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)
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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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