in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California.[citation needed]

Depictions in media
In a March 2012 New York Times interview, Peter Dinklage revealed that he and Sacha Gervasi spent several years writing a script about Villechaize. Gervasi, a director and journalist, conducted a lengthy interview with Villechaize just prior to his suicide; according to Dinklage, "[a]fter he killed himself, Sacha realized Hervé's interview was a suicide note". The film, My Dinner with Hervé, which is based on the last few days of Villechaize's life, stars Dinklage in the title role, and premiered on HBO on October 20, 2018.

Filmography

Chappaqua (1966) as Little Person (uncredited)

Maidstone (1970)
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) as Beppo
The Last Stop (1972) as Deputy
Greaser's Palace (1972) as Mr. Spitunia
Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) as Bobo
Seizure (1974) as The Spider
Crazy Joe (1974) as Samson
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Nick Nack
Hot Tomorrows (1977) as Alberict
Fantasy Island (TV series, 1977–1983) as Tattoo
The One and Only (1978) as Milton Miller

Forbidden Zone (1980) as King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) as Little Breather
The Telephone (1988) as Freeway (voice)
Two Moon Junction (1988) as Smiley

Hervé Villechaize (1943–1993)

Actor | Camera and Electrical Department
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898199/

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films its final scene with OO7 and Wai Lin staying undercover.

2008: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel By Royal Command.

https://www.youngbond.com/by-royal-command/

by Charlie Higson

By Royal Command is the fifth book in the bestselling Young Bond series.

Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school – and his country.

Life for James Bond will never be the same again. Forced to flee from Eton to Austria, James must leave behind everything he knows, with only a beautiful – and dangerous – girl by his side. Soon he is trapped in a deadly war of secrets and lies, as a nightmare reunion with a bitter enemy throws him once more into the path of death.

MEET THE CHARACTERS

Roan Power
Roan is the intriguing new boys’ maid at Eton. Tough, witty and beautiful, this Irish girl soon makes an impression on James and his school-friends…

“‘You must be James Bond,’ she said, looking him up and down with a raised eyebrow. ‘I’ve heard a lot about you.’

‘And you must be Roan, the new maid,’ said James. ‘I’ve heard a lot about you, too.’

And his messmates hadn’t been making it up.

Roan was indeed a lot prettier than the previous maid. She was about the same height as James, but two or three years older, with wavy black hair and skin as white and smooth as a marble statue. Her huge eyes were deep and dark, but they shone with an intense brightness, like polished glass. Her wide mouth was curled up at one end in a slight, mocking smile.”

Graf von Schlick
The thrill-seeking Graf von Schlick enjoys fast cars and the cool air of his native Austria. But when the young James Bond encounters him after a tumble in the mountains, he is sure that all is not as it seems. Has James seen the Graf somewhere before..?

“As James and Andrew walked back towards their taxi James glanced up to see the Graf von Schlick emerging through the big brass-studded double doors of the clinic. He was wearing a long, black, astrakhan overcoat that came almost down to the ground, black leather gloves and a black fur hat covering his bald head. Once more he stared at James with that disconcerting blank look.”

Dandy O’Keefe
A friend of the new boys’ maid Roan, James is both drawn to and suspicious of the roguish and charming Dandy…

“The young man was as handsome as Roan was beautiful, with a glamorous mop of wavy fair hair and dark blue, almost black eyes. He was dressed in an olive green moleskin suit with a bright orange waistcoat and a red scarf knotted loosely around his throat.

Roan stretched out on her back on the blanket and called over to James.

‘This is my pal, Dandy O’Keefe,’ she said. ‘Us paddies need to stick together, you know. We’re a long way from home.'”

2011: India Railways Minister puts some controls on BOND 23 filming.

Bond train stunt change ordered
Railways minister says rooftop travel is illegal and cannot be encouraged

See the complete article here:

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/bond-train-stunt-change-ordered-1.861010

September 04, 2011 00:00 AFP

A crowded passenger train in Patna, capital of the state of Bihar. A terse message from the Congress Party and indications that the Trinamool Congress could be dropped from India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has jolted the maverick West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
Image Credit: Reuters

New Delhi: India has asked the makers of the latest James Bond movie to change a stunt showing people travelling on train rooftops, saying it would depict the state-run railway in a poor light.

"Rooftop travel is illegal in India and it cannot be encouraged," Indian Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi said on Saturday. Many Indians seek to avoid paying for tickets by travelling on the roof.

Daniel Craig, who plays the world's most famous secret agent, was supposed to jump from a motorcycle onto a moving train roof packed with travellers and then leap to another equally crowded train top, according to the script.

Trivedi said 007 could perform the stunt - but only if there is nobody on the top of the trains. "Rooftop travel will not be shown," he said, adding that the government has also stipulated the filming "has to be safe and passengers should not be inconvenienced".

The railways minister said that the original movie script could have led to an impression that rooftop travel was common in India. "There are many trains in India and not all trains have people travelling on the rooftops," he argued.

The makers of the as-yet untitled movie - known currently only as "Bond 23" - had agreed to the conditions, Trivedi said in a telephone interview.

The film is to be directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes and will be shot in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and the resort state of Goa. Shooting is planned for February and March next year and the film is slated for release in November 2012.

Trivedi also said he is plugging for the James Bond character to be used to promote the sprawling Indian Railways, still the country's main form of long-distance travel despite fierce competition from new private airlines.

"I have proposed that the spy says something like: 'Indian Railways is as strong as James Bond.' It is my suggestion," the cabinet-ranking minister said.

The state-run railway is the country's largest single employer, with 1.4 million workers, and runs 11,000 trains carrying 19 million passengers daily.

The world's second-largest railway offers some adventurous journeys where trains chug through arid deserts, snowy Himalayan regions and across rickety British-built bridges spanning mountain gorges and fast-flowing rivers.

The last time a Bond film was on location in India was for the 1983 hit Octopussy, with actor Roger Moore in the lead role. It was shot in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

"Bond 23" is one of nearly two dozen films by foreign studios which have been cleared to shoot in India recently. Others include a film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Trishna, British director Michael Winterbottom's version of Thomas Hardy's classic Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi.

2015: Ocula magazine interviews Taryn Simon on her book Birds of the West Indies and other subjects.

Ocula Conversation
Taryn Simon in Conversation

See the complete article here:

https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/taryn-simon/

Gagosian Gallery 4 September 2015

Taryn Simon. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative.

Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies takes the name and format of the original Bond’s taxonomy to present an inventory of women, weapons, and vehicles—recurring elements in the James Bond films between 1962 and 2012. This visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition. It also underlines how they function as essential accessories to the myth of the seductive, powerful, and invincible Western male.

Maintaining the illusion upon which the Bond narrative relies––an ageless hero with an inexhaustible supply of state-of-the-art weaponry, luxury vehicles, and desirable women—requires a constant process of replacement. A contract exists between the Bond franchise and the viewer that binds both to a set of expectations. In servicing the desires of the consumer, fantasy becomes formula, and repetition is required; viewers demand something new, but only if it remains essentially the same.

Ten of the fifty-seven women Simon approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula. Simon represents each missing woman by reinserting the black rectangle cut from the mat to frame their would-be portrait, covering and at the same time representing their absence.

Simon’s film Honey Ryder (Nikki van der Zyl), 1962 documents the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, Nikki van der Zyl, an unseen and uncredited performer, provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. Invisible until now, van der Zyl further underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.

The sequencing of women, weapons, and vehicles in Birds of the West Indies was determined using a random number generator called the Mersenne Twister, used for statistical simulations and in computer programming languages. By randomly reconfiguring the ordering of the works, Birds of the West Indies continuously mimics a longing for endless reiteration unaffected by time and history.

How would you describe your work, since it’s clearly not just photography?
I look at my work as interdisciplinary—not existing in any specific envelope. These days most are working in interdisciplinary forms where things are less easily defined or clear. I find titles limiting and a means of control.

I’m interested in spaces of confusion and disorientation in which subjects and thoughts mutate and transform—and are difficult to understand, and even more difficult to picture. I try to look at those amorphous spaces through something actual—looking at abstraction through something understandable as opposed to through abstraction itself. I’m interested in the questions that keep you up at night – what we are doing here, if there’s purpose—but driving at the unanswerable through something that appears tangible.

Why are photography and text both so integral to your work?
I use photography and writing to highlight an invisible space between the two – a space governed by interpretation, translation and manipulation. These two poles are constantly fighting each other and supporting each other and sometimes doing both at the same time. I do find myself more interested in the camera as a machine, allowing me to inventory certain subjects that are then made into works through their relationship to text, space, font and graphic design.

You were studying science before entering into art. Does that indicate something about your interests?
I am often skating a line between science and aesthetics. Science itself gives the appearance of authority or a clear answer. Graphic design plays a big role in rendering this sense of certainty to the public. I like toying with that relationship (between answers and data and the way in which they are conveyed), and creating systems that appear absolute, but are in fact just personal creations.

Both my father and grandfather were obsessed data collectors and photographers. I was introduced to the larger world, the construction of facts and fantasy, and photographic production through their frequent slideshows. My father recorded histories, peoples and landscapes in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Thailand, and Pakistan… And brought me the visual evidence coupled with his other-worldly narratives. My grandfather’s perspective was the opposite—a macro view of the stars, nebulas, insects, minerals and plants. He spent years grinding glass to perfect a lens for his telescope. Both had closets stacked with slides. And both identified every photograph with a considerable amount of collected information.

Taryn Simon, Shark Brain Control Device, 1983. From the series Birds of the West Indies, 2013. 

Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

How do you select the subjects or themes of your works?

The works are often guided by things I've been introduced to in the previous project—peripherally or directly. Or they are a rejection or move against previous work. They start simply, and then unfold into complicated programs. I read a lot – and often cull ideas from discoveries in both fact and fiction.

For example, in A Living Man Declared Dead and other chapters, I tried to articulate certain systems, patterns, and codes through design and narrative. I travelled around the world researching and recording eighteen bloodlines and their related stories. I was exploring the unanswerable questions regarding fate and its relationship to chance, blood and circumstance. Its failures and rejections became a big part of the work. There are several empty portraits representing living members of a bloodline who could not be photographed for reasons including dengue fever, imprisonment, army service, and religious and cultural restrictions on gender. Some just refused because they didn’t want to be part of the narrative. In the end, the blanks establish a code of absence and presence. The stories themselves function as archetypal episodes from the past that are occurring now and will happen again. I was thinking about evolution and if we are in fact unfolding, or if we’re more like a skipping record—ghosts of the past and the future.

For A Living Man…, you traveled to 18 countries over a four year period of time. Has your gender ever been a challenge in this context?
Being a woman has been very difficult at times, and in others helpful. There were a number of difficulties to avoid along the way, something always happened: flash floods, typhoons, landslides, carjacking’s, authorities who didn’t want me photographing certain subjects. We traveled with a ton of gear to accommodate our moving studio which made us uncomfortably visible and indiscreet. In Tanzania for example, our equipment was seized by corrupt authorities that demanded 80,000 dollars for its return. I was there to photograph the bloodline of the director of the Tanzania Albino Society. Albinos in Tanzania are hunted by human poachers who trade their skin, limbs and organs for large sums of money to witchdoctors who promote the belief that albinos have magical powers. This is a subject the authorities are not keen to publicize.

Your work seems very brave. Are you?
It’s quite the opposite. I’m in fact very fearful and many of the projects are about confronting those intimidating and haunting lines.

What are you up to now?
I just completed a project for the Venice Biennale on the paperwork of power and the ways in which human kind exerts the illusion of control over events and the natural world. I'm currently working on a film project in Russia and a large scale performance piece for the Park Avenue Armory in New York and ArtAngel in London. —[O]

Birds of the West Indies/ / A Short Interview for Photo Shanghai

How did you begin your research for Birds of the West Indies? Did you watch all the James Bond films?


The films were watched chronologically in a binge. And then reviewed again and again. The entire studio was involved.

Taryn Simon, 1969 Mercury Cougar XR7, 1969. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013.

Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Did your understanding of the Bond franchise change after watching and re-watching all the films for this project?

The films journey through economics, race, gender politics, weapons development and proliferation, branding, identity, global politics, aesthetics in such a radical form. They truly stand as a powerful record of culture's role in all of these categories. Interestingly I was told that MI6 at one point looked to Bond for weapons development ideas as opposed to the other way around. Perhaps that's the way it goes: imagination and fantasy first. 



Will you be in the movie theater for the next James Bond film?

Front and center.



How were you able to photograph the elements of the James Bond film franchise? What was the hardest thing to find?

The weapons and vehicles came from different sites throughout Europe and America: the official Bond archive, auction houses, private collectors, museums. The earlier items presented more obstacles because the value of the franchise was not yet established and elements of the films weren't preserved as they are today. I'm always interested in archives that develop before value is established - and then how they mutate once it is recognized -- the collision of low and high art. 


Did any one of the interchangeable elements of the Bond franchise have particular meaning for you?

As a metaphor, I always liked the Hasselblad signature gun in which a camera is a weapon of death.



Were you concerned about the project’s viability when some of the actresses refused to be photographed? What made you decide to indicate these actresses’ absences with “blank” images?

When Ursula Andress declined to participate, I was sure the project was in jeopardy of failure. She is THE bond girl. I became obsessed with getting her image and history, and in that process discovered that the voice of her character in Dr. No is dubbed by an uncredited English woman named Nikki Van der Zyl. Ursula's character, Honey Ryder, is a fragmented creation; pieced together to compel. In the end Ursula's absence was a blessing. I created a film in which Nikki, who had always been invisible in the Bond universe, reads the complete lines of Ursula's character - and becomes visible. 


Nikki was the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, she provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. For me, she underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.



The empty portraits disrupt the archive and present obstacles I couldn't transcend. In my work, I'm often associated with access to difficult and complex areas and subjects. I assumed this project would be a break from those difficulties. Surprisingly, it was even more difficult. Ten of the fifty-seven women I approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula.

Taryn Simon, Bibi Dahl (Lynn-Holly Johnson), 1981. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013.

Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery


How do you view the portraits of the women in relation to your ongoing exploration of reality of fiction in the history of your work?

I see the women's portraits existing in this strange liminal space between reality and fiction. Or a space where both reality and fiction disappear and a third space opens up that is neither. The mark of a bond girl is so indelible; there is often no room for another reality or identity. Their poses and clothing play a part in that push/pull. —[O]

Interview supplied by Photo Shanghai

2018: Smithsonian Snapshot features Bond, James Bond - Ornithologist. A mouthful.

Bond, James Bond: Ornithologist

See the complete article here:

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/bond-james-bond-ornithologist

September 4, 2018

Smithsonian Libraries’ copy of the first edition, Birds of the West Indies.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

The famous fictional British spy, James Bond (code name 007), whose action-packed exploits and international adventures are depicted in books and movies, got his name because it was the most bland name his creator Ian Fleming had ever heard.

Fleming said he chose the name because he “wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument…” Bond’s first appearance was in Casino Royale, published in 1953.

Fleming borrowed the name from a real-life American ornithologist who had written Birds of the West Indies, a book that Fleming, an avid bird watcher, had loved in his youth.

Pictured above is the Cuban tody from the Smithsonian Libraries’ copy of Birds of the West Indies. In addition, the Smithsonian collections contain bird specimens that the real James Bond collected in the Caribbean; they are housed in the National Museum of Natural History’s Division of Birds.

Read more about James Bond, Ian Fleming and bird books at Smithsonian Libraries’ “Unbound” blog.
https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/06/13/bond-james-bond-birds-books-bond/#.WzUOJNJKiUk

2018: James Bond 007 on Twitter celebrates National Wildlife Day.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1036941607243796484

2019: Shanghai China enjoys Secret Cinema Casino Royale.

Brit Event Movie Experience Secret Cinema Launches
In China With ‘Casino Royale’ Show

See the complete article here:

https://deadline.com/2019/09/secret-cinema-casino-royale-china-1202710124/

By Andreas Wiseman | International Editor | @AndreasWiseman | September 3, 2019

Secret Cinema

Secret Cinema, the popular British event cinema brand, is expanding to China, marking the company’s debut on the international stage.

In collaboration with Chinese firm SMG Live, Secret Cinema will launch with its current immersive show Casino Royale in Shanghai on November 23 of this year.

Secret Cinema was founded in the UK in 2007. The immersive cinema screenings include theatrical elements and fancy dress as audiences are assigned a character and become part of the show. The label has run more than 70 productions.

Secret Cinema Presents Casino Royale opened in London this year and has drawn in around 120,000 customers so far; making it the company’s biggest production to date.

SMG is one of the largest media and entertainment businesses in China and its performing arts and live entertainment division, SMG Live has curated hundreds of productions. SMG Live will have the exclusive license to present Secret Cinema’s production of Casino Royale in Shanghai.

“Fabien Riggall, Creator and Chief Creative Officer of Secret Cinema commented, “I created Secret Cinema in 2007 to reinvent the cinema experience allowing participants to live inside the movies. It’s always been my dream to bring it to other parts of the world and now with the support of an amazing team we are able to make this happen. China is the largest film market in the world with a rich cinematic heritage with some of my favourite films, Chen Kaige’s Farewell my Concubine, Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It’s been amazing to see Secret Cinema become a cultural phenomenon here in the UK, and we’ve loved thrilling audiences with small and large scale productions of cult cinematic classics such as Back to the Future, Blade Runner and Star Wars. SMG Live’s heritage and production experience makes it the perfect partner to bring the concept of Secret Cinema to life in China.”

Max Alexander, CEO, Secret CInema comments, “Expanding internationally is incredibly complicated even with a traditional theatre show and Secret Cinema is a unique product with added complexities. We can’t just hire a purpose built venue, we need a venue that can house a production of this magnitude and then we have to build it. Having worked with SMG Live in the past I know them to be China’s most ambitious, experienced and skilled producers of live entertainment and a perfect partner for Secret Cinema. This is the first collaboration of many with SMG Live with whom we look forward to a long and creatively rich relationship. Secret Cinema is an incredible entertainment experience and we look forward to bringing it to more markets around the world as we embark on our international growth strategy”.

2022: Taryn Simon - Birds of the West Indies at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York.
Continues through 23 October.

Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/taryn_simon_birds_of_the_west_indies

Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”EXHIBITS | FOR THE BIRDS
June 7–October 23, 2022
Conservatory Gallery

In “Birds of the West Indies,” which takes its title from a taxonomy by American ornithologist James Bond, Taryn Simon identifies, photographs, and classifies every bird that appears in the first 24 James Bond films. Casting herself as Bond the ornithologist, Simon trains her eye away from the agents of seduction—luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. “Birds of the West Indies is installed as part of the Garden’s For the Birds exhibition and program series.

https://www.bbg.org/img/uploads/lightbox/_tile_thumbnail_regular/SIMON-2014-(ed-4)-United-Kingdom-Birds-of-the-West-Indies.jpg
26 images in a matted frame, each with a label
Taryn Simon, “United Kingdom, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014. Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 39⅞ × 94⅞ inches. Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.

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7 images with labels elegantly framed with a matte
Taryn Simon, “Morocco, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014. Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 26⅞ × 33⅞ inches. Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.

ABOUT THE WORK
In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous… a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative. Conflating Bond the ornithologist with 007, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her work, “Birds of the West Indies.”

In “Birds of the West Indies,” Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the first 24 films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon ventured through every scene to discover those moments of chance. The result is a taxonomy not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. The artist has trained her eye away from the agents of seduction—glamour, luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. She forces the viewer’s gaze off center, against the intentions of the franchise, by focusing on the forgotten, insignificant, and overlooked.

Each bird is classified by the time code of its appearance, its location, and the year in which it flew. The taxonomy is organized by country: some locations correspond to nations we acknowledge on our maps, including Switzerland, Afghanistan, and North Korea, while others exist solely in the fictionalized rendering of James Bond’s missions, including Republic of Isthmus, San Monique, and SPECTRE Island.

Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. The birds flew freely in the background of the background, unnoticed or unrecognized until they were catalogued by Simon. Sometimes indecipherable specks hovering in the sky or perched on a building, these birds will never know, nor care, about their fame. In their new static form, the birds often resemble dust on a negative, a once common imperfection that has disappeared in the age of Photoshop. Other times, they are frozen in compositions reminiscent of genres from photographic history. Some appear as perfected and constructed still lifes while others have a snapshot quality. Many appear in an obscured, low-resolution form, as if they had been photographed by surveillance drones or hidden cameras. These visual variations are also affected by feature film’s evolution from 35 mm to high-resolution digital output.

Simon’s taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality. Bird study skins, correspondence, awards, and personal effects of James Bond the ornithologist have been collected by Simon and are displayed in vitrines alongside the photographic works. These artifacts present remnants of the real-life James Bond in his parallel existence to the fictional spy who took his name.

FOR THE BIRDS PRESENTING SPONSOR
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September 5th

1939: George Lazenby is born--Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

1966: Mercedes-Benz issues a press release detailing delivery of a white 230 SL to 'Oddjob'.

Watch it, James Bond, 'Oddjob' drives a 230 SL.

https://mercedes-benz-publicarchive.com/marsClassic/en/instance/print/Press-Information-September-5-1966.xhtml?oid=179411113

https://dyler.com/cars/mercedes-benz/230-sl-for-sale/1966/25922/mercedes-benz-230-sl-rhd-cabriolet-roadster-1966-white-for-sale

1968: Richard Maibaum finishes the script used to film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

1979: 007 Contra o Foguete da Morte (OO7: Against the Rocket of Death) released in Brazil.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7's underwater survival with the Rolls Royce.

1988: Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe dies at age 75--Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
(Born 25 February 1913--Oberplanitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany.)

Gert Frobe, 75; Portrayed Goldfinger in Bond Movie

See the complete article here:

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-07/news/mn-1578_1_gert-frobe

September 07, 1988|BURT A. FOLKART | Times Staff Writer

Gert Frobe, the ginger-haired, rotund comic actor who portrayed what has been described as Ian Fleming's "kinkiest villain," Goldfinger, has died following a heart attack.

Frobe, a former violinist and cabaret performer, was 75 when he died in a Munich hospital Monday. He had suffered the attack last Wednesday, a day after he returned to the stage for the first time since a cancer operation in 1986.

Frobe was born Karl-Gerhard Frobe in Planitz in what is now East Germany. He was a natural-born comic, described by critics as Germany's version of American Danny Kaye.

In Nearly 100 Films
Frobe played in nearly 100 films, including roles in the 1961 U.S. production of "The Longest Day" and the British-produced "The Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines," filmed in 1964.

But he was best-known internationally for his role as the greedy villain "Goldfinger" who battled Sean Connery's James Bond in the 1964 film version of the Fleming thriller.

In the picture Goldfinger portrays a preposterous multimillionaire criminal who schemes to rob the U.S. Mint at Ft. Knox. Bond, of course, thwarts him.

The professional triumph Frobe managed in that film was overshadowed a year later when he was quoted in the British newspaper Daily Mail as saying: "Naturally I was a Nazi" during the Third Reich.

Frobe denied making the comment and insisted: "What I told an English reporter during an interview . . . was that during the Third Reich I had the luck to be able to help two Jewish people although I was a member of the (Nazi) party."

Despite Frobe's denial, Israel banned all of his films for months until Mario Blumenau informed the Israeli Embassy in Vienna that Frobe had indeed hidden Blumenau and his mother from the Nazis.

Frobe studied theater under Dresden actor Erich Ponto and Paul Guenther in Berlin during the early years of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

After theaters were closed by the Nazis in September, 1944, Frobe was called into the German army, where he served until the end of World War II.

'A New Danny Kaye'
In his first major role in a film, "Berlin Ballads," which opened in European cinemas in 1948, film critics wrote: "Germany has a new Danny Kaye." In it he played a character called Otto Normalverbraucher, or Otto Normal Consumer, a soldier returning to a devastated Germany from a prisoner of war camp.

Although he was trained as a classical violinist and played his first recital on German radio when he was in his teens, Frobe turned his back on music to pursue a dramatic career.

Among his other films are "The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse," "Threepenny Opera," "A High Wind in Jamaica," "Is Paris Burning?" in which he played Gen. Dietrich von Sholititz, Hitler's commandant in Paris, "And Then There Were None" and "Bloodline."

Gert Fröbe
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002085/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

1989 The Black Forest Clinic (TV Series) -Theodor Katz
- Hochzeit mit Hindernissen (1989) ... Theodor Katz
1986-1987 The Little Vampire (TV Series) - Detective Gurrmeyer
- Kein Abschied ist für immer (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Transportprobleme (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Geiermeier ist überall (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Das große Fest der Vampire (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Unruhe im Keller (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
1985 Alte Sünden rosten nicht (TV Movie) - Konsul Heimann
1984 August der Starke (TV Movie) - August der Starke
1983 Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (TV Movie) - Emanuel Striese
1983 Der Garten (TV Movie) - Mr. Hayward
1981 Banovic Strahinja - Jug Bogdan
1981 Ein sturer Bock (TV Movie)
1980 The Umbrella Coup - Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine (as Gert Froebe)

1979 Bloodline - Inspector Max Hornung
1979 Noch 'ne Oper (TV Movie) - Mann auf der Straße
1978 Der Tiefstapler - Felix von Korn
1978 Der Schimmelreiter - Tede Volkerts (Deichgraf)
1977 Death or Freedom - Graf von Buttlar
1977 The Serpent's Egg - Inspector Bauer (as Gert Froebe)
1977 Das Gesetz des Clans - Philip Brown
1976 Sonntagsgeschichten (TV Movie) - Gastwirt
1976 Death Rite - Vestar
1975 Alte Hüte aus Wien - Witziges - Spitziges - Spritziges (TV Movie)
1975 Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient - Traugott Wurster / Theodor Wurster
1975 Doctor Justice - Max Orwall / Georges Orwall (as Gert Froebe)
1975 The Man Without a Face (TV Mini-Series) - Le commissaire Sorbier
- Le secret des Templiers (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- Le rapt (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe, credit only)
- Le sang accusateur (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- La marche des spectres (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- La mort qui rampait sur les toits (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Histoires insolites (TV Series) - Joseph
- Parcelle brillante (1974) ... Joseph
1974 Shadowman - Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Ten Little Indians - Blore (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Der Räuber Hotzenplotz -Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
1973 Ludwig - Father Hoffman
1971 $ - Mr. Kessel

1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - Willi Schickel / Horst Müller (as Gert Frobe)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Baron Bomburst (as Gert Frobe)
1968 Dear Caroline - Le docteur Belhomme (as Gert Froebe)
1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools - Professor von Bulow (as Gert Frobe)
1967 I Killed Rasputin - Rasputin (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Triple Cross - Colonel Steinhager (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Is Paris Burning? - General Dietrich von Choltitz (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Crook's Honor - Paul
1966 The Upper Hand - Walter (as Gert Froebe)
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Emil Claasen
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Count Manfred Von Holstein (as Gert Frobe)
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica - Dutch Captain (as Gert Frobe)
1964 Goldfinger - Goldfinger (as Gert Frobe)
1964 Backfire - Karl Fehrman
1964 Tonio Kröger - Policeman Peterson
1964 Greed in the Sun - Castagliano dit 'La betterave' (as Gert Froebe)
1963 Banana Peel - Raymond Lachard
1963 Three Penny Opera - J.J. Peachum
1963 The Golden Patsy - Alfred Paulsen
1963 Enough Rope - Melchior Kimmel
1962 The Longest Day - Sgt. Kaffekanne
1962 The Terror of Doctor Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Lohmann
1962 Redhead - Kramer
1961 Auf Wiedersehen - Angelo Pirrone
1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse - Kommissar Lohmann
1961 Via Mala - Jonas Lauretz
1961 Der grüne Bogenschütze - Abel Bellamy
1960 Crook and the Cross - Paul Wittkowski
1960 Until Money Departs You - Jupp Grapsch
1960 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Kras
1960 Headquarters State Secret - Der Chef
1960 Between Love and Duty - Le général (as Gert Froebe)
1960 The High Life - Docteur Kölling

1959 Alt Heidelberg - Dr. Jüttner
1959 Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee - Johannes Grohmann (alias Dr. Brand)
1959 The Day It Rained - Dr. Albert Maurer
1959 Grand Hotel - Generaldirektor Preysing
1959 Duel with Death - Dag sen.
1959 Jons und Erdme - Smailus, ehem. russischer Matrose
1959 Twelve Hours by the Clock - Blanche
1959 Prisoner of the Volga - Professor
1959 The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon - Hugo
1958 Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen - Tessmann' Katja's Father
1958 The Crammer - Freddy Blei
1958 Grabenplatz 17 - Titu Goritsch
1958 It Happened in Broad Daylight - Schrott
1958 Rosemary - Bruster
1958 Wet Asphalt - Jupp
1958 Not Delivered - Hans (as Gert Froebe)
1957 Das Herz von St. Pauli - Jabowski
1957 Charmants garçons - Edmond Petersen (as Gert Froebe)
1957 The Mad Bomberg - Kommerzienrat Gustav-Eberhard Mühlberg
1957 He Who Must Die - Patriarcheas (as Gert Froebe)
1957 The Girl and the Legend - Mr. Gillis
1957 Typhoon Over Nagasaki - Ritter
1956 Waldwinter - Gerstenberg
1956 Ein Herz schlägt für Erika - Heubacher
1956 The Girl from Flanders - Rittmeister Kupfer
1955 Her Crime Was Love
1955 Das Forsthaus in Tirol - Bäuerle, Kaufmann
1955 Heroes and Sinners - Hermann (as Gert Froebe)
1955 Confidential Report - First Policeman - Munich (as Gert Frobe)
1955 Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe - Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Deltorri
1955 Special Delivery - Olaf
1954 The Eternal Waltz - Gawrinoff
1954 A Double Life - Mittelmeier
1954 They Were So Young - Lobos
1954 Das Kreuz am Jägersteig - Kobbe
1954 Morgengrauen - Bit part
1954 The Little Town Will Go to Sleep - Oskar Blume - Gelegenheitsarbeiter
1953 Hochzeit auf Reisen - Herr Mengwasser
1953 Arlette erobert Paris - Manager Edmond Duval
1953 Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht - Gondoliere
1953 A Heart's Foul Play - Briefüberbringer
1953 Salto Mortale - Jan
1953 Man on a Tightrope - Police Agent (uncredited)
1952 Der Tag vor der Hochzeit - Rundfunkreporter
1951 Decision Before Dawn - German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
1950 Die Kreuzlschreiber - Lustiger Bauernbursche (uncredited)

1949 Nach Regen scheint Sonne - Konstantin
1948 The Berliner - Otto Normalverbraucher
1948 Der Herr vom andern Stern - Extra (uncredited)

Soundtrack (5 credits)

1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Friends (Video short) (performer: "Chu-Chi Face")
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (performer: "Chu-Chi Face", "Happy Birthday" - uncredited)
1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Der Morgenchoral des Peachum", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Von der Unsicherheit der menschlichen Verhältnisse", "Denn wovon lebt der Mensch", "Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens" - uncredited)
1961 Auf Wiedersehen (performer: "Sagt, wie darf ich Euch nennen" - uncredited)
1948 The Berliner (performer: "Kopf hoch, die Sache wird schon schiefgeh'n")

Writer (2 credits)

1986 Aus familiären Gründen (TV Movie) (story)
1978 Als wär's heut' gewesen... Kleine Geschichten sind das Leben (TV Movie)

1993: Claude Renoir dies at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.
(Born 4 December 1913--Paris, France.)

Cluade Renoir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Renoir
Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
Nationality French

Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."

He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.

He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.

Claude Renoir
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005841/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Cinematographer (89 credits)
1981 Sphinx (uncredited)

1979 The Medic
1978 Attention, the Kids Are Watching
1978 The Discord
1977 Animal
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director of photography)
1976 The Wing or The Thigh? (director of photography)
1976 Une femme fidèle
1976 Femmes Fatales
1976 Docteur Françoise Gailland
1975 French Connection II (director of photography)
1975 The Track
1974 Paul and Michelle
1973 Story of a Love Story (director of photography)
1973 The Serpent
1972 Hellé
1972 Killer
1971 The Burglars
1971 The Horsemen
1971 Swashbuckler
1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 The Adventurers

1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
1969 Soluna
1968 Barbarella (director of photography)
1968 Spirits of the Dead (director of photography - segment "Metzengerstein")
1966 La Grande Vadrouille
1966 The Game Is Over
1966 Paris au mois d'août
1965 Marco the Magnificent
1965 The Hour of Truth
1964 The Unvanquished
1964 Paris When It Sizzles (uncredited)
1963 The Corrupt
1962 Il fiore e la violenza (segment "La scampagnata")
1962 II Marco Polo
1962 Les amants de Teruel
1962 Lafayette
1960 Wasteland
1960 Blood and Roses
1960 Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

1959 Gorilla's Waltz
1959 Honeymoon (uncredited)
1959 Hit and Run
1958 Youthful Sinners
1958 End of Desire
1957 The Crucible
1956 Crime and Punishment
1956 Elena and Her Men (director of photography)
1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) (director of photography)
1955 A Missionary
1954 Madame Butterfly
1954 Fabulous India (Documentary)
1954 Maddalena
1953 Puccini
1952 The Golden Coach
1952 The Green Glove
1951 Images de l'ancienne Égypte (Documentary short)
1951 Amazing Monsieur Fabre
1951 The River
1951 Clara de Montargis
1951 Dr. Knock
1950 Gunman in the Streets
1950 Born of Unknown Father
1950 Prélude à la gloire

1949 Rendezvous in July
1949 Docteur Laennec
1949 Alice in Wonderland (photography)
1948 Dilemma of Two Angels
1948 La grande volière
1947 Monsieur Vincent
1947 La maison sous la mer
1947 The Royalists
1947 Passionnelle (disposal of the body sequence, uncredited)
1946 Mr. Orchid
1946 A Day in the Country (Short)
1946 Le couple idéal
1946 Behind These Walls
1945 The Queer Assignment
1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue
1944 Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs
1943 Aristide Maillol, sculpteur (Documentary short)
1942 Opéra-musette
1940 Sérénade

1938 Les rois de la flotte
1938 Lumières de Paris
1937 Le chanteur de minuit
1936 La vie est à nous
1935 Toni

Camera and Electrical Department (11 credits)
1964 Circus World (second unit cameraman)
1963 Cleopatra (photographer: second unit)

1946 Mr. Orchid (camera operator)
1946 Reunion (Documentary short) (assistant camera - one topic, uncredited)

1939 Le dernier tournant (camera operator - as Cl. Renoir Junior)
1938 La Bête Humaine (camera operator - as Claude Renoir Jr.)
1938 Prison sans barreaux (camera operator)
1938 Legions of Honor[/i] (camera operator)
1937 La Grande Illusion (assistant cameraman)
1933 Chotard and Company (assistant camera)
1932 Night at the Crossroads (assistant camera)

Set decorator (1 credit)
1980 Mont-Oriol (TV Movie)

Self (4 credits)
2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) Himself
1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) Himself
- Shooting Scene 341 (1977) ... Himself
- Also Starring... (1977) ... Himself
1975 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV Series documentary)
Himself
- Le désordre et après 1961-1966 (1975) ... Himself
- Une certaine tradition de qualité 1945-1955 (1975) ... Himself
1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) Himself (uncredited)

Archive footage (2 credits)
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short)
Himself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) Himself

2006: John McLusky dies at age 83--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
(Born 20 January 1923--Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.)

John McLusky

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky
Born: 20 January 1923, Glasgow
Died: 5 September 2006 (aged 83)
Nationality: British
Projects involved in
First: James Bond (Daily Express)
Last: James Bond (Daily Express)

John McLusky (20 January 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a comics artist best known as the original artist of the comic strip featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Biography
McLusky began illustrating the comic strip adaptation of James Bond for the Daily Express. From 1958 to 1966, McLusky adapted 13 of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels or short stories. After Yaroslav Horak had taken over the James Bond strip, McLusky drew Secret Agent 13 for Fleetway. For the magazine TV Comic McLusky illustrated several strips over 15 years, notably Look and Learn and strip adaptations for Laurel & Hardy, and the Pink Panther. In 1982 McLusky returned to illustrate the James Bond strip, collaborating with writer Jim Lawrence to illustrate 4 new original James Bond stories.

James Bond strips
Casino Royale Anthony Hern July 7, 1958 - December 13, 1958 1-138
Live and Let Die Henry Gammidge December 15, 1958 - March 28, 1959 139-225
Moonraker Henry Gammidge March 30, 1959 - August 8, 1959 226-339
Diamonds Are Forever Henry Gammidge August 10, 1959 - January 30, 1960 340-487
From Russia with Love Henry Gammidge February 1, 1960 - May 21, 1960 488-583
Dr. No Peter O'Donnell May 23, 1960 - October 1, 1960 584-697
Goldfinger Henry Gammidge October 3, 1960 - April 1, 1961 698-849
Risico Henry Gammidge April 3, 1961 - June 24, 1961 850-921
From A View To A Kill Henry Gammidge June 26, 1961 - September 9, 1961 922-987
For Your Eyes Only Henry Gammidge September 11, 1961 - December 9, 1961 988-1065
Thunderball Henry Gammidge December 11, 1961 - February 10, 1962 1066-1128
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Henry Gammidge June 29, 1964 - May 15, 1965 1-274
You Only Live Twice Henry Gammidge May 17, 1965 - January 8, 1966 275-475

Other work
The Paradise Plot (1981-1982)
Deathmask (1982–1983)
Flittermouse (1983)
Polestar (1983)
The Scent Of Danger (1984)

Further reading:


https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mclusky_john.htm

UK Comics Wiki
https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky_(1923-2006)

2012: Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style finishes its run at the Barbican Centre, London.
Following cities: Dubai, Paris, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Moscow, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Toronto.

2015: The Guardian through author Sam Goodman proposes "James Bond, spy fiction and the decline of empire."

James Bond, spy fiction and the
decline of empire

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/05/spy-fiction-james-bond-why-spy-fiction-sells

In a week when Anthony Horowitz apologised for a remark about who could play James Bond and it was revealed that Frederick Forsyth worked for MI6, spy fiction’s close links to nation and empire become clear

Daniel Craig in the forthcoming ­Spectre. Photograph: Susie Allnutt/Allstar

Sam Goodman | Sat 5 Sep 2015 06.00 EDT

There are few genres with a hold on the public imagination like spy fiction. This year especially it seems that spies are everywhere, whether in the form of Kit Harington brooding his way through the gritty, Bourne-style movie Spooks: The Greater Good, Daniel Craig’s once-more dependable 007 in the forthcoming Spectre, or played for laughs in Spy by Melissa McCarthy, Miranda Hart and Jason Statham. This week the new James Bond novel is published – entitled Trigger Mortis and written by Anthony Horowitz in the style of Ian Fleming (see review on page 11): the latest in a line of nostalgic additions to the Bond canon after Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd have already tried their luck.

This popularity is, of course, nothing new. The figure of the spy has lurked in the background of all types of literature for a couple of millennia, but it was around the turn of the 20th century that spy fiction became more closely associated in Britain with nation and empire, and grew into a commercially successful genre in its own right. Against a backdrop of public anxiety over Anglo-German tensions in Europe, espionage novels such as Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands (1903) gripped the nation and helped launch the careers of William Le Queux and, later, John Buchan. They joined other apparently more serious authors such as Rudyard Kipling, whose Kim (1901) fictionalised the “Great Game” of espionage in colonial India; and Joseph Conrad, who explored the underbelly of fin-de‑siècle London in The Secret Agent (1907). In the interwar years Eric Ambler, Manning Coles, Graham Greene and others continued to develop many of spy fiction’s conventions. It was in the aftermath of the second world war, however, that the genre made its transition from national to global phenomenon.

the MI6 building in Vauxhall Cross, London.

The British empire, victorious but worn out by the war, had begun its long process of dissolution, starting with Indian independence in 1947 and ending (eventually) with the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Spy fiction not only spoke to anxieties over the emergent cold war, but also mitigated the fear of international decline in an era of swingeing cuts to British armed forces and costly conflicts in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Suez, suggesting to the reading public that a vanishing empire was never more secure. Spies such as Fleming’s Bond in particular satisfied the need for reassurance that Britain was still as much of a player on the global stage as it had ever been. As Bond tells his contact in Japanese intelligence, Tiger Tanaka, in You Only Live Twice: “England may have been bled pretty thin by a couple of world wars, our welfare state politics may have made us expect too much for free, and the liberation of our colonies may have gone too fast, but we still climb Everest and beat plenty of the world at plenty of sports and win Nobel prizes.”

Bond proved quite convincing. So successful was Fleming’s vision of the spy, and so dominant has Bond been in popular culture over the past 60 years, that it is near-impossible to discuss cold war fiction without mentioning him. The first of Fleming’s novels, Casino Royale, was published with modest success in 1953. But over the course of the next decade, his books, published at a rate of one a year until his death in 1964, began to be serialised in newspapers and magazines before expanding into radio and film. The Broccoli-Saltzmann productions of the Bond series began in 1962 with Dr No. Connery’s portrayal not only consolidated the image of the spy in popular media, but also made Bond synonymous with ideas of Britishness and nation (who can forget his prominent role at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony?).

The Quiet American (1958). Photograph: Allstar

Fleming was always broadly conservative in his political outlook (his father, Valentine Fleming, was a Conservative MP and friends with Winston Churchill) and both the novel and film versions of Dr No offer insight into his opinions on decolonisation and the cold war politics that drove it. Fleming owned a home in Jamaica, named Goldeneye, which he lent to Anthony Eden after Suez so that he could recover away from the media spotlight. Fleming’s representation of the Caribbean reflected government policy throughout the 1940s and 50s, suggesting that the British position was best served by acting as a strategic partner to the US, with the maintenance of colonial possessions as an essential buffer zone against Soviet expansion. His intent in the novel is to illustrate that Britain can be an equal ally in the struggle against communism, while maintaining direct control over a colonial empire.

In the novel, Dr No is reputed to be disrupting American intercontinental ballistic missile tests conducted in the Caribbean. In the film, he instead threatens rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and the activities of Nasa’s recently inaugurated Apollo programme, key to winning the space race. In both cases, Bond is dispatched to stop him. In the closing scenes of the novel, Bond sits down to dinner with Honeychile Rider, who, it transpires, is the heiress to an interregnum-era plantation outside of Kingston. Past and present are linked: the postwar special relationship and the age of colonial expansion into the West Indies. There is no hint of British decline.

Fleming’s contemporary Graham Greene, and, later, John le Carré, possessed a firmer grasp of realpolitik, both with regard to the state of the empire and the international pecking order. The ageing reporter Thomas Fowler in Greene’s The Quiet American (1955) realises, to echo Harold Macmillan’s words, that the British were the declining “Greeks” to the American “Romans”. British characters retain their relevance, but not without acknowledging their downgraded status. Few of them can resist sniping at the Americans from the sidelines, and there is a strong anti‑American streak that runs through the genre in Britain. Greene’s Fowler eventually turns against CIA operative Alden Pyle, ostensibly over a botched car-bombing but actually because of Pyle’s involvement with his lover Phuong; while in Le Carré’s The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), another journalist and intelligence agent, Jerry Westerby, takes a perverse pleasure in the despondency of American personnel at an air force base in Cambodia after the fall of Saigon, seeing it as proof that the informal US empire was no match for the British. Both Fowler and Westerby’s attitudes are rooted in the British envy of a former colony now in global ascendancy; both characters swing between weary sagacity and open disdain for their US counterparts.

The Ipcress File (1965). Photograph: Allstar

Other writers acknowledged geopolitical shifts more obliquely. Len Deighton’s novels all but avoid the former territories of empire, instead focusing on a rapidly changing London, or the new arenas of cold war conflict such as Beirut and western Europe. Whereas Bond is squarely aligned with the establishment he serves, Deighton’s unnamed spy from The Ipcress File (1962) prefers the bohemian fringes of contemporary life, from his taste for coffee houses in London’s Soho to an interest in gourmet cookery, one of the author’s own passions. The empire is omitted. This decision had become more plausible, perhaps, by the early 1960s, when Bond, the Beatles and the “British invasion” made up for the nation’s political shortcomings. A decade later, Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) would confront far more directly the loss of empire and the degraded fortunes of Britain. A tense and melancholy novel, its establishment characters represent a generation of men who, like Bond, were “trained to empire, trained to rule the waves”, but are now left adrift and redundant in a postcolonial world.

It is near-impossible to discuss cold war fiction without
mentioning Fleming's vision of the spy

Half a century of Bond films later, such ideas of decline appear to have been forgotten. The film budgets have swollen and the book launch events grown more spectacular, but many of the imperial undercurrents of spy fiction remain. Skyfall is littered with the imagery of empire and nation, all union jacks and bulldogs, and the antagonist Raoul Silva’s villainous tendencies are explained away as a result of his having spent too long in the east. Boyd’s Solo (2013) also rearticulated spy fiction’s colonial past, with Bond going undercover as a journalist in the midst of an African civil war. Set in 1969, the novel fictionalises the Biafra-Nigeria conflict of 1967-70 with evident postcolonial overtones – M’s lament over the passing of the “dominant and impressive” British empire in Africa is just one example. (The novel chimes with this week’s revelation that another celebrated spy writer, Frederick Forsyth, reported to MI6 from Biafra while working as a freelance journalist for various magazines and newspapers. Forsyth’s recruitment in 1968 began a relationship between the writer and the intelligence service that apparently lasted more than 20 years. Like many of his contemporaries, he demonstrates how the line between fiction and reality in espionage is often a hazy one.)

What’s more, the racial tensions inherent in the Bond series have resurfaced. Earlier this year, there was a brief social media storm over Roger Moore’s alleged disapproval of Idris Elba’s potential casting as the next Bond; and this week Horowitz has had to apologise for his comment that Elba would be too “street” to play 007.

Many of the political concerns that influenced cold war spy fiction continue to resonate. Britain still seeks to punch above its weight in the international arena, despite the nation’s dwindling armed forces. And stories about espionage remain as marketable as ever.

• Sam Goodman is the author of British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire.

2015: James Bond on Twitter reveals a new Spectre poster with OO7 and Swann.

https://twitter.com/007/status/640177592339968000

2018: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond Origin #1.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244701011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: David Mack
Cover C: Kev Walker
Cover D: Gene Ha
Cover E: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover F: Bob Q. & Jordan Boyd
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: September 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/5/2018

"CHAPTER ONE: THE GREATEST DAYS"
At last, the definitive account of James Bond's exploits during World War II!
MARCH, 1941: Seventeen-year-old James Bond is a restless student in Scotland, an orphan, eager to strike out and make his mark on the world. But a visit by an old family friend coincides with THE CLYDEBANK BLITZ, the most devastating German attack on Scotland during the War. James will fight through hell to survive, coming out the other side determined to make a difference. He'll find his calling in a new British government service, secret in nature...

The ongoing epic kicks off, by JEFF PARKER (Future Quest, Thunderbolts, Batman '66) and BOB Q (The Green Hornet)!

https://syfy.com/syfywire/exclusive-jeff-parker-on-007s-formative-years-in-dynamites-james-bond-origin

2020: James Bond on Twitter wishes George Lazenby a happy birthday.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1302169604433772544

2021: The James Bond 007 Museum remains open for business at Nybro, Sweden.

James Bond 007 Museum

See the complete article here:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1572368-d7020603-Reviews-James_Bond_007_Museum-Nybro_Kalmar_County.html

Welcome to the worlds only James Bond 007 Museum in Nybro Sweden Offers the world an exclusive exhibition on the British secret James Bond agent 007 in Nybro Sweden.

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RichardTheBruce

September 6th

1955: Raymond Benson is born--Midland, Texas.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever last day of filming.
1972: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd is incorporated with an office in London, Greater London.

1976: Naomie Melanie Harris is born--London, England.

1978: Date of the first draft for the "Warhead" script, based on the "James Bond of the Secret Service" screenplay by Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham. Later auctioned by Christie's of London in 2008.

Sale 5425
Pop Culture: Entertainment Memorabilia
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/kevin-mcclory-warhead-1976-never-5154433-details.aspx
London, South Kensington | 4 December 2008

Lot 86
Kevin McClory Warhead, 1976 Never Say Never Again,
1983

Price realised
GBP 46,850

Estimate
GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

Kevin McClory Warhead, 1976 Never Say Never Again, 1983
Kevin McClory's script for Warhead, an unmade James Bond project, the script
entitled "Warhead" Based on "JAMES BOND OF THE SECRET SERVICE" by Ian
Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, giving further details on the title page of
the screenplay's authors Len Deighton, Sean Connery and Kevin McClory,
production details including c Branwell Film Productions, March 21, 1976... and
FIRST DRAFT 6 September 1978..., 137pp. mimeographed typescript, various
characters in the cast list include the hero James Bond and Bond girls: Justine
Lovesit and Fatima Blush, other Bond regulars include: Ernst Stavros Blofeld, Felix
Leiter, Moneypenny, M and Q, original blue paper covers; accompanied by a black
and white photograph of the three authors of the screenplay, Connery, Deighton and
McClory at the latter's home in Ireland, taken during their collaboration on this
project [printed later] -- 8x10in. (20.4x25.5cm.); and

Kevin McClory's shooting script for Never Say Never Again, 119pp. of
mimeographed typescript, variously dated from 7.9.82 to 23.9.82; 123pp. of
mimeographed storyboards including many dramatic underwater sequences
including shipwreck shark attacks on Bond, the duel between Bond and Largo and
the assassination of Largo by Domino, the pages contained in a maroon vinyl ring
binder -- accompanied by a letter from the vendor explaining the provenance (4)

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1979: 007 – Aventura no Espaco (007 - Space Adventure) released in Portugal.

1982: Roger Moore and Maud Adams photographed at Peterborough, England, in promotion of Octopussy.

1994: Putnam and Sons publish the John Gardner Bond novel SeaFire in the US.

2007: Puffin publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Hurricane Gold.

https://www.youngbond.com/hurricane-gold/

by Charlie Higson

Hurricane Gold is the fourth book in the bestselling Young Bond series.

James Bond is staring death in the face… As the sun blazes over the Caribbean island of Lágrimas Negras, its bloodthirsty ruler is watching and waiting. Criminals come here to hide, with blood on their hands and escape on their minds.

On the mainland ex-flying ace Jack Stone leaves his son and daughter in the company of James Bond. But a gang of thieves lies in ambush – they want Stone’s precious safe, and will kill for its contents.

Young James Bond embarks on a deadly chase through the Mexican jungle. On this terrifying trail of greed and betrayal, only danger is guaranteed… Survival is not.

MEET THE CHARACTERS

James Bond
James is supposed to be relaxing in Mexico after his adventures in Double or Die, but his life is never uneventful and before he knows it, a hurricane has pitched him into the heart of another terrifying situation.

‘He changed into a loose short-sleeved shirt and a pair of baggy trousers. He looked at himself in the mirror. His skin had darkened in the weeks he had been out here. He could easily pass as Mexican’.

El Huracan
El Huracan rules the island of Lagrimas Negras. On the surface, the island is a villains’ paradise, but El Huracan is not a benevolent ruler and crossing him has fatal consequences…

‘He was dressed in the style of a Mexican aristocrat, with an embroidered velvet suit and a frilly cream cravat at his throat held in place with a pearl stud.

He had a flat nose in the middle of a dark brown face that had the appearance of being carved out of old, hard wood. His thick mop of hair was pure white, as was his neat little Vandyke beard. He might have been forty, or he might have been eighty, it was impossible to tell. His eyes looked like they had lived a thousand years and seen all there was to see. At last he spoke, in English with a strong Mexican accent.’

Jack Stone
Jack Stone is the embodiment of an American hero, or so it seems…

‘James looked up to see Mr Stone coming down the stairs. He was wearing a leather flying jacket and high boots. With his thin moustache and swept-back hair he looked every inch the air ace from the Great War.’

Mrs Glass
Tough, enigmatic and absolutely ruthless, Mrs Glass takes no prisoners. She runs her unruly gang of misfits with an iron hand and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

‘She stood over them for a moment then dropped her cigarette to the ground and trod on it. It was past eleven and she was still wearing her hat. She only took it off to sleep , and even then she kept a scarf wrapped around her head. The wide brim meant that her eyes were often shaded and hidden. But now the light was from below, from the flames, and James could clearly see her face.

Her perfect, creamy white skin, her pale blue eyes and the glossy blonde curls that split out from under her hat, gave her the looks of a movie star. But there was an iciness in those eyes that made her both beautiful and frightening…’

Precious Stone
When James meets Precious Stone she is everything he hates: spoilt, rude and selfish. They are soon thrown together and as Precious struggles to survive, she discovers strengths she never knew she had.

‘Presently James spotted the owner of the voice. Sitting at a large make-up mirror, painting her nails. She was wearing a long, elegant dress made of shiny gold material, and her dark hair was set into a short, fashionable style with tight waves that someone must have spent ages setting in place. ‘You must be James’ she said without looking round. ‘That’s right,’ said James. ‘I am Precious’ said the girl, who had the manner and accent of a haughty Southern belle.’

JJ Stone
JJ is the younger brother of Precious Stone. He’s had a very easy life, which is suddenly ripped apart by the natural force of the hurricane and the brutality of Mrs Glass’s gang.

‘A boy of about seven, wearing a smart suit, appeared from behind the doll’s house, carrying a doll. … He was slightly pudgy and had a permanent smirk on his round face. He worshipped his sister and laughed at her every petulant outburst.’

More action, more demented crime and more flesh-crawling deaths than ever before.
– Observer

2008: Jack White and Alicia Keyes film a video in Toronto.

2019: Caroline International/Loma Vista Recordings releases Iggy Pop's album Free (single: “James Bond”).

2020 : James Bond on Twitter proposes old ways are best... to wish a Happy Birthday to Naomie Harris.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1302531990839853056

Mathis1

I never heard that Iggy Pop song before....and now I wished I hadn't!!! 😂😂😂

RichardTheBruce

September 7th

1932: Ian Fleming mildly demands and gets a (clandestine) salary increase from Sir Roderick and Reuters.

1951: Chrissie Hynde is born--Akron, Ohio.

1961: Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz submit their Dr. No screenplay first draft.

And taking the fifth.

Read the script pages for
James Bond’s first ever
scene

See the complete article here:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/happy-50th-anniversary-mr-bond

…and complete an original 1962 Dr No crossword puzzle.
Samuel Wigley | Updated: 27 May 2016

On 5 October 1962, Dr No had its premiere screening in London. The first film adaptation from the popular spy novels of Ian Fleming, it was to begin one of the most successful franchises in cinema history. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman acquired the film rights to the James Bond novels in the 1950s but it took some time to get the first project off the ground, the producers finding little interest from Hollywood in this very British spy.

The task of adapting the 1958 novel Dr No for the screen initially fell to Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz, with Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather brought in to polish later drafts. At this time, Mankowitz – a friend of ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s – was best-known for the Peter Sellers-Sophia Loren vehicle The Millionairess (1960) and the apocalyptic sci-fi The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He would later ask for his name to be removed from the Dr No credits after seeing the rushes and fearing a major flop.

Maibaum, on the other hand, who had spent the 1950s writing war films like The Red Beret (1953) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1954), as well as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life (1956), would go on to make a career out of Fleming’s secret agent, penning a further 12 Bond films before bowing out with Licence to Kill in 1989.

To celebrate Mr Bond’s cinematic anniversary, we present an extract from the fifth draft script. It’s the classic moment part-way into Dr No in which the suave superspy (played in the film by Sean Connery) is first introduced to the world. The scene is a London gambling room called Le Cercle, where at the top stakes table, surrounded by onlookers, a chic woman in a red dress and a tuxedoed man with his back to the camera issue their commands to the croupier…

Fifth draft screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Wolf Mankowitz, and JM (Johanna) Harwood for Dr No
(Eon Productions/MGM)

The pressbook issued to exhibitors to help market the film’s release in October 1962 was full of suggestions for innovative gimmicks to exploit the film’s appeal. If a game of chemin de fer at an exclusive casino isn’t on the cards today, there could be worse ways to toast Mr Bond on his 50th anniversary than to have a go at the pressbook’s Dr No crossword puzzle.

1963: O Satânico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Brazil.

1978 Ebal Comic http://www.bialto.pt/item/235081/ebal---serie-007-james-bond-2--o-satanico-dr-no.html

1989: Licence to Kill released in Australia.

Daybill

1994: Terence Young dies at age 79--Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
(Born: 20 June 1915-- Shanghai, China.)

Obituary: Terence Young

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terence-young-1449081.html

David Shipman | Friday 16 September 1994

Terence Young, film director, producer, screenwriter; born Shanghai 20 June 1915; married (one son, two daughters); died Cannes 7 September 1994.

THE British cinema - as opposed to the British film industry - first began to consider its responsibilities during the Second World War. The quantity and vitality of British movies produced between 1945 and 1950 is astonishing, with the serious variety attracting large audiences as never before. Between them, the benevolent flour- milling mogul Arthur Rank and the creative Hungarian paterfamilias Alexander Korda encouraged new talents, none of whom was more promising than Terence Young.

Young's first two films as director, for Rank, came out early in 1948, proving him anxious to work well outside the British mainstream. One Hour With You, with a typically playful script by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, imagined the misfortunes of Patricia Roc wooed by the tenor Nino Martini while stranded in Italy. Corridor of Mirrors gave even more meaning to the words bizarre, baroque - as Eric Portman, at his most magniloquent, brooded over a Renaissance painting in his dark mansion, convinced that he and his mistress, Edana Romney, are reincarnations of the lovers in it.

Earlier Young had worked as screenwriter on some interesting films with the director Brian Desmond Hurst: On the Night of the Fire (1939), a fugitive-from-justice tale, heavily influenced by Marcel Carne, with Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard; Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a wartime love affair between a Polish airman, Anton Walbrook, and an American journalist, Sally Gray, with the 'Warsaw Concerto' thrown in as a bonus; Hungry Hill (1946), Daphne du Maurier's chronicle of an Irish family with Margaret Lockwood as its matriarch; and Theirs is the Glory (1946), a semi-documentary account of the failure of the Battle of Arnhem. During service with the Armoured Guards Division Young was given leave to work with Clive Brook on the screenplay for On Approval (1944), based on Frederick Lonsdale's comedy and as directed by Brook, with himself, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver, a happy version of a filmed play.

Young's first job with Rank was to hack a screenplay out of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane, which he was scheduled to direct with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; but Rank got cold feet at the last minute and transferred him to a comedy with Granger, Woman Hater, for which he brought Edwige Feuillere across from France. Young's other film that year, They Were Not Divided, was a project dear to his heart, as it followed two Welsh Guardsmen, Edward Underdown and the American Ralph Clanton, from square- bashing to D-Day and beyond.

In 1954 he directed That Lady, the story of the romance of the one-eyed Princess of Eboli which scandalised the court of Philip II; he blamed its failure on the fact that that he had asked for Laurence Olivier and Ava Gardner, but had been given Gilbert Roland and Olivia de Havillland. With Zoltan Korda he co-directed Storm Over the Nile (1955), with Laurence Harvey and Anthony Steel, a remake of 1939 The Four Feathers, with footage from that stretched out for CinemaScope.

Young had already experienced his most important career move. Two American producers, Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, taking advantage of US tax concessions for working abroad, came to Britain with Alan Ladd to make The Red Beret (1953), in which Ladd was an American officer who does a T. E. Lawrence-like stint in the ranks of the British regiment. They had admired Young's work on his war movies and though he won no kudos for this one it was popular. He stayed with their company, Warwick, establishing himself as a director of transatlantic action movies.

He broke away for another personal project, Serious Charge (1959), in which a vengeful teddy boy, Andrew Ray, accuses a vicar, Anthony Quayle, of sexual assault. He then accepted the challenge of bringing four of Roland Petit's ballets to the wide screen in Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre (1960), or Black Tights. Maurice Chevalier introduced these diverse pleasures, including Moira Shearer and Petit in Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyd Charisse as a merry widow and Zizi Jeanmaire with him in Carmen.

Its success was not unqualified, and Young went on to co-direct, with Ferdinando Baldi, Orazi E Curiazi (1961), with Alan Ladd decidedly ill-at-ease as Horatio at the bridge. Cut, dubbed and retitled Duel of Champions, it got a few bookings some years later.

By that time Young's career had soared. Broccoli had teamed up with Harry Saltzman to film Dr No (1963), one of Ian Fleming's thrillers about a British secret service agent, James Bond. Saltzman, the American backer of such films as Look Back in Anger, had been looking for something more evidently popular. Apart from the two of them nobody believed in it, including the distributor, United Artists, who imposed budget restrictions; half a dozen actors turned down the role before it was accepted by the little-known and unlikely Sean Connery. (Young had previously directed Connery in 1957 in a small role in Action of the Tiger.) The notices were mediocre and Fleming was privately contemptuous, but the film went on to knock the box-office for six. With an injection of humour and Connery splendidly easing himself into the role, From Russia with Love (1963) and then Thunderball (1965) proved that Young was a first-rate action director and that the public couldn't get enough of 007.

When Young abandoned Bond, it was with mixed results. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) was an attempt by Marcel Hellman to duplicate the success of Tom Jones. But Warner Bros then put Young in charge of an adaptation of a long-running play, Wait Until Dark (1967), with Audrey Hepburn menaced by thugs, including a scarey Alan Arkin - and that is surely one of the best thrillers of the decade.

Young followed it with an Italian version of Conrad, L'Avventurio or The Rover (1967), which has been little seen despite the presence of Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and Mayerling (1968) with James Mason and Ava Gardner under-used as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve as the lovers. Several other co-productions with either France or Italy included The Valachi Papers (1972), a Mafia tale with Charles Bronson.

Young's long-delayed first Hollywood film, The Klansman (1974), with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, was scathingly received - one reason why Paramount pulled the plug on The Jackpot, also with Burton, during production. But that company invited Young back for Bloodline (1979), based on a Sidney Sheldon bestseller which managed to combine a plot about company greed with one about the making of porn movies. Audrey Hepburn and James Mason headed the cast, and after the dreadful notices, she commented that she had made it both because the locations didn't take her far from her family and because she liked the director.

Young attracted Olivier to Inchon (1980) and The Jigsaw Man (1983), in which he respectively played General MacArthur and an admiral involved with Michael Caine, a former head of MI6 who had defected. The former, financed by the Rev Sun Myung Moon to an estimated dollars 100m, took peanuts in the US and has never been seen in Britain; the second ran into financial difficulties during filming and went direct to video.

This is a sad ending to an extraordinary career. No one would class Young with his contemporaries David Lean and Carol Reed, but he was one among others embraced by Hollywood: Michael Anderson, J. Lee Thompson, Ronald Neame, Ken Annakin and Lewis Gilbert. They gave Hollywood some excellent films and the American film industry liked them because they thought in commercial terms.

Terence Young
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950109/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Director (40 credits)

1988 Run for Your Life
1983 The Jigsaw Man
1981 Inchon
1980 Long Days (unconfirmed, uncredited)

1979 Bloodline
1975 Jackpot
1974 The Klansman
1973 The Amazons
1972 The Valachi Papers
1971 Red Sun
1970 Cold Sweat

1969 The Christmas Tree
1968 Mayerling
1967 Wait Until Dark
1967 The Rover
1966 Triple Cross
1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1965 Thunderball
1965 The Secret Agents
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1963 From Russia with Love
1962 Dr. No
1961 Duel of Champions (english version)
1961 Black Tights
1960 Playgirl After Dark

1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Dark as the Night (1959)
1959 Serious Charge
1958 Tank Force
1957 Action of the Tiger
1956 Zarak
1956 Safari
1955 Storm Over the Nile
1955 That Lady
1953 Paratrooper
1952 The Frightened Bride
1951 Valley of the Eagles
1950 They Were Not Divided

1948 Woman Hater
1948 One Night with You
1948 Corridor of Mirrors

Writer (17 credits)

1977 Foxbat (additional script material)
1973 The Amazons
1969 The Christmas Tree (writer)
1968 Mayerling (screenplay)
1966 Mission to Tokyo (adaptation)
1962 Dr. No (uncredited)

1958 Tank Force [aka No Time to Die] (written by)
1951 Valley of the Eagles (written by)
1950 They Were Not Divided

1949 The Bad Lord Byron (writer - uncredited)
1947 Hungry Hill (screenplay)
1944 On Approval (uncredited)
1943 A Letter from Ulster (Documentary short) (screenplay - as Shaun Terence Young)
1942 Secret Mission (original story - as Shaun Terence Young)
1941 Suicide Squadron (original story) / (screenplay)
1940 A Call for Arms! (Short) (story)

1939 The Fugitive (adaptation) / (scenario)

Miscellaneous Crew (4 credits)

1977 Foxbat (script consultant)
1969 Birds, Orphans and Fools (presenter)
1964 Goldfinger (director: pre-production - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: Pedro Armendáriz - uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1984 Where Is Parsifal? (executive producer)
1964 Goldfinger (associate producer: pre-production - uncredited)
Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
1988 Chicken and Duck Talk (assistant director)

Editorial department (1 credit)

1980 Long Days (supervising editor)

Thanks (2 credits)

2009 Frankenpimp (special thanks)
1949 The Bad Lord Byron (producers gratefully acknowledge the contributions to the screenplay made by)

Self (13 credits)

2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself - Interviewee[/u]
1992 Le divan (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Terence Young (1992) ... Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1988 Sacrée soirée (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 17 February 1988 (1988) ... Himself
1982 Ciné parade (TV Series documentary) = Himself
- L'usine à rêves (1982) ... Himself
1974 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) - Himself
- On location with "The Klansman" (1974) ... Himself
1968 Vienna: The Years Remembered (Documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
1968 Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 2 December 1968 (1968) ... Himself
1968 L'invité du dimanche (TV Series) - Himself
- Edwige Feuillère (1968) ... Himself
1965 A Child's Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car (TV Short) - Himself
1964 Thunderball: Production Footage (Short) - Himself

Archive footage (14 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Special documentary) - Himself
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
1995 The 67th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself (Memorial Tribute)
1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
- Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself

2003: Warren Zevon dies at age 56--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 24 January 1947--Chicago, Illinois.)

Zevon Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

See the complete article here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zevon-diagnosed-with-lung-cancer-248846/

Veteran singer-songwriter’s disease untreatable
By Andrew Dansby - September 12, 2002

Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and the disease
has advanced to an untreatable stage. The fifty-five-year-old
singer-songwriter received the news last month and is currently
spending time at home with his children and in the studio recording
new songs.

In keeping with the acerbic wit found in his songs like “Life’ll
Kill Ya” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” Zevon said of his
diagnosis, “I’m OK with it, but it’ll be a drag if I don’t make it
till the next James Bond movie comes out.”

Nearly three years ago, Zevon released the eerily prophetic
Life’ll Kill Ya, with several songs addressing death and
illness. “Sickness, doctors, that scares me,” he told Rolling
Stone at the time. “Not violence — helplessness. That’s why I
turn to violent stories, I think.” At the time, Zevon said the
songs were not inspired by any sort of health scare. “It’s kind of
the fun of it, pretending to deal with something that you don’t
want to, and try to laugh about it. I mean, I’ve had guns in my
face, I’ve been robbed, but the doctor stuff — it’s too much for
me.”

Zevon began his career in the late Sixties as a session man and
songwriter for the likes of the Everly Brothers and the Turtles. He
also penned Linda Ronstadt’s 1978 hit “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and
scored one of his own that same year with “Werewolves of London.”
In May, Zevon released his eleventh studio album, My Ride’s
Here, which featured collaborations with writers Hunter S.
Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Paul Muldoon. Rhino Records will release
a new anthology of his work, Genius: The Best of Warren
Zevon, on October 15th.

Enjoy every.

2012: Press release announces the future Skyfall world premiere (23 October) at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

2021: Documentary Being James Bond with a focus on Daniel Craig comes available first on Apple TV.

'Being James Bond,' a new documentary
that follows Daniel Craig's journey, comes
to Apple TV on September 7
Bond fans are getting a free treat to hold them over until the new film comes out.

See the complete article here:

https://www.imore.com/being-james-bond-new-documentary-follows-daniel-craigs-journey-comes-apple-tv-september-7

Joe Wituschek | 31 Aug 2021

What you need to know

• The "Being James Bond," documentary will premiere on September 7.
• It will be free to watch on the Apple TV app.
• "No Time to Die," Craig's final Bond film, will premiere in theaters starting on September 30.

James Bond will grace the small screen before hitting theaters this fall.

As reported by Deadline, "Being James Bond," a new documentary that follows the journey that Daniel Craig has gone through playing the role, will be released as a free-to-watch film on the Apple TV app on September 7. The documentary is a great treat for Bond fans who are anticipating the release of "No Time to Die," the upcoming Bond film.

The 45-minute retrospective features Daniel Craig reflecting on his 15 years playing Bond, with never-before-seen archival footage from his oeuvre and conversations with 07 producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. It will be available for free to Apple TV customers in over 30 countries and regions from September 7 through October 7. No Time To Die, Craig's last outing as Bond, will be released in theaters on Sept. 30 in the U.K. through Universal Pictures International and in the U.S. on Oct. 8 through MGM via United Artists Releasing.

You can watch the trailer for "Being James Bond" below. You can also add it to your Up Next list on Apple TV on the Apple TV app.

The announcement of the documentary is well-timed as MGM also released the final trailer for "No Time to Die," Craig's last outing as Bond. The new film will release in theaters starting in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2021. It will come to the United States on October 8, 2021.

"Being James Bond" will be available to stream for free through the Apple TV app between September 7 and October 7. If you want to enjoy the documentary in the best quality possible, check out our list of the Best TVs for Apple TV 2021.

Being James Bond: The Daniel Craig Story (2021)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15346636/
Video | 2021 | 46min

Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his fifteen year tenure as James Bond. Includes never-before-seen archival footage spanning from 'Casino Royale' (2006) to 'No Time To Die' (2021).

Director | Baillie Walsh
Stars | Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli.

RichardTheBruce

September 8th

1925: Peter Sellers is born--Portsmouth, England.
(He dies 24 July 1980--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)

Peter Sellers Dies at 54

See the complete article here:

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/peter-sellers-dies-at-54

by Roger Ebert | July 24, 1980

Peter Sellers is dead at 54, a victim of the heart disease that first struck him in 1964 and continued to haunt him during his most productive years as an international star.

His death in London at 6:28 p.m. Chicago time Wednesday came after a massive heart attack. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland, and their daughter Victoria, who is 15. But Mr. Sellers never regained consciousness after the attack that struck him Tuesday in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel.

"Mr. Sellers' death was entirely due to natural causes," a spokesman for Middlesex Hospital said. "His heart just faded away. His condition deteriorated very rapidly."

An emergency team of 10 specialists was at his bedside when he died, but they were helpless.

Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of "Romance of the Pink Panther," which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's "Being There," which won him an Academy Award nomination.

His latest film, "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu," opens in Chicago on Aug. 8. In it, as in so many of his films, Mr. Sellers plays six different roles. That was one of his trademarks after such early successes as "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), in which he played the entire population of the mythical Duchy of Grand Fenwick, and "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), in which he played three roles.

His multiple roles were masks, Mr. Sellers liked to claim, describing himself as basically a character actor: "As far as I'm aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever. I have no character to offer the public. When I look at myself I just see a person who strangely lacks what I consider to be the ingredients for a personality. If you asked me to play myself, I wouldn't know what to do." But as the characters he played in more than 50 major movies, Mr. Sellers became one of the busiest and most popular movie stars of the 1960s and '70s. His widest audiences came for the Inspector Clouseau pictures, which began with "The Pink Panther" in 1963 and continued through "Revenge of the Pink Panther" in 1978.

His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959), "Lolita" (1962), "Waltz of the Toreadors" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Party" (1968) and "Being There."

I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of "Revenge of the Pink Panther." Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original "Pink Panther," but came later: "I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant concierge in a hotel I used to stay at in Paris. He was a master of dealing with American tourists. He'd talk to them in a strange accent that wasn't French but sounded French to an English-speaker."

In Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Mr. Sellers said, he created Strangelove's most famous characteristic - a mechanical hand with an automatic Nazi salute - during the process of filming.

"The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand," he said. "Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the actors breaking up the first time my hand goes out of control . . ." If Mr. Sellers was correct in saying that he had no personality of his own to portray, then perhaps his performance in "Being There" was his most autobiographical. He played Chauncey, a strange, middle-aged man raised entirely in isolation, with television as his only source of information on how to behave. The character's utter simplicity and transparency led statesmen to imagine they had discovered great depths in him. It was a virtuoso performance, made all the more difficult because Mr. Sellers had to sustain a single note throughout the movie.

Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio "Goon Show," memories of which were recreated in Richard Lester's famous 1960 short subject, "The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film."

He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a "hopeless romantic" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in love with Sophia Loren while they were filming "The Millionairess" together. Loren turned down his proposal of marriage.

In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria.

In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were divorced in 1974. He and Liza Minnelli announced they would be married, but the romance cooled and he married actress Lynne Frederick in 1977. Mr. Sellers had his second major heart attack, and was fitted with a pacemaker in 1977. In May of this year, he collapsed in Dublin while making a commercial, but recovered to visit the Cannes Film Festival, where he looked unwell.

Filmmaker Blake Edwards, who directed the Clouseau movies, said Wednesday, "One lived with the realization that Peter could go at any time. But he was a very courageous man who refused to let his heart problems interfere with his personal life."

Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 "Pink Panther" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.

"Of course not," Mr. Sellers said.

"I understand you've had some heart attacks . . ." the reporter began, before Mr. Sellers interrupted him with gallows humor: "Yes, but I plan to give them up. I'm down to two a day."

PETER SELLERS
The Official Website of Peter Sellers
https://www.petersellers.com/about/filmography/

Filmography

1982
– Trail of the Pink Panther
1980
-The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1979
-Being There
-The Prisoner of Zenda
1978
–Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
-Kingdom of Gifts (voice)
1977
-Best of British Film Comedy
-To See Such Fun
1976
-Best of the Muppet Show
-Murder by Death
-The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1974
-The Great McGonagall
-Soft Beds, Hard Battles
-The Return of the Pink Panther
1973
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
– The Blockhouse
– Ghost in the Noonday Sun
– The Optimists
– Undercovers Hero
1972
-Does It Hurt?
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
1970
-There’s a Girl in My Soup
– A Day at the Beach
– Hoffman
– Simon Simon
1969
-The Magic Christian
1968
– I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
– The Party
1967
– The Bobo
– Woman Times Seven
– Casino Royale
– Alice in Wonderland
– With Love, Sophia
1966
– After the Fox
– Caccia alla volpe
– The Wrong Box
1965
– What’s New, Pussycat
1964
– Dr. Strangelove
- The World of Henry Orient
– Carol for Another Christmas
– The Pink Panther
– A Shot in the Dark

1961: Date of the original screen treatment for Dr No wherein a Cuban-financed imposter with a caper targeted the Panama Canal. Plus he had a monkey.
1967: Casino Royale released in Australia.

Daybill

1983: Octopussy released in Spain.

2006: Full trailer to Casino Royale released.

2015: Sam Smith announces he's written and will sing the title song for Spectre.
2015: Harper publishes Anthony Horowitz's Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Audio book voiced by David Oyelowo.

JAMES BOND, THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS
SPY, RETURNS TO HIS 1950S HEYDAY IN THIS
THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING
AUTHOR ATHONY HOROWITZ, INCORPORATING
NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL
FROM 007'S CREATOR, IAN FLEMING.

James Bond won his battle with criminal
mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole
new war is about to begin. With glamorous Pussy
galore by his side--and in his bed--Bond arrives
home from America to the news that SMERSH,
the deadly Soviet counterintelligence agency,
plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix.
He must play a high-speed game of cat and
mouse on the track to stop them, but a chance
encounter with a mysterious Korean millionaire,
Jason Sin, warns him that the scheme is only
the Soviets' opening move.

This dashing and seductive narrative of
fast cars, beautiful women, and ruthless villains
has all the hallmarks of an Ian Fleming original,
including familiar faces such as M and Miss
Moneypenny. Trigger Mortis pits Bond and
American adventurer Jeopardy Lane against
a cold-blooded tycoon determined to bring
America to its knees--with the help of
SMERSH, who will pay any price to secure
Soviet victory in the space race now at the
heart of the Cold War. the clock is ticking as
the scheme unfolds, culminating in a heart-
stopping New York City showdown that will
determine the fate of the west.

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the
New York Times bestselling The House of Silk, as well
as the New York Times bestselling Alex Rider
series for young adults. As a television screen-
writer, he created Midsomer Murders and the
BAFTA-wining Foyle's War, both of which were
featured on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery. He
regularly contributes to a wide variety of
national newspapers and magazines, and in
January 2014 was appointed an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire for hiss services
to literature. He lives in London.

2020: Heineken Vietnam launches a limited edition James Bond packaging anticipating No Time To Die's 13 November 2020 release. [No rescheduled date for 2021 available at this stime.]

Heineken debuts limited edition
James Bond packs

See the complete article here:

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/heineken-debuts-limited-edition-james-bond-packs-4158581.html

By Anh Nguyen | September 8, 2020

Heineken has launched its limited edition Heineken James Bond packaging in Vietnam ahead of the premiere of “No Time To Die”, scheduled on November 13, 2020. [later delayed]

This year, Heineken continues its long-standing global partnership with James Bond, one of the most iconic characters in cinematic history, in the latest James Bond film. The firm has been a partner of the James Bond franchise for over 20 years, since 1997’s "Tomorrow Never Dies".

The new 007 packaging features the James Bond silhouette prominently displayed on Heineken’s iconic green and red star. Heineken James Bond packaging will be available in 330 ml bottles and cans (both sleek and regular version).

Commenting on the latest James Bond campaign, Anna Bizon, Marketing Director of Heineken Vietnam, said: "James Bond and Heineken are instantly recognizable premium brands that share many of the same aspirational qualities. Ahead of the global release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, we want to give Vietnamese fans exclusive access to the world of James Bond - with the launch of limited edition Heineken James Bond packs."

Special Heineken James Bond packaging comes with over one million prizes and an exciting digital adventure to discover this iconic character, showing how Bond lives beyond the film.

From August 24, 2020, consumers in Ho Chi Minh City will stand a chance to win one of the million exclusive on-pack prizes, including 250 prizes including one tael of gold each; 2,500 Heineken power banks; 25,000 Heineken umbrellas and over one million Heineken Silver cans.

The promotion is only available on special Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Open the can to win 007 prizes" on the packaging. The redemption period starts from August 24 to December 7, 2020, with products only distributed in Ho Chi Minh City.
Open the can to win 007 prizes.

"Open the can to win 007 prizes".

For consumers outside HCMC, from September 14, Heineken will present them with the Heineken James Bond packaging with a special QR code to discover the extraordinary world of secret agents.

Using their mobile phones, consumers can simply scan this QR code to unlock a digital adventure and experience a series of exhilarating missions to challenge themselves as Bond’s secret agents.

Leading Vietnamese artists and influencers will join consumers to unlock these James Bond missions. The QR code is available only on Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Scan the QR code to win 007 prizes" on the packaging.

Both campaigns are only open for consumers 18 years old and above. For more information, please visit the official Facebook fanpage of Heineken at https://www.facebook.com/HeinekenVN/.

Heineken Vietnam is a subsidiary of Heineken, the world’s most international brewer. Originated in the Netherlands, this family-owned business with a history of over 150 years, brews and distributes over 300 beer & cider brands in more than 190 countries.

Heineken Vietnam was established in 1991 and operates six breweries in Hanoi, Da Nang, Quang Nam, HCMC, Vung Tau, Tien Giang, and ten offices across Vietnam.

From humble beginnings with only 20 employees in Vietnam, Heineken Vietnam is now the second largest brewer nationally with more than 3,500 employees. The company makes a significant annual economic contribution to the country, amounting to approximately 0.95 percent of the nation’s total GDP, according to its data.

In Vietnam, Heineken produces and distributes Heineken®, Tiger, Larue, BIVINA, Bia Viet, Sol, Affligem, and Strongbow cider.

In 2017, 2018 and 2019, Heineken Vietnam was recognized among the top most sustainable companies locally by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and as a best place to work in Asia by HR Asia Magazine, one of the continent’s leading human resources publications.

More information about HEINEKEN Vietnam is available on Heineken Vietnam’s website:
http://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/

2020: Aston Martin and The Little Car Company produce the DB5 Junior and DB5 Vantage Junior.

Aston Martin DB5 Junior, the little James Bond
car

See the complete article here:

https://tekdeeps.com/aston-martin-db5-junior-the-little-james-bond-car/

September 8, 2020

It certainly cannot be said that the Luxury car homes do not think about children. Especially if they are children of parents with large bank accounts. The latest example bears the name of Aston Martin DB5 Junior, which is the scaled-down version of the iconic James Bond car.

A toy for 007 in the grass, produced by the English house in collaboration with The Little Car Company – also responsible for the creation of the Bugatti Baby II – and on sale starting from 35,000 pounds (about 38,000 euros).

Small scale, adult care
Produced in just 1,059 copies and about 3 meters long (ie about 66% compared to the normal DB5) the DB5 Junior is in all respects a real DB5. If photographed alone, it could hardly be said that it is a “toy”.

Aston Martin DB5 - Dashboard for children
Beyond the style, there are many adult details, such as the aluminum frame, the 4 disc brakes hidden by 10 ”alloy wheels, the leather interior, wooden and aluminum steering wheel, full instrumentation (no space for any type of digitization) and much more.

A jewel available in 2 different variants: normal and Vantage. The first is powered by a 5 kW (6.8 HP) electric motor powered by a 1.8 kWh lithium-ion battery pack, also rechargeable via regenerative braking. The drive is rear and there are 3 different driving modes: Novice, Expert and Race, for a maximum speed of about 50 km / h and autonomy of about 16 km.

Aston Martin DB5 - Child's wheel
Aston Martin DB5 Junior front light

The Aston Martin DB5 Junior Vantage mounts a 10 kW motor (13.6 HP), 2 1.8 kWh lition ion batteries (range of about 32 km), limited slip rear differential and the modes of the normal version to which the special “Vantage” is added.
Also for grown children

As written, the starting price is set at more than 38,000 euros (almost 50,000 for the Vantage), destined to rise if you fish from the list of options or want to customize your toy.

Source: Motor1.com Italia – News by it.motor1.com.

https://thelittlecar.co/db5junior/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DB5-and-DB5-Junior-Driving-3.mp4

DB5 Junior and DB5 Vantage Junior

See the complete article here:

https://thelittlecar.co/db5junior/

DB5 JUNIOR
Starting from £35,000*
Power 5kW / 6.7 bhp
Battery Pack 1.8kWh
Top Speed TBC
Limited-Slip Differential -
Driving Modes Novice, Expert

DB5 VANTAGE JUNIOR
Starting from £45,000*
Power 10kW / 13.4 bhp
Battery Pack 2 x 1.8 kWh
Top Speed TBC
Limited-Slip Differential Yes
Driving Modes Novice, Expert, Competition, Vantage
*excludes shipping costs, taxes, customs and excise charges

A CLASSIC, REBORN
Arguably the most famous car in the world, the iconic DB5 has firmly secured its place in automotive history. Coveted by car enthusiasts around the world, DB5 ownership has historically been the preserve of the lucky few. In 2020, more than 50 years on from its initial launch, the DB5 will be reimagined for the modern era.

Hand-crafted to allow the love of driving to be shared across generations, the Aston Martin DB5 Junior will be built to 66% scale of the original and will feature a rear-wheel-drive, fully electric powertrain and multiple driving modes. Just like the original, only 1,059 of the models will be made, providing a rare opportunity for fans of the marque to own a piece of history.

As an official Aston Martin model, the DB5 Junior will pay homage to the rich history of the brand. Each of the limited-edition vehicles produced will feature classic Aston Martin badges, Silver Birch paintwork, Smiths instruments, and individually numbered chassis plates. In tribute to Aston Martin’s more recent technological advances, the DB5 Junior will include swappable lithium-ion battery packs and regenerative braking.

ICONIC DESIGN
The DB5 Junior has all of the iconic details you would expect from an Aston Martin DB5, including:

• Authentic Aston Martin badges consistent with the original cars
• Replicated Smiths instruments, including original DB5 clock
• A full leather interior in a range of colours
• Mahogany & aluminium steering wheel
• Opening and closing bonnet and boot
• Four-wheel disc brakes, and a hydraulic handbrake
• Double wishbone suspension at the front, with the roll centre and camber gain matching the original geometry
• Rear live axle as per the original, with authentic upper and lower trailing-arm suspension and panhard rod

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2022: Sotheby's Auction Item 24 (an On Her Majesty's Secret Service uncorrected proof copy) closes.

25
Ian Fleming | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, uncorrected proof

See the complete article here:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/james-bond-on-bond-street/ian-fleming-on-her-majestys-secret-service

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse
Estimate:

1,000 - 1,200 GBP

Current bid: 850 GBP

(1 bid, reserve met)

Lot closes: 16:25:46 September 8, 02:24 PM (CEST)

Description
Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963

8vo, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, original green wrappers, lettered in black, collector's green morocco and cloth clamshell box, slight wear to joints

Gilbert notes a print run of 500 copies.

LITERATURE
Gilbert A11a

2022: Queen Elizabeth II dies at age 96--Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
(Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor born 21 April 1926--Bruton Street, London, England.)
Reigned as Queen of the United Kingdom 6 February 1952 to 8 September 2022 (70 years and 214 days).

RichardTheBruce

September 9th

1924: Ian Fleming shoots his first stag at Black Mount, Argyllshire, Scotland.

1935: Topol is born--Tel Aviv, Palestine.
1935: Nadim Joakim Sawalha is born--Madaba, Jordan.

1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

Thursday 9 September, 1943

Last Friday, mainland Italy was invaded by the Eighth Army. There
was great suppressed excitement and whisperings in the office. I.
was speaking on the BBC German Naval Programme. His voice is
excellent – firm, vigorous and dignified. I was pleased with the
performance and told him so later when he came to dinner. I. was
exhausted with the week’s excitements. He was satisfied but not the
least bit exuberant.

1951: Steven Jay Ruben is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1959: Éric Serra is born--Paris, France.

1961: Neal Purvis is born--United Kingdom.

1961: James Bond comic strip From A View A Kill ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 26 June 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/favtak.php3





Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

Dödligt Uppdrag
("Fatal Commission" - From A View To A Kill)

Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no43-1978/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 43: “From a View to a Kill” (1978)
"Dødelig opgave" [= Deadly Assignment]

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no13-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 13: “From a View to a Kill” (1968)
Dødelig mission [Deadly Mission]

1966: James Bond comic The Man with the Golden Gun ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 10 January 1966. 1-209) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tmwtgg.php3







Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3?s=comics&id=01820

Mannen Med Dengyllene Pistolen
(The Man With The Golden Gun)

Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no40-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 40: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (pt. 1)
+ “The Living Daylights” (1977)
"Hjernevasket" [Brainwashed] + "Spionen fra Øst"

Danish 1976 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no35-1976/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 35: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1976)
"Manden med den gyldne pistol"

Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no15-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 15: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1968)
"Manden med den gyldne pistol"

1979: Moonraker released in Spain.

1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez terminating Krest in the decompression chamber.

2011: Public announcements reveal the Turkish Culture Minister grants permission to film in Istanbul.
2012: Ruth Kempf dies at age 97--Opelousas, Louisiana.
(Born 9 March 1915.)

Ruth Kempf

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447448/

Ruth Kempf was born on March 9, 1915 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Live and Let Die (1973) and J.D.'s Revenge (1976). She died on September 9, 2012 in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA.

Born: March 9, 1915 in USA
Died: September 9, 2012 (age 97) in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA

Filmography

Actress (2 credits)

1976 J.D.'s Revenge - Woman Passenger
1973 Live and Let Die - Mrs. Bell

2019: No Time To Die cast photographed in Italy.

2020: Variety reports on Halle Berry and a Jinx spinoff.

James Bond: Halle Berry Says Failed Jinx
Spinoff Was "Ahead of Its Time"

See the complete article here:

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/james-bond-halle-berry-jinx-spinoff/

By Aaron Perine - September 9, 2020

Halle Berry says that the failed James Bond Jinx spinoff was way ahead of its time in a new interview. Filmgoers of a certain age will remember her character from Die Another Day. She was immediately one of the reasons to go see the film in theaters. In a new conversation with Variety, Berry says that the movie's producers had big plans in mind for Jinx. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were pushing for a spinoff and all that came with that. But, in the end, MGM wasn't feeling like paying the $80 million to get the Jinx movie rolling. It would be hard to argue with Berry now that this would have been a smart move. She was one of the most recognizable stars of the era and a massive draw. From here in the future, signing her up for her own spinoff series sounds like a no-brainer. But things were different back in 2002.

"It was very disappointing," Berry explained. "It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren't sure of its value. That's where we were then."

Filming Die Another Day proved to be enough excitement for the actress. Berry visited The Tonight Show earlier this year and told Jimmy Fallon that her co-star actually ended up saving her life.

"I was doing a scene with Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day, and I was supposed to be all sexy and, like, trying to seduce him with a fig, and then I end up choking on it. He had to get up and do the Heimlich," she recalled. "So not sexy, so not sexy…You should've seen it. James Bond knows how to Heimlich. He was there for me, and he will always be one of my favorite people in the whole world."

Would you have been first in line to see a Jinx spinoff? Let us know in the comments!

2020: Safin promotes mask keyrings and magnets.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1303724857272578049

2021: CarBuzz reports on James Bond's Vintage Land Rover from John Brown 4x4.

James Bond's Vintage Land Rover Is
For Sale

See the complete article here:

https://carbuzz.com/news/james-bonds-vintage-land-rover-is-for-sale

Sep 5, 2021 | by Sebastian Cenizo | Movies & TV
This custom beauty will fetch a pretty penny.

Time and time again, the latest James Bond film, titled No Time To Die, has been delayed. The producers are aiming to maximize returns with full cinemas, something that the pandemic has made nearly impossible. But there is a silver lining to this. With the numerous teaser trailers, we've seen more and more of the cars that will be featured in the film, which have only served to whet our appetites even further.

These include the Aston Martin Valhalla before its recent redesign and a new Land Rover Defender that we got to drive. But you may have also noticed an old Landy finished in a light blue, and now a Land Rover specialist has recreated that exact car, and is putting it up for sale.

It's unsurprisingly named the Bond Edition Land Rover and will be offered as part of Sotheby's luxury auction 'Life Is Beautiful'. It hasn't been listed just yet, but we do have the details on this limited-edition Series 3. It's been rebuilt by the specialists at John Brown 4x4 and features some modern upgrades "for easier handling and a smooth drive." But it still retains the vintage elements that make these old Land Rovers so beloved.

The special edition includes overdrive for better top speed and fuel efficiency, a galvanized chassis for better longevity, and other aesthetic enhancements like "flared wheel arches, new cappings, vintage plates, and Defender mirrors."

As you can tell from the fact that we've been referring to this build as a limited edition and not a one-off, there are other examples out there. John Brown 4x4 has been producing the Bond edition cars "in very limited numbers since the first clips of No Time To Die aired."

If you're interested in getting your hands on this example, the auction is accessible online or at Sotheby's (coincidentally named) Bond Street address on September 9. It is expected to fetch between £20,000 and £25,000, or roughly between $27,600 and $34,500. We think that's a pretty reasonable price for a silver screen star.

Source Credits: Sotheby's

RichardTheBruce

September 10th


1984: A View to a Kill films James and Stacey uncovering Zorin’s scheme.

1995: Derek Meddings dies at age 64--London, England.
(Born 15 January 1931--Pancras, London, England.)

OBITUARY: Derek Meddings

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-derek-meddings-1600979.html

Cy Young | Thursday 14 September 1995

The work of Derek Meddings thrilled millions of moviegoers, yet only a small percentage could actually name the man responsible for the special effects of the James Bond films of the 1970s and Hollywood blockbusters like Superman (1978). Within the industry, the reverse was true: American film-makers came to Pinewood Studios because of the international reputation of British technicians, and Meddings was one of the best.

His father had been a carpenter at Denham Studios and his mother variously Merle Oberon's stand-in and Alex Korda's secretary, but it was not until the late 1940s that Derek was able to use his art school training to get a job there, lettering credit titles. The first break came when he met the special effects man Les Bowie on a commercial, and joined his matte painting department.

During the Fifties Bowie and his new recruit created Transylvanian landscapes for Hammer Films, where limited budgets necessitated a "string and cardboard" invention that proved useful when Meddings was hired for Gerry Anderson's earliest television puppet shows. From painting cut-out backgrounds of ranch houses and picket fences on Four Feather Falls (a western format), Meddings moved on to design the models for Stingray (1965) with Reg Hill, and was then given a free hand on what has since become a cult series, Thunderbirds.

Drawing on the lessons in ingenuity from his years with Ron Bowie, he applied simple logic to the problem of tracking alongside the futuristic vehicles on take-off and landing; camera and Thunderbird remained stationary, while the background of trees and runway moved backwards on a continuous belt which rotated under the miniature set, on the same principle as an escalator. In 1966 Anderson and Meddings hit the big screen with the full- length cinema feature Thunderbirds are Go!, and then made the crossover to adult, live action, science fiction with Doppelganger (1969, aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) about a rogue planet that was a mirror of the earth. Meddings worked again with Anderson on Captain Scarlet (1967) and UFO (1970, another live action venture) until he impressed Cubby Broccoli with some miniature effects done for Live and Let Die, which launched Roger Moore as James Bond in 1973.

Once Broccoli realised the economic advantages of building detailed models instead of expensive full-size constructions, Meddings was encouraged to come up with ideas on the next Bond, The Man With the Golden Gun (1974). However, he was not entirely finished with "string and cardboard" - or, at least, wire and fibreglass. In 1975 John Dark and Kevin Connor decided that their prehistoric adventure The Land That Time Forgot could do without the stop-frame animation and matte superimpositions of Hammer's One Million Years BC - instead they would build prop monsters that could be photographed in the same frame as the actors. It was not Meddings's fault that a low budget meant that the pterodactyls' wings never moved in flight.

He was on safer ground the following year with Aces High. For this First World War aviation drama there was no model work. Authentic fighters and bombers of the period were restored to flying trim by the specialists Doug and Tony Bianchi, and Meddings's principal job was to rig the planes for the combat sequences.

On the release of Aces High, I compiled a programme in Granada television's series Clapperboard about the making of the film, and Meddings was one of our interviewees. Like most backroom professionals in the film business he was modest, quietly spoken, matter-of-fact, and took pleasure in explaining his craft; how the stab of gunfire was simulated by the flashing of a strobe light in the muzzle of a biplane's machine-gun, and how a canister placed discreetly between the underside of a wing and the fuselage would be detonated by the pilot, to leave a dramatic smoke trail as the aircraft spiralled out of a dogfight. Meddings became a friend of Clapperboard, and came back on several occasions to demonstrate the tricks of his trade.

He returned to the world of James Bond for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and came to admire the production designer, Ken Adam, greatly. Adam had the luxury of working on the 007 Stage at Pinewood, which had been purpose- built to accommodate his design for the interior of a supertanker; but Meddings probably had more fun, because he got to spend four months on location in the Bahamas, where he supervised the design and construction of a miniature supertanker for exterior sequences. "Miniature" is a comparative term, since the oil tanker was over 60ft in length; it had to be of a scale to gobble up three equally authentic-looking nuclear submarines and - being filmed on the real ocean - would have to achieve a convincing amount of water displacement.

Meddings's other masterpiece of special effects on The Spy Who Loved Me was the Lotus Esprit which converted into a submersible. For this he cleverly intercut full-size body shells with one-quarter scale miniatures. On screen, nobody could see the join and Meddings won a Grand Prix award from UNIATED for his work on the movie - incidentally, carried out in shark- infested waters.

Riding high, Meddings was persuaded to create the all- important models shots for Superman. Pinewood was again the main venue, and one of the principal sequences filmed there was the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, in an earthquake. For increased realism, Meddings opted to shoot on the backlot against a genuine sky rather than inside a stage against a blue screen. A 60ft span of bridge was constructed, over which the actor Christopher Reeve was suspended by wires; below, a miniature school bus and several automobiles were made to collide as Superman dived to the rescue. The ice planet of Krypton, a crazy jigsaw of plaster and fibreglass, was built on F Stage. Its disintegration was filmed with a camera mounted on a special arm, the LOUMA, that could tack along the 20ft-deep gullies of the collapsing set. Having made audiences believe that a man could fly, Meddings received an Oscar.

For the next Bond epic, Moonraker (1979), Meddings returned to first principles. Using a technique almost as old as the cinematograph itself, he did all the optical effects for the climactic battle "in the camera"; a process of winding back the film and exposing it again and again, until the required composite image of astronauts, space station and escape pods was obtained.

Ever versatile, Meddings designed the bizarre weapons employed in the sword and sorcery adventure Krull (1983), as well as directing second- unit action in Italy, before lending his talents to Neil Jordan's supernatural comedy High Spirits (1988). When the director Tim Burton visited Meddings at the Irish location to discuss working on Batman (1989), it was not only his track record with 007 and Superman that counted - it emerged that Burton was a fan of Thunderbirds, and Meddings reckoned that was really why he got the job.

The resulting collaboration was another feather in the cap of the Magic Camera Company, the comprehensive visual effects facility that Meddings had established at Lee International Studios in Shepperton. From this base of operations, Meddings also supplied the necessary expertise to Supergirl (1984) and Santa Claus - the Movie (1985); while for the internationally cast production The Never Ending Story II (1990), a tale of magic and dragons, he set up an outfit in Germany.

At the time of his death, Derek Meddings was engaged in post-production on the new James Bond picture, Goldeneye, on which his sons Mark and Elliott also worked.

Derek Meddings, film special effects technician: born London 15 January 1931; twice married (six children); died London 10 September 1995.

Derek Meddings
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575439/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Special effects (20 credits)

2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) (special effects - 2015)

1993 Germinal (special effects coordinator)
1991 Hudson Hawk (special effects supervisor)
1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)
1988 Apprentice to Murder (special effects)
1987 Mio in the Land of Faraway (special effects)
1983 Banzaï (special effects cameraman) / (special effects supervisor)
1981 Invaders from the Deep (director of special effects)

1976 Aces High (special effects)
1974 Invasion: UFO (special effects coordinator)
1974 The Land That Time Forgot (special effects supervisor)
1974 Doctor Who (TV Series) (special effects - 1 episode)
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part One (1974) ... (special effects - uncredited)
1973 Live and Let Die (special effects)
UFO (TV Series) (special effects - 21 episodes, 1970 - 1973) (special effects director - 5 episodes, 1970 - 1971)
- The Long Sleep (1973) ... (special effects)
- The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... (special effects)
- Reflections in the Water (1971) ... (special effects)
- The Sound of Silence (1971) ... (special effects) / (special effects director)
- Confetti Check A-O.K. (1971) ... (special effects)
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1972 Fear Is the Key (special effects)
1972 Z.P.G. (special effects)

Thunderbirds (TV Series) (supervising special effects director - 31 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (special effects director - 1 episode, 1965)
- Give or Take a Million (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Ricochet (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Lord Parker's 'Oliday (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Alias Mr. Hackenbacker (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Path of Destruction (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) (special effects director - 39 episodes)
- Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... (special effects director)
- Marineville Traitor (1965) ... (special effects director)
- Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... (special effects director)
- The Golden Sea (1965) ... (special effects director)
- The Master Plan (1965) ... (special effects director)
1962-1963 Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (special effects - 6 episodes)
- Space Magnet (1963) ... (special effects)
- Hypnotic Sphere (1963) ... (special effects)
- The Fire Fighters (1963) ... (special effects)
- Planet of Platonia (1963) ... (special effects)
- The Doomed Planet (1962) ... (special effects)
1961 Supercar (TV Series) (special effects)

Visual effects (26 credits)

1995 GoldenEye (miniature effects supervisor)
1994 The NeverEnding Story III (visual effects supervisor)
1991 Cape Fear (miniature special effects supervisor: The Magic Camera Company)
1991 Hudson Hawk (supervisor: visual effects and miniatures, The Magic Camera Company)
1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (special visual effects)

1989 Batman (special visual effects)
1985 Spies Like Us (visual effects supervisor)
1985 Santa Claus: The Movie (director of miniature effects) / (director of visual effects)
1984 Supergirl (special visual effects)
1983 Krull (visual effects supervisor)
1983 Superman III (additional model effects - uncredited)
1981 Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (TV Movie) (supervising director of visual effects)
1981 [n]For Your Eyes Only[/b] (visual effects supervisor)

1980 Superman II (director of miniature effects & additional flying sequences)
1979 Moonraker (visual effects supervisor)
1978 Superman (model effects director & creator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (special visual effects)
1976 Shout at the Devil (models and special effects)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (miniatures)
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) (visual effects supervisor - 5 episodes)
- Computer Affair (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Flight Path (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Survival (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Exposed (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Identified (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)

1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (visual effects director - 1 episode)
- A Case for the Bishop (1969) ... (visual effects director)
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (visual effects director)
1968 Joe 90 (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 1 episode)
- Hi-Jacked (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
1968 Thunderbird 6 (visual effects director)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 20 episodes, 1967 - 1968) (visual effects supervisor - 8 episodes, 1967)
- The Inquisition (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Attack on Cloudbase (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Traitor (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Inferno (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
1966 Thunderbirds Are GO (visual effects director)

Actor (1 credit)

1985 Spies Like Us - Dr. Stinson

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)

Thanks (1 credit)

1995 GoldenEye (dedicatee)

2013: Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo sells at London auction for £550,000 ($860,000, or 650,000 euros).

James Bond Sub Car Sells for £550,000

See the complete article here:

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/97496

by Naharnet Newsdesk | 10 September 2013, 03:20

The iconic submarine car driven by James Bond in the 1977 classic The Spy Who Loved Me fetched £550,000 ($860,000, 650,000 euros) when it was floated at auction for the first time in London on Monday.

Following an intense bidding battle, The Lotus Esprit was finally sold to a telephone bidder at RM Auctions in Battersea, south London.

The car was made for the scene in which Bond, played by Roger Moore, evades the gunfire from an overhead helicopter by plunging into the water, accompanied by a nervous Barbara Bach in the passenger seat.

"We are very happy with that price, it is very strong money for what is an important piece of movie memorabilia," said Peter Haynes of RM Auctions Europe.

"Bearing in mind it is not a car that can be driven on the road, the price just goes to prove the draw that all Bond-related memorabilia has," he added.

2014: Richard Dawson Kiel dies at age 74--Fresno, California.
(Born 13 September 1939--Detroit, Michigan.)

Richard Kiel, James Bond villain Jaws
actor, dies at 74

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29152398

11 September 2014

Actor Richard Kiel - who played
steel-toothed villain Jaws in two
James Bond films - has died in
California aged 74.

The towering American star, who appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977 and Moonraker in 1979, died in hospital in Fresno on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Saint Agnes Medical Center confirmed Kiel's death, but did not reveal the cause.

The 7ft 2in (2.18m) actor also appeared in the sports comedy Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler, in 1996.

Kiel got his first acting break in the 1950s

Kiel made his name as cable-chomping henchman Jaws opposite Roger Moore as 007.

Sir Roger said he was "totally distraught" at the death of his co-star.

"We were on a radio programme together just a week ago," said the former Bond star, adding "[ I ] can't take it in".

Kiel and Sir Roger were guests on BBC's Radio 4 programme The Reunion, which aired on Sunday, along with Bond actress Britt Ekland, recalling their roles in the spy series.

During the programme, Kiel said he initially thought playing Jaws - a man who killed people with his teeth - could appear "over the top".

"I was very put off by the description of the character and I thought, well, they don't really need an actor, he's more a monster part," he said.

"So I tried to change that view of it... I said if I were to play the part, I want to give the character some human characteristics, like perseverance, frustration."

Sir Roger said he was "distraught" at co-star Kiel's death, a week after they reunited for a radio show

Sandro Monetti, director at Bafta in Los Angeles and a former showbiz reporter, described Kiel as having "teeth of steel, but a heart of gold".

He recalled seeing the actor at James Bond conventions: "It was like seeing kids meeting Santa Claus. Everyone has got such joyous memories of Jaws, and he had time for everybody."

Monetti added: "Whenever you mentioned Jaws, his eyes lit up and there was that famous grin."

Micky Dolenz, who starred with Kiel in the seminal episode of The Monkees - I was a Teenage Monster, tweeted his memories of the star: "The great character actor and gentle giant."

Sandro Monetti, a director of BAFTA in Los Angeles, spoke to Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.

The character of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me was originally intended to die at the end of the movie, but he was so popular with fans that Kiel was brought back to reprise the role in Moonraker.

"The original script had me being killed by the shark," Kiel said.

"They filmed that and they also filmed an ending where I survive and pop out of the ocean.

"That was one of the big moments for me, watching the blue-collar screening of the movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, and having the reaction of the crowd at the theatre when Jaws popped out of the ocean, survived and swam away. There were hoots and howling, applause. I couldn't believe it."

Kiel, pictured with fellow Bond villains Christopher Lee, Rick Yune and Toby Stephens, was 7ft 2in tall

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kiel had the hormonal condition acromegaly, which was said to have contributed to his height.

His first break came in 1959 when he played the alien Kanamit in Twilight Zone.

He published an autobiography in 2002, called Making It Big In The Movies.

His many other acting roles included deadly assistant Voltaire in the 1960s TV series The Wild, Wild West; playing opposite William Shatner in the 1970s TV sitcom Barbary Coast; taking on the lead character of Eli Weaver in the movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain; and spoofing his most famous role as "Famous big guy with silver teeth" in the movie version of Inspector Gadget.

In recent years, he also spent much of his time touring the world and appearing at conventions to meet Bond fans.

Richard Kiel

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (82 credits)

The Engagement Ring (announced) - Patterson
2012/IV The Awakened - Jasper
2010 Tangled - Vlad (voice)
2010 Disney Tangled (Video Game) - Vlad (voice)
2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Video Game) - Jaws (voice)
2000 BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories (Video) - Mortimer

1999 Inspector Gadget - Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
1996 Happy Gilmore - Mr. Larson
1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain - Eli Weaver

1989 The Princess and the Dwarf
1989 Superboy (TV Series) - Vlkabok
- Mr. and Mrs. Superboy (1989) ... Vlkabok
1989 Think Big - Irving
1988 Out of This World (TV Series) - Norman
- Go West, Young Mayor (1988) ... Norman
1985 Qing bao long hu men - Laszlo
1985 Pale Rider - Club
1984 Cannonball Run II - Arnold, Mitsubishi Driver
1984 Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Big G
1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mark Horton
- The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Mark Horton
1983 Hysterical - Captain Howdy
1981 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Animal
- That's Right, We're Bad (1981) ... Animal
1981 So Fine - Eddie

1979 Moonraker: Milk Is Supreme Commercial (Short) - Jaws
1979 Moonraker - Jaws
1979 The Humanoid - Golob
1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way - Duke
1978 Wu zi tian shi - Steel Hand (Guest star)
1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak
1977 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - The Hulk (one scene only)
- The Incredible Hulk (1977) ... The Hulk (one scene only) (uncredited)
1977 Young Dan'l Boone (TV Series) - Grimm
- The Game (1977) ... Grimm
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Jaws
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Manager - 'Haunted House'
- The Mystery of the Haunted House (1977) ... Manager - 'Haunted House'
1976 Silver Streak - Reace
1976 Land of the Lost (TV Series) - Malak
- Flying Dutchman (1976) ... Malak
- Survival Kit (1976) ... Malak
1976 Gus - Tall Man
1976 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) - Iggy
- Omaha Tiger (1976) ... Iggy
1975-1976 Barbary Coast (TV Series) - Moose Moran
- The Dawson Marker (1976) ... Moose Moran
- Mary Had More Than a Little (1976) ... Moose Moran
- The Day Cable Was Hanged (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Sharks Eat Sharks (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Arson and Old Lace (1975) ... Moose Moran
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Loach
- Death Heist (1975) ... Loach
1975 Flash and the Firecat - Milo Pewett
1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
The Monster / The Diablero
- The Spanish Moss Murders (1974) ... The Monster
- Bad Medicine (1974) ... The Diablero
1974 Emergency! (TV Series) - Carlo
- I'll Fix It (1974) ... Carlo (uncredited)
1974 The Longest Yard - Samson (as Dick Kiel)
1972 Deadhead Miles - Big Dick
1970 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 2 (1970) ... Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 (1970) ... Luke Brown
1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (TV Movie)
Luke Brown
1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Blacksmith (uncredited)

1969 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Lemouche
- Benvenuto... Who? (1969) ... Lemouche
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Willy
- The Galloping Skin Game (1968) ... Willy
1968 Skidoo - Beany
1968 Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV Movie) - Nori
1965-1968 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Voltaire / Dimas
- The Night of the Simian Terror (1968) ... Dimas
- The Night of the Whirring Death (1966) ... Voltaire
- The Night That Terror Stalked the Town (1965) ... Voltaire
- The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth (1965) ... Voltaire
1968 A Man Called Dagger - Otto
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Tiny
- A Few Miles West of Nowhere (1968) ... Tiny
1967 The Monroes (TV Series) - Casmir
- Ghosts of Paradox (1967) ... Casmir
1967 The Monkees (TV Series) - Monster
- I Was a Teenage Monster (1967) ... Monster (as Dick Kiel)
1963-1966 Lassie (TV Series) - Chinook Pete / Dinny
- Lassie the Voyager: Part 6 (1966) ... Dinny
- The Journey: Part 5 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
- The Journey: Part 4 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
1966 Las Vegas Hillbillys - Moose
1966 Gilligan's Island (TV Series)
The Ghost / Russian Agent
- Ghost-a-Go-Go (1966) ... The Ghost / Russian Agent
1966 My Mother the Car (TV Series) - Cracks
- A Riddler on the Roof (1966) ... Cracks
1966 Honey West (TV Series) - Groalgo
- King of the Mountain (1966) ... Groalgo
1965 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Ali
- My Hero? (1965) ... Ali
1965 Brainstorm - Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
1964-1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Merry / Guard
- The Hong Kong Shilling Affair (1965) ... Merry
- The Vulcan Affair (1964) ... Guard (uncredited)
1965 The Human Duplicators - Dr. Kolos
1965 Two on a Guillotine - Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
1964 The Nasty Rabbit - Ranch Foreman (uncredited)
1964 Roustabout - Strongman (uncredited)
1963 30 Minutes at Gunsight (TV Short)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) - Paul Bunyan (uncredited)
1963 Lassie's Great Adventure - Chinook Pete
1963 The Nutty Professor - Man in Gym (uncredited)
1963 House of the Damned - The Giant
1962 Eegah - Eegah
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Kanamit
- To Serve Man (1962) ... Kanamit
1962 The Magic Sword - Pinhead No.1 (uncredited)
1961 The Phantom (TV Movie) - Big Mike
1961 The Phantom Planet - The Solarite
1961 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Carl Hazlitt
- The Decision (1961) ... Carl Hazlitt
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Doorman
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Doorman
1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Rake - Tolan's helper
- Run of the Hunted (1961) ... Rake - Tolan's helper (uncredited)
1961 Thriller (TV Series) - Master Styx
- Well of Doom (1961) ... Master Styx
1960 Klondike (TV Series) - Duff Brannigan
- Bare Knuckles (1960) ... Duff Brannigan

1957 The D.I. - Ugly Marine (uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (screenplay)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (executive producer)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (producer - uncredited)

Thanks (2 credits)

2014 The Freddy Jenkins Show (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- R.I.P. Jaws (2014) ... (in memory of)
2014 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

2022: The West Australian Symphony Orchestra perform The Music of James Bond with George Lazenby Live on Stage at Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Australia.

Presented by Concertworks
The Music of James Bond
With George Lazenby Live on Stage

See the complete article here:

https://www.waso.com.au/concerts-tickets/whats-on/concert/the-music-of-james-bond

Upcoming Dates
Sat 10 Sep 7:30pm

Perth Concert Hall
George Lazenby interviewed live on stage
Bonnie Anderson
Luke Kennedy
Nicholas Buc conductor

Musicians from West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Get dressed to impress as WASO plays The Music of James Bond, Saturday 10 September at the Perth Concert Hall.

George Lazenby, James Bond 007 in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, will be live on stage, the first time in 60 years that a James Bond has appeared in a concert featuring the James Bond music. What a way to celebrate 60 years of James Bond!

The James Bond songs are every bit as irresistible as 007 himself. Under the baton of Maestro Nicholas Buc, WASO musicians will provide an unforgettable night of music and will be joined on stage by the sensational Bonnie Anderson and Luke Kennedy, who prefer their martinis shaken, not stirred.

George Lazenby’s daughter's dance company, Footwork Dance Australia based in Perth, will be guest performers.

Hear your favourite James Bond songs and some secret stories from George all in one evening. It’s bound to be a sophisticated spy mission with Lazenby… George Lazenby.

Presented by Concertworks

2022: The Chiswick Book Festival hosts chemist and author Kathryn Harkup speaking to her books Licence to Kill: The Science of 007 and Licence, Death and Tech in the World of 007.

Chiswick Book Festival – Superspy Science: Science, Death and
Tech in the World of James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/event/chiswick-book-festival-superspy-science-science-death-and-tech-in-the-world-of-james-bond/

September 10 @ 11:15

Chemist and author Kathryn Harkup talks about the science and technology involved in Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories, as explored in her latest book Licence to Kill: The Science of 007.

Tickets
General Admission: £8

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2022: The World's Largest Corn Maze honors James Bond films about 65 miles outside Chicago in Spring Grove, Illinois.

The World's Largest Corn Maze Is
Opening Soon and Its Theme May
Surprise You

See the complete article here:

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/worlds-largest-corn-maze-unveils-design

Located outside of Chicago, the Richardson Corn Maze is taking on a cinematic style.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler | Published on 8/30/2022 at 4:37 PM

On September 10, the world's largest corn maze will open for its 2022 season, and this year it will be crafted to honor James Bond films. The Richardson Corn Maze is a 10-mile trail about 65 miles outside Chicago in Spring Grove, Illinois. This year, the maze will be made up of James Bond actors from throughout the years. There will be Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, and Pierce Brosnan trails that can be seen from the sky.

There will also be iconic scenes from the film, including the Aston Martin made so famous by 007. Overall, it promises to be hours of fun, especially for the James Bond fans in your life. Tickets for people 13 and up will cost $18 each, tickets for children between 3 and 12 will cost $16 each, and children 2 and under can enter for free.

You'll be able to visit the corn maze until October 30. In addition to the maze, there will also be pumpkin picking, wagon rides, and campfires, according to NBC Chicago. You can get further information about tickets, schedules, and more on the construction of this marvelously giant maze at RichardAdventureMaze.com.

Opheli Garcia Lawler is a Staff Writer on the News team at Thrillist. Follow her on Twitter @opheligarcia and Instagram @opheligarcia.

Courtesy of Richardson Adventure Farm

RichardTheBruce

September 11th

1955: The Sunday Times publishes Ian Fleming's "The Great Riot of Istanbul" about the Istanbul pogroms. His description: "hatred ran through the streets like lava."

1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 9 December 196. 988-1065) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/fyeo.php3?t=&s=main&id=0770

https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/



Swedish Semic 1986
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3?s=comics&id=02296

Ur Dödlig Synvinkel
(For Your Eyes Only)

Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-8-1966/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 8: “For Your Eyes Only” (1966)
"Fra dødelig synsvinkel"

Danish 1974 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no29-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 29: “For Your Eyes Only” (1974)
"Fra en dræbende synsvinkel"

1967: Agent 007 - du lever kun to gange released in Denmark.

Danish 1967 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/yolt-dk-adsheets-1967/

1978: Moonraker films OO7 arriving at Drax’s chateau at Chateau De Vaux-Le-Vicomte.

1985: Dangereusement votre (Dangerously Yours) released in France.

1989: Hungary lifts border restrictions with Austria, allowing East Germans passage to the West.

1993: Timothy Dalton comments in TV Guide magazine that he'll be in the next Bond film.

2001: In the United States, nineteen terrorists use four hijacked airliners to attack the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and almost the White House itself. Among over 3000 dead from 90 countries are an estimated 400 first responders at the Twin Towers who rushed to help survivors of the initial strikes.

2008: Coca-Cola Zero's latest ad uses music from Jack White and Bond-style images.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die in the hardcover graphic novel format.
Kewber Baal, artist. Van Jensen, Ian Fleming, writers. Fay Dalton, cover.

JAMES BOND: LIVE AND LET DIE
GRAPHIC NOVEL HARDCOVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524112720
Cover: Fay Dalton
Writer: Van Jensen, Ian Fleming
Art: Kewber Baal
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: September 2019
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 168 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/11/2019

In this second adaptation of the Fleming novels...
Bond is sent to New York City to investigate "Mr. Big", an agent of SMERSH and a criminal voodoo leader. With no time for superstition-and with the help of his colleague in the CIA, Felix Leiter, Bond tracks "Mr. Big" through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, knowing that this criminal heavy hitter is a real threat. No-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end...
ISBN-13: 978-1-5241-1372-8

2019: Italian city claims a €12 million windfall due to the No Time To Die production.

James Bond car chase brings £10
million boost to quaint Italian
town

See the complete article here:

https://www.tatler.com/article/james-bond-car-chase-brings-10-million-boost-to-quaint-italian-town

By Rebecca Cope | Wednesday 11 September 2019

It’s more used to standing in for Bethlehem or other Biblical locations in films about Jesus, but the ancient city of Matera in Italy had a thorough wake-up call yesterday as the latest James Bond movie zoomed into town.

Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux were spotted filming scenes for their upcoming 007 film, No Time To Die, including a high-speed car chase involving two Aston Martins and several motorbikes, which all screeched and zipped around the winding streets of the town.

It’s thought that the combination of the 400-strong film crew and tourism boost will result in an estimated €12 million being pumped into the local economy. ‘This is an incredible opportunity,’ said Raffaello De Ruggieri, the mayor.

‘Matera is over the moon about Bond,’ said Ivan Moliterni, head of the local film board. ‘People said that the historical architecture and bureaucracy would rule out a James Bond car chase, but this proves we can do anything.’

The film is set to be Daniel Craig’s last, with his replacement still as of yet unnamed. Current favourites include James Norton, Richard Madden and Aidan Turner. It will see Bond coming out of retirement in Jamaica to face off against a new villain played by Oscar-winner Rami Malek. Killing Eve and Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge has worked on the script, while Cary Fukanaga has taken over directing from Danny Boyle.

Currently the European Capital of Culture, Matera is best known for its series of cave dwellings, which first attracted inhabitants 7,000 years ago. Indeed, it is thought to be the third oldest habitation in the world - no wonder it was a location for Passion of The Christ.

2022: The World’s Largest Corn Maze celebrates the 60th Anniversary of James Bond at Richardson Adventure Farm, Spring Grove, Illinois.

World’s Largest Corn Maze
Celebrates 60th Anniversary of
James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://thenetionalnews.com/worlds-largest-corn-maze-celebrates-60th-anniversary-of-james-bond/

Located in Spring Grove, Illinois, a village approximately an hour’s drive away from Chicago, is Richardson Adventure Farm, home to the largest corn maze in the world. This season, the farm looks to celebrate the 60th anniversary of James Bond, creating an intricate maze that paints a mural of Agent 007 actors Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, and Pierce Brosnan, as well as the legendary Aston Martin DB5 and fictional Casino de Monte-Carlo.

The corn maze trail stretches 10 miles long and spans over a 28-acre area. According to Richardson, the complex imagery was made using corn-planter tractors fitted with GPS. As the tractors move across the field, they drop corn seeds in specified areas to create a detailed overall image. In addition to the maze, the farm will also offer other activities such as pumpkin picking, hayrides, zip lines, barn rentals, and more.

The maze will open on September 10 and will run until October 30. To celebrate opening day, an Aston Martin used in the film Die Another Day will be on display.

Richardson Adventure Farm
909 English Prairie Rd,
Spring Grove, IL 60081, USA

richardsonadventurefarm
Yes, that’s right! A real Aston Martin used in the filming of Die Another Day will be on display near the entrance of our corn maze this Saturday and Sunday!

The car was graciously loaned to us from Volo Auto Museum, Volo, IL. The car is a 2001 Aston Martin Vanquish acquired at auction by the museum. Like many Hollywood movie cars, this car is an imposter! Built as a stunt car, it is actually a Jaguar. At the time of the movie, Ford owned both Aston Martin and Jaguar. Both share the same platform as a Mustang. For the movie, stunt versions of the Aston Martin were built using both the Mustang and Jaguar chassis with fiberglass replica bodies. When Volvo Auto Museum noticed we were using 60 Years of James Bond as a theme of our corn maze, they contacted us about doing some cross-promotions – and what a great opportunity!

Come see it this weekend! No, you cannot sit in it or drive it around the grounds, but you can take your picture in front of it! Sorry, Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry will not be here to pose with …unless they surprise us!

RichardTheBruce

September 12th

1914: Desmond Llewelyn is born--Newport, Wales.
(He dies 19 December 1999 at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.)

Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-desmond-llewelyn-1133864.html

Tom Vallance - Tuesday 21 December 1999 01:02
The Independent Culture

DESMOND LLEWELYN was an actor for over 60 years, but will forever be remembered for just one role, that of "Q", inventor of countless gadgets for the spy James Bond. With an air of impatient but kindly acumen, he would introduce Bond to a batch of innocent-looking but lethal high-tech instruments in a scene that was always a highlight of each adventure.

When the producers left him out of one of the Bond movies, Live and Let Die (1973), claiming that the films were becoming too dependent on gadgetry, there was a storm of protest from fans who missed his trademark cameo. The character was restored permanently and is to be seen in the latest adventure, The World Is Not Enough. During the last week Llewelyn had been attracting large crowds at book signings for a new biography, Q: the biography of Desmond Llewelyn, written by Sandy Hernu, who described the actor as "enormously funny and entertaining and great fun to be with". She said that the man on screen was similar to the real one, except that Llewelyn hated gadgets. He once said, "In real life gadgets explode or expire as I touch them."

The son of a coal-mining engineer, Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914. His parents wanted him to be a chartered accountant, but a period as an articled clerk bored him, and after considering several professions he decided on a stage career and enrolled, at the age of 20, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he studied for two years.

As he said later, "I'd tried the Church and that failed. I was too dim for accountancy, too short-sighted for the police force and an insufficient liar to make a good politician. What else was left but to become an actor? I remember Richard Burton saying to me years later that the reason there are so many Welsh actors is because the Church is not very popular nowadays." Fellow students at Rada included Geoffrey Keen, later to appear in several Bond films, and Margaret Lockwood, "to whom I quite lost my heart".

While still at Rada he made his film debut with a walk-on in the Gracie Fields film Look Up and Laugh (1935), but his first professional job after leaving the academy was with a repertory company in Southend, the first of several such companies with whom he gained experience. He was appearing in Bexhill, East Sussex (where he eventually settled) when he met Pamela Pantlin, a member of the "Women's League for Health and Beauty", and they were married in 1938.

The following year, Llewelyn was in another film, the Will Hay comedy Ask a Policeman, but his career was then interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served as a second lieutenant assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Captured by German soldiers in France, he spent five years as a prisoner of war.

He resumed his film career with a war film, They Were Not Divided (1950), in which he was one of two soldiers named Jones, who was thus addressed as "77 Jones" - the other was "45 Jones". The director was Terence Young, who 13 years later was director of From Russia With Love, the film which changed the course of Llewelyn's career.

Llewelyn had been appearing in regional theatre and playing small film roles - he had four lines in Cleopatra (1962) - when he auditioned for the role of Q. The character is not in the Ian Fleming books, though in the first Bond story, Casino Royale, it is "Q Branch" that provides 007's gadgets, and in Llewelyn's first two Bond films his character is billed as "Major Boothroyd", becoming simply "Q" in Thunderball (1965). (In the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), Boothroyd had been played by Peter Burton, who was not available for the filming of From Russia With Love.)

Young wanted the character to speak with a Welsh accent, but Llewelyn preferred to interpret the character as "a toffee-nosed Englishman". "At the risk of losing the part and with silent apologies to my native land, I launched into Q's lines using the worst Welsh accent, followed by the same in English," he said.

Bond was in need of gadgets in From Russia With Love, for he had to contend with two of the most dastardly villains of the series, the blond hulk Red Grant (Robert Shaw) and the sadistic Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who uses knife-toed boots to kick her victims to death. A booby-trapped briefcase was the principal item with which Bond was equipped, courtesy of Q, who was to become a fixture of the Bond adventures (with the exception of Live and Let Die) and almost as popular a figure as Bond himself. His description of the versatile briefcase was typical of Q's briefings: "Here is an ordinary black leather case. Hidden in these steel rods are 20 rounds of ammunition. Press that button and you have a throwing knife. Inside is your AR7, a folding sniper's rifle and 50 gold sovereigns. This looks like an ordinary tin of talcum powder, but it conceals a tear gas cartridge and is kept in place by a magnetic device . . ."

Guy Hamilton directed the next film in which Llewelyn played Q, Goldfinger (1964), and the actor credits him with changing his approach to the role. "Previously I'd played Q as a toffee-nosed technician, more than slightly in awe of Bond." Hamilton changed that approach. "He said, `This man annoys you. He's irritatingly flippant and doesn't treat your gadgets with respect. Deep down you may envy his charm with women, but remember you're the teacher."

After that, Llewelyn stated, he played Q with "a veiled exasperation coupled with a humorous tolerance to 007's flippancy and aggravating habit of fiddling with the gadgets". That exasperation mounted over the years, and in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Q's first words to 007 were "Now pay attention, Bond", and his last, "Oh, grow up, 007!"

Asked recently which Bond he considered best, Llewelyn chose Sean Connery as "perfect", adding, "George Lazenby played it straight and rather well. Roger Moore was much lighter and more jokey. It was a rather camp portrayal, with a lot more emphasis on humour, but it worked. Timothy Dalton was Ian Fleming's Bond - a real character. His confidence and surliness were straight from the books. It was brave, but people didn't like it. Pierre Brosnan is extremely good. He has the right look and manner."

The character of Q was due to be retired after the latest Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, with his sidekick R, played by John Cleese, replacing him. The actor loved playing Q, but in recent years his private life had been marked by tragedy as he watched his wife suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

Llewelyn appeared in such television series as Doomwatch and Follyfoot and made other films, including Operation Kid Brother (1967), which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil playing the sibling of 007. Bernard Lee ("M") and Lois Maxwell ("Moneypenny") were other Bond regulars cast in this weak film to bolster its appeal. But it is for his performances in 17 Bond films that Llewelyn will have a permanent part in film history, equipping the hero with toxic fountain-pens, exploding toothpaste and dozens of similar gadgets with which to confound or exterminate his adversaries.

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, actor: born Newport, Monmouthshire 12 September 1914; married 1938 Pamela Pantlin (two sons); died Firle, East Sussex 19 December 1999.

Desmond Llewlyn
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005155/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (122 credits)

1999 License to Thrill (Short) - Q
1999 Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (TV Movie) - Peregrin Morley
1999 The World Is Not Enough - Q
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Q
1997 Taboo (Short) -
1995 GoldenEye - Q
1993 October 32nd - Professor Mycroft

1989 Licence to Kill - Q[/u]
1988 Prisoner of Rio - Commissioner Ingram
1987 The Living Daylights - Q
1985 A View to a Kill - Q
1983 Octopussy - Q
1982 Play for Today (TV Series) - Official in Dream
- Soft Targets (1982) ... Official in Dream
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Q
1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (TV Series) - Lord Lansdowne
- No. 10 (1981) ... Lord Lansdowne (as Desmond Llewellyn)
1979-1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Papa / Major Bill Whittall
- The Happy Autumn Fields (1980) ... Papa
- Speed King (1979) ... Major Bill Whittall
1980 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Sir Danvers Carew

1979 The Golden Lady - Professor Dixon
1979 Moonraker - Q
1979 Hazell (TV Series) - Bell
- Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost (1979) ... Bell
1978 Lillie (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Dudley
- The Jersey Lily (1978) ... Lord Dudley
1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Colonel Thripp
- Well Enough Alone (1978) ... Colonel Thripp
1977 Eustace and Hilda (TV Series) - Sir John Staveley
- The Sixth Heaven (1977) ... Sir John Staveley
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Q
1976 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - President
- Loss of the Helen May (1976) ... President
1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Rev. Sidney Gooch
- Anselm Gets His Chance (1976) ... Rev. Sidney Gooch
1975 A Man in the Zoo (TV Movie) - Chairman
1975 The Love School (TV Series) - Thomas Combe
- Seeking the Bubbles (1975) ... Thomas Combe
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'Q'
1974 The Pallisers (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker
- Part Twenty-three (1974) ... Speaker
1974 The Nine Tailors (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Charles Thorpe
- Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Sir Charles Thorpe
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Air Commodore Drew
- The R.A.F. Reunion (1973) ... Air Commodore Drew
1971-1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - The Colonel
- Walk in the Wood (1973) ... The Colonel
- Hazel (1973) ... The Colonel
- Rain on Friday (1973) ... The Colonel
- The Helping Hand (1973) ... The Colonel (credit only)
- Uncle Joe (1973) ... The Colonel
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'Q'
1971 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Somers
- Something Big (1971) ... Somers
1971 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Thompson
- Flight Into Yesterday (1971) ... Thompson
1970 Codename (TV Series) - Barrett
- A Walk with the Lions (1970) ... Barrett

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'Q'
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Coggins
1960-1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Dr. Pearce / Bank Manager / Det. Insp. Jones
- The Man (1968) ... Dr. Pearce
- The Commander (1968) ... Bank Manager
- Everything Goes in Threes (1960) ... Det. Insp. Jones
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Headmaster
- Where Did You Get That Hat? (1968) ... Headmaster
1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - Count Kolinsky
- Russian Roundabout (1968) ... Count Kolinsky
1967 Mickey Dunne (TV Series) - Lord Boutard
- The Hon. Bird (1967) ... Lord Boutard
1967 You Only Live Twice - 'Q'
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Q
1961-1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Fergus de la Roux / Constable
- Old Ben in the Belfry (1967) ... Constable
- Episode #1.436 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
- Episode #1.431 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
1965 Thunderball - 'Q'
1965 Moulded in Earth (TV Series) - Squire
- The End of the Feud (1965) ... Squire
- Family Conference (1965) ... Squire
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Jailer (uncredited)
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Charles - Doorman
- The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (1965) ... Charles - Doorman
1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Senior Police Officer
- State Visit (1964) ... Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
1964 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Colonel Barlow
- A Plea of Provocation (1964) ... Colonel Barlow
1964 Goldfinger - 'Q'
1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Member of Council
- A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Member of Council
1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Webb
- A Job for the Major (1964) ... John Webb
1963 Silent Playground - Dr. Green
1959-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Murgatroyd / Supt. Hitchcock
- Always a Copper (1963) ... Murgatroyd
- Stranger in the Parlour (1959) ... Supt. Hitchcock
1963 From Russia with Love - Boothroyd - 'Q'
1963 Suspense (TV Series) - Company Spokesman / Ian MacDonald / President of the Court
- The Rescuers (1963) ... Company Spokesman
- The Dogs of Durga Das (1963) ... Ian MacDonald
- The Uncertain Witness (1963) ... President of the Court
1963 Cleopatra - Senator (uncredited)
1962 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Mr. Forbes
- Episode #4.18 (1962) ... Mr. Forbes
1962 The Pirates of Blood River - Tom Blackthorne (uncredited)
1962 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (TV Movie) - Frank Misquith, QC, MP
1962 Only Two Can Play - Clergyman on Bus (uncredited)
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series) - - The Case of Uncle Henry (1961)
1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - 1st Footman (uncredited)
1961 The House Under the Water (TV Mini-Series) - Colonel Tregaron
- Episode #1.1 (1961) ... Colonel Tregaron
1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest - Wounded Fugitive (uncredited)
1960 Garry Halliday (TV Series) - Psychiatrist
- A Message from a Stranger (1960) ... Psychiatrist
1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Sergeant Harris
- Home and the Heart (1960) ... Sergeant Harris
1960 How Green Was My Valley (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Evans
- Proposal and Disposal (1960) ... Mr. Evans

1959 Private Investigator (TV Series) - Police Constable Jones
- The Battle for Diana (1959) ... Police Constable Jones (as Desmond Llewellyn)
1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) -
- Episode #1.5 (1959)
1959 Sapphire - Police Constable (uncredited)
1959 A Farthing Damages (TV Movie) - O'Connor
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - John Redmond
- Parnell (1959) ... John Redmond
1959 Barbed Wire and Bracken (TV Movie) - The Rector
1958 Corridors of Blood - Assistant at Operations (uncredited)
1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Det. Sergeant
- Blind Justice (1958) ... Det. Sergeant
1958 Further Up the Creek - Chief Yeoman (uncredited)
1958 Queen's Champion (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Bretherton
- The Edge of Defeat (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
- The Eve of the Armada (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
1958 The Sky Larks (TV Series) - Police Sgt. Ryan
- Touch of the Irish (1958) ... Police Sgt. Ryan
1958 A Night to Remember - Seaman at Steerage Gate (uncredited)
1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Two Fingers
- Little Mother (1958) ... Two Fingers
1957 Thunder in the West (TV Series) - King James II
- For King and Monmouth (1957) ... King James II
1957 Escape (TV Series) - Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
- Harry (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
- The Great Bluff (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
1957 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - McCracken
- The Open and Shut Case (1957) ... McCracken
1957 The Soldier and the Gentlewoman (TV Movie) - Philip Vaughan
1955 The Leakage (TV Movie) - Wing-Commander Stone
1955 Spider's Web (TV Movie) - Constable Jones
1954 Patrol Car (TV Series) - - Moral Murder
1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
- A Strange Tournament (1954) ... Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
1954 Tyrant's Tower (TV Movie) - 2nd Surveyor
1953 Bunty Wins a Pup (Short) - Mr. Brown
1953 Operation Diplomat - Police Constable at barrier (uncredited)
1953 Stryker of the Yard
1953 Knights of the Round Table - A Herald (uncredited)
1953 Valley of Song - Lloyd - Schoolmaster
1953 Both Sides of the Law - Police Constable (uncredited)
1952 Huckleberry Finn (TV Series) - Harvey Wilks
- The Auction (1952) ... Harvey Wilks
1952 My Wife Jacqueline (TV Series) - Keith Appleyard
- Happily Ever After (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- The Landed Proprietor (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- Getting Margaret Married (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- Common Interests (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
1952 How Does It End? (TV Series) - Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
- A Tale of Two Cities (1952) ... Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
1952 The Locked Room (TV Movie) - Stephen Amesbury
1952 The Twelfth Brother (TV Short) - Reuben
1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Pandimiglio
- The Wanderer (1952) ... Pandimiglio
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob - Customs Officer (uncredited)
1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Mr. Hyde
1950 They Were Not Divided -'77 Jones
1950 Guilt Is My Shadow - Pub customer (uncredited)

1949 The Amazing Mr. Beecham - First guardsman (uncredited)
1949 Adam and Evalyn - Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
1949 The Good Companions (TV Movie) - Policeman at Ribsden / Mr. Gooch
1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
1948 A Comedy of Good and Evil (TV Movie) - Owain Flatfish
1947 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
1947 Saloon Bar (TV Movie) - Peter / Police Constable
1947 Captain Boycott - Gentleman on Train (uncredited)
1946 The Murder Rap (TV Movie) - Inspector Fearon
1946 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
1946 As You Like It (TV Movie) - Duke

1939 Ask a Policeman - Headless Coachman (uncredited)
1939 Campbell of Kilmhor (TV Movie) - Captain Sandeman

Thanks (4 credits)

2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- La última noche del Titanic (2012) ... (in memory of)
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (in memory of)
2000 Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (TV Movie documentary) (in memory of)
1999 The World Is Not Enough (dedicatee)

1930: Mary Barbara Jefford OBE dies 12 September 2020 at age 90--London, England.
(Born 26 July 1930--Plymstock, Plymouth, Devon, England.)

Barbara Jefford obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/16/barbara-jefford-obituary

Actor who exuded intensity and stillness on stage in a vast range of Shakespearean roles
Barbara Jefford in 2000 at Gainsborough Studios, London, where she appeared in the Almeida’s productions of Richard II and Coriolanus.

Barbara Jefford in 2000 at Gainsborough Studios, London, where she appeared in the Almeida’s productions of Richard II and Coriolanus. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian

Michael Coveney | Wed 16 Sep 2020 15.27 EDT

The glory days of Barbara Jefford, who has died aged 90, as the leading classical actor of her generation at the Old Vic, came in the 1950s. In that distant decade, she played every Shakespearean female role going, from Imogen and Portia to Beatrice, Rosalind and Desdemona. It was reckoned that she appeared in all but four of his three dozen plays.

She made her name as Isabella in Peter Brook’s 1950 staging of Measure for Measure – rarely done in those days – at Stratford-upon-Avon. Brook wanted an unknown to play the virginal novice opposite John Gielgud’s Angelo. And he asked her, as she knelt before the Duke to plead pardon for Angelo, whom she had “bed-tricked” in order to save her condemned brother, to hold a pause for as long as the audience would allow. Two minutes is an eternity of silence, and that’s what she sometimes commanded.

Few actors exude such intensity and stillness on a stage as was Jefford’s stock-in-trade. She was thought to be a definitive Viola in Twelfth Night in 1958 – bursting with joyful exuberance – but in that same Old Vic season she played Regan in King Lear, and a “fire-breathing” (said Kenneth Tynan) Queen Margaret in Henry VI.

As she matured, she acquired a majesty and a grandeur that most critical writing about her performances noted, as she blazingly personified Tamora, Queen of the Goths, in Titus Andronicus and was the most possessed Saint Joan since Sybil Thorndike’s introduction of the role in 1924, throughout the UK and on tour in Russia at the start of the 60s.

Barbara Jefford as Desdemona with Basil Hoskins as Lodovico in a production of Othello at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1954. Photograph: ANL/Rex/Shutterstock

She was not involved in the early days of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, partly because she had played all the great roles open to her before they were launched, but a new London audience discovered her matchless power and dignity when she took over as Gertrude from Angela Lansbury to Albert Finney’s Hamlet at the National in 1975 and partnered him, too, as Zabina in Peter Hall’s magnificent 1976 revival of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine.

At this time, though, she began to feel out of step with current trends and fashions in theatre: “There isn’t the same eagerness to go straight for things, to offer an interpretation of a classic that is bold, straightforward, even obvious … you can only play Shakespeare when you have reached a certain stage of technical expertise. So often you will see very young actors who look divine. Then they open their little traps. You think, oh dear.”

Jefford was born in Plymstock, near Plymouth, in Devon, the daughter of Percival Jefford, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Laity). She was educated at Weirfield school, Taunton, where she excelled in verse-speaking competitions before being taught elocution by Eileen Hartley at her studio in Bristol. “Whenever I do poems in recitals,” said Jefford, “I can still hear her advice, her instructions, her orders.” She then trained at Rada in London, where she won the Bancroft gold medal.

Her London debut came at the Q theatre in a stage version of Ingmar Bergman’s Frenzy in which she played the Mai Zetterling role (“I wore a plastic mac to show I was a prostitute”). She played three more seasons at Stratford: she was the Queen of France to Richard Burton’s break-out Henry V in 1951 and toured with Anthony Quayle’s company to Australia and New Zealand in 1953-54 as Desdemona, Rosalind, and Lady Percy in Henry IV.

After Andromache opposite Michael Redgrave in Jean Giraudoux’s Tiger at the Gates (translated by Christopher Fry) at the Apollo in 1955, she began a five-year stint at the Old Vic, ending with Lavinia (“superbly suggesting rats at work beneath a smooth white surface,” said one critic) in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra in 1961 and a US tour as Lady Macbeth, as well as Saint Joan.

Barbara Jefford and Peter O’Toole rehearsing a scene for Ride a Cock Horse at the Piccadilly theatre, 1965. Photograph: PA Archive/PA Images

She formed a fruitful working relationship with Frank Hauser, director of the Oxford Playhouse in the 60s, for whom she played Lina Szczepanowska in Shaw’s Misalliance, Dora Doulebov in Camus’s The Just, Cleopatra, Racine’s Phèdre and Irma in Jean Genet’s The Balcony. She returned to the West End in 1963 to open the new May Fair theatre with Ralph Richardson in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and in David Mercer’s Ride a Cock Horse (1965) at the Piccadilly, co-starring Peter O’Toole, Wendy Craig and Siân Phillips in a red raw comedy of an insecure writer, his wife and two mistresses.

She toured extensively abroad in a recital programme, The Labours of Love, with her second husband, the actor John Turner, who was also Antony to her Cleopatra in Dryden’s All For Love, a glittering 1977 production at the Old Vic, again directed by Hauser, in which she miraculously combined a fish-wife swagger with a noble jaw in an unjustly forgotten classic.

When Hall launched several autonomous companies at the National in 1986, she joined the group led by the director Michael Rudman to play the mother in Six Characters (she had been the step-daughter at the May Fair), stoically bereaved and eloquently granite-faced, and made a rare sortie into contemporary drama as a mine owner in male attire in Nick Darke’s Ting Tang Mine. Rudman’s company included two new faces – Ralph Fiennes and Lesley Sharp – as well as Richard Pasco, Alec McCowen and Robin Bailey, and they all shone in Brian Friel’s Fathers and Sons, adapted from Turgenev. She then obligingly repeated her Duchess of York and Queen Margaret for a 1988-89 season at the Phoenix starring Derek Jacobi as both Richard II and Richard III, directed by Clifford Williams, but this was old-style Old Vic, dated and dusty.

Ten years later, in 1998, she joined a far more exciting West End season at the Albery (now the Noël Coward) for Jonathan Kent’s double-header of Racine, playing Oenone, a confidante of steel and ice, to Diana Rigg’s Phèdre (translated by Ted Hughes), and Albina in Britannicus, with Toby Stephens as a livid, unpredictable young Nero on the rise. She re-joined Kent in an Almeida theatre season at the Gainsborough Studios in 2000, once again as the Duchess of York, and as Volumnia, to Fiennes’s tremendous double of Richard II and Coriolanus.

Barbara Jefford, right, as Mrs Higgins, with Tim Pigott-Smith (Henry Higgins) and Michelle Dockery (Eliza Doolittle) in a 2008 Old Vic production of Pygmalion, directed by Peter Hall. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

There was a final rerun of Queen Margaret for Kenneth Branagh’s Richard III at the Sheffield Crucible in 2002, a Simon Gray play, The Old Masters, with Edward Fox and Peter Bowles, at the Comedy in 2004 and a magisterial valedictory as Mrs Higgins at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and the Old Vic, in Hall’s superb 2007 revival of Shaw’s Pygmalion, with Tim Pigott-Smith and Michelle Dockery.

Her most memorable film performance was her erotically supercharged Molly Bloom in Joseph Strick’s Ulysses (1967), and she “dubbed” no fewer than three female James Bond actors, Daniela Bianchi in From Russia With Love (1963), Molly Peters in Thunderball (1965) and Caroline Munro in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She adorned Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate (1999), Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and Stephen Frears’s Philomena (2013).

On television, she was a charity worker in Ted Kotcheff’s Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971) starring Patricia Hayes, Ian McKellen’s mother in Walter (1982), the first drama on Channel 4, directed by Frears, and Ian Richardson’s wife, first lady of the college, in the TV adaptation of Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue (1987).

When Jefford was appointed OBE in 1965, she was at that time the youngest ever civilian recipient of the honour.

Her first marriage, to the actor Terence Longdon, ended in divorce. She married Turner, who survives her, in 1967.

Barbara Mary Jefford, actor, born 26 July 1930; died 12 September 2020

This article was amended on 24 September 2020 to clarify that when Barbara Jefford was appointed OBE in 1965 she was the youngest civilian ever at the time, but not the youngest person.

1940: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming's memo to Naval Intelligence Director Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey inspires Operation Ruthless, a pursuit of the Enigma codebooks used by Nazi Germany and its navy.

12 September 1940, Fleming to Godfrey:

I suggest we obtain the loot by the following means:

1. Obtain from Air Ministry an air-worthy German bomber.
2. Pick a tough crew of five, including a pilot, W/T operator and word-perfect German speaker. Dress them in German Air Force uniform, add blood and bandages to suit.
3. Crash plane in the Channel after making S.O.S. to rescue service in P/L.
4. Once aboard rescue boat, shoot German crew, dump overboard, bring rescue boat back to English port.

In order to increase the chances of capturing an R. or M. with, its richer booty, the crash might be staged in mid-Channel. The Germans would presumably employ one of this type for the longer and more hazardous journey.

1942: Martin Grace is born--Lisdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
(He dies 27 January 2010 at age 67--Spain.)

Martin Grace: Roger Moore's stunt
double in the James Bond films

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/martin-grace-roger-moores-stunt-double-in-the-james-bond-films-1897007.html

Friday 12 February 2010 01:00

Performing as Roger Moore's stunt double in the James Bond films brought Martin Grace respect throughout the industry – but, because of the nature of his job, he was never a "star". He also did stunts for some of the early Cadbury's Milk Tray commercials.

Grace first stood in for Moore in the 1977 picture The Spy Who Loved Me, driving a Lotus Esprit through the winding streets of Sardinia in a furious chase – with the express instruction that the car had to be returned to its manufacturer intact. He followed this with Bond's fight with the steel-jawed henchman Jaws on top of a cablecar 1,300 feet above ground in Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (1979). The action continued in the air in For Your Eyes Only (1981), with Grace hanging on to the outside of a remote-controlled helicopter for the pre-title sequence. Later, in Moore's final Bond film, A View to a Kill (1985), the stunt performer did more aerial acrobatics, on the Eiffel Tower and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

But during Octopussy (1983) a complicated stunt involving a train and a car went horribly wrong while shooting on the Nene Valley railway. A helicopter was to shoot the action from the air, but communication was lost between Grace, the pilot, the train driver and the rest of the stunt team, and Grace smashed into a wall, fracturing his pelvis and damaging his thigh.

"The impact was so lightning fast that I only realised that I had hit something when I found I was hanging prone for dear life on the side of the train!" he recalled. "Adrenalin was pumping through my arms like never before. I looked down and saw my trouser leg had been ripped off and saw my thigh bone through the gash in my thigh muscle."

Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1942, Grace attended Kilkenny College. He then moved to England, joined boxing, weight-lifting, wrestling and fencing clubs, and worked at Butlin's.

He then trained as an actor at the Mountview Theatre School, in London, and joined a stunt agency. His first jobs were in commercials, such as the Cadbury's Milk Tray campaign, in which he jumped from a bridge on to a train, was lifted from a sports car and dropped on a hotel roof and, finally, jumped from a cliff on to a moving truck, before diving into a lake to deliver the chocolates to a woman on a boat.

His first film was the television spin-off Dr Who and the Daleks (1965). Like many stunt performers, he was cast in a role that demanded his special skills, as he was in pictures such as Who Dares Wins (1982) and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), and television programmes that included The Onedin Line (1972) and The Protectors (1973).

In You Only Live Twice (1967), starring the screen's original Bond, Sean Connery, Grace was one of a host of stunt performers taking part in the climactic volcano-eruption scene where Bond gives an elite ninja force access to the villain Blofeld's secret base. Grace underwent four weeks of intensive training – scaling nets, sliding down ropes and practising trampoline "explosions" – before the sequence was shot.

In 1969, he was Oliver Reed's fencing double in The Assassination Bureau. He fought with Anthony Hopkins in When Eight Bells Toll (1971), and did stunts with Kirk Douglas in To Catch a Spy (1971), after seven months out of action as a result of breaking his neck in Scrooge (1970).

Grace appeared in a show that toured Scandinavia in 1974 and starred the Norwegian stunt performer Arne Berg. The experience of doing six performances a week that required high falls, car crashes, motorcycle jumps, fights and tunnels of fire stood him in good stead when he was asked to double for Roger Moore in five Bond films. He also doubled for Richard Kiel, as the villain Jaws, in both The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

This also led Grace to become Moore's stunt double in some of the star's other films – The Wild Geese (1978), Escape to Athena (1979), North Sea Hijack (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980) and The Naked Face (1984). Also among the 70-plus films in which he did stunt work were Superman (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Brazil (1985), King Arthur (2004), Ella Enchanted (2004) and The Number 23 (2007). He had extra responsibility, as stunt co-ordinator, on pictures such as High Spirits (1988), Erik the Viking (1989), Nuns on the Run (1990), Patriot Games (1992) and Angela's Ashes (1999).

In 1978, the Rank Organisation chose Grace to be its fifth famous gong-beater, but in the end his sequence was consigned to the cutting room floor. A keen cyclist, Grace fractured his pelvis in an accident last year. He returned to hospital after developing breathing problems at his home in Spain and died after suffering an aneurysm.

Anthony Hayward

- Martin Ryan Grace, actor and stunt performer and co-ordinator: born Kilkenny, Ireland 12 September 1942; twice married; died Spain 27 January 2010.

Martin Grace
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333370/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Stunts (75 credits)

2007 The Number 23 (stunts)
2005 Izzat (stunt coordinator)
2004 King Arthur (stunts - uncredited)
2004 Ella Enchanted (stunt double: ogre 2)
2003 New Tricks (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
- The Chinese Job (2003) ... (stunt coordinator)
2001 Shallow Hal (stunt coordinator)
2001 The Bombmaker (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)

1999 Anna and the King (stunt coordinator)
1998 Dancing at Lughnasa (stunt coordinator)
1998 The Truman Show (stunts)
1997 The Boxer (stunts)
1997 The MatchMaker (stunts)
1996 Body Troopers (stunt coordinator)
1996 North Star (stunt coordinator)
1995 Circle of Friends (stunt coordinator)
1995 An Awfully Big Adventure (stunts)
1994 MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1993-1994 Between the Lines (TV Series) (stunt performer - 2 episodes)
- Shoot to Kill (1994) ... (stunt performer)
- Big Boys' Rules: Part II (1993) ... (stunt performer)
1994 A Man of No Importance (stunt coordinator)
1994 MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1993 Head Above Water (stunt coordinator)
1993 Briefest Encounter (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1993 Bad Company (TV Movie) (stunts)
1992 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
- Blackballed (1992) ... (stunt performer)
1992 Civvies (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.6 (1992) ... (stunt performer)
1992 Patriot Games (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
1992 Map of the Human Heart (stunt coordinator)
1992 Lethal Lies (stunt coordinator)
1991 Afraid of the Dark (stunt coordinator)
1991 Robin Hood (stunt coordinator)
1991 A Kiss Before Dying (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
1991 Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- The Double Clue (1991) ... (stunts)
1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (stunt coordinator)
1990 Shipwrecked (stunt coordinator)
1990 Nuns on the Run (stunt coordinator)

1989 A Handful of Time (stunts)
1989 Erik the Viking (stunt coordinator)
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited) / (stunts)
1989 The Littlest Viking (stunt coordinator)
1988 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) (stunt coordinator - 5 episodes)
- Part V (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part IV (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part III (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part II (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part I (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
1988 High Spirits (stunt coordinator) / (stunt performer)
1988 Willow (stunts)
1987 Pathfinder (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1987 A Prayer for the Dying (stunts)
1985 Enemy Mine (stunt coordinator)
1985 A View to a Kill (action sequence arranger) / (ski stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore, Golden Gate - uncredited)
1985 Brazil (stunt performer)
1984 The Naked Face (stunt double)
1984 Top Secret! (stunts)
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited)
1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunt coordinator)
1983 Octopussy (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (the stunt team supervisor)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) (stunts)
1982 Victor Victoria (stunts)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt team)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunt double: Indiana Jones #3 - uncredited) / (stunts)
1981 Inchon (stunts - uncredited)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Richard Kiel, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts)
1979 Escape to Athena (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Superman (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Hardy Krüger - uncredited) / (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt double: Richard Kiel - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) (stunts)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited)
1973 Horror Hospital (stunt supervisor)
1971 Catch Me a Spy (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Scrooge (stunts - uncredited)
1969 It's Tommy Cooper (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- Christmas Special (1969) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1969 I Alfred the Great (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Mayerling (stunts - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (20 credits)

1997 Robinson Crusoe - Captain Braga
1992 Brookside (TV Series) - Driver
- Episode #1.1085 (1992) ... Driver
1991 Under Suspicion - Colin

1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Jumpmaster
- Part IX (1989) ... Jumpmaster
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Bruno's Crony #2
1982 The Final Option - U.S. Marine Guard
1980 The Sea Wolves - Kruger

1978 The Wild Geese - East German Officer
1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Security Guard
- End of Eternity (1975) ... Security Guard (uncredited)
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Gang Member
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads (1973) ... Gang Member
1973 Horror Hospital - Bike Boy
1973 Special Branch (TV Series)
- Round the Clock (1973)
1972 Double Take - Leopard Man
1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Muscleman
- That Sort of Girl (1972) ... Muscleman
1972 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Martin Thompson
- A Woman Alone (1972) ... Martin Thompson
1972 Villains (TV Series) - Man
- Smudger (1972) ... Man (uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)

1969 Moon Zero Two - Red Killer (uncredited)
1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Plainclothesman
1965 Dr. Who and the Daleks - Thal

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1987 Pathfinder (action sequences)

Self (12 credits)

2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1985 A View to a Kill Original Promotional Featurette (Video documentary short) - Himself
1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Himself
- For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Himself
1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

1947: Christopher Neame is born--London, England.

1957: Hans Florian Zimmer is born--Frankfurt, West Germany.

1965: The Los Angeles Times reports contenders for Bond girl roles included Elsa Martinelli and Raquel Welch.

Elsa Martinelli



Raquel Welch

1966: Bond comic strip The Living Daylights begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 12 November 1966. 210-263) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tld.php3


https://bond-and-beyond.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_12.html


http://bdzoom.com/94191/patrimoine/james-bond-operation-comics-premiere-partie/attachment/bond_james_cs15_s1/


Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no14-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 14:
“The Living Daylights” (1968)
"Spionen fra øst"

1975: ABC-TV premieres Diamonds Are Forever.

1982: Octopussy location filming begins at Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
1983: Octopussy released in Barcelona, Spain.

1985: Επιχείρηση Κινούμενος στόχος (Business Moving Target) released in Greece.

https://dpikeas.wordpress.com/2019/07/

1988: Licence to Kill films Felix Leiter disagreeing with something that eats him.

RichardTheBruce

2005: The Irish Examiner reports on actor Pierce Brosnan's desires for the next Bond film.

Brosnan: 'Sex up Bond'
Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has begged 007
filmmakers to spice up the next film's sex scenes or risk it
becoming a flop.

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30220483.html

Mon, 12 Sep, 2005 - 20:06

Brosnan, who was dropped from playing the suave superspy after the last film, insists producers need to make the next movie sexier and more violent.

The 52-year-old says: "You're not even allowed to show a bloody nipple. It's pathetic. What Bond needs is a good, palpable killing sequence and a good sex scene."

2012: Star Cars episode 007 features the James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies BMW 750IL.

Star Cars
James Bond 'Tomorrow Never Dies' BMW

Episode aired Sep 12, 2012 | S1 E7
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392426/

Burn rubber like James Bond 007 with this surprisingly affordable rocket-launching BMW.

Director - Brad Hansen
Stars - Athena Stamos, Brian Uiga.

STAR CARS- James Bond 'Tomorrow Never Dies' BMW (Ep. 007)

2017: The Scottish Sun shares Deborah Moore's insight on her father.

WANTING MOORE Roger Moore’s daughter
reveals James Bond star’s heartrending
final diary entries and how he joked until
the end of cancer battle
Veteran star also invented his own lighthearted pensioner text speak as he raced to finish book ahead of his death

See the complete article here:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/1550333/roger-moores-daughter-reveals-james-bond-stars-heartrending-final-diary-entries-and-how-he-joked-until-the-end-of-cancer-battle/

By Carl Stroud | 12 Sep 2017

ROGER Moore told how he feared joining friends “in the great cutting room in the sky” in poignant final diary entries as he battled cancer, his daughter has revealed.

His heartrending reflections on mortality left Deborah in “floods of tears” when she read them.

She told The Mirror: “It was just so incredibly poignant."

Roger Moore's final diary entries left daughter Deborah in floods of tears when she read them
Credit: Rex Features


In May Sir Roger lost a short battle with cancer at the age of 89
Credit: Getty - Contributor

“We didn’t think he was going to die - he didn’t think he was going to die – until the very last week. Dad’s illness came on quite quickly.”

In May, just weeks after the diary entries, the 007 legend lost his short battle with cancer at the age of 89.

Yet despite undergoing a gruelling course of chemotherapy after being diagnosed last Christmas, the star kept joking until the very end.

Deborah added: “He still had his sense of humour and was still joking with the nurses. He never, ever complained.

“He was amazing.”

Sir Roger died in May at his home in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. His children and wife of 15 years, Kiki, 77, were at his side.

Deborah told how her father maintained his trademark sense of humour right up to the end
Credit: Rex Features


Sir Roger starred in seven Bond films after taking over from Sean Connery in 1973
Credit: Getty

Deborah, 53, and her brothers Geoffrey, 51, and Christian, 44, are his children by his third wife, actress Luisa Mattioli, 78.

Shortly before his death the star had finished writing a book about ageing called À Bientôt - French for see you soon.

In it, Deborah reveals he described himself as “an old fart” and made up his own OAP text speak - BTW: bring the wheelchair. IMHO: Is my hearing aid on? BYOT: Bring your own teeth. GGPBL: Gotta go, pacemaker battery low.

Moore took over from Sean Connery as James Bond in 1973.

Roger was surrounded by his family including wife Kiki when he died in his Swiss home
Credit: AFP

He starred in seven movies over the following 12 years.

In 2012, the actor admitted that he “regretted” basking in the sun as a young man – as he had suffered a string of skin cancers in later years.

He told The Sun: "I (wish I) would... have given myself a warning about having too much sunshine. I've had so many skin cancers as a result.

Shortly before his death Roger had finished writing a book about ageing
called À Bientôt – French for see you soon
Credit: AFP

"No one thought about sun screen or creams in my younger days. Even when they started to give warnings, I thought, 'Well, that won't happen to me.'

"I would get sunburned so I did not have to wear make-up in front of the cameras. Every leading man was sunburned."

2019: A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon goes to auction at Coys.

Lot 129 - 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon

https://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1964-aston-martin-db5-saloon
Fitted with James Bond 007 Gadgets

ESTIMATE £500,000- £600,000

Auction Fontwell House
Auction Date 12th September 2019
Day of Auction Day 1 - Thursday

Lot Details

Lot Number 129
Reg. Number EU Registered
Chassis Number DB5/1447/R
Year 1964
Make Aston Martin
Model DB5 Saloon

Nice. But needs one of these.

2021: Aston Martin with special James Bond livery races at the Italian Grand Prix, Monza.

Aston Martin
Aston Martin to race with special James Bond livery

See the complete article here:

https://racingnews365.com/formula-1-drivers/sebastian-vettel

Author Nigel Chiu | 09 September

Aston Martin will be the second team to run a different livery at this weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Aston Martin will run a special 007-themed livery at this weekend's Italian Grand Prix to pay tribute to the release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, at the end of this month.

James Bond has been synonymous with Aston Martin for decades so the team have decided to run the iconic 007 logo on the side of Sebastian Vettel's and Lance Stroll's cars at Monza.

Aston Martin's motorhome and pit garage will be decked out in Bond iconography to mark the occasion.

"Aston Martin is part of Bond's DNA," said film director Daniel Kleinman.

"It's a partnership that needs no explanation, so it was great fun to fuse those two worlds together: Bond's signature title sequences and Aston Martin Formula 1.

"I hope it will create a lot of excitement ahead of the release of the movie."

Aston Martin are not the only team to run a different livery at Monza, with Alfa Romeo revealing that they will celebrate their first F1 World Championship win back in 1950.

Antonio Giovinazzi and Robert Kubica will hit the track with a livery produced specifically for Monza by the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo, with a star logo using the colours of the Italian flag.

RichardTheBruce

September 13th

1916: Roald Dahl is born--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.
(He dies 23 November 1990 at age 74--Oxford, England.)

Wednesday 12 September 2018
Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected
Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago in September and lived a life
scarred by tragedy and marred by his own difficult personality.
But his magical characters are more alive than ever

Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal (recovering from a stroke, hence the eye patch) in 1965,
with their children Theo, baby Ophelia and Tessa, at their home in Great Missenden.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/roald-dahl-a-life-filled-with-tales-of-the-unexpected/34998768.html
Emily Hourican - August 29 2016 2:30 AM

Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago, on September 13, to Norwegian parents in Cardiff. He died 26 years ago, yet his books, specifically his children's books, are still bought in huge numbers (over 200 million worldwide) and regularly adapted for film, TV and stage. Matilda has been playing on Broadway since 2013 and, of course, The BFG has just been released in a new, big-screen version directed by Spielberg. Roald also created a dynasty and established Dahl as a surname that manages to be both thoroughly establishment and fascinatingly bohemian.

His remarkable imagination - exuberant, vengeful, often nauseating - and ability to create characters, usually orphans, filled with a pathos that makes us burn with indignation, are what have kept Dahl's books alive, but the whiff of sulphur that always hung around the man hasn't gone away either. Because as much as he is acknowledged a wonderful writer, with a rare understanding of children's psychology, he was also a difficult, often cruel man, with a heap of unpalatable views.

Most recently, as Spielberg prepared for the release of The BFG, he was ambushed by allegations of Dahl's anti-Semitism, specifically a quote Dahl gave to The New Statesman: "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews . . . even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."

Spielberg, himself Jewish, of course, and visibly horrified, was forced to try and defend Dahl, and by extension himself, saying he had "no excuse" for not researching Dahl's public statements, but adding: "Later, when I began asking questions of people who knew Dahl, they told me he liked to say things he didn't mean just to get a reaction. And all his comments . . . he would say for effect, even if they were horrible things."

Dahl's second wife, Felicity, beneath his portrait.

It is difficult to judge and condemn the products of a previous era by our own much-changed standards. But even so, Spielberg's defence seems weak and Dahl's words far less the act of a provocateur than the musings of a bigot.

Probably the best defence - if one is to be admitted - is Dahl's own life; the many tragedies he faced, the strange mixture of courage and cruelty he displayed. Bad things happen in Roald Dahl books - James's parents die, Mr Fox gets his tail shot off, the child (never named) from The Witches spends his life as a mouse - and they are full of disgusting, terrible people, such as James's aunts, Matilda's father, George's grandmother. These people and events are faithfully rendered, with no glossing-over or soothing euphemisms, and the reason for it becomes very obvious with even a passing knowledge of Dahl's life.

He may have been dashing, handsome, brilliant - his second wife, Felicity Crosland, described him as the "sexiest seducer in Washington" - but Dahl was also known as 'Roald The Rotten'; domineering, inconsistent and driven by his memories of tragedy. Granddaughter Sophie described him as "a very difficult man - very strong, very dominant".

The little girl with the big eyes in The BFG is based on Sophie, but the book is dedicated to Olivia, Dahl's eldest daughter, who he adored and who died of measles encephalitis when she was just seven. It was a terrible loss, one that had heart-breaking echoes of the death from appendicitis, also at the age of seven, of Roald's elder sister, Astri.

A month after her death, Roald's father, who never recovered from the blow, died of pneumonia.

Roald was just three at the time. From the age of eight, he was sent off to a series of boarding schools, where he was mostly miserable and homesick. That may have been the experience of most small boys dispatched in that particularly English tradition; the difference with Roald is that he never forgot. Nor, perhaps, did he ever recover.

Reviewer Kathryn Hughes once said: "No matter how you spin it, Roald Dahl was an absolute sod. Crashing through life like a big, bad child, he managed to alienate pretty much everyone he ever met."

His nickname when young was 'Apple' because he was his mother's favourite. He wrote to her every day from boarding school, but never confessed the depths of his loneliness and misery. Instead, he put a brave face on the regular bouts of violence and ritual humiliation that were so much part of the boarding-school experience then and this daily exercise in glossing over the wretched truth may very well have been the early training in storytelling he needed.

After school, Dahl travelled the world, working for Shell oil, then joined the RAF when the Second World War broke out. A dashing, daring pilot, he spent much of the war in the US, sleeping with society beauties and passing on whatever bits of intelligence he gleaned from pillow talk. Felicity Crosland described Dahl, 6ft 6ins and a fine sportsman, as "wildly attractive and handsome, in his RAF uniform, speaking English, a fighter pilot - completely seductive. And he was charming and intelligent. A lot of women fell for him."

Dahl, in turn, fell for the actress Patricia Neal, who he met at a dinner party hosted by playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman. Neal's career had started in a blaze of glory - before she was 21, she won a Tony award for her Broadway debut. Then she moved to Hollywood, where she started in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's best-selling, ground-breaking novel The Fountainhead, and fell passionately in love with Gary Cooper.

The affair lasted three years, during which time Neal got pregnant and had an abortion.

Later, she wrote: "If I had only one thing to do over in my life, I would have that baby" - but Cooper refused ultimately to leave his wife.

The Fountainhead was a disaster, followed by a couple more turkeys, and by the age of 27, Neal was back in New York, heartbroken, barely over a nervous breakdown, with her career in tatters. This was the point at which she met Dahl.

Years later, in her autobiography As I Am, Neal wrote that she knew she didn't love Dahl from the moment they married in 1953 but she wanted to have "beautiful children" with him. And initially, the marriage seemed to be working. Neal's career revived and she won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1963 for Hud. Meantime, the couple were indeed having "beautiful children", five in all: Olivia, Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy.

Seven years after their marriage, the couple's baby son, Theo, four months old, was crushed between a bus and a taxi while out with a nanny and left brain-damaged. The accident was witnessed by Tessa.

Theo had eight brain operations and Dahl, unhappy with the shunt put in to drain the fluid that clogged his brain, spent two years designing and manufacturing a better version. He decided to move the family back home to England, settling in Gypsy House in the village of Great Missenden. But just a few years later, seven-year-old Olivia, the eldest, died of measles encephalitis, a tragedy that left Dahl "limp with despair".

Patricia Neal did some of her best work in this period, then suffered a series of strokes when she was 39 and pregnant with her fifth child.

After a lengthy operation on her brain, Patricia couldn't talk or walk and was largely paralysed.

Here, Dahl showed himself to be a man of complete determination and a certain vision, but touched with coldness, even sadism.

He essentially forced Patricia to get well. If she wanted something, he held it out of reach until she asked for it. He badgered her to walk, to move, to read and memorize and forced her to do hours of painful physical and speech therapy.

For those watching, there were many pitiful moments, but in the end, Dahl's strange, stubborn insistence came good. Six months after the brain operation Neal gave birth to a healthy daughter, Lucy. Shortly after that, he decided she was ready to give a speech to a charity dinner for brain-damaged children. Although terrified, she did, to thunderous applause. "I knew at that moment that Roald the slave driver, Roald the bastard, with his relentless scourge, Roald the Rotten, as I had called him more than once, had thrown me back into the deep water. Where I belonged," she later said.

He may have forced Neal to get well again, but there didn't seem any way of saving the marriage. Dahl began an affair with one of Neal's best friends, Felicity Crosland, and in 1983 the couple divorced and he remarried. To Patricia's fury, their children mostly knew of and condoned the affair. Ophelia Dahl, who was 14 when her parents divorced, later said: "All of us realised that he had found the love of his life with Liccy (Felicity) and there's always a sense of relief when that happens."

Throughout, Dahl had been writing, finding early and considerable success with Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, published in 1964 and a classic ever since.

At the same time, he was also writing adult fiction, including pornography for Playboy - friend and fellow writer Noel Coward once said of his adult fiction: "The stories are brilliant and the imagination is fabulous. Unfortunately, there is, in all of them, an underlying streak of cruelty and macabre unpleasantness and a curiously adolescent emphasis on sex" - and was often very dismissive of children's literature and his own role within it.

Of course, the streak of "cruelty and macabre unpleasantness" that Coward detected was very much present in his children's books too.

It seemed also to be present in his life. As a father, Dahl was irascible and inconsistent; protective and manipulative, controlling and kind; a tough combination. Tessa, the daughter next to Olivia in age, was frequently compared with the child her father mourned so obviously - "my older sister Olivia had been the love of Daddy's life . . . both of us contracted measles, but she had died" - and always unfavourably.

"In our family, you got attention only if you were brain-damaged or dead or terribly ill. There was no reward for being normal," she once said. And so Tessa gave up on being 'normal', instead becoming wild, precocious and deeply unhappy.

In a piece written in 2012, she talks of being brought to see psychiatrist Anna Freud after Theo's accident. Freud recommended therapy for the whole family, but Dahl had a mistrust of something that he believed had left various friends unable to write because they "had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes", so he insisted on medication instead. Freud refused, so Dahl found another doctor, less scrupulous, to prescribe, and Tessa, from the age of four, was medicated.

By her teenage years, Tessa was given Quaaludes, a sedative, by her father, who brought them home from America, and regularly drank alcohol with him. She had developed, she says "narcissistic character disorders" and was "the problem child who became the scapegoat." But she insists: "My parents did their best."

Tessa, like her mother, was a beauty. By her teenage years, she had become a gossip-column fixture, for dating Peter Sellers and Brian de Palma, among others. Sophie was her first child, from a short affair with actor Julian Holloway when Tessa was 19. Later, she married twice, and had three more children.

She battled drug addiction and crippling depression and began a long search for meaning, visiting ashrams, falling under the spell of various gurus.

She also began to write - articles, children's books and one novel. Dahl, although publicly supportive, was privately competitive: "After I sold my first children's book, he had struggled up to his hut with agonised hips to fetch his royalty statements - to prove to me that I would never make as much money as him, however successful I became."

And yet despite, or more likely because of, Dahl's emotional distance, he was the great focus of Tessa's life.

"I loved him with an undiluted and unmet passion. He was my major motivation as my whole life consisted of proving to him that, although my sister died, I was still worthy of life and love."

Someone once said that all siblings have different parents. Dahl was perhaps a different kind of father to his other children.

Ophelia is a social justice and healthcare advocate, while Lucy, the youngest and a screenwriter in Hollywood - she wrote Wild Child, made into a film with Natasha Richardson - remembers a generous, magical kind of parent.

"He absolutely hated children being bored. He used to say boredom was death," she recalls, and so he bought a Morris Minor for them to drive around a track he had created.

As a grandfather, Dahl seems to have hit his stride. For Tessa's daughter, Sophie, whose young life was spent trailing along on her mother's search for happiness, peace and enlightenment, he was a fixed and stable point.

"Wonderful, really wonderful," is how she describes him.

He had an old gypsy caravan in his garden, which Sophie and her friends used as a playhouse.

"It was brutally uncomfortable and really cold, but I would stay in there with my friends and so we'd have midnight feasts of chocolate in bed. Then, in the morning, we'd appear in the house and he'd make us all breakfast."

Sophie now lives in Gipsy House with her husband, singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum, and their two children.

By the time Dahl died in 1990, aged 74, 4,000 letters a week were arriving to the local post office for him. Last year, 80,000 people visited the museum dedicated to him in Great Missenden.

They don't go despite the core of darkness in his books, but because of it. The enduring magic of Dahl's world is the way it acknowledges the nasty side of life, has irresistible fun with it, then allows good to triumph.

Roald Dahl

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Filmography

Writer (76 credits)

Matilda (based on the book by) (announced)
Willy Wonka (creator) (announced)

2020 The Witches (novel) (post-production)
2017 Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Video) (novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory")
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part Two (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part One (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- You Only Live Twice (2016) ... (screenplay)
2016 The BFG (based on the book by)
2016 In the Ruins (Short) (short story)
2016 Lamb to the Slaughter (Short) (novel)
2015 The Taste (Short) (based on a short story by)
2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (TV Movie) (based on the novel by)
2013 Baa Baa Black Sheep (Short) (story)
2013/I Cheap Thrills (short story "Man from the South" - uncredited)
2012 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (Video short) (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - uncredited)
2012 Bang-lure (Short) (story)
2012 Chippendale (Short)

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox (novel)
2008 Three Little Pigs (Short) (writer)
2007 Jackanory Junior (TV Series)
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)
2005 Imagine (TV Series documentary) (quotations - 1 episode)
- Fantastic Mr Dahl (2005) ... (quotations - uncredited)
2005/I The Bet (Short) (story)
2002 Lamb to the Slaughter (story)
2000 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (story)

1999 Inaudito (Short) (story)
1997 The Enormous Crocodile (TV Movie)
1996 Matilda (book)
1996 James and the Giant Peach (based on the book by)
1995 Alien Tales (Video Game) (synopsis: Matilda)
Jackanory (TV Series) (book - 14 episodes, 1968 - 1986) (novel - 6 episodes, 1979 - 1995)
- The Twits (1995) ... (novel)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Five (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Four (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Three (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Two (1986) ... (book)
1995 Pisvingers! (Short) (story "The Swan")
1992 Idealnaya para (stories)
1990 Dirty Beasts (TV Movie)
1990 Revolting Rhymes (TV Movie)
1990 The Magic Finger (TV Movie)
1990 The Silent Hunt (novel)
1990 The Witches (book)
1989 Breaking Point (TV Movie) (novel "Beware of the Dog")

1989 Danny the Champion of the World (TV Movie) (novel)
1988 Velká rosáda (TV Movie) (adaptation)
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (writer - 15 episodes, 1979 - 1981) (story - 11 episodes, 1979 - 1988)
- The Surgeon (1988) ... (story)
- The Sound Machine (1981) ... (writer)
- The Boy Who Talked with Animals (1981) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1980) ... (story)
- Vengeance Is Mine Inc. (1980) ... (writer)
1988 The Book Tower (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #10.1 (1988) ... (writer - segment ": "Boy")
1987 The BFG (novel)
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Pilot (1985) ... (story - segment "Man from the South")
1984 Kobra (Short) (short story "Poison")
1983 Kalle och chokladfabriken (TV Mini-Series) (novel)

1976 James and the Giant Peach (TV Movie) (based upon a novel by)
1976 Le care mogli (TV Movie) (play)
1975 A Gigot (Short) (short story "Lamb to the Slaughter")
1975 Hundert Mark (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Des Pfarrers Freude ... (writer)
1975 Uit de wereld van Roald Dahl (TV Series) (story - 5 episodes)
- Een frisse duik (1975) ... (story)
- De verrassing (1975) ... (story)
- Op weg naar de hemel (1975) ... (story)
- Vergif (1975) ... (story)
- De weddenschap (1975) ... (story)
1974 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (short story "Genesis and Catastrophe")
1973 Et lite grøss? (TV Mini-Series) (short story "The Landlady" - 1 episode)
- Vertinnen (1973) ... (short story "The Landlady")
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") / (screenplay)
1971 The Road Builder

1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (screenplay)
1968 Late Night Horror (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1968) ... (writer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (screenplay)
1967 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (short story "Taste" - 1 episode)
- Maku (1967) ... (short story "Taste")
Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1965) (writer - 1 episode, 1967)
- Taste (1967) ... (writer)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1965) ... (story)
1966 Des Pfarrers Freude (TV Movie) (story)
1964 36 Hours (story "Beware of the Dog")
1962 That Was the Week That Was (TV Series)
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1961) ... (by)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (based on a story by - 3 episodes, 1958 - 1961) (story - 2 episodes, 1958) (story by - 1 episode, 1960) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
- The Landlady (1961) ... (based on a story by)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960) ... (based on a story by)
- Man from the South (1960) ... (story by)
- Poison (1958) ... (story)
- Dip in the Pool (1958) ... (based on a story by)

1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) (short story: "Beware of the Dog" - 1 episode)
- Blind Landing (1959) ... (short story: "Beware of the Dog")
1958 Suspicion (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Way Up to Heaven (1958) ... (story)
1956 Le coup du berger (Short) (story - uncredited)
1955 Cameo Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Man from the South (1955) ... (story)
1955 Star Tonight (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1955) ... (story)
1954 Danger (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- A Dip in the Pool (1954) ... (story)
1954 The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1954) ... (story)
1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Taste (1952) ... (story)
1952 CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Sound Machine (1952) ... (story)
1950 Suspense (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Poison (1950) ... (story)
-
Actor (2 credits)

1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... Narrator (voice)
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - Host
- 20/20 (1961) ... Host
- Side Show (1961) ... Host
- Hush-Hush (1961) ... Host
- The Overnight Case (1961) ... Host
- The Croaker (1961) ... Host

Soundtrack (2 credits)

2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (lyrics: "Augustus Gloop", "Violet Beauregarde", "Veruca Salt", "Mike Teavee")
1996 James and the Giant Peach (lyrics: "Eating The Peach")

Thanks (3 credits)

2007 This Is Not My Beautiful House (Short) (thanks)
2003 Tales of the Unexpected: The Proposal (Short) (with apologies to)
1995 Four Rooms (special thanks)

1939: Richard Dawson Kiel is born--Detroit, Michigan.
(He dies 10 September 2014 at age 74--Fresno, California.)

Richard Kiel, James Bond villain Jaws
actor, dies at 74

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29152398

11 September 2014

Actor Richard Kiel - who played
steel-toothed villain Jaws in two
James Bond films - has died in
California aged 74.

The towering American star, who appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977 and Moonraker in 1979, died in hospital in Fresno on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Saint Agnes Medical Center confirmed Kiel's death, but did not reveal the cause.

The 7ft 2in (2.18m) actor also appeared in the sports comedy Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler, in 1996.

Kiel got his first acting break in the 1950s

Kiel made his name as cable-chomping henchman Jaws opposite Roger Moore as 007.

Sir Roger said he was "totally distraught" at the death of his co-star.

"We were on a radio programme together just a week ago," said the former Bond star, adding "[ I ] can't take it in".

Kiel and Sir Roger were guests on BBC's Radio 4 programme The Reunion, which aired on Sunday, along with Bond actress Britt Ekland, recalling their roles in the spy series.

During the programme, Kiel said he initially thought playing Jaws - a man who killed people with his teeth - could appear "over the top".

"I was very put off by the description of the character and I thought, well, they don't really need an actor, he's more a monster part," he said.

"So I tried to change that view of it... I said if I were to play the part, I want to give the character some human characteristics, like perseverance, frustration."

Sir Roger said he was "distraught" at co-star Kiel's death, a week after they reunited for a radio show

Sandro Monetti, director at Bafta in Los Angeles and a former showbiz reporter, described Kiel as having "teeth of steel, but a heart of gold".

He recalled seeing the actor at James Bond conventions: "It was like seeing kids meeting Santa Claus. Everyone has got such joyous memories of Jaws, and he had time for everybody."

Monetti added: "Whenever you mentioned Jaws, his eyes lit up and there was that famous grin."

Micky Dolenz, who starred with Kiel in the seminal episode of The Monkees - I was a Teenage Monster, tweeted his memories of the star: "The great character actor and gentle giant."

Sandro Monetti, a director of BAFTA in Los Angeles, spoke to Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.

The character of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me was originally intended to die at the end of the movie, but he was so popular with fans that Kiel was brought back to reprise the role in Moonraker.

"The original script had me being killed by the shark," Kiel said.

"They filmed that and they also filmed an ending where I survive and pop out of the ocean.

"That was one of the big moments for me, watching the blue-collar screening of the movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, and having the reaction of the crowd at the theatre when Jaws popped out of the ocean, survived and swam away. There were hoots and howling, applause. I couldn't believe it."

Kiel, pictured with fellow Bond villains Christopher Lee, Rick Yune and Toby Stephens, was 7ft 2in tall

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kiel had the hormonal condition acromegaly, which was said to have contributed to his height.

His first break came in 1959 when he played the alien Kanamit in Twilight Zone.

He published an autobiography in 2002, called Making It Big In The Movies.

His many other acting roles included deadly assistant Voltaire in the 1960s TV series The Wild, Wild West; playing opposite William Shatner in the 1970s TV sitcom Barbary Coast; taking on the lead character of Eli Weaver in the movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain; and spoofing his most famous role as "Famous big guy with silver teeth" in the movie version of Inspector Gadget.

In recent years, he also spent much of his time touring the world and appearing at conventions to meet Bond fans.

Richard Kiel

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (82 credits)

The Engagement Ring (announced) - Patterson
2012/IV The Awakened - Jasper
2010 Tangled - Vlad (voice)
2010 Disney Tangled (Video Game) - Vlad (voice)
2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Video Game) - Jaws (voice)
2000 BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories (Video) - Mortimer

1999 Inspector Gadget - Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
1996 Happy Gilmore - Mr. Larson
1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain - Eli Weaver

1989 The Princess and the Dwarf
1989 Superboy (TV Series) - Vlkabok
- Mr. and Mrs. Superboy (1989) ... Vlkabok
1989 Think Big - Irving
1988 Out of This World (TV Series) - Norman
- Go West, Young Mayor (1988) ... Norman
1985 Qing bao long hu men - Laszlo
1985 Pale Rider - Club
1984 Cannonball Run II - Arnold, Mitsubishi Driver
1984 Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Big G
1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mark Horton
- The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Mark Horton
1983 Hysterical - Captain Howdy
1981 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Animal
- That's Right, We're Bad (1981) ... Animal
1981 So Fine - Eddie

1979 Moonraker: Milk Is Supreme Commercial (Short) - Jaws
1979 Moonraker - Jaws
1979 The Humanoid - Golob
1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way - Duke
1978 Wu zi tian shi - Steel Hand (Guest star)
1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak
1977 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - The Hulk (one scene only)
- The Incredible Hulk (1977) ... The Hulk (one scene only) (uncredited)
1977 Young Dan'l Boone (TV Series) - Grimm
- The Game (1977) ... Grimm
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Jaws
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Manager - 'Haunted House'
- The Mystery of the Haunted House (1977) ... Manager - 'Haunted House'
1976 Silver Streak - Reace
1976 Land of the Lost (TV Series) - Malak
- Flying Dutchman (1976) ... Malak
- Survival Kit (1976) ... Malak
1976 Gus - Tall Man
1976 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) - Iggy
- Omaha Tiger (1976) ... Iggy
1975-1976 Barbary Coast (TV Series) - Moose Moran
- The Dawson Marker (1976) ... Moose Moran
- Mary Had More Than a Little (1976) ... Moose Moran
- The Day Cable Was Hanged (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Sharks Eat Sharks (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Arson and Old Lace (1975) ... Moose Moran
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Loach
- Death Heist (1975) ... Loach
1975 Flash and the Firecat - Milo Pewett
1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
The Monster / The Diablero
- The Spanish Moss Murders (1974) ... The Monster
- Bad Medicine (1974) ... The Diablero
1974 Emergency! (TV Series) - Carlo
- I'll Fix It (1974) ... Carlo (uncredited)
1974 The Longest Yard - Samson (as Dick Kiel)
1972 Deadhead Miles - Big Dick
1970 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 2 (1970) ... Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 (1970) ... Luke Brown
1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (TV Movie)
Luke Brown
1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Blacksmith (uncredited)

1969 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Lemouche
- Benvenuto... Who? (1969) ... Lemouche
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Willy
- The Galloping Skin Game (1968) ... Willy
1968 Skidoo - Beany
1968 Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV Movie) - Nori
1965-1968 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Voltaire / Dimas
- The Night of the Simian Terror (1968) ... Dimas
- The Night of the Whirring Death (1966) ... Voltaire
- The Night That Terror Stalked the Town (1965) ... Voltaire
- The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth (1965) ... Voltaire
1968 A Man Called Dagger - Otto
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Tiny
- A Few Miles West of Nowhere (1968) ... Tiny
1967 The Monroes (TV Series) - Casmir
- Ghosts of Paradox (1967) ... Casmir
1967 The Monkees (TV Series) - Monster
- I Was a Teenage Monster (1967) ... Monster (as Dick Kiel)
1963-1966 Lassie (TV Series) - Chinook Pete / Dinny
- Lassie the Voyager: Part 6 (1966) ... Dinny
- The Journey: Part 5 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
- The Journey: Part 4 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
1966 Las Vegas Hillbillys - Moose
1966 Gilligan's Island (TV Series)
The Ghost / Russian Agent
- Ghost-a-Go-Go (1966) ... The Ghost / Russian Agent
1966 My Mother the Car (TV Series) - Cracks
- A Riddler on the Roof (1966) ... Cracks
1966 Honey West (TV Series) - Groalgo
- King of the Mountain (1966) ... Groalgo
1965 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Ali
- My Hero? (1965) ... Ali
1965 Brainstorm - Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
1964-1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Merry / Guard
- The Hong Kong Shilling Affair (1965) ... Merry
- The Vulcan Affair (1964) ... Guard (uncredited)
1965 The Human Duplicators - Dr. Kolos
1965 Two on a Guillotine - Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
1964 The Nasty Rabbit - Ranch Foreman (uncredited)
1964 Roustabout - Strongman (uncredited)
1963 30 Minutes at Gunsight (TV Short)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) - Paul Bunyan (uncredited)
1963 Lassie's Great Adventure - Chinook Pete
1963 The Nutty Professor - Man in Gym (uncredited)
1963 House of the Damned - The Giant
1962 Eegah - Eegah
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Kanamit
- To Serve Man (1962) ... Kanamit
1962 The Magic Sword - Pinhead No.1 (uncredited)
1961 The Phantom (TV Movie) - Big Mike
1961 The Phantom Planet - The Solarite
1961 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Carl Hazlitt
- The Decision (1961) ... Carl Hazlitt
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Doorman
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Doorman
1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Rake - Tolan's helper
- Run of the Hunted (1961) ... Rake - Tolan's helper (uncredited)
1961 Thriller (TV Series) - Master Styx
- Well of Doom (1961) ... Master Styx
1960 Klondike (TV Series) - Duff Brannigan
- Bare Knuckles (1960) ... Duff Brannigan

1957 The D.I. - Ugly Marine (uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (screenplay)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (executive producer)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (producer - uncredited)

Thanks (2 credits)

2014 The Freddy Jenkins Show (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- R.I.P. Jaws (2014) ... (in memory of)
2014 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

1944: Jacqueline Bisset is born--Weybridge, Surrey, England.

1983: Victory Games begins releasing its James Bond 007 role-playing games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_007_(role-playing_game)

2005: IGN reports speculation of Pierce Brosnan's return in Casino Royale.

Brosnan Rumors Start Again
Sony, Eon to eat their hats?

See the complete article here:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/09/13/brosnan-rumors-start-again

By Stax | 13 Sep 2005

According to MI6, "Pierce Brosnan is now the top contender for the role of James Bond in Casino Royale after all, due to studio pressure and the lack of an obvious candidate to replace him. No date has been set for an official announcement on the role, but news is imminent."

The site points out comments that Brosnan reportedly made at last week's GQ Men of the Year Awards. Ironically, oft-mentioned Bond contender Daniel Craig was also at the event to accept the Best Actor nod.

"Sony are pulling their hair out over it, apparently. I was in their offices just a few weeks ago pitching Thomas Crown 2," Brosnan apparently told Britian's GQ edition. "They said, 'come back' and I said 'it's not up to me, guys.' ... I think I was caught up between the egos of the producers and the studios, really. They (the producers) didn't know whether to go younger, they didn't know what to do, period. I don't know what the truth is. It could be as honest as that, but it seems strange, especially as each film made more and more money."

Brosnan also told GQ, "What Bond needs is a good, palpable killing sequence and a good sex scene – and it doesn't have to be graphic, you can use your imagination."

No other outlet besides MI6 is reporting so definitively that Brosnan will reprise the role of 007. You will notice that the quotes attributed to Brosnan lack any sort of statement that he is indeed returning to the role. Not to say it couldn't happen but nowhere did he say that he and the powers-that-be have patched things up, signed a new contract and are set to work together again.

Just weeks ago Brosnan was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly wherein he gave the distinct impression that Bond was behind him and the producers didn't want him back. "After that kind of titanic jolt to the system, there was a great sense of calm," Brosnan said of the phone call that ended his tenure in Her Majesty's Secret Service. "I thought, (expletive) it! I can do anything I want to do now. I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation."

The full interview is available at Brosnan's official site.
https://www.piercebrosnan.com/menu.php?mm=8&sm=1&pn=ew

If Brosnan does return then how are the filmmakers going to explain that the 52-year-old Brosnan will be playing a younger Bond just starting out in his career? And, continuity-wise, how can Judi Dench still play M since in GoldenEye her character had just recently been appointed? (GoldenEye, Brosnan's first Bond outing, opened during the Cold War with Bond on a mission, thus establishing that he had been a 00 agent for years prior to Dench's arrival.) The only logical way it seems the filmmakers could keep Brosnan as Bond and still tell an "early" 007 story is to recast the role of M ... and Q, too.

In related news, CommanderBond.net says director Martin Campbell has wrapped Legend of Zorro and is now working full-time on pre-production for Casino Royale. Filming is slated to begin in January.

CommanderBond.net also reports that Casino Royale will shoot in the Bahamas. "Campbell and Director of Photography Phil Meheux are currently on Paradise Island scouting shooting locations," the site claims, adding, "it's still not known whether The Bahamas will act as a stand-in for South Africa or will play itself in the film."

Brosnan is scheduled to begin filming the Civil War picture Seraphim Falls in mid-October, a start date that should not conflict too seriously with Casino Royale ... if he is indeed back as Bond, James Bond.

2006: Two days of demolition begin at the 007 Soundstage on the way to repair damage from the 31 July fire.
2008: Two minutes of the song "Another Way to Die" air on the Spanish radio show Siglo.

2021: The Drive reports over 30 cars on display with Bond in Motion at the Petersen Automotive Museum, California.

More Than 30 of the Most Iconic
James Bond Cars Are Moonlighting
at the Petersen
The display includes the Guinness World Record-setting Aston Martin DBS that was rolled
seven times.
By Kristin V. Shaw | September 12, 2021

See the complete article here:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/42343/more-than-30-of-the-most-iconic-james-bond-cars-are-moonlighting-at-the-petersen

I drove a new Jaguar F-Pace for a week recently, and it was lovely. Refreshed for 2021, one of the engine options is a turbocharged 3.0-liter six-cylinder and it tackles twisty roads with aplomb. However, it's obviously no match for the Jaguar XKR James Bond drove in Die Another Day. I mean, my F-Pace didn’t include a rear-mounted Gatling gun, door-mounted missiles, mortars in the trunk, battering rams, or rockets in the grille. Disappointing.

Agent 007 has driven dozens of cars like this in the James Bond movies, and the vehicles play a big role in the overall popularity of Ian Fleming’s franchise. And if you head to the Petersen Automotive Museum in California, you can see more than 30 of the cars, motorcycles, boats, submarines, and aircraft in the largest official gathering of James Bond movies in America. Bond in Motion is a must-see if you're a fan.

The Petersen Automotive Museum

In concert with EON Productions and The Ian Fleming Foundation, with support from Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), the Bond in Motion exhibit replaces the Petersen’s Hollywood Dream Machines display. It’s a James Bond fan’s happy place, with movie screenings and receptions featuring martinis that I can only assume are shaken, not stirred.

One of the featured vehicles is the stunning Aston Martin DBS Daniel Craig’s Bond drove in Casino Royale. In a chase scene, Bond was forced to swerve hard and subsequently rolled the DBS seven times. Stuntman Adam Kirley performed the maneuver, setting a new Guinness World Record for the most cannon rolls ever completed in a car. It's incredible that the car isn't smashed to bits.

Also included is the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that made appearances in GoldenEye in 1995, Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997, Skyfall in 2012, Spectre in 2015, and the newest movie, No Time To Die. This DB5 is painted in a shimmering Silver Birch and has been in more Bond movies than any other vehicle.

Other examples in the exhibit are a 1999 Heron XC-70 Parachute Parahawk fromThe World Is Not Enough and 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 Submarine. Nine Lotus Esprits were used in the making of The Spy Who Loved Me, in which Roger Moore’s Bond drives off a pier and it converts into a submarine with surface-to-air missiles, torpedoes, a smoke screen, and a mine launcher.

No Time to Die is slotted to be Daniel Craig's final run as the dashing 007. It will be interesting to see who takes his place after 15 years, and which car takes center stage next.

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2024: Roald Dahl Day and Roald Dahl Story Day.

Fantastic Mr Dahl: celebrate Roald
Dahl Day on 13 September
https://www.boundless.co.uk/be-inspired/lifestyle/roald-dahl-day

https://www.biblio.com/book/manuscript-first-draft-screenplay-you-only/d/1495982741

2024: Friday.

RichardTheBruce

September 14th

1967: You Only Live Twice released in The Netherlands.
1967: James Bond 007 - Man lebt nur zweimal released in West Germany.

https://en.todocoleccion.net/cinema-pressbooks/illustrierter-film-kurier-man-lebt-nur-zweimal-guia-cine-original-alemania-james-bond~x154695934#sobre_el_lote

1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.
(Catalan title: Només per als teus ulls/Only For Your Eyes.)

1985: A View to a Kill films Martin Grace as OO7 grabbing the dangling rope from Zorin's zeppelin.

https://www.filmonpaper.com/posters/a-view-to-a-kill-one-sheet-usa/

2012: Heineken announces product promotions related to Skyfall.

Heineken announces James Bond campaign

See the complete article here:

14 September 2012

Heineken has announced a new TV and digital campaign in anticipation of the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall.

Challenging consumers to defy his enemies and ‘crack the case’, viewers will be taken on an epic train journey alongside stunning Bond newcomer Bérénice Marlohe. Launching on September 20, the interactive experience begins where the TV advert leaves off, with viewers invited onto a train by Bérénice before it embarks on a voyage through snowy mountains. A series of gruelling tests will lead the viewers to ‘crack the case’ while protecting its contents from ferocious Bond villain.

The campaign builds on Heineken’s 15-year relationship with the Bond franchise.

2012: A James Bond Special, with the BBC Philharmonic and Ren Harvieu, airs on Friday, September 14 on BBC Five Live and on the red button. Promoted by Mark Kermode and BBC DJ Simon Mayo.

James Bond: Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo
are Blofeld and Bond - video
See the BBC DJ and his contributor as never before.

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/fun/a404553/james-bond-mark-kermode-and-simon-mayo-are-blofeld-and-bond-video/

By Mayer Nissim | 07/09/2012

Movie critic Mark Kermode and BBC DJ Simon Mayo have become Blofeld and James Bond in a new promotional video.

The hosts of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review were made up as the iconic characters to promote an upcoming show.

This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

A James Bond Special, with the BBC Philharmonic and Ren Harvieu, airs on Friday, September 14 on BBC Five Live and on the red button.

Kermode and Mayo's show last year went from an in-house BBC production to indie producer Somethin' Else after being put out for tender.

In 2010, Kermode was named the most trusted professional critic by the British public, despite winning just 3% of the vote.

After he ruled himself out of the running to replace Jonathan Ross on the BBC Film show, eventual presenter Claudia Winkleman admitted that she wanted Kermode to appear on the programme.

Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo become Bond... And Blofeld.


Nobody Does It Better - Ren Harvieu & BBC Philharmonic (Bond And Beyond, 2012)

2018: Paste magazine reports the Daily Mail reporting on veteran Bond writers brought back to work on BOND 25.

Veteran 007 Writers Will Rewrite Bond
25 After Danny Boyle's Departure

See the complete article here:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/james-bond/veteran-007-writers-will-rewrite-bond-25-after-dan/

By Jim Vorel | September 14, 2018

The fate of the James Bond franchise is back in familiar hands, at least as far as the script is concerned. After the departure of director Danny Boyle, who abandoned the still unnamed Bond 25 for so-called “creative differences,” producers have apparently decided to abandon the film’s current script as well. That script had been written by Boyle and regular collaborator John Hodge, but given that Boyle is no longer around to direct it, producers have brought back in a familiar Bond duo—Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The two have had a hand in some capacity on almost every Bond film since The World is Not Enough in 1999. According to The Guardian, the two had completed an original treatment for Bond 25, which was set aside when the studio decided to go with Boyle’s script. The original Purvis and Wade script will now be fully written.

Obviously, this means further setbacks in terms of the film’s timeline, and the 2020 release has already been postponed. The film, which is meant to be star Daniel Craig’s last go-round as super spy James Bond, has been somewhat shrouded in mystery, especially from a casting perspective. In particular, it hasn’t been clear who was meant to play this entry’s villain—some outlets speculated that Boyle was angry that his choice for the role, Tomasz Kot, was not greenlit by producers, but other sources disagree. Things were complicated earlier this week when Wonder Woman and Kite Runner actor Said Taghmaoui said in an interview that he had previous been cast by Danny Boyle in the part.

“I’m supposed to do the next James Bond, playing the lead bad guy,” Taghmaoui said to Abu Dhabi publication The National. “I was cast by Danny Boyle, and just now he left the project, so of course there’s some uncertainty.”

One would think that if Bond 25 was now getting an entirely different script from anything Boyle intended, that would likely leave no place for Taghmaoui, unless Purvis and Wade’s new script is informed by Boyle’s old one.

Also unknown, and obviously important, is who will actually direct this Bond installment, which will no doubt be intended as a tentpole blockbuster. As it is with the likes of Star Wars, the responsibility is a heavy one.

2022: Reports say GoldenEye 007 is coming to Nintendo Switch with Online Multiplayer, Xbox Game Pass Gets Remaster.

GoldenEye 007 Is Coming to Nintendo Switch
With Online Multiplayer, Xbox Game Pass Gets
Remaster

See the complete article here:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/09/goldeneye-007-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-with-online-multiplayer-xbox-game-pass-gets-remaster/

Andrew Liszewski | September 14, 2022
Filed to:creativeworks

GoldenEye 007 Is Coming to Nintendo Switch With Online Multiplayer, Xbox Game Pass Gets Remaster

The one question that’s been on every Nintendo fan’s mind ever since the company started porting its past hits to newer consoles is when GoldenEye 007, the N64’s beloved first-person shooter, would show up again. After years of licensing and rights battles, we finally have an answer, and it’s even better than we could have hoped.

During a Nintendo Direct presentation this morning, the company revealed that several more N64 games were being added to its Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, including Pilotwings 64, 1080° Snowboarding, Pokémon Stadium, and finally, GoldenEye 007.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1569693240315494403

Nintendo didn’t reveal specifically when GoldenEye 007 would be available through the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, which is only available through an annual $US50 ($69) subscription fee, but did reveal that for the first time the game would include online multiplayer, in addition to the classic split screen gameplay that claimed so much of our younger lives.

But alongside Nintendo’s announcement that GoldenEye 007 would return on the Switch, Rare itself announced on Twitter that a remastered version of the game is also coming to the Xbox through Xbox Game Pass.

https://twitter.com/RareLtd/status/1569693409467662337

The remastered GoldenEye 007 will run at 4K with a smoother framerate than the N64 could muster, as that console was known for grinding to slideshow speeds when four friends found themselves in a battle all in the same room. According to the official 007 website, the Xbox version will not offer online multiplayer, but at least playing split screen with modern controllers means you won’t have to worry about the console accidentally being yanked to the floor by that one friend who’s angry about being vanquished by the Golden Gun.

There’s also no specific details on when the remastered Xbox version will arrive, aside from a promise of “Coming soon.”

Update, September 13, 11:47am EST: According to the official James Bond website, 007.com, online multiplayer for GoldenEye 007 will only be available on the Switch version. We’ve updated this article to reflect that, and are reaching out to Xbox to confirm.

Exclusive to the new Switch version of the 1997 title will be online play, allowing 007 fans across the world to take part in the popular four person multiplayer mode.

RichardTheBruce

September 15th

1957: The Sunday Times publishes "The Diamond Smugglers: The Million Carat Network", starting a series of articles collected in The Diamond Smugglers.

1967: Elät vain kahdesti released in Finland.

1967: Man lever bara två gånger released in Sweden.

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films underwater in Nassau.
1977: Caterina Murino is born--Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

1980: For Your Eyes Only principal photography starts in Corfu--Villa Sylva, Kanoni, above Corfu Town (doubling for a Spanish villa).

1983: Octopussy released in Gent, Belgium.

1983: 007 Contra Octopussy (007 Against Octopussy) released in Brazil.

1983: Octopussy - 007 contra las chicas mortales (Octopussy - 007 Against the Mortal Girls) released in Mexico.
And Peru.

1985: Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson begin work on the screenplay for The Living Daylights.

2008: Reports say Jack White didn't approve that Coke commercial.

Jack White Didn’t Approve That
Coke/Bond Commercial

See the complete article here:

https://www.stereogum.com/21431/jack_white_didnt_approve_that_cokebond_commercial/news/

Brandon Stosuy | September 15, 2008

As we told you last week, that new James Bond-themed Coke commercial uses Jack White’s “Another Way To Die,” aka his duet with Alicia Keys, aka the theme song for the new Bond film Quantum Of Solace, to help rebrand and sell Coke Zero as Coke Zero Zero 7 (duh). What we didn’t tell you (because we didn’t know) is that White didn’t give Coca Cola his approval to pair his riffs with those car chases, slow-mo kung-fu silhouettes, and silhouetted ladies swimming the seas of Coke. Too bad, Jack & Coke has a nice ring to it. Jack — his management, actually — had some words for the soft drink giants:

Via NME:

“Jack White was commissioned by Sony Pictures to write a theme song for the James Bond film Quantum Of Solace, not for Coca Cola,” read the statement. “Any other use of the song is based on decisions made by others, not by Jack White.

“We are disappointed that you first heard the song in a co-promotion for Coke Zero, rather than in its entirety.”

Wonder what changed since he wrote “What Goes Around Comes Around” a couple years ago? Regardless, Jack — or, rather, his management — should read contracts closely.

Quantum Of Solace hits theaters 11/14 (10/31 in the UK). Jack’s second Coke commercial will hit your television screen a bunch of times before that.

[Photo via thefilter.ca]

2017: Albert Moses dies at age 69--London, England.
(Born 19 December 1937--Kandy, Sri Lanka.)

Albert Moses KStJ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Moses

Albert Moses in 2005
Born 19 December 1937 | Gampola, Kandy District, British Ceylon
Died 15 September 2017 (aged 79) | London, United Kingdom
Years active 1970–2017

Albert Moses, KStJ (19 December 1937 – 15 September 2017)[1] was a Sri Lankan actor based in the United Kingdom. He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several Bollywood films, then produced and directed his first. From India, he moved to Africa where he undertook work on documentaries. From the early 1970s, in Britain, Moses played small parts in several television series before being cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India, in the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–79, 1986). His final film was The Snarling (2018)[3] in which he played tribute to his role in An American Werewolf in London (1981). The Snarling is dedicated to his memory. Moses died in September 2017 in London at the age of 79. He was buried at St. Andrew's Church in his native Gampola, Sri Lanka.

Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608553/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Actor | Producer

Filmography

Actor (77 credits)

2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient
1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
- Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
- A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
- Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
- Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
- Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
- Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
- Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
- House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
- Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh

1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
- Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
- Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
1996 The Knock (TV Series) - Mr. Malhorta
- Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
- The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
- Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
- Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
- The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman

1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
- Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
- Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
- The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
- Episode #9.7 (1989)
- Episode #8.5 (1988)
- Episode #6.1 (1986)
1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
- Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
- Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
- The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh
- Episode #4.13 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Episode #4.12 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Episode #4.11 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Everybody's Out (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Wedding Fever (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
- Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
- Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
- Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
- What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
- The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
- Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
- Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
- Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
- Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
- Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
- The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
- Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
- The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
- Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
- The Garland (1981) ... Huq
- Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
- Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series) - Postman
- Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
- Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal

1979 Shoestring (TV Series) - Tailor
- The Link-Up (1979) ... Tailor
1978 Carry On Emmannuelle - Doctor
1978 What's Up Nurse! - 1st Asian
1978 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Charles Riarcht
- All Part of the Service (1978) ... Charles Riarcht
1977 The Rag Trade (TV Series) - Ahmed
- The New Brother (1977) ... Ahmed
1977 The Fuzz (TV Series) - 2nd Pakistani
- Coppers Under the Sun (1977) ... 2nd Pakistani
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Barman
1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - Indian shopkeeper
1977 Horse in the House (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
1977 Robin's Nest (TV Series) - Conductor
- The Bistro Kids (1977) ... Conductor
1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Abdullah
- El Aziz (1976) ... Abdullah
- Up the Spout (1976) ... Abdullah
- Penny (1976) ... Abdullah
- El Akhram (1976) ... Abdullah
1976 Bill Brand (TV Mini-Series) - Pakistani
- Tranquillity of the Realm (1976) ... Pakistani
- Now and in England (1976) ... Pakistani
- Yarn (1976) ... Pakistani
1975 The Man Who Would Be King - Ghulam
1974 Boy Dominic (TV Series) - Jailor
- Sermons and Snuff (1974) ... Jailor
- A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1974) ... Jailor
1973 A Touch of Eastern Promise (TV Short) - Assistant Manager
1973 White Cargo - Arab (uncredited)
1973 The Two Ronnies (TV Series) - - Episode #3.3 (1973)
1973 Warship (TV Series) - Arab Operator Two
- Nobody Said Frigate (1973) ... Arab Operator Two
1973 On the Buses (TV Series) - Alf
- Friends in High Places (1973) ... Alf
1973 The Regiment (TV Series) - Monkeynut-Wallah
- Heat (1973) ... Monkeynut-Wallah
1973 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Indian Sailor
- Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three (1973) ... Indian Sailor (uncredited)
1972 Doctor in Charge (TV Series) - Sailor
- The Long, Long Night (1972) ... Sailor (uncredited)
1972 The Moonstone (TV Series) - Treasury Guard
- Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Treasury Guard
1971 Budgie (TV Series) - Pakistani
- Some Mothers' Sons (1971) ... Pakistani
1970 Wicked Women (TV Series) - Salmaan
- Augusta Fullam (1970) ... Salmaan

Producer (1 credit)

1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)
- Episode #4.13 (1986) ... (producer)
- Episode #4.12 (1986) ... (producer)
- Episode #4.11 (1986) ... (producer)
- Everybody's Out (1986) ... (producer)
- Wedding Fever (1986) ... (producer)

Self (1 credit)
1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series)
Himself - Reader
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader

2022: CarBuzz reports on a charity auction of Bond cars starting today through 5 October.

You Can Now Buy Famous Stunt Cars
From James Bond Movies

See the complete article here:

https://carbuzz.com/news/you-can-now-buy-famous-stunt-cars-from-james-bond-movies

Jul. 30, 2022 by Jared Rosenholtz Auctions

The upcoming auction includes two Land Rovers and a Jag.

Fans of the James Bond films know that the fictional British Secret Service agent typically drives an Aston Martin, but he has been known to drive vehicles from other brands in a pinch. In the most recent installment of the 007 Series, No Time To Die, Bond drives the classic Aston Martin DB5 and is chased by several Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. Several of those vehicles are now for sale in a massive charity auction to mark 60 years of Bond films.

The auction features 60 lots in total, with online bidding open from September 15 through October 5 (James Bond Day). The cars will be sold live on September 28 at an invitation-only event.

One of the wildest vehicles up for grabs is a stunt Land Rover Defender 110 with the VIN 007. CarBuzz actually had a chance to drive one of the 10 Defender stunt vehicles used in the film, and can speak to how fun it is off-road. The stunt car, which is expected to sell for around $360,000 to $600,000 (at current exchange rates), will benefit the British Red Cross.

But that's not the only Defender in the auction. Attendees can also bid on a Defender 110 V8 Bond Edition, built by SV Bespoke in anticipation of No Time To Die. Only 300 examples of the Bond Edition were built worldwide, and this one is a road-legal UK specification. It features special Bond touches like a '60 Years of Bond' logo on the instrument panel and a '007' badge on the tailgate. This Defender is expected to bring around $240,000 to $360,000 for Tusk charity, which preserves wildlife in Africa.

The final Land Rover featured in the sale is a Range Rover Sport SVR stunt car that was one of six used in the film's chase scene. Like the Defender V8 Bond Edition, it features a 5.0-liter supercharged V8 engine. It should sell for around $97,000 to $145,000.

Among the screen-used vehicles, the Jaguar XF chase car will be the most affordable one in the auction. Estimates predict it will sell for around $68,000 to $85,000. The Jag is one of two cars used in the pre-credit sequence where the villains chase James Bond (played by Daniel Craig) and Madeleine Swann (played by Laa Seydoux) through Italy's narrow streets.

"Defender, Range Rover, and Jaguar were in the thick of the action in No Time To Die. Each car represents a unique piece of James Bond history which we're sure collectors will be keen to own and we are delighted to be able to support our charity partners through their sale," said Nick Collins, Executive Director Vehicle Programs at Jaguar Land Rover.

RichardTheBruce

September 16th

1922: Guy Hamilton is born--Paris, France.
(He dies 20 April 2016 at age 93--Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.)

Guy Hamilton, Director
of ‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 93

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/movies/guy-hamilton-director-of-goldfinger-dies-at-93.html

From left, the director Guy Hamilton, Sean Connery and Honor Blackman on the set of
“Goldfinger.” Credit United Artists, via Photofest

By William Grimes and Robert Berkvist | April 21, 2016

Guy Hamilton, a director whose emphasis on fast pacing and witty repartee made “Goldfinger” a model for the James Bond films to follow, and who directed three more installments in the series, died on Wednesday on the Mediterranean island of Majorca. He was 93.

His death was announced in a statement to The Associated Press by the Hospital Juaneda Miramar in the city of Palma. It provided no other details.

Mr. Hamilton, a former assistant to the British director Carol Reed, had the hit prison-escape movie “The Colditz Story” to his credit when the producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli asked him to direct “Dr. No,” the first Bond film. Unable to leave Britain, Mr. Hamilton turned down the job (it went to Terence Young), but he enthusiastically accepted the assignment to direct “Goldfinger,” the third Bond film.

He delivered a gem, “the most trendsetting directorial job of all the films,” Raymond Benson wrote in The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984). He sped up the action; accentuated the banter between Bond and his boss, M, and the equipment expert, Q — the key to Q, he told the actor Desmond Llewelyn, was that Q could not stand Bond — and added innumerable touches that became signatures.

“Everyone understands what is ‘Bondian,’” he told The Banner-Herald of Athens, Ga., in 2009. “If it was a cigarette lighter, it couldn’t just be a Zippo, it had to be the latest exclusive toy. It had to be more glamorous. Bond couldn’t have just any yacht — it had to be the biggest yacht in the world. We were creating a dream world, defining what was ‘Bondian.’”

After the modest successes of the first two Bond films, “Goldfinger” (1964) was a blockbuster hit, with Sean Connery giving a definitive performance, aided by a memorable slate of opponents: the supervillain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), his henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) and the femme fatale Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman).

Mr. Hamilton took a break from the series when Mr. Saltzman hired him to direct the Cold War thriller “Funeral in Berlin” (1966), with Michael Caine, and “The Battle of Britain” (1969), a star-studded action film with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave and Mr. Caine.

He returned to the Bond films with “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), the seventh in the series, and brought the franchise into the Roger Moore era with its two successors, “Live and Let Die” (1973) and “The Man With the Golden Gun” (1974).

Guy Hamilton was born on Sept. 16, 1922, in Paris, where his father was a press attaché to the British Embassy. Early on, he became a passionate film fan. As a teenager he worked at menial jobs at a film studio in Nice, and he served an apprenticeship with the director Julien Duvivier. With the outbreak of World War II he returned to London and served in the Royal Navy.

Guy Hamilton at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2005.
Credit Jean-Francois Guyot/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In January 1944, as part of the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla, a secret unit that ferried agents into France and brought downed British pilots back to England, he and several crewmates missed a rendezvous and spent a month on the run in Brittany.

After the war he worked for Mr. Reed on “The Fallen Idol,” “The Third Man” and “Outcast of the Islands.” He made his directing debut with “The Ringer” (1952), a mystery about a shady solicitor whose life is threatened.

After directing the film version of the J.B. Priestley play “An Inspector Calls,” with Alastair Sim in the starring role, he made several films with a military theme.

“The Colditz Story” (1955), written with Ivan Foxwell, was an oddly humorous melodrama set in a Nazi prison camp where the British inmates seem to be having a good time, even as they plot their escape.

Another battleground, the American Revolution, was the setting for Mr. Hamilton’s interpretation of “The Devil’s Disciple” (1959), based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. Laurence Olivier played the British commander, General Burgoyne, Burt Lancaster a Yankee pastor who takes up arms against the British, and Kirk Douglas a rebel who discovers his true beliefs.

“The Best of Enemies” (1962) was another semi-serious war story, this time set in Ethiopia, about a British officer, played by David Niven, who continually crosses paths, and swords, with his Italian counterpart, played by Alberto Sordi. Mr. Hamilton’s skill in directing that movie’s action sequences led the producers of the Bond films to seek him out.

He later directed “Force 10 From Navarone” (1978), with Robert Shaw and Edward Fox as British saboteurs in the Balkans attempting to destroy a strategically vital bridge with the aid of Army Rangers led by Harrison Ford.

Mr. Hamilton returned to the mystery genre in the 1980s, his last active decade in the industry, with two films based on Agatha Christie novels:“The Mirror Crack’d” (1980), with Angela Lansbury as Miss Jane Marple, and “Evil Under the Sun” (1982), in which Peter Ustinov played the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

One of Mr. Hamilton’s last efforts was “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins” (1985), about a policeman-turned-assassin, played by Fred Ward, who sets out on multiple missions of vengeance.

Mr. Hamilton’s first marriage, to the actress Naomi Chance, ended in divorce. His second wife was the actress Kerima, whom he met on the set of “Outcast of the Islands.” Complete information on his survivors was not avaliable.

“Goldfinger” remained the shining jewel in Mr. Hamilton’s career. In 2010, The Guardian of London, cataloging the film’s virtues, wrote: “Where to start? The card game that opens the movie or the epic golf match in the middle? The gold-obsessed villain or the hulking Korean hardman? The near-castration with the laser beam or the gangster compacted in his Continental? And who could forget sexually ambiguous Pussy Galore, as essayed by husky-voiced, karate-chopping 40-year-old bombshell Honor Blackman? It’s a compendium of everything one loves about 007.”

Guy Hamilton (1922–2016)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357891/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Director | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Writer

Filmography

Director (23 credits)

2006 On Location with 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short)

1989 Try This One for Size
1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
1982 Evil Under the Sun
1980 The Mirror Crack'd

1978 Force 10 from Navarone
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun
1973 Live and Let Die
1971 Diamonds Are Forever

1969 Battle of Britain
1966 Funeral in Berlin
1965 The Party's Over (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger
1964 The Winston Affair
1961 The Best of Enemies
1960 A Touch of Larceny

1959 The Devil's Disciple
1957 Stowaway Girl
1956 Charley Moon
1955 The Colditz Story
1954 An Inspector Calls
1953 The Intruder
1952 The Ringer

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (11 credits)

1952 Murder on Monday (assistant director)
1951 The African Queen (assistant director)
1951 Outcast of the Islands (assistant director)
1950 The Great Manhunt (assistant director)
1950 The Angel with the Trumpet (assistant director)

1949 The Third Man (assistant director)
1949 Britannia Mews (assistant director)
1948 The Fallen Idol (assistant director)
1948 Anna Karenina (assistant director - uncredited)
1947 Mine Own Executioner (second assistant director - uncredited)
1947 I Became a Criminal (assistant director - uncredited)

Writer (4 credits)

1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (uncredited)
1960 A Touch of Larceny
1957 Stowaway Girl (screenplay)
1955 The Colditz Story (adaptation and script)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

2006 A Sense of Carol Reed (Video documentary short) (private photographic collections courtesy of)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director: pre-production - uncredited)

Art department (1 credit)

2006 You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman (Video documentary) (illustrator)

Thanks (1 credit)

2010 Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (special thanks)

1962: Robert Wade is born--San Diego, California.
1963: The San Francisco Chronicle prints Ian Fleming's article "The Case of the Painfully Pulled Leg."

https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/16072/ian-fleming-and-the-case-of-the-painfully-pulled-leg

1966: NBC television airs the first of 28 episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. starring Stephanie Powers as agent April Dancer (Fleming's name suggestion) and Noel Harrison as agent Mark Slate.

1981: 007: Sólo para tus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Mexico.

https://librosfugitivos.es/es/superheroes-y-comic-usa/1905300010-cine-comic-1-james-bond-007-solo-para-tus-ojos-ersa-1981-9788428907187.html

1981: The Village Voice in its “Rules of the Game” column declares For Your Eyes Only a “disappointment in relation to costs,” citing the $25 million budget.
1982: Octopussy films the backgammon game between OO7 and Khan.

1987: Tuer n’est pas jouer (Death is not a Game) released in France.

Not to be confused with.

1987: James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali (Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη; James Bond, Practitionaer 007: With Finger on Trigger) released in Greece.

1990: Armchair Detective Library publishes a hardcover version of John Gardner's Licence to Kill novelization.

1991: From Murakami Wolf Swenson, Danjaq and United Artists in cooperation with RLR Associates comes the James Bond Jr. cartoon series beginning with Episode 1 - "The Beginning." Sixty-four episodes follow. It spawns a limited Marvel comic series, paperbacks, video games, action figures.

James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
The Beginning (1991)

Directed by | Bill Hutten, Tony Love

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Francis Moss ... (writer)
Ted Pedersen ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

1997: Terence Cooper dies at age 64--Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
(Born 5 July 1933--Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.)

Terence Cooper

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Cooper

in Casino Royale (1967)

Born - 5 July 1933, Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Died 16 September 1997 (aged 64), Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Other names - Terrance Cooper; Terrence Cooper
Occupation - Actor
Years active - 1955–1997

Terence Cooper (5 July 1933 – 16 September 1997) was a British film actor, best known for his roles in Australian and New Zealand television and film.

Biography
Born in 1933 at Carnmoney, a district of the modern-day borough of Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland, he became a stage actor and appeared in ITC British television series such as The Buccaneers and The Adventures of William Tell.

Cooper is most famous for appearing in the 1967 film, Casino Royale, a James Bond satire based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel of the same name. Producer Charles K. Feldman kept him on a contract for two years before the film was made. He also claimed to be a candidate for the role of Bond in a Kevin McClory version of the movie series that predated Eon Productions series.

In New Zealand he starred in many New Zealand TV series such as Hunter's Gold (1977), an episode of Ngaio Marsh Theatre (1977), Gather Your Dreams (1978), Children of Fire Mountain (1979), Jack Holborn (1982) and Mortimer's Patch (1982). He played the part of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's bombastic character 'Professor George Edward Challenger' in a 1982 New Zealand radio dramatization of Doyle's novel "The Lost World" (produced by Peggy Wells and Barry Campbell).

In Australia, he appeared in guest roles in local drama series including Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, and Rafferty's Rules, with a regular role as Inspector Leo Vincetti in Bony (1992).

He was also famed as a water color artist. He retired in Far North Queensland, Australia where he painted a collection of water colors depicting Australian tropical rain forests and birdlife.

Perhaps one of Cooper's lesser known achievements was his 1982 publication, Trouper Cooper's Curry Cookbook (William Collins Publishers, Auckland 1982). At the time, Cooper ran a successful Curry restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand, Trouper Cooper's Curry House. He also wrote The Parnell Cookbook,

Partial filmography

The Square Peg (1958) - Paratrooper (uncredited)
Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) - Gentleman
Top Floor Girl (1959) - (uncredited)
No Safety Ahead (1959) - (uncredited)

Calculated Risk (1964) - Nodge
Man in the Middle (1964) - Maj. Clement
Walk a Tightrope (1964) - Jason Shepperd
Casino Royale (1967) - Cooper (James Bond 007)

Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980) - Paul Temin
Jack Holborn (1982) - Morris
Trespasses (1984) - Doug Mortimer
Heart of the Stag (1984) - Robert Jackson
Pallet on the Floor (1984) - Brendon O'Keefe
Should I Be Good? (1985) - Frank Lauber
Syliva (1985) - Inspector Bletcher
Kingpin (1985) - Dave Adams
Hot Target (1985) - Carmichael
Lie of the Land (1985) - Clifford
Hot Pursuit (1987) - Captain Andrew
No Way Out (1987) - N.Z. Ambassador
Defense Play (1988) - Professor Vandemeer

The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) - Sir Ian Hobart
The Grasscutter (1990) - Jack Macready
Old Scores (1991) - Eric Hogg
Fatal Past (1994) - David Preston
Hell's Belles (1995) - (final film role)

Terence Cooper (1933–1997)

Actor | Producer | Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178414/

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Reflections of Death.
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Artists: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez

JAMES BOND IN "REFLECTIONS
OF DEATH" OGN HARDCOVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115010
Cover: Fay Dalton
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez
Publication Date: September 2020
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 128 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/16/2020

128 stunning pages of nonstop thrills and intrigue!
An ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL James Bond graphic novel, by a cavalcade of superstars!
GREG PAK (Star Wars, Darth Vader)!
ANDY DIGGLE (Daredevil, Green Arrow)!
BENJAMIN PERCY (X-Force, Wolverine)!
GAIL SIMONE (Deadpool, Wonder Woman)!
MARK RUSSELL (Red Sonja, The Flintstones)!
VITA AYALA & DANNY LORE (James Bond ongoing series)!

Six stunning stories, featuring the world's greatest spy! Moneypenny has been kidnapped, and the mystery of who has her, and what they want, will only be revealed when (if?) 007 is able to complete his incredible missions.

2021: Danner Boots offer a limited edition product tied to No Time To Die.

Boots, Danner Boots: Walk
In 007’s Shoes In These
Limited-Edition Danner
Boots

See the complete article here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/breannawilson/2021/09/13/boots-danner-boots-walk-in-007s-shoes-in-these-limited-edition-danner-boots/?sh=5f2f2b6b8f22

Sep 13, 2021 | Breanna Wilson Contributor

James Bond. You’ve heard of the guy. You’ve even seen him in action. So, you know that when 007 needed a new pair of boots, he really needed a new pair of boots.

That’s where Danner Boots comes in. An iconic company that has been making high-quality, beautifully crafted boots ready for any adventure – or, in this case, any mission – for nearly a decade. (And a company that is no stranger to being front and center on the big screen – the images of Reese Witherspoon in her iconic Mountain Light Cascade Danner Boots in Wild are still immortalized in our brains.)

So, how does a company go about building a secret agent-ready military boot that has style and is built to last? They take an old favorite for members of the military and special forces and reconstruct it with 007 in mind.

The boot is based off the original Tanicus Danner Boot.
Danner Boots

Taking the original Tanicus Danner Boot, a boot known for its durable rough-out, full-grain leather, and 1000 Denier nylon offering superior protection, but still with a breathable mesh lining and an added layer of cushioning in the midsole and a dampening heel cup, all while keeping at an impressively light 39 oz. weight, Danner had a great place to start.

Now, replace the Danner Tanicus outsole with a pentagonal-patterned, custom Vibram® outsole made to grip various terrain, both indoors and outdoors. Go with an all-black suede and ballistic nylon construction, keep the breathable mesh lining, and you have the Danner limited-edition 007 Tanicus.

The limited-edition boot comes in a special all-black box customized for the release.
Danner Boots

The limited-edition 007 boot will come in a special all-black box adorning the No Time To Die logo and will only be available in men’s sizes, with women recommended to go down 1.5 to 2 full sizes for a correct fit. The sizes available will be 8-14, and the boot will be released for sale starting September 16, 2021, at Danner.com/bond for $180. Less than 1,000 pairs have been made.

With your 007 limited-edition Danner Boots in hand (and on your feet), watch 007 on his next mission in No Time To Die when it hits theaters on October 8th in the U.S.

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2024: Batman Day.

RichardTheBruce

September 17th

1929: Formula One racing driver Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE is born--West Kensington, London, England.
(He dies 12 April 2020 at age 90--Mayfair, London,England.)

James Bond's secret mission: to save Stirling Moss

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/11133873/James-Bonds-secret-mission-to-save-Stirling-Moss.html

Anthony Horowitz is to write a new James Bond novel based on a previously
unseen Ian Fleming story about a secret Russian plot to sabotage a Stirling
Moss race

British racing driver Stirling Moss in his vehicle at Silverstone Photo: Getty Images

By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor |
6:00AM BST 02 Oct 2014

James Bond villains are usually bent on destroying the world order, but a newly unearthed Ian Fleming story reveals a more surprising target: Sir Stirling Moss.

Murder on Wheels finds 007 attempting to foil a Russian plot to sabotage the British racing driver by forcing his car off the track at the Nürburgring.

Fleming wrote the story as a synopsis for a US television episode. It was one of several commissioned by the US network CBS in the 1950s.

They had already screened Fleming’s early story, Casino Royale, in 1954 – albeit an Americanised version in which the spy was re-named “Jimmy Bond”.

Murder on Wheels never made it to the screen because the television episodes were discarded when the Bond films became hits.

But the story will be used as a starting point for a new Bond novel, to be written by Anthony Horowitz, details of which were announced yesterday.

The novel has been commissioned by the Fleming estate, and Horowitz follows Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Deaver and William Boyd in attempting to produce a story faithful to Fleming’s vision.

Horowitz is creator of the television series Foyle’s War and author of the Alex Rider books about a teenage spy. He recently wrote a Sherlock Holmes novel at the behest of the Arthur Conan Doyle estate, but said taking on 007 presented a bigger challenge.

“It’s no secret that Ian Fleming’s extraordinary character has had a profound influence on my life, so when the estate approached me to write a new James Bond novel how could I possibly refuse?” he said yesterday.

“It’s a huge challenge – more difficult even than Sherlock Holmes in some ways – but having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.”

Horowitz will use the motor racing theme but it is understood he will remove references to Sir Stirling, who is now 85.

Lucy Fleming, the author’s niece, said of the unseen source material: “There are various scripts and things that Ian wrote in the 1950s, commissioned by an American broadcasting company. But, of course, once the films took off they never got made.

“It is a ‘treatment’ for a television episode and quite short, not a full script. James Bond gets called into M’s office and his mission is to make sure that a Russian plot to sabotage Stirling Moss’s race by forcing him to crash is intercepted.

“It is 50 years this year since Ian died and we thought it would be really nice if we could use some of his original imagination and storytelling.”

Miss Fleming said she believed it was the only instance of her uncle using a real-life character in one of his books, although they were occasionally included in the films: Janet Brown made a comic appearance as Baroness Thatcher in the closing scenes of For Your Eyes Only.

Stirling Moss

(1929–2020)
Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609090/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Stirling Moss in the 1967 Casino Royale, far right




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1941: Philip Méheux, BSC is born--Kent, South East England.

1951: Ian Fleming writes a letter to journalist-spy Antony Terry.

James Bond 007: Ian
Fleming Signed
Typewritten Letter
(Beckett/BAS LOA)

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ABOUT THE ITEM

Ian Fleming could never have guessed the impact his creation would have on British culture, cinema, or the world's perception of British espionage. The enduring adoration for James Bond is something which could never had been conceived as Fleming sat down in Jamaica in January 1952, and succeeded in his quest to write the spy story to end all spy stories. Offered here is an ultra-rare letter written from Fleming to journalist and spy Antony Terry, dated September 17, 1951 - clearly, Fleming's interest in espionage had already begun at this point! Antony Terry was a giant of Cold War journalism, a Nazi-hunter, a spy, and a master manipulator - Fleming himself called Terry "by far the best correspondent in Germany". In this particular letter, Fleming praises Terry for his work on a certain assignment in Germany, naming it "as the most important politically of any of our correspondents". He finishes the letter hoping that Terry's "shoulders now feel strong enough to assume the mantle which [he was] intent on thrusting upon them". The typewritten letter on Kemsley House letterhead is signed in black steel tip, "Yours sincerely, Ian Fleming". Fleming has also handwritten at the top "Dear Antony Terry". In good condition with two horizontal folds and minor handling wear. Accompanied by a full Letter of Authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services (BAS).

1958: Ian Fleming responds to Miss Joanne Russell's letter from San Francisco complimenting his books.

549 Ian Fleming

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Item Description

TLS, one page, 5 x 8, Kemsley House letterhead, September 17, 1958. Letter of thanks to an admirer. In part, “How very kind of you to have taken the trouble to write to me and I am delighted that the rather harum-scarum of James Bond entertain you. They seem to entertain most people with the vivid and adventurous spirit which I expect you have.” Fleming has also handwritten the greeting and the closing sentiment, “Yours ever.” In very good to fine condition, with some scattered light creasing and mounting remnants to the reverse lightly showing through at each corner.

To be sure, Fleming’s creation has not only entertained people, but spawned a franchise that has spanned more than 50 years and infiltrated not only the literary world but, of course, motion pictures. Not bad for the reckless “harum-scarum” promulgated by the title character and his license to kill. Fleming’s sixth Bond book, Dr. No, had been published just six months before this friendly letter, with eight more books yet to come. A highly desirable Bond reference.

Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.

1964: London premiere of Goldfinger at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London. Kinematograph Weekly later reports it as chaotic with 5,000 fans creating near-riot conditions drawing police reinforcements. In fact police rescue Honor Blackman from the surging crowds.

1964: BBC airs The Guns of James Bond with Sean Connery and the real Geoffrey Boothroyd.

The Guns of James Bond

1964 | 5min

Short 1964 black-and-white documentary featurette hosted by Sean Connery and featuring the real-life inspiration for the character of Q, Major Geoffrey Boothroyd with a discussion of the gun weaponry used by James Bond.

Stars
Geoffrey Boothroyd
Sean Connery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0143mf5

1966: CBS-TV premieres Mission: Impossible.

1972: ABC-TV airs the first televised Bond film with the network premiere of Goldfinger. Its 49-point share and 31.1 rating remains one of the most-watched television programs ever.

Goldfinger at 10:10

1977: Älskade spion (Beloved Spy) released in Sweden.

1982: Kingsley Amis reviews John Gardner's For Special Services in the Times Literary Supplement.

Kingsley Amis,
licence to kill

See the complete article here:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kingsley-amis-licence-to-kill/

We revisit a review by Kingsley Amis of For
Special Services, a James Bond novel by John
Gardner, published in the TLS of September 17,
1982.

Ian Fleming’s last novel, The Man with the Golden Gun, appeared in 1965, the year after its author’s death. I published Colonel Sun: a James Bond adventure under the pseudonym of Robert Markham in 1968. The next Bond novel, Licence Renewed, by John Gardner, did not come along till 1981. Here now is For Special Services, by the same author.

Quite likely it ill becomes a man placed as I am to say that, whereas its predecessor was bad enough by any reasonable standard, the present offering is an unrelieved disaster all the way from its aptly forgettable title to the photograph of the author – surely an unflattering likeness – on the back of the jacket. If so that is just my bad luck. On the other hand, perhaps I can claim the privilege of at least a momentary venting of indignation at the disrepute into which this publication brings the name and works of Ian Fleming. Let me get something like that said before I have to start being funny and clever and risk letting the thing escape through underkill.

Over the last dozen years the Bond of the books must have been largely overlaid in the popular mind by the Bond of the films, a comic character with a lot of gadgets and witty remarks at his disposal. The temptation to let this Bond go the same way must have been considerable, but it has been resisted. Only once is he called upon to round off an action sequence with a yobbo-tickling throwaway of the sort that Sean Connery used to be so good at dropping out of the side of his mouth. No ridiculous feats are required of him. His personal armament seems plausible, his car seems capable of neither flight nor underwater locomotion, his cigarettes in the gunmetal case have the three gold rings as always and M calls him 007.

Nobody else does, though. The designation is a pure honorific like Warden of the Cinque Ports; some ruling from Brussels or The Hague has put paid to the pristine Double-O Section and its licence to kill long ago. Even the cigarettes are low-tar. But these and similar changes would hardly show if he had been allowed to keep some other interests and bits of himself, or find new ones. Does he still drink champagne with scrambled eggs and sausages? Wear a lightweight black-and-white dog-tooth check suit in the country? Do twenty slow press-ups each morning? Read Country Life? Ski, play baccarat and golf for high stakes, dive in scuba gear? What happened to that elegant international scene with its grand hotels and yachts? No information.

One thing Bond still does is have girls. There are three in this book, not counting a glimpse of Miss Moneypenny outside M’s door. The first is there just for local colour, around at the start, to be dropped as soon as the wheels start turning. She is called Q’ute because she comes from Q Branch. (Q himself is never mentioned, lives only in the films, belongs body and soul to Cubby Broccoli, the producer.) Q’ute is liberated and a champion of feminism. Luckily she only has two lines, but one of these contains a jovial mild obscenity, and a moment later there comes a terrifically subtle reference to the famous moment in the film of Dr No when Bond said, “Something big’s come up” in ambiguous circumstances and got the hoped-for laugh from the first audiences, thus, legend says, turning the subsequent films on to their giggly course. When you consider how much the original Bond would have hated these small manifestations of what the world has become since 1960 or so, you might be led to suspect a furtive taking of the piss, but nothing like it occurs again, as if Gardner, not the most self-assured of writers, had repented of his daring.

Bond’s second girl has the cacophonous and uncertainly suggestive name of Cedar Leiter – yes, kin to that Felix Leiter of the CIA whom sharks deprived of an arm and half a leg in Live and Let Die (1954). Cedar is his daughter, a superfluous and unprofitable device that raises that thorniest of all questions, Bond’s age in 1982. Bond keeps his hands off her throughout, perhaps out of scruple but more likely because only a satyromaniac would find her appealing. She is described as short – a deadly word. An attractive girl may be small, tiny, petite, pocket-sized and such, but never short. Poor Cedar has no style or presence, no skills or accessories, no colour, no shape. And it is this wan creature whom Bond instantly accepts as his partner for the whole enterprise. In a Fleming novel – I nearly wrote “in real life” – Bond would have outrun sound getting away from her. To be accurate, of course, he would have done that even if she had been Pussy Galore or Domino Vitali all over again. He knew all about the way women “hang on your gun-arm” and “fog things up with sex and hurt feelings”. But then that was 1953.

Bond scores all right with the third of the present trio, Nena Bismaquer, née Blofeld and the revengeful daughter of his old enemy, a detail meant to be a stunning revelation near the end but you guess it instantly. Nena – let me find the place – Nena looks fantastic and has incredible black eyes. Her voice is low and clear, with a tantalizing trace of accent. She wears exceptionally well-cut jeans and has that special poise which combines all the attributes Bond most admires in a woman. When she sees him first she gives him a smile calculated to make even the most misogynistic male buckle at the knees. As she comes closer, he feels a charge, an unmistakable chemistry passing between them. From expressions like these you can estimate the amount of trouble Gardner has taken with the figure of Nena and indeed the general level of his performance. It remains to be said about her that she has a long, slender nose and – by nature, not surgery – only one breast, an arresting combination of defects. Nobody really cares when she gets thrown among the pythons on the bayou. Well, there are pythons on this bayou.

There are two other villains round the place about whose villainy no bones are made from the beginning, Nena’s husband Markus and his boyfriend Walter Luxor. One is fat and cherubic, the other of corpse-like appearance, but neither exudes a particle of menace or looks for a moment as if he would be any trouble to kill, and Nena casually knocks them off one after the other on a late page. The three had schemed to steal the computer tapes governing America’s military space-satellites, having fed drugged ice-cream to the personnel in charge of them. Bond, brainwashed by other drugs into believing himself to be a US general, is at the head of the party of infiltrators, but a third set of drugs, administered by a suddenly renegade Bisma­quer, brings him to himself just in time. This sounds, I know, like a renewed and more radical bid to take the piss, but seen in the context of the whole book and its genesis the absurdity, however gross, is contingent, mere blundering.

I have suggested that For Special Services has little to do with the Bond films. In one sense this is its misfortune. Those films cover up any old implausibility or inconsistency by piling one outrage on another. You start to say to yourself “But he wouldn’t –” or “But they couldn’t –” and before you can finish Bond is crossing the sunward side of the planet Mercury in a tropical suit or sinking a Soviet aircraft-carrier with his teeth. Hardly a page in the book would not have gone the smoother for a diversion of this sort. Why, for instance, does the New York gang boss set his hoods on Bond when all he has to do is ask him nicely? Echo answers why. The reader is offered no relief from his bafflement.

What makes Mr Gardner’s book so hard to read is not so much its endlessly silly story as its desolateness, its lack of the slightest human interest or warmth. Ian Fleming himself would have conceded that he was not the greatest delineator of character; even so his people have genuine life and substance and many of them both experience and inspire feeling. So far from being “the man who is only a silhouette” Bond is shown to be fully capable of indignation, compunction, remorse, tenderness and a protective instinct towards defenceless creatures. His girls have a liveliness, a tenacity and sometimes a claim on affection beyond the requirements of formula. Most of the Fleming books also have a more or less flamboyant figure assisting Bond and acting as a foil to him, such as Darko Kerim, the Turkish agent in From Russia, with Love, and Enrico Colombo, the virtuous black-marketeer and smuggler in “Risico”. By a kind of tradition, however, perhaps started by Buchan with Dominick Medina in The Three Hostages, the main character-interest in this type of novel attaches to the villain. Mr Big, Hugo Drax, Dr No and their like are persons of some size and power. They are made to seem to exist in their own right, to have been operating since long before Bond crossed their paths, rather than to have been run up on the spot for him to practise on. But then to do anything like that the writer must be genuinely interested in his material.

1986: The Living Daylights second unit films the pre-title action sequence in Gibraltar.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 2 of 65 - "Earthcracker." [Also "Earth Cracker"; "Earth-Cracker"]

James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
Earth Cracker (1991)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807100/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

Bond, I.Q. and Tracy travel to find El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold. They are met by Oddjob and Goldfinger and their deadly weapon, Earth Cracker.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Mel Gilden ... (written by)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Auric Goldfinger (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr 02 Earth Cracker

2007: The Irish Examiner reports the Sunday Express reports Bond producers pass on Amy Winehouse

Winehouse rejected by
Bond producers?

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30328182.html

Mon, 17 Sep, 2007

British singer Amy Winehouse has been dumped by 'James Bond' producers over her recent 'bad behaviour', according to reports.

The Rehab star was rumoured to be in talks with bosses from the superspy franchise to record the theme tune to the next Bond movie, but her hospitalisation last month after three days of hard partying has allegedly place the deal in jeopardy.

Composer David Arnold - who penned the soundtrack to the last four Bond movies - was on the verge of asking Winehouse to sing the theme tune after praising the star for having "the best record of last year", but the film's producers have now had second thoughts.

A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Express: "A month ago Amy was thought to be a shoo-in for the theme tune to Bond 22. Her voice and musical style was in perfect sync with what Bond is all about.

"There was even talk of her having a cameo by performing the theme tune in a smoky club Bond visits - but that's out of the window now.

"After all the reports of hard drug use, self-injury and domestic violence, it's fair to say the bosses here aren't keen on the idea."

2010: Former Fleming sports car 1962 AC Aceca Coupé goes to auction at Bonhams.

Bond Creator Ian Fleming’s Sports Car Sells For Record
Price

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https://www.elitetraveler.com/travel/travel-news/bond-creator-ian-flemings-sports-car-sells-for-record-price

By webadmin | September 24 2010
London, UK – Reported by Elite Traveler, the Private Jet Lifestyle Magazine

A 1962 AC Aceca Coupé once owned by the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, sold for a believed record £80,000 on Friday 17 September at Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival sale. Dark blue with a red leather interior, the car is one of only six surviving Ford-powered Acecas in the world.

The Goodwood Revival sale, which realised over £3 million with 70% sold by lot, was the culmination of an excellent week for Bonhams UK Motoring Department. Within the space of six days, it has sold £5,000,000 worth of motor cars, motorcycles and automobilia. (Beaulieu Autojumble on Saturday 11 September totalled £2 million).

Another motor car once owned by a high-profile figure, a 1988 Jaguar XJ-S V12 Convertible that belonged to Sarah, Duchess of York, also featured in the Goodwood Revival sale, and sold for £23,000.

Meanwhile top prices were paid for a 1949 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Super Sport Cabriolet, at £188,500; a 1938 Lagonda V12 Drophead Coupé, which sold for £186,300; and a 1959 Aston Martin DB4 Series 1 Sports Saloon, the 26th ever produced, which made £145,600.

A collection of motor cars, the property of a titled gentleman, performed exceptionally well. A 1956 Jaguar XK140 Drophead Coupé sold for £131,300, against an estimate of £80,000 – 100,000 and ’67 ARX’ an ex-works 1962 Austin-Healey 3000 MKII Rally car fetched £113,700 having been estimated at £70,000 – 100,000.

In the automobilia sale, children’s cars proved extremely popular: a child’s Mercedes-Benz W125 smashed its pre-sale estimate of £3,000 – 5,000, selling for a remarkable £23,000, and a Jaguar D-Type children’s car sold for £19,550 against an estimate of £10,000 – 12,000.

Although bidding for the top lot in the sale, a 1953 Jaguar C-Type, fell short of its reserve on Friday, Bonhams is currently involved in on-going discussions to conclude a sale.

The replica Supermarine Spitfire owned by The Royal British Legion, which was due to be sold at Goodwood Revival, sold ahead of the auction – to a buyer who magnanimously will continue to make the aircraft available to the charity – in excess of its estimate (£50,000 – 60,000).

James Knight, the Group Head and Managing Director of Bonhams’ Motoring Department, comments: “The UK motoring team have experienced an incredibly busy period and emerged with very positive statistics. Only Bonhams could handle this type of sale schedule and it is a testament to the calibre and enthusiasm of my team and our support departments to deliver these results.”

2015: Monica Belucci says she's a Bond Lady, a Bond woman.

Monica Bellucci: ‘I’m not a Bond girl,
I’m a Bond woman’

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/17/monica-bellucci-james-bond-spectre-bond-woman

The actor, soon to be seen in the new James Bond movie Spectre, on why 007 is the perfect man – and what draws her to roles in ‘violent and unwatchable’ films

Monica Bellucci … 'Bond is the most amazing man'. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Nigel M Smith | @nigelmfs | Thu 17 Sep 2015

Hi Monica! You’re about to become the oldest James Bond love interest in history (1). Why do you think your casting struck such a nerve?
Because the world is a man’s world. Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they’re not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true – they are still amazing! That’s why I think that Sam Mendes [director of the new James Bond film, Spectre], in choosing me, an adult woman, created a big revolution.

I don’t know Hollywood very well. I’ve never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they’re not 20.

Some people take offence at the term Bond girl. Do you?
I can’t say I’m a Bond girl because I’m too mature to be a Bond girl. I say Bond lady; Bond woman. But I’m proud to be a Bond lady, because actually, Bond is the most amazing man. You know why?

Why?
Because he doesn’t exist.

I’ve just seen your new film, Ville-Marie, at the Toronto film festival. You play an actress in it. How was that?
First of all she’s a woman – with so many problems. She uses the fact that she’s an actress in the way a solider protects himself with a weapon. Because when she goes out in public, the people look for an image, not who she is. People think she’s beautiful, famous and special. And actually she feels like less than nothing.

Bellucci and Daniel Craig on the set of Spectre. Photograph: Getty Images.

Could you relate to that?
I hope not! But if you ask me why I’m an actress – I don’t know why. There is one beautiful sentence that Humphrey Bogart used to say ... not Humphrey Bogart! Richard Burton! Richard Burton used to say: “An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man.” (2) I don’t know what that’s about. But it’s just something that I need to do right now. Maybe in 10 years I won’t be an actress any more. But right now, to play is something I need. It’s one way of learning something about myself.

I hope that I’m a better mother to my children. But I have two girls (3); if I had a boy maybe it would be more difficult. The relationship with my girls is very beautiful. But I think I can understand the pain for a mother who doesn’t have a good relation with her son. I don’t think there’s bigger pain than that.

Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux on the set of Spectre.

What draws you to more extreme films like Irréversible? (4)
My body is an object of work. That’s why I think to be an actor is one of the most violent jobs. If you’re a pianist, you have your piano. If you’re a guitarist, you have your guitar. But if you’re a dancer, or you’re an actor – your instrument is your body.

For example, when we see dancers while they’re dancing, it’s like they fly up in the air. The most touching moment of my life was when I went to the Bolshoi in Moscow: I’ve never seen such elevation of art. But I’m sure that when the dancers got back into their little room, their feet were full of blood. While they’re dancing, they don’t feel the blood. It’s more of a high than pain. I think actors can do things with their body – it’s like they forget they are inside. They can do things without being ashamed.

Do you ever feel you go too far?
Sometimes I ask why directors ask that I do things that are so violent. I don’t know. Beauty is like a mask, and people think that when you’re beautiful, some things can be easier. For example, I was very shy early in my life. When I started to be pretty I was less shy because people would come to me, instead of me coming to them. But even though the problems are still the same, there’s a moment in your life where the beauty of youth goes away. Even though you say I’m pretty, I’m 50 years old, not 20. There is a moment in your life when you have to deal, because time goes by. All I can say is that I’m ready for it.

Footnotes
(1) In Spectre, out in late October. Bellucci is … 51.
(2) The quotation appears on various websites as “An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman”. It was Richard Burton, though.
(3) Bellucci has two children with actor Vincent Cassel, from whom she separated in 2013.
(4) Gaspar Noé’s 2002 hardcore drama, co-starring Cassel. The critic Roger Ebert called it “so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable”.

2020: Rosamund Pike says she'd love to return to her Bond film role.

James Bond star would ‘LOVE’ to
return to 007 franchise – despite
character death

See the complete article here:

https://www.truehollywoodtalk.com/james-bond-star-would-love-to-return-to-007-franchise-despite-character-death/

By True Hollywood Talk - September 17, 2020

James Bond star would ‘LOVE’ to return to 007 franchise – despite character death

During this, the star was asked about her character, Frost, and if she would make her way back to the franchise.

“I would love to tackle that character again,” she answered without skipping a beat.

She then went on to give her hopes for what Frost could do in another film.

Pike continued: “I’d like her to have the experience that I now have, not just as an actress but as a woman."

2022: John Higgs in The Spectator proposes James Bond and the Beatles at war for Britain's Soul.

James Bond and the Beatles at war
for Britain’s soul

See the complete article here:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/james-bond-and-the-beatles-at-war-for-britain-s-soul

The two post-war British phenomena, one representing Death,
the other Love, are contrasted in many other ingenious ways
by John Higgs

From magazine issue: 17 September 2022

Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No (1962).
The agent, a professional killer, represents Death, according to John Higgs,
whereas the Beatles represent Love. [Shutterstock]

Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
John Higgs
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 516, £20

‘Better use your sense,’ advised Bob Dylan: ‘take what you have gathered from coincidence.’ John Higgs is a master of taking what he can gather from coincidence – or, as he would insist, synchronicity. From the filigree of connections and echoes in the KLF (Discordianism through the lens of 1990s pop provocateurs) to the psychogeography of Watling Street to more recent deep dives into William Blake, he confronts the modern Matter of Britain: who wields power, and who resists it?

Love and Let Die starts with another perfect coincidence, namely that it was 60 years ago – to be precise, 5 October 1962 – that saw the first Beatles single appear in shops and the first James Bond film appear in cinemas. From this, Higgs conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades, as the parallel stories of Bond and the Beatles cross over, contrast with, quarrel with and occasionally enhance each other.

From the dual release of ‘Love Me Do’ and Dr. No, the protagonists keep rubbing up against each other. Help!, the Beatles’ second film, is essentially a Bond homage. Paul McCartney resurrected a dead-in-the-water solo career with a Bond theme. Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach, The Spy Who Loved Me’s Major Anya Amasova. The agent, for his part, was snootier. ‘My dear girl,’ Bond tells Jill Masterson in Goldfinger, ‘there are some things that just aren’t done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.’ But, as Higgs notes, the character

“knew exactly which restaurant, tailor or brand of vermouth was the finest,
and always insisted on having the very best for himself. But his mastery only
extends to the material world, and music, along with the emotions it
generates, are [sic] immaterial. Bond no more has good taste in music than he
has an understanding of empathy or intimacy.

For Higgs, the Beatles represent Love: Love Me Do. She Loves You. Can’t Buy Me Love. All You Need is Love. Bond, a professional killer, represents Death: Die Another Day. Live and Let Die. No Time to Die. Eros and Thanatos are at war for the soul of post-war Britain. The contrasts are everywhere. The Beatles are northern; Bond southern. Boys like Bond; girls like the Beatles. The Beatles liked football; Bond is interested only in single-player sports. The dualities extend to minute matters of taste: the Beatles floated on a sea of tea, as anyone who has watched Get Back can attest; Bond (‘be a good girl and make me some coffee’) considered it ‘one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire’.

This is a pointer to the key distinction: Bond represents a version of England that Higgs dubs the Norman Continuity Empire, the England of received pronunciation and private schooling and inherited wealth. Not only Bond, but Ian Fleming gets a rough ride from Higgs, who takes a lot of semi-aristocratic teasing perhaps too much at face value.

In his account, Fleming was a child of privilege who repeatedly failed: expelled from Eton and from Sandhurst; his role in naval intelligence ‘a cushy job handed to him by family contacts’. Jonathan Cape had to be leant on to publish Casino Royale and its first admiring reviews were all from friends. (Later, vituperative reviews were often also from friends, at least notional ones.) The novels, shot through with wish-fulfilment, were ‘rushed and barely edited’: Higgs has a particular disdain for Thunderball’s sentence ‘It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture’, which in context is a perfectly fine example of Chandlerian laconic. The dark power of the novels is conceded through gritted teeth.

The two worlds collided most recently at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. For Higgs, the section where Daniel Craig, in character, escorted the Queen by helicopter and the two appeared to parachute down to the stadium both acknowledged the Norman Continuity Empire and defanged it. ‘Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell-Boyce had used the banishing power of laughter to protect their ceremony from being claimed by the powers that be through mild ridicule.’ Then the stage was clear for a people’s version of Britain – the NHS, suffragettes and, inevitably, the Beatles, from giant yellow submarines to the Arctic Monkeys singing ‘Come Together’ to Paul McCartney leading a mass singalong of ‘Hey Jude’.

The Beatles and Bond remain the only two post-war UK cultural colossi with multi-generational and global reach: Higgs notes that Doctor Who (whose lead has regenerated more often even than Bond) is largely an Anglophone phenomenon and that today’s teenagers are tiring of Harry Potter. But No Time to Die was the most successful western film since the pandemic. Get Back was watercooler TV and (since the book went to press) a new deluxe edition of Revolver has been announced.

Higgs’s central thesis has an overarching explanatory power and he marshals a wide range of details. The duality may not be quite as sharp as he insists. The Kiss-Kiss is as central to Bond’s glamour as the Bang-Bang. The Beatles were no strangers to occasional cruelty and even violence (in Get Back, John jokes about having beaten and hospitalised a friend at Paul’s 21st birthday party six years earlier). And even if the lyrics celebrate love, rock music’s energy often contains a thrill of aggression. But Higgs’s final verdict, on how James Bond will return, is inarguable. ‘There is no reason why you can’t be emotionally intelligent behind the wheel of a really fast sports car.’ Indeed.

Written by David Honigmann

In The Beatles and Bond
Eros and Thanatos are at
war for the soul of
post-war Britain

2022: The Music of James Bond Without George Lazenby at Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Concertworks presents
The Music of
James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2022/contemporary-music/music-of-james-bond-with-george-lazenby

17 September | Hamer Hall
$79.90 - $189.90

Performance dates & times
Saturday 17 Sep
7:30 PM

Running Time
2 hours 30 minutes (20 minute interval)
Price range
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$189.90
Senior
$170.90

Reserve
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$79.90 - $159.90
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The Music of James Bond will now proceed without George Lazenby in attendance.

Come hear the evolution of the last 60 years of pop music through the world of 007.

From the sassy brass of Shirley Bassey’s 'Goldfinger' to the haunting intimacy of Billie Eilish’s 'No Time To Die', the concert will take listeners on a musical journey covering every decade of the iconic film franchise. Featuring songs from legendary composers and songwriters including John Barry, Marvin Hamlisch, Paul McCartney, Bill Conti, David Arnold and Adele, this is set to be an unforgettable night of Bond music and the ultimate celebration on the 60th anniversary of the series.

Under the baton of Nicholas Buc, John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra will provide an unforgettable night of music, joined on stage by sensational vocalists Bonnie Anderson (Neighbours, SAS, winner Masked Singer and winner Australia’s Got Talent) and Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, Jesus Christ Superstar, Swing On This), who prefer their martinis shaken not stirred.

Please Note: Arts Centre Melbourne fully supports the decision of promoter Concertworks to remove Mr Lazenby from The Music of James Bond in light of Mr Lazenby’s language, comments and recollections during a recent performance at the Perth Concert Hall. The concert will now proceed without Mr Lazenby in attendance. If you are an existing ticket holder and no longer wish to attend please contact our team at least 2 hours prior to the commencement of the event on 1300 182 183 between 9:00am-4:30pm or email [email protected].

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I am beyond excited to be a part of this
spectacular show. I still remember hearing
the powerful Adele song ‘Skyfall’ for the
first time, which is my all-time favourite
musical moment of the James Bond
cosmos.
Bonnie Anderson

I am thrilled to perform the iconic 007
songbook with breathtaking orchestras
across Australia, especially in this very
special anniversary year.
Luke Kennedy

Featured Songs
Program

From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
Nobody Does It Better
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
A View To A Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies
You Know My Name
Skyfall
The Writings On The Wall
No Time To Die

RichardTheBruce

September 18th

1959: Kevin McClory's partner Ivar Bryce writes a letter to Ian Fleming about his experience on the Queen Mary. Specifically, a screening of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 7 - Hitchcock for Bond

"It’s the most terrific Bond-style thriller - almost plagiarising – and superb.
You must manage to see it somehow. It is exactly the picture we are
trying to make...

Hitchcock would be worth it, if we could get him."

1964: Ian Wright reviews Goldfinger in The Guardian.

Goldfinger

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/1964/sep/18/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm

Ian Wright
Fri 18 Sep 1964 15.47 EDT

Ian Fleming's James Bond canon consists of ten books. Three of these have been made into films and the last, From Russia With Love, was said to have made more money than any other British film. The latest, Goldfinger, opens at the Odeon, Leicester Square, this week and may even do better. Goldfinger indeed.

The story is fantasy, and fantasy is the stuff of cinema. Fleming the dream pedlar calculated the contents nicely. It is the mixture as before; glossy violence, muted sadism, demonstrations of virility rather than sex, and, again, Fleming's cynicism heavily larded with humour.

But, whatever else, Fleming could tell a good story and it is this that survives the electronic moving furniture, the judo exhibitions, the B-picture musical score, and the schoolboy script embellished with mention of Château Yquem.

Auric Goldfinger (well played by Gert Frobe), the richest man in the world, has a lunatic craving for gold. He cheats at cards and golf, and is depleting Britain's gold by smuggling the metal out of the country in a Rolls-Royce. James Bond (Sean Connery), who again stands between England and disaster, gives chase.

Bond's exploits decorate the story and Goldfinger thoughtfully keeps him alive to foil his greatest crime - the explosion of a nuclear bomb ("cobalt and iodine, very nasty") in the US gold reserves at Fort Knox for the benefit of the Chinese no less - thus saving the western world. As Bond, Sean Connery is the best gadget of all, but fortunate in his touch of whimsey which puts life into the heavily ironic dialogue complete with double meanings. Honor Blackman is more bosomy than remembered on TV and rather less effective. She never seems to dominate the larger screen.

It is true that the prospect of James Bond chained to a nuclear device gives its own sort of pleasure, but the fantasy of this film is too solid and too dearly bought. A first feature might have been made for the price of the sets alone. They are splendid and so is the gadgetry but the mind very quickly boggles - or takes it all for granted. The actors become gadgets and the superhuman becomes commonplace. When Bond can do anything he loses his point; the film becomes a costly tour de force, a gigantic firework display, expensive purposelessness.

It is a harmless enough piece of indulgence but one which is too greatly contrived for what it is. In one enormously exciting scene James Bond's Aston Martin DB 5 (hydraulic overrider rams, tyre cutter, twin Browning machine guns, protruding from the indicator-like housings, rotating number plate, smoke bomb ejector, and radar scanner in the left wing mirror) is chased round a factory site by Korean thugs in three Mercedes Benz. It is all excitement and heavily self-mocking good humour, but how much better was Harold Lloyd at the same sort of thing. All that glitters...

1965: MacLean's Reviews prints "Secret Letters of the Man Who Invented OO7" by Gene Telpner.

MACLEAN’S REVIEWS
SECRET LETTERS OF THE
MAN WHO INVENTED 007

See the complete article here:

http://archive.macleans.ca/article/1965/9/18/secret-letters-of-the-man-who-invented-007[/center]

GENE TELPNER September 18 1965
SECRET LETTERS OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED 007

MACLEAN’S REVIEWS

WITH THE JAMES BOND CULT flourishing so lustily throughout North America and most other parts of the semicivilized world, it’s hard to believe there might yet be any fascinating facts still unrevealed about Bond or his creator, the late Ian Fleming.

But a previously unpublicized side of Fleming has just come to light in, of all places, Winnipeg. There, one man's collection of personal letters from Fleming reveal the famous, bestselling British spy novelist as a person who was as modest, self-effacing and cautious as Secret Agent 007 is brash and bold.

The owner of the letters is a publicity-shy businessman named Albert D. Cohen, who is, among other things, board chairman of the Metropolitan Stores of Canada five - and - dime chain. Cohen, whose corporate duties often carry him abroad, first met Fleming in London in 1960, through a mutual friend. To Cohen, their first meeting seemed like a casual social encounter that showed no promise of developing further. However, Cohen returned to London the next year, this time with his wife and their son Anthony. and the whole family became acquainted with Fleming. Inevitably, talk between the two men turned to business. Back home, in September 1961, Cohen got his first letter from Fleming. “I was much interested in hearing your tale of Metropolitan Stores,” said Fleming, in a letter he pecked out himself on his typewriter. “It looks like an immensely exciting affair, and with you as chairman 1 am sure it will be a most profitable venture. Please let me know if you advise me to make a modest investment in shares.”

That may sound like asking a football coach if he expects his team to win tomorrow, but Cohen's reply was evidently free of any false optimism. For Fleming wrote again on October 11, this time revealing a cautious nature that 007 would have scorned. “With the rather difficult market conditions ruling at present it doesn’t seem that I need be in any hurry to purchase shares,” he wrote. “But when conditions look a bit better perhaps I may write to you again.”

A full year was to pass before Fleming—already a wealthy author growing wealthier every day—would plunge in to become a Metropolitan shareholder.

Meanwhile he continued to write to Cohen about other things, including the magazine pieces that were making him a celebrity on both continents.

“You will see a really terrifying photograph of me in the December issue of Esquire,” he warned on November 29, 1961, “and in one of the January issues of Sports Illustrated you will find an article on the guns of James Bond which I hope will entertain you. Otherwise, life goes on much as usual . . .”

Subconsciously or otherwise, Fleming was starting to think Canadian, for his next book, The Spy Who Loved Me featured a heroine from Canada.

When this book appeared. Fleming expressed an acute—though perhaps bemused—interest in its acceptance in Canada: “I think Canadian book shops have been a bit leery of it as I have some rather spikey things to say about Quebec!”

But he was managing to live with these notions of ill fame: “Thanks to plenty of nicotine and alcohol I am keeping fit enough and just finished an immensely long James Bond story for next year.”

In the same letter, he announced he was about to invest in Metropolitan stock. Cohen responded by sending corporate information, including photographs of some stores. Fleming replied tongue in cheek: “There seems to be a whole lot of goods on the shelves but nobody actually buying them. Perhaps you have managed to tempt some customers in by now!”

And in the same letter—from the man whose books were among the hottest literary properties in years: “I have absolutely no news for you as my life has been totally uneventful. But I hope you were amused by the profile of me in Life Magazine of August 8.”

In October 1963, Cohen and Fleming exchanged regrets over invitations they had extended to each other— Cohen was opening a new' store, and From Russia With Love was opening in London. Fleming commented: “It is indeed extraordinary the amount of publicity this fellow James Bond and I are getting all over the place. Although it’s good for business, to tell you the truth I would be very glad to pass some of it on to the Metropolitan Stores!”

Then he added: “I see your shares are on the move. Good show'!”

The two men managed to meet again more than once—though not as often as both wished—and Fleming once broke a luncheon date with Allen Dulles, then head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, in order to see Cohen.

Fleming wrote his last letter to Cohen not long before he died, once again revealing himself as a romantic almost childishly fascinated by the activities of other men but easily bored by the humdrum life of a fiction writer.

From his vantage point, it was Cohen who was the exciting personality, living an adventurous life that made him a sort of businessman equivalent of James Bond himself. For in the flyleaf of a book he gave to his friend the board chairman, 007’s creator wrote, with apparent sincerity:

“To Albert D. Cohen—Man of Action. From lan Fleming.”

GENE TELPNER

1967: James Bond i Japan (James Bond in Japan) released in Norway.

"You Only Live Twice", Coldplay, 2009. (Recorded live in Norway.)

1981: 007 - Somente Para Seus Olhos released in Brazil.

https://www.facebook.com/JamesBondBrasil/videos/307865546672749/

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 3 of 65 - "The Chameleon" at Washington, District of Columbia.

S1 E3
James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
The Chameleon (1991)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807100/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

A class trip to Washington, D.C. is curtailed by a face-changing villain with plans to steal a top-secret army prototype from the Pentagon.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Alan Oppenheimer ... The Chameleon (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Surgeon (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr 03 The Chameleon

2005: Alice Cooper pleads with the Bond producers to cast him as the villain in Casino Royale.

Alice Cooper's 007 plea

See the complete article here:

https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/6082/Read

18 May 2005

Rocker Alice Cooper has begged movie bosses to cast him as superspy James Bond's arch enemy in upcoming 007 movie Casino Royale.

The 'School's Out' star doesn't care whether Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig or Clive Owen take on the coveted role, as long as he plays the suave secret agent's nemesis.

Alice Cooper - Man with the Golden Gun (1974, 4:04)

2006: Construction of a new stage at Pinewood begins, to replace the structures damaged in a July fire.

2007: Adobe Flash releases browser game Avenue of Death developed by TAMBA Internet and based on a chapter of Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Hurricane Gold.

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/forum/16885
Submitted by willcheng on Tue, 2007-09-18 11:21

TAMBA & Fleming Media are proud to present Avenue of Death, a viral game to promote the launch of the fourth Young Bond book, Hurricane Gold.

http://www.avenueofdeath.com

Many have failed in their quest to survive the tricks and traps along the Avenue of Death.

Use the keyboard arrow keys to control James and space bar to jump.

You must collect coins and more importantly matches in order to escape the Avenue of Death.

Watch out for sinister creatures who will try and thwart your attempts at survival.
No one will be happier to see you dead than El Huracan. Don't let him have the pleasure and complete the challenge.

Any input would be great.

Thanks

Young Bond: Avenue of Death

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Avenue_of_Death

2008: Title song "Another Way to Die" premieres on The Jo Whiley Show, BBC Radio 1.

2012: Vanity Fair reports on Harry the Spy and his World War II activities.

Harry the Spy: The Secret Pre-History of a
James Bond Producer

By David Kamp
September 18, 2012

See the complete article here:

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/photos/2012/09/harry-saltzman-bond-secret-spy-life

Letter from an organization called National Public Relations Advisors to the U.S. Passport Division, June 12, 1945. V-E Day had already been celebrated a month earlier, but Saltzman’s overseas travels continue. An associate named Roy M. Cohen (no, not Roy Cohn of McCarthyite fame) is asking to have his and Saltzman’s visas expedited so that they can travel to France to help “hasten the resumption of normal trade relations between France and the United States.”

GIAMMARCO: “National Public Relations Advisors was a proprietary front company for the O.S.S. [the Office of Strategic Services, the early-40s forebear to the Central Intelligence Agency]. It was similar to the Robert Mullen public-relations company in Washington, from which intelligence operatives have been given cover I.D. and credentials, both domestically and abroad, for assignments. This document suggests that Harry’s intelligence activities were still in full swing.”

Follow-up letter from Sherwood to Shaw, December 31, 1943. Sherwood informs Shaw that Saltzman’s services are now “more urgently needed in London.” Note at the letter’s very bottom the mention of the posh Dorchester hotel.

GIAMMARCO: “The psy-ops program under C. D. Jackson in North Africa was now being fully expanded across Europe. Harry would become a key component, and it was around this point that he might have first crossed paths with Ian Fleming, who was serving in British naval intelligence. During the war, British intelligence secretly held whole floors of offices at a number of hotels, including the Dorchester and the Landmark. An enlisted man of limited salary could hardly afford to be living in a five-star hotel. But intelligence officers and assets could come and go within these hotels without suspicion.”

Harry Saltzman’s Oath of Allegiance to the United States, March 24, 1939. The Canadian-born Saltzman, having already served his native land as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, becomes a U.S. citizen in 1939. His oath form curiously mis-identifies his place of birth as “St. Johns, N.B.,” meaning the city of Saint John in New Brunswick; Saltzman was in fact born in Sherbrooke, Quebec. David Giammarco suspects that U.S. intelligence agents were already preparing him at this time for work in the field.

GIAMMARCO: “False birthplaces are standard procedure in intelligence filing systems. The misleading files help protect against any moles within an intelligence agency who may access the dossiers of agents stationed behind enemy lines. The ‘real’ files are often kept compartmented within special operating sections, with access restricted to only a very select few.”

Letter from Robert E. Sherwood, director of overseas operations for the U.S. Office of War Information (O.W.I.), to G. Howland Shaw, assistant secretary of state, September 18, 1943. Saltzman is ostensibly being sent over to Algiers to work “as a motion picture distributor” for the O.W.I.

GIAMMARCO: “The key line is that Harry is working for C. D. Jackson in the ‘North African theater of war.’ C. D. Jackson was a notorious propagandist who controlled psychological operations in the North African operation for O.W.I., known as P.W.B., or Psychological Warfare Branch. The P.W.B. produced everything from fake radio broadcasts, books, newspapers (real and fraudulent), documents, and films to fake events staged for newsreels, for which Harry’s film talents would have been fully utilized.”

2015: Wallflower Press publishes For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond edited by Lisa Funnell.

For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/85185/new-book-announcement-his-eyes-only-women-james-bond

Lisa Funnell | Monday, September 28, 2015

For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond
Edited by Lisa Funnell
Publication Details:
Wallflower Press (September 18, 2015)
384 Pages
ISBN: 9780231176156
ISBN: 9780231176149

Abstract:
The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the representation of women in the film. From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field agent, Skyfall develops the legacy of Bond at the expense of women. Since Casino Royale (2006) and its sequels Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall constitute a reboot of the franchise, it is time to question whether there is a place for women in the new world of James Bond and what role they will play in the future of series. This volume answers these questions by examining the role that women have historically played in the franchise, which greatly contributed to the international success of the films.

For His Eyes Only is the first collection of essays on femininity and feminism in the Bond series. It covers all twenty-three Eon productions as well as the spoof Casino Royale (1967), considering a range of factors that have shaped the depiction of women in the franchise, including female characterization in Ian Fleming's novels; the vision of producer Albert R. Broccoli and other creative personnel; the influence of feminism; and broader trends in British and American film and television. The volume provides a timely look at women in the Bond franchise and offers new scholarly perspectives on the subject.

Table of Contents:
Foreword - Christoph Lindner
Introduction: The Women of James Bond - Lisa Funnell

Section 1: From Novel to Film
1. “Women Were For Recreation”: The Gender Politics of Ian Fleming’s James Bond
-James Chapman
2. The Bond Girl Who Is Not There: The Tiffany Case
-Boel Ulfsdotter
3. James Bond and Female Authority: The Female M in the Bond Novels and Films
-Jim Leach

Section 2: Desiring the Other
4. Desiring the Soviet Woman: Tatiana Romanova and From Russia with Love - Thomas Barrett
5. “The Old Ways Are Best”: The Colonization of Women of Color in Bond Films - Travis L. Wagner
6. Bond’s Bit on the Side: Race, Exoticism and the Bond “Fluffer” Character - Charles Burnetts
7. The Politics of Representation: Disciplining and Domesticating Miss Moneypenny in Skyfall - Kristen Shaw
8. Objects of White Male Desire: (D)Evolving Representations of Asian Women in Bond Films - Lisa Funnell

Section 3: Feminist Critiques and Movements
9. “Never Trust a Rich Spy”: Ursula Andress, Vesper Lynd, and Mythic Power in Casino Royale 1967 - Robert Dassanowsky
10. “This Never Happened to the Other Fellow”: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as Bond Woman’s Film - Marlisa Santos
11. “What Really Went On Up There James?”: Bond’s Wife, Blofeld’s Patients, and Empowered Bond Women - Dan Mills
12. Sisterhood as Resistance in For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
13. Bond is Not Enough: Elektra King and the Desiring Bond Girl - Alexander Sergeant

Section 4: Gendered Conventions
14. Women’s Bodies in James Bond Title Sequences - Sabine Planka
15. Random Access Mysteries: James Bond and the Matter of the Unknown Woman -Eileen Rositzka
16. Pussy Galore: Women and Music in Goldfinger - Catherine Haworth
17. Female Voice and James Bond - Anna G. Piotrowska
18. Designing Character: Costume, Bond Girls, and Negotiating Representation - Andrea J. Severson

Section 5: Female Agency and Gender Roles
19. Secret Agent Nuptials: Marriage, Gender Roles, and the “Different Bond Woman” in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - Stephen Nepa
20. The Spy Who Fooled Me: The Bond Girl and the Magician’s Assistant - Ross Karlan
21. “Women Drivers”: The Changing Role of the Bond Girl in Vehicle Chases - Stephanie Jones
22. “It’s Not For Everyone”: James Bond and Miss Moneypenny in Skyfall (2012) - Klaus Dodds
23. “Who is Salt?”: The Difficulty of Constructing a Female James Bond and Reconstructing Gender Expectations - Jeffrey A. Brown

Section 6: Judi Dench’s Tenure as M
24. From Masculine Mastermind to Maternal Martyr: Judi Dench’s M, Skyfall, and the Patriarchal Logic of James Bond Films - Peter C. Kunze
25. M, 007, and the Challenge of Female Authority in the Bond Franchise - Brian Patton
26. “M”(o)thering: Female Representation of Age and Power in James Bond - Lori Parks
27. Mothering the Bond/M Relation in Skyfall (2012) and the Bond Girl Intervention -Christopher Holliday
28. Property of a Lady: (S)Mothering Judi Dench’s M - Michael Boyce

For Further Information:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/for-his-eyes-only/9780231176156

2019: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond 007 #11 continuing Goldfinger.
Robert Carey, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #11

Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Khoi Pham
Cover C: Gleb Melnikov
Cover D: Robert Carey
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Robert Carey
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: September 2019
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/18/2019

"Goldfinger" continues. Infiltration. A mad love. Someone goes unhinged.
From GREG PAK (Agents Of Atlas, Star Wars) and ROBERT CAREY (Aliens: Resistance).

Cover A: Dave Johnson

Cover B: Khoi Pham

Cover C: Gleb Melnikov

Cover D: Robert Carey

RichardTheBruce

September 19th

1954: Blanche Ravalec is born--France.

1963: Honor Blackman gives notice she will leave The Avengers, a secret kept until February 1964. Her final episode "Lobster Quadrille" presents a nod to the upcoming Bond role.

1965: Clifford Joseph Price (Goldie) is born--Walsall, Staffordshire, England.

1984: A View to a Kill films that bedroom scene with OO7 and May Day.
1987: 007 - Zona pericolo released in Italy.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 4 of 65 - "Shifting Sands" in Egypt.

S1 E4
James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
Shifting Sands (1991)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807100/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

While assisting in the excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb, Bond Jr. is caught up in Pharaoh Fearo's plans to steal oil from under the Middle East.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr 04 Shifting Sands

1998: Robbie Williams scores a #1 hit in the UK with "Millennium".

2012: The James Bond 007 fragrance comes available in the United Kingdom.

James Bond
For your nose only: James Bond gets
his first fragrance

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/james-bond-007-official-fragrance

By Oliver Franklin-Wallis
27 July 2012

Whether in Ian Fleming's novels or the film outings, 007 has never been subtle about his preference for particular brands of car, drink or tailor - but Bond was never particularly forthcoming about his choice of cologne. (The closest we get is Fleming's own preference for Floris No.89.) That's all set to change with the unveiling of the first official James Bond fragrance, arriving in September from P&G to mark the franchise's 50th anniversary. Thankfully, the scent eschews hints of Aston Martin leather and martini top notes for a modern take on classic Sixties fragrances, with hints of fresh apple, cardamom, sandalwood and vetiver. Because given what we've seen of Daniel Craig's motorcycle-riding, Bérénice-seducing, Heineken-swigging hero in Skyfall, he's going to need to freshen up...

£25 for 50ml. Available exclusively at Harrods from 15 August
15. Available nationwide from 19 September. 007.com

2015: HarperCollins releases the audio book for Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mortis, read by David Oyelowo.

2015: Twitter promotes James Bond 007 The World of Espionage, The Official Mobile Game.

https://twitter.com/007/status/645183079154352129

2016: BBC Radio-4 airs its radio drama of Thunderball.

2017: Bernie Casey dies at age 78--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 8 June 1939--Wyco, West Virginia.)

Bernie Casey, Football Star
Turned Actor, Poet and
Painter, Dies at 78

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernie-casey-dead-actor-nfl-910749

4:38 PM PDT 9/20/2017 by Mike Barnes

Bernie Casey

His film résumé includes
'Boxcar Bertha,' 'Never Say
Never Again,' 'Brothers,'
'Revenge of the Nerds' and
'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.'

Actor Bernie Casey, who appeared in such films as Boxcar Bertha, Never Say Never Again and Revenge of the Nerds after a career as a standout NFL wide receiver, has died. He was 78.

Casey, who also starred in Cleopatra Jones and several other blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, died Tuesday after a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.

In the Warner Bros. drama Brothers (1977), Casey distinguished himself by portraying a thinly veiled version of George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party who was killed in what officials described as an escape attempt from San Quentin in 1971. His writings had inspired oppressed people around the world, and Bob Dylan recorded a song as a tribute to Jackson in 1971.

Casey also wrote, directed, starred in and produced The Dinner (1997), centering on three black men who discuss slavery, black self-loathing, homophobia, etc. while sitting around the dinner table.

Casey played a heroic former slave and train robber in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972), was CIA agent Felix Leiter (a recurring character in Bond films) in Never Say Never Again (1983) and portrayed U.N. Jefferson, the president of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity, in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and two follow-up telefilms.

In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Casey played schoolteacher Mr. Ryan ("Who was Joan of Arc?" he asks, and Keanu Reeves' Ted guesses, "Noah's wife?"), portrayed a detective opposite Burt Reynolds in Sharky's Machine (1981) and stood out as the prisoner who protects Eddie Murphy in jail in the sequel Another 48 Hrs. (1990).

And not long after he unexpectedly retired from the Los Angeles Rams, Casey portrayed Chicago Bears player J.C. Caroline in the 1971 ABC telefilm Brian's Song, the heart-wrenching tale about the friendship between Brian Piccolo (James Caan) and Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams).

A true Renaissance man, Casey also was a published poet as well as a painter whose work was exhibited in galleries around the world.

Bernard Casey was born on June 8, 1939, in Wyco, West Virginia. He was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Bowling Green on a football scholarship (he returned to the school years later to earn a master's in fine arts).

An elegant 6-foot-4 halfback and flanker, Casey led the Falcons to the national "small college" championship in 1959 and was named to the Little All-American team. He also excelled in the high hurdles for the track team and competed in the 1960 U.S. Olympic trials.

The San Francisco 49ers made Casey the ninth overall pick in the NFL Draft, and he spent six seasons with the team (1961-66) as quarterback John Brodie's favorite receiver. In one game in his final year with the team, he caught 12 passes for 225 yards.

Casey then spent two solid years with the Rams but shockingly retired in his athletic prime before the 1969 season, finishing his pro career with 359 catches for 5,444 yards and 40 touchdowns. Just 30, he wanted to concentrate on acting, painting and poetry.

"When that sojourn is over and you're 32 or something, when most people are just beginning to understand who they are, what they can do and what life is all about, you have been considered in the world of sports a dinosaur," he once said in a piece for NFL Films. "From that point on, it's a downward spiral into the abyss of non-consideration and obscurity and a lot of other things that they never recover from. I want to think in my instance, it's the beginning. There's a lot of life left after 32."

Casey made his movie debut in the sequel Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and then starred opposite Jim Brown, another recently retired NFL star, in ...tick... tick... tick... (1970).

Casey received top billing in Hit Man (1972) as the title character, a no-nonsense guy who investigates his brother's death at the hands of mobsters, and then played Reuben Masters, Tamara Dobson's lover, in Cleopatra Jones (1973).

His other blaxploitation work included Black Chariot (1971), Black Gunn (1972) and Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976), and years later, he appeared in the genre parody I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.

Casey portrayed basketball star Maurice Stokes, who spent the last 10 years of his life paralyzed, in Maurie (1973), was a cop in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) and played Col. Rhumbus in Spies Like Us (1985). He also appeared in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Glass Shield (1994) and Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored (1995).

On television, Casey played a minor-league baseball coach who could still hit on the short-lived Steven Bochco drama Bay City Blues and was in Roots: The Next Generations and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Casey received an honorary doctorate degree from The Savannah (Georgia) College of Art and Design, where he served for years as chairman of the board and advocated for arts education.

He had many fans of his paintings.

"I cannot see what Bernie Casey sees," Maya Angelou said in 2003 to promote an exhibit of his work. "Casey has the heart and the art to put his insight on canvas, and I am heartened by his action. For then I can comprehend his vision and some of my own. His art makes my road less rocky, and my path less crooked."

Duane Byrge contributed to this report.

Bernie Casey (1939–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143378/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

2007 Vegas Vampires - Bloodhound Bill
2006 When I Find the Ocean - Amos Jackson
2005 Girlfriends (TV Series) - Judge Edward Dent
- Judging Edward (2005) ... Judge Edward Dent
2002 On the Edge - Rex Stevens
2001 The Last Brickmaker in America (TV Movie) - Lewis
2001 Tomcats - Officer Hurley
2000 Just Shoot Me! (TV Series) - Bernie Casey
- A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn (2000) ... Bernie Casey
2000 For Your Love (TV Series) - James, Mel and Reggie's Father
- Father Fixture (2000) ... James, Mel and Reggie's Father

1999 Batman Beyond (TV Series) - Tyrus Block
- Once Burned (1999) ... Tyrus Block (voice)
1999 The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (TV Movie) - Silas
1997 The Dinner - Good Brother
1995 Babylon 5 (TV Series) - Derek Cranston
- Matters of Honor (1995) ... Derek Cranston (uncredited)
- Hunter, Prey (1995) ... Derek Cranston
1995 SeaQuest 2032 (TV Series) - Admiral Vanalden
- Chains of Command (1995) ... Admiral Vanalden
1995 Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored - Mr. Walter
1994 In the Mouth of Madness - Robinson
1994 The Glass Shield - James Locket
1994 Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (TV Movie) - U. N. Jefferson
1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Calvin Hudson / Commander Calvin Hudson
- The Maquis: Part II (1994) ... Calvin Hudson
- The Maquis: Part I (1994) ... Commander Calvin Hudson
1993 Street Knight - Raymond
1993 Time Trax (TV Series) - Ernest Cooper
- The Contender (1993) ... Ernest Cooper
1993 The Cemetery Club - John
1992 Evening Shade (TV Series) - Director
- The NFL on CBS (1992) ... Director
1992 CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV Series) - Edwin Gaines
- Sexual Considerations (1992) ... Edwin Gaines
1992 Under Siege - Commander Harris
1992 Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (TV Movie) - U.N. Jefferson
1990 Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (TV Movie) - John Slade
1990 Chains of Gold - Sergeant Falco
1990 Another 48 Hrs. - Kirkland Smith

1989 Hunter (TV Series) - Sgt. Del Weber
- Investment in Death (1989) ... Sgt. Del Weber
1989 Mother's Day (TV Movie) - Cale Sturgis
1989 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Doc Evans
- Three Strikes, You're Out (1989) ... Doc Evans
1989 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Mr. Ryan
1989 Boogie Down Productions: Jack of Spades (Video short) - John Slade
1989 L.A. Law (TV Series) - Lieutenant Jack Dolan
- To Live and Diet in L.A. (1989) ... Lieutenant Jack Dolan
1988 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka - John Slade
1987 Rent-a-Cop - Lemar
1987 Amazon Women on the Moon - Maj. Gen. Hadley
(segment "The Unknown Soldier" [TV cut & DVD only]) (uncredited)
1987 First Offender (TV Movie) - Charlie
1987 Backfire - Clinton James
1987 Steele Justice - Det. Tom Reese
1986 Pros & Cons (TV Movie) - Lt. Bernie Rollins
1985 Spies Like Us - Colonel Rhombus
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Bernie
- Method Actor (1985) ... Bernie
1984 Revenge of the Nerds - U.N. Jefferson
1983-1984 Bay City Blues (TV Series) - Ozzie Peoples
- Rocky IV-Eyes (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- Play It Again, Milt (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- Look Homeward, Hayward (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- Going, Going, Gone (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- I Never Swung with My Father (1983) ... Ozzie Peoples
1984 The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (TV Movie) - J.T. Collins
1983 Never Say Never Again - Leiter
1982 Hear No Evil (TV Movie) - Monday
1982 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) - Thornie Thornberry
- Love and Marriage (1982) ... Thornie Thornberry
1982 A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (TV Movie)
1981 Sharky's Machine - Arch
1981 The Sophisticated Gents (TV Series) - Shurley Walker
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) - Major Jeff Spender
- The Martians (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender (credit only)
- The Settlers (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender (credit only)
- The Expeditions (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender

1979 Harris and Company (TV Series) - Mike Harris
- That's What I Owe You (1979) ... Mike Harris
- The Loneliest Night of the Week (1979) ... Mike Harris
- A Very Special Person (1979) ... Mike Harris
- Choices (1979) ... Mike Harris
1979 Roots: The Next Generations (TV Mini-Series) - Bubba Haywood
- Part IV (1917-1921) (1979) ... Bubba Haywood
1978 Love Is Not Enough (TV Movie) - Mike Harris
1978 Ring of Passion (TV Movie) - Joe Louis
1977 Ants! (TV Movie) - Vince
1977 Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (TV Movie) - Dave Williams
1977 Brothers - David Thomas
1975-1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Hamilton Ward / Duke Windsor
- The Six Foot Stretch (1977) ... Hamilton Ward
- Company Man (1975) ... Duke Windsor
1977 Police Woman (TV Series) - P.J. Johnson
- Once a Snitch (1977) ... P.J. Johnson
1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth - Peters
1976 Joe Forrester (TV Series) - Cleveland
- The Answer (1976) ... Cleveland
1976 Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde - Dr. Henry Pride
1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me - Officer Larry Atkins
1974 Panic on the 5:22 (TV Movie) - Wendell Weaver
1974 The Snoop Sisters (TV Series) - Willie Bates
- Fear Is a Free-Throw (1974) ... Willie Bates
1973 Maurie - Maurice Stokes
1973 Cleopatra Jones - Reuben
1972 Black Gunn - Seth
1972 Hit Man - Tyrone Tackett
1972 Gargoyles (TV Movie) - The Gargoyle
1972 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) - Richard
- Timelock (1972) ... Richard
1972 Boxcar Bertha - Von Morton
1972 Longstreet (TV Series) - Ray Eller
- Field of Honor (1972) ... Ray Eller
1972 Cade's County (TV Series) - Patrick
- Slay Ride: Part 2 (1972) ... Patrick
- Slay Ride: Part 1 (1972) ... Patrick
1971 Brian's Song (TV Movie) - J.C. Caroline
1971 Black Chariot
1970 ...tick... tick... tick... - George Harley

1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven - Cassie

Director (1 credit)

1997 The Dinner

Thanks (1 credit)

2018 The Oscars (TV Special) (in memoriam)

Music and Fruit (Songs in Eden)

In a Dark Time of Two Moons, 1966

Rhea's Ray, 1968

2019: Aston Martin DBS Superleggera spotted for the first time in Tokyo, Japan.

Aston Martin DBS Superleggera
Spotted for the first time in Tokyo
https://www.autogespot.com/aston-martin-dbs-superleggera/2019/09/19

Spot Details
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Spotted in Tokyo, Japan
Date 2019-09-19 00:02

Auto details
Top speed 340 km/u
Acceleration 0-100 km/u 3.40 s
Power 715 pk
Torque 900 Nm @ 1800 tpm
Weight 1845 kg

2021: Media reports share a a video from 1995 with Idris Elba praising James Bond and GoldenEye.

Old Video Of Idris Elba Praising
‘James Bond’ Surfaces

See the complete article here:

https://etcanada.com/news/820961/old-video-of-idris-elba-praising-james-bond-surfaces/

By Mikael Melo. 19 Sep 2021

The internet is in a frenzy as an old video of Idris Elba praising the “James Bond” film “GoldenEye” back in 1995 has surfaced.

The video in question, which is from 26 years ago, has a camera crew interview filmgoers after the first screening of “GoldenEye”. Which at the time was the first Bond film to feature Pierce Brosnan. Turns out that one of the filmgoers just so happens to be a young Elba.

Around 25 seconds in the clip below, Elba can be spotted at the film alongside a friend. When asked about his thoughts on the movie and Brosnan’s performance, Elba had high praise. Stating, “He’s really good. He’s got all the charm. He’s got all the looks. And he’s fit and strong and blah, blah, blah. He’s all right.”

Now back when this was shot, Elba had only just begun his acting career and hadn’t cracked into the American industry just yet. But the crazy thing about all of this is that Elba’s name has since come up multiple times as a fan favourite to be the next James Bond. So much so that even Brosnan himself has said Elba would be “magnificent” at the role.

Considering, Daniel Craig’s final performance as the spy will be in “No Time To Die”, which is set for release on Sept. 30, many fans see this as a sign that Elba was destined to play the role. Even Elba’s mother is convinced he’ll be the next 007.

Whether or not this is all just one big coincidence or some major manifesting on Elba’s part, it certainly feels like the stars are aligning for the next 007.

https://twitter.com/KevBot_007/status/1439373379807629314

2022: Memorial Hall presents Herb Alpert and Lani Hall at Cincinnati, Ohio.

Memorial Hall presents HERB ALPERT
& LANI HALL

See the complete article here:

https://www.memorialhallotr.com/cincinnati-shows/memorial-hall-presents-herb-alpert-lani-hall/

Update 9/15: With the receding threat of COVID-19 in our local community, masks are now optional for this event. Confirmation of vaccination status is not required.

HERB ALPERT
Creator and innovator, musician and producer, artist, and philanthropist, Herb Alpert is a man with a profound passion.

Born in Los Angeles, the future trumpeter came of age in a house filled with music. At the age of eight, he was drawn to the trumpet in a music appreciation class in his elementary school.

“I was very fortunate that I had that exposure to music and was encouraged to stick with it. Years ago, when the arts programs were cut out of our public schools, so many kids stopped having that kind of opportunity.”

A legendary trumpet player, Alpert’s extraordinary musicianship has earned him five #1 hits, nine GRAMMY® Awards, the latest from his 2014 album, “Steppin’ Out,” fifteen Gold albums, fourteen Platinum albums and has sold over 72 million records. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass propelled his sound into the pop music limelight, at one point outselling the Beatles two to one. In 1966, they achieved the since-unmatched feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Top 10– and five in the Top 20. Herb Alpert also has the distinction of being the only artist who has had a #1 instrumental and a #1 vocal single.

Some of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass’ fourteen Top 40 singles include; The Lonely Bull, Mexican Shuffle, Spanish Flea and the GRAMMY®-winners “A Taste Of Honey” and “What Now My Love,” and the #1 hits “This Guy’s In Love With You” and “Rise.” In 2016 the Herb Alpert Presents record label released 30 deluxe re-masters of the entire TJB catalogue plus all of Herb’s solo albums from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s. In all, Alpert has recorded over forty albums and produced for many other artists, including Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, Stan Getz, Michel Colombier, Gato Barbieri and Alpert’s wife, GRAMMY winning vocalist Lani Hall, to name a few.

As an industry leader, Alpert’s commitment to artists with personal vision guided A&M Records (with partner Jerry Moss) from a Hollywood garage operation into one of the most successful independent record labels in music history that started in 1962 with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Stars including Janet Jackson, Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, Stan Getz, Cat Stevens, Supertramp, The Carpenters, Carole King, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, The Police and scores of others that are evidence of the consistent quality and diversity of the A&M Records family.

In 2006, Alpert and Moss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in recognition of their accomplishments and are a part of the Grammy Museum’s ”Icons of the Music Industry” series. In 2013 Herb Alpert was awarded The National Medal of Arts Award by President Barack Obama for his musical, philanthropic and artistic contributions.

Herb Alpert has continually explored other artistic ventures, always acknowledging a connection between music and visual art in his creative process. A painter for over four decades, Alpert’s bold, abstract expressionist canvases have been exhibited internationally and are a part of the permanent collections of MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Los Angeles, the Tennessee State Art Museum in Nashville, the Kranzberg Arts Foundation in St. Louis as well as the University of California Los Angeles. Herb’s work has been exhibited in galleries around the U.S, Europe and Asia.

A sculptor for over three decades, Alpert has installed his lyrical sculpture and his massive, bronze Totem sculptures on public display throughout Los Angles, New York City, Nashville Tennessee, and most recently a permanent installation at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Alpert explains, “There is a certain satisfaction and energy that comes from playing the horn – a feeling that I am really in my element. I am passionate about what I am doing, whether painting, sculpting or playing the trumpet. I am just trying to create whatever comes out in the spontaneity of the moment.”

Broadway theatre is another arena in which Alpert has enjoyed success. His producing credits include the Tony Award/Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Jelly’s Last Jam, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, August Wilson’s Seven Guitars and The Boy from Oz.

With his desire to bring the arts back to young people, the Herb Alpert Foundation is helping to change the educational environment. The Herb Alpert Foundation supports a number of educational, arts and compassion oriented programs, dedicated to serving young people to help them reach their potential and lead productive, fulfilling lives and to support their unique creative energies and special talents. HAF supports young people to live free from prejudice and, with its many programs, nurtures a capacity for empathy, compassion, mutual respect, tolerance and kindness.

The Herb Alpert Foundation, which Herb created with his wife Lani Hall Alpert in 1985, was instrumental in establishing the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz graduate program at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, founded with an endowment from the Foundation in 2007, aspires to educate the whole student through productive collaborations between performance and scholarship and preparatory training for a broad range of careers in music.

In 2008, through an endowment from the Foundation, the school of music at CalArts was named for Herb Alpert. This gift continues to support music scholarships, endow three faculty chairs, and fund faculty programs at a school known for its rigorous training in a variety of musical styles and cultures. Continuing their support of arts education, the Foundation created an endowment in 2016 to provide music majors at Los Angeles City College tuition–free attendance, additional private lessons, and further financial aid to enable them to succeed in their community college experience. Over the past nine years Herb has come to the rescue of the legendary Harlem School of the Arts, establishing an endowment that not only prevented the school from closing its doors but has led to a major redesign of the campus, financial aid and the funds to thrive as a key arts destination for the community.

Over the past 25 years, 125 mid-career, risk-taking artists have received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, an award administered by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), which also houses the Herb Alpert School of Music at Cal Arts.

In addition to his on-going creative outlets in music, philanthropy and the arts, Alpert owns the noted Vibrato restaurant/jazz club in Bel-Air, California. He also continues to perform and tour across the country with his wife, Grammy-winning vocalist, Lani Hall and their band.

Herb’s priorities derive from the same sense of generosity and humility that has guided him through a long, illustrious career. In all of these ventures, there is a harmony not unlike Alpert’s music. A flowing of energy and sound, a dedication to quality, which sustains everything Alpert does. With more than 40 years of continuous philanthropic, musical and artistic activity, Alpert has established a legacy that reflects his firm belief that the arts can make a difference in the world and in the lives of each of us.

LANI HALL
Two time Grammy Award-winning vocalist and producer Lani Hall started her singing career in 1966 as the lead singer of Sergio Mendes’s breakthrough group, Brasil ’66. She left behind her city roots in Chicago and for 5 years performed throughout the world. While Lani’s singing career took her on the road, she also focused on her writing—committing to the page her personal impressions of the world around her. Sergio Mendes further expanded her writing career by asking Lani to write the English lyrics for many of the band’s Brazilian songs.

In 1966, A&M Records signed Brasil ’66 and Lani met her future husband, music legend, Herb Alpert, who is also the co-founder of A&M Records. Herb and Lani married in 1973.

Lani has the distinction of recording more than 22 albums in three different languages (English, Portuguese and Spanish, and in 1983, she sang the title song for the James Bond film, Never Say Never Again. In 1986 Hall won with her first Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance for her album, Es Facil Amar. Hall picked up her second Grammy Award as producer on Herb Alpert’s 2013 Grammy winning album, Steppin’ Out. Since 2006, Hall and Alpert have been touring with their band to sell out performances.

After establishing a successful solo career in music, and becoming a wife and mother, Lani began to explore new creative outlets for her writing. In the early 1980’s, while singing in Mexico City, she started writing in short story form. Her writing process is similar to her singing process in so far as she can visually see a song/lyric unfold before her, as if she were watching a movie.

Her debut book, Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories, compiles 10 short stories from 30 years of writing short fiction and true stories from her life—all woven together by a connecting personal narrative, with the city of Chicago as the backdrop. Her characters are intelligent, modern women struggling to navigate the uncertain waters of adultery, therapy, cosmetic surgery, postpartum depression and their own sexuality. Lou Adler describes Lani’s book as “free-form as a jazz piece weaving in and out of intriguing situations and indelible characters. She writes as she sings, with emotion and passion.” With the release of her audio book, Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories, Hall has mixed her two creative expressions to make one total experience. Her emotional narration at the forefront, Lani has placed a unique, musically scored soundtrack, creating an emotional landscape of music, to all 10 stories, making each chosen scene come to vivid life. Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories gives us a rare glimpse at the double-edged sword that is the life of an artist.

For more information, visit Lani’s website at www.lanihall.com.

HERB & LANI’S BAND

BILL CANTOS
In addition to Herb & Lani, keyboardist/vocalist Bill Cantos also tours as a featured performer with Burt Bacharach. Bill’s songs have been covered by Lea Salonga, Ramsey Lewis, Brenda Russell, Cheryl Bentyne, Helen Baylor, Flora Purim, and Patti Austin; he has also toured/recorded with Phil Collins, Alan Bergman, Dori Caymmi, Gal Costa, Kirk Whalum, Sergio Mendes, Deniece Williams, Leon Russell and Elton John. His most recent solo album is LOVE WINS: NEW STANDARDS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, a collection of original songs written in the style of classic standards. He was recently honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is currently working on new writing projects with his wife, Mari Falcone. www.billcantos.com

HUSSAIN JIFFRY
Since arriving in Los Angeles in 1988 from his native land of Sri Lanka (via Europe), Hussain Jiffry has become one of the most sought-after bassists in Los Angeles.

In the past twenty five years Hussain has gradually grown busier and more in demand as his reputation has spread as a player, writer, arranger, producer, engineer and music educator. He writes, arranges and produces various artists at his studio in Tarzana, CA . Hussain won a Grammy in January 2014 for engineering Herb Alpert’s CD “Steppin’ Out”. Some of the Artists that Hussain has recorded, toured or performed with: Tom Scott, Michael Bolton, The Atlanta Symphony, Lamont Dozier, David Foster, Michael McDonald, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Crystal Gayle, Jack Jones, The Four Tops, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Gloria Gaynor, Robben Ford, Phoebe Snow, Marty Stuart, Sam Moore, Steve Winwood, Whitney Houston, Tito Puente, Carol King, Melissa Manchester, Al McKay all stars, Ignacio Berroa, Christopher Cross, “Yanni”, Sergio Mendes, Stewart Copeland, Herb Alpert-Lani Hall Band.

MICHAEL SHAPIRO
Michael Shapiro has enjoyed a successful thirty five year career as a drummer, percussionist, producer and educator. A self-taught musician from Washington D.C., Shapiro has performed with many legendary artists spanning multiple genres. Mike has worked with such noted artists as will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Cole, Macy Gray, Dori Caymmi, and Sergio Mendes with whom he has recorded many albums together including 1993’s Grammy-winning “Brasileiro”, 2006’s Latin Grammy-winning “Timeless” and 2010’s Latin Grammy-winning “Bon Tempo”. Currently working with the legendary Herb Alpert and wife, singer, Lani Hall, Mike has recorded, co produced and arranged several c.d.’s and toured the U.S. extensively. The last c.d.; Steppin’ Out, earned a Grammy in the best pop instrumental category. His movie soundtrack credits include, Shrek the 3rd, Rio, People Like Us, The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, Should’ve Been Romeo,The Jersey Boys and The Peanuts Movie. Michael is currently teaching at UCLA.

Category: Concert
Date: Mon, September 19, 2022
Time: 8:00 PM
Price: $35-$60

RichardTheBruce

September 20th

1942: Teenager Kevin McClory, British Merchant Navy radio officer on the Mathilda, endures German U-boat attacks.

1955: Macmillan publishes Ian Fleming's Moonraker in the US.

A super-rocket of monstrous propor-
tions, affectionately nicknamed the
Moonraker, is the object of world-wide
speculation, the pride of the British
Empire, and the special concern of
Secret Service agent extraordinary,
James Bond. It is his mission to inves-
tigate the site and the construction of
this most powerful missile of all time,
and to study carefully the personality
and motives of its philanthropic spon-
sor, an enigmatic multi-millionaire
who insists on financing this best, last
hope of defense privately and in the
strictest secrecy. Bond’s path is beset
with dangers as explosive as the war-
head of the Moonraker itself, but as his
admirers know, danger is to Bond what
ants are to anteaters.

Moonraker is the third and breath-
less best of Ian Fleming’s atomic-
powered thrillers. His first two books
proved him to be one of the most daz-
zling, literate, and entertaining special-
ists in his field. But why take our word for it?
Please turn the book over for the com-
ments of reliable and disinterested
observers.

Jacket design by Leo Manseo

1959: The Daily Express publishes their serialisation of "Murder Before Breakfast ("From a View to a Kill") today and 21 September. Marketed as “the fastest thing in thrillers” and “tailor-made for the Express”. Andrew Robb, illustrator.

1964: Goldfinger premierein the UK.

1967: On ne vit que deux fois released in France.

1967: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζεις μονάχα δυο φορές released in Greece.

https://dpikeas.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/james-bond-you-only-live-twice/

1974: From Russia With Love re-released in Spain.

1984: A View to a Kill films a garden party.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 5 of 65 - "Plunder Down Under" in Greece.

S1 E5
James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
Plunder Down Under (1991)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807100/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

When Tracy's sailor uncle goes missing along with his ship off the coast of Greece, a scuba expedition reveals a fiendish plot by Walker D. Plank to create a deadly pirate fleet.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Perry Martin ... (written by)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Pirate Parrot (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr 05 Plunder Down Under

2006: "You Know My Name" is leaked on the internet.

2012: Heineken's Crack the Case ad promotes Skyfall starting today, Global Duty Free Day.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 Kill Chain #3.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #3 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017803011

Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Publication Date: September 2017
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/20

James Bond and the mysterious Chantal Chevalier go head-to-head at an elite auction house that hides a deadly secret. At stake is Bond's life - and the future of NATO. The Russian "active measures" unit SMERSH will stop at nothing to win this deadly game - but is 007 a player, or a pawn?

https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017803011

2018: The @007 Twitter account reports Cary Joji Fukunaga will direct BOND 25 for a Valentines Day 2020 release. Delayed from the October 2019 plan.

James Bond producers reveal
unexpected director pick

See the complete article here:

https://news.sky.com/story/james-bond-producers-reveal-unexpected-director-pick-11502942

American Cary Joji Fukunaga has previously directed True Detective and the
Idris Elba film Beasts Of No Nation.
Thursday 20 September 2018 15:16, UK

Image: Daniel Craig will make his fifth appearance as Bond

The new director for the next James Bond film has been announced,
with shooting due to begin in March next year.
Cary Fukunaga has replaced Danny Boyle, who left Bond 25 last month.

The announcement was made on the @007 Twitter account, which also revealed that the film will be released on Valentine's Day in 2020.

The unnamed film had been due to premiere in October 2019 but was delayed after British director Boyle left due to "creative differences".

Image: Fukunaga directed Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in True Detective

Who is Fukunaga?
The American's first feature film was Sin Nombre won the directing award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.

In 2010 he made Jane Eyre with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender which was nominated for an Oscar for costume design.

He won an Emmy and Bafta award for directing the critically acclaimed first series of Sky Atlantic show True Detective which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

Fukunaga won more praise for his war drama Beasts Of No Nation which starred Idris Elba and was released in 2015.

His new TV mini-series Maniac, with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, is released on Netflix on 21 September.

The 41-year-old will be the first ever American director to helm a Bond film.

Bond 25 will see Daniel Craig reprise the role of author Ian Fleming's 007 for a fifth, and most likely, final time.

"We are delighted to be working with Cary. His versatility and innovation make him an excellent choice for our next James Bond adventure," said Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli in a tweet.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1042688562335047681

Boyle's wish to cast Polish actor Tomasz Kot, 41, as the film's main Russian villain may have been one of the creative differences, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Rumours were rife about Craig and Boyle clashing over other casting issues - with the actor said to have agreed all major new signings since he began his tenure as Bond.

Female director SJ Clarkson, who has been signed up for the next Star Trek sequel, had joined Bart Layton and Yann Demange on a list of contenders for the job after Boyle quit.

Last month Elba denied he was in the running to replace Craig as the MI6 agent when he leaves the franchise.

Craig previously stated that he would rather "slash my wrists" than return to the role, but later said that he made the remarks two days after he had finished shooting Spectre, and was exhausted.

Filming will begin at Pinewood Studios on 4 March next year.

2018: The Washington Post reports on the latest troubled Bond film production.

The troubled production of the new James Bond
movie is a symptom of how Hollywood operates
today

See the complete article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/09/20/the-troubled-production-of-the-new-james-bond-movie-is-a-symptom-of-how-hollywood-operates-today/

Daniel Craig in Berlin in 2015. (Michael Sohn/Associated Press)

By Travis M. Andrews | Staff writer | September 20, 2018

Being a moviegoer used to be easy.

You’d see a trailer for the new “Star Wars” or James Bond flick, get excited, maybe read a review or an interview with the director in your local paper, and then you’d go see the movie. End of transaction.

All you would know of the casting process is who ended up in the movie. You would remain ignorant of any behind-the-scenes drama between the filmmakers and the studio, unless something truly bizarre happened and a documentary was made a la “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” which tells the insane story of the disastrous production of “Apocalypse Now.”

Well, the times, they are a-changin’.

Now audiences watch — and often weigh in on — the entire filmmaking process as it plays out through news reports and social media postings. And that’s exactly what’s happening with the 25th installation in the James Bond franchise. Few movies demonstrate the sheer public nature of today’s blockbuster-making process better than the unreleased movie.

Cary Fukunaga, who became a household name for stylishly directing all eight episodes of the first season of HBO’s “True Detective,” was announced as the movie’s director on Thursday. Daniel Craig, meanwhile, will reprise his role as Bond.

There are a few notable things about Fukunaga helming the project. He’s the series’ first U.S-born director. His art-house style has ruffled feathers, most notably those belonging to Nic Pizzolatto, the creator and writer of “True Detective.” Pizzolatto seemed particularly irked by the widely held belief that Fukunaga’s direction is what elevated the show to its critical darling status (a status quickly lost during the Fukunaga-less Season 2). Finally, he’s the kind of director who truly pours himself into projects and has a bit of a rough reputation. As GQ wrote, “Cary Fukunaga isn’t entirely sure if he has a reputation for being difficult. But it’s something he’s heard from time to time.”

Most notable, though, is that this is not the movie we expected because we’ve watched the creation play out online for years.

Let’s begin with Daniel Craig.

Craig made it exceedingly clear that he hated playing Bond when he told Time Out London in 2015 that he would never reprise the role. As he so delicately put it: “I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”

With Craig out, the rumor mill geared up. Many names, such as Tom Hardy, were thrown around as potential contenders for the role. Tom Hiddleston was a strong favorite for a while. (Some later posited that he would have been named the new Bond if it weren’t for his extremely public relationship with pop star Taylor Swift.)

The most discussed actor, though, was Idris Elba. His fans adored the idea of Elba as Bond, and quickly the Internet began arguing over whether James Bond could fairly be portrayed by a person of color.

Elba himself fueled the rumors with a cheeky tweet.

Eventually, though, he admitted that, no, he wasn’t the new Bond.

The new Bond, in fact, is the old Bond. Craig is reprising the role, though the reason is unclear. Maybe he has more to say as Bond, or maybe he needs the cash. After all, as he told Time Out, “If I did another Bond movie, it would only be for the money.”

Whatever the reason, Craig is Bond, James Bond.

And he was supposed to be directed by Danny Boyle of “Slumdog Millionaire” fame. But just a few months after Boyle was announced as the film’s director, he walked away from the project, citing artistic differences. It’s unclear what these were, but it’s widely speculated that it has to do with both his reported desire to cast a relatively unknown actor as the movie’s villain and his alleged refusal to have the plot revolve around the current tensions with Russia.

So now we have Fukunaga. And guess what insane fact is bringing this whole thing full circle? Back in 2015, Fukunaga thought about doing Bond with Elba.

“That would be pretty cool to have Idris and I do a Bond film together,” he told Metro.

Sigh.

Of course, this sort of moviemaking in public isn’t new.

Remember, for example, when J.J. Abrams announced the cast of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” with a black-and-white photo of a table read? The Internet went nuts trying to parse out who was in the film. Once they figured it out, the Atlantic breathlessly declared the cast didn’t include enough women, making this incredibly bold statement about a movie that hadn’t yet been filmed: “Abrams’s Star Wars sounds like it may keep with the franchise’s tradition of spectacularly failing the Bechdel Test.”

When the movie actually came out (and people, you know, watched it), it featured Daisy Ridley as its protagonist — and garnered heaps of praise for its feminist message.

But this is how movies work today. See: Phil Lord and Chris Miller being fired from “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and replaced with Ron Howard, the move that launched a thousand think-pieces. Or Colin Trevorrow fired from directing “Star Wars: Episode IX.”

It used to be so easy to be a moviegoer.

Correction: This post originally stated, incorrectly, that Fukunaga will be the first non-British director to helm a Bond movie. It’s been revised to say he’ll be the first U.S-born director to do so.

2021: Magazine Leica Fotografie International publishes a portfolio of No Time To Die – Behind the Scenes photographs. As presented in exhibitions at London and later Tokyo, Osaka, Vienna, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Singapore, China, Seoul and Salzburg.

https://leica-camera.blog/2021/09/09/no-time-to-die-behind-the-scenes/

2021: Reuters reports on the Royals and the No Time To Die premiere.

British royals to join
health workers at James
Bond world premiere

See the complete article here:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/british-royals-join-health-workers-james-bond-world-premiere-2021-09-20/

September 20, 2021 | Reuters

LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles and his son William will join healthcare workers and members of the armed forces at the world premiere of "No Time To Die" next week when the highly anticipated James Bond movie makes its delayed debut.

Daniel Craig, who takes on the role of the suave 007 agent for a fifth and final time in the film, will lead co-stars Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris on the red carpet at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sept. 28.

Charles' Clarence House office said he and Prince William would be accompanied by their wives, Camilla and Catherine, at the premiere.

The Universal Pictures and MGM film was originally set for release in April 2020 but was delayed several times as the COVID-19 pandemic forced cinemas around the world to shut their doors and audience capacity restrictions were imposed.

James Bond films are among the biggest movie franchises in Hollywood, with 2015's "Spectre" grossing $880 million at the box office worldwide and 2012's "Skyfall" making more than $1 billion globally.

The royals will meet some of the cast members as well as director Cary Joji Fukunaga, Billie Eilish, who sings the movie's theme tune, and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

The premiere, the first of a spate of Bond promotional events worldwide, will benefit charities supporting current and former members of UK special forces, the Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), the official 007 website said.

Healthcare workers have also been invited to the premiere as a tribute to their hard work during the pandemic.

"No Time To Die" will begin its global cinema rollout later next week.

Britain's Prince Charles meets with British actor Daniel Craig as he tours the set of the 25th James Bond Film at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, Britain June 20, 2019. Chris Jackson/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo


Prince Charles poses with British actor Daniel Craig as he tours the set of the 25th James Bond Film at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, Britain June 20, 2019. Chris Jackson/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo


Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Britain's Prince William, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge are seen during a joint visit to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) in Nottinghamshire, Britain,

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September 21st

1943: Society hostess Maud Russell writes in her diary about Ian Fleming.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

Tuesday 21 September, 1943

I. came to dinner, worried and rather unhappy about his job,
the slowness and unimaginativeness of most people he has to
deal with, the caution and avoidance of responsibility. His
old boss suited him admirably. This one doesn’t at all. He is
conventional and hasn’t an idea. And he doesn’t like
fighting battles. Poor I. He was dismayed and talked
about Hawaii and leaving the Admiralty as soon as
the war is over.

1944: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

Thursday 21 September, 1944

Ian came to dinner on Sunday, leaving for France
the next day. He is a lonely man. I am always afraid
that when he is attracted by some girl he looks for
not only youth and attractiveness but many of
my virtues, vices and oddnesses and these he can
never hope to find in anyone young, and quite likely
in no one else but me.

1959: Film producer Aman Leigh writes to Ivan Bryce questioning one choice of director.
And offering another for McClory's Bond film.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

It was becoming increasingly obvious that a top director was needed for
the film if it was going to attract not just marquee value actors but big
American distributors, not least because McClory had singularly failed to land
The Boy and the Bridge with a wide release in the States. For a while William
Fairchild was considered to direct the film, as well as write it. But Fleming had
found his film Silent Enemy, "rather uninspired. I'm inclined to think that
Kevin could do a much better and more imaginative job as director than
Fairchild, but Hitchcock would be the best of all."

Then Fairchild's "hidden secret" was uncovered. "Unfortunately," Leigh
Aman wrote to Bryce 21 September, "It has since emerged through
conversations with members of the unit who worked with Bill on Silent Enemy,
that he only went underwater once--and that the experience was accompanied
by considerable neurosis. Kevin is very shaken by this news, and in my opinion
reasonable so since Fairchild gave him no hint of hiss underwater fears at our
meeting and it is, of course, a vitally important part of the film.

Though regarded as a business-like director, quick and practical, Fairchild
had blown his chance, but Xanadu knew that the number of directors prepared
to work underwater was limited, either by their age, their prejudice or their
insurance policies. Briefly one of Leigh Aman's past associates was considered
--Guy Hamilton. Then most famous for directing The Colditz Story (1954)...

1961: Serena Scott Thomas is born--Nether Compton, Dorset, England.

1974: James Bond comic The Nevsky Nude ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 13 May 1974. 2542–2655) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://popoptiq.com/the-nevsky-nude/






Swedish Semic Comic 1982
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

Fallen Från Skyarna
("Fall From Sky" - The Nevsky Nude)

Danish 1976 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no38-1976/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 38: “The Nevsky Nude” (1976)
"Sagen fra skyerne" [=The Case from the Clouds]

1988: Licence to Kill films casino scenes for the fictional Isthmus City, Mexico.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #10 EIDOLON, Chapter 4.
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #10

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181810011
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: September 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/21

EIDOLON, Chapter 4 - MI6 is under attack from both hidden forces and Her Majesty's Government itself. Why do MI5 and Whitehall want MI6 to be unable to defend itself? Where is the terrifying Beckett Hawkwood? What is EIDOLON?

Cover: Dom Reardon

2018: The producers announce American director Cary Joji Fukunaga is on board for BOND 25.
Plus a new worldwide release date of 14 February 2020.

2019: Sid Haig dies at age 80--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 14 July 1939--Fresno, California.)

Sid Haig, Horror Actor
and Cult Figure, Dies at 80

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/movies/sid-haig-dead-captain-spaulding.html

Mr. Haig was a character actor with roles in more than 70
movies, including the murderous clown Captain Spaulding in
Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses.”

Sid Haig with the actors Devanny Pinn, left, and Alexis Iacono in 2013.
Credit Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

By Laura M. Holson
Sept. 23, 2019

Sid Haig, a Hollywood character actor who for more than 50 years played thugs, villains and, most famously, a psychotic clown named Captain Spaulding, died on Saturday. He was 80.

His wife, Susan L. Oberg, announced his death on the actor’s Instagram account on Monday, writing, “He adored his family, his friends and his fans. This came as a shock to all of us.” No other details were given.

Mr. Haig, who lived in Los Angeles, played bit parts in more than 350 television shows and 70 movies, notably “Jackie Brown” and the James Bond thriller “Diamonds Are Forever.” He had become a cult figure among horror fans, who reveled in his portrayal of the murderous clown who terrorized people in the 2003 Rob Zombie film “House of 1000 Corpses.” He would go on to play Captain Spaulding in two other films from the director.

Rob Zombie, a musician turned filmmaker, wrote on his Instagram account Monday of Mr. Haig’s death, “Horray for Captain Spaulding. Gone but not forgotten.” Fans, too, expressed their grief on Twitter. Mr. Haig was the recipient of numerous awards for his acting in horror movies. In August, he was awarded the Vincent Price Award for excellence in the horror genre.

“I had the greatest night of my career,” he wrote on Instagram then.

https://twitter.com/TheRealElvira/status/1176202367668088837

Mr. Haig was a hulk of a figure whose lanky, long body towered over fellow actors. He was born Sidney Eddie Mosesian on July 14, 1939, in Fresno, Calif., according to his official website. His parents were Armenian, and his father was an electrician. He took dancing lessons and acted in high school. And he loved music. In 1958, according to the website, he played drums on the song “Full House” by the T-Birds.

Soon after, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater with a school for theater arts that trained actors including Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. In his early roles in film and on television, Mr. Haig played thugs and heavies mostly. In the 1968 cult classic “Spider Baby” he played a brother who cooks a cat; he was in the 1974 blaxploitation film “Foxy Brown” with Pam Grier; and he had a small role in “Diamonds Are Forever” in 1971.

Moviemakers delighted in his characters. Quentin Tarantino cast Mr. Haig in the 1997 movie “Jackie Brown,” a homage to the actor’s appearance in “Foxy Brown.” (Ms. Grier, too, starred in “Jackie Brown.”)

From left: Bill Moseley as Otis Driftwood, Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding and Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby in “Devil’s Rejects,” directed by Rob Zombie.
Credit Gene Page/Lions Gate Films

But it was as Captain Spaulding, the psychotic clown featured in “House of 1000 Corpses,” that Mr. Haig became a cult figure among horror fans. Mr. Haig said in a 2015 interview with CryticRock.com: “When I first read the script, I knew that it had the potential to do something. I did not know that it was going to be as well accepted as it was. But I did know that it had something going for it.”

In “House of 1000 Corpses,” Captain Spaulding runs the Museum of Monsters and Madmen housed in a run-down gas station on a barren stretch of Texas. There, the clown shoots a man after being attacked. Mr. Haig reprised the role two years later in “The Devil’s Rejects.” He also acted in a number of other horror films directed by Rob Zombie, including the 2007 remake of “Halloween.”

He was back as Captain Spaulding in “3 From Hell,” a sequel to “The Devil’s Rejects,” which was released this month. “He was very cool,” Mr. Haig said of working with Rob Zombie in his interview with CrypticRock.com. “He was really laid back. He would just tell you what he was looking for and then leave you alone and let you do your job. Which is what most directors should do.”

Cassandra Peterson, known by her stage name, Elvira, said she met Mr. Haig at Rob Zombie’s wedding in 2002. But it was on the road at horror fan conventions where they forged a friendship. “He played this horrible character in Rob’s movies, and it took fans by surprise when he was sweet and took time with them,” she said. “He may not have been a big star. But in our world, he was an icon.”

Indeed Mr. Haig was a fan favorite. He made regular appearances at festivals to sign autographs or appear as Captain Spaulding, who became a recognizable villain among mainstream audiences. In June, he attended the Mad Monster Party in Phoenix where he signed autographs for fans. Earlier that month he was in Las Vegas for the Days of the Dead horror convention.

Fans often dressed up like Captain Spaulding at conventions or had tattoos inked in homage to his famous character. The adulation surprised Mr. Haig. He said on Instagram in February, “The level of commitment to put my mug into your skin for life just blows me away.”

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Laura M. Holson is an award-winning feature writer from New York. She joined The Times in 1998 and has written about Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. A movie producer once held a butter knife to her neck. @lauramholson

Sid Haig (I) (1939–2019)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354085/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (149 credits)

2020 Junction Murders (pre-production) - Bobby
2019 Tabbott's Traveling Carnivale of Terrors (pre-production) - Zeek
Abruptio (filming) - Sal
2020 Hanukkah (completed) - Judah Lazarus
2019 3 from Hell - Captain Spaulding
2019 High on the Hog - Big Daddy
2018 Cynthia - Detective Edwards
2018 Tigtone (TV Series) - Lord Festus
- Tigtone and the Pilot (2018) ... Lord Festus (voice)
2018 Suicide for Beginners - Barry
2017/II Razor - Bartender Sam
2017 Death House - Icicle Killer
2016 Don't Do It! (Short) - Robert
2015 Bone Tomahawk - Buddy
2014 Twiztid: Sick Man (Video short) - The Overseer
2013 Zombex - The Commander
2013 The Penny Dreadful Picture Show - Shopkeeper
2013 Devil in My Ride - Iggy
2013 Holliston (TV Series) - Sid Haig
- Farm Festival (2013) ... Sid Haig
2013 Hatchet III - Abbott MacMullen
2012 The Sacred - The Stranger
2012 The Lords of Salem - Dean Magnus
2012 The Inflicted - Dr. Gardner
2011 Mimesis - Alfonso Betz
2011 Creature - Chopper
2010 Chadam (TV Series) - Simkin

2009 Dark Moon Rising - Crazy Louis
2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Video) - Captain Spaulding (voice)
2009 Thirsty (Short) - Radio Evangelist (voice)
2007 Brotherhood of Blood - Pashek
2007 Halloween - Chester Chesterfield
2007 The Haunted Casino - Roy 'The Word' Donahue
2006 A Dead Calling (Video) - George
2006 Little Big Top - Seymour
2006 Night of the Living Dead 3D - Gerald Tovar, Jr.
2005 House of the Dead 2 (TV Movie) - Professor Curien
2005 The Devil's Rejects - Captain Spaulding
2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Jay
2003 House of 1000 Corpses - Captain Spaulding
2001 Rob Zombie: Feel So Numb (Video short) - Pirate

1997 Jackie Brown - Judge
1992 Boris and Natasha (TV Movie) - Colonel Gorda
1990 Genuine Risk - Curly
1990 The Forbidden Dance - Joa

1989-1990 Just the Ten of Us (TV Series) - Bob
- Comedy Tonight (1990) ... Bob
- St. Augie's Blues: Part 2 (1989) ... Bob
- St. Augie's Blues: Part 1 (1989) ... Bob
1989 The People Next Door (TV Series) - The Taskmaster
- Dream Date (1989) ... The Taskmaster
1989 Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II - Donar
1988 Warlords - The Warlord
1988 Goddess of Love (TV Movie) - Hephaestus
1988 Werewolf (TV Series) - Bud Topolski
- King of the Road (1988) ... Bud Topolski
1987 Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) - General Skull Fracture
- Hammeroid (1987) ... General Skull Fracture
1987 Ohara (TV Series) - Turk
- Take the Money and Run (1987) ... Turk
1987 Commando Squad - Iggy
1985-1986 MacGyver (TV Series) - Khalil / Khan
- To Be a Man (1986) ... Khalil
- Thief of Budapest (1985) ... Khan
1985 Amazing Stories (TV Series) - Thug
- Remote Control Man (1985) ... Thug
1985 Misfits of Science (TV Series) - Swarthy Man
- Fumble on the One (1985) ... Swarthy Man
1985 Hill Street Blues (TV Series) - Heath
- An Oy for an Oy (1985) ... Heath
1985 Wildside (TV Series) - Burnett
- Don't Keep the Home Fires Burning (1985) ... Burnett
1981-1985 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Yusef / Arnie / Mr. Fick / ...
- Reel Trouble (1985) ... Yusef
- Undersea Odyssey (1984) ... Arnie
- Bail and Bond (1982) ... Mr. Fick
- Colt's Angels (1981) ... Biker
1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Gretz
- Ship of Spies (1985) ... Gretz
1983 Automan (TV Series) - 1st Gang Member
- Automan (1983) ... 1st Gang Member
1983 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sonny Jenko
- Black Day at Bad Rock (1983) ... Sonny Jenko
1978-1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Otto / Harlen / Hakeem
- The Tallowed Image/Room and Bard (1983) ... Otto
- My Late Lover/Sanctuary (1981) ... Harlen
- Homecoming/The Sheikh (1978) ... Hakeem
1982 Forty Days of Musa Dagh - General Hekemet
1982 The Aftermath - Cutter
1982 Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series) - Tagan
- Wilmer Bass and the Serengeti Kid (1982) ... Tagan
1982 Two Guys from Muck (TV Movie) - Thug
1982 T.J. Hooker (TV Series) - Gang Leader
- Hooker's War (1982) ... Gang Leader
1982 Bret Maverick (TV Series) - The Mighty Sampson
- The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur (1982) ... The Mighty Sampson
1982 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Slocum
- Miz Tisdale on the Lam (1982) ... Slocum
1981 Galaxy of Terror - Quuhod
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash - Vince
1981 Underground Aces - Faoud
1980-1981 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Pratt / Spirot
- Time of the Hawk (1981) ... Pratt
- Flight of the War Witch (1980) ... Spirot
1981 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Hatch
- Stain of Guilt (1981) ... Hatch
1980 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Gunther Maddox
- Murder, Murder on the Wall (1980) ... Gunther Maddox

1978-1979 Jason of Star Command (TV Series) - Dragos
- Battle for Freedom (1979) ... Dragos
- Mimi's Secret (1979) ... Dragos
- Little Girl Lost (1979) ... Dragos
- Phantom Force (1979) ... Dragos
- Face to Face (1979) ... Dragos
1979 Death Car on the Freeway (TV Movie) - Maurie
1978 Tarzan and the Super 7 (TV Series) - Dragos
1978 Coming Attractions - Lone Stranger
1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Asted
- Part II (1978) ... Asted
- Part I (1978) ... Asted
1976-1978 Switch (TV Series) - Farmer / Mahmud
- Photo Finish (1978) ... Farmer
- Round Up the Usual Suspects (1976) ... Mahmud
1978 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) - Reza
- Diamond in the Rough (1978) ... Reza
1978 Police Woman (TV Series) - - Blind Terror (1978)
1977/I McNamara's Band (TV Movie) - Zoltan
1976-1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) - Texas
- Episode #2.160 (1977) ... Texas (credit only)
- Episode #2.159 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.157 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.156 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.155 (1977) ... Texas
1974-1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Reid / Dell
- Spitfire (1977) ... Reid
- Cop in the Middle (1974) ... Dell
1976 Spencer's Pilots (TV Series) - Ron Sears
- The Sailplane (1976) ... Ron Sears
1976 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (TV Series) - The Genie
- Ali Baba: Part 2 (1976) ... The Genie
- Ali Baba: Part 1 (1976) ... The Genie
1976 Monster Squad (TV Series) - Chief Running Nose
- No Face (1976) ... Chief Running Nose
1976 Delvecchio (TV Series) - George Borshak / Drug Addict
- Contract for Harry (1976) ... George Borshak
- The Avenger (1976) ... Drug Addict (uncredited)
1976 Wonderbug (TV Series) - Fur Smuggler
- Keep on Schleppin (1976) ... Fur Smuggler
1976 Swashbuckler - Bald Pirate
1976 The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (TV Movie) - Vince Cooley
1975 Run, Joe, Run (TV Series) - Tolbert
- The Htchhiker (1975) ... Tolbert
1975 Who Is the Black Dahlia? (TV Movie) - Tattoo Artist
1975 Emergency! (TV Series) - Spike
- Smoke Eater (1975) ... Spike
1974 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - B.J.
- Caledonia - It's Worth a Fortune! (1974) ... B.J.
1974 Get Christie Love! (TV Series) - Nick Varga
- Pawn Ticket for Murder (1974) ... Nick Varga
1974 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - 3rd Passenger
- Nuclear Alert (1974) ... 3rd Passenger
1974 Savage Sisters - Malavasi
1974 Foxy Brown - Hays
1974 Busting - Rizzo's Bouncer
1974 Shaft (TV Series) - Higget's Bodyguard
- The Murder Machine (1974) ... Higget's Bodyguard (uncredited)
1973 The Don Is Dead - The Arab
1973 Beyond Atlantis - East Eddie
1973 Coffy - Omar
1973 Emperor of the North - Grease Tail
1973 Wonder Women - Gregorious
1973 The No Mercy Man - Pill Box
1973 Black Mama White Mama - Ruben
1972 The Woman Hunt - Silas
1972 McMillan & Wife (TV Series) - Traylor
- Terror Times Two (1972) ... Traylor (uncredited)
1972 The Big Bird Cage - Django
1972 Beware! The Blob - Zed (uncredited)
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Ward
- Operation: XW-1 (1972) ... Ward
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Charlie
- New Faces (1971) ... Charlie
1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Griffin / Merkle / Outlaw
- The Day They Hanged Kid Curry (1971) ... Griffin
- Return to Devil's Hole (1971) ... Merkle
- Alias Smith and Jones (1971) ... Outlaw
1971 The Big Doll House - Harry
1971 Hitched (TV Movie) - Comstock
1971 THX 1138 - NCH
1970 Mannix (TV Series) - Harry Kellaway
- Deja Vu (1970) ... Harry Kellaway
1966-1970 Mission: Impossible (TV Series) - Musha / Agent #1 / Goujon / ...
- Decoy (1970) ... Agent #1
- The Choice (1970) ... Goujon
- Commandante (1969) ... Major Carlos Martillo
- Doomsday (1969) ... Marko
- The Diplomat (1968) ... Grigor
1970 C.C. & Company - Crow
1970 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Peter Savage
- Break the Bank of Tacoma (1970) ... Peter Savage

1967-1970 Get Smart (TV Series) - Guard / Bruce / Turk
- Moonlighting Becomes You (1970) ... Guard
- Shock It to Me (1969) ... Bruce
- That Old Gang of Mine (1967) ... Turk
1966-1969 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Eli Crawford / Buffalo Hunter / Cawkins / ...
- MacGraw (1969) ... Eli Crawford
- A Man Called 'Smith' (1969) ... Buffalo Hunter
- Time of the Jackals (1969) ... Cawkins
- Stage Stop (1966) ... Wade Hansen
1969 Che! - Antonio
1969 Pit Stop - Hawk Sidney
1969 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Kurt
- Lucy and the Great Airport Chase (1969) ... Kurt
1968 The Flying Nun (TV Series) - Señor Quesada
- The Return of Father Lundigan (1968) ... Señor Quesada
1968 The Hell with Heroes - Crespin
1968 Death Valley Days (TV Series) - Thief / Farber
- The Indiana Girl (1968) ... Thief
- The Saga of Sadie Orchard (1968) ... Farber
1968 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Typhoon
- The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart (1968) ... Typhoon
1967 Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told - Ralph
1967 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV Series) - Hood
- The Royal Follies of 1933 (1967) ... Hood
1966-1967 Iron Horse (TV Series) - Rias / Vega
- The Return of Hode Avery (1967) ... Rias
- Town Full of Fear (1966) ... Vega
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Alex / Vito
- The Prince of Darkness Affair: Part I (1967) ... Alex
- The When in Roma Affair (1967) ... Vito
1967 Point Blank - 1st Penthouse Lobby Guard
1967 It's a Bikini World - Daddy
1967 Star Trek (TV Series) - First Lawgiver
- The Return of the Archons (1967) ... First Lawgiver
1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Brunning
- The Last of the Caesars: Absolutely (1966) ... Brunning
1966 Batman (TV Series) - Royal Apothecary
- Tut's Case Is Shut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
- The Spell of Tut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
1966 Blood Bath - Abdul the Arab
1965 Beach Ball - Drummer for Righteous Brothers (uncredited)
1965 The Lucy Show (TV Series) - The Mummy
- Lucy and the Monsters (1965) ... The Mummy
1962 The Firebrand - Diego
1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Augie the Hood
- The Case Against Eliot Ness (1962) ... Augie the Hood
1960 The Host (Short) - The Fugitive

Producer (3 credits)

2020 Hanukkah (associate producer) (completed)
2019 High on the Hog (producer)
2009 Dark Moon Rising (co-producer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1988 Warlords (second unit director)
1972 The Big Bird Cage (second unit director)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

2009 Dark Moon Rising (performer: "Trouble (Is Back in Town)")

2020: Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch dies at age 79--Paris, France.
(Born: 24 May 1931--16th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France.)

Michael Lonsdale, Bond villain Hugo
Drax in Moonraker, dies aged 89

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/21/michael-lonsdale-bond-villain-hugo-drax-in-moonraker-dies-aged-89

The César-winning actor appeared in films by François Truffaut
and Alain Resnais, and played religious figures in Of Gods
and Men and The Name of the Rose[/ b]
Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver | Mon 21 Sep 2020 12.53 EDT

Michael Lonsdale in Paris, 2011.

Bilingual career … Michael Lonsdale in Paris, 2011.
Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images[/center]

Michael Lonsdale, the French-British actor whose best known role was the villain Drax in Moonraker but who also appeared in a string of films by auteur directors such as François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais, has died aged 89. Lonsdale’s agent, Olivier Loiseau, confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the actor had died at his home in Paris.

Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson said in a statement: “He was an extraordinarily talented actor and a very dear friend. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.”

Born in 1931 to a British military officer and his French-Irish wife, Lonsdale and his family spent the second world war years in French-controlled Morocco, before moving to Paris in 1947. Originally hoping to be a painter, Lonsdale studied acting with Tania Balachova, and began performing in the 1950s.

Creepy … Lonsdale as villain Drax in Moonraker.
Photograph: Allstar/Sportsphoto/Cinetext Collection[/quote]

His bilingual abilities allowed him to take roles in both French and English-speaking films: early roles included a priest in Orson Welles’s adaptation of The Trial (1962) and resistance member Jacques Debû-Bridel in René Clément’s Is Paris Burning? (1963). In 1968 he achieved a breakthrough with two Truffaut films: The Bride Wore Black and Stolen Kisses. In the former, he plays one of the men killed by Jeanne Moreau in revenge for her husband’s death, and in the latter a shoe-shop owner whose wife Antoine Doinel falls in love with.

Lonsdale then made inroads into mainstream Anglo-American cinema, playing the investigator on the trail of Edward Fox’s hitman in The Day of the Jackal (1973), and in 1979 the creepy Hugo Drax in the Bond blockbuster Moonraker, alongside Roger Moore.

César winner … Lonsdale, right, with Lambert Wilson in Of Gods and Men.

His distinctive appearance and voice ensured he was cast in a wide variety of roles, including a masochist in Luis Buñuel’s The Phantom of Liberty (1974), embassy attache Anton Grigoriev in the 1982 TV series Smiley’s People and a French diplomat in the Merchant Ivory drama The Remains of the Day (1993).

Lonsdale was a devout Catholic, having been baptised at 22 and joining the Charismatic Renewal movement in the 1980s. He would go on to play a string of religious figures, including the abbot in the successful adaption of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose (1986) and a Trappist monk in Of Gods and Men (2010), for which Lonsdale won a best supporting actor César.

2022: Famke Janssen comments on her GoldenEye experience and after.

James Bond: GoldenEye Bond girl felt ‘thrown to the
wolves’ after Pierce Brosnan 007 movie | Films |
Entertainment

See the complete article here:

https://samacharcentral.com/james-bond-goldeneye-bond-girl-felt-thrown-to-the-wolves-after-pierce-brosnan-007-movie-films-entertainment/

Entertainment
By Pravin Jadhav | Sep 21, 2022

After a record six-year gap following Timothy Dalton’s Licence To Kill, Pierce Brosnan’s GoldenEye rebooted the James Bond franchise for a post-Cold War world. The 007 movie’s femme fatale was set to be Xenia Onatopp, a Georgian fighter pilot and henchwoman to Sean Bean’s villain Alec Trevelyan.

In 1994, Courteney Cox was offered the role but turned it down due to her scheduling conflicts filming Friends. Yet it wasn’t long before GoldenEye director Martin Campbell spotted his Xenia in Famke Janssen after seeing her early rushes for 1995’s Lord of Illusions.

The actress signed on to play the Bond girl, but later admitted she nearly had a heart attack reading in the script how her character killed her victims: by asphyxiating them between her thighs.

Nevertheless, the future X-Men star threw herself into the part, even breaking a rib during the sauna fight scene with Brosnan. It turns out Janssen had insisted that the Bond star run her into the wall as hard as he could believing the walls to be padded.

Janssen even performed some of her own driving stunts in the opening car chase between Bond’s Aston Martin and Onatopp’s Ferrari.

However, following GoldenEye’s release, the actress seriously struggled with being thrust into the Hollywood limelight.

Speaking with The Independent, the 57-year-old admitted: “The Bond movie dictated a lot of my relationship with the press… honestly, after GoldenEye, I felt like I was thrown to the wolves. It was just an onslaught of attention, good and bad and everything in between.”

Janssen added: “I feel incredibly misunderstood at times. It’s the dichotomy between the way I look and what is happening inside. But that comes with being in a Bond movie and playing this crazy assassin. All of my friends and family know that I’m goofy, and sensitive, and that I play these characters who are so different from that; other people probably think I’m just playing myself.”

2022: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson receive the 2022 Pioneer of the Year Award at the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, California.

Michael G. Wilson And Barbara Broccoli To Receive Will
Rogers Pioneer Of The Year Award

See the complete article here:

https://deadline.com/2022/04/2002-pioneer-of-the-year-award-michael-g-wilson-barbara-broccoli-will-rogers-1235007373/

By Patrick Hipes | Executive Managing Editor

Michael G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson Mega

James Bond franchise architects Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have been set to receive the 2022 Pioneer of the Year Award from the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. The honor will be bestowed September 21 during a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton.

The Pioneer of the Year Award honors leaders in the movie industry whose career achievements and commitment to philanthropy is exemplary. The award, handed out for more than 70 years, is part of a gala to support the foundation’s Pioneers Assistance Fund, which provides financial assistance to individuals in need in the distribution and exhibition community.

Wilson and Broccoli have produced nine 007 films together: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), Die Another Day (2002), Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and last year’s No Time to Die which marked the final Bond appearance by Daniel Craig.

Award Honorees

“We are thrilled that Michael and Barbara will be receiving this well-deserved honor,” said Jim Orr, Chairman, Pioneers Assistance Fund Committee and President, Domestic Theatrical Distribution at Universal Pictures. “Their contributions to the film industry as producers, including their outstanding support of the exhibition community and cinematic experience, have made them true pioneers in the field. We look forward to celebrating Michael and Barbara’s achievements at the Pioneer of the Year Dinner and raising much-needed funds for the Pioneers Assistance Fund.”

Previous Pioneer of the Year honorees include Tom Cruise, Donna Langley, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Elizabeth Banks, Jim Gianopulos, Dick Cook, Michael D. Eisner, Alan Horn, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Sherry Lansing, Frank G. Mancuso, Sumner Redstone, Terry Semel, Tom Sherak, Jack Valenti, Jack Warner, Darryl F. Zanuck and Cecil B. DeMille.

The Will Rogers foundation said it administered more than $3.5 million in aid and helped 10,000 people during the Covid-19 pandemic.

RichardTheBruce

September 22nd

1954: Ian Fleming writes a letter to journalist (and spy) Antony Terry, British Press Centre.

Fleming, Ian (1954) ‘Live and
Let Die’, UK first edition in
first state dust jacket and
signed letter

See the complete article here:

https://www.firstandfine.com/product/fleming-ian-1954-live-and-let-die-uk-first-edition-in-first-state-dust-jacket-and-signed-letter/

£11,000.00

Ian Fleming (1954) ‘Live and Let Die‘, UK first edition, first printing, first state, published by Jonathan Cape. Including an original typed letter, hand signed by Ian Fleming with “yours ever Ian Fleming”. The letter is dated 22 September 1954, just five months after the publication of ‘Live and Let Die’.

The book: a true first edition, first print of ‘Live and Let Die’, the second James Bond novel which had a small print run of 7,500 copies. Black cloth with gilt medallion to the front as called for, and gilt titles to the spine. The copyright page states: First published 1954. No other editions mentioned. Plain white end papers. The Dust Jacket: Matte jacket paper. Hot purple/pink jacket with yellow titles. Rear flap blank. Price 10s 6d. net on jacket flap located to the front and rear flaps. Rear panel has reviews for Casino Royale. No credit for the dust jacket illustrator is placed on the inside front flap. Very few printings with the first state were published. In fact the first state of the first ‘Live and Let Die’ edition jacket has a smaller print run than Casino Royale and is considered to be scarcer.

Condition: the book is close to fine. No previous owners’ names, no stamps, no bookplates. A whiff of faint foxing spots to the endpapers. Internal pages clean throughout. Page block slightly darkened commensurate with age. Boards are clean. One corner bump to rear board as shown, otherwise very nice and the medallion and gilt titles are vibrant and not rubbed out. The dust jacket is the correct first state wrapper. It has been professionally restored by expert Richard Reeve who has specialised on dust jackets. This is a highly skilled restoration job and not some amateur job with cheap tape as often seen. The restoration job took care of the edges of the flaps and bottom, a narrow strip of about 1.5 cm. No middle sections of the jacket has been touched. As such the jacket now presents in clean and fine condition. If the jacket was unrestored and looked like on the pictures the book would fetch more than double!

The letter: TLS signed “Yours ever, Ian Fleming,” one page, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, September 22, 1954. Letter to journalist and spy (how appropriate!) Antony Terry of the British Press Centre, in part: “Do you think you could follow this up? It looks as if it might make an interesting leader-page for the ‘Sunday Times’ if you extracted the spicy bits and did it in the form of a well-documented review, or alternatively if it’s just cheap and sensational it might do for the Sunday Chronicle or Sunday Graphic…Please press on with the ‘Sunday Times.’ Now is the chance for a really good correspondent in Germany to take over the foreign news columns from Paris and Washington and, incidentally, to play a really vital part in educating the public. If you find you are getting too bogged down with secondary requests, please let me know and I will get you some help. It is far more important that you should develop as a ‘thunderer’ in the ‘Sunday Times.'” Fleming adds the salutation in his own hand. In very good condition, with light creasing, file and staple holes, and several intersecting folds.

While working as foreign manager of the Kemsley newspaper group’sSunday Times, Fleming hired Terry to be posted in Germany. Utilizing this legitimate news organization as a cover, Fleming also ran an intelligence outfit known as Mercury which used foreign correspondents to gather information in sensitive foreign zones—Terry was one such correspondent. An interesting association letter, very spy-them appropriate written in the same year as Live and Let Die was published!

Ian Fleming’s seminal fourteen James Bond books remain highly collectable and steadily climb in value every year. On offer a rare first state of ‘Live and Let Die’ in really nice condition with an authentic Fleming signature on a typed letter. The price is a true bargain. A fine, unrestored dust jacket and signed copy of the book would likely see triple prices and beyond depending on the inscription/ association.

1964: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) US premiere on NBC-TV.

Its two agents Napoleon Solo (named by Ian Fleming, who suggested some material then exited the project) and Illya Kuryakin battle T.H.R.U.S.H. (The Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity). [Original title: Ian Fleming's Solo.]

1966: You Only Live Twice films Tanaka’s underground train.

1974: US network premiere of Thunderball on ABC-TV.

Thunderball, 9:14

2014: A Limited Edition Gold Steelbook Blu-Ray honors the 50th Anniversary of Goldfinger. £24.99.

2015: Heineken releases an ad with Zara Prassinot and Craig as 007 in a boat chase.

Heineken's the Chase (2015)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5143280/

James Bond unwittingly draws a bystander into the action as he tries to throw off his pursuers.

Director - Tom Kuntz
Writer - Thierry Albert

Daniel Craig - 007…
Zara Prassinot - Zara
Kamil Lemie Villain (as Kamil Lemieszewski)…
Denzil Keim - Villain
Antonio Lujak - Best man
Harold Sakata Oddjob (archive footage)
Daniel Utjesanovic - Groom
Hervé Villechaize - Nick Nack (archive footage)

Spectre James Bond 007 | The Chase Heineken spot (2012) Daniel Craig Zara Prassinot (1:30)

2015: Orion publishes Anthony Horowitz's Bond novel Trigger Mortis in the US.

JAMES BOND, THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS
SPY, RETURNS TO HIS 1950S HEYDAY IN THIS
THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING
AUTHOR ANTHONY HOROWITZ, INCORPORATING
NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL
FROM 007'S CREATOR, IAN FLEMING.

James Bond won his battle with criminal
mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole
new war is about to begin. With glamorous Pussy
Galore by his side -- and in his bed -- Bond arrives
home from America to the news that SMERSH,
the deadly Soviet counterintelligence agency,
plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix.
He must play a high-speed game of cat and
mouse on the track to stop them, but a chance
encounter with a mysterious Korean millionaire,
Jason Sin, warns him that the scheme is only
the Soviets' opening move.

This dashing and seductive narrative of
fast cars, beautiful women, and ruthless villains
has all the hallmarks of an Ian Fleming original,
including the familiar faces, such as M and Miss
Moneypenny. Trigger Mortis pits Bond and
American adventurer Jeopardy Lane against
a cold-blooded tycoon determined to bring
America to its knees -- with the help of
SMERSH, who will pay any price to secure
Soviet victory in the space race now at the
hear of the Cold War. The clock is ticking as
the scheme unfolds, culminating in a heart-
stopping New York City showdown that will
determine the fate of the West.

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the
New York Times bestseller Moriarty and the inter-
nationally bestselling The House of Silk, as well
as the New York Times bestselling Alex Rider
series for young adults. As a television screen-
writer, he created Midsomer Murders and the
BAFTA-winning Foyle's War, both of which were
featured on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery. He
regularly contributes to a wide variety of
national newspapers and magazines, and in
January 2014 was appointed an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire for his services
to literature. He lives in London.

2018: Alexander Basil Matthews dies at age 75--Orihuela, Spain.
(Born 21 November 1942--Brooklyn, New York.)

Aliens actor Al Matthews dies aged 75

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/al-matthews-dead-age-aliens-grande-hill-death-a8552286.html

Matthews also appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song 'Fool' reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975
Clarisse Loughrey | @clarisselou | Monday 24 September 2018

20th Century Fox

Al Matthews, best known for playing Gunnery Sergeant Apone in Aliens (1986), has died aged 75.

El Pais reports that the actor was found dead in his home, in Orihuela Costa, in the Spanish Mediterranean province of Alicante, on Sunday, after a neighbour called the emergency services.

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Matthews had served as a Marine in the Vietnam War. His website states: "I hold thirteen combat awards and decorations, including two purple hearts. I was the first black Marine in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam to be meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant".

Alongside his role in Aliens, Matthews also played the fire chief in Superman III (1983), a workman in Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981), and General Tudor in The Fifth Element (1997). He returned to the role of Sgt Apone nearly 30 years later, when he voiced the character in the video game Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013).

He also had a strong career in the UK, where he appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song "Fool" reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975. He retired in Spain in 2005, although his last film was this year's The Price of Death, which is currently in post-production.

Al Matthews (I) (1942–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559922/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (35 credits)

2018 The Price of Death - Williamson
2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines (Video Game) - Sgt. Al Apone (voice)
2011 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Video Game) - Col. Shannon J.Hardaway (voice)

1998 Short Stories About Love (TV Mini-Series)
- Shlosha Kochavim (1998)
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Master Sergeant 3
1997 The Fifth Element - General Tudor
1997 The Apocalypse Watch (TV Movie) - Wesley Sorenson
1996 Ellington (TV Series) - J.P. Coates
- Matchmaker (1996) ... J.P. Coates
1995 Soul Survivors (TV Movie) - Grover Cleveland
1994 Desmond's (TV Series) - Reverend Marvin Jones
- Judgement Day (1994) ... Reverend Marvin Jones

1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Dube
- Three Blind Mice (1989) ... Dube
1988 American Roulette - Morrisey
1988 Stormy Monday - Radio DJ
1987 Excuse Me But That's My Car (Short) - Winston Smith
1987 Out of Order - U.S. DJ
1987 London Embassy (TV Mini-Series) - Uwlie Cooper
- The Man on the Clapham Omnibus (1987) ... Uwlie Cooper
1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Curtis Duchamps
- Coast to Coast (1987) ... Curtis Duchamps
1986 Big Deal (TV Series) - American punter
- Panel Money (1986) ... American punter
1986 Aliens - Sergeant Apone
1986 The American Way - Benedict
1985 Defense of the Realm - First U.S. Controller
1984 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Admiral
- The Bullshitters: Roll out the Gunbarrel (1984) ... Admiral
1983 Funny Money - 1st Hood
1983 Superman III - Fire Chief
1983 The Professionals (TV Series) - Faroud
- The Ojuka Situation (1983) ... Faroud
1982 The Sender - Viet Nam Veteran
1982 Shelley (TV Series) - Newscaster
- No News Is Good... (1982) ... Newscaster
1982 Nancy Astor (TV Mini-Series) - Billy
- The Longhornes of Virginia (1982) ... Billy
1981 Ragtime - Maitre D'
1981 The Final Conflict - Workman
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Oxford St. John
- The Black Madonna (1980) ... Oxford St. John
1980 Rough Cut - Ferguson
1979-1980 Grange Hill (TV Series) - Mr. Green
- Episode #3.10 (1980) ... Mr. Green
- Episode #2.2 (1979) ... Mr. Green
- Episode #2.1 (1979) ... Mr. Green

1979 Yanks - Black G.I. at Dance
1977 Bad Loser (Short)

"Fool", Al Matthews, 1975.

2022: The Seaside Repertory Theater presents Bond - An Unauthorized Parody at The REP, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

BOND: An Unauthorized Parody at The REP

See the complete article here:

https://homeownerscollection.com/events/seaside-repertory-theater/bond-unauthorized-parody-rep-0

09/22/2022
Website https://lovetherep.com/

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The Seaside Repertory Theater

Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Bond is back… older and wisecracking…

Gavin Robertson focuses his attention on the Bond phenomenon in his latest physical cartoon-style adventure by spoofing the characters adored by millions and exploding every cliché in the book(s)… solo! In which Bond meets his greatest arch-villain yet: the creator of James Bond himself, British author Ian Fleming! Along with a slimy French sidekick, the usual female companion, and a time-machine! There’s no stopping the world’s greatest gentleman agent with a license to thrill. Also featuring the smallest car chase in theatre history! To date, this production has been seen in the UK, Eire, USA, Russia, and Australia, but there is nowhere he can't get to...!

Thursdays, September 15th, 22nd, and 29th
Show Time: 7:30 pm

Tickets: $40 and $32 for REP Members
Tickets: LoveTheREP.com
The REP

This event is also happening on these dates:
Thursday, September 29, 2022

RichardTheBruce

September 23rd

1959: Ian Fleming responds by letter to Ivar Bryce on the possibility of doing business with Alfred Hitchcock.

The Battle For Bond, Robert Seller, 2007.

‘Personally I feel this would be by far the best solution for all of us.’ He wrote Bryce 23 September. ‘I know Hitchcock slightly and he has always been interested in the Bond saga.’ Fleming decided to send a cable to the director through a mutual friend, the acclaimed crime novelist Eric Ambler. It read: ‘Have written Bond movie treatment featuring Mafia stolen atomic bomber blackmail of England culminating Nassau with extensive underwater dramatics. This for my friend Ivar Bryce’s Xanadu films. Would Hitchcock be interested in directing this first Bond film in association with Xanadu? Plentiful finance available. Think we might all have a winner particularly if you were conceivably interested in scripting. Regards Ian Fleming.’

1961: Ian Fleming suggests to editor Denis Hamilton how the short story "The Living Daylights" should be illustrated.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 20xx.
Chapter 13 - Heart problems 1960-1962

Ian's other main writing task was to produce a short story for the first
issue of the Sunday Times colour magazine, scheduled for early 1962. His
behind-the-scenes lobbying for changes at the paper had brought results.
Shortly after communicating with Ian the previous May, Harry Hodson
had embarked on a long-awaited round-the-world trip with his wife, thus
giving Roy Thompson the opportunity to promote Denis Hamilton to the
top job. As the new editor -- the formal appointment came in October
1961 -- Hamilton advanced plans to publish an American-style colour or
photogravure section and engaged Ian, still the paper's most bankable
asset, to write a major piece for one of the first issues. Initially Ian submitted
a Boothroyd-inspired overview of 007's weaponry called 'The Guns of
James Bond'. But after Hamilton deemed this too long for a general
audience, they agreed that the magazine would publish a new short story,
'The Living Daylights', about Bond visiting Berlin to cover the defection
of a British agent who was being hunted by a Russian assassin. On 23
September, following his return from Provence, Ian suggested that the
piece should be illustrated with an original Graham Sutherland design -- a
pink heart with a black arrow through it -- which he had commissioned
for a "nominal" one hundred guineas.

Ian's file on 'The Living Daylights' -- 'Trigger Finger', in an early draft --
revealed the speed with which he went about such a project. He acquired
a map of Berlin and an October 1961 catalogue of new records sold by
Harrods. He contacted the National Rifle Association for information
about the Bisley range where his story opened. By 10 November, Captain
E. K. Le Mesurier, secretary of the NRA, had not only fielded Ian's original
request but read and returned corrections to the manuscript. On the first
page, for example, Ian had written "He gave half a a turn to a screw on the
fixed stand on which his rifle rested. He watched the crossed lines on the
Sniperscope move minutely to the right of the bull, to its right-handed
bottom corner." Le Mesurier suggested this should read, "He set two clicks
more right on the wind gauge and traversed the crossed wires back on to
the point of the aim." He explained that, in Ian's description, the sighting
arrangement were not right for a sniper's rifle. For really accurate shoot-
ing, one needed a sight which could be set off from the line of the barrel
to allow for wind.

1968: David Picker of United Artist flies to London but fails to green light Connery's return as Bond.

1969: Crispin Bonham-Carter is born--Colchester, Essex, England.
1969: Valentine Nonyela is born--Nigeria.

1971: El satánico Dr. No re-released in Argentina.

1974: Bond comic strip The Phoenix Project begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 18 February 1975. 2656–2780) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tpp.php3




https://popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-008-the-phoenix-project/




Swedish Semic Comic 1976
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

Bond Blir Indragen I Projekt Fenix!
("Bond Gets In To Line On..." The Phoenix Project)

Danish 1978 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no44-1978/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 44:
“The Phoenix Project” (1978)
["Projekt Fenix"]




Titan, 2007

1977: 007 rakastettuni (007 My Beloved, also Swedish 007 - älskade spion, 007 - Beloved Spy) released in Finland.

1977: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Η κατάσκοπος που με αγάπησε (James Bond, Agent 007: The Spy Who Loved Me) released in Greece.

1982: Octopussy films Magda stealing the Fabergé egg from OO7.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 6 of 65 - "A Chilling Affair" in England.

James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
"A Chilling Affair (1991)

Doctor No kidnaps Professor Frost, a scientist involved in cryogenics, in order to thaw out a master criminal who hid his fortunes before being frozen.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Mark Jones ... (written by)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)
Lea Floden ... Girlfriends (voice)

James Bond Jr - Episode 6 "A Chilling Affair"

1999: Dr. No and Goldfinger re-released in Canada at the Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival.
1999: Two-day filming of the music video for "The World Is Not Enough" by Philipp Stölzl, Oil Factory Films, starts on a London sound stage. Day one: android shots in the laboratory, kissing, driving. Day two: pyrotechnics.

https://www.blackgate.com/2018/08/15/shirley-manson-killer-android/

2012: Bollinger releases a promotional item celebrating 50 Years of James Bond.

Bollinger gets pistol-shaped packaging in time for Bond
movie

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2012/09/bollinger-gets-pistol-shaped-packaging-in-time-for-bond-movie/
3rd September, 2012 by Patrick Schmitt

Bollinger has unveiled its latest James Bond special edition ahead of the next 007 film, Skyfall, due to screen in UK cinemas on 26 October.

30,000 bottles of Bollinger’s 002 for 007 have been produced

The product, called 002 for 007, comprises a bottle of La Grande Année 2002 housed in a gun silencer shaped gift box with a combination lock – opened using the code: 007.

The bottle carries a unique “50 years of Bond” logo on the neck label, textured to mimic the grip on a handgun, and will be available exclusively in Harrods from 23 September and nationwide from 1 October.

With an RRP of £125-150, the special edition is approximately double the price of the standard La Grande Année 2002, which retails for around £70.

30,000 packages have been produced for sale worldwide, and the UK has no set allocation.

2012 marks 39 years since Bollinger developed an on-screen relationship with the fictional character created by Ian Fleming, and James Bond has been seen drinking Bollinger in 12 films of the 23 made in total.

As previously reported by the drinks business, Bollinger’s connection to the Bond films is helping boost sales of the brand in Asia in particular.

“They go crazy for Bond in Asia, which is really helping with brand recognition and giving our sales a boost,” said Bollinger president Jérôme Philipon, when speaking to db back in March.

The Champagne brand produced a special piece of packaging in September 2008 for the last Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

The rather more flamboyant limited edition cost over £2,500 and comprised La Grande Année 1999 in a bullet-shaped case made from polished tin (pictured below), with just 207 were produced.

Bollinger’s special edition for the Quantum of Solace

002 for 007, 2012 (5:25, French)


Bollinger Bullet - The James Bond 007 Collector Set 2008 (1:38)

2021: LA's Petersen Automotive Museum 'James Bond' Car Exhibition opening reception for diehard fans who fancy “one-night-only photo opportunities” as well as live entertainment, food and martinis. They say.

LA's Petersen Automotive Museum Is Hosting a 'James
Bond' Car Exhibition
Showcasing more than 30 iconic vehicles from the franchise.

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https://hypebeast.com/2021/9/petersen-automotive-museum-james-bond-no-time-to-die-car-exhibition

Automotive | Sep 15, 2021 | Jeff Yeung

Just in time for the highly anticipated release of No Time to Die, LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum is now hosting an exhibition showcasing some of the most iconic vehicles from the James Bond franchise.

Named “Bond in Motion,” the exhibit spans across the British superspy’s cars, motorcycles, helicopters, boats and submarines as well as other scale models used during filming. Some of the highlights include the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 models used in the latest series of films, the 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 that could transform into a submarine from The Spy Who Loved Me, the Aston Martin V8 from The Living Daylights, the Aston Martin DBS from Casino Royale, the Aston Martin DB10 from built specifically for Spectre, and the 1999 BMW Z8 from The World is Not Enough.

For the Bond fans out there, Petersen Automotive Museum‘s Bond in Action will open from September 25 until October 22, with general admissions at $16 USD. There’s also an opening reception on September 23 for diehard fans who fancy “one-night-only photo opportunities” as well as live entertainment, food and martinis. Standard tickets for the event will for $60 USD and VIP tickets for $200 USD. You can learn more over on the museum’s website.

In other related news, Leica has released a second No Time to Die James Bond-themed Q2 camera.

2021: Daniel Craig receives the honorary rank of Royal Navy commander.

James Bond star Daniel Craig made honorary Royal
Navy commander, same rank as 007

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3149881/james-bond-star-daniel-craig-made-honorary-royal-navy-commander

2022: Decca releases All 25 James Bond Themes to celebrate 60 Years Of Bond.

All 25 ‘James Bond’ Themes To Be
Released To Celebrate 60 Years Of Bond
‘Bond 25’ will be released on September 23 via Decca Records.

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https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/bond-25-james-bond-60-years-of-bond/

September 21, 2022 | Will Schube

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the James Bond cinematic franchise, Decca Records has announced Bond 25, an orchestrated album featuring all 25 of the iconic films’ themes expertly reimagined and newly-recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Bond 25 will be released on September 23 via Decca Records and is available to pre-order.

The album, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, includes new arrangements of the title themes including Diamonds Are Forever, GoldenEye, and Skyfall, tracklisted chronologically from 1962’s Dr. No, to 2020’s UK No.1 single No Time To Die.

To mark the occasion, the iconic James Bond Theme from the 1962 film Dr. No, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, has just been released as a single.

Bond 25 follows the recent success of Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack for the 25th James Bond film No Time To Die, which became the UK’s highest-charting soundtrack from the 007 franchise to date, peaking at No.7 in the Official UK Album Charts.

Billie Eilish’s title track, co-written with Hans Zimmer and FINNEAS, topped the Official UK Singles Chart in its first week of release. Eilish, at 18 years old on release, is the youngest artist, and first female, to take a Bond theme to the top of the Official UK Singles Chart.

Monday October 5 is James Bond Day, an annual event which marks the world premiere of the first 007 film Dr. No, 60 years ago, in 1962. The day of celebrations first began in 2012 when the Bond films celebrated their fiftieth anniversary.

This year, celebrations include The Sound of 007, a charity concert held at The Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday October 4, showcasing the iconic music of Bond, headlined by the legendary Dame Shirley Bassey and featuring Bond soundtrack artists such as Garbage and Lulu, as well as special guests including Becky Hill and Celeste, all backed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, and conducted by Nicholas Dodd. The concert will be broadcast the following day on Amazon.

2022: Honors to Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson at Hollywood, California.

James Bond producers cement place in
Hollywood history (Video)

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https://www.socialnews.xyz/2022/09/22/james-bond-producers-cement-place-in-hollywood-history-video/

Posted By: Social News XYZ September 22, 2022

Christoph Waltz attends handprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre for James Bond film franchise producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. (Sept. 22)

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September 24th

1931: Anthony Newley is born--Hackney, London, England.
(He dies 14 April 1999 at age 67--Jensen Beach, Florida.)

Obituary: Anthony Newley

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Tom Vallance | Friday 16 April 1999 00:02

ONE OF Britain's most distinctive talents, Anthony Newley was an actor, singer, composer and writer who had his first starring role in films at the age of 16, composed hit musicals and songs, topped the hit parade himself as a pop star, played everything from romantic leads to quirky character roles in movies, starred on both the West End and Broadway stages, and became a favourite of cabaret audiences from New York to Las Vegas.

His elongated Cockney vowel sounds made his voice an unmistakable one which people either loved or hated. It served him well on novelty songs such as "Pop Goes the Weasel", but he was also a fine ballad singer. "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Who Can I Turn To" and "Candy Man" were just three of the hit songs he co-wrote. "I'm not a trained musician or singer," he once said, "but I can turn out a song."

Born in Hackney, east London, in 1931, he left school at the age of 14. "The saddest thing about myself," he later said, "is that I never read a book. I never got the habit." He was working as an office boy for an insurance company when he spotted a newspaper advertisement reading "Boy Actors Urgently Wanted". Said Newley later, "Suddenly the bell rang! I applied to the advertisers, the Italia Conti Stage School, only to discover the fees were too high." The school agreed to let him audition, however ("I had to read poems to two sweet old ladies who were charmed with my cockney accent"), and were impressed enough to offer him free tuition and a salary of 30 shillings a week as an office boy. The producer Geoffrey de Barkus spotted Newley at the school and gave him the leading role in a children's film serial, The Adventures of Dusty Bates (1947).

Newley was already displaying a distinctly individual style of agreeably knowing confidence, and after another children's film, The Little Ballerina (1947), he was given the plum role of a boy who magically changes places with his own father in Vice Versa (1947), directed by Peter Ustinov. Ustinov recently said, "I was amazed at how convincing Anthony Newley was as someone with an old mind inside him." One of the stars of the film was Kay Walsh, whose ex-husband David Lean was about to direct a screen version of Oliver Twist. Walsh rang Lean and told him, "I've found your Artful Dodger", and Newley's superbly insolent and cheeky performance became one of the many reasons that the 1948 film became a classic.

Given a contract by the Rank Organisation, the actor then settled into a comfortable niche as a character player, often as cocky cockneys, in such films as Here Come the Huggetts (1948, during the filming of which the actor later claimed to have lost his virginity to Diana Dors), The Guinea Pig (1948) and A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949), but when Rank dropped him after a year his film career faltered and he spent some time in repertory. Later he played chirpy enlisted men in war films including Above Us the Waves (1955), The Battle of the River Plate (1955) and Cockleshell Heroes (1955).

It was in 1955 that he was able to display just how versatile he was when he starred with Annie Ross in the musical revue Cranks at the small club theatre the New Watergate. This off-beat, almost surreal show proved a hit and transferred to the West End, to St Martin's Theatre, in March 1956, where it had a successful run before going to Broadway, where it fared less well. Newley's engaging rendition of such numbers as "I'm the Boy (You Should Say Yes To)" contributed greatly to the show's charm, and in 1956 he toured England with his own variety show.

A turning point came with a literally star-making role in the low-budget musical film Idle on Parade (1959) in which Newley played a rock 'n' roll star inducted into the Army (in America the film was called Idol on Parade). One of his numbers in the film, "I've Waited So Long" (composed by Jerry Lordan) became a pop sensation and overnight Newley found himself a teenage heart-throb. In 1960 he had seven records in the charts, including Lloyd Price and Harold Logan's "Personality" and two No 1 hits, the wistful "Why", by Robert Marcucci, and Peter de Angelis and Lionel Bart's "Do You Mind".

Newley surprised his public again when in 1960 he made his first record album, Love Is a Now and Then Thing, a beautiful set of ballads such as "This Time the Dream's on Me" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" which he handled with appealing sensitivity.

Never one to embrace the conventional, Newley next starred in a television series which, though short-lived, is remembered as one of the most avant- garde in television history. The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960) was a bizarre show in which the central character (named by Newley after the Somerset village of the same name) talked to animals and inanimate objects, heard what people were thinking, had conversations with people who could not see him, and moved in and out of reality. Though written by Sid Green and Dick Hills, its concept was doubtless embraced and heavily influenced by the star.

Newley next fulfilled a long- standing ambition to star in his own stage musical, and fortuitously began a partnership with the composer and author Leslie Bricusse. Newley was later to tell an American columnist, "I'm the laziest son-of-a-bitch who ever drew a breath. I sleep till one and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, `You're a genius, Mr Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realised his potential, did the things he should have done. That's why I need Leslie Bricusse - he has plenty of ambition."

With Bricusse, Newley wrote the book and score of Stop the World I Want To Get Off, in which Newley starred as Littlechap, an Everyman figure whose whole life is depicted in the show. Newley said, "The role of Littlechap, surrounded by the type of chorus once used in Greek drama, has presented us with a challenge which any cast would surely enjoy tackling." Directed by Newley, the show opened at the Queen's Theatre in July 1961 and was a smash hit, its songs including "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Gonna Build a Mountain" (a hit record for Matt Monro) and "Once in a Lifetime". Sammy Davis was one of many who recorded the songs - he became a close friend of Newley and a great champion of the Newley-Bricusse catalogue.

When Newley was asked why most of his songs became hit records for other singers, he replied, "Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett . . . their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist there's a tidy bit to be made that way too, so I don't really mind." "What Kind of Fool Am I" won the 1962 Grammy Award as song of the year and has been recorded by over 70 vocalists, though Newley's own recording ran into trouble because he sang the word "damn" - he later made another recording which could be played on sensitive radio stations.

In 1962 Stop the World moved to Broadway where, produced by David Merrick who had bought the American rights while it had been trying out in Nottingham ("I felt no need to wait and see if it would be a hit in London - I had been thoroughly entertained and absorbed by the freshness of conception shown by its authors"), it ran for over 500 performances. Both the London and New York productions were directed by Newley, of whom Merrick was to write, "I have no doubts at all that Mr Newley is going to enjoy widespread and durable success in America. The man does everything - he acts well; he sings with individuality and verve; and most importantly, he is an exceptionally attractive performer. His personality is dynamic and he projects a brilliance of spirit."

During the show's run in 1963 Newley, who had previously been wed to Tiller Girl-turned-actress Ann Lynn, married Joan Collins. "Like most men of my generation," he said, "I had drooled over pictures of Joan. And there she was, backstage at Stop the World and I could not believe it. Did I ask her for a date? Yes I did." Collins described Newley at the time as "a half- Jewish Cockney git" and herself as "a half-Jewish princess from Bayswater via Sunset Boulevard".

The following year the Bricusse-Newley team had a big hit with their lyrics to John Barry's music for Goldfinger, sung over the titles of the James Bond film by Shirley Bassey. The next Newley-Bricusse musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd, "a comic allegory about the class system in contemporary Britain", had a better score than its predecessor but its 1964 tryout in Nottingham, starring Norman Wisdom and directed by Newley, did not prove satisfactory and it failed to reach London. David Merrick was again impressed, and offered to take it to Broadway if Newley would assume the leading role.

Co-starring Cyril Ritchard (representing the "haves" to Newley's down- trodden "have-not"), the show received mixed reviews for it's libretto's pretensions ("third-rate commerce masquerading as art," said Walter Kerr of the Herald-Tribune), but unanimous praise for the songs and performances. Whitney Bolton wrote in the Morning Telegraph: "Mr Newley uses his own inventions, plus deliberate and useful, justifiably purloined gestures common to Charlie Chaplin, Lupino Lane, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel and others, as though giving us a portrait gallery of great comics who have made their fames as Little Men against the harsh world."

The score ("bursting with songs, all good and several of hit quality," wrote Variety) was exceptional, its hits including "Who Can I Turn To" (already a hit record by Tony Bennett when the show opened), "A Wonderful Day Like Today", "The Joker", "Nothing Can Stop Me Now", "Look at That Face" and "Sweet Beginning". The original cast album sold over 100,000 copies, and the show ran for over eight months. Newley and Bricusse were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Score, and Newley was nominated for Best Director, but this was the year that Fiddler on the Roof took most of the major musical awards. Asked about his predilection for writing about the problems of the "Little Man", Newley replied, "I don't hate anybody or anything. But I do expect to make statements about the problems of being a human being."

Newley made his American film debut with a leading role in the film Doctor Dolittle (1967), with Bricusse alone providing the songs, though Newley made a fine solo album of the score. The actor then starred with Sandy Dennis in Sweet November (1968), a sentimental but rarely mawkish tale of a dying girl who takes a different sweetheart every month.

Newley's own marriage was under pressure and in 1969 he produced, directed and co-wrote Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humpe and Find True Happiness?, co-starring Collins and with plainly autobiographical overtones. "A zany erotobiography that looks like a Marx Brothers' movie shot in a nudist camp," was Playboy's description of the film, which was not a success. For the score, Newley collaborated with Herbert Kretzmer, who became a lifelong friend.

"Although I was the lyricist, the film's concept and the ideas for the songs were Newley's - he was the architect and I the builder," said Kretzmer. One of the songs they wrote, "When You Gotta Go", was for a time a staple of Barbra Streisand's stage act. Newley and Collins were divorced in 1970, and Newley's third marriage, to an air hostess, Dareth Rich, also ended in divorce. "My only regret is that in a show-business career you can have no private life," said Newley.

He and Bricusse wrote the songs for the 1971 film fantasy Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, including the hit "Candy Man". In 1972 he returned to the West End stage with The Good Old Bad Old Days, which had book, music and lyrics by Newley and Bricusse and direction by Newley. Despite a tuneful score and a personal success, the show had only a moderate run and Newley began to spend more time in the United States, where he had bought a house and had developed a large following. In 1974 he starred with Henry Mancini in a musical revue on Broadway, and he became a top night-club entertainer, with sell-out appearances in Las Vegas. His last major film was Mister Quilp (1976), for which he wrote both music and lyrics, though he made several television movies.

In 1985 he was diagnosed with cancer and had one kidney removed. Returning to England, he moved in with his mother Gracie in Esher, Surrey. With his illness arrested, he continued to work, appearing in television shows, touring in a stage production of Leslie Bricusse's musical Scrooge, and last year playing a successful London cabaret engagement. On television he played an amorous used-car dealer in several episodes of EastEnders.

For the last seven years his partner was Gina Fratini, but he was a valued friend to all those close to him and he had remained on good terms with both Joan Collins and Dareth Rich - Collins would be seen at all of Newley's London openings. Herbert Kretzmer said of Newley, "It's a hackneyed phrase I know, but Newley was truly a `one-off', a totally unique and original talent." Leslie Bricusse echoed these sentiments when he wrote, "Never once have I known Tony to falter for one moment in his perpetual quest for something original - to say things and do things in a new way - to find fresh excitement, even in old themes. He takes infinite pains to bring style and originality to everything he touches."

"He was a true original," said Kretzmer, "driven by the need to innovate and contemptuous of repetition or the following of fashion. His wish was always to break boundaries and push frontiers back."

George Anthony Newley, actor, singer, composer and writer: born London 24 September 1931; married 1956 Ann Lynn (marriage dissolved), 1963 Joan Collins (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1970), thirdly Dareth Rich (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved); died Jensen Beach, Florida 14 April 1999.

"Goldfinger"

"What Kind of Fool Am I"


"Once In a Lifetime"

1941: Linda Louise Eastman (the future Lady Linda McCartney) is born--Scarsdale, New York.
(She dies 17 April 1998 at age 56--Tucson, Arizona.)

Photography

Paul McCartney on Linda’s best
photos: ‘Seeing the joy between me
and John really helped me’

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/26/paul-mccartney-on-lindas-best-photos-seeing-the-joy-between-me-and-john-really-helped-me

Linda Eastman was the award-winning photographer who
captured a generation of rock stars before marrying a Beatle. He
discusses how her work changed his life

John Lennon and Paul McCartney by Linda McCartney
‘This picture is a blessing for me.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

‘I always used to joke that I ruined Linda’s career,” says Paul McCartney, sitting on a sofa in his office in Soho, London, with a selection of his late wife’s photographs spread on the table before him. “She became known as ‘Paul’s wife’, instead of the focus being on her photography. But, as time went on, people started to realise that she was the real thing. So, yeah, she eventually did get the correct reputation, but at first it was just blown out of the water by the headline-grabbing marriage.”

Photograph: Linda McCartney/PA

He has a point. Before she met and married him, in March 1969, Linda Eastman was an award-winning photographer. Born in 1941 and raised in a suburb of New York, she had studied under Hazel Archer – who taught the artist Robert Rauschenberg, among others – and was the first woman to shoot a Rolling Stone cover, featuring Eric Clapton. Her speciality was capturing pop stars in unguarded moments: a tearful Aretha Franklin; Jimi Hendrix mid-yawn; Janis Joplin backstage, her bottle of Southern Comfort already drained. But marriage to a Beatle tended to overshadow your own work and reputation, as Yoko Ono discovered.

It wasn’t until years later that her talent was reappraised: 1976’s unassumingly titled book Linda’s Pictures was the first in a series of collections of her work. If anything, her reputation has grown since her death in 1998 – The Linda McCartney Retrospective, at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, is just the latest global exhibition of her work. It was curated by McCartney, along with their daughters, Mary and Stella; here, he picks six of his favourite photographs. “As you can probably tell,” he says, after an exhaustive account of one of the McCartneys’ family holidays in Orkney in the early 70s, “I like talking about this stuff.”

BB King, 1968

‘She was a great believer in the happy accident.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This was taken before I got to know her. Linda was the resident photographer at the [music venue] Fillmore East in New York. She would go to the Fillmore, or other events, and there would be other photographers there, who would say to her: ‘Who’s this? Who’s this guy playing?’ and she would know. She loved the music so much, she listened to it all the time, so she just knew: this is the Grateful Dead, this is BB King, this is Buddy Guy, this is Janis Joplin, you know? That always comes to mind when I see this picture; I imagine her crouched down, by the stage, taking photos of BB King.

“She was a great believer in the happy accident. Where other people might have said: ‘Well, this is blurred, we can’t use this one, we’ll go and look for the sharper photographs,’ she went with it. I love this picture – his guitar looks like an instrument from the future, a space-age thing. It just looks to me like his music sounds: exciting blues. A friend of ours, Brian Clarke, made a stained-glass window of this image, which is fabulous: I’ve got it in my studio.”

The Beatles, 1967

‘Linda could instinctively feel a moment happening.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This is the press launch for Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, at Brian Epstein’s house in Belgravia – 24 Chapel Street [in London]. We were lining up for various photographers and Linda was one of them. I think it was the second time I’d met her. She’d come to England to do the photos for a book, Rock And Other Four-Letter Words, by a writer called J Marks. She photographed the Animals, the Yardbirds, a lot of British acts for the book, and she was invited along to this.

“One of the great things about Linda was she knew when to click. The photographers she admired were people who got those off-the-cuff moments – Walker Evans, [Henri] Cartier-Bresson, [Jacques Henri] Lartigue – where what they’re doing is a form of reportage that actually moved into art. If you think about the famous Cartier-Bresson photo of the guy jumping over a puddle [Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932] – it’s all about capturing that split-second. Linda could instinctively feel a moment happening. That’s what’s happened here. John and I have gone [posh voice]: ‘Hello, old chap, how are you?’ ‘Nice to meet you, jolly good!’ You’ve got John being funny, me in stitches at him and George and Ringo both loving it. It shows the relationship between us all.

“Linda put you at your ease. Some photographers, you’re very aware that you’re having a picture taken. But she had such a relaxed attitude that she’d get a picture of Jimi Hendrix, but he’d be yawning in it. He felt comfortable enough to yawn, she felt confident enough to take a picture of him yawning, knowing he wouldn’t mind.”

John and Paul, 1968

‘It reminds me that the idea we weren’t friends is rubbish.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This is me and John, in Abbey Road. It wasn’t too long before the breakup of the Beatles; this would be the end of our relationship and, at the end, when the breakup happened, it was kind of sour – very difficult to deal with. The rumour started going around that John and I didn’t get on well, we were arch-rivals, that it was very heavy and ugly. The strange thing is you sometimes get to believe something, if it’s said enough times. So I used to think: ‘Yeah, it’s a pity, you know, we didn’t get on that well.’

“So this picture is a blessing for me. It’s like, this is how we were: this is why we related, or else we couldn’t have collaborated for all that time. It sums up what our relationship was like the minute we were actually working on a song, and most of the time we were together, really. I’m just writing something out – possibly it’s a medley or something; it might be for Abbey Road – and it’s lovely, because John is very happily in on the process, and agreeing with me, and we’re laughing about something. Just seeing the joy between us here really helped me, because it reminds me that the idea we weren’t friends is rubbish. We were lifelong friends, our relationship was super-special.

“That applied to all the Beatles, even when we were pissed off with each other from time to time. People used to remind me: that’s families, that happens. Mates disagree. As soon as we started working on music, we gelled, we just enjoyed the noise we made together, we enjoyed playing with each other. We’d worked together for over 10,000 hours over the years, and that old spirit automatically kicked in. Any disputes were got over very quickly.”

My Love, 1978

‘Until I met Linda, I panicked when I got lost.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This was taken in London in 1978. I love it because it’s a historic piece, because the cars and everything date it, but it’s also a really good portrait of me.

“Technically, I still don’t get this one, because there’s me in the rear-view mirror and I’m in focus, but the houses are in focus and the bus is in focus as well. So I don’t get how that worked. It’s not a montage, it’s a straight photo. And the other thing is that I’m driving, and I think Linda is taking the picture with one of our babies on her lap – if you look, there’s a very faint reflection in the windscreen. Talk about multi-tasking.

“One of the things about Linda, when you talk about how people seem at ease in her photos, is that it was her lifestyle. We’d say: ‘Let’s go out of London,’ so I’d just drive, we’d get out of London and I’d say: ‘Where do you want to go?’ She’d say: ‘Just anywhere.’ After a while, you’d end up in areas you didn’t know, going: ‘Ooh, I’m getting a bit lost here,’ and she’d say: ‘Great.’ You were in places you’d never been, you were seeing things you hadn’t intended to see, all of which was rich stuff for her photography. I remember I wrote the song Two of Us about that – ‘Two of us riding nowhere / Spending someone’s hard-earned pay.’ That was one of those excursions, when we were first going out together, this great idea of getting lost. Until I met Linda, I panicked when I got lost, you know?”

Mother and child, 1969

“Linda took a lot of pictures of ordinary people that to her seemed extraordinary. This was when we were in Greece on holiday. We wouldn’t go to the big places; we’d just go to a little beach. That was very much my relationship with Linda. She’d had a reasonably strict upbringing, what with her father being a lawyer, but then she’d started to smell freedom when she went to university in Arizona. She loved riding, she had a horse out there that her friend’s parents let her ride … it was the dangerous seeds of freedom. And when she met me, I’d been like a robot, having to go on tour, make a record, go on tour, do this – and I’d had it up to here. So we started to have a life where we didn’t have any plans. We’d go to Greece, book a hotel and just bum around. That feeling, that sniffing freedom, it went all the way through her photography and my music [on 1970’s McCartney and 1971’s Ram].

“One day, we were just on the beach, having a swim, but she’s seen this mother and child, and it’s an interesting moment, so she’s just grabbed her camera and snapped it. She wouldn’t have used a whole reel on it; it could even be the only shot. Because she’d had to do things quickly, she’d just worked on the hoof, without an assistant. She didn’t use light meters often – she guessed – so she just went out with a pocket stuffed with film, camera around her neck and that would be it. There’s something fascinating about this moment she’s caught, the way the kid is looking into the camera eerily, the mum with this incredible bathing hat on. I could look at it for hours.”

Paul, 1968

“This was at the airport in Los Angeles. I had to do something record-related – I think it was a convention that Capitol, our American record label, were having – and she happened to be in LA, so she could hang out with me. She’d turn up at the hotel and we’d say: ‘Oh, what are we going to do today? Shall we do something? Well, let’s just stay in,’ and we’d just do nothing, basically. We loved that freedom. It was an important thing in a relationship, that neither of us minded doing nothing much.

“So this is us parting after our little trip. I was going back to England and she was catching another flight, going back to New York: I think I was there with a guy called Magic Alex [Mardas, the Beatles’ notorious “electronics wizard”, whose various schemes reputedly cost the band about £5m in today’s money without yielding any results]. While we were waiting, she would just have her camera there, lift it up, click, get the shot, put it down again. So I’m goofing; I’ve pulled my jacket up and sort of masked my face. I’m going back to England, back to the Beatles, and I’m hiding: ‘No photos please!’ It was just a joyous little moment before we went our separate ways. But, you know, luckily, we hooked up again and, er … made a go of it!”

The Linda McCartney Retrospective is at Kelvingrove Art Gallery,
Glasgow, from 5 July to 12 January 2020

1944: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Sunday 24 September, 1944

Yesterday I. came to lunch. The flat is a sort of home or refuge from
the war for him. He urges me to make plans for myself for after the
war but I can’t and don’t want to. Any thought of my future makes
me very unhappy.

1950: Kristina Wayborn is born--Nybro, Kalmar län, Sweden.

1961: John Logan is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond and Tiger at the bathhouse.

1981: 007 - Missão Ultra-Secreta (007 - Ultra Secret Mission) released in Portugal.
1984: Putnam and Sons releases John Gardner's Bond novel Icebreaker in the US.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 7 of 65 - "Nothing to Play With."

James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
Nothing To Play With (1991)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807111/?ref_=ttep_ep7

A desperate plea for help from Hong Kong sends James Bond Jr. and his friends into a head-on collision with Walker D. Plank's illegitimate foray into toy manufacture.

Directed by Bill Hutten , Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Babyface (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr 07 Nothing To Play With

2006: Tetsurô Tanba dies at age 84--Tokyo, Japan.
(Born 17 July 1922--Tokyo, Japan.)

Tetsuro Tamba

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/06/guardianobituaries.japan

Japanese actor whose life was a journey from kitsch to cult
Ronald Bergan | Wed 6 Dec 2006 04.17 EST

The Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba, who has died aged 84, was a recognisable face to that large group of film fans from the west who are followers of Asian genre movies. He was seen in every conceivable kind of film - disaster, gangster, samurai, war and horror, as well as a number of art films.

In an acting career that began in 1954, Tamba made more than 200 films; he admitted that he never refused a role, never memorised a script - and never sat through an entire film that he appeared in. One of his most well-known roles internationally was in Lewis Gilbert's You Only Live Twice (1967), the fifth blockbusting James Bond movie starring Sean Connery. Tamba played Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese secret service, who helps Bond save the world from destruction. The character is the mirror of Bond-san: he has a witty and sarcastic sense of humour, dresses smartly, is in perfect physical condition and has a taste for beautiful women. When Bond makes contact with him, he uses the password, "I love you."

One of the best exchanges between them is when they are being bathed by Tanaka's women. Tanaka: "You know what it is about you that fascinates them, don't you? It's the hair on your chest. All Japanese men have beautiful bare skin." Bond: "Japanese proverb say 'Bird never make nest in bare tree.'"

Gilbert also directed Tamba in The Seventh Dawn (1964). In the Malaya of 1945, he and William Holden are two pals who fought the Japanese together during the war but are now on opposing sides - Holden, an imperialist rubber plantation owner, and Tamba a communist guerilla. In another English-language film, Tamba played an ideological baddie in Bridge to the Sun (1961), as a militaristic diplomat at odds with a friend who married an American girl (Carroll Baker) before Pearl Harbor.

He was born Shozaburo Tanba (he is sometimes credited as Tetsuro Tanba) in Tokyo, the son of the emperor's personal doctor. After some years under contract to Shintoho studios, he went freelance in 1959 and began starring in films, mostly yakusa, jidai-geki (period) movies and gore spectacles. For example, he was the unheeded professor who predicts The Last Days of Planet Earth (1974). But he also worked with some of Japan's best directors, including Shohei Imamura - Pigs and Battleships (1961), 11'09.01-September 11 (2002), Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri, 1962), Kwaidan (1964), Kinji Fukasaku (Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, 1972) and Juzo Itami (A Taxing Woman Returns, 1988).

Towards the end of his life, Tamba made a few films for Takashi Miike: The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), and Gozu, 2003, in the former as a stern grandfather. He also had a cameo role as a harsh art critic in Teruo Ishii's Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001). In the 1980s, while appearing in around seven films a year, Tamba became leader of Dai Reien Kai (Great Spirit World), a spiritual cult movement, for which he made several propaganda videos based upon his theories of the afterlife. He is survived by his son, the actor Yoshitaka Tanba.

· Tetsuro Tamba (Shozaburo Tanba), actor, born July 17 1922; died September 25 2006

Tetsuro Tamba
https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tetsuro-tamba/credits/176543/

Actor (24 Credits)

The Twilight Samurai (Movie) Tozaemon Iguchi 2003
11'09"01: September 11 (Movie) Bonze 2002
The Happiness Of The Katakuris (Movie) Jinpei Katakuri 2001
Tokyo Pop (Movie) Dota 1988
Onimasa (Movie) The Big Boss 1982
The Bushido Blade (Movie) Lord Yamato 1982

Hunter In The Dark (Movie) Okitsugu Tanuma 1979
Message From Space (Movie) Noguchi 1978
Karate Bearfighter (Movie) 1977
Tidal Wave (Movie) Prime Minister Yamato 1975
Prophecies Of Nostradamus (Movie) 1974
Under The Fluttering Military Flag (Movie) 1972
The Five Man Army (Movie) Samurai 1970
The Scandalous Adventures Of Buraikan (Movie) Soshun 1970

Goyokin (Movie) Rokugo Tatewaki 1969
Black Lizard (Movie) Show Dancer 1968
Portrait Of Chieko (Movie) Kotaro Takamura 1967
You Only Live Twice (Movie) Tiger Tanaka 1967
Kwaidan (Movie) 1964
Samurai From Nowhere (Movie) Gunjuro Ohba 1964
The Seventh Dawn (Movie) Ng 1964
Harakiri (Movie) Hikokuro Omodaka 1962
The Diplomat's Mansion (Movie) 1961
Bridge To The Sun (Movie) Jiro 1961

Tetsurô Tanba (1922–2006)

Actor (334 Credits)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848533/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

2012: Raritania reviews Simon Winder's 2006 book The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into the Disturbing World of James Bond.

https://raritania.blogspot.com/2012/09/review-man-who-saved-britain-personal.html

https://www.mi6-hq.com/media/other/Man Who Saved Britain - Introduction.pdf

2020: Omega releases a No Time To Die commercial.

Spoiler clips from trailers

https://www.facebook.com/832016266915916/posts/no-time-to-die-omega-commercial/3255335944583924/

No Time To Die Omega Promotional Video

2021: Takao Saitō (斎藤 隆夫; Saitō Takao dies 24 September 2021 at age 84--Tokyo, Japan.
(Born 3 November 1936 at Wakayama Province, Japan.)

Takao Saito, Creator Of Golgo 13, Dies At 84

See the complete article here:

https://kotaku.com/takao-saito-creator-of-golgo-13-dies-at-84-1847765623

Golgo 13 spawned anime, live-action movies, and six video games
ByBrian Ashcraft | Published September 29, 2021

Above is a still from the 1983 animated film Golgo 13: The Professional. It was the first animated movie based on the original publication.
Screenshot: TMSアニメ公式チャンネル | Takao Saito

On Wednesday, the editorial department of Big Comic announced that Takao Saito passed away on September 24 from pancreatic cancer. He was 84.

Golgo 13 is the second-biggest-selling manga series of all time, between One Piece at number one and Dragon Ball at number three. It debuted in Big Comic in 1968 and has been in serialization ever since, making it the oldest manga in publication.

When Saito was coming up in the late 1950s and early 60s, he and his cohorts took a stand against the term “manga”, which is commonly used to categorize Golgo 13. The word evoked cartoony cute characters, kid stuff, they argued. “Manga” was antithetical to Saito’s style.

Takao Saito is the creator of the popular manga Golgo 13.
Pictured is Takao Saito in a 2017 file photo.
Photo: STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP (Getty Images)

“My people hated that name, so we decided to call our work gekiga [literally ‘theatre-images’] to show that it was about drama,” Saito told The Financial Times in 2015. “So, no, from the very beginning I have never been a manga artist. What I produce is drama.”

Gekiga was not aimed at children, but rather at adults, with adult themes and situations. The stories were gritty, sexy and violent. The characters were hard-nosed, like the assassin that made Saito famous. The audience was ready, and Golgo 13 was a smash hit at home. Exporting it seem like a no-brainer.

Starting in the 1980s, Golgo 13 was translated into English—something that Saito was initially against, because even though the main character, also known as Duke Togo, was a modern, gun-toting hitman, he was deeply influenced by samurai.

“That is why I was against the idea of introducing Golgo to foreign countries,” Saito told The Financial Times. “Just take as an example the timing of when he actually takes his shot. It evokes iaido [the martial art of drawing one’s sword and mimicking a deadly blow]. It is the same movement and the same shape. I love Japanese samurai stories and that is why, unconsciously, Golgo moves like a samurai. That is why I thought foreigners wouldn’t understand the story.”

Golgo 13 is one of the biggest selling manga in history.
Prior to animated feature, there had been two live-action films, including that starred Sonny Chiba.
Screenshot: TMSアニメ公式チャンネル | Takao Saito

According to Big Comic’s editors, Saito reportedly said, “Even without me, I want Golgo 13 to continue.” Originally, he did everything from the drawing to the writing, but his production company Saito Production was restructured so that his creation could continue after he was gone. Golgo 13 will remain in publication in accordance with Saito’s wishes, with his company and the editors of Big Comic working together on each new installment.

2022: Watch Collector's Club trip to the James Bond Auction.

JAMES BOND AUCTION
SEPTEMBER 2022

See the complete article here:

https://thewatchcollectorsclub.com/events/james-bond-auction-visit-september-2022/

To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of James Bond first appearing on our screens, Christie's Auction house in London are selling some high value memorabilia from the most recent film, No Time to Die. We will go and see this memorabilia as the two watches worn by Daniel Craig (playing James Bond) are for sale. We will hopefully be able to try them on and you can even leave a bid!

Following our visit to the Auction House we will walk up to the Watches of Switzerland Store on Regent's Street to look at more watches and possibly even have a Martini; shaken, not stirred of course!

Please sign up to let us know you are coming, and then we will meet outside the main entrance of Christie's at 2:00PM.

2022: Michael G. Wilson's 007 Ford Thunderbird is auctioned for charity at Los Angeles, California.

007 Ford Thunderbird

See the complete article here:

https://theauctioncollective.com/auctions/007-ford-thunderbird/

20 SEPTEMBER 2022 - 27 SEPTEMBER 2022, Ends 03:00 AM
Timed Auction

A limited 1-of-700, 2003 Ford Thunderbird donated by James Bond producer Michael G Wilson. Sold to raise funds for the Pioneers Assistance Fund.

This 007 Limited Edition Ford Thunderbird was created by Ford Motor Company to commemorate the car's appearance in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day The funds raised in this single-lot auction will go to towards The Pioneers Assistance Fund.

The Pioneers Assistance Fund provides financial aid to theatrical entertainment veterans of exhibition, distribution and vendors exclusive to either sector who are encountering an illness, injury or catastrophic event. Since 1939, the Pioneers Assistance Fund has had one mission — take care of industry veterans in their time of need.

The Fund has provided assistance to thousands over the years and always with respect and dignity for the recipient, as well as, maintaining the individual’s anonymity. The Fund is the only program in our industry that provides both short and long-term assistance to lifelong veterans of the motion picture industry who are sick, elderly, disabled or a victim of an unfortunate circumstance. Whether it’s the widow of a long-time exhibitor who just needs help paying for her medications, a theatre manager dealing with an untimely illness or a former studio employee who has had an unfortunate circumstance — all receive assistance.

Viewing
The Thunderbird will be on view at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles on Wednesday 21st September at a dinner honouring Michael G Wilson & Barbara Broccoli.

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Timed Auction Ends
26 September, 7:00 pm Los Angeles (GMT-7)
27 September, 3:00 am London (BST)


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September 25th

1957: Michael Madsen is born--Chicago, Illinois.

1959: Ian Fleming's short story "James Bond and the Murder Before Breakfast" ("From a View to a Kill") finishes a five-day serialization in The Daily Express.
1959: Producer Kevin McClory writes a letter to partner Ivan Bryce about writer Jack Whittingham's successful introduction to Ian Fleming.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 8 - Enter Jack Whittingham

Thanks to his experience in journalism (prior to the war Jack worked for
The Morning Post and The Daily Express and also his work for Korda), Jack got
a job in the team at Ealing Studios, beginning his run of top screenplays that
would eventually bring him to the attention of McClory.

When McClory was finally introduced to Whittingham he came away
impressed, telling Ivar Bryce in a letter dated 25 September: "I gave him Ian's first
rough treatment, which he is extremely enthusiastic about. He also came back
with some highly interesting and intelligent and constructive story points."
Quickly Whittingham was introduced to Fleming and it was a huge success..."

1964: Goldfinger released in Ireland.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 8 of 65 - "Location: Danger" in Hollywood, California.

James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
Location: Danger (1991)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807292/?ref_=ttep_ep8

After making a fool of himself by insulting the action-film star father of a new student, Anna Genue, James decides to make amends by helping to organise her 16th birthday party. When her father doesn't come James decides to reunite her with her father by taking her and his friends to Hollywood. On their arrival Bond encounters one of S.C.U.M.'s agents; Felony O'Toole kidnaps both Anna and Professor Braintrust so that S.C.U.M. can force him to program the Galaxy defense system which they stole.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Scumlord
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr 08 Location Danger

2011: Plans for filming BOND 23 in India drop off the table, leading to speculation for South Africa locations.

2013: William Boyd signs seven copies of Solo at the Dorchester Hotel, to be dispersed by seven Jensen Interceptors to British Airways to seven locations: Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Zurich, Los Angeles, Delhi, Cape Town, Sydney.

New James Bond book is
peppered with bullet-holes

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/july-2013/new-james-bond-book-is-peppered-with-bullet-holes/

The cover for new James Bond book Solo features a dust-jacket
riddled with die-cut bullet-holes.

By Angus Montgomery August 1, 2013 10:58 am

Solo’s dust-jacket is peppered with die-cut bullet-holes


While the binding underneath features burn marks from the bullets

The cover for Solo, which is written by William Boyd, has been designed by Random House creative director Suzanne Dean. The new book will be published on 26 September.

The dust-jacket is punctured with die-cut bullet-holes, and when the jacket is removed, the binding underneath features burn-holes from the bullets, as well as a gecko – a reference to Bond’s African mission in the book.

Solo is set in 1969, and Dean says she took inspiration from the 1960s work of Saul Bass, Paul Rand and Alvin Lustig. She says, ‘I didn’t want just to depict a cinematic image, but rather to try to reflect the essence of Ian Fleming’s original novels as well as Boyd’s own take on James Bond.’

In the book, James Bond goes on an unauthorised solo mission, motivated by revenge. Dean says, ‘I had always been keen, since finding out the title, that there might be a way of using the two “O”s within Solo and link it to the 0s in 007.’

Dean says she selected sans-serif typeface Folio for the cover, in part due to its ‘strong, circular’ O.

She says, ‘The shadows thrown by the overlaying letters suggest hidden danger and tension, while the final “O” in Solo suggests a door, or an escape route.’

2013: Bond author William Boyd proposes Daniel Day Lewis as his choice for Bond.

Bond author: 'Daniel Day-Lewis my
choice to play 007'

See the complete article here:

https://www.itv.com/news/london/2013-09-25/bond-author-daniel-day-lewis-my-choice-to-play-007

Wednesday 25 September 2013, 1:45pm

Author William Boyd holding his new James Bond novel in front of a Jenson car
outside the Dorchester hotel in London
Credit: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

The author of a new James Bond novel has revealed that Daniel Day-Lewis would his choice to play the iconic character ahead of the book's official publication tomorrow.

Speaking at the launch of Solo at The Dorchester Hotel in Central London, William Boyd said:

"If there was to be an actor to play my James Bond, I'd choose another actor who has also been in a film of mine and who I also know and who is also called Daniel - Daniel Day-Lewis - because I think Daniel Day-Lewis actually resembles the Bond that Fleming describes."

ITV News' Nina Nannar reports:

Boyd's new book takes 007 into war-torn Africa as the 1960s come to an end.

William Boyd is following in the footsteps of Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks, who have both written novels about James Bond since the death of the character's original creator, Ian Fleming, in 1964.

Despite his preference for Bond to be played by Daniel Day-Lewis, the London resident did admit he had "discussions" with current Bond star Daniel Craig before writing the book.

Watch: New Bond writer on his novel mission
https://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-04-12/new-bond-writer-on-his-novel-mission

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of
Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale.
Credit: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

The writer, 61, admitted it was "highly unlikely" Solo would be made for the cinema:

It is set in 1969 and the Bond films are always set
in the present day. They'll never make a retro Bond,
I suppose they can take my plot and update it but
then it would be different and because it's set in
the 1960s it gives it a particular flavour.

The new book's author admitted had "discussions" with
current Bond star Daniel Craig before writing the novel.

The book was launched at the Dorchester Hotel in central London where seven numbered and signed copies were driven off in vintage Jensen cars like the vehicle Bond drives in the novel.

They were then flown around the globe to destinations including Los Angeles and Cape Town to mark tomorrow's publication.

British Airways cabin crew outside the Dorchester hotel in London holding
the new James Bond novel written by William Boyd.
Credit: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Fleming's
first James Bond novel Casino Royale.

Author William Boyd holding his new James Bond novel in front of a Jenson car
outside the Dorchester hotel in London
Credit: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

He went on to publish 14 more Bond books and the series has sold more than 100 million titles.

2015: Capital releases the single "Writing's on the Wall" written by Sam Smith and Jimmy Naples, sung by Smith.

2021: Shuttleworth hosts James Bond Day welcoming Gyros and Astons.

Bond Day: Auto Gyro Fly-in and Aston Martin
Car Show

See the complete article here:

https://www.shuttleworth.org/product/bond-day/

In cooperation with The British Rotorcraft Association,and Wallis Heritage Limited, Shuttleworth is delighted to announce on Saturday 25 September we will be celebrating “BOND DAY”. The visitor attraction and airfield will be the venue for the celebration of Ian Fleming’s 007.

This action-packed day has all things BOND – from amazing displays of Aston Martins to a wonderful autogyro fly-in. “Little Nellie” Q’s single-seat autogyro will take pride of place outside the Hangars and many other highlights are to be announced.

If you are a Petrol Head, Bond Fan, have aviation interests, have an interest in the late Wing Commander Ken Wallis (Creator of “Little Nellie” and Sean Connery’s pilot double in the film), or just want a fabulous day out in the glorious Bedfordshire countryside, then this promises to tick all those boxes. Listen out for music from all the James Bond films. Plus lookout for a model flying from around 13.00.

Explore almost 60 acres of Shuttleworth, including the famous Shuttleworth Collection, the beautiful Swiss Garden & the historic Lakeside Parkland with views of Shuttleworth House plus the children’s playground. Shuttleworth gift shop and Runway Cafe.

An action packed fun day out for all!

Aston Martins – Why not take part
Join a display of over 200 Aston Martins on display beside the world-famous Old Warden Airfield. If you would like to bring your Aston Martin to join the many already booked, please register here.

Auto Gyros – Why not take part
We are going for a record number of Auto Gyros. For those visitors wishing to fly into the show, we have a limited number of PPR slots available. In order to book your slot, please email the Control Tower: [email protected] or call John de Main on 07875 028876. Please note that a landing fee of £10.00 is payable on the day for all non-gyro aircraft.

PPR information is required

• Aircraft Registration
• Type
• Pilots Name
• Point of Departure
• POB
• Contact Telephone number

Open Air Cinema
The British Rotorcraft Association has secured the rights to screen “You Only Live Twice” via open-air cinema provided by The Star and Mouse Picture Show – www.starandmouse.com from 20.00 – 22.00. Tickets to this screening will be issued by Wallis Heritage on the day of the event. Entry is subject to availability. Thank you to Eon Productions and MGM for providing the rights to screen “You Only Live Twice”.

Catering
All our catering outlets will be open: The Runway Cafe serving breakfast, lunch, snacks and much more. The Flying Burger Van with its famous posh burgers plus all 3 coffee pods. See them all dotted around the site for easy access.
Tickets
To join this day you will need a Visitor Attraction admission ticket.
Book Here
http://www.shuttleworth.org/book-your-tickets/

Remembering Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis DSO MBE CEng FRAeS RAF

2021: yahoo news! reports Barbara Broccoli's insight on the No Time To Die title.

'No Time To Die' producers had to clear the Bond film's title with a
rival studio (exclusive)

See the complete article here:

https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/no-time-to-die-producers-film-title-rival-studio-exclusive-060851100.html

Tom Butler·Senior Editor | Sat, 25 September 2021·7-min read

(L-R) Michael G Wilson, Daniel Craig and Barbara Broccoli at the "Bond 25" film launch, 2019
(Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures)

When Daniel Craig's fifth and final James Bond film No Time To Die was officially announced to press in 2019 at Ian Fleming's Jamaican home Goldeneye, it was simply codenamed 'Bond 25'.

The official title was announced in August later that year and hardcore fans were quick to point out that the 25th James Bond film shared its name with a 1958 war film produced by Albert R 'Cubby' Broccoli, the producer of the Bond films from 1962-1995.

And while current producer Barbara Broccoli says they didn't consciously copy the title from the 1958 film (directed by Dr No's Terence Young, and written by long time 007 screenwriter Richard Maibaum), it did cause headaches when they realised where it came from.

"Funny enough, we came up with a title and then realised that it was also the title of one of Cubby’s earlier films, so we had to actually get the title cleared by Columbia Pictures," Barbara Broccoli tells Yahoo.

"So it's nice that it was a Cubby title. And it really reflects the film so it worked perfectly. Hopefully when you see the film, you'll agree."

L-R: Ian Fleming (1908-1964) with co-producers Harry Saltzman (1915 - 1994) and Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli (1909 - 1996) on the set of 'Goldfinger', directed by Guy Hamilton, 1964. (Pictorial Parade/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

As for why it wasn't announced at Goldeneye in April, co-producer — and Cubby's stepson — Michael G Wilson says they simply hadn't decided yet.

"Very often, we don't actually come up with a title until after we've started the film," explains Wilson. "We have a lot of titles kicking around. And we debate it a great deal with the writers and the director and everyone.

"And finally, when it gets down to when the time has almost run out... this [title] Barbara came up with, and we said ‘that was great’. And then we realised there was a poster in the Danjaq offices in LA at one time which had the title up!"

"So I wasn't that clever after all!" adds Broccoli.

"No, but she remembered. It was fantastic," laughs Wilson. "And it was just right for us."

Here's what else we learned about No Time To Die, which arrives in UK cinemas on 30 September, from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson.

Daniel Craig (C) poses with Barbara Broccoli (L) and Michael G Wilson (R) when he was announced as Bond on October 14, 2005 (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Yahoo: What do you think Daniel Craig’s legacy will be after his five James Bond films?
Barbara Broccoli: Well, he's been an incredible Bond, ever since Casino Royale. He's brought a lot of humanity to the role, I think. And we've really been able to explore the emotional complexity of the character and the relationships. I think he's been remarkable. And not just for Bond films. But for cinema in general.

You recently said that the Bond franchise is at a critical juncture - what is the biggest challenge facing the Bond films in the future?
Michael G Wilson: Well, it's hard to think about the next film at this stage when we're releasing this one. It takes a long time to prepare and make it, and then we have to release it. So when we get through all of that, then maybe we can think about the next film.

How important is it for you to keep evolving these films to stay relevant, while also staying true to Fleming?
BB: I think it's essential. I think that's why they've lasted now almost 60 years. Next year [2022] will be our 60th anniversary of cinema Bonds. I think they have to remain relevant, they have to evolve. And that's one of the great things about when we go to choose an actor. It's been in the past that the actor has a lot to do with creating a Bond for the times, and I think no-one has done that as well as Daniel, who really has created a 21st century Bond.

Barbara, you've said that you spotted Daniel Craig in Elizabeth, which was quite a few years before Casino Royale. Do you think that you've already seen who the next James Bond will be at this stage?
BB: I have no idea. I'd seen Daniel before then. I'd seen him in Our Friends In The North and I'd seen a lot of his theatre work, which has always been exceptional.

Daniel Craig's James Bond emerges from the Bahaman surf in Casino Royale (Eon/MGM/Sony Pictures)

But I think it just struck me when I saw him walking down that corridor in Elizabeth, I thought, ‘boy, he just eats up the screen’. You know, he is just... you can't take your eyes off him when he's on the screen. And you look at the tremendous work he did before Bond and he'd managed to do all of that work without becoming an international name, very much by choice.

It's well known that he was sort of reluctant to take this role on because he knew it would change his life, which it has. I mean, it's changed his life in certain ways. It hasn't changed the man. The man is still the great man that he was when we first met him. So we're very, very proud of him, and his achievement is extraordinary and we just can't wait for people to see this film: his final film in the series.

MGW: We’ve got Rami Malek [as Safin], of course. Anything he touches, he brings magic to it. We have Lashana Lynch, a new Double O, who represents as you said, 'the world has moved on Mr. Bond'. She fully embodies that.

And we have back the usual Bond characters: Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, and Ben Whishaw, of course, as Q. And Lea Seydoux, who, of course, is a critical part of the story. And it's that relationship which is so key to the emotional basis of the story.

The film was delayed by the pandemic - is this the biggest challenge the film series has ever faced?
MGW: Of course. Of course it has been. But it's for everyone. It's not for Bond. The whole country has had to go through a big challenge. Cinemas, this whole cinema industry, the restaurants, retail businesses and the high streets. Almost everyone's been badly affected. So all of us have been challenged and let's hope now that, by the end of this year, we can all start to get back to a normal life.

Your director Cary Joji Fukunaga came on fairly late in the day - do you feel like he stepped up to the plate and delivered what you were hoping for?
BB: Boy did he ever! He did step up to the plate, and he hit a home run as far as we're concerned. He's an incredible filmmaker. And I think it was a huge challenge for him. And he is a man who loves the challenge. And he has directed a really extraordinary film.

We're deeply, deeply grateful to him. And I think audiences will love what he's done.

No Time To Die is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, from a screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with a story by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga.

No Time To Die will be released in UK cinemas 30 September.

RichardTheBruce

September 26th

1895: George Raft is born--Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York.
(He dies 24 November 1980 at age 85--Los Angeles, California.)

Icons / September 2018

George Raft: Hollywood's Forgotten Star

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George Raft was better known for making other actors’ careers a success. Yet the fact he had a Hollywood life at all was, in Raft’s eyes, a tale of triumph over circumstance…

by Josh Sims

Raft walking from Vendome Cafe in Hollywood, 1933. Photograph by Getty Images.

George Raft didn’t want to give the name. Interviewed in 1980, his final television appearance, the then 85-year-old actor, dressed stylishly in a charcoal peak-lapel suit over a black polo neck, was asked about his habit of giving money to those struggling to break into his fickle industry. The interviewer pushes him and he declines. He pushes again; again, Raft declines. The interviewer jokingly lets slip that the recipient in question went on to become the biggest name in television. Raft smiles. Still he won’t name her. Raft is, the interviewer says, too much of a gentleman. The interviewer takes another approach. How about all the famous women he’d dated? Would he name them? Raft smiles. “You can name them,” he says.

Other men of his era — James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper — entered the annals of cool. But the much-less-famous Raft embodied it. They played tough; he was tough. They played gentlemen; Raft was one. “I respect women,” Raft once noted in another interview. “In one movie I was asked to hit Marlene Dietrich. I said I didn’t want to. That’s not something I would ever do in real life. And, of course, they said, ‘Well, you must’. Marlene said, ‘You have to hit me’. And I said no. So [filming was held up] for a couple of days. And I finally did hit her.” Years after the event, Raft was still not happy with it.

He had separated from his first wife a few years into their marriage, but supported her until her death some 50 years later. It was worth noting that he was the only man on the chat show who stood up when a woman came onto the stage. Yet gentlemanliness, apparently, got you only so far. Why, compared to his peers, is Raft so little known? “Well, I was a pretty quick study — but then I didn’t have too many lines,” he said. Raft made self-effacement an art form: he never saw himself on screen and, he claimed, never had any desire to. “I always played the guy with the gun, or something like that. I did 105 pictures and I was killed 85 times. How unlucky can you go, right? I did pretty well with the girls. But in the pictures, always got killed. I worked with so many Academy Award winners. They always won the award, not me. I was nominated once. I ran fourth.”

Raft, it sometimes seemed, made other men’s careers. Poor professional choices — at least in hindsight — were an issue: mistrust of novice directors, a belief in his own agent’s press releases and a reluctance to play un-redeeming anti-heroes all influenced his decisions. He turned down the lead in High Sierra, creating an opening that would help Bogart start his climb out of the doldrums. He turned down the lead in The Maltese Falcon for good reasons, but all the same he passed on what is widely considered the best detective movie of all time. Bogart took that part, too.

George Raft outside the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, circa 1940. Photograph by Getty Images.

Raft and his wife, Grace Mulrooney, at the opening of the Moulin Rouge in Los Angeles, 1957. Photograph by Getty Images.

Chatting with actresses Zoe Gail and Zsa Zsa Gabor at a farewell party he hosted before leaving England for Italy and the U.S., 1952. Photograph by Getty Images.

Studio head Jack Warner even considered Raft for the lead in Casablanca. The part went to Bogart, making him a legend. Warner soon after annulled Raft’s contract. Raft’s last movie, released in 1980? The Man with Bogart’s Face. Raft, by the by, had once saved Bogart’s life, when he managed to bring to a stop a runaway truck they were both in for a scene.

Of course, for all that Raft was the outsider, uneasy about his abilities, he did O.K. He was still appreciated as a dapper man around town: he popularised what became a signature, the wearing of a white tie with a black shirt, as well as several other trends of the era, like black pinstripe suits and long roll-collars. He also made a number of what are considered to be authentic, seminal movies: Scarface (1932); Each Dawn I Die (1939); They Drive By Night (1940); Nocturne (1946); and, as a supporting actor, Some Like It Hot (1959). Most of his movies were box office successes. In 1933 he was reported to be Hollywood’s highest paid star. He got his hands wet in cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre as early as 1940.

But by the post-war years his fledgling super-stardom was all but sidelined, with Raft reduced to working as a goodwill ambassador to a Las Vegas hotel, lending his name to a discount chain that went bust, running a casino in Havana until Castro took power, or riffing on his screen persona by playing a prison inmate in Alka-Seltzer commercials. “I turn up, deliver a line, and it’s a big hit,” he once said. “I think the one-liner [commercials] are great because you’re in and out. I have no idea what the commercial is about.”

Still, Raft often expressed his amazement that he had made any kind of life in Hollywood. His was the rollercoaster experience, enough to warrant a 1961 biopic. Born into poverty in New York in 1895, and said to be nearly illiterate for much of his adult life, making him “for years the loneliest man in Hollywood”, as he put it, Raft did whatever he could to get by. “What can a guy do with no education?” he asked. "How I got into the pictures, I just don’t know. They just picked me up. I was sitting in the Brown Derby on Vine St. [in Los Angeles] and this director walked up to me and said he’d like to put me in a movie."

The work was satisfactory — by Raft’s own assessment, he was never an incredible actor. Indeed, in pursuing the movies he left behind a life as a successful vaudevillian, a self-described “song and dance man”. It’s a fact that makes for an uneasy chapter of his legacy. Ever the menacing tough guy on screen — “the only way the public would accept me”, he claimed — Raft’s believability was underscored by supposed connections to the criminal underworld and his love of low-life lingo (when once accused of winning $18,500 in a crooked dice game, Raft complained that he’d “never played with loaded ivories in my life”).

With Sophia Loren, circa 1960s. Photograph by Rex Features.

Showing off his dancing with actor Ray Danton, who portrayed Raft in The George Raft Story, 1961. Photograph by Alamy.

All the same, he got caught up in tax evasion, was questioned about the gangland hit that killed his childhood friend ‘Bugsy’ Siegel in 1947, testified in 1966 before a federal grand jury investigating Mafia financial transactions — he never commented on his testimony — and the following year was banned from England as an ‘undesirable’ for his supposed unsavoury connections.

Sometimes Raft’s knowledge of the underworld just slipped out. He once told the director Frank Tuttle that he couldn’t shoot a scene in which his character held up a post office. “Why not?” Tuttle asked. Raft went on to explain that that was “a federal rap” and that “no gunman in his right mind fools around with Uncle Sam”. The scene was re-written to take place in a tourist bureau.

Yet contrary to the machismo, real or imagined, Raft really could dance, a product of one of his more successful employments, as a nightclub dancer (often in Mafia-owned joints). He moved fluidly, effortlessly — Cagney compared him with Fred Astaire on this score — even if, of course, Raft always claimed he was “never a good dancer. I was more of a stylist”. Just check out scenes in Take a Look at Her Now (1929) or Bolero (1934) or Broadway (1942). It’s hard not to conclude that his career took a wrong turn down a figurative and — given his C.V.’s preponderance towards gangster flicks — literal dark alley.

That romantic-hero typecasting never happened, of course; at least not on screen. If Raft’s movie choices were sometimes poor, his taste in women was excellent. Married only once, Raft’s affairs included those with Dietrich, Betty Grable, Virginia Pine, Carole Lombard, Norma Shearer and Mae West. Indeed, it was said that he ended up in Hollywood because he was on the run from a “crazy man who wanted me to marry his wife”. Inevitably, his name would be cited as a correspondent in divorce suits by countless angry husbands.

But this was all part of the performance of Raft’s life story. His work, and a lack of commitments, gave him decades of high living and handouts for strangers, such that when Raft died, of emphysema, there was next to nothing of his $10 million earnings left. “I wish I knew where it went,” he said. Most likely, he knew very well where his money went. Pre-figuring footballer George Best’s famous line, on another occasion Raft made the hedonistic calculation: “Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women,” he said. “The rest I spent foolishly.”

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Actor | Soundtrack

Filmography

Actor (86 credits)

1980 The Man with Bogart's Face - Petey Cane

1977 Sextette - George Raft
1972 Hammersmith Is Out - Guido Scartucci
1972 Deadhead Miles - George Raft
1971 The Chicago Teddy Bears (TV Series) - The Rivalry (1971)
1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #4.26 (1971) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)

1968 Skidoo - The Skipper
1967 Five Golden Dragons - Dragon #2
1967 Casino Royale - George Raft
1967 Batman (TV Series) - Citizen in Bank
- Black Widow Strikes Again (1967) ... Citizen in Bank (uncredited)
1966 The Upper Hand - Charles Binnaggio
1964 The Patsy - George Raft
1964 For Those Who Think Young - Detective (uncredited)
1964 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Tango Dancer
- Episode #17.22 (1964) ... Tango Dancer
1962 Two Guys Abroad - Nightclub co-owner
1961 The Ladies Man - George Raft
1960 Ocean's 11 - Jack Strager

1955-1960 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Mike McCluskey / Ace Williams - Gangster / Big Jack - Speakeasy Operator / ...
- Cauliflower and the Syndicate (1960) ... Mike McCluskey
- Reporter Clem (1957) ... Ace Williams - Gangster
- Episode #5.4 (1955) ... Big Jack - Speakeasy Operator
- The Smog Czar (1955) ... Muggsy Lasagna - Gangster
1959 Jet Over the Atlantic - Stafford
1959 Some Like It Hot - Spats Colombo
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Barbary Coast Saloon Bouncer
1955 A Bullet for Joey - Joe Victor aka Steiner
1954 Black Widow - Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce
1954 Rogue Cop - Dan Beaumonte
1953 I'm the Law (TV Series) - Police Lt. George Kirby
- The Waterfront Story (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- Train to Auburn (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- The Button Story (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- Falling Star (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- Sob Sister (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
1953 The Man from Cairo - Mike Canelli
1952 I'll Get You - Steve Rossi
1952 Loan Shark - Joe Gargen
1951 Lucky Nick Cain - Nick Cain
1950 We Will All Go to Paris -George Raft

1949 A Dangerous Profession - Vince Kane
1949 Red Light - John Torno
1949 Johnny Allegro - Johnny Allegro
1949 Outpost in Morocco - Capt. Paul Gerard
1948 Race Street - Daniel J. 'Dan' Gannin
1947 Christmas Eve - Mario Torio
1947 Intrigue - Brad Dunham
1946 Nocturne - Police Lt. Joe Warne
1946 Mr. Ace - Eddie Ace
1946 Whistle Stop - Kenny Veech
1945 Johnny Angel - Johnny Angel
1945 Nob Hill - Tony Angelo
1944 Follow the Boys - Tony West
1943 Background to Danger - Joe Barton
1943 Stage Door Canteen - George Raft
1942 Broadway - George Raft
1941 Manpower - Johnny Marshall
1940 They Drive by Night - Joe Fabrini
1940 The House Across the Bay - Steve Larwitt

1939 Invisible Stripes - Cliff Taylor
1939 I Stole a Million - Joe Lourik
1939 Each Dawn I Die - 'Hood' Stacey
1939 The Lady's from Kentucky - Marty Black
1938 Spawn of the North - Tyler Dawson
1938 You and Me - Joe Dennis
1937 Souls at Sea - Powdah
1936 Yours for the Asking - Johnny Lamb
1936 It Had to Happen - Enrico Scaffa
1935 She Couldn't Take It - Joseph 'Spot' Ricardi
1935 Every Night at Eight - 'Tops' Cardona
1935 The Glass Key - Ed Beaumont
1935 Stolen Harmony - Ray Angelo, alias Ray Ferraro
1935 Rumba - Joe Martin
1934 Limehouse Blues - Harry Young
1934 The Trumpet Blows - Manuel Montes
1934 Bolero - Raoul De Baere
1934 All of Me - Honey Rogers
1933 The Bowery - Steve Brodie
1933 Midnight Club - Nick Mason
1933 Pick-up - Harry Glynn
1932 Under-Cover Man - Nick Darrow
1932 If I Had a Million - Eddie Jackson
1932 Night After Night - Joe Anton
1932 Madame Racketeer - Jack Houston
1932 Love Is a Racket - Sneaky (scenes deleted)
1932 Night World - Ed Powell
1932 Scarface - Guino Rinaldo
1932 Dancers in the Dark - Louie Brooks
1932 Taxi - William Kenny - Dance Contestant (uncredited)
1931 Palmy Days - Joe - Yolando's Henchman
1931 Hush Money - Maxie
1931 Goldie - Pickpocket (uncredited)
1931 Quick Millions - Jimmy Kirk

1929 Side Street - Georgie Ames - the Dancer (uncredited)
1929 Gold Diggers of Broadway - Dancer (uncredited)
1929 Queen of the Night Clubs - Gigola

1941: Martine Beswick is born--Port Antonio, Jamaica.

1964: The Los Angeles Times reports on Kevin McClory's deal with Eon on the Thunderball production.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and and Pola Ivanova in that hot tub.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 9 of 65 - "The Eiffel Missile" in Paris, France.

The Eiffel Missile

After encountering Skullcap in a daring airport escape, James Bond Jr. intercepts Dr. Derange's plans of launching a missile at the Eiffel Tower.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Doug Molitor ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Mercie Beaucoup (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

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2008: Smirnoff readies product tie-ins with the new Bond film.

Smirnoff shaken not stirred by new James Bond film
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“This powerful campaign emphasises
the premiumisation potential across
our vodka portfolio in the year ahead,”
says Diageo GTME Marketing
Director Nick Robinson

UK. Diageo-owned Smirnoff Vodka has announced its official partnership with the world’s most famous secret agent in the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, which is set for global release in November. The partnership will see James Bond-inspired initiatives from Smirnoff in markets worldwide.

The promotional campaign begins in October with the Travel Retail Smirnoff Black limited-edition cocktail shaker at the heart of the campaign. The stainless steel cocktail shaker encases a 70cl bottle of Smirnoff Black vodka.

Diageo GTME Marketing Director Nick Robinson said the campaign would provide “exceptional support” to the Smirnoff brand and enhance the in-store experience: “James Bond and Quantum of Solace provide the ideal opportunity to reach our key target market and enhance perceptions of the brand. This powerful campaign emphasises the premiumisation potential across our vodka portfolio in the year ahead.”

The global marketing campaign will include a broadcast advertising campaign, on- and off-premise promotions, a public relations campaign and digital campaign linked to the Smirnoff website (www.smirnoff.com).

“Almost half a century since the debut of the “˜shaken not stirred’ vodka martini, Smirnoff and James Bond are still the perfect match: two bold, iconic brands that epitomise originality and authenticity,” said Diageo Global Senior Vice-President Philip Gladman. “This renewed partnership gives vodka drinkers around the world a taste of the Bond lifestyle, from cocktails to prestigious VIP premieres.”

Produced by Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for EON Productions and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Quantum of Solace follows the last Bond film, Casino Royale, in which Smirnoff was also an official partner. The partnership marks almost 50 years of collaboration between the Smirnoff brand and the 007 franchise.

The brand made its original appearance alongside Bond in Dr No, the first James Bond movie, which premiered in 1962. Sean Connery’s request for a “martini, shaken not stirred” made with Smirnoff vodka helped change how people made 007’s favourite cocktail-from using traditional gin to making it vodka-based.

Inspired by Quantum of Solace, The Quantum of Solace and The Black Martini are the newest Smirnoff cocktails.

Smirnoff Black recipes –
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2013: Jonathan Cape publishes William Boyd's Bond novel Solo.

IT'S 1969, AND, HAVING JUST
celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James
Bond -- British special agent 007 -- is sum-
moned to headquarters to receive an un-
usual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West
African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter
civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the
rebels threatening the established regime.

Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start
of a feverish mission to discover the forces
behind this brutal war -- and he soon realizes
the situation is far from straightforward.
Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause
of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a
twisting conspiracy that extends further
than he ever imagined.

Moving from rebel battlefields in West
Africa to the closed doors of intelligence
office in London and Washington, this novel
is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted
story full of memorable characters and
breathtaking twists, and a masterful study
of power and how it is wielded -- a brilliant
addition to the James Bond canon.

WILLIAM BOYD
is also the author of A Good Man in Africa,
winner of the Whitbread Award and the
Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream
War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys
Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize;
Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the
Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunder-
storms; and Waiting for Sunrise; among other
books. He lives in London.

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2014: Jerry Alan dies at age 75--Tampa, Florida.
(Born 13 January 1939.)

James Bond Stuntman Jerry
Alan Dies

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James Bond stuntman Jerry Alan has lost his battle with throat and mouth cancer at the age of 75.

Alan passed away on 26 September (14).

He served as a stunt co-ordinator and stuntman in Hollywood for more than four decades, and is best known for his work on three Bond movies, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun and Casino Royale.

He also took his talents to the small screen, working on programmes such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The Dukes of Hazzard.

A U.S. Navy and Army veteran, Alan was also a founding member of the Florida Motion Picture and Television Association.

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2016: Dynamite Entertainment reveals artist Robert Hack's cover for Hammerhead #1, exclusive to CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund) Retailer Membership. One per store distribution, instantly rare.

2021: ITV airs the documentary Being James Bond.

Being James Bond

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Transmission (TX): Sun 26 Sep 2021
TX Confirmed - Yes
Time: 10.20pm - 11.15pm
Week: Week 39 2021 - Sat 25 Sep - Fri 01 Oct
Channel: ITV
Published: Thu 16 Sep 2021

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Being James Bond
In this special 45-minute retrospective, Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15-year adventure as James Bond.

Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, in the lead up to his final performance as James Bond.

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2021: The Royal Mint Die Trial Pieces Auction closes. Items offered include James Bond 2020 UK Quarter Ounce Gold Proof Struck in a quarter of an ounce of 999.9 fine.

The Royal Mint
Die Trial Pieces Auction

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Lot 20
Starting price: 440 GBP
Current bid: 900 GBP

James Bond, Shaken Not Stirred, 2020 UK Quarter Ounce Gold Proof
Struck in a quarter of an ounce of 999.9 fine gold
With an original design by Matt Dent and Christian Davies
Features Bond's famous tuxedo with a classic quote from the films
Produced in partnership with EON Productions Limited and Danjaq
Own a die trial piece that enabled us to produce coins of the highest quality
Hallmarked by the London Assay Office
Condition. Obverse: as struck. Reverse: tiny nick on shirt

Lot 21
Starting price: 2500 GBP
Current bid: 2600 GBP

James Bond, Bond, James Bond, 2020 UK One Ounce Gold Proof
Collect this die trial piece and own an important part of the minting process
Struck in an ounce of 999.9 fine gold
Features the classic Aston Martin DB5, which has been captured by Matt Dent and Christian Davies
Struck to Proof standard
Authenticated with a special high-security feature
An official licensed product produced in partnership with EON Productions Limited and Danjaq
Condition. As struck*

Lot 22
Starting price: 2500 GBP
Current bid: None

James Bond, Pay Attention 007, 2020 UK One Ounce Gold Proof
This trial piece is part of numismatic history and is authenticated with a special high-security feature
Features 'Wet Nellie' – the ultimate Bond gadget
A new design by Matt Dent and Christian Davies
Struck in an ounce of 999.9 fine gold and finished to Proof standard
An official licensed product produced in partnership with EON Productions Limited and Danjaq
Condition. Obverse: spotting above head. Reverse: blemish at 8 o'clock

2021: Scale model helicopter prop from You Only Live Twice sells at auction.

James Bond 007 Bell Model
Helicopter Sold for £25,300 in
Automobilia Sale
UK-US Bidding Tussle

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27/09/2021

A model of a Bell 47G Helicopter used in the filming of the James Bond classic ‘You Only Live Twice’ is for sale with H&H Classics in a timed auction that ended on Sunday September 26th. estimated to sell for an estimate of £18,000 to £22,000 was knocked down for £25,300. There were some 304 lots of highly collectable automobilia in the sale.

James Bond 007 Bell Helicopter
The buyer is a London based collector and the underbidder was from California the USA. There was very keen bidding throughout the sale.

Adam Sykes, Head of Automobilia at H&H Classics says: “This was a very important piece of British Film history so we were not surprised by the level of interest from around the world.”

He added: “This is a unique opportunity to purchase an important piece of James Bond Memorabilia with impeccable provenance, coinciding perfectly with the release of the eagerly-awaited 'No Time to Die' film.”

Over 95% of the lots on offer changed hands for in excess of £70,000 - A staggering 1,185 absentee bids were received.

The model helicopter is believed to be the last remaining, 007 Bell 47G Helicopter props out of four originals created and used in the movie. This model is significantly larger and more impressive than the only other example publicly sold. It measures a whopping 9 feet in length, dwarfing the other example sold at just 6 and a half feet in length. Julien’s Auctions, USA sold a smaller example (rumoured to have been for static promotional use only with zero screen time) for $23,040.00 in May 2014).

These four scaled-down helicopters were used in perhaps the most iconic of all James Bond action sequences where Sean Connery can be seen flying his Ken Wallis-built Auto Gyro (affectionately known as 'Little Nellie') through the mountains, closely pursued by four enemy Bell 47G helicopters in black.

James Bond 007 Bell Helicopter sold H&H Classics
Whilst this sequence was supposed to be taking place over Mount Fuji, the actual footage was captured in Spain and the UK's Pinewood studios. The main helicopter flight was filmed above the village of Ebino, where aerial photographer Johnny Jordan famously lost a leg when the blades of another helicopter struck him whilst passing too close. Filming was cancelled and later completed in the skies above Torremolinos, Spain.

The helicopter measures over 9 feet in length, 4 feet in height and was built for Pinewood Studios by an old friend of the seller that has sadly now passed away - Dave Niemen; he built many planes and other aircraft for TV and cinema many years ago. The helicopter was recovered after supposedly being shot down during filming and supporting documentation on file explains the 'recovery mission'.

The helicopter does not fly, but could be made to. The models were 'flown' using gantry cranes and arm extensions during filming - everything was mechanical during this period, so there was plenty of smoke and mirrors involved in this process.

The model is offered with a comprehensive selection of paperwork and meticulous research from the vendor.

2022: Stern Pinball displays James Bond 007 Pinball Machines at Christie’s Late, a public event celebrating Christie’s Sixty Years of James Bond Charity Auction.

Stern Pinball Announces New James Bond
007 Pinball Machines

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22.9.2022 16:00:00 CEST | Business Wire
Stern Pinball, Inc. launches a new line of pinball machines celebrating the iconic, genre-defining James Bond films. The James Bond 007 cornerstone series features the original 007 actor, Sean Connery, available in Pro Edition, Premium Edition, and Limited Edition (LE). Stern Pinball will also release a special James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machine featuring all six James Bond actors.

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In Dr. No (1962) Sean Connery propelled 007 into the cultural zeitgeist, bringing the legendary literary figure to life through adrenalized action sequences, ground-breaking gadgets and effects, memorable characters, and timeless villains.

Stern’s James Bond 007 cornerstone pinball machine will highlight film footage and iconic music from the films that built the 007 legend: Dr. No, From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Players are immersed into the world of espionage in this action-packed pinball experience, tackling assignments, teaming up with key allies, and stopping SPECTRE’s villainous schemes.

Gather gadgets from Q Branch as pinballs get ejected through the roof of a custom sculpted Aston Martin DB5. Break through the Osato Chemicals drop targets to battle SPECTRE at the Bird 1 rocket base. And hold your breath on the gravity defying, magnetic jetpack as it transports pinballs across the playfield.

James Bond 007 pinball machines include Stern’s award-winning Insider Connected™ system, which enables players to interact with the game and a global network of players in a variety of ways. Through Insider Connected, players can track progress, earn new game-specific achievements, engage with the player community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests. Insider Connected also provides an operator-focused toolset to drive location play through Location Leaderboards, build player loyalty, analyze performance, make adjustments remotely, and maintain the machines. Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com/.

Limited to 1,000 machines globally, the highly collectible cornerstone Limited Edition includes an exclusive full-color mirrored backglass inspired by Thunderball, masterfully adapted cabinet artwork, custom high gloss and powder-coated pinball armor, a custom designer-autographed bottom arch, exclusive inside art blades, upgraded audio system, anti-reflection pinball playfield glass, shaker motor, a sequentially numbered plaque, and a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Stern Chairman Gary Stern and President Seth Davis.

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September 27

1903: Leonard Barra (Leonard Barr) is born--West Virginia.
(He dies 22 November 1980 at age 77--West Hollywood, California.)

Leonard Barr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Barr

Barr in Diamonds Are Forever, 1971

Birth name Leonard Barra
Born September 27, 1903, West Virginia, U.S.
Died November 22, 1980 (aged 77), Burbank, California, U.S.
Medium Stand-up, television, film
Years active 1970–1980
Genres One-liners
Relative(s) Dean Martin (nephew)
Notable works and roles Diamonds Are Forever

Leonard Barr (born Leonard Barra; September 27, 1903 – November 22, 1980) was an American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer.

Barr appeared several times with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis when they hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour. He had a brief role in The Sting, appropriately as a burlesque comic. That is also the way his character is listed in the credits—as an anonymous comedian. However, in the wings of the stage just before the comic's entrance, he has a brief conversation with Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford), who addresses him as "Leonard".

He is perhaps best remembered internationally for his appearance in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he played Shady Tree, a stand-up comedian and smuggler in Las Vegas who was assassinated by henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. He also appeared in The Odd Couple usually in the non-dialogue New York street scenes in the first season or 5 episodes later in 1975 with dialogue and, albeit unnamed, on an episode of M*A*S*H as a USO comedian. He also made numerous guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Cameron Crowe briefly depicted Barr as a foul-mouthed real-life character in Almost Famous, his semi-autobiographical film of 2000.

Personal life
He was the uncle of Dean Martin (being the brother of Dean Martin's mother Angela).

Death
The 77-year-old Leonard Barr suffered a stroke on October 28, 1980, in his hotel room in West Hollywood and died on November 22, 1980, in a hospital in Burbank, California.

Leonard Barr (1903–1980)
Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056536/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

Filmography

Actor (14 credits)

1981 Under the Rainbow - Pops
1980 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series) - Comic
- Pilot: Part 1 (1980) ... Comic

1979 Skatetown, U.S.A. - 1977-1978 Szysznyk (TV Series)
Leonard Kriegler
- Youth of the Year (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- Norton's Head Trip (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- Hell on Wheels (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- A Star Is Burned (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- You Stomped on My Heart (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
1978 Battered (TV Movie) - Prof. Jeremiah Hayden
1977 Record City - Sickly Man
1977 Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (TV Movie) - Hospital Roommate
1976 The Tony Randall Show (TV Series) - Bellhop
- Case: His Honor vs. Her Honor (1976) ... Bellhop
1975 Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) - Proprietor
- To See the World (1975) ... Proprietor
1970-1975 The Odd Couple (TV Series) - Walter / Stickman / Mayor / ...
- Old Flames Never Die (1975) ... Walter
- The Hollywood Story (1974) ... Stickman / Mayor
- To Bowl or Not to Bowl (1974) ... Arnold
- Lovers Don't Make House Calls (1971) ... Panhandler (uncredited)
- Oscar's Ulcer (1970) ... Old Playful Boxer on the Street (uncredited)
1973 The Sting - Burlesque House Comedian
1972 Evil Roy Slade (TV Movie) - Crippled Man
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Shady Tree
1970 Love, American Style (TV Series) - Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")
- Love and the Big Date/Love and the Longest Night (1970) ... Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1967 The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.25 (1967) ... (performer: "Crazy Rhythm" - uncredited)
1959 Gangster Story (music: "The Itch for Scratch")

1979: Agente 007, Moonraker: operazione spazio (Agent 007, Moonraker: Operation Space) released in Italy.

1982: Never Say Never Again filming begins on the French Riviera.

1982: Octopussy films Gobinda attacking Bond and Vijay.
1985: 007 – Alvo em Movimento (007 - Moving Target) released in Portugal.

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1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 10 of 65 - "A Worm in the Apple" in New York.

James Bond Jr - "A Worm in the Apple" Episode 10

When Phoebe invites James to the official opening of New York's Mile High Skyscraper, he encounters the Worm, a terrorist bent on sinking the city.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love.
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / The Worm / Snitch (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 10 A Worm in the Apple, New York City, New York.

2015: The Telegraph prints an article "Meet the real Q: the unsung heroes of Bond" giving detail to Peter Fleming, James Bond, Robert Brownjohn, Dame Victoire Evelyn Patricia Bennett, and Geoffrey Boothroyd.

Meet the real Q: the unsung heroes of Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/unsung-heroes-real-life/

Telegraph Film 27 September 2015
Who outshone Ian Fleming, put the gold into Goldfinger and gave James his name?

1. Peter Fleming, adventurer
Ian's older brother: explorer, travel writer, and creator of a blueprint Bond. By Robert Ryan

The alligator lurking beneath the surface of Brazil's Araguaya river was certainly an impressive beast, the largest the English explorers had seen. Because it was dark, though, none of the party in the canoe could be certain of its exact length. After a number of wild guesses, they decided to settle the matter with a tape measure. From their dugout they fired three .375 rounds into the animal's skull and dragged it onto the bank.

The explorers then went to bed. At some point in the night the 'gator revived and lunged at its tormentors. One of the Englishmen, who would later retell this story in the book that would make him famous, rolled out of bed, grabbed a revolver and helped pump six more bullets into the alligator's skull.

It is just as well Peter Fleming lived to tell the tale, and tell it so well. For had this cocky young man succumbed to the perils of the Brazilian jungle, James Bond might well have been stillborn.

Peter Fleming, brother of James Bond creator Ian, was a successful travel writer

There was a time when Peter was more famous than Ian could hope to be, both as a writer and as a man who had married one of the most admired actresses of stage and screen.

Peter not only wrote the blueprint for the Bond books, but also godfathered 007's debut in Casino Royale and named one of the series' most memorable characters. Yet, by the mid-1950s Ian had eclipsed his achievements, to the point today where Peter receives only walk-on parts in his brother's biography. This is a shame, because along the way he wrote some of the finest, and funniest, travel books ever produced.

In some ways, though, Peter helped create his brother. Born into the Fleming banking family in 1907, he set a high intellectual standard as he blazed through Eton and glided smoothly towards Oxford. Ian, a year younger, seemed to have decided that, rather than compete academically with his brilliant and clubbable brother, he would find another outlet. This he did by excelling in athletics and by cultivating an air of disdain and a dilettante lifestyle.

While Ian was struggling as a stockbroker, Peter – then aged 24 and working as assistant literary editor at The Spectator – came upon the small ad that would catapult him to fame. The notice, in the Times classifieds, read: 'Exploring and sporting expedition, under experienced guidance, leaving England June, to explore rivers Central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Fawcett; abundance game, big and small; exceptional fishing; Room Two More Guns.'

Shooting was Peter's greatest passion; solving the mystery of Colonel Fawcett, who had disappeared in the jungle in 1925 while searching for a fabled lost city, would be the icing on the cake. Although the expedition failed, the resulting book, Brazilian Adventure, made Peter's name. Written in a surprisingly modern tone, it details how its members split into opposing camps, who ended up racing each other back down the Amazon. The first to make the cable station at the coast would get the chance to put out its own version of the story. Fleming won and gained a career as a travel writer.
Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in mysterious circumstances in 1925

Brazilian Adventure shows its imperial age in its superior attitude to the natives, and in the way Peter resolves certain situations. When one of his companions is about to thump the drunken river pilot, he intervenes: 'You don't hit your butler, do you?'

Just before leaving for Brazil in May 1932, Peter had fallen in love with an aspiring actress, Celia Johnson. Kate Grimond, her daughter and biographer, characterised him as 'handsome and romantic' but also 'a little ham-fisted in company'. He was also restless and, as Ian later described him, 'a law unto himself'. His relationship with Celia survived the separation and further trips abroad, which would provide material for books such as One's Own Company and News from Tartary.

By the time war came Peter was married to Celia, with an estate in Oxfordshire and a son, Nicholas. His brother's wartime career in intelligence has been painstakingly picked over, but Peter was a spook, too. Initially, he created lairs in Kent for resistance units in case of invasion and wrote a book called The Flying Visit, a farcical vision of Hitler crash landing in Britain. After adventures in Norway, Egypt and Greece, he found himself in Delhi in 1942, working for Military Intelligence (Deception). Like Ian, his job was to dream up schemes to fox the enemy. One of his ruses was the planting of a case apparently belonging to Wavell, abandoned during the retreat from Burma, and indicating to the Japanese that India was more strongly defended than it actually was.

Peter returned home in 1945, in time for the premiere of his wife's only iconic film, Brief Encounter. Shortly after the birth of his second daughter, Lucy, in 1947, he fell from his horse and suffered a crushed pelvis. There would be no more travel books set in far-flung places. The waning of Peter had begun – and the waxing of Ian Fleming.

But it was Peter who got in first with an espionage novel. The Sixth Column was written the year before Casino Royale and appeared in 1952. It features an author who writes about a secret agent called Colonel Hackforth. He appears in 'thrillers with violent, and to say the least of it, curious events ... which had far-reaching international implications'. If only Peter had written the books-within-the-book for, with the addition of a little sex and sadism, this could be a blueprint for Bond. The novel is dedicated to Ian so it is ironic that once the Hackforth-ish 007 appeared, he blew Peter's literary career out of the water.

Jonathan Cape, the publisher, was ambivalent about Casino Royale. According to Andrew Lycett, Ian's biographer, he described it as 'not up to scratch' and said: '[He's] got to do much better if he is to get anywhere near Peter's standard.' But Peter, one of Cape's best-selling authors, gently persuaded him to take it. He also donated the name of a character: in an early draft of Casino Royale, M's secretary was called Miss Pettaval; Peter suggested 'Moneypenny'. And he helped out by checking the manuscripts, with such fastidiousness that Ian called him 'Dr Nitpick'.

There was, however, a second literary wind for Peter. His work on the resistance networks meant he was well placed to write a book about Nazi plans for the conquest of England. Invasion 1940 was a bestseller and he subsequently wrote other historical works, but for the most part he contented himself with estate management, journalism and hunting. He was out seeking grouse when Ian died on 12 August, 1964.

Seven years later, at the age of 64, he suffered a heart attack while shooting in Scotland. The rest of the party decided that he had died happy and carried on up the beats to complete their day's sport. It's exactly what this forgotten Fleming would have wanted.

2. The original James Bond
How James Bond – the handsome, charming, highly intelligent ornithologist – gave Fleming's spy his name. By Horatia Harrod

James Bond, ornithologist, whose name was taken by Ian Fleming for his super-spy
Credit: David R. Contosta

In the mid-1960s, a middle-aged Philadelphian ornithologist and his wife began to be plagued by anonymous phone calls from teenage girls.

The man they were calling had the misfortune to be called James Bond, but unlike many others whose lives had been made a misery through an accident of naming, this one had the distinction of being the "real" James Bond. As Fleming explained to Rogue magazine in 1961, "There really is a James Bond, but he's an American ornithologist, not a secret agent. I'd read a book of his b][i]Birds of the West Indies[/i][/b and when I was casting around for a natural-sounding name for my hero, I recalled the book and lifted the author's name outright."

In many aspects of his life – his good looks, upper-class background, Cambridge education, rejection of a dull career in investment banking – Bond was not unlike his literary double.

James Bond's Birds of the West Indies

In 1961, his wife, Mary, went into action, writing Fleming a letter which ended: "I tell my J.B. he could sue you for defamation of character but he regards the whole thing as a joke."

Fleming wrote back to explain himself: "I was determined that my secret agent should be as anonymous a personality as possible; even his name should be the very reverse of the kind of Peregrine Carruthers who one meets in this type of fiction ... [Bond's] name – brief, unromantic and yet very masculine – was just what I needed."

In 1966 Mary published a book, How 007 Got his Name. And she came up with a good line for the anonymous callers: "Yes," she would say, "James is here. But this is Pussy Galore and he's busy now."

3. Robert Brownjohn, designer
The debonair, drug-addicted designer who created iconic Bond title sequences. By Sam Delaney

Robert Brownjohn (centre) working with Margaret Nolan on the 'Goldfinger' title sequence
Credit: Mafalda Spencer

The Bond producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman first met Robert Brownjohn in a Soho screening theatre in 1963. They had invited him to pitch ideas for the title sequence for From Russia with Love. Brownjohn produced a collection of 35mm slides from his pocket and loaded them into a carousel. Dimming the lights, he took off his shirt and began to dance, allowing the projected images to glance and shimmer across his booze-inflated torso. 'It'll be just like this!' he announced to the stunned movie-makers. 'Except we'll use a pretty girl!'

This bizarre spectacle set an enduring template for the James Bond aesthetic. It might not have looked sexy at the time, but Broccoli and Saltzman had enough imagination to commission the idea for a modest £850. Brownjohn hired a studio, some camera equipment and a belly dancer.

Initial efforts to project the names of the film's cast and crew over the gyrating dancer's body proved unsuccessful. The letter forms were unreadable and, eventually, she fled after being asked to lift her skirt. Brownjohn replaced her with a snake dancer called Julie Mendes and managed to find a way of focusing the credits more clearly onto her naked flesh. A separate model was hired to gaze into the camera with '007' projected onto her face. Like much of Brownjohn's work, the finished sequence was bizarre, sexually charged and thoroughly innovative.

Brownjohn had arrived in London in 1960, having made a name for himself as a graphic designer in New York. His heroin use had spiralled out of control and he'd heard that Britain offered free treatment and prescriptions to registered addicts. 'I met him off the boat train,' said Alan Fletcher, the London designer. 'He'd tried to go cold turkey on the way over and it had been a rough journey. He looked like s---.'

Despite having no previous experience in advertising, Brownjohn was hired as creative director of J. Walter Thompson's London office. 'He liked a drink in the afternoon, often to deal with the hangover from the night before,' said Fletcher. 'But he got paid vast sums of money compared with the rest of us because he was so smart and entertaining. Agencies were just happy to have him around, wheeling him out for clients once in a while.'

'He instilled an excitement in everyone around him,' says film director Adrian Lyne, who worked under Brownjohn at Thompson's. 'He had been a junkie and was friends with Miles Davis. I was infatuated with this man. He was immensely talented.' He defied the stereotype of the unassuming designer hunched day and night over his desk, becoming a central figure in the King's Road scene of the 1960s: Michael Caine, Terence Stamp and David Bailey would attend the parties thrown by his production company.

When Goldfinger went into production in 1964, Brownjohn demanded that his budget for the title sequences be increased to £5,000. 'That's how much it cost,' said his animation assistant Trevor Bond. 'You never made a profit [with Brownjohn]. He always used all the budget and went over the top.'

For Goldfinger, he decided to project imagery as well as words onto the body of the model Margaret Nolan, whom he painted gold from head to toe. As Nolan struck seductive poses, a miniature Sean Connery was seen crawling along her thighs, and a golf ball disappeared between her breasts. Explosions, car chases and bullets shimmered across Nolan's contours as Shirley Bassey belted out the seminal theme tune. It was the first title sequence to require clearance from a film censor; the following year, it won the prestigious gold pencil at the Design and Art Direction awards.

Broccoli and Saltzman offered to set up Brownjohn in his own independent production company to make all their future titles. When he turned them down, the relationship soured. He died in 1970, aged 44, having never worked on another Bond movie. But his title sequences set the tone for the entire Bond series. More, he showed young British designers that creative endeavour could be reconciled with an almost Bond-like lifestyle. (Words by Sam Delaney)

4. Moneypenny's double
How Dame Victoire Evelyn Patricia Bennett outshone her literary twin. By Horatia Harrod

Lois Maxwell's Moneypenny (left) was partly based on Dame Victoire Evelyn Patricia Bennett (right)
Credit: PIERLUIGI / Rex Features; Christine Boyd

The relationship between truth and fiction is rarely straightforward, but Bond enthusiasts are always eager to read Fleming's books as autobiography. Was Admiral John Godfrey the real M? Or Claude Dansey? Or Maxwell Knight?

And what of Miss Moneypenny, Bond's loyal, lovelorn secretary? One of the main contenders as inspiration for the role was Dame Victoire Evelyn Patricia Bennett – "Dame Paddy", as she liked to be known – who worked as Fleming's secretary in Room 39, a secret part of the Admiralty Building, during the Second World War.

Speaking months before her death in December 2009, at home in South Kensington, she claimed to have been nonplussed by the Bond association. For one thing, she was never in love with Fleming: "Things were so different then, " she said. "Now you look at a man and you're supposed to go to bed with him. It wasn't so in our world; it was an innocent world in that sense. " However, just to be safe she "always kept him at arm's length".

As a 19-year-old working in Naval Intelligence, she was a resourceful, quick young woman caught up in "the agony and ecstasy" of the war. It was Dame Paddy who wrote fake love letters to be placed in the jacket of "The Man Who Never Was" – the corpse commandeered by British Intelligence and washed up on a Spanish shore as part of a ruse to mislead the Germans about Allied war plans.

No wonder she couldn't see the comparison: the moony Moneypenny hardly does justice to the daring Dame Paddy.

5. Geoffrey Boothroyd, the real Q
The gun expert who banned Bond from carrying a 'lady's gun'. By Horatia Harrod

Geoffrey Boothroyd pictured with James Bond creator Ian Fleming

For Geoffrey Boothroyd, at the time an engineering analyst, but later the world's leading authority on shotguns and author of the seminal 1961 work, Gun Collecting, it was an impropriety akin to putting Bond in a cocktail dress, or making his signature drink a Cosmopolitan.

'Dear Mr Fleming,' he wrote after reading Casino Royale, 'I wish to point out that a man in James Bond's position would never consider using a .25 Beretta. It's really a lady's gun – and not a very nice lady at that! Dare I suggest that Bond should be armed with a .38 or a nine millimetre – let's say a German Walther PPK? That's far more appropriate.'

The Walther PPK used by Sean Connery in From Russia with Love, 1963
Credit: John Taylor

This was the beginning of a correspondence that would turn Boothroyd, a portly Glaswegian, into James Bond's armourer, 'Major Boothroyd' – 'the greatest small-arms expert in the world', as he's described in Dr No.

And Major Boothroyd would later become known as Q, the gadgets expert played with such delightful exasperation by Desmond Llewelyn in 17 Bond films. Boothroyd also gave invaluable service as weapons adviser on From Russia With Love, explaining the best way to blow up a helicopter.

Ian Fleming's letter of thanks to Geoffrey Boothroyd

He then returned to his vast library of black-and-white negatives of guns being manufactured, loaded, fired and admired, his column at Shooting Times and his study of Scottish pistols, safe in the knowledge that he had spared Fleming's – and Bond's – blushes.

Time left to wait until Spectre's UK release date:
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2017: Hugh Hefner dies at age 91--Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 9 April 1926--Chicago, Illinois.)

Review of The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian
Fleming and Playboy Magazine (2018), by Claire
Hines

https://jamesbondstudies.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.24877/jbs.48/
Author: Kevin McCarron

Abstract
A Review of The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine (2018), by Claire Hines.

McCarron, K. (2019). Review of The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming and Playboy Magazine (2018), by Claire Hines. International Journal of James Bond Studies, 2(1). DOI: http://doi.org/10.24877/jbs.48
PDF https://jamesbondstudies.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/jbs.48/galley/31/download/

The Playboy and James Bond:
007, Ian Fleming and Playboy
Magazine, by Claire Hines
(Manchester University Press, 2018, pp. 209)

Toward the end of her book, Claire Hines quotes from Playboy magazine upon the release of Skyfall in 2012: “Fifty years of Bond films forever changed the definition of the modern man, and Playboy has been with 007 every step of the way – publishing Ian Fleming, photographing the Bond girls and celebrating the lavish lifestyle” (193-194). Hines does an impressive, very meticulous job of tracing these steps: from 1953 to 2017. Like other commentators on Bond she notes that Casino Royale was published in 1953, the same year that Hugh Hefner launched Playboy. Hines is more interested in the films than in the novels, but she writes well on generic precedent in Fleming’s novels and suggests Bond is a less clubbable and far less amiable character than those of Dornford Yates and “Sapper”, in particular. She also notes that Playboy had its roots in Esquire magazine but took advantage of (and, indeed, helped to create) a more complicit zeitgeist in order to emphasise female sexuality far more than its predecessor had been able, or willing, to do. Playboy also benefited from an America affluent as never before and in need of sophisticated guidance in how to spend that money. Hines writes detailed and illuminating chapters on such issues as “the literary Bond”, “the consumer Bond”, and “Bond women” and is always tightly focused on the relationship between the Bond novels and films and the ideology and the marketing strategies of Playboy. She is, on the whole, more interested in economics than in politics, but then so are Bond and Playboy.

The magazine devoted a lot of time to Bond, in all his manifestations, and was the first American publication to print one of Fleming’s stories, “The Hildebrand Rarity”, in March 1960. The book is full of interesting insights into just how the Bond phenomenon and Playboy are connected; although it was only really ever on the surface and almost entirely in terms of male consumerism. Although Playboy was never quite as superficial and shallow as its numerous detractors have claimed over the decades (Hines notes the numerous, celebrated literary figures who published work and submitted to interviews in the magazine), Playboy did use Bond to sell: luggage, vodka, watches, gadgets, male grooming, especially razors and after shave, clothes, even leisure and holidays; although Bond himself in the novels or in the films is rarely described as being on holiday or even enjoying a weekend break, and never an uninterrupted one. Playboy was particularly interested in using Bond to promote the luxury car market. The value of Bond is summed up very well in a comment made by an Aston Martin executive in 1965, following the release of Goldfinger: “the publicity value of the Bond DB5 has been greater than the amassed value of all the racing the company has done from the beginning” (90). Playboy sold to men who could afford expensive cars and watches and clothes (or certainly aspired to) because they had no domestic responsibilities. Playboy was, overall, hostile to marriage and Bond’s bachelor status was inseparable from his appeal for such readers; he satisfied the perennial male desire to enjoy sexual pleasure without any emotional entanglement. The inseparable commodifcation of women suited the ethos of the magazine and there is an interesting intertextual photograph of George Lazenby holding up the February 1969 Playboy centrefold from the film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). There is considerable irony in the image as in this film, of course, the committed bachelor does actually marry, albeit only for a few idyllic hours.

Hines quotes effectively throughout from established Bond scholars such as James Chapman and Jeremy Black, Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum, and from a range of cultural commentators such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Umberto Eco, as well as from Playboy historian Bill Osgerby. There are, of course, differences between Bond and the implied reader of Playboy. Although cartoons were a vert important part of the magazine’s appeal Hines has little to say about them; sensibly, as Bond is virtually devoid of humour. Playboy actively encouraged men to cook, if only on the grounds that it made seducing women easier, but Bond has very little interest in actually cooking; he is almost entirely a consumer of excellent food and wine. Hines notes that while Playboy was initially sympathetic to the hippie movement of the late 1960s, endorsing its rejection of bourgeois morality, it eventually joined Bond in its dismissal, even contempt, for long-haired radicals. The perceived dirtiness of the hippies and, just as importantly, their aversion to work rendered them unacceptable to the dedicated, well groomed, always-showering Bond, as well as to the clean, solvent, hard-working Playboy reader.

What Hines cannot reconcile (and nobody could) is the unbridgeable distance between the pleasure-loving, aspirational readers of Playboy and Bond’s ruthlessness and occasional cruelty. The “lavish lifestyle” that Playboy admires so much in Bond’s life, and sells to its readers, is predicated on an ideological position unimaginable to the readers of the magazine. Bond’s occasional hedonism is that of a man who can expect to be killed any day in the service of his country. Carpe diem is an acceptable motto for Bond; less so for aspirational consumers in the most affluent nation on earth. Not only is Bond a killer, but he always works tirelessly, skillfully, and resourcefully for something far greater than himself. His relationship with M and with England is impressively uncomplicated; Bond is a patriot and a puritan. Ultimately, though, both Bond and Playboy’s readers do share a respect for hard work and, crucially, for enjoying the fruits of that labour. In this sense, Bond has a great deal more in common with Americans than he does with the British, and his enormous appeal there has as much to do with this mutual work ethic as it does with the girls, the gadgets, and the guns.

James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch

https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch

Dec 5, 2018

It's the British operative as
you've never seen him in this
exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007
adventure

Written by Jeff Parker, Illustrations Bob Q

James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.

2020: The Scottish Sun reports on a Pinewood Studios plan for a Bond-Star Wars-Jurassic Park themed attraction.

MOVIE MANIA Pinewood Studios set to
build £450 million James Bond, Star Wars
and Jurassic Park themed attraction

See the complete article here:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/travel/6094549/bond-star-wars-jurassic-park-attraction-pinewood/

Andy Crick | 27 Sep 2020

A TOURIST attraction themed on James Bond, Jurassic Park and Star Wars is being planned for Pinewood Studios.

The £450 million park — next to the site where the hit movies were filmed — could create 3,500 jobs.

The new £450 million park will be themed on James Bond, Jurassic Park and Star Wars
Credit: PA:Press Association

Pinewood chiefs want to create a “screen industries global growth hub” at the site in Iver Heath, Bucks, that will pump £230million into the UK economy every year.

Their plans include a 350,000 sq ft film-inspired attraction called Pinewood Studio Experience.

It will rival the Harry Potter Studio Tours in nearby Leavesden, Herts.

Pinewood Group Chairman Paul Golding said: “The Government and Buckinghamshire LEP have recognised Pinewood Studios as a major economic asset to be enhanced with the creation of a screen growth hub for the UK.

“We are pleased to be able to respond with this scheme.

“We have been looking at a visitor experience for some time and feel that now is the right moment to bring it forward.

“The project will strengthen UK film and bring much needed jobs and spending.

"We hope our planning application will receive widespread support.”

RichardTheBruce

September 28th

1959: Producer Kevin McClory cables partner Ivar Bryce on the successful meeting of writer Jack Whittingham with Ian Fleming on the Thunderball film project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 6 - Enter Jack Whittingham

Quickly Whittingham was introduced to Fleming and it was a huge success. The
two got on so well that McClory cabled Bryce with the positive news on 28
September: "Excellent meeting Ian and Whittingham. Ian would like
Whittingham start work immediately. Meeting his agent Monday. Regards
Kevin." It looked like an exhaustive search for the perfect screenwriter for the
Bond story was finally at an end.

1961: A second draft of the Dr. No screenplay loses the monkey.
1964: Desde Rusia con amor released in Spain. (Catalan title Des de Russia amb Amor.)

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1966: The Los Angeles Times reports on filming difficulties with presenting Japanese amas (divers), filming Connery in public, and an incident damaging 14th Century Himeji Castle.

1994: Harry Saltzman dies at age 78--Paris, France.
(Born 27 October 1915--Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.)

Obituaries
Harry Saltzman, 78, Bond-Film Producer

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html
SEPT. 29, 1994

Harry Saltzman, who with Albert R. Broccoli produced early James Bond films like "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger," died yesterday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a Paris suburb. He was 78 and lived in a village near Versailles.

The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Adriana.

He was born on Oct. 27, 1915, in New Brunswick, Canada, and was brought to the United States as an infant. He entered the film business in the mid-1940's and made his name in Britain with hard-hitting social dramas, including "Look Back in Anger" in 1958 and "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in 1960.

Mr. Saltzman and Mr. Broccoli rounded up the screen rights to practically all of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and began the film series in the early 1960's. The two struck it rich with the highly profitable movies, most of which starred Sean Connery as Agent 007. Their Bond films included "From Russia With Love," "Thunderball," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "The Man With the Golden Gun." The partnership ended in the mid-1970's.

Among Mr. Saltzman's other productions were "The Entertainer," "The Ipcress File," "Funeral in Berlin" and "The Battle of Britain."

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Steven, of Paris; two daughters, Hilary, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Merry, of Marina del Rey, Calif., and a sister, Mina Reizes of Reseda, Calif.

September 29, 1994, Page 00012 The New York Times Archives

Harry Saltzman (1915–1994)

Filmography

Producer (28 credits)

1988 Time of the Gypsies (co-producer)
1980 Nijinsky (executive producer)

1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (producer)
1973 Live and Let Die (producer)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (producer)
1970 Nijinsky: Unfinished Project (producer)
1970 Toomorrow (producer)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (producer)
1969 Battle of Britain (producer)
1969 Play Dirty (producer)
1967 Billion Dollar Brain (producer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (producer)
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1967 Shock Troops (presents)
1966 Funeral in Berlin (executive producer)
1965 Chimes at Midnight (producer)
1965 Thunderball (executive producer - uncredited)
1965 A Man Named John (producer)
1965 The Ipcress File (producer)
1964 Goldfinger (producer)
1963 From Russia with Love (producer)
1963 Call Me Bwana (executive producer)
1962 Dr. No (producer)
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (executive producer)
1960 The Entertainer (producer)
1959 Look Back in Anger (producer)
1956 The Iron Petticoat (produced in association with)
1955 Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (TV Series) (producer)

Production manager (1 credit)

1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) (production supervisor - 9 episodes)
- The Citadel (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Champion (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Rebecca (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Pitfall (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Phantom Lady (1950) ... (production supervisor)

Writer (1 credit)

1956 The Iron Petticoat (story - uncredited)

2008: "Another Way to Die" enters the UK Singles Chart at twenty-six, later peaking at number nine.

2012: Christie’s of London for its 50th anniversary charity begins an online auction of EON's Bond memorabilia that runs through 8 October. Includes donations from cast and crew.

https://www.christies.com/SaleLanding/index.aspx?intsaleid=24129&lid=1&saletitle=

2012: Promotional materials for the documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 become available, anticipating its 5 October premiere on EPIX.

2019: Omega plans a wristwatch tie-in to No Time to Die. Production: 7007.

Omega's latest $6,500 Bond tribute watch is full of
surprises

https://www.esquireme.com/content/39391-omegas-latest-6500-bond-tribute-watch-is-full-of-surprises
Celebrating the 50th birthday of one of the classic 007 films

26 September 2019
Josh Corder

With the release of ‘No Time to Die’ looming, Omega and 007 have once again come together to bring Bond fans a collectable timepiece.

Perhaps to the dismay of Ian Flemming, the creator of James Bond who always had the spy wear a Rolex, 007 and Omega have been best buds for almost 25 years now. Starting with GoldenEye in 1995, Bond has since used an Omega to stay sharp, tell time, and occasionally get himself out of torture situations. While the newest watch may not be able to help with that last one, it will certainly have you looking sharp.

1969 is a year Omega will bring up at dinner parties (and press releases) till the end of time. It’s the year that its Speedmaster became the first watch on the moon, and since this year is the 50th anniversary of that achievement, Omega has been celebrating in a big way with numerous special editions.

If however the Speedmaster isn’t your thing, or just you want to add another collection to your watch winder, turn your attention to the Seamaster collection. Namely, the new Bond-ified Seamaster Diver 300m. Similarly, this watch is also celebrating a 50th birthday, this time with the 1969 007 film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’.

The 42mm steel diver features a black ceramic dial and bezel, the dial itself uses the iconic spiral-brushed gun barrel design and 9mm bullet head at the centre, as seen in the intro of Bond films. This is far from the only Bond tribute however.

The indexes and hands are made from yellow gold, with the 12 o’clock index sporting the Bond family coat-of-arms. Turn your attention to the 6 o’clock, the integrated date window hides a surprise. On the seventh of every month, the font of the date window swaps to the same as used in 007. The side of the case has a small engraved plate showing which watch in the limited series you’ve got your hands on. The watch has been limited to 7,007 pieces.

Switch the lights off and the Superluminova on the dial reveals one final surprise; the 10 o’clock index has a hidden ‘50’ within it in reference to 50 years since the cinematic debut of ‘On Her Majesty’s Service’.

Beyond its romantic tributes, the Seamaster is a no-nonsense diver, it has 300m of water resistance, a uni-direction bezel and Omega’s co-axial escapement movement, reducing friction and increasing accuracy of the watch’s inner workings.

President and CEO of Omega, Raynald Aeschlimann, described the new Seamaster as: “A fitting tribute to a classic Bond film and one of cinema’s most iconic characters. This extraordinary watch is elegant, full of surprises and sure to be extremely popular with collectors and fans of the character, due to its many Bond-related features.”

Faithful to its purpose as a divers’ watch, the piece comes on a rubber strap or adjustable metal strap. For US $6,500, the timepiece comes in a black box with gun barrel patterns and bullet head buttons.

2021: No Time To Die World Premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London.

2021: No Time To Die premiere at the Zurich Film Festival, Switzerland.

RichardTheBruce

September 29th

1931: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg is born--Malmö Municipality, Skåne län, Sweden.
(She dies 11 January 2015 at age 83--Rocca di Papa, Italy.)

Anita Ekberg - obituary

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11338898/Anita-Ekberg-obituary.html
Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress who found fame cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Fellini’s La Dolce Vita

Anita Ekberg in Back from Eternity (1956) Photo: Allstar Picture Library

8:35PM GMT 11 Jan 2015

Anita Ekberg, who has died aged 83, was the statuesque former Miss Sweden who became a global film sensation after cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). Although demure and innocent by today’s standards, the scene caused a scandal and made the 29-year-old Swede a household name.

Some gossip columnists sniffily nicknamed her “The Iceberg” due to her Scandinavian roots, yet her dramatic décolletage, glowering good looks and vivacious delivery proved an enticing and popular combination with cinema audiences of the Sixties.

Director Frank Tashlin, who directed her in the 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust – the pun was intended – claimed that Anita Ekberg’s appeal lay in “the immaturity of the American male: this breast fetish. There’s nothing more hysterical to me than big-breasted women, like walking, leaning towers.”

Anita Ekberg was indeed a teetering tower. She was 5ft 7in tall and possessed a considerable bust, of which she once said: “It’s not cellular obesity, it’s womanliness.” Yet in the same year that Tashlin had typecast her, Ekberg showed that she could really act, if given the opportunity, when she played Hélène Kuragin, the unfaithful wife of Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda) in King Vidor’s epic War and Peace. However, she was fully aware that her allure was centred on her physicality. “I have a mirror,” she said in the late Sixties, “I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t know I am beautiful.”

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29 1931 in Malmö, Sweden, one of a large family (she had seven siblings). As a youngster she had no desire to be famous. She wanted to marry and settle down to a conventional life. A childhood pleasure was to draw and fashion clothes.

Out walking one day, a talent scout spotted her and persuaded her to enter the Miss Universe contest. Winning as Miss Sweden, she gained a trip to Hollywood. A screen test did not bring much work and she returned home disheartened. However, she was determined to make good as an actress and began saving for a return trip.

Her break came when Bob Hope chose her to accompany him on a Christmas tour of American air force bases in Greenland in 1954. Studio moguls soon heard about the roars of approval for Anita and offered her a contract. She had small uncredited roles in films such as The Mississippi Gambler, Abbott and Costello go to Mars and The Golden Blade, before winning supporting parts in Artists and Models (1955) and Blood Alley (1955; playing a Chinese girl). Her first lead came in Back from Eternity (1956). By this time she was being touted as “Paramount’s Marilyn Monroe”.

Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita (Kobal Collection)

She moved to London in the mid-Fifties but was lonely and hardly left her hotel. Having refused dozens of invitations to premieres, something impelled her to finally accept one offer. Her escort turned out to be Anthony Steel, a matinee idol alumnus of the “Rank School”. They were married in 1956.

In her first British film, Zarak (1956), she met her match in Victor Mature. Playing a native dancer, with a few spangles and bangles judiciously placed, who falls in love with Mature’s hulking Zarak Khan. The film left audiences wondering who had the bigger chest. She teamed up again with Mature the following year for the thriller Interpol.

At this time her marriage to Steel was rarely out of the headlines, with reports of drunken driving, rows and violent recriminations. Eventually the union completely soured and they divorced after three years.

Anita Ekberg with her first husband Anthony Steel (REX)

She did not have time to mourn the marriage. Her performance in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita the following year made her a star. Shot in Rome at a time when the Italian obsession with celebrity was at its height, she played the starlet Sylvia opposite Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering paparazzo journalist. The part fixed her in audience’s minds as the European blonde “sex bomb” – stylish, sensual, shallow and ephemeral.

In the film’s most famous scene, she splashes with abandon in the Trevi Fountain, her black low-necked dress trailing in the frothy waters, cooing: “Marcello, come here.” In fact the scene had been shot in February and Mastroianni was doped up on vodka. “I was freezing,” she recalled. “They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn’t feel my legs any more.”

Following the success of Fellini’s masterpiece, Anita Ekberg appeared opposite Bob Hope in Call Me Bwana and Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (both 1963). She was also considered for the part of Honey Ryder in Dr No but lost out to Ursula Andress. When she did appear in a Bond film, it was both unwitting and unflattering: in From Russia with Love (1963) Sean Connery shoots a spy escaping through a gigantic Call Me Bwana poster featuring Anita Ekberg’s face. “She should have kept her mouth shut,” says Bond.

Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain (Alamy)

Anita Ekberg’s on-screen persona – a freewheeling man-eater from overseas – soon spilt over into her private life. Sinatra was one of the many leading men she was rumoured to have taken as a lover, along with Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Tyrone Power and Gary Cooper.

She often played characters possessed of an untethered and wild spirit. As a “war lady” in The Mongols (1961) she indulged in torture and sado-masochism, striding in thigh-high boots among the slave girls cracking a bullwhip. For “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”, Fellini’s episode in the portmanteau feature Boccaccio '70 (1962), she was once again the sex object, this time as the model featured on a “Drink More Milk” billboard poster who is brought to life to trap a puritanical doctor. Thus Fellini followed Tashlin in using her abilities for erotic satire.

In 1963 Ekberg married Rik Van Nutter (who later played Felix Leiter in Thunderball). They lived in Spain and Switzerland and in 1969 became entrepreneurs. “Rick and I have gone into the shipping business. We found a cargo ship and we’re in business with the captain,” she said (the couple also bought a Chinese junk). “Ours is a good marriage. There are so many good times in marriage, that the bad times are really unimportant. Anyway, I learnt from my parents that difficulties are there to be overcome.”

As with all sex symbols, age diminished her currency. By the end of the Sixties she was complaining about the lack of available roles. “I should be able to get work myself on the strength of my acting. I shouldn’t have to sleep with producers to get parts. It’s depressing to see parts going to actresses who can’t act their way out of a wet paper bag but who are friendly with producers,” she observed. “My life has changed quite a bit, of course. The Ferrari’s gone – now I have a Mini Moke.”

The downward spiral continued throughout the Seventies. She made films but they were more often than not B-movies with salacious titles such as The French Sex Murders (1972) and The Killer Nun (1979). Her scenes for Valley of the Dancing Widows (1975) were left on the cutting room floor. At home things also began to disintegrate: she accused Van Nutter of cheating her over a car-hire business they owned. The couple divorced in 1975.

Anita Ekberg in 2010 (AFP)

Two years later, her house was robbed, with the thieves stealing fur coats, jewels and silver, the fruits of her once-famous career. “My last 10 years have brought nothing but bad luck,” she stated.

After a second robbery in 2011, she appealed to the Fellini Foundation for financial help. It was a sad sign of decline from the Amazonian actress who had five decades earlier threatened paparazzi with a bow and arrow.

Her final years were spent living in semi-reclusion in a run-down Italian villa outside Rome, where her only companions were two great Danes.

Anita Ekberg, born September 29 1931, died January 11 2015

Anita Ekberg (1931–2015)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001179/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1933: James Michael Hyde Villiers is born--London, England.
(He dies 18 January 1998 at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England.)

Obituary: James Villiers

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-james-villiers-1139946.html

Tom Vallance | Wednesday 21 January 1998 01:02

James Michael Hyde Villiers, actor: born London 29 September 1933; married 1966 Patricia Donovan (marriage dissolved 1984), 1994 Lucy Jex; died Arundel, West Sussex 18 January 1998.

One of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains, James Villiers was often cast in such roles in his early years. He was also the most English of actors, and not surprisingly his career was liberally sprinkled with the works of Shaw, Coward, Wilde and dramatists of the Restoration.

His film career flourished in the Sixties when he was a particular favourite of the director Joseph Losey, while his work in the theatre spans over 40 years. On television he achieved particular success and recognition with his portrayal of Charles II (to whom he bore a strong resemblance) in the series The First Churchills.

Born in London in 1933, Villiers (pronounced Villers) was proud of his aristocratic lineage (his family tree goes back to the Duke of Rockingham). He was brought up in Shropshire and later at Ormeley Lodge in Richmond, more recently the home of James Goldsmith, and educated at Wellington College. He had, however, become stage-struck as a child (his brother John recalls Villiers as a boy begging Colchester Repertory to take him on in any capacity whatever and being heartbroken when they refused) and at prep school he gained a reputation as their best actor.

After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he formed lifelong friendships with fellow students and cricket enthusiasts Peter O'Toole and Ronald Fraser, he made his stage debut at the Summer Theatre in Frinton as William Blore in Agatha Christie's thriller Ten Little Niggers (1953), and the following year made his first West End appearance with the Shakespeare Memorial Company in Toad of Toad Hall.

In 1955 he started a two-year period with the Old Vic Company, his roles including Trebonius in Julius Caesar and Bushy in Richard II. He made his Broadway debut in the latter role in 1956 during the Old Vic tour of the United States and Canada, then spent a year with the English Stage Company. In 1960 he made his film debut in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (which also marked the screen debuts of Alan Bates and Albert Finney), and the following year made his first thriller (in a rare heroic role), The Clue of the New Pin (1961).

He first worked with Losey on The Damned (1961), and for the same director played in Eve (1962) and as an officer in the finely acted pacifist piece King and Country (1964). In Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) he was the friend who ambiguously gives John Fraser a kiss, in Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) Villiers and Wendy Craig were the parents of a disturbed child left in the care of Bette Davis at her most neurotic, and in George Sidney's Half a Sixpence (1968) he was the snobbish father of the society girl Kipps (Tommy Steele) hopes to marry.

Other films included Nothing But the Best (1963), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Let Him Have It (1991). His many television appearances included Pygmalion (as Professor Higgins), Lady Windermere's Fan, Fortunes of War and most recently Dance to the Music of Time. Stage successes include the thriller Write Me a Murder (1962), a superbly droll and highly acclaimed performance as Victor Prynne in John Gielgud's 1972 revival of Coward's Private Lives, starring Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, a forceful Earl of Warwick in John Clements's 1974 production of Saint Joan, and prominent roles in such classics as Pirandello's Henry IV (with Rex Harrison), The Way of the World and The Last of Mrs Cheyney.

A few years ago he created the role of Lord Thurlow in Nicholas Hytner's staging for the National Theatre of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, and most recently was featured as Mr Brownlow in the hit revival of Oliver! at the London Palladium.

James Villiers (1933–1998)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898376/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (128 credits)

2005 The Kingdom of Shadows (Short) - The Man At The Lake

1998 The Tichborne Claimant - Uncle Henry
1997 A Dance to the Music of Time (TV Mini-Series) - Buster Foxe
- The Thirties (1997) ... Buster Foxe
1996 The Willows in Winter (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
1996 E=mc2 - Dr. James Mallinson
1995 The Wind in the Willows (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
1994 Uncovered - Montegrifo
1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Cantlemere
- The Mazarin Stone (1994) ... Lord Cantlemere
1992 Lovejoy (TV Series) - Lionel Beckwith
- Out to Lunch (1992) ... Lionel Beckwith
1991 The Gravy Train Goes East (TV Mini-Series) - Penhurst
1991 Let Him Have It - Cassels
1991 A Perfect Hero (TV Mini-Series) - Air Commodore
- Episode #1.6 (1991) ... Air Commodore
1991 King Ralph - Hale
1990 House of Cards (TV Mini-Series) - Charles Collingridge
1990 Mountains of the Moon - Lord Oliphant

1989 Anything More Would Be Greedy (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Fyson
- Georgian Silver (1989) ... Lord Fyson
- Second Term (1989) ... Lord Fyson
- Trading Favours (1989) ... Lord Fyson
- Enigma Variations (1989) ... Lord Fyson
1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Ronnie Esholt
- A Real House (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- Taking Your Profits (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- Shopping Around (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- A Wonderfully Wrong Thing (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- Coming Home (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
1989 Scandal - Conservative M.P.
1988 Hemingway (TV Mini-Series) - Perceval
- The Old Man and the Sea (1988) ... Perceval
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1988) ... Perceval
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1988) ... Perceval
- Discovery of Europe (1988) ... Perceval
1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Lord Welbourne
- Heavy Duty (1988) ... Lord Welbourne (as Jimmie Villiers)
1988 Blind Justice (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Steinsson
- The One About the Irishman (1988) ... Peter Steinsson
1988 A Gentlemen's Club (TV Series) - Fabian
- The New Boy (1988) ... Fabian
1988 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
- The Hostage (1988) ... Director General
1987 Fortunes of War (TV Mini-Series) - Inchcape
- Romania: June 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
- Romania: January 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
- The Balkans: September 1939 (1987) ... Inchcape
1987 Running Out of Luck
1986 If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour (Video short)
1986 Call Me Mister (TV Series) - Sir Edward
- Humpty Dumpty (1986) ... Sir Edward
1986 The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams (TV Movie) - Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller
1985 Honour, Profit & Pleasure (TV Movie) - Addison
1984 The Irish R.M. (TV Series) - General Portius
- A Horse! A Horse! (1984) ... General Portius
1984 Under the Volcano - Brit
1983 ABC Mantrap - Tony Walmsley
1983 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) - Sir Arthur Remnant
- Rumpole and the Golden Thread (1983) ... Sir Arthur Remnant
1983 All for Love (TV Series) - Mr. Lyng
- Mrs. Silly (1983) ... Mr. Lyng
1983 Jack of Diamonds (TV Series) - George Billyard
- The Fun of the Fair (1983) ... George Billyard
- Herr of the Dog (1983) ... George Billyard
- Going Dutch (1983) ... George Billyard
- A Drip in the Ocean (1983) ... George Billyard
1982 The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Movie) - Baron de Batz
1982 Spooner's Patch (TV Series) - Film Producer
- The Sting (1982) ... Film Producer
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Tanner
1980-1981 The Other 'Arf (TV Series) - Freddy Apthorpe
1981 Brendon Chase (TV Series) - Colonel Hensman
1981 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Hilary Martin
- Unity (1981) ... Hilary Martin
1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) - Esteban (the Duke)
1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Fordingham

1979 The Music Machine - Hector Woodville (uncredited)
1979 Saint Jack - Frogget
1978-1979 Crown Court (TV Series) - Richard Ireland QC
- Boys Will Be Boys: Part 1 (1979) ... Richard Ireland QC
- Meeting Place: Part 1 (1978) ... Richard Ireland QC
1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Johnson
1978 Two's Company (TV Series) - Peter Boatwright
1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Roper
1977 Spectre (TV Movie) - Sir Geoffrey Cyon
1977 Joseph Andrews - Mr. Booby
1976 Seven Nights in Japan - Finn
1975 Making Faces (TV Series) - Peter de Witt
- December 1974: Waiting for the Monsoon (1975) ... Peter de Witt
- April 1968: Late Sitting, Finance Bill (1975) ... Peter de Witt
- Summer 1966: In Funland (1975) ... Peter de Witt
1975 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - John Harley
- Beware, Wet Paint (1975) ... John Harley
1975 Thriller (TV Series) - Paul
- The Double Kill (1975) ... Paul
1974 Marty Back Together Again (TV Series) - Various Characters

1973 Ghost in the Noonday Sun - Parsley-Freck
1972-1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Henry Higgins / Alastair Fitzfassenden / Cecil Graham
1972 E. Nesbit (TV Movie) - 1972 The Edwardians (TV Mini-Series) - Hubert Bland
- E. Nesbit (1972) ... Hubert Bland
1972 The Amazing Mr. Blunden - Uncle Bertie
1972 The Public Eye - Dinner Guest (uncredited)
1972/I Asylum - George (segment "Lucy Comes to Stay")
1972 The Ruling Class - Dinsdale Gurney
1972 Mogul (TV Series) - Lord Hawdcombe
- Whatever Became of the Year 2000? (1972) ... Lord Hawdcombe
1971 Shirley's World (TV Series) - Morgan
- Knightmare (1971) ... Morgan
1971 Now Look Here (TV Series) - Jeremy
- Episode #1.4 (1971) ... Jeremy
1963-1971 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Billy / Derek / Robin Fiske / ...
1971 Blood from the Mummy's Tomb - Corbeck
1971 Masterpiece Classic (TV Series) - Charles II
1970 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philipott
- Married Alive (1970) ... Philipott

1969 A Nice Girl Like Me - Freddie
1969 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Oscar
- Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature (1969) ... Oscar
1969 The First Churchills (TV Mini-Series) - Charles II
- Rebellion (1969) ... Charles II
- The Lion and the Unicorn (1969) ... Charles II
- Plot, Counter-Plot (1969) ... Charles II
- Bridals (1969) ... Charles II
- The Chaste Nymph (1969) ... Charles II
1969 Counterstrike (TV Series) - Wyatt
- The Lemming Syndrome (1969) ... Wyatt
1969 Otley - Hendrickson
1969 Some Girls Do - Carl Petersen
1969 Absolute Aggers and Torters (TV Short)
1968 The Touchables - Twyning
1967 Half a Sixpence - Hubert
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Peters
- Dead Man's Shoes (1967) ... Peters
1967 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Lord Darlington
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1967) ... Lord Darlington
1965-1967 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Ian Kilbannock / John Styles / Lord Strange / ...
- The Siege of Manchester (1965) ... Lord Strange
1967 Stiff Upper Lip (TV Movie) - Antrobus
1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
- A Piece of Resistance (1966) ... Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
1966 The Wrong Box - Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Roddy Harrington
- The Persuaders (1966) ... Roddy Harrington
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Simon Trent
- Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Simon Trent
1965 The Alphabet Murders - Franklin
1965 The Nanny - Bill Fane
1965 You Must Be Joking! - Bill Simpson
1965 A World of Comedy (TV Mini-Series) - Voice only - role unknown
- The Enormous Ear (1965) ... Voice only - role unknown
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Yamamoto (voice, uncredited)
1965 Repulsion - John
1964 Daylight Robbery
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Clive Rodingham
- Write Me a Murder (1964) ... Clive Rodingham
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Paul
- Solo Performance (1964) ... Paul
1964 King & Country - Captain Midgley
1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Wander
- A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Wander
1964 Nothing But the Best - Hugh
1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Inspector Pryor
- The High Fence (1964) ... Inspector Pryor
1964 Father Came Too! - Benzil Bulstrode
1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
- The Smiler (1964) ... Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
1963 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Jeremy Trout
- Nicked at the Bottle (1963) ... Jeremy Trout
1963 The Model Murder Case - David Dane
1963 Festival (TV Series) - Willy
- Fallen Angels (1963) ... Willy
1963 Bomb in the High Street - Stevens
1963 Love Story (TV Series) - Gregory
- Snakes and Ladders (1963) ... Gregory
1963 Murder at the Gallop - Michael Shane
1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Capt. Hamilton
- Beachhead (1963) ... Capt. Hamilton
1963 Hancock (TV Series)
- The Man on the Corner (1963)
1963 Zero One (TV Series) - The sheikh
- The Man Who Waited (1963) ... The sheikh
1962 These Are the Damned - Captain Gregory
1962 Eva - Alan McCormick - a screenwriter
1962 Operation Snatch - Lt. Keen
1962 Thirty Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mathias
- Dare to Be a Daniel (1962) ... Mathias
1961 Petticoat Pirates - English Lieutenant
1961 The Final Test (TV Movie) - Alexander Whitehead
1961 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Lucien Harper
- Episode #1.2 (1961) ... Lucien Harper
1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Andrew Thurbank
- A Girl Like Xanthe (1961) ... Andrew Thurbank
1961 Clue of the New Pin - Tab Holland
1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Miller
- The Wrong Side of the Park (1961) ... Miller
1961 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Tab Holland
- Clue of the New Pin (1961) ... Tab Holland
1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Mini-Series) - Studio Representative
- Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Studio Representative
1960 No Wreath for the General (TV Series) - Peake-Harmon

1958 Carry On Sergeant - Seventh Recruit
1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series)
- Murder at the Inn (1958)
1954 Late Night Final (Short) - Lab Assistant (uncredited)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1972 The Ruling Class (performer: "Dry Bones" - uncredited)

1939: British Director of Naval Intelligence Admiral John Godfrey issues a document, later credited to his assistant Ian Fleming, that compares deception in war to the sport of fishing.

James Bond came from the author's
real-world experiences in WWII

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James Elphick | Jun. 03, 2016 12:44PM EST

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, served with British Naval Intelligence during World War II, and his service influenced the character and his stories.

Fleming was recruited into the Royal Navy in 1939 by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Head of Naval Intelligence. Fleming entered as a lieutenant and quickly promoted to lieutenant commander. Although initially tasked as Admiral Godfrey's assistant, Commander Fleming had greater ambitions. He is widely believed to be the author of the "Trout Memo" circulated by Godfrey that compared intelligence gathering to a fisherman casting for trout. In the memo, he independently came up the plan to use a corpse with false documents to deceive the Germans, originally conceived by another agent and later used in Operation Mincemeat.

"Oh, no. We dropped our secret plans."

Fleming was obsessed with collecting intelligence and came up with numerous ways to do so, some seemingly right out of spy novels. One such mission, Operation Ruthless, called for acquiring a German bomber, crashing it into the English Channel, and then having the crew attack and subdue the German ship that would come to rescue them. Mercifully, it was called off. Fleming was also the mastermind of an intelligence gathering unit known as (No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit, 30 AU). Instead of traditional combat skills, members of 30 AU were trained in safe-cracking, lock-picking, and other spycraft and moved with advancing units to gain intelligence before it could be lost or destroyed.

Fleming was in charge of Operation Goldeneye and involved with the T-Force. These would also influence his work. Operation Goldeneye was a scheme to monitor Spain in the event of an alliance with Germany and to conduct sabotage operations should such an agreement take place. Fleming would later name his Jamaican home where he wrote the James Bond novels "Goldeneye." It would also be the title of seventeenth James Bond movie. As for the T-Force, or Target Force, Fleming sat on the committee that selected targets, specifically German scientific and technological advancements before retreating troops destroyed them. The seizure by the T-Force of a German research center at Kiel which housed advanced rocket motors and jet engines was featured prominently in the James Bond novel Moonraker.

The movie was much less grounded in reality.

In the actual creation of the character James Bond, Fleming drew inspiration from himself and those around him. Fleming said the character of James Bond was an amalgamation of all the secret agent and commando types he met during the war. In particular, Bond was modeled after Fleming's brother Peter, who conducted work behind enemy lines, Patrick Dalzel-Job, who served in the 30 Assault Unit Fleming created, and Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale, who was the Paris station chief for MI6 and was known for his fancy suits and affinity for expensive cars. Fleming used his habits for many of Bond's. He was known to be a heavy drinker and smoker. Bond purchased the same specialty cigarettes Fleming smoked and even added three gold rings to the filter to denote his rank as a Commander in the Royal Navy, something Fleming also did.

Bond's code number, 007, comes from a means of classifying highly secretive documents starting with the number 00. The number 007 comes from the British decryption of the Zimmerman Note, labeled 0075, that brought America into World War I. Bond received his name from a rather innocuous source, however, an ornithologist. Bond's looks are not Fleming's but rather were inspired by the actor/singer Hoagy Carmichael, with only a dash of Fleming's for good measure.

Hoagy Carmichael

Fleming did draw on those around him for other characters in the James Bond novels. Villains had a tendency to share a name with people Fleming disliked while other characters got their names from his friendly acquaintances. The character of M, James Bond's boss, was based on Fleming's boss Rear Admiral Godfrey. The inspiration for the single-letter moniker came from Maxwell Knight, the head of MI5, who was known to sign his memos with only his first initial, M. Also, the fictional antagonistic organization SMERSH, takes its name from a real Russian organization called SMERSH that was active from 1943-1946. In the fictional version, SMERSH was an acronym of Russian words meaning "Special Methods of Spy Detection" and was modeled after the KGB; the real SMERSH was a portmanteau in Russian meaning "Death to Spies" and was a counterintelligence organization on the Eastern Front during WWII.

Finally, the plots for many of the Bond novels came from real-world missions carried out by the Allies. Moonraker is based on the exploits of the 30 AU in Kiel, Germany, while Thunderball has loose connections to Fleming's canceled Operation Ruthless. Fleming also ties in his fictional world to the historical one after the war and during the Cold War.

Fleming's novels became very popular during his life and have remained so long after his death in 1964. His work spawned one of the most successful movie franchises in history.

1986: Principal photography begins at Pinewood Studios for The Living Daylights.

1990: Molly Peters and Desmond Llewelyn appear for the first James Bond 007 Fan Convention at Pinewood.

2007: Lois Maxwell dies at age 80--Freemantle, Australia.
(Born 14 February 1927--Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564693/Lois-Maxwell.html

Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years

Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M's spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007.

She was 33 when she screen-tested for Dr No (1962), the first Bond film, and was originally offered the part eventually played by Eunice Grayson, one of Bond's conquests, seen putting golf balls down the hall of his flat dressed only in his pyjama top.

But Lois Maxwell did not regard her legs as her strongest point, and while Bond's creator Ian Fleming told her she had the most kissable lips in the world, one film director took a different view: "Lois, you don't smell of sin. You look as though you smell of soap."

Accordingly - in crisp blouse and skirt - she landed the Moneypenny role, cast originally against Sean Connery in Dr No. Lois Maxwell later mused on the on-screen chemistry between the chaste Miss Moneypenny and the swashbuckling agent, licensed to kill: "Say there'd been an affair a long time before, only she knew he would have broken her heart, just as he knew it would have ruined his career in the Secret Service. So they were doomed to appreciate each other's qualities."

Although she played the part for 23 years, she was on screen for less for an hour and spoke fewer than 200 words in all 14 films, her lines running an emotional gamut from "James, you're late" to "When are we going to have that dinner?" Her last Moneypenny appearance was opposite Roger Moore as Bond in A View To A Kill (1985).

Never paid more than £100 a day, her first appearance in Dr No took only two days to shoot, and those in her 13 subsequent Bond films were just as modest in scale. For her first five films, Lois Maxwell wore her own clothes.

"Always the same role, the smallest," she remarked ruefully in an interview for the Telegraph Magazine in 1997. The camera would find her sitting at a desk in the corner of a nondescript office, on the telephone or riffling papers. But when Bond enters, she greets him with a grin of pure joy.

"It is not a beautiful face," observed Byron Rogers, who interviewed her for the Telegraph 10 years ago, "it is a wonderful face, long and funny and older than all the others… The other women in Bond films are two-dimensional, who only ever want to go to bed with him or stab him, but there is one who loves him, though she knows nothing will ever come of this.

"That is the way Lois Maxwell played Moneypenny, making her the one grown-up among sexpots and psychopaths."

Not everyone realised that she was Canadian. "Moneypenny," exclaimed the Prince of Wales on meeting her. "I would never have believed you're not English. I must tell the family."

Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14 1927 at Kitchener, Ontario, one of four children, her early career as a child radio performer was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War when her father, a teacher, enlisted and sailed for England. At the age of 16 she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army Show, but failed to tell the authorities about her age, and after touring England in the back of a truck was eventually dishonourably dismissed. Just before she was due to be shipped home, she went AWOL in London.

While living in a garret in Paddington, Lois won a Lady Louis Mountbatten scholarship to Rada, where she first met Roger Moore, then 17 and later to star in seven Bond films, and - crowned in a red wig - played his uncle in a student production of Henry V.

At 20 she was working in the professional theatre when a talent scout spotted her and took her to Hollywood. At Warner Brothers, Lois found herself in the same intake as another promising actress named Norma Jeane Baker, with whom she was photographed for Life magazine. Both changed their name, Norma Jeane becoming Marilyn Monroe and Lois Hooker, advised that this was an infelicitous name for an starlet, changing to Lois Maxwell, a name borrowed from a gay ballet dancer friend and which was adopted by the rest of her family too.

She won a Golden Globe award as best newcomer for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl (1947).

Playing opposite Ronald Reagan in Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) she found the future president handsome and attractive, but became less enamoured of the studio system, and moved to Rome for five years, becoming an amateur racing driver. After a broken love affair with the brother of an Italian prince, she married a British television executive called Peter Marriott, a former commander of the Viceroy of India's household troops who, by coincidence, was screen-tested as a possible James Bond by the producer Cubby Broccoli.

In addition to her career in the Bond films Lois Maxwell was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of UFO, The Persuaders, The Baron, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). She also provided the voice for Troy Tempest's love interest, Atlanta Shore, in Gerry Anderson's puppet series Stingray.

In the late 1960s she starred in Adventures In Rainbow Country, a popular Canadian television series, and in 1967 appeared as Moneypenny in a television special Welcome To Japan, Mr Bond. More recently, she became a regular fixture at Bond film festivals.

Her last feature film was The Fourth Angel (2001) starring Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker.

Widowed at 46 when her husband died of a heart attack in 1973, Lois Maxwell returned to her native Canada, bought a farm and worked for a business importing crowd-control barriers. She later wrote a column for the Toronto Sun which she signed "Moneypenny" and in which, for 14 years, she expounded trenchant Right-wing opinions.

Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot's licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.

In the 1980s she settled at Frome in Somerset, and after a successful cancer operation went to recuperate at her son's home at Freemantle, near Perth, western Australia. At the time of her death, she was working on her autobiography, to be called Born A Hooker.

Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son.

Lois Maxwell (I) (1927–2007)
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Filmography

Actress (88 credits)

2001 The Fourth Angel - Olivia

1998 Hard to Forget (TV Movie) - Helen Applewhite

1989 Lady in the Corner (TV Movie) - Mary Smith
1988 Martha, Ruth & Edie - Edie Carmichael
1988 Rescue Me (TV Movie) - Phyllis
1987 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Ms. Golden
- If the Shoe Fits (1987) ... Ms. Golden
1985 Eternal Evil - Monica Duval
1985 A View to a Kill - Miss Moneypenny
1985 The Edison Twins (TV Series) - Charlotte Gateau
- Let Them Eat Cake (1985) ... Charlotte Gateau
1984 Peep (TV Movie) - Mrs. Powell
1983 Octopussy - Miss Moneypenny
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Miss Moneypenny
1980 Mr. Patman - Director

1979 Lost and Found - English Woman
1979 Moonraker - Miss Moneypenny
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Miss Moneypenny
1977 Age of Innocence - Mrs. Hogarth
1975 From Hong Kong with Love - Miss Moneypenny
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Moneypenny
1973 Live and Let Die - Moneypenny
1972/I Endless Night - Cora
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Louise Cornell
- Someone Waiting (1971) ... Louise Cornell
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Moneypenny
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Miss Holland
- The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Miss Holland
- The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Miss Holland
1969-1970 Adventures in Rainbow Country (TV Series) - Nancy Williams
- The Tower (1970) ... Nancy Williams
- The Skydiver (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- The Return of Eli Rocque (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- Night Caller (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- The Muskies Are Losing Their Teeth (1969) ... Nancy Williams
1970 The Adventurers - Woman at Fashion Show (uncredited)
1970 Department S (TV Series) - Mary Burnham
- The Ghost of Mary Burnham (1970) ... Mary Burnham

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Moneypenny
1969 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Kim Wentworth
- For the Girl Who Has Everything (1969) ... Kim Wentworth
1967 You Only Live Twice - Miss Moneypenny
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Miss Moneypenny
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Max
1966-1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Beth Parish / Helen
- Simon and Delilah (1967) ... Beth Parish
- Interlude in Venice (1966) ... Helen
1966 Rome, Sweet Home (TV Movie)
1966 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Felisa Henderson
- The Millionaire's Daughter (1966) ... Felisa Henderson
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Charlotte Russell
- Something for a Rainy Day (1966) ... Charlotte Russell
1965 Thunderball - Moneypenny
1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) - Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson / Marinville Tracking Station / ...
- Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- Marineville Traitor (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson (voice)
- The Golden Sea (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- The Master Plan (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
1965 The Ambassadors (TV Movie) - Sarah Pocock
1964 Goldfinger - Moneypenny
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Elizabeth Creasey
- Party for Murder (1964) ... Elizabeth Creasey
1964 The Avengers (TV Series) - Sister Johnson
- The Little Wonders (1964) ... Sister Johnson
1963 From Russia with Love - Miss Moneypenny
1963 The Haunting - Grace Markway
1957-1963 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Helen Hunter / Genevieve Lang / Miss Baumer
- The Touch of a Dead Hand (1963) ... Helen Hunter
- Skyline for Two (1959) ... Genevieve Lang
- Heaven and Earth (1957) ... Miss Baumer
1963 Come Fly with Me - Gwen Sandley
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Miss. Smith
- The Marriage Broker (1962) ... Miss. Smith
1962 Dr. No - Miss Moneypenny
1962 Lolita - Nurse Mary Lore
1961 The Unstoppable Man - Helen Kennedy
1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Margot
- Nina and the Night People (1961) ... Margot
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series)- Esther Hollis
- The Room Upstairs (1961) ... Esther Hollis
1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Sandi Lewis
- Position of Trust (1960) ... Sandi Lewis
1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mother
- The Dodo (1960) ... Mother

1959 Face of Fire - Ethel Winter
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Ruth Ann Wicker
- The Transmogrification of Chester Brown (1958) ... Ruth Ann Wicker
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Virginia
- Operation Orange Blossom (1957) ... Virginia
1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Judith
- Port Jeopardy (1957) ... Judith
1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Jill Brook
1957 Time Without Pity - Vickie Harker
1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Cass Edgerton
- The Reclining Figure (1956) ... Cass Edgerton
1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Tracy Carmichael / Ann / Cynthia
- One Can't Help Feeling Sorry (1956) ... Tracy Carmichael
- Someone Outside (1956) ... Ann
- A Fast Buck (1956) ... Cynthia
1956 High Terrace - Stephanie Blake
1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Barbara
- Monk's Prior (1956) ... Barbara
1956 Satellite in the Sky - Kim Hamilton
1956 The Petrified Forest (TV Movie) - Gabby Maple
1956 Passport to Treason - Diane Boyd
1955 Torpedo Zone - Lt. Lily Donald
1953 Aida - Amneris
1953 Man in Hiding - Thelma Speight / Tasman
1952 Orient Express (TV Series) - Lynn Walker
- Blue Camellia (1952) ... Lynn Walker
1952 Twilight Women - Christine
1952 Scotland Yard Inspector - Margaret 'Peggy' Maybrick
1952 Ha da venì... don Calogero - Maestrina
1952 The Woman's Angle - Enid Mansell
1952 Love and Poison - Queen Christina
1952 Viva il cinema!
1951 Lebbra bianca - Erika
1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late - Signorina Anna, teacher

1949 Kazan - Louise Maitlin
1949 The Crime Doctor's Diary - Jane Darrin
1948 The Decision of Christopher Blake - Miss McIntyre (uncredited)
1948 The Dark Past - Ruth Collins
1948 The Big Punch - Karen Long
1948 Corridor of Mirrors - Lois
1947 That Hagen Girl - Julia Kane
1946 Springtime - Penelope Cobb (uncredited)
1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Actress (uncredited)

Lois Hooker in the Life Magazine photo, upper left. Norma Jean, front and center.

2008: Via Youtube, Scouting for Girls release the fifth song from their first album, "I Wish I Was James Bond."

007, Britain's finest secret agent, licensed to kill
Mixing business with girls and thrills
I've seen you walk the screen, it's you that I adore
Since I was a boy I wanted to be like Roger Moore…

2021: No Time To Die release in Belgium.
2021: No Time To Die (Mourir peut attendre; To Die can wait) release in Switzerland (French speaking region).

2021: 007 노 타임 투 다이 ( 007 No tah-eem tu dah-ee) release in the Republic of Korea.

2021: No Time To Die premiere at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Honoring Sir Roger Moore and benefiting the Princess Grace Foundation.

RichardTheBruce

September 30th

1921: Deborah Jane Trimmer (Deborah Kerr CBE) is born--Helensburgh, Scotland.
(She dies 16 October 2007--Botesdale, England.)

Deborah Kerr

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Graceful and versatile British star whose work across four decades made her a Hollywood icon
Brian Baxter | Thu 18 Oct 2007

Many Hollywood stars of the wartime generation ended their careers in cameo roles or cult movies, even schlock horror or, worst of all, television soaps. But Deborah Kerr, who has died of Parkinson's disease aged 86, escaped that. Her health would not allow such a route, but it seems unlikely that such an innately graceful and consummately professional actor would have chosen it. The theatre at Chichester perhaps, but not movie Grand Guignol.

She worked steadily, averaging one film a year, with directors of stature, and often opposite chums such as David Niven, Robert Mitchum and Cary Grant. The result was a career that sailed on rather majestically, like an elegant ocean liner, only occasionally hitting a squall or rough passage. There was little to interest gossip columnists or to shock the public and, at least on the surface, she seemed rather serene in the midst of such a frantic profession.

It is impossible not to admire the performances and the performer herself. She achieved fame when barely 20, in a star-laden version of Major Barbara (1941), followed rapidly by four further movies, and for 45 years remained at or near the pinnacle of her profession. Within a period of 12 years, she received six Oscar nominations but did not receive the statuette until 1994, when an honorary Academy award was given for her lifetime's work.

By the late 1980s, in poor health, she had effectively retired from acting, gravitating from her home in Switzerland to Spain with her second husband, the writer Peter Viertel (whose screen credits include The African Queen). Much later still, she was to return to England. Her rare public appearances reminded us of her great popularity in such contrasted roles as the governess in The King and I (1956) and the adulterous wife in From Here to Eternity (1953). She was greatly admired by her fellow actors and always brought a touch of class to the most mundane of roles.

Kerr was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, the daughter of a first world war officer, and educated at Northumberland House, in the Bristol suburb of Clifton. She dabbled in acting during her teens, including radio work for the BBC West Region in Bristol, and in amateur theatricals. She moved to London to study at the Sadler's Wells ballet school, making her debut in Prometheus in 1939. That year too saw her in a small role in Much Ado About Nothing at the Regent's Park open air theatre, and from 1939 to 1940 she worked with the Oxford Repertory. An abortive screen debut as a cigarette girl in Contraband (1940), ended on the editing-room floor. But the directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were soon to remedy that unkind cut.

Kerr's break came when the ebullient Gabriel Pascal, who had the confidence of George Bernard Shaw, cast her in Major Barbara, in which she gave a touching performance as Jenny Hill. Under contract to Pascal, she was given the lead in 1941 in Love on the Dole and rapidly followed this excellent movie with Penn of Pennsylvania and then a plum role as Robert Newton's downtrodden daughter in the melodramatic Hatter's Castle - where she encountered her first husband, fighter pilot Tony Bartley, who was involved in the nearby filming of The First of the Few. All this in that same year, followed by The Day Will Dawn (1942), opposite Ralph Richardson.

In a piece of casting that Martin Scorsese has justly described as audacious, Powell and Pressburger gave the then 21-year-old the triple roles of driver, governess and wife/nurse, the women who appear throughout Blimp's story in their monumental The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). The film did not receive official approval or the critical acclaim now accorded it, and Kerr's film career paused as she toured and then went into the West End in Heartbreak House. She also worked for the forces' entertainment organisation Ensa throughout Europe, and again met Bartley. They married in 1945.

That year she returned to the screen, opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers, where they play - delightfully - a couple transformed and humanised by their wartime experiences. She moved on to an interesting role in I See a Dark Stranger (1946) as an Irish girl who, through hatred of the English, spies for the Germans. Her love for a British officer (Trevor Howard) reforms her. Her only other screen work that year was in a short in aid of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund. The best was yet to come.

In 1947, Kerr was reunited with Powell and Pressburger for a heady masterwork, Black Narcissus. She played the pivotal role of Sister Clodagh, an insecure nun in charge of a Catholic missionary school (Pinewood stood in - remarkably - for the Himalayas). Jealousy, passion, frustration and death become the order of the day in this timeless work. A blend of repression, gentleness and inner turmoil was to feature in many later, often inferior, films but this remains a benchmark in her career.

Meanwhile, Pascal had sold her contract to MGM and Kerr found herself in a postwar drama, The Hucksters (1947), opposite Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. A modestly successful Hollywood debut was soon followed by If Winter Comes (1947). She was subsequently directed by one of the studio's top names, George Cukor, in a rather stodgy version of Robert Morley's stage success, Edward My Son (1948). Despite fine credits and the presence of the screen's greatest actor, Spencer Tracy, the film fails to ignite.

The studio began to use Kerr as decorative contract fodder opposite sturdy leading men and costume became the order of the day in such movies as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Quo Vadis (1951) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). She had the small role of Portia in Julius Caesar, but this movie - the best-ever screen treatment of Shakespeare - is remembered for Marlon Brando and John Gielgud, and not the refined Miss Kerr. The MGM period ended dismally with Young Bess (1953).

That year was, however, to prove a highlight, if not a turning point in her fortunes. She extricated herself from the MGM straitjacket and landed the controversial role opposite Burt Lancaster in Fred Zinneman's From Here to Eternity. Cast against her seemingly fragile type, she was formidable as the sexually rapacious officer's wife who has an affair with an NCO, played by Lancaster, at the time of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Today, the famous beach scene - indeed the whole adaptation of James Jones's brutal novel - seems somewhat tame. Not so in the early 1950s.

Adultery was a theme of a rather greater book, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1954), which brought Kerr back to England. An underrated film, it suffers from a miscast, rather lightweight Van Johnson as the writer, but she and a fine British cast save the day.

An attempt was made to revamp Eternity, with William Holden replacing Lancaster, in The Proud and the Profane (1956) before she went on to her biggest popular success: a lacklustre version of The King and I. Kerr and Yul Brynner redeemed Walter Lang's rather staid direction and thanks to dubbing from Marni Nixon on the difficult passages and high notes, Kerr sang, danced and acted herself into a third Oscar nomination, and a box office smash.

In 1957 she was reunited with friend Cary Grant in the romantic drama, An Affair to Remember and donned her nun's habit in the popular Heaven Knows, Mr Allison for a favourite director, John Huston. This virtual two-hander reworks Huston's great success, The African Queen, with Robert Mitchum as the reprobate marine who meets his match in the seemingly demure nun. Together they tackle the Japanese just as missionary Katharine Hepburn and drunk Humphrey Bogart had scuppered the Germans in the earlier movie.

There were better parts and higher salaries than in the MGM days and Kerr moved on to Bonjour Tristesse (1957) and another spinster role in the botched version of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables (1958). Only her old friend David Niven emerged with modest credit from this fiasco. Three duff movies followed before Zinnemann gave her a wonderfully rich part - opposite Robert Mitchum - in The Sundowners (1960). It proved one of the director's most relaxed and commercially successful films.

Kerr joined Mitchum and Grant again in a conventional reworking of the stage hit, The Grass is Greener (1960), followed by an altogether less happy experience. At best The Naked Edge (1961) was a routine thriller, made painful by Gary Cooper, already ill with cancer, in his last role and the last year of his life.

The highlight of this British period came the same year when she again played a governess - this time in Jack Clayton's version of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Transformed into a handsome CinemaScope film as The Innocents, it showed that Kerr was as good as the material allowed and often better. Her role as the haunted and taunted governess gave perfect rein to her upright demeanour and hidden depths.
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After a dull version of The Chalk Garden (1963), she was rescued by John Huston and cast as the poet spinster in the steamy The Night of the Iguana (1964). After this she sank without trace in a Frank Sinatra vehicle, Marriage on the Rocks (1965), and then made a trio of films opposite Niven, her Swiss-based neighbour.

They failed to salvage the thriller Eye of the Devil (1966), but had some fun working with Huston again on the chaotic James Bond spoof, Casino Royale (1967). This was followed by a dated comedy, Prudence and the Pill (1968).

Two big movies in 1969 offered Kerr dull parts - with Burt Lancaster in the sky drama The Gypsy Moths and Kirk Douglas in The Arrangement. They proved only that she was still in demand opposite heavyweight actors. But the films, one lugubrious, the second overwrought, were not to her taste and she effectively retired from Hollywood.

A handful of made-for-television films kept her occupied - Witness for the Prosecution (1982), Reunion at Fairborough (1985) and Hold the Dawn (1986) among them.

Her greatest stage success had been in the once controversial Tea and Sympathy, in a role as a schoolteacher who seduces a pupil who believes himself to be gay. She filmed it in 1956, but the screen version was even milkier than the Broadway success. Her other stage successes included Separate Tables, Candida and The Last of Mrs Cheyney, among many others.

But it is as a screen actor that Kerr will be best remembered, since she had the beauty, the reserve and the inner quality that the camera loves. By a happy chance, her farewell to the big screen utilised those attributes.

In The Assam Garden (1985) Kerr played an isolated middle-class widow who befriends an Indian woman (Madhur Jaffrey) from a nearby council estate. A modest two-hander, it gave her an intriguing, somewhat unglamorous role that perfectly suited her subtle technique and quiet dignity.

Visiting her on location in the Forest of Dean, I was touched by her commitment to the film and her determination to complete what was proving to be an extremely demanding role. She clearly missed her home comforts and had been greatly pleased by the film's attentive publicist - who brought her caviar from his London trips.

The location, charming though it was, and the budget were a far cry from her Hollywood heyday, but the film turned out to be a success and she ended her screen career on a personal high note. She received a spontaneous ovation at the 1994 Oscar ceremony and few actors can so richly have deserved the award.

In 1998 she was made a CBE, but said that she felt too frail to travel to London to receive it personally. In 45 films, in as many years, she seldom, if ever, gave a weak performance and certainly never gave a less than professional one.

Her marriage to Tony Bartley ended in divorce in 1959. He died in 2001. She married Viertel in 1960. He survives her, as do two daughters from her first marriage and three grandsons.

· Deborah Jane Kerr (Deborah Kerr Viertel), actor, born September 30 1921; died October 16 2007

Deborah Kerr

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The King and I

Agent Mimi (Alias Lady Fiona). Casino Royale

1952: Dennis Muldowney is executed for the murder of Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville. She was active in espionage during World War II, an acquaintance of Ian Fleming, and possibly the model for his character Vesper Lynd.

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30 September 1952 – Dennis Muldowney

James Bond creator, Ian Fleming was inspired by the exotic Polish victim slain by today’s deadly desperado’s date with death.

Dennis Muldowney was executed on this day in 1952 for the murder of a Cold-War countess.

Marine steward, Muldowney was jailed and sentenced to death for killing Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, who was known for her forays into espionage.

The infamous World War II spy was a key player, passing secrets to the Brits while serving in Germany, Hungary and France. After the war, she came across Ian Fleming and they embarked on a year-long affair.

That’s why she is said to have been the basis for Fleming’s character Vesper Lynd in his first James Bond novel, ‘Casino Royale’, written in 1953 and played by Eva Green in the consequent Bond movie of the same name, as well as Ursula Andress in the spoof version of 1967.

Muldowney was similarly drawn to her and eventually became obsessed, which drove him to stab the 44-year-old to death on 15 June 1952.

He was hanged for his crime at Pentonville prison, aged 41.

1963: Arms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd writes his last letter to Ian Fleming. (The first was 31 May 1956.)
1964: Monica Bellucci is born--Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy.

1966: You Only Live Twice films Q in the field instructing Bond on Little Nellie.

1976: Paul Dehn dies at age 63. (Born 5 November 1912--Manchester, England.)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Schreiber
The Unsung Achievement of Screenwriter Paul Dehn
By David Kipen

https://www.vqronline.org/articles/tinker-tailor-soldier-schreiber
ISSUE: Winter 2013

There are too many clues …
—Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express, screenplay by Paul Dehn

Born a hundred years ago this past November 5, the late poet and critic Paul Dehn won an Oscar, served as a spy in World War II and, notwithstanding his long and loving cohabitation with another man, helped create the epitome of twentieth-century hetero-sexual virility—yet today, even Google all but asks, “Paul who?”

How could this be? What tastemakers did he offend? Did he throw a drink in Edmund Wilson’s face? Make a pass at Susan Sontag? Hardly. His only crime was to excel at the art that dare not speak its name: Paul Dehn was a screenwriter.

In addition to the definitive James Bond picture (Goldfinger), Dehn adapted the works of John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair), Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express), and Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew). He had a hand in the scripts of all four initial Planet of the Apes sequels and won the Oscar for his very first screenplay, the widely influential Cold War suspense film Seven Days to Noon.

Dehn (pronounced “Dane”) resurrected or reinvented at least three genres given up for dead at the time: the British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film. He understood a thing or two about espionage, having taught and then practiced it with distinction during World War II. Yet the hundredth anniversary of Dehn’s birth has passed without the merest hiccup of notice.

I mean to lay out some of the reasons that make Paul Dehn worth remembering not just on his centenary by film critics, but by anybody fascinated with who’s responsible for their favorite movies. Dehn’s scripts suggest an intelligent, witty, morally engaged, cohesive sensibility. Even in his adaptations, he gravitated toward thematically idiosyncratic material. For example, his pictures often begin with the arrival of a threatening letter and fear of exposure (Seven Days to Noon, Murder on the Orient Express, The Deadly Affair)—surely fraught territory for a man acquainted with both deep-cover operations and the menace of British anti-sodomy laws.

Dehn wasn’t the best screenwriter who ever lived. He wrote too few originals, and too often in collaboration, to claim anything of the kind. Nor was he the best author ever to approach film as an art form. That would be Graham Greene, or perhaps Harold Pinter, the only screenwriter ever to win the Nobel Prize. (Pinter wrote as many film and television scripts as he did stage plays.) No, Dehn was merely a very good screenwriter. His work carried a creative signature that withstood even the most overbearing director’s attempts to flatten it.

Our Man in Hollywood
Only one peacetime photograph of Paul Dehn survives. It shows him reclining in a dark leather chair with a book open on his lap. Behind him, level with his balding head, a rank of mostly hardcover books stands mustered for inspection. A writer works here. Close to Dehn’s left hand, atop the desk back of him, sits his only visible concession to modernity: a small British portable tv circa 1970, maybe six inches across, its screen convex with latent entertainment. Legs casually crossed and bent, Dehn looks up from his book and over at us. We’ve surprised him with our camera, but not unpleasantly so. He looks to be in his fifties, his eyeglasses seemingly borrowed from David Hockney, with round lenses and dark frames. His ears must have been prominent even before the hair started to go.

What gets you is the smile. It’s not broad. Every third or fourth glance at him, it’s not there at all. Even when you see it, the smile has more curves than it should, like a sine wave. Dehn essentially resembles a taller, leaner Charlie Brown—already middle-aged and made good, but still a bit nervous.

Military historian Raleigh Trevelyan’s brief but warm evocation of Dehn for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography helps capture something of the spirit of the man: “He delighted everyone with his entertaining manner and piano playing, and could put on a ‘good nightclub act’. He is also recorded as having been a ‘serious thinker’, with a warm and romantic nature, not to mention an outstanding instructor. In America it was said that listening to him was more exciting than reading a spy novel.”

Harold Pinter once described his own screenplay for a half-decent spy film, The Quiller Memorandum, as “between two stools: One, the Bond films and the other, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” In the photograph, Dehn inclines decidedly toward the Smiley end of the spectrum, yet the scripts written at this desk put both George Smiley and James Bond on the screen.

The excellence of Dehn’s spy films derives partly from his wartime experiences as both a desk jockey, like George Smiley, and a field agent, like Bond. Or not like Bond—since how often does Bond do any actual spying?—but at least in the same line. Dehn spent the majority of his war service at the improbable Camp X, a disused estate in Canada commandeered for the training of British spies in what was then called “black warfare,” now “black ops.”

Many walks of life are known for the exhaustiveness of their archival documentation: statesmen, for example, or Nazis. But Englishmen and screenwriters, especially at midcentury, each tended toward self-effacement. Spies and homosexuals were, by definition, outlaws, and likely even less inclined to careless diary-keeping. So the trail for Dehn—and a generation of other gifted screenwriters—is cold and getting colder.

Researching the lives and careers of directors is much easier. Directors get interviewed vastly more often than screenwriters do. They also appear to live considerably longer. It’s uncanny just how many of Dehn’s variously talented directors are still alive, forty or fifty years after their work together. The men who shot Goldfinger (1964), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Fragment of Fear (1970),and The Taming of the Shrew (1967)—Guy Hamilton, Ted Post, Richard Sarafian, and Franco Zeffirelli—may well live to attend their own centennial retrospectives.

Dehn, meanwhile, and all the writers ever credited alongside him, are dead. An actuary and a screenwriter’s analyst might have an interesting conversation about that.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Screenwriter

Goldfinger: I prefer to call it an atomic device. It’s small, but particularly dirty.
—Goldfinger, screenplay by Paul Dehn and Richard Maibaum

Death and radioactivity are abstractions. Corpses and running sores are not.
—Paul Dehn, film review

How did Paul Dehn become the preeminent screenwriter of the Cold War? Like most information about screenwriters, the answer might as well be top secret. There exists no biographical dictionary of screenwriters. The number of good biographies of screenwriters can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. The late Bruce Cook’s dramatic three-act life of Dalton Trumbo, written with his subject’s dying cooperation, stands apart for its quality. A couple of volumes of different scriptwriters’ letters have survived into print as well, with Trumbo’s Additional Dialogue among the best correspondence ever written by an American.

Screenwriter memoirs are just as scarce. Dehn’s fellow Bond scripter Tom Mankiewicz’s recent, addictive My Life as a Mankiewicz (2012) is an object lesson in the thoroughly untapped potential of the genre. After all, successful screenwriters can actually write. They also tend to meet interesting people, and travel in circles that many readers actively wonder about. Their careers split the difference between Horatio Alger and Dr. Faustus. What film buff wouldn’t want to read about that?

If there were a biographical dictionary of screenwriters, Paul Dehn’s entry might begin like this:

1912–1939: Born Manchester, of German Jewish descent, Nov. 5, 1912. Educated at Oxford. Fond of men. Contemporary of notorious Russian moles Philby, Burgess, Maclean. Upon graduation, down to London. Encouraged by godfather, drama critic James Agate, contributes numerous humorous film reviews to newspapers up one side of Fleet Street and down the other. Also writes poetry, lyrics, and libretti.

So far, unspectacular. Dehn’s reviews amuse, but his proficient, highly formal poetry canters confidently toward critical oblivion. Had he kept on in this vein, he might have become a kind of road-show Ivor Novello, forever marooned in the 1930s as the world grew past him.

Then came the war. Redacted for national security—and by the strictest of all censors, an ungrateful posterity—his sketchy wartime biographical listing might continue as follows:

1939–1945: Joins Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) early in the war. Stationed in Canada alongside Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee. Learns tradecraft, drills spies in same. Cowrites S.O.E. spy training manual. Dispatched on missions in continental Europe and Scandinavia. In 1944 meets composer James Bernard, begins lifelong domestic and creative partnership.

Without at least a research trip to the Imperial War Museum in London, we’ll have to content ourselves with Dehn’s slender, self-deprecating version of his wartime experiences: “I was an instructor to a band of thugs called the S.O.E.,” he recalled to Chris Knight and Peter Nicholson in what may be his only surviving interview, “and I instructed them in various things on darkened estates, so I got a pretty good view of what counterespionage was like.” Dehn then nudges the conversation on to the next question. As with World War I, not the least of its sequel’s aftereffects was a reticence bordering on aphasia.

But, as we learn from an interview with John le Carré that accompanies the 2008 DVD reissue of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, there is more to be said on the subject of Dehn’s wartime service. “Paul actually had been in our Special Operations Executive during the war, and he had been, among other things, a professional assassin,” le Carré remembers. “It was a gruesome fact. Paul was a very gentle guy, lovely to work with.” He adds, “Great credit to Paul Dehn, the screenwriter, who, as I mentioned, had had pretty startling experience of the spook world.” This information speaks to the discernible—even preeminent—signature of the screenwriter. Quite literally, you can read him like a book.

1946–1950: Demobbed, returns to London, resumes versatile writing career, begins moonlighting as screenwriter.

Like Truffaut or Goddard in their magazine days, exalting the role of the director shortly before assuming it, Dehn’s film reviews from this era display a rare sensitivity to the contributions of the screenwriter. “One has waited with impatience for a script-writer of discernment,” he characteristically wrote, “to adapt James Thurber’s piteously funny parable about the fantasies of Walter Mitty.” For Dehn as well, the piteously funny was something of a critical stock in trade. Of Esther Williams, he cracked, “Only on dry land is she truly out of her depth.”

Dehn had written amateur theatricals as a student and film reviews ever since, but never a movie. If his prior interview is to be believed, he got into screenwriting for a reason as unusual as it is laudable: Dehn hoped it might make him a better critic. “I started writing manuscripts,” he told his interlocutors in 1972, “because I found it so hard to allocate praise and blame justly in a composite work of art like a film.” Imagine the decades of damage undone, in other arts as well as film, if defections like Dehn’s over the firewall between critics and practitioners were not so rare, and usually so irreversible.

So here begins one of the great runs in the annals of Anglo-American popular filmmaking. Dehn’s first script was not a spy story, but only a spy could have done it justice. No manuscript survives of Dehn and his partner Bernard’s screen treatment for Seven Days to Noon, the placidly terrifying Cold War thriller that won the 1952 Academy Award for best story. Absent any records, we can only speculate that more of the work fell to Dehn, who made his living at his typewriter, than to Bernard, who never received another writing credit—though the latter did go on to score almost all the Hammer horror films. The barest outline of Seven Days to Noon itself would read as follows:

Principled government scientist Willingdon absconds from secret facility carrying suitcase-sized nuclear explosive. Writes to Prime Minister threatening to detonate bomb in London unless nuclear weapons research suspended. Londoners evacuated to countryside. Sappers sweep deserted city for Willingdon, confront him in ruined church as bomb timer ticks down to final seconds.

What this précis leaves out are Dehn’s grace notes: a lapdog nosing around a satchel containing enough potential blast force to obliterate London, the paranoia of a fugitive whose face suddenly stares back at him from every hoarding and newsagent he sees. Already present in embryo are the signature Dehn themes: the plot set in motion by a letter, the overhanging shadow of nuclear annihilation, and the moral complexity of even the noblest motives.

Dehn had trained men to lie and kill and, if necessary, die for queen and country. Impatient with teaching, he went on missions himself, took lives according to le Carré, and risked his own. Finally, with England all but free, he’d seen her allies slaughter one-fifth of a million people over four days in August of 1945. Is it any wonder that Seven Days to Noon and several of Dehn’s later films end with a lone man crouched over an atom bomb and time running out? Alone or with colleagues, from source material or from scratch, Dehn would write several of the most sophisticated, intelligent entertainments about the Cold War and its arsenal ever made. Perhaps 1952 struck some as a touch on the early side to be writing antinuclear films, but his style and polish conspired to help the strong medicine go down.

If Seven Days to Noon and later Goldfinger hardly resulted in immediate nuclear disarmament, they nevertheless gave a shape to our nightmares. Dehn did not have it in him to do more than that. He was no diplomat. He’d seen enough of that breed at university, and too many would soon betray either their ideals or their country. Instead, Dehn did what he could with what he had. He did his bit.

1951–1958: Fresh off his Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, newly sensitized to the screenwriter’s role, Dehn takes up reviewing again. Also writes well-received short films, including one about the Glyndebourne Opera. Returns to features in 1958 with script for Orders to Kill, French Resistance-set suspense film about American pilot recruited by British to kill possible Parisian double agent. Target appears kindly, gentle, harmless. Friendship develops between oblivious victim and his conflicted assassin.

If a little centenary attention to Paul Dehn accomplishes nothing else, may it at least rescue Orders to Kill—which deservingly won the 1958 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for best screenplay—from the memory hole that’s swallowed altogether too many fine midcentury British genre pictures. Sending filmgoers back to familiar movies with fresh eyes is a mitzvah, of course. Even more satisfying is to spotlight rarities like this that no one has looked at carefully in years. So it is with this slow-starting, screw-turning, ultimately quite moving thriller, directed by Anthony Asquith, the man to whom Dehn’s 1956 oddments collection For Love and Money is dedicated.

Aside from the sheer excellence of its craftsmanship, Orders to Kill rehearses themes that haunted Dehn his entire career. In Seven Days to Noon, he’s already introduced one idea that will preoccupy him from first film to last: the slaughter of innocents. In that film, Willingdon threatens to incinerate all of London, young and old, the blameless with the guilty. By the end, the potential toll of the suitcase bomb has shrunk to a few military men—and Willingdon himself. For Willingdon is the last innocent—a meek, mild man constitutionally unable to hear out the violent bluster of a stranger in a pub, yet prepared to destroy an entire city to save the world from science gone mad. His ambivalence becomes our own: We want London saved, but do we want him dead? We sympathize with his mission even as we deplore his methods. When the bomb is ultimately defused, we share his disappointment as much as his pursuers’ relief. A moment later, Willingdon’s death outside the church comes as a martyrdom.

Similarly, the suspected double agent in Orders to Kill earns our sympathy long before his innocence is finally proven. Like Willingdon, he’s a milquetoast, an easy mark for stray kittens and lost souls—even the one who will ultimately kill him. His cat, and the floozy’s dog in Seven Days to Noon who sniffs at Willingdon’s mysterious parcel, echo and reinforce their masters’ guilelessness. War kills the complicit and the pure alike, as Dehn must have learned in his war work. To judge by his later scripts, no amount of writing about it would ever put this guilt fully to bed.

1959–1964: Maintains steady work as film critic. Writes Quake, Quake, Quake in 1961, a miscellany of familiar comic verse, all rewritten to incorporate Sputnik-era subject matter and antinuclear politics. Sample stanza: “Hey diddle diddle, / The physicists fiddle, / The Bleep jumped over the moon. / The little dog laughed to see such fun / And died the following June.” Gives up reviewing in 1963 to become full-time screenwriter. Adapts Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Goldfinger in 1964. Story concerns master criminal’s plot to irradiate America’s gold supply and increase value of own holdings. Goldfinger thwarted when Bond penetrates Fort Knox depository and helps defuse warhead with seconds remaining.

Goldfinger is the most famous script Dehn ever worked on, and success never wants for paternity claims. His cowriter Richard Maibaum, who later became for James Bond what Dehn would become for the Apes films—the go-to writer and sheepish keeper of the franchise flame—claimed authorship of Goldfinger’s first and last drafts, with Dehn coming on in between. Film is “a composite work of art,” as Dehn the critic knew long before he ever set his tab stops at screenplay width. If we risk praising Dehn for any of Maibaum’s work, it’s no greater risk than too many film critics court every day by crediting a director with just about everything.

The scene in Goldfinger we can most confidently ascribe to Dehn is, of course, the climax he pioneered a decade earlier in Seven Days to Noon. Even if Maibaum had written it, consciously or not he pinched the idea from Dehn. It may be hard nowadays to conceive of the climactic bomb-defusal countdown as one man’s invention, rather than part of our archetypal collective unconscious. But Dehn got there first in Seven Days to Noon, when the Cold War was young, and in Goldfinger he may just have done it best.

At least two moments distinguish the Goldfinger countdown from all the rest. First, it may be the first scene in the Bond series in which 007 is overmatched. He’s arm-deep in the bomb’s guts—and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Whether contemporary audiences realized it or not, the subtext here is most assuredly the fear of firepower that even 007 can’t save us from. As Connery plays it, Bond is on the verge of yanking a wire at random and hoping for the best—when a trusty nuclear scientist mercifully intervenes and neutralizes the bomb in seconds. “What kept you?” Bond asks. Even today, after half a century of hollow promises and unsecured plutonium, what’s keeping our deliverer now?

1965–1969: Dehn adapts The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair (AKA Call for the Dead), from novels by John le Carré. Also two agreeably overproduced international coproductions, The Taming of the Shrew and The Night of the Generals.

After Goldfinger, it took Dehn’s two le Carré adaptations to make the screen safe for espionage without lasers or martinis. As Dehn admits, “I am one of those writers who like darting about from one type of film to another. And when I’d collaborated on Goldfinger, I wanted to do a truthful spy story instead of a fantastic one, which is why I did The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Deadly Affair.”

Le Carré himself deserves the laurels for Richard Burton’s great self-loathing monologues against idealism—Marxist and otherwise—in The Spy Who Came in from The Cold. But Dehn’s deft streamlining and word-pictures, filtered through Oswald Morris’s cinematography and Martin Ritt’s direction, help make those speeches play.

There’s more to a script than dialogue, or Dehn’s later script for The Taming of the Shrew wouldn’t have required even a bad writer’s screenwriting services, let alone a great one’s. As Dehn himself said, “It isn’t just a question, as so many people think it is, of writing the dialogue. Some writers, myself included, go into great detail, and they have a strange physical sense, and they see that film on the wall and write down what they see.”

Dehn also warrants credit for a mental image that sticks with a viewer, long after those soliloquies have left behind no residue but a willingness to hear Burton speak them again and again. I’m referring to all those small mounted animal heads in the courtroom at the final East German show trial, peering down at defense and prosecution alike. The long tribunal twists to its surprising end, unforgettably, under the specter of this profligate sacrifice of life.

Animals meant the world to Dehn. He kept cats and watched birds, and composed the rhyming text for Cat’s Whiskers, an entire book of feline photography. As he once wrote, “My hobby is birdwatching: partly because sunlight and fresh air are more than normally vital to a film-critic who spends three weeks of the year’s daylight in the almost total darkness of a cinema.”

If only film retrospectives would recapitulate a writer’s career every so often, recurrent Dehn subthemes—like this identification of animals with vulnerability—would unfailingly shine out. One can’t look back over Dehn’s career without noting a virtual arkful of innocuous fauna. The inquisitive dog in Seven Days to Noon, the contraband cat in Orders to Kill, Goldfinger’s stud horse—“Certainly better bred than the owner,” Bond muses—all testify to his benign preference for animal company over the human kind. Dehn later breathed fresh life into the Planet of the Apes films by focusing not on the humans, but on the chimpanzees.

1970–1973: Writes or cowrites four Apes sequels in as many years. A true rarity: the non-horror studio film series in which every picture’s ending is bleak.

The Apes sequels differ from their precursors in Dehn’s filmography chiefly by not being very good. Centenary or no centenary, nobody gets away with a speech like “You’re the beast in us that we have to whip into submission. You’re the savage that we need to shackle in chains.” That’s from his script for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. If screenwriters are the true authors of their films (a case I tried to make in The Schreiber Theory [2006]), then they write the bad ones along with the good.

Yet even a good screenwriter’s creatively unsuccessful films are interesting in the context of a career, and Dehn’s Apes scripts are nothing if not interesting. Beneath the Planet of the Apes may be a meddled-with, muddled, mediocre movie, but it’s saved by one great visual idea—a realistic portrait of New York as a sunless, corroded, post-apocalyptic hell, overrun by mutants—and a wryly remorseless ending. For the classic Dehn threat of wholesale slaughter, it’s hard to top Beneath the Planet of the Apes, in which a “cobalt bomb” carries off the entire world. The final title card breaks the news to us with sadistic understatement, especially for any viewers unlucky enough to be impressionable children at the time: “In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.”

Dehn originally fought this finale, which Charlton Heston pumped for in order to kill off the series for good, but ultimately Dehn submitted to it in high style. He was rightly anticipating the quandary he would face if Twentieth Century Fox commissioned another sequel after all—a dilemma he wound up solving, in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, through a characteristically ingenious time-travel kludge.

1974: Adapts Agatha’s Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, to great acclaim. Story finds detective Hercule Poirot aboard snowbound train, with sleeping car full of likely suspects in murder of industrialist implicated in Lindbergh-like kidnapping. Christie pronounces it best film from her work to date.

Dehn began his career with the Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, and rounded it off with a nomination for Murder on the Orient Express. (Already ill with cancer, he lost to The Godfather, Part II.) Murder stands among his best work, not least for its use of humor and dramatic tension to distract from the original’s simultaneous predictability and outlandishness. How Dehn keeps viewers guessing as to which of the twelve other passengers has given the murder victim twelve stab wounds—why, whatever could that mean?—is itself a mystery.

Save The Taming of the Shrew, Dehn never wrote a script that did not begin or end in death. His own came at sixty-three, likely the result of a lifelong cigarette habit. In the work of a writer as war-scarred as Dehn, death is rarely solitary. In Seven Days to Noon, he imperiled an entire city; in Goldfinger, half of Kentucky. In The Night of the Generals, Peter O’Toole orders the massacre of the surviving population of the Warsaw Ghetto. The “holy fallout” in Beneath the Planet of the Apes takes the whole planet with it. Meanwhile, Dehn’s own death, in 1976, met with scarcely more commemoration than his centenary this year.

So who really misses Paul Dehn after a hundred years? Besides John le Carré, that is, and Dehn’s niece, the poet Jehane Markham, who remembers him “as a dear friend as well as top notch uncle”? Perhaps no one.

There’s just one hitch. By end of next year, the same centennial odometer will turn over on the screenwriters of High Noon, Midnight Cowboy, The Defiant Ones, Salt of the Earth, and On the Waterfront—four blacklistees and one informer, all heroically gifted, each tragically either silenced, compromised, or redeemed. Will their fascinating careers share the Dehn curse of asterisked obscurity?

It’s up to us. Think of a dead screenwriter’s reputation like an early silver nitrate print of a classic movie. It degrades, over time, into dust. But once touched with sunlight, it might yet flare into incandescence—and send all our prized assumptions about film authorship up in smoke. 

Paul Dehn (I) (1912–1976)
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Filmography

Writer (20 credits)

1974 Murder on the Orient Express (screenplay by)
1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes (story)
1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (written by)
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes (written by)
1970 Fragment of Fear (screenplay)
1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (screenplay) / (story)
1970 Music on 2 (TV Series) (libretto - 1 episode)
- The Bear (1970) ... (libretto)

1968 Beryl Reid Says Good Evening (TV Series) (additional material - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3 (1968) ... (additional material)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Episode #2.1 (1967)
1967 The Taming of the Shrew (screen play by)
1967 The Night of the Generals (adapted for the screen by) / (additional dialogue)
1967 The Deadly Affair (screenplay)
1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (screenplay)
1964 Goldfinger (screenplay)
1960 A Place for Gold (Documentary short) (commentary writer)
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- A Woman of No Importance (1960) ... (adaptation)

1958 Orders to Kill (screenplay)
1956 On Such a Night (Short) (screenplay)
1951 Waters of Time (Documentary short)
1950 Seven Days to Noon (original story)

Music department (2 credits)

1955 I Am a Camera (English lyric by)
1952 Moulin Rouge (lyrics adaptd by)

Producer (1 credit)

1970 Fragment of Fear (associate producer)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1961 The Innocents ("O Willow Waly")

1989: 007 消されたライセンス (Kesa reta raisensu, Licence Expired) released in Japan.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 11 of 65 - "Valley of the Hungry Dunes" at Al-Khaline (in the Middle East).

James Bond Jr - Valley of the Hungry Dunes

Season 1 - Episode 11
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807129/?ref_=ttep_ep11

After rescuing the daughter of Sheikh Yabootie, Bond and his friends are invited to his royal palace, where they discover Dr. No's sinister plot to steal all the water supply of the middle east.

James Bond Jr Episode 11 - Valley of the Hungry Dunes

2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a single in the US.

US 7" vinyl, Third Man Records

45 rpm

2013: William Boyd's Bond novel Solo begins a 10-episode run on Books at Bedtime. BBC Radio 4. Read by Paterson Joseph, adapted by Libby Spurrier.