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RichardTheBruce

2021: No Time To Die release in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Cyprus, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Cambodia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand.

2021: Sem Tempo Para Morrer release in Brazil.

2021: 007: Sem Tempo Para Morrer release in Portugal.

2021: Sin Tiempo Para Morir release in Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia.

2021: Keine Zeit zu sterben release in Germany.

2021: James Bond 007 - Keine Zeit zu Sterben release in Austria.

2021: 007：生死有時 (007: Life and death time) release in Hong Kong.

2021: Не время умирать release in Russia.

2021: 007: Не час помирати (007: Do not forget the time) release in Ukraine.

2021: Није време за умирање (It's not time to die) release in Serbia.

2021: Za smrt nema vremena (There is no time for death) release in Croatia.

2021: Není čas zemřít release in Czechia.

2021: Ni čas za smrt release in Slovenia.

2021: Nie je čas zomrieť release in Slovakia.

2021: Nincs idő meghalni release in Hungary.

RichardTheBruce

October 1st

1903: Richard Loo is born--Maui, Hawaii.
(He dies 30 November 1983 at age 80--Los Angeles, California.)

RICHARD LOO,
ACTOR 5 DECADES

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/obituaries/richard-loo-actor-5-decades.html

Nov. 22, 1983

Richard Loo, a Chinese-American actor best known for his many portrayals of Japanese villains in World War II movies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday night at the age of 80.

Mr. Loo, who was born in Maui, Hawaii, appeared in nearly 150 films over the course of almost 50 years in the movie business. ''He was known as the man who died to make a living,'' said his daughter Beverly Jane Loo.

''He was always either stabbing himself or committing hara-kiri or kamikaze,'' she said. ''He always played the big honcho who was really going to make life tough for the Americans, the really nasty Japanese general or colonel who ended up killing himself as a point of honor because he never got the best of the Americans.''

Among Mr. Loo's movies were ''The Purple Heart,'' ''God Is My Co-pilot,'' ''Story of Dr. Wessell,'' ''Keys of the Kingdom,'' ''The Good Earth,'' ''The Bitter Tea of General Yen,'' and ''Back to Bataan.''

In later years, he frequently appeared on television, and was featured in the ''Kung Fu'' television series. He was also the subject of impersonation by others; during his own television heyday, Dick Cavett was fond of doing Richard Loo imitations, particularly a scene from ''Purple Heart'' in which Mr. Loo, as a Japanese general, interrogated American fliers shot down in a raid over Tokyo.

According to Miss Loo, Mr. Loo did not mind the typecasting that dominated his career. ''He felt very patriotic about being in those movies,'' she said.

Mr. Loo's last film was a 1974 James Bond movie called ''The Man With the Golden Gun,'' in which he played a Chinese capitalist who financed the villain.

He is survived by his wife, Hope; two daughters, Beverly Jane, the head of Beverly Jane Loo Associates, a New York book publishing company, and Angela Levy of Los Angeles, and one grandchild. His former wife, Bessie Loo, served as his agent and maintains her own talent agency, Bessie S. Loo Associates, in Los Angeles.

Richard Loo (I) (1903–1983)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519618/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (172 credits)

1981 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) -Kam Chong
- East Winds (1981) ... Kam Chong

1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Chen Lee
- The Secret of the Jade Kwan Yin (1977) ... Chen Lee
1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Eddie Lee
- The Blue Fog (1977) ... Eddie Lee
1976 The Quest (TV Series) - Dr. Li Po
- Welcome to America, Jade Snow (1976) ... Dr. Li Po
1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (TV Movie) - Chiang-Kai-Shek
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Hai Fat
1972-1974 Kung Fu (TV Series) - Master Sun / Ho Fai, The Weapons Master / Wu Chang / ...
- Besieged: Cannon at the Gates (1974) ... Master Sun
- The Devil's Champion (1974) ... Ho Fai, The Weapons Master
- Arrogant Dragon (1974) ... Wu Chang
- The Tong (1973) ... Chen
- Blood Brother (1973) ... Master Sun
1974 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Tanaka
- The Attacker (1974) ... Tanaka
1973 McCloud (TV Series) - Y.S. Chen
- The Solid Gold Swingers (1973) ... Y.S. Chen (uncredited)
1973 Ironside (TV Series) - Lin Chu Tai
- In the Forests of the Night (1973) ... Lin Chu Tai
1972 The Delphi Bureau (TV Series) - Shen Si
- The Deadly Little Errand (1972) ... Shen Si
1972 The Sixth Sense (TV Series) - Matsuo
- With This Ring, I Thee Kill! (1972) ... Matsuo
1971 Chandler - Leo
1971 One More Train to Rob - Mr. Chang
1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
1970 One More Time (uncredited)
1968-1970 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Wong / Dr. Langpoor / Clown
- Project "X" (1970) ... Wong
- Payoff in the Piazza (1969) ... Dr. Langpoor
- A Case of Red Turnips (1968) ... Clown
1970 Bewitched (TV Series) - Mr. Tanaka
- Samantha's Better Halves (1970) ... Mr. Tanaka

1969 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Chi Pei
- Marriage, Chinese Style (1969) ... Chi Pei
1969 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) - Kenji Yamashita
- A Matter of Humanities (1969) ... Kenji Yamashita
1968 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Wong Tou
- Twenty-Four Karat Kill (1968) ... Wong Tou
1967 My Three Sons (TV Series) - Mr. Chang
- Weekend in Paradise (1967) ... Mr. Chang
1967 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Chen
- The Mother Tongue (1967) ... Mr. Chen
1966 The Sand Pebbles - Major Chin
1966 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Dr. Yahama
- The Indian Affairs Affair (1966) ... Dr. Yahama
1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Wong
- Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper (1966) ... Wong
1966 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Wang Chung
- The Night the Dragon Screamed (1966) ... Wang Chung
1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Admiral Osuma
- The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 2 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
- The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 1 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
1965 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Grass Slipper
- Deadlier Than the Male (1965) ... Grass Slipper
1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Li Tung
- Time Bomb (1965) ... Li Tung
1965 Honey West (TV Series) - Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
- The Owl and the Eye (1965) ... Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Tsung
- So Long, Patrick Henry (1965) ... Mr. Tsung
1963 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Mr. Eng
- The Case of the Floating Stones (1963) ... Mr. Eng
1963 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Liu Yang
- The Widow O'Rourke Story (1963) ... Liu Yang
1963 The Outer Limits (TV Series) - Li-Chin Sung
- The Hundred Days of the Dragon (1963) ... Li-Chin Sung
1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - George Yang
- The Chooser of the Slain (1963) ... George Yang
1963 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - C.K. Yang
- Two Too Many (1963) ... C.K. Yang
1962 The Red Uncle (Short)
1962 A Girl Named Tamiko - Otani
1962 Diamond Head - Yamagata (uncredited)
1962 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Andrew Ling
- So Various, So Beautiful (1962) ... Andrew Ling
1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater - George Wah
1962 The Beachcomber (TV Series) - Ah Wei
- Charlie Six Kids (1962) ... Ah Wei
1961 Espionage: Far East
1961 Bonanza (TV Series) - General Mu Tsung
- Day of the Dragon (1961) ... General Mu Tsung
1961 7 Women from Hell - Sgt. Takahashi
1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - District Attorney
- The Woman Who Never Was (1961) ... District Attorney
1961 Maverick (TV Series) - Lee Hong Chang
- The Golden Fleecing (1961) ... Lee Hong Chang
1960-1961 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Chung / Low
- Suitable for Framing (1961) ... Chung
- The Jade Empress (1960) ... Low

1959 The Scavengers
1958 Hong Kong Affair - Li Noon
1958 The Quiet American - Mr. Heng
1958 Tombstone Territory (TV Series) - Quong Key
- Tong War (1958) ... Quong Key
1957 Battle Hymn - Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Hong Kong Saloon Manager (uncredited)
1955-1956 TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) - Lew Gar Mun / Officer
- The Smuggler (1956) ... Lew Gar Mun
- The Brainwashing of John Hayes (1955) ... Officer
1954-1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series) - Ho Chung
- Diplomatic Outpost (1956) ... Ho Chung
- Ordeal in Burma (1954)
1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) - Jo-Kai
- Wall of Bamboo (1956) ... Jo-Kai
1956 The Man Called X (TV Series) -
- Assassination (1956)
1956 The Conqueror - Captain of Wang's Guard
1956 Crossroads (TV Series) - Colonel
- Calvary in China (1956) ... Colonel
1956 Navy Log (TV Series) - General Hashimoto
- Dr. Van (1956) ... General Hashimoto
1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Robert Hung
1955 House of Bamboo - Inspector Kito's Voice (voice, uncredited)
1955 Soldier of Fortune - Gen. Po Lin
1954 The Bamboo Prison - Commandant Hsai Tung
1954 My Little Margie (TV Series) - Mr. Tang
- San Francisco Story (1954) ... Mr. Tang
1954 December Bride (TV Series)
- The Chinese Dinner (1954)
1954 The Shanghai Story - Junior Officer
1954 Living It Up - Dr. Lee
1954 Hell and High Water - Hakada Fujimori
1953 China Venture -0 Chang Sung
1953 Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Major Chang
- The Traitor (1953) ... Major Chang
- I Cover Korea (1953)
1953 Summer Theatre (TV Series)
- Foo Young (1953)
1953 Mr. & Mrs. North (TV Series) - John Wing
- Jade Dragon (1953) ... John Wing
1953 Destination Gobi - Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp (uncredited)
1953 Target Hong Kong - Fu Chao
1952 5 Fingers - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
1951 I Was an American Spy - Col. Masamato
1951 Operation Pacific - Japanese Fighter Pilot (uncredited)
1951 Chinatown Chump (Short) - Chinese Counterfeiter
1951 The Steel Helmet - Sgt. Tanaka

1949 Malaya - Colonel Genichi Tomura
1949 The Clay Pigeon - Ken Tokoyama - aka The Weasel
1949 State Department: File 649 - Marshal Yun Usu
1948 Rogues' Regiment - Kao Pang
1948 The Golden Eye - Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1948 The Cobra Strikes - Hyder Ali
1948 Half Past Midnight - Lee Gow
1948 To the Ends of the Earth - Commissioner Lu (uncredited)
1948 Women in the Night - Col. Noyama
1947 Beyond Our Own - James Wong
1947 Web of Danger - Wing
1947 Seven Were Saved - Colonel Yamura
1947 The Beginning or the End - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
1946 Tokyo Rose - Colonel Suzuki
1945 Prison Ship - Capt. Osikawa
1945 First Yank Into Tokyo - Col. Hideko Okanura
1945 Back to Bataan - Maj. Hasko
1945 China's Little Devils - Colonel Huraji
1945 China Sky - Col. Yasuda
1945 God Is My Co-Pilot - Tokyo Joe
1945 Betrayal from the East - Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani
1944 The Keys of the Kingdom - Lt. Shon
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell - Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
1944 The Purple Heart - General Ito Mitsubi
1943 Rookies in Burma - Colonel Matsuda (uncredited)
1943 Jack London - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
1943 So Proudly We Hail! - Japanese Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
1943 Destroyer - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
1943 Behind the Rising Sun - Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium (uncredited)
1943 Yanks Ahoy - Japanese Submarine Officer (uncredited)
1943 China - Lin Yun
1943 The Falcon Strikes Back - Jerry
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday - General Chan (uncredited)
1943 Flight for Freedom - Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)
1943 City Without Men - Japanese Spy (uncredited)
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm - Emperor Hirohito - 'Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang' Number (uncredited)
1942 Road to Morocco - Chinese Announcer (uncredited)
1942 Flying Tigers - Dr. Tsing (uncredited)
1942 Manila Calling - Filipino (uncredited)
1942 Across the Pacific - First Officer Miyuma
1942 Wake Island - Mr. Saburo Kurusu (uncredited)
1942 Little Tokyo, U.S.A. - Oshima
1942 Bombs Over Burma - Japanese Colonel
1942 Submarine Raider - Chauffeur Suji (uncredited)
1942 Remember Pearl Harbor - Mandolin-Playing Japanese Radioman (uncredited)
1942 A Yank on the Burma Road - Commandant (uncredited)
1941 Secret of the Wastelands - Quan
1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
1941 Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery - Henchman (uncredited)
1940 Doomed to Die - Tong Leader
1940 The Fatal Hour - Jeweler

1939 Barricade - Colonel Commander of Rescue Party (uncredited)
1939 Daughter of the Tong - Wong - Hotel Clerk
1939 Island of Lost Men - Gen. Ahn Ling
1939 Lady of the Tropics - Delaroch's Chauffeur (uncredited)
1939 Miracles for Sale - Chinese Soldier in Demo (uncredited)
1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown - Tong Chief
1939 Panama Patrol - Tommy Young
1939 Torchy Blane in Chinatown - Masked Chinese Hood (uncredited)
1939 North of Shanghai - Jed's Pilot
1938 Shadows Over Shanghai - Fong
1938 Too Hot to Handle - Charlie (uncredited)
1938 Blondes at Work - Sam Wong (uncredited)
1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Cop at Shooting Site (uncredited)
1937 West of Shanghai - Mr. Cheng
1937 That Certain Woman - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1937 Outlaws of the Orient - The General (uncredited)
1937 The Singing Marine - Shanghai Hotel Official (uncredited)
1937 The Soldier and the Lady - Tartar (uncredited)
1937 China Passage - Lia Sen's Husband (voice, uncredited)
1937 Lost Horizon - Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
1937 The Good Earth - Chinese Farmer (uncredited)
1936 After the Thin Man - Lichee Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
1936 Stowaway - Chinese Merchant (uncredited)
1936 Mad Holiday - Li Yat (uncredited)
1936/II Shadow of Chinatown - Chinese Man on Street (uncredited)
1936/I Shadow of Chinatown - Loo, Chinese Man on Street [Chs. 5-7] (uncredited)
1936 Roaming Lady - Chinese Seaman (uncredited)
1935 China Seas - Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
1935 Captured in Chinatown - Ling Hatchet Man (uncredited)
1935 Shadows of the Orient - Yung Yow - Chinese Henchman (uncredited)
1935 Stranded - Chinese Groom (uncredited)
1934 The Mysterious Mr. Wong - Bystander Outside Store (uncredited)
1934 Limehouse Blues - Customer at Harry Young's (uncredited)
1934 The Painted Veil - Chinese Peasant (uncredited)
1934 Student Tour - Geisha's Customer (uncredited)
1934 Now and Forever - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Capt. Li
1932 The Secrets of Wu Sin - Charlie San
1932 War Correspondent - Bandit (uncredited)

Sergeant Tanaka in Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet

1959: Ian Fleming sends nephews Christopher, David, and Valentine Fleming ‎£100 for their 21st birthdays (late for David and Valentine). With conditions.

"Until now I had not got enough money to get people presents
that were really presents, but now I send each of you ‎£100 on one
condition--that at least ‎£75 must be spent within a month on one
single object, or two or three objects, which you would really
like to have."

1959: Kinematograph Weekly announces pre-production on the film project James Bond of the Secret Service, with Ian Fleming writing an original script for producer Kevin McClory. Filming planned to start February 1960.
1959: Ian Fleming writes to Ivar Bryce about Jack Whittingham.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 8 - Enter Jack Whittingham

Fleming wrote to Bryce on 1 October in
glowing praise of the new writer: "Whittingham, whom I think I told you I
greatly liked, is fiddling about most creatively with the story."

1960: James Bond comic strip Dr. No ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 23 May 1960. 584-697)
John McLusky, artist. Peter O'Donnell , writer.

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Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3?s=comics&id=01777

Döden På Jamaica
(Death At Jamaica- Dr No)

Danish 1965 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-4-1964/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 4: “Dr. No” (1965)
"Doktor No"

1963: This month the New York Herald Tribune prints "Agent 007 in New York".

https://james-bond-literary.fandom.com/wiki/007_in_New_York

1964: Dr. No re-released in the UK.
1965: From Russia With Love released in Belgium.
1965: This month Marvel Comics introduces the character Desmond Boothroyd, S.H.I.E.L.D. Armorer.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Desmond_Boothroyd_(Earth-616)


Strange Tales Volume 1, #137

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/boothroyd.htm

1976: Moonraker films Richard Kiel as Jaws.

1982: NBC-TV premieres detective show Remington Steele, starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Belgium.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 12 of 65 "Pompei and Circumstance" in Italy.

James Bond Jr - Pompeii and Circumstance
Season 1 - Episode 12

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807114/?ref_=ttep_ep12

The Worm's plan to ransack the ancient treasury temple of Pompeii spells disaster for the city above.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Alan Oppenheimer ... Cricket (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / The Worm / Slug (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Luisa (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 12 Pompei and Circumstance

1992: This month Marvel comics releases James Bond Jr #10 Friends Like These", featuring Dr. Derange.

James Bond Jr #10 "Friends Like These"
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-jr-10-friends-like-these/4000-36306/user-reviews/

James Bond Jr Issue 10 Friends Like These
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-010/

1993: Original release month for the cancelled Dark Horse comic James Bond 007: A Silent Armageddon #4.
John M. Burn, artist. Simon Jowett, writer.

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

A Silent
Armageddon -
Unreleased Issue
Synopses and
Artwork

https://www.comicsroyale.com/goldeneyetopps-comics#/a-silent-armageddon/

Simon Jowett’s Bond story was never completed which is a shame because it’s an interesting tale with beautiful painted artwork by John M. Burns, but delays in said artwork meant that readers were left with a cliffhanger and a story was lost to the ether.

According to Jowett, issue #3 was completed, artwork and all, and submitted but never saw publication. If you have information or access to this comic then we Bond fans would love to see it so feel free to contact me!

In this gallery you’ll find issue synopses for the unfinished arc and cover artwork tests by the very talented Burns. And although issue #3 is still a mystery, thanks to friend of the site Colin Brown we have pencils and layouts for the unpublished issue #4!

For more Bond action by Jowett, you can track down the thankfully completed two-issue series James Bond 007: Shattered Helix, featuring art by David Jackson and David Lloyd. For more fine artwork by John Burns, check out the John M. Burns Art Facebook page!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/578915125862920/

2012: Adele is confirmed as the singer of the title song "Skyfall".
2015: Sony's Made for Bond advertisement with Moneypenny and the Xperia Z5 premieres in the UK.

2020: Video of the title theme "No Time To Die" sung by Billie Eilish released.

Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (Official Music Video) (3:59)

RichardTheBruce

October 2nd

1926: Tom Pevsner is born--Dresden, Germany.
(He dies 18 August 2014 at age 80--Fife, Scotland.)

Tom Pevsner

See the complete article here:

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

Born Thomas C. Pevsner, 2 October 1926, Dresden, Germany
Died 18 August 2014 (aged 87), Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Occupation Assistant film director and producer
Years active 1953–95
Parent(s) Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Lola Pevsner

Tom Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.

He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian-Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.

He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the St John's College Film Society. He was editor of The Cambridge Review; after graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation.

Tom Pevsner's s notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula. He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner.

He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.

Tom Pevsner (1926–2014)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678932/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (27 credits)

1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (assistant director)

1969 Sinful Davey (assistant director)
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (assistant director)
1967 The Night of the Generals (assistant director)
1964 Topkapi (assistant director)
1963 Ladies Who Do (assistant director)
1962 The Longest Day (assistant director)
1962 The Counterfeit Traitor (assistant director)
1961 One, Two, Three (assistant director)
1961 The Devil's Daffodil (assistant director)
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (assistant director)
1960 The City of the Dead (assistant director)
1960 The Savage Innocents (assistant director)

1959 Portrait of a Sinner (assistant director)
1959 The Scapegoat (assistant director)
1958 Indiscreet (assistant director)
1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (assistant director)
1957 All at Sea (assistant director)
1957 The Shiralee (assistant director)
1957 Decision Against Time (assistant director)
1956 Who Done It ? (assistant director)
1955 The Ladykillers (assistant director)
1955 The Night My Number Came Up (assistant director)
1954 The Divided Heart (second assistant director - uncredited)
1954 High and Dry (third assistant director - uncredited)
1953 The Square Ring (third assistant director - uncredited)
1953 The Cruel Sea (third assistant director - uncredited)

Producer (10 credits)

1995 GoldenEye (executive producer)
1989 Licence to Kill (associate producer)
1987 The Living Daylights (associate producer)
1985 A View to a Kill (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
1983 Octopussy (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (associate producer)

1979 Dracula (associate producer)
1977 Julia (associate producer)
1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (associate producer)
Hide Hide Production manager (4 credits)
1975 The Wind and the Lion (production supervisor)
1974 The Spikes Gang (production supervisor)
1971 'Doc' (production manager)

1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (supervising production manager)

Director (1 credit)

1962 Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?

1962: Dr. No previewed to the British press at the London Pavilion.
1967: Com 007 Só Se Vive Duas Vezes (With 007 Only If You Live Twice) released in Brazil.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey sneaking into Zorin’s mine.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 13 of 65 "Never Give a Villain a Fair Shake."

James Bond Jr - Never Give a Villain a Fair Shake
Season 1 - Episode 13

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807294/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Walker D. Plank hijacks a ship carrying a device capable of producing powerful earthquakes and threatens to flood Britain with a tidal wave.

Directed by
Bill Hutten
Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
Julian Holloway Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Reginald Farragut / Professor Firma (voice)
Susan Silo Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 13 Never Give A Villain A Fair Shake

2008 Puffin releases Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Silverfin as a graphic novel.
Kev Walker, artist. Charlie Higson, writer.

Released in the US by Disney Hyperion 2010. Awarded the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award.

https://ebabble.net/silverfin-graphic-novel/

2012: Bérénice Marlohe promotes BOND 24 in Russia.
2012: Adele's Bond title theme is leaked online.

2017: Scientific Games showcases casino slot machines representing Casino Royale, Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever at the Global Gaming Expo ("G2E"), Sands Expo, Las Vegas. With the rights to all existing and future Bond films.

Casino Royale

Goldfinger

Diamonds Are Forever

2020: The release of No Time To Die moves from February to April 2021.
All after the originally planned November 2019 debut.
2021: Announcement says Daniel Craig receives a star 7007 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6 October, next to Roger Moore.

RichardTheBruce

October 3rd

1960: Bond comic strip Goldfinger begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 1 April 1961. 698-849) John McClusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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



Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3

Goldfinger
(Part 1) | (Part 2)

Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk2-goldfinger-1965/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 2: “Contra Goldfinger” (Interpresse 1965)

1960: Variety reports on a James Bond-Dr. No’ stakes held at London’s Wembley Greyhound Stadium on 28 Sep 1962, anticipating the 5 October 1962 world premiere.

1968: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 18 December 1967. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence , writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_tswlm_review.php3






Swedish Semic Comic 1967 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Operation Spökflyg | Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten
(The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1) | (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 2)

Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-18-1969/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 18: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. I” (1969)
"Operation spøgelsesfly ..."
[Operation Ghost Plane)

Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/the-spy-who-loved-me/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)

1968: EON announce model George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery in the Bond role.

1977: La espía que me amó (The Spy Who Loves Me) released in Spain.
Catalan L'espia que em va estimar (The Spy That Loved Me).

1982: Octopussy films OO7 chased by elephants
1985: 007 En la mira de los asesinos (007 at the Sight of the Murderers) released in Peru.

1987: 007 Marcado para a Morte (007 Marked for Death) released in Brazil.

https://www.jamesbondbrasil.com/2017/06/tldl-30/

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 14 of 65 - "City of Gold" in the Caribbean.

James Bond Jr - City of Gold

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807282/?ref_=ttep_ep14

Goldie Finger uses the curse of the golden dragon to scare off local people to her plan to melt down an ancient city made of solid gold into her stolen tanker. However, she wasn't counting on James Bond Jr. to arrive at the Caribbean island for a field trip.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Goldie Finger / Barbella / Ivy Digger (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 13 City of Gold

https://jamesbondjronline.angelfire.com/characters/goldie.html

1992: Sheila Johnston and Joel Silver speculate on the stalled James Bond franchise.

FILM / James Bond, for screen and
country: Sheila Johnston talks to current
action king Joel Silver about Bond's
prospects

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-james-bond-for-screen-and-country-sheila-johnston-talks-to-current-action-king-joel-silver-1555168.html

SHEILA JOHNSTON | Saturday 3 October 1992 00:02

Thirty years after James Bond's screen debut, his reputation has been severely shaken, not stirred. He hasn't been activated for three years, has suffered a serious identity crisis, and is being challenged at the box-office by an American arriviste by the name of Ryan, Jack Ryan.

THE celebrations surrounding Dr No's 30th birthday (the film opened on 5 October 1962) have been clouded by one regrettable absence: Bond himself. The latest 007-movie, which ought to have appeared in the summer of 1991 with its usual biennial regularity, failed to show, and any future productions have vanished in a snowstorm of litigation. Cubby Broccoli, the movies' 83-year-old producer, is suing MGM-Pathe, the distributors, and has announced his decision to sell Danjaq, the company that owns the rights to the Fleming novels.

One reason for all this is the poor performance of the last two Bonds, in which Roger Moore was replaced by Timothy Dalton. The Living Daylights grossed only dollars 55m in the US; the follow-up, Licence to Kill, dipped as low as dollars 16.6m there. The theories of what went wrong fall into two camps: those which feel that the character himself is hopelessly outmoded, and those which maintain that there is life in the old dog yet and that it's the films which have lost their way.

This, emphatically, is the view of Joel Silver, who is in a position to know, being the most successful producer of action movies of recent years (his credits include the Beverly Hills Cops, the Lethal Weapons and the Die Hards). 'I love being in the sequel business,' he says. 'Audiences know what to expect and want to see it, but it's also a challenge; you have to bring something new to each movie. Early on the series-makers were very conscious of the Bond concept: Thunderball was quite a different film from Goldfinger. Towards the end, the films were almost ordinary.'

Silver also believes that the movies erred fatally in ceasing to take themselves seriously: he recalls that his own worst disaster was also his most (late-) Bondian--Hudson Hawk, which featured a wise-cracking hero, an incredible plot and caricatured villains. 'When you make everything a farce, it becomes like toffee.' he says. 'The key to the action genre is that you have to believe everything that's happening could happen. The early Bonds were fantastical, but they did feel reality- based. And, although they had a lot of whimsy, they didn't make fun of themselves either. The late films began to be parodies, like Naked Gun 2 1/2 .'

007 is not altogether dead: US kids have been watching one James Bond Jnr [sic] - Bond's skateboarding teenage nephew, who stars (alongside teen versions of Felix Leiter and Q) in an animated show syndicated to more than 100 American television stations. There are no signs of a live-action comeback, however. Plans were announced last year for a 26-part TV series featuring a less violent, non-smoking, celibate - in short, barely recognisable--Bond, but Broccoli has resisted them stoutly.

At Cannes last May, rumours were flying around that Silver himself hoped to acquire the rights: the producer, it was said, had spoken to Mel Gibson and to Richard Donner, the director of the Lethal Weapons, and had convinced them to commit to three Bond movies. Casting Gibson as the quintessential English hero is not as wild as it sounds: Bond has been played in the past by an American (Barry Nelson - the very first 007, in an hour-long TV drama in the Fifties), a Scot (Sean Connery), an Australian (George Lazenby) and a Welshman (Timothy Dalton).

More importantly, Gibson is a world-famous name. 'Putting in him alone would fresh up the genre,' Silver says. 'He has the same good looks and the same boldness as Connery. And casting an international star would make the film an international vehicle.' That, perhaps, was Broccoli's mistake in casting Dalton, believing that he could - as he had before with Connery - turn a highly respected, but relatively unknown actor into a big box-office draw. 'You can't build a star like you could in the old days. You're better served having a well-known personality; that's the way I would do it.' But Silver's plans have so far come to nought.

Meanwhile, the crypto-Bonds continue: Harrison Ford has taken Patriot Games to dollars 83m at the American box-office so far, and has just signed to play the central character, Jack Ryan, in four more films adapted from Tom Clancy's novels - a contract rumoured to bring him a cool dollars 50m. And, of course, there are Silver's own new breeds of hero.

But Silver is scornful of the idea that these will ever take Bond's place in the popular consciousness, or that he himself, having failed to secure the franchise, might one day field a thinly-disguised 007 clone. 'Some of the reviews of the Die Hards referred to them as blue-collar Bonds. But Bond is an icon. He's part of our communal lives and will go through generations. He's magic! He's not just a man who's a spy - he's James Bond! That's what I think is so valuable and that's why I think he should not be lost.'

The Living Daylights, 6.30pm, tonight, ITV; Thirty Years of James Bond, 9.30pm, tonight ITV

1992: ITV from London airs The Living Daylights plus a 50 minute special 30 Years of James Bond.

2008: "Another Way to Die" premieres on BBC's Channel 4.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment announces a Felix Leiter comic for January 2017 release.
Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #2.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #2

https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244702011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: David Mack
Cover C: Kev Walker
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: October 2018
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/3/2018

The epic account of James Bond's exploits during World War II continues! After barely surviving the Clydebank Blitz, James is determined to enter the Royal Marines, despite being two years too young. He'll need to rely on a family friend to help him through, where he'll begin training alongside the best and brightest that the United Kingdom has to offer. But his military training becomes dangerous, when it's discovered there's a German mole in their midst.

By superstar JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger)!

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RichardTheBruce

October 4th

1883: The Orient Express begins service.

Tea & Madeleine | November 11, 2017
Orient Express

An Icon of Art Deco Design

The inaugural Orient Express service launched on 4 October 1883. During its time, the train carried passengers including Tolstoy, Trotsky, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia and the spy Mata Hari. To the present day, movies about the service have starred Sean Connery (The Spy Who Loved Me From Russia With Love, 1963), Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench (Murder on the Orient Express, 2017), among others. And let’s not forget its crucial role in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The Venice Simplon-Orient Express is the most storied set of carriages in the world. It promises to take you not just across Europe, but to transport you back in time. With its polished wood, sumptuous upholstery and antique fixtures, the train epitomises the glamour and elegance of the Golden Age of travel.

The carefully restored 1920s cabins are rich with craftsmanship. Plush sofas provide the perfect spot to watch the scenery unfold. At night, climb the upholstered ladder to your upper berth or cosy up under crisp sheets on the bottom bunk. Art Deco interiors and Lalique glassware conjure the romance and glamour of the Roaring Twenties.

The luxurious dining car, where scenes for Murder on the Orient Express and other movies were filmed, is now in the OSE museum of Thessalonica. The local authorities plan to refit the train to make it available for tourist use around the Balkans in the near future.

Classic routes on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express take in such fabled European cities as London, Paris, Venice, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. But this experience really is all about the journey. As you glide through lush, rolling countryside and majestic mountains, you’re encouraged to savour every moment.

The glamour and rich history of the Orient Express has frequently lent itself to the plot of books such as Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene written in 1969, From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming written in 1956 and of course Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie written in 1934.

1953: Baruh Djaki Karyo (aka Tcheky Karyo) is born--Istanbul, Turkey.
1956: Christoph Waltz is born--Vienna, Austria.
1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.

1962: Roger Moore first appears as Leslie Charteris' The Saint in the UK television series of the same name. Episode 1 "The Talented Husband" starred Shirley Eaton.

1965: The Daily Express serializes Ian Fleming's short story "Octopussy".

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/06/daily-express-illustrations-by-robb.html

1966: You Only Live Twice films the assassination of Aki.

1967: Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte released in Italy.

1971: Hoyte Van Hoytema is born--Horgen, Switzerland.

1984: Rachel McDowall is born--Whiston, Merseyside, England.
1988: Kim Sherwood is born--Camden, England.

1990: Nora Noel Jill Bennett dies at age 58--Kensington, London, England.
(Born 24 December 1931--Penang, Malaysia.)

Jill Bennett (British actress)

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(British_actress)

Jill Bennett in trailer for The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Born Nora Noel Jill Bennett, 24 December 1931, Penang, Straits Settlements
Died 4 October 1990 (aged 58), London, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death Suicide
Years active 1951–1990
Spouse(s) Willis Hall (m. 1962–1965), John Osborne (m. 1968–1978)

Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.

Early life
She was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in The Long Dark Hall (1951) with Rex Harrison.

Career

Bennett made many appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), The Nanny (1965), The Skull (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990).

She made forays into television, such as roles in Play for Today (Country, 1981), with Wendy Hiller, and as the colourful Lady Grace Fanner in John Mortimer's adaptation of his own novel, Paradise Postponed (1985). Among several roles, Osborne wrote the character of Annie in his play The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) for her. But Bennett's busy schedule prevented her from playing the role until it was screened on television in 1971.[1]

She co-starred with Rachel Roberts in the Alan Bennett television play The Old Crowd (1979), directed by Lindsay Anderson.

Personal life
She was the live-in companion of actor Godfrey Tearle in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978. She had no children.

Death
She died by suicide in October 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage to Osborne (according to Osborne's biographer). She did this by taking an overdose of Quinalbarbitone. Osborne, who was subject during her life to a restraining order regarding written comments about her, immediately wrote a vituperative chapter about her to be added to the second volume of his autobiography. The chapter, in which he rejoiced at her death, caused great controversy.

In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?" The event was included in Anderson's autobiographical BBC documentary Is That All There Is? (1992).

Jill Bennett (I) (1931–1990)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071824/

Filmography

Actress (62 credits)

1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle

1989 A Day in Summer (TV Movie) - Miss Prosser
1988 Hawks - Vivian Bancroft
1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series) - Elizabeth Berrington
- The Barrington Case (1987) ... Elizabeth Berrington
1986 Paradise Postponed (TV Mini-Series) - Lady Grace Fanner
- The Simcox Inheritance (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Faith Unfaithful (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- The Gods of the Copy Book Headings (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Enigma Variations (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- And a Happy New Year to You, Too! (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
1986 Lady Jane - Mrs. Ellen
1985 Time for Murder (TV Series) - Sonia Barrington
- The Murders at Lynch Cross (1985) ... Sonia Barrington
1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) - Daisy Troop
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... Daisy Troop
1983 The Aerodrome (TV Movie) - Eustasia
1982 Britannia Hospital - Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Alice Carlion
- Country (1981) ... Alice Carlion
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Jacoba Brink
1980 Orient-Express (TV Mini-Series) - Jane
- Jane (1980) ... Jane

1979 The Old Crowd (TV Movie) - Stella
1977 The Haunting of Julia - Lily Lofting
1976 Almost a Vision (TV Movie) - Isobel
1976 Murder (TV Series) - Lola
- Hello Lola (1976) ... Lola
1975 Mr. Quilp - Sally Brass
1975 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) - Maria
- The Three Marias (1975) ... Maria
1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Jill
- Ms or Jill and Jack (1974) ... Jill
1974 Intent to Murder (TV Movie) - Janet Preston
1972 I Want What I Want - Margaret Stevenson
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series)
- The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
1971 Speaking of Murder (TV Movie) - Annabelle Logan
1970 Julius Caesar - Calpurnia
1969 Rembrandt (TV Movie) - Geertje
1968 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Penelope
- Its Only Us (1968) ... Penelope
1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Liz
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mrs. Duberly
1968 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Anna
- The Parachute (1968) ... Anna
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mary Hass
- Brainscrew (1966) ... Mary Hass
1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) - Frida Holmeier
- Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) ... Frida Holmeier
1965 The Nanny - Aunt Pen
1965 The Skull - Jane Maitland
1956-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Masha / Marjorie Wilton / Gilda / ...
- We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar (1965) ... Marjorie Wilton
- A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... Gilda
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) ... Helena
- Three Sisters (1963) ... Masha
- The Rainmaker (1963) ... Lizzie
1964 First Night (TV Series) - Libby Beeston
- How Many Angels (1964) ... Libby Beeston
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Mistress Patience Wright
- The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... Mistress Patience Wright
1963 Maupassant (TV Series)
- Foolish Wives (1963)
1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hilary / Victoria Thomson
- The Sponge Room (1963) ... Hilary
- Storm in a Teacup (1962) ... Victoria Thomson
1960-1962 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Annette
- The Book Bag (1962)
- The Unconquered (1960) ... Annette
1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Ferba Martinez
- Time to Kill (1962) ... Ferba Martinez
1960 The Concrete Jungle - Maggie
1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Stella / Lily / Agnes Madinier / ...
- Thunder on the Snowy (1960) ... Stella
- Hand in Glove (1959) ... Lily
- The Web of Lace (1958) ... Agnes Madinier
- Ring Out the Old (1956) ... Isa
1960 Return to the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Rena
- Other People's Houses (1960) ... Rena

1959 A Glimpse of the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1954-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Anne-Marie / Catherine Sloper / Barbara Shearer / ...
- Figure of Fun (1959) ... Anne-Marie
- The Heiress (1958) ... Catherine Sloper
- Statue of David (1958) ... Barbara Shearer
- Do It Yourself (1957) ... Grette Brinson
- Night Was Our Friend (1955) ... Sally Raynor
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Trilby O'Ferrall
- Trilby (1959) ... Trilby O'Ferrall
1957 Do It Yourself (TV Series) - Assistant
1957 Villette (TV Mini-Series) - Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.6 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.5 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.4 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.3 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.2 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
1957 Peace and Quiet (TV Movie) - Josephine Elliott
1956 Lust for Life - Willemien
1956 The Extra Day - Susan
1956 The Anatomist (TV Movie) - Mary Belle
1955 Murder Anonymous (Short) - Mrs. Sheldon
1954 Corsican Holiday (Short) - The Girl (voice)
1954 Aunt Clara - Julie Mason
1954 Hell Below Zero - Gerda Petersen
1953 The Pleasure Garden (Short) - Miss Kellerman
1953 The Nine Days' Wonder (TV Movie) - Miss Smith
1952 Moulin Rouge - Sarah
1951 The Long Dark Hall - First Murdered Girl

Writer (1 credit)

1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) (idea - 8 episodes)
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... (idea)
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... (idea)
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... (idea)
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... (idea)
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... (idea)

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 15 of 65 - "Never Lose Hope."

James Bond Jr - Never Lose Hope

Season 1 Episode 15
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807295/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

A new science teacher at Warfield Academy, Miss Eternal, quickly makes herself popular with the pupils - but is soon kidnapped, apparently by agents of S.C.U.M..

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Benjamin Pollack ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Miss Hope Eternal (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 15 Never Lose Hope

Miss Hope Eternal

1999: The Radioactive label releases the single for the Garbage title song "The World Is Not Enough" a week early, following an unauthorized leak on Los Angeles airwaves. B side "Ice Bandits".

2012: Media reports reveal the casting of Ben Whishaw as Q.

Ben Whishaw to update James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/ben-whishaw-to-update-james-bond-28876896.html[/center]

Ben Whishaw stars as Q in the new Bond film
October 4 2012 11:12 AM

James Bond producers have revealed they cast Ben Whishaw as 007's gadget guru Q in a bid to update the franchise - but they hope he plays the role into his old age.

The 31-year-old British actor - who stars in BBC One drama The Hour - will make his debut as Q opposite Daniel Craig in new film Skyfall later this month.

Producer Michael G Wilson said: "The decision was made to make him a younger man, as would be the case these days. Let's hope he goes on as long as Desmond Llewelyn did."

The Welsh actor played Q in 16 Bond films until he died aged 85 in 1999. Q has not appeared in the last two films.

The film franchise - which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year - began when Albert R 'Cubby' Broccoli secured the rights to Ian Fleming's novels, which he later passed on to his children.

His youngest daughter Barbara Broccoli said: "Cubby used to say, 'This is the goose that laid the golden egg, keep it safe.'

"One of the things he said was we're temporary people making permanent decisions. When you have a franchise, and you're invested in it as emotionally as we are, you make decisions based on the health of the franchise going forward."

PA

2012: Vintage Publishing release the 6 remaining Fleming Bond novels in paperback.

2022: Waterstone's presents John Higgs speaking to his book Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche.

Oct 04
Love and Let Die: An Evening
with John Higgs - Liverpool

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-and-let-die-an-evening-with-john-higgs-liverpool-tickets-407930199207

Join us for a wonderful evening as we hear all about John Higgs' new book, Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche.
By Waterstones

When and where
Date and time
Tue, 4 Oct 2022, 18:30 BST

Location
Waterstones 12 College Lane Liverpool L1 3DL United Kingdom

The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and Love Me Do, the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday 5 October 1962. Most countries can only dream of a cultural export becoming a worldwide phenomenon on this scale. For Britain to produce two on the same windy October afternoon is unprecedented.

Bond and the Beatles present us with opposing values, visions of Britain, and ideas about male identity. Love and Let Die is the story of a clash between working class liberation and establishment control, and how it exploded on the global stage. It explains why James Bond hated the Beatles, why Paul McCartney wanted to be Bond, and why it was Ringo who won the heart of a Bond Girl in the end.

Told over a period of sixty dramatic years, this is an account of how two out-sized cultural monsters continue to define our aspirations and fantasies and the future we are building. Looking at these touchstones in this new context will forever change how you see the Beatles, the James Bond films and six decade.

John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded, The KLF, Stranger Than We Can Imagine, Watling Street, The Future Starts Here, William Blake Now and William Blake VS The World. He lives in Brighton with his wife and their two children.

2022: Live EON Productions and David Arnold charity concert The Sound of 007 - LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall, London, England.

Prime Video to Stream 25
James Bond Films, and will
Premiere The Sound of 007
Documentary and The Sound
of 007: LIVE from the Royal
Albert Hall Music Special in
Celebration of the Legendary
Franchise’s 60th Anniversary

See the complete article here:

https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/press-release/prime-video-to-stream-25-james-bond-films-and-will

Sep 29, 2022

Prime Video also unveiled the official posters and trailers for The Sound of 007 and the franchise’s 60th anniversary celebration

Downloadable assets: The Sound of 007 OFFICIAL TRAILER; The Sound of 007 OFFICIAL POSTER; 60 Years of Bond OFFICIAL TRAILER; 60 Years of Bond OFFICIAL POSTER

CULVER CITY, California—September 29, 2022—Prime Video announced today that 25 James Bond films will be available to stream in the U.S., U.K, and other key territories as part of the 60th anniversary celebration of the legendary film franchise. Prime Video also unveiled the official posters and trailers for the 60th anniversary celebration and for The Sound of 007, a Mat Whitecross-helmed feature documentary about the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music that will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 240 countries and territories worldwide. All 25 of the Bond franchise films and The Sound of 007 will be available October 5.

Additionally, following the live October 4 EON Productions and David Arnold-created charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Prime Video will globally stream an exclusive recording of the show—The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall. At the event, guest vocalists and a host of stars will perform iconic Bond themes.

The 25 films coming to Prime Video in the U.S., U.K., Australia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico/Latin America (excluding Brazil), Spain, and Southeast Asia for a limited time are Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time To Die. With the exception of No Time To Die, the 24 films will be available for a limited time in territories including Germany, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Brazil.

The Sound of 007 was directed by BIFA- and BAFTA-nominee Mat Whitecross (The Kings, Oasis: Supersonic, The Road to Guantánamo) for Prime Video and MGM. The feature documentary pulls back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, taking viewers on a journey from Sean Connery’s Dr. No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing in No Time To Die. Produced by John Battsek at Ventureland, MGM, and EON Productions, the film charts the incredible history of the music, enthralling true tales behind the tunes and famous faces who have recorded some of the most beloved soundtracks in cinema.

The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall is an exclusive recording of the official charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall on October 4. Guest vocalists will join a line up curated by five-time Bond composer David Arnold. The concert marks 60 years since the world premiere of Dr. No, the first 007 film, on October 5, 1962. Honoring the franchise’s long tradition of supporting charitable causes, the proceeds of The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall will benefit two music charities: Nordoff Robbins and The BRIT Trust. Following the concert, a custom Duesenberg guitar signed by Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Arnold, and the artists will be auctioned online at Christie’s to raise additional funds for the music charities.

Additional Amazon activations in celebration of the franchise’s 60th include a [RE]DISCOVER: James Bond playlist. Amazon Music customers will be able to listen to the playlist, which will spotlight the iconic songs that have defined the Bond franchise. Amazon Music’s [RE]DISCOVER series showcases carefully curated playlists across various genres and takes listeners on a career-spanning journey of discovery, or re-discovery, through an entire body of musical work.

For more information on Bond’s 60th anniversary and the October 4 official charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall, please visit www.007.com.

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2022: Prime Video premieres The Sound of 007 Documentary and a recording of The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall Music Special in Celebration of the Legendary Franchise’s 60th Anniversary.

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October 5th: Global James Bond Day

1919: Donald Pleasence is born--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
(He dies 2 February 1995 at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.)

Donald Pleasence OBE

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

Pleasence in London, 1973.
Portrait by Allan Warren

Born Donald Henry Pleasence, 5 October 1919, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Died 2 February 1995 (aged 75), Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Nationality British
Education Ecclesfield School
Occupation Actor, singer, narrator
Years active 1946–1995
Spouse(s) Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958), Josephine Crombie (m. 1959–1970), Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988), Linda J. Kentwood (m. 1988)
Children 5, including Angela Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ˈplɛzəns/); 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an

English character actor. His best known film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971), and the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981).

Early life
Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice (née Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway stationmaster. He was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received his formal education at Crosby Junior School, Scunthorpe and Ecclesfield Grammar School, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. After working as the Clerk-in-Charge at Swinton railway station in South Yorkshire, he decided that he wanted to be a professional actor, taking up a placement with the Jersey Repertory Company in 1939.

Second World War
In December 1939, Pleasence initially refused conscription into the British Armed Forces, registering as a conscientious objector, but changed his stance in autumn 1940, after the attacks upon London by the Luftwaffe, and volunteered with the Royal Air Force. He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No. 166 Squadron in Bomber Command, with which he flew almost sixty raids against the Axis over occupied Europe. On 31 August 1944, Lancaster NE112, in which he was a crew member, was shot down during an attack upon Agenville, and he was captured and imprisoned in the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I, where he was treated well reciprocally (like the British treated captured Luftwaffe pilots) in similar prisoner-of-war camps. Here, Pleasence produced and acted in many plays for the entertainment of his fellow captives.

After the war and his release, he was discharged from the R.A.F. in 1946.

Acting career
Returning to acting after the war, Pleasence resumed working in repertory theatre companies in Birmingham and Bristol. In the 1950s, Pleasence's stage work included performing as Willie Mossop in a 1952 production of Hobson's Choice at the Arts Theatre, London and as Dauphin in Jean Anouilh's The Lark (1956). In 1960, Pleasence gained excellent notices as the tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a role he would again play in a 1990 revival. Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos (1963-64) and Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968. Pleasence's later stage work included performing in a double bill of Pinter plays, The Basement and Tea Party, at the Duchess Theatre in 1970.

Television
Pleasence made his television debut in I Want to Be a Doctor (1946). He received positive critical attention for his role as Syme in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and featured Peter Cushing in the lead role of Winston Smith.

Pleasence played Prince John in several episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956–1958). He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes "Position of Trust" (1960) and "Find and Return" (1961). Pleasence's first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, playing an aging teacher at a boys' school in the episode "The Changing of the Guard" (1962). In 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Man With the Power". In 1966, he also guest starred in an episode of The Fugitive entitled "With Strings Attached"

In 1973, Pleasence played a sympathetic murderer in an episode of Columbo entitled "Any Old Port in a Storm". Also that year, he played a supporting role in David Winters' musical television adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

He also portrayed a murderer captured by Mrs. Columbo in "Murder Is a Parlor Game" (1979). In 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Michener's Centennial. Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBC's TV series The Barchester Chronicles (1982). In this series, his daughter Angela Pleasence played his onscreen daughter Susan.

He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear.

In 1986, Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness.

Film

Donald Pleasence in the trailer for
the film Eye of the Devil (1966).

Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he plays a vindictive market inspector opposite Richard Burton. In the same year, Pleasence starred in the horror films Circus of Horrors directed by Sidney Hayers, playing the role of Vanet, the owner of a circus, and The Flesh and the Fiends as the real-life murderer William Hare, alongside Peter Cushing, George Rose and Billie Whitelaw.

Endowed with a bald head, a penetrating stare, and an intense voice, usually quiet but capable of a piercing scream, he specialised in portraying insane, fanatical, or evil characters, including the title role in Dr Crippen (1962), the double agent Dr Michaels in the science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage (1966), the white trader who sells guns to the Cheyenne Indians in the revisionist western Soldier Blue (1970), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer–Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad! (1974), Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967), the first film in which Blofeld's face is clearly seen. His interpretation of the character has become predominant in popular culture considering the popularity of the comic villain, Dr. Evil in the successful Austin Powers film series, which primarily parodies it. In the crime drama Hell is a City (1960), shot in Manchester, he starred opposite Stanley Baker, whilst he was memorably cast in the horror comedy What a Carve Up! (1961) as the “horrible-looking zombie” solicitor opposite Shirley Eaton, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Dennis Price.

He appeared as the mild-mannered and good-natured POW forger Colin Blythe in the film The Great Escape (1963), who discovers that he is slowly going blind, but nonetheless participates in the mass break-out, only to be shot down by German soldiers because he is unable to see them. In The Night of the Generals (1967), he played another uncharacteristically sympathetic role, this time as an old-school German general involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. In 1971, he returned to the realm of the deranged, delivering a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright.

Pleasence played Lucifer in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). His character taking on many dark, shadowy human disguises throughout the film was unprecedented in breathing life into the Luke 4:13 phrase "... he left Him until an opportune time ..." He was one of many stars who were given cameos throughout the film.

He also acted in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (1966), in which he portrayed the love-sodden husband of a much younger French wife (Françoise Dorléac). He ventured successfully into American cowboy territory, playing a sadistic self-styled preacher who goes after stoic Charlton Heston in the Western Will Penny (1968).

He portrayed SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), opposite Robert Duvall which was the directorial debut of George Lucas. A few years later, he portrayed antagonist Lucas Deranian, in Walt Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and, in Telefon (1977), Nicolai Dalchimsky, the Russian seeking to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Pleasence appeared as Dr. Samuel Loomis in John Carpenter's horror film Halloween (1978). The film was a major success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic of the horror genre. He also played the teacher, Kantorek in All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), Dr. Kobras in The Pumaman (1980) and the held-hostage President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981). The rather sinister accent which Pleasence employed in this and other films may be credited to the elocution lessons he had as a child. He reprised his Dr. Sam Loomis role in Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).

Pleasence admired Sir Laurence Olivier,[15] with whom he worked on-stage in the 1950s, and later on the film version of Dracula (1979). Two years earlier, Pleasence did an amusingly broad impersonation of Olivier in the guise of a horror-film actor called "Valentine De'ath" in the film The Uncanny (1977). According to the film critic Kim Newman on a DVD commentary for Halloween II, the reason for Pleasence's lengthy filmography was that he never turned down any role that was offered.

Spoken records and voice-overs
During the early 1960s, Pleasence recorded several children's-story records on the Atlas Record label. These were marketed as the Talespinners series in the United Kingdom. They were also released in the United States as Tale Spinners for Children by United Artists. The stories included Don Quixote and the Brave Little Tailor.

Pleasence provided the voice-over for the British public information film, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (1973). The film, intended to warn children of the dangers of playing near water, attained notoriety for allegedly giving children nightmares.

Books
Pleasence was the author of the children's book Scouse the Mouse (1977) (London: New English Library), which was animated by Canadian animator/film director Gerald Potterton (a friend of the actor, who directed him in the Canadian film The Rainbow Boys (1973), retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States) and also adapted into a children's recording (Polydor Records, 1977) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew describes Pleasence as "a potent combination of eyes and voice. The eyes are mournful but they can also be sinister or seedy or just plain nutty. He has the kind of piercing stare which lifts enamel off saucepans."

Awards
Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.

Pleasence was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to the acting profession by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.

Personal life
Pleasence married four times and had five daughters from his first three marriages. He had Angela and Jean with Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958); Lucy and Polly with Josephine Martin Crombie (m. 1959–1970); and Miranda with Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988). His last marriage was to Linda Kentwood (m. 1988–1995; his death)

Death
On 2 February 1995, Pleasence died at age 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, from complications of heart failure following heart valve replacement surgery. His body was cremated.

Legacy
The 1995 film Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers was dedicated to Donald Pleasence. The 1998 film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later also features a dedication to Pleasence in the end credits, with sound-alike voice actor Tom Kane providing a voice-over for Loomis in the film. In the 2018 film, Halloween, sound-alike comedian Colin Mahan voiced Loomis.

Dr. Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films (1997–2002), and Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget are parodies of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

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1930: John Pearson is born--Epsom, Surrey, England.
(He dies 13 November 2021 at age 91--Sussex, Canada.)

John Pearson (author)

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pearson_(author)

John Pearson
Born 5 October 1930
Epsom, Surrey, England
Died 13 November 2021 (aged 91)
Occupation Writer
Genre Biography
Website www.johnpearson.uk

John George Pearson (5 October 1930 – 13 November 2021) was an English novelist and an author of biographies, notably of Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond), of the Sitwells, and of the Kray twins.

Life and career
Pearson was born in Epsom, Surrey. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a double first in history. He then worked for The Economist, BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He was Ian Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times and went on to write the first biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, published in 1966.

Pearson was commissioned by Donald Campbell to chronicle his successful attempt on the Land Speed Record in 1964 in Bluebird CN7, resulting in the book Bluebird and the Dead Lake.

Pearson had also written "true crime" biographies, such as The Profession of Violence, an account of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, who had hired him to write their biography in 1967. Over the next several years the brothers, who by now were in jail, wrote frequently to Pearson. He wrote two further books about the Krays: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays and Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins. The items sold for £20,780.

Another of Pearson's books, The Gamblers, is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the book in 2006. The Gamblers was made into a two-part TV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston, broadcast on ITV1 in December 2013.

Pearson's book Facades was the first full-scale biography of the Sitwell siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. It was published in 1978.

Pearson had also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as "an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a splendid setting in French West Africa. The writing is sharp and witty." Malcolm Muggeridge said, "This is an exceptionally brilliant first novel - exciting, wryly funny and perceptive."

For his next three novels, Pearson did tie-in fictional biographies. Pearson also became the third official author of the James Bond series, writing in 1973 James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, a first-person biography of the fictional secret agent James Bond. However, Pearson declined an offer to write further Bond novels. Pearson then did fictional tie-in works about Upstairs, Downstairs (The Bellamys of Eaton Place) and Biggles.

Pearson had three children from his first marriage. In 1980, he married his second wife, Lynette, daughter of Ian Hope Dundas of Dundas, 30th Chief of Clan Dundas, and former wife of Timothy Cecil Frankland, grandson of Sir Frederick Frankland, 10th Baronet by his wife Mary (née Curzon), Baroness Zouche, of the family of the Viscounts Curzon.[8] Pearson died on 13 November 2021, at the age of 91.

Bibliography
Novels
Gone To Timbuctoo (1962) - winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
The Bellamys of Eaton Place (1976) - published in the U.S. as The Bellamy Saga
Biggles: The Authorised Biography (1978)
The Kindness of Dr Avicenna (1982)

Non-fiction
Biographies
Bluebird and the Dead Lake (1965) (published in the U.S. as The Last Hero: The Gallant Story of Donald Campbell and the Land Speed Record in 1966)
The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)
The Kray Twins series:
The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins (1972) - nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award
The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays (2001)
Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins (2010)
Facades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1978) (published in the U.S. as The Sitwells in 1979)
Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink (1979), first published as by "Henry Cloud" but subsequently republished under his own name
Stags and Serpents: The Story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire (1983) (published in the U.S. as The Serpent and the Stag in 1984)
The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor (1986) (published in the U.S. as The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy)
Citadel of the Heart: Winston and the Churchill Dynasty (1991) (published in the U.S. as The Private Lives of Winston Churchill)
Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty (1995)
Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals (1999)
One of the Family: The Englishman and the Mafia (2003)
The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan (2005)
Ian Fleming: The Notes (2020)

History
Airline Detective: The Fight Against International Air Crime (1962) co-written with BOAC Security expert Donald E. W. Fish although Pearson is uncredited
Arena: The Story of the Colosseum (1973)
Edward the Rake (1975) (published in the U.S. as Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII)

Politics
The Persuasion Industry (1965), with Graham Turner

Adaptations
Goldeneye (1989), telefilm directed by Don Boyd, based on non-fiction book The Life of Ian Fleming
Lucan (2013), mini-series directed by Adrian Shergold, based on non-fiction book The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan
Legend (2015), film directed by Brian Helgeland, based on non-fiction book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
All the Money in the World (2017), film directed by Ridley Scott, based on non-fiction book Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty

1946: Victor Monroe Armstrong is born--Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England.

1961: Kinematograph Weekly announces the Dr No film production will begin.
(Broccoli and Saltzman don't yet have an actor for the Bond role.)

1962: Dr. No premieres at the London Palladium.

1973: Com 007 Viva e Deixe Morrer (With 007 Live and Let Die) released in Brazil.

Video covers

1976: The Spy Who Loved me films Wet Nellie emerging onto the beach at Capricccioli, Sardinia, Italy.
1977: La espía que me amó released in Venezuela.

Christopher Wood Novelization

Later Gaming


Soundtrack

1983: Octopussy released in France.

1983: Newly discovered asteroid is named in honor of Ian Fleming: 9007 James Bond.

9007 James Bond Asteroid

See the complete article here:

https://www.universeguide.com/asteroid/9007jamesbond

James Bond is an asteroid, a large rock that orbits the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They tend to be an irregular shaped but Ceres asteroid is known to be spherical in shape but because it doesn't clear its path round the Sun, it is only a dwarf planet.

James Bond was discovered on Oct 5 1983 by Anton Mrkos. Its orbit takes 3.89 years to travel round the Sun.

The absolute magnitude of the object is 13.9 which is the brightness of the object. A higher absolute magnitude means that the object is faint whereas a very low number means it is very bright.

The Aphelion of the object is 2.84994 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is furthest from the object that it is orbit. At this point, it will then return back to the orbit target. The Perihelion of the object is 2.09805 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is closest to the object that it is orbit around.

The Semi-Major Axis of the orbit is 2.47399, which is the furthest point from the centre to the edge of an elliptical point.

The orbital inclination, the angle at which James Bond orbits in relation to the orbital plane is 5.859 degrees. The orbital eccentricity is 0.15196, it is the degree at which James Bond orbits close to a circular (0) orbit as opposed to an elliptical (1) orbit.

Agent James Bond, 007, not 9007
The asteroid is named after the world's most famous and popular M.I.6. secret agent, James Bond. It was chosen to honour the spy after the ID of the asteroid ended in 007, the agent's code number. It was not sponsored by EON Productions or M.G.M., the distributors.

James Bond Facts

Type - Asteroid
Date of Discovery Oct 5 1983
Discoverer Anton Mrkos
Orbital Period 3.89
Absolute Magnitude 13.9
Aphelion (Furthest) 2.84994 A.U.
Perihelion (Nearest) 2.09805 A.U.
Semi-Major Axis 2.47399
Orbital Inclination 5.859
Orbital Eccentricity 0.15196

1986: Two weeks of filming in Vienna begin for The Living Daylights.

2011: MI6 Community members notice Sony domain names indicating the title of BOND 23 is Skyfall.
2012: Documentary "Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007" limited release in UK theaters, US television
Directed by Steven Riley; co-written by Riley and Peter Ettudgui.

2012: XL/Columbia release the Adele title song "Skyfall" single, part of a 50 year celebration of Bond films. Clear Channel air the song for 24 hours on the hour, 180 radio stations. Within a day it racks up 10 million audience impressions and ranked in the top 50 of Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems Radio Songs chart.

Skyfall by Adele







Adele - Skyfall (Theatre Of Delays Remix)

2014: Geoffrey Lamont Holder dies at age 84--New York City, New York.
(Born 1 August 1930--Port of Spain, Trinidad.)

Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Actor,
Painter and More, Dies at 84

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/arts/geoffrey-holder-dancer-choreographer-and-man-of-flair-dies-at-84.html

Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Actor, Painter and More, Dies at 84
By Jennifer Dunning and William McDonald | Oct. 6, 2014

Mr. Holder, the multitalented artist, and ebullient performer died Sunday at 84.
Credit Erin Combs/Toronto Star, via Getty Images

Geoffrey Holder, the dancer, choreographer, actor, composer, designer and painter who used his manifold talents to infuse the arts with the flavor of his native West Indies and to put a singular stamp on the American cultural scene, not least with his outsize personality, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 84.

Charles M. Mirotznik, a spokesman for the family, said the cause was complications of pneumonia.

Few cultural figures of the last half of the 20th century were as multifaceted as Mr. Holder, and few had a public presence as unmistakable as his, with his gleaming pate atop a 6-foot-6 frame, full-bodied laugh and bassoon of a voice laced with the lilting cadences of the Caribbean.

Mr. Holder directed a dance troupe from his native Trinidad and Tobago, danced on Broadway and at the Metropolitan Opera and won Tony Awards in 1975 for direction of a musical and costume design for “The Wiz,” a rollicking, all-black version of “The Wizard of Oz.” His choreography was in the repertory of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Dance Theater of Harlem. He acted onstage and in films and was an accomplished painter, photographer and sculptor whose works have been shown in galleries and museums. He published a cookbook.

Mr. Holder acknowledged that he achieved his widest celebrity as the jolly, white-suited television pitchman for 7Up in the 1970s and ’80s, when in a run of commercials, always in tropical settings, he happily endorsed the soft drink as an “absolutely maaarvelous” alternative to Coca-Cola — or “the Uncola,” as the ads put it.

Long afterward, white suit or no, he would stop pedestrian traffic and draw stares at restaurants. He even good-naturedly alluded to the TV spots in accepting his Tony for directing, using their signature line “Just try making something like that out of a cola nut.”

Geoffrey Lamont Holder was born into a middle-class family on Aug. 1, 1930, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the youngest of five children of Louise de Frense and Arthur Holder, who had immigrated from Barbados. Geoffrey attended Queen’s Royal College, an elite secondary school in Trinidad. There he struggled with a stammer that plagued him into early adulthood.

“At school, when I got up to read, the teacher would say, ‘Next,’ because the boys would laugh,” he said in an oral history interview.

Growing up, Mr. Holder came under the wing of his talented older brother, Arthur Aldwyn Holder, known to everyone by his childhood nickname, Boscoe. Boscoe Holder taught Geoffrey painting and dancing and recruited him to join a small, folkloric dance troupe he had formed, the Holder Dancing Company. Boscoe was 16; Geoffrey, 7.

Geoffrey Holder’s career mirrored that of his brother in many ways. Boscoe Holder, too, went on to become a celebrated dancer, choreographer, musician, painter and designer, and he, too, left Trinidad, in the late 1940s, for England, where he performed on television and onstage.

His brother’s departure put Geoffrey Holder in charge of the dance company, as its director and lead performer, and he took it to New York City in 1954, invited by the choreographer Agnes de Mille, who had seen the troupe perform two years before in St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands. She arranged an audition for the impresario Sol Hurok. To pay for the troupe’s passage, Mr. Holder, already an established young painter, sold 20 of his paintings.

After dropping his bags at an uncle’s apartment in Brooklyn, he fell in love with the city.

“It was a period when all the girls looked like Janet Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor, with crinoline petticoats and starched hair,” he told The New York Times in 1985. “The songs of that period were the themes from ‘The Moulin Rouge’ and ‘Limelight,’ and it was so marvelous to hear the music in the streets and see the stylish ladies tripping down Fifth Avenue. Gorgeous black women, Irish women — all of them lovely and all of them going somewhere.”

Mr. Holder had the good fortune to arrive in New York at a time of relative popularity for all-black Broadway productions as well as black dance, both modern and folk. Calypso music was also gaining a foothold, thanks largely to Harry Belafonte.

Mr. Holder at the opening of the Broadway musical “The Lion King” in 1997 accompanied by his wife, the dancer Carmen de Lavallade. He made his own Broadway debut in 1954.
Credit Nancy Siesel/The New York Times

For a while Mr. Holder taught classes at the Katherine Dunham School, and he was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet from 1956 to 1958. He continued to dance and direct the Holder dance company until 1960, when it disbanded. In the meantime, at a dance recital, he caught the attention of the producer Arnold Saint-Subber, who was putting together a show with a Caribbean theme.

Thus did Mr. Holder make his Broadway debut on Dec. 30, 1954, as a featured dancer in “House of Flowers,” a haunting, perfumed evocation of West Indian bordello life, with music by Harold Arlen and a book by Truman Capote, based on his novella of the same name. Directed by Peter Brook at the Alvin Theater, it starred Diahann Carroll and Pearl Bailey, and among its dancers was a ravishingly pretty young woman named Carmen de Lavallade. She and Mr. Holder married in 1955, had a son, Léo, and sometimes shared the stage. Both wife and son survive him. Boscoe Holder died in 2007.

One character Mr. Holder played in the musical was the top-hatted Baron Samedi, the guardian of the cemetery and the spirit of death, sex and resurrection in Haitian Voodoo culture. Mr. Holder relished Samedi: he played him again in the 1973 James Bond film, “Live and Let Die” (the first of the Bond franchise to star Roger Moore), and featured him in his choreography — in his “Banda” dance from the musical “House of Flowers,” and in “Banda,” a further exploration of folk themes that had its premiere in 1982.

His Voodoo villain in “Live and Let Die” was of a piece with much of his sporadic film career: with his striking looks and West Indian-inflected voice, producers tended to cast Mr. Holder in roles deemed exotic. In “Doctor Dolittle” (1967), he was a giant native who ruled a floating island as William Shakespeare (the 10th). In Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * but Were Afraid to Ask” (1972), he played a sorcerer. In “Annie” (1982), he was the Indian servant Punjab. (An exception was the 1992 romantic comedy “Boomerang,” in which he played a randy director of commercials working for Eddie Murphy’s playboy advertising executive.)

Mr. Holder was multitasking before the term gained currency. In 1957, he landed a notable acting role playing the hapless servant Lucky in an all-black Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Herbert Berghof. The show, just seven months after the play’s original Broadway production, closed after only six performances because of a union dispute, but the role, with its rambling, signature 700-word monologue, lifted Mr. Holder’s acting career.

That same year, he choreographed and danced in a revival of the George and Ira Gershwin musical “Rosalie” in Central Park. And he received a Guggenheim fellowship in painting.

Painting was a constant for him. Whether life was hectic or jobs were scarce, he could usually be found in the SoHo loft he shared with Ms. de Lavallade, absorbed in work that drew on folk tales and often delivered biting social commentary. On canvases throughout the studio, sensuous nudes jostled for space with elegantly dressed women, ghostly swimmers nestled beside black Virgin Marys, bulky strippers seemed to burst out of their skins, and mysterious figures peered out of tropical forests.

His work was shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. And then there was his photography, and his sculpture.

His visual creativity extended to costume designs, “The Wiz” being just one showcase. Another was John Taras’s 1982 production of “The Firebird” for the Dance Theater of Harlem, in which the Russian fairy tale was relocated to a tropical forest. Mr. Holder designed both the sets and the costumes, one of which was a blend of 30 or 40 colors. He earned another Tony nomination for best costume design for the 1978 Broadway musical “Timbuktu!,” an all-black show based on the musical “Kismet.” He also directed and choreographed “Timbuktu!”

Mr. Holder’s dance designs were equally bold. Reviewing a 1999 revival of “Banda” by the Dance Theater of Harlem, Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The Times, “Mr. Holder is a terrific showman, and his mix of Afro-Caribbean rituals, modern dance and even ballet’s pirouettes is potent and dazzling.”

Other Holder dance classics were “Prodigal Prince” (1971), a dreamlike re-creation of the life and work of Hector Hyppolite, the Haitian folk painter, for which he also composed the musical score; and “Dougla” (1974), an evocation of a mixed-race Caribbean wedding. (Dougla refers to people who are of African and Indian descent.)

In 1959, he published a book on Caribbean folklore, Black Gods, Green Islands, written with Tom Harshman and illustrated by Mr. Holder; in 1973, he produced Geoffrey Holder’s Caribbean Cookbook. He himself was the subject of books and documentaries, including “Carmen & Geoffrey” (2009), by Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob.

Mr. Holder said his artistic life was governed by a simple credo, shaped by his own experience as a West Indian child who had yet to see the world.

“I create for that innocent little boy in the balcony who has come to the theater for the first time,” he told Dance magazine in 2010. “He wants to see magic, so I want to give him magic. He sees things that his father couldn’t see.”

Correction: Oct. 6, 2014
An earlier version of this obituary misstated Mr. Holder’s age. He was 84, not 83. (His date of birth was correctly given as Aug. 1, 1930.) It also misstated his middle name. It was Lamont, not Richard.
Correction: Oct. 6, 2014

An earlier version of a picture caption with this obituary misstated Mr. Holder's surname as Holden.
Correction: Oct. 14, 2014

An obituary last Tuesday about the dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder misstated his tenure as a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. It was from 1956 to 1958, not 1955 and 1956. The obituary also misstated the number of siblings Mr. Holder had. He was the youngest of five children, not “one of four children.”
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 7, 2014, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Geoffrey Holder, Multitalented Artist, Dies at 84. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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Filmography

Actor (31 credits)

2008 Butterfield (Short) - Mr. Emory
2008 The Little Wizard: Guardian of the Magic Crystals - Narrator
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Narrator (voice)
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Video Game) - The Narrator (voice)
2002-2003 Cyberchase (TV Series) - Master Pi
- Double Trouble (2003) ... Master Pi (voice)
- Problem Solving in Shangri-La (2002) ... Master Pi (voice)
1997-2002 Bear in the Big Blue House (TV Series) - Ray the Sun
- Welcome to Woodland Valley: Part 2 (2002) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- Welcome to Woodland Valley: Part 1 (2002) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- Read My Book (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- Let's Get Interactive (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- I've Got Your Number (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
(Total 41 episodes)
2002 Bear in the Big Blue House LIVE! - Surprise Party (Video) - Ray (voice)

1999 Goosed - Dr. Bowman
1998 Chance or Coincidence - Owner of Soutine's Bar
1995 Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (Video Game) - Jean St. Mouchoir (voice)
1992 Boomerang - Nelson
1987 Where Confucius Meets the New Wave - Narrator
1987 Ghost of a Chance (TV Movie) - Johnson
1986 John Grin's Christmas (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Future
1983 Great Performances (TV Series) - Cheshire Cat
- Alice in Wonderland (1983) ... Cheshire Cat
1982 Annie - Punjab
1980 ABC Weekend Specials (TV Series) - Jupiter
- The Gold Bug (1980) ... Jupiter

1976 Swashbuckler - Cudjo
1975 The Noah - Friday
1973 Live and Let Die - Baron Samedi
1973 The Man Without a Country (TV Movie) - Slave on ship
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask - Sorcerer
1970 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Paul Trion
- Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers (1970) ... Paul Trion

1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Sailor
1967-1968 Tarzan (TV Series) - Mayko / Zwengi
- A Gun for Jai (1968) ... Mayko
- The Pride of the Lioness (1967) ... Zwengi
1967 Doctor Dolittle - William Shakespeare X
1967 Androcles and the Lion (TV Movie) - Lion

1959 Porgy and Bess - Dancer (uncredited)
1958 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Genie
- Cole Porter's 'Aladdin' (1958) ... Genie
1957 Carib Gold - Voodoo Dancer (as Geoffery Holder)
1957 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Calypso Singer
- The Bottle Imp (1957) ... Calypso Singer

Tempo



Sisters

2018: Aston Martin celebrates Global James Bond Day times seven.

https://www.motor1.com/news/268490/aston-martin-james-bond-day/

2019: EON releases a No Time To Die teaser poster, from Greg Williams.

2020: Margaret Nolan dies at age 76--London Borough of Camden, London, England.
(Born 29 October 1943--Hampstead, London, England.)

Margaret Nolan dead: Iconic Goldfinger Bond girl has died aged 76

See the complete article here:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-margaret-nolan-dead-iconic-22829278

Film director Edgar Wright has tweeted his sadness at the passing of Margaret Nolan, who starred in Goldfinger as well as Beatles movies and Carry On films
By James Brinsford Overnight Showbiz/TV Reporter | 12 OCT 2020

James Bond girl Margaret Nolan has died aged 76.

She starred in 1964 film Goldfinger and was in the iconic credits of the movie and helped publicise the film, dancing in a gold bikini while painted head to toe in gold.

Though she will always be associated with this image, Margaret did not play the role on screen as Shirley Eaton played the gold-painted Bond girl in the film.

Film director Edgar Wright shared the news of her passing on Twitter in a lengthy tribute to the actress, who also starred in the Beatles' Hard Day's Night movie and a series of Carry On films.

The 46-year-old filmmaker tweeted: "It's my sad duty to report that actress and artist, the magnificent Margaret Nolan has passed away.

"She was the middle of Venn diagram of everything cool in the 60's; having appeared with the Beatles, been beyond iconic in Bond and been part of the Carry On cast too."

Margaret Nolan will always be remembered for her part in Goldfinger

Edgar continued: "She was the gold painted model in the iconic Goldfinger title sequence and poster (she also played Dink in the movie), she appeared in the classic A Hard Day's Night, Carry On Girls, No Sex Please We're British & many others, frequently sending up her own glamourpuss image."

The film director continued to list some of the famous projects that Margaret was involved in.

He added: "She also appeared in five Spike Milligan Q series, Steptoe & Son, The Likely Lads, Morecambe & Wise and The Sweeney.

"She became deeply involved in political theatre and more recently created visual art; deconstructed her own glamour modelling in a series of photomontages."

Margaret Nolan pictured with Bernard Bresslaw on set of Carry On at Your Convenience in 1971

Edgar concluded his tribute with a personal note about working with Margaret last year.

He wrote: "I worked with her last year as she plays a small role in Last Night In Soho.

"She was so funny, sharp and, as you might imagine, full of the most amazing stories.

"I’m so glad I got to know her. My heart goes out to her family and all that loved her. She will be much missed."

Margaret's son, Oscar Deeks, confirmed that she passed away on October 5.

She was born on October 29, 1943 in Somerset but grew up in London.

Margaret began her career as a glamour model, going by the name Vicky Kennedy in the early ’60s, but switched back to her birth name once she began acting.

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Actress

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2023: Villainous Bond Bear from Steiff celebrates Global James Bond Day.

Steiff Celebrates Global James Bond Day with
new Villainous Bond Bear

https://www.anbmedia.com/news/2023/10/steiff-celebrates-global-james-bond-day-with-new-villainous-bond-bear/
By aNb Mediaaccess_time

Dr No Bear Steiff
Steiff, the inventors of the teddy bear, first brought James Bond to life in teddy bear form earlier this year with their Limited Edition James Bond “Dr. No” Musical Bear. The Dr. No Numbered Edition is a beautifully made musical bear with an internal wind-up musical box (a unique Steiff attribute), that plays the iconic 007 theme tune. The bear was crafted by hand in a limited edition of 3,000 bears, of which few are still available at Steiff and 007.com.

Few figures are as iconic as the original international man of mystery, secret agent James Bond, cutting a sophisticated picture in his immaculate suit. The character is so widely beloved that all things Bond are celebrated annually on October 5th, in an homage to the date of the World Premiere of the first James Bond Film Dr. No on October 5th, 1962.

But everyone knows a good guy can’t exist without a bad guy…

Enter the Steiff James Bond “Dr Julius No” Villain Teddy Bear, available for pre-order now via Steiff.com and FAO.com.

This unforgettable villain was the first among later cackling, evil characters Bond would be up against, making his debut in the 1962 motion picture that bears his name. This classic nemesis, which everyone loves to hate, has been transformed into a most lovable Teddy bear by the designers and artisans at Steiff. Their version of Dr. No features a mohair body which simulates the character’s costume, right down to its Nehru-style collar. His head is sewn from bamboo viscose, and his arm paw pads are created with faux leather to simulate the villain’s famous leather gloves. The Dr. No and 007 logs are stitched on his foot paws, which are made of suede-like Alcantara.

What makes this bear even more special? There are only 1,962 pieces available in the Limited Edition piece.

He features a white tag Steiff button in his ear, five swivel joints, so that you can move his arms, legs and head, along with safety eyes. The bear comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity within a special James Bond presentation box, making him the perfect gift for the holiday season.

2023: 24-carat gold Agora models of James Bond's Aston Martin are offered for sale.

24-carat gold models of James Bond´s
Aston Martin on sale for staggering price

https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/09/22/24-carot-gold-models-of-james-bonds-aston-martin-on-sale-for-staggering-price/

By Anna Akopyan • Updated: 23 Sep 2024 •
24-carot gold models of James Bond´s Aston Martin on sale for staggering price James Bond´s gold Aston Martin Euro Weekly News

James Bond´s gold Aston Martin Credit: Agora Models

24-carot gold models of James Bond´s Aston Martin will go on sale for £25,000 (€29, 789) to lucky buyers who will own the emblem of the iconic Goldfinger drama.
James Bond´s gold Aston Martin on sale
To mark the 60th anniversary of the iconic Bond drama, Goldfinger, a British car kit connoisseurs at Agora Models crafted seven elaborately gorgeous models of James Bond´s golden Aston Martin. Made with the Bond character, Q´s attention to detail, the design includes everything from a radar tracker screen to tyre slashers, rotating number plates, twin front-mounted Browning machine guns, and an ejector seat.

The seven limited edition models will be sold for £25,000 (€29, 789) each. Made in just seven pieces, the miniatures pay homage to Bond´s 077 [sic] codename. “It is the best and most appropriate number of luxury edition kits to be making of this model,” said Clare Foltynie, a founding member of Agora Models. Foltyne shared the team´s thrill of making the models;

“It´s just a dream come true to have such a beautiful luxury edition of this stunning, iconic vehicle.”

She emphasised how “proud” the team was of making these “absolutely perfect” models, applying uttermost effort; “The green colour on the cables, the detailing of the dashboard, and of course, we all remember sitting watching the movie with our dads in the 1960s and 1970s and just enjoying the moment Bond deployed all of those gadgets.”

The co-founder of Agora Models, James Franks, added; “We took the DB5 from our range and created this ultra-luxury model kit, which is something as founder I´ve always wanted to do, make something really special.” Each model is approximately 7kg, and measures 569mm by 211mm by 173mm; collectors can purchase it as a fully assembled model or as a self-build kit. The exclusive pieces will be on sale on October 5, celebrating the Global James Bond Day.

Global James Bond Day; celebrating with gold and vodka martini
On October 5, 1962, the first of the 25 iconic action thrillers, Dr No premiered as the first James Bond movie at the London Pavilion, then receiving a mixed critical reaction and becoming the first of the classic Bond screen adaptations.

In 1961, American producer Albert R “Cubby” Broccoli lit up with the idea to bring Ian Fleming´s James Bond series to the screen.

He had then collaborated with Canadian producer Harry Saltzman, who had optioned the rights to the series and they had secured the financing for $1 million (€894,000) for the first movie million (894,900) for the first film.

Played by Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig, Mr James Bond became the ultimate movie gentleman, representing class, taste, and masculinity. On October 5, movie and book fans worldwide dress up in Bond costumes, order that vodka martini and cheer for “Bond. James Bond.·
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2024: Prime Video stands ready for James Bond Day. Kind of.

Prime Video Has Made Your James Bond Day
Celebration Much Easier, But It Reminds Me
Of Some Issues I Have With Streaming 007

https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/prime-video-james-bond-day-celebration-easier-issues-streaming-007
By Mike Reyes

Time for a lesson in the first rule of mass media...

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Timothy Dalton stands at Hemingway House, looking annoyed in Licence To Kill.
(Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

It’s that time of year, 007 fans! While the 2024 movie schedule doesn’t have a new adventure in store, it’s time for fans of the James Bond movies to celebrate the anniversary of Dr. No first crossing the gun barrel in 1962. With Global James Bond day arriving on October 5th, Prime Video has already made your celebration plans much easier to execute! However, with this joyous news also comes a firm reminder of the issues I’ve had with streaming the world of 007.

The James Bond Series Is Streaming On Prime
With Some Promising Bonuses
Let’s start off with the good news, which is that as of today, Amazon’s streaming platform is boasting all 25 James Bond movies for convenient access. The announcement went public earlier, with the following post hitting Prime Video’s social media presence:

Before anyone asks, yes I do own all of the James Bond adventures on disc; and my Bond 50 box set is still falling apart. But what that set can’t offer you is the new bonus features that Amazon MGM Studios have put together for the occasion.

If you head over to Prime Video’s James Bond landing page, you can not only get access to most of the 007 library, but the first of several new featurettes, “007 Destinations,” is currently playing. With three more pieces of bonus features awaiting, it's safe to bet that these beauties will be doled out once a week.

Also, you read my contradictory claim correctly. As of the time of this writing, not all of the James Bond movies are available to Prime Video subscription holders. At least, that’s true for those of you who don’t have a Paramount+ add-on already handy. Which leads to a mini-rant about the issues I’ve had with 00-streaming in the past four years.

Daniel Craig glares angrily in the field in Casino Royale.
(Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

The State Of James Bond Streaming Continues To Confuse
As you can see by logging onto Prime Video, as of October 2024, you need a Paramount+ subscription to enjoy the first of Daniel Craig’s James Bond movies, Casino Royale. Once again, the fractured nature of various pockets of 007 titles rears its head, despite Prime Video’s claim to have all 25 online. Which leads me to believe that one of two things has happened.

The two cases that may help this claim maintain validity are that either Casino Royale is leaving Paramount+ in the days to come, or Amazon’s nature as a portal to various subscriptions means that this promise comes with some extra strings. In either event, it helps remind me of why I’m annoyed that Amazon MGM Studios isn’t leveraging its position to keep the entire James Bond collection in its streaming library on a more permanent basis.

Sean Connery standing in M's office in conversation in Never Say Never Again.
(Image credit: Warner Bros/Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

That is, of course, setting aside the reason of licensing the pictures out to other platforms, in the name of sweet, sweet revenue. Which I can't fault the company for doing, as we all should believe in a reasonable rate of return. However, even that brings up a lack that we've seen recur whenever Amazon has held court with all 25 EON Productions flicks

While I know that Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again are unofficial James Bond movies, they’re novelties everyone should be able to partake in. The same goes for the 1953 episode of Climax! that saw Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel adapted with American agent Jimmy Bond as its lead. Long out of print in physical media, easy streaming access would be a win for everyone since newly-minted fans or diehards who haven't seen these oddities would be able to join in on the long held discussions of their eccentricities.

Pierce Brosnan angrily holds Jonathan Pryce by the shirt in Tomorrow Never Dies.
(Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

Looking at the wider picture, I’m glad that almost the entire James Bond legacy is present on Prime Video’s platform. I still remember when 007’s early pandemic streaming debut was a joy for everyone bummed out over quarantining at home, and I was certainly one of those parties. But we’re in a different age now, and those who’ve stood by this landmark saga for over six decades are ready for something new.

If we still don’t have any word on what’s going on with Bond 26, or when we’re going to get a remastered box set of everything up to No Time To Die in 4K, a dependable streaming platform for the entire lot is the least us fans should be able to enjoy.

Thankfully, we can mostly do just that thanks to 24 of the 25 James Bond movies currently being available to stream on Prime Video. While you’re at it, I highly recommend watching 007: Road to a Million, which is also available on the platform. The competition reality series is a spectacular stopgap as we await James Bond's return.

Mike Reyes
Senior Movies Contributor
Mike Reyes is the Senior Movie Contributor at CinemaBlend, though that title’s more of a guideline really. Passionate about entertainment since grade school, the movies have always held a special place in his life, which explains his current occupation. Mike graduated from Drew University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, but swore off of running for public office a long time ago. Mike's expertise ranges from James Bond to everything Alita, making for a brilliantly eclectic resume. He fights for the user.

2024: The International Spy Museum celebrates James Bond Day in Washington, District of Columbia.

Celebrate James Bond Day at SPY!
$7 Tickets for 007 Day

https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/celebrate-james-bond-day-at-spy/2024-10-05/

Rendezvous Info
Saturday, October 5, 2024
All Day
International Spy Museum
700 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
Ticketing Info
Special Exhibit Only: Bond In Motion
Combo Ticket: Museum + Bond In Motion

Happy James Bond Day

Join us on Saturday, October 5 as we celebrate global James Bond Day – a celebration of 62 years of the Bond franchise! The special day is noted on October 5th each year to commemorate the World Premiere of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962.

For one day only on this James Bond Day, the International Spy Museum is offering 00 $7 tickets to our special exhibit, Bond In Motion. The exhibition, in collaboration with EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation, showcases 17 iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by Bond and his allies and adversaries. NOTE: $7 ticket offer applies to single and combo tickets. Valid online and onsite, 10/5/24 only.

GET TICKETS
Stop by SPY for a day licensed to thrill! Get access to Bond in Motion, enjoy a special Bond In Motion Scavenger Hunt, play Bond Bingo in the Spy Store, be the first to see our new collection of Ian Fleming artifacts, strike your best bond pose in a 007 photo-op, win prizes and more!

In the Museum

Bond In Motion
SPY is proud to host this official exhibition of iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by 007 and his many allies and adversaries. Bond In Motion features 17 iconic pieces from the EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation.

License to Thrill Exhibit
View a sample of spy toys and games from past to present and hear intelligence officers comment on the reality and fiction in spy movies.
https://www.spymuseum.org/bond-and-beyond/

Ian Fleming Display
NEW | Get an introduction to Ian Fleming, the former British Naval Intelligence officer, who created James Bond. Now on display in our Spying in WWII exhibit.
https://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/about-the-collection/collection-highlights/?filters[category]=james-bond-007&amp;filters[type]=&amp;submit=Submit

2024: Mockingbird Cinema screens The Spy Who Loved Me at Birmingham, England.

The Spy Who
Loved Me W'
Special Guest
Caroline Munro

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=4664

To celebrate International James Bond Day on Saturday October 5th 2024 we will be hosting an exciting 007 event at the Mockingbird Cinema.

We will be screening what is considered the most iconic of all the Bond films, The Spy Who Loved Me in glorious 4K (who can forget the Union Jack parachute scene) and we will be joined on the day by Bond Girl from the film Caroline Munro who played Strombergs assistant Naomi, and will be taking part in a Q+A and autograph/photo session (Photo/autograph charged separately).

The event will be hosted by DJ Jacqui Carroll who will also be playing all the best songs from the era.

There will be a pre show Pianist playing Bond themes and a Lotus Esprit S1 displayed to get you in the 007 mood.

All attendees will receive a commemorative wristband and one lucky person will win a prize of a signed Caroline Munro event poster.

Only 80 tickets available for this event in the intimate surroundings of our independently owned Cinema priced at just £28 each.

Bond dress optional.

For more details go to Instagram @cult_film_screenings_brum

Onsite bar with great choice of drinks and cinema snacks.
Scooter friendly parking outside the venue.
5 minutes walk from Moor St station
10 mins walk from New St station
2 mins walk to public pay and display car park.

Times
Sat 5 Oct 6:30 PM

Details
Runtime: 270 minutes
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Roger Moore
Country: UK
Year: 1977
Rating: (PG)

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October 6th

1941: Sir Frank Nelson writes Admiral Godfrey proposing (Fleming's) plan for better relations with the Special Operations Executive.

Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Top Secret Story Behind 007. Brian Gordon Lett, 2012.

Fleming had come up with his own idea for smoothing future
relations between the Admiralty and SOE. He entered into
discussions with Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, and with Sir
Frank Nelson, the head of SOE (a civilian, whose name itself as
the head of an upstart organization probably did not make
him any more popular with the Admiralty). On 6 October
1941, Nelson wrote to Godfrey, putting forward Fleming's
plan for a better working relationship:

As has been pointed out to us by Fleming, we think
it would also be a convenience for the Admiralty if
plans in which they were bound to have an interest,
and which would therefore have to pass through
their hands, could be drawn in a form and in
language which would be familiar to and easily
understood by them.

Fleming and Taylor have been discussing this
question, and I think that they both feel that the
ideal solution would be the transfer to SOE of an officer
RN, of about the rank of Commander [author's italics],
who had worked in the Plans Division at the
Admiralty. Our idea would be to appoint this officer
as a member of our special planning staff which,
under Archie Boyle, directs, supervises and checks
al plans for our various operations.

Ian Fleming held the rank of Commander, was heavily
involved in intelligence planning, and Nelson's letter to
Godfrey strongly suggests that Fleming was hoping that he
himself might be appointed full time to SOE -- and thereby
become one of M's secret agents like his brother Peter.
Fleming did not get his wish. Godfrey was short of
experienced intelligence officer, and clearly valued
Fleming's work too highly to give him away to SOE. For the
time being, at least, the status quo was preserved. Godfrey
wrote back to Nelson agreeing that greater supervision was
necessary, but declining the proposal.

Fleming remained a member of Naval Intelligence under
Rear Admiral Godfrey's command, and continued to act as
their liaison officer. He clearly got on well with M
and his team, and was trusted by them.

1942: Britt-Marie Ekland is born--Stockholm, Sweden.

1962: Joaquin Cosio Figueroa is born--Nayarit, Mexico.
1967: Casino Royale released in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films OO7 and XXX and Wet Nelly exiting the sea onto the beach.

1983: Never Say Never Again premieres in Los Angeles, California.

1984: A View to a Kill via John Richardson begins fourth unit filming on the Golden Gate Bridge.

2011: BOND 23 announces the casting of Bérénice Marlohe and Helen McCrory.

2021: Mourir peut attendre (To Die Can Wait) release in France.

RichardTheBruce

October 7th

1947: John Brosnan is born--Perth, Australia.
(He dies 11 April 2005--South Harrow, Harrow, London, England.)

John Brosnan
Science-fiction writer and film critic

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-brosnan-489441.html

Saturday 16 April 2005 00:00

John Raymond Brosnan, writer and film critic: born Perth, Western Australia 7 October 1947; died London c11 April 2005.

The writer and film critic John Brosnan was a man of deep friendships, some of which had lasted half a century - the Australian writer John Baxter, with whom Brosnan collaborated on a novel, knew him that long - and he enjoyed a wide range of acquaintances throughout the science-fiction and film subcultures of London.

He wrote seven books on film. The first of these was James Bond in the Cinema (1972). His interest in filmed science fiction culminated in Future Tense: the cinema of science fiction (1978). He wrote most of the film entries for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979), edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute.

As a writer of science fiction and often comically exaggerated horror, Brosnan published at least 23 novels. His collaborations with Leroy Kettle were pseudonymous; the best known of these horror tales is probably Bedlam (1992), the film version of which (Beyond Bedlam) gave Liz Hurley her first main role. More ambitious science-fiction novels, under his own name, included the Sky Lords novels from 1988, and his last published novel, Mothership (2004). He had already completed a draft of the sequel at the time of his death.

Brosnan was born in 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, and became active as an SF fan in the mid 1960s. By 1970 he had moved to London, where he settled for good. Though he was convivial from the start - my own 25-year-old memories of post-launch drinks with him at the Troy Club off the Tottenham Court Road remain warm - the story of his life is essentially one of hard work.

His death was reported on 11 April. Friends had become alarmed at his absence over Easter, and gained access to his flat in South Harrow, where he was found. He had died in his sleep, possibly several days earlier. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was acute pancreatitis. This finding has scotched rumours that he had met with foul play.

It was perhaps to be expected that Brosnan died alone, as he had lived alone for many years. But he was a continual and welcome presence in many lives, a friend to some and companion to many. He was a funny and surprisingly tough-minded writer.

John Clute

Summary Bibliography: John Brosnan
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1755

Bibliography

Fiction Series

Damned and Fancy
1 Damned & Fancy (1995) also appeared as:
- Translation: Verflixt und zugehext [German] (1996)
- Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Eins [German] (2005)
2 Have Demon, Will Travel (1996) also appeared as:
-Translation: Hokuspokus Hexenkuß [German] (1997)
-Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Zwei [German] (2005)
Anderwelt [German] (2005) [O/1,2]

Mothership
1 Mothership (2004) also appeared as:
-Serializations:
-Translation: Supernave (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2006)
2 Mothership Awakening (unpublished)

Sky Lords
1 The Sky Lords (1988) also appeared as:
-Translation: I Signori dell'Aria [Italian] (1989)
2 War of the Sky Lords (1989) also appeared as:
-Translation: I guerrieri dell'aria [Italian] (1990)
3 The Fall of the Sky Lords (1991) also appeared as:
-Translation: La fine del dominio [Italian] (1991)

Novels

Skyship (1981)
Slimer (1983) with Leroy Kettle also appeared as:
-Variant: Slimer (1983) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Translation: Terreur déliquescente [French] (1986) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
The Midas Deep (1983)
Carnosaur (1984) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
The Fungus (1985) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
- Variant: The Fungus (1985) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Translation: L'immonde invasion [French] (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Variant: Death Spore (1990) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
Tendrils (1986) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
-Variant: Tendrils (1986) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
-Translation: Vrilles! [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
Torched! (1986) with John Baxter only appeared as:
-Variant: Torched! (1986) [as by James Blackstone]
-Translation: Brasiers humains [French] (1988) [as by James Blackstone]
Worm (1987) only appeared as:
-Variant: Worm (1987) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
-Variant: Worm (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Translation: Les parasites de la haine [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
Bedlam (1992) with Leroy Kettle [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Serializations:
-Bedlam (Part 1 of ?) (1994) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
The Opoponax Invasion (1993)

Nonfiction

James Bond in the Cinema (1972)
Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974)
The Horror People (1976)
Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978)
The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film (1991)

Short Fiction

The Bethlehem File (1972)
Conversation on a Starship in Warpdrive (1975)
The Junk Shop (1976) also appeared as:
-Variant: Junk Shop (1976)
The One and Only Tale from The White Horse (1986)
An Eye in Paradise (1989) also appeared as:
-Translation: Un privé au paradis [French] (1994)
Barry McKenzie Meets Jerry Cornelius (2013)

Poems

The Dangers of Colour T.V. (1974) also appeared as:
-Variant: The Dangers of Colour TV (1991) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
Something Came Out of the Toilet (1991) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]

Essays

Letter (SF Commentary 7) (1969)
Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part One (1970)
Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part Two (1970)
Special Effects and The Science Fiction Film (1974) also appeared as:
-Translation: Les magiciens du trompe-l'oeil [French] (1976)
No Nose is Good Nose (1974)
SF on TV: Part 1 (1975)
Star Trek: Film Review (1975)
Raftan's Viewpoint (1975)
SF on Television Part 2: Britain (1975)
The Australian Science Fiction Scene (1975)
A Look at Space 1999 (1976)
SF TV Review: The Invisible Man (1976)
Letter (SF Commentary 52) (1977)
Film & TV News: A Report from John Brosnan (1978)
Letter (Science Fiction Review #29) (1979)
Letter (Starship, Spring 1979) (1979)
Letter (Australian SF News, August 1979) (1979)
The British Science Fiction Cinema (1979)
Letter (Foundation #23) (1981)
Letter (Izzard #5) (1983)
Letter (Ansible 41) (1984)
Special Effects in Science Fiction Cinema (1985)
Letter (Ansible 45) (1986)
Ray Harryhausen Filmography (1987) with Jeff Rovin
The Magician's Magician (1987)
Terror Tactics (1988)
Introduzione dell'autore all'edizione italiana (I guerrieri dell'aria) [Italian] (1990)
Why is Arnold Schwarzenegger Mad at Me? (1991)
Letter (Banana Wings 9) (1998)
Hollywood Calling (1998)
Letter (Interzone #137) (1998)
Letter (Interzone #141) (1999)
Letter (Interzone #173) (2001)
Letter (SF Commentary 77) (2001)
Letter [2] (SF Commentary 77) (2001)
Letter (SF Commentary 78) (2003)
Letter (Ansible 189) (2003)
Letter (Ansible 195) (2003)
Letter (SF Commentary 80) (2010)

Interior Art

Trieste '75 Film Festival (1975)

Reviews

A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Films (1976) by Jeff Rovin

Interviews by This Author

Jack Arnold SF Film Director Extraordinaire (1974) with Jack Arnold
Chris Priest (1974) with Christopher Priest
Vertex Interviews Harry Harrison (1975) with Harry Harrison
An Interview with Bob Shaw (1975) with Bob Shaw

Interviews with This Author

An Interview (of sorts) with Harry Adam Knight (1985) by Jo Fletcher and Stephen Jones (co-interviewed with Leroy Kettle )

1959: Ian Fleming writes Ivar Bryce about Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart. Then Bryce writes back.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 9 - Fleming's Second Bond Script

At last the news Fleming had been waiting for arrived. Hitchcock had voiced
interest in the Bond project. Fleming immediately wrote to Bryce on 7 October:
"Hitchcock is in search of a vehicle, particularly for James Stewart but, whether our
story would suit Stewart or not, he is definitely interested and want to see it."
Stewart was a regular star for Hitchcock who'd used him already in four movies,
notably Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958). Hitchcock was then in Paris but
due back in London in a few days with the intention of reading the script. "of
course James Stewart is the toppest of starts," Fleming continued. "And personally
I wouldn't at all mind him as Bond if he can slightly anglicise his accent. If we got
him and Hitchcock we really would be off to the races. Cross all your fingers."

In contrast to Fleming's bursting enthusiasm for Hitchcock, Bryce had
blown cold to the idea. "If he did take it," Bryce immediately wrote back, "he
would take the whole thing over, lock stock and barrel, and we should all be
no more than 'angels' investing our money in someone else's enterprise--a
thing I wouldn't be willing to do, myself.. Hitchcock is, of course, the greatest.
Let us see what he suggests, but from all I can learn here it will involve the
freezing out of our group both financially and personally. Also I shudder at
lackadaisical Stewart portraying dynamic Bond.

Bryce in his letter also made clear his preference for Fleming to continue
to exert a governing hand over the script. "I personally think it essential for you
to spend as much time as is humanely possible during the scriptwriting period
on working on it yourself, probably with Whittingham as your number two."
And that for this work Fleming should be on a fat salary from the company:
"I've no idea what; but anything you like."

1962: Dr. No's general release in the UK.

1966: LIFE Magazine publishes a two-part feature on Ian Fleming's biography .

1968: An EON press conference at the Dorchester Hotel formally introduces Lazenby to the world.

Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, Ajay Chowdhury and Matthew Field, 2015.

On 7 October 1968 the coronation of the new James Bond took place
before the world's press at the Dorchester, where it had all begun four
months earlier. Lazenby famously said: '"I'm really looking forward to
being Bond, for the bread and the birds. It's not that I'm a sex maniac.
Forget my ego. I wouldn't even care if they didn't put my name on the
marquee."' [Director Peter] Hunt explained the choice:

Sean Connery had 'sexual assurance'. I interviewed hundreds [of]
wonderful actors, marvellous people on the stage but they didn't have this
quality. They might be able to try to act it but it was not an inherent thing. It
was quite by chance we came across George Lazenby. You do look at him
if he walks in the street and so do the girls.

A soon-to-be Bond Girl in two ways -- the lead in the next film and, briefly,
Lazenby's companion -- Jill St. John concurred. 'Cubby told me when they
were interviewing people for the first James bond, in walked Sean. And
when he left, every secretary said, "Who is that?" And he said the only other
time it happened again was when George Lazenby walked into the office.

1983: Warner Brothers general release for Never Say Never Again.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 16 of 65 - "No Such Loch" in Scotland.

James Bond Jr - No Such Loch

Season 1 Episode 16
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807296/?ref_=tt_ep_pr

Walker D. Plank and Jaws are in Scotland, using the legend of the Loch Ness Monster as a cover for an attempt to steal powerful missiles from the British Navy.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Pump (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Bilge (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Pirate Parrot (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)
Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer

James Bond Jr Episode 16 No Such Loch

2011: George Baker dies at age 80--West Lavington, England.
(Born 1 April 1931--Varna, Bulgaria.)

George Baker: Actor whose career
climaxed in his portrayal of the
Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-baker-actor-whose-career-climaxed-in-his-portrayal-of-the-shakespeare-quoting-dci-wexford-2368541.html
Anthony Hayward | Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:00

George Baker: Actor whose career climaxed in his portrayal of the Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

In 1987, two detectives from contemporary literature were transferred to television and their screen lives ran in parallel for 14 years.

While John Thaw stepped into the opera-loving shoes of Colin Dexter's Oxford sleuth Inspector Morse, George Baker had his first outing as Ruth Rendell's Shakespeare-quoting Detective Chief Inspector Wexford in "Wolf to the Slaughter".

The 6ft 4in Baker traded his crisp vowels for a regional burr in the role of the affable, fatherly figure investigating crimes in the fictional south of England market town Kingsmarkham. With his dour sidekick, Detective Inspector Mike Burden (Christopher Ravenscroft), he plodded thoughtfully through an alarmingly high number of murder cases.

Reg Wexford was also a dependable husband and doting father, and Rendell revealed that the character traits were taken from her own father. She was so enamoured with Baker's portrayal that she admitted to writing The Veiled One, the first new Wexford novel published after the television adaptations began, with him in mind.

Following the stand-alone first mini-series, the programmes – featuring 23 stories in all and running until 2000 – were screened as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and, occasionally, The Ruth Rendell Mystery Movie. Location filming was done in and around the Hampshire town of Romsey, not far from Baker's own home in Wiltshire.

In 1992, his second wife, the actress Sally Home, died after a three-year fight against cancer. The following year, he married Louie Ramsay – who played his screen wife, Dora, in the Wexford dramas and was a long-time friend of the couple – calling her his "soulmate" and adding: "Sally was the love of my life. With Louie, the love is quite different, but it's almost as strong." Ramsay died last March.

Baker was born at the British Embassy in Varna, Bulgaria, where his father, Frank – originally from Wetherby, West Yorkshire – was the honorary British vice-consul. A literate, cultured individual who was a writer and expert wine-taster, Baker was at pains to point out that, according to diplomatic etiquette, he was born on British soil.

When the Second World War broke out, he, his Irish mother Eva and four brothers and sisters moved to Yorkshire. Baker attended Lancing College, West Sussex, before joining Deal repertory company, in Kent, when he was just 15. During national service in Hong Kong he served with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. As a horse rider he was made regimental equitation officer but returned to Britain after contracting the intestinal disease sprue, and finished his Army service on a training range in Pembrokeshire.

Baker then acted in repertory theatre across Britain before making his London début as Arthur Wells in a revival of the Frederick Lonsdale drawing-room comedy Aren't We All? (Haymarket Theatre, 1953). Many roles followed in the West End, and with the Old Vic company (1959-60) and the RSC (1975). He also directed some plays himself, including The Sleeping Prince (St Martin's Theatre, 1968) and The Lady's Not for Burning (Old Vic Theatre, 1978). As artistic director, Baker launched his own provincial touring company, Candida Plays (named after his eldest daughter), in 1966.

Film casting directors spotted his matinee-idol looks early on. His first screen appearance, alongside Jack Hawkins, was in The Intruder (1953) and he followed it with a role in the Second World War drama The Dam Busters (1955). Then came star billing in another war film, A Hill in Korea (1956), and the Civil War adventure The Moonraker (1958).

Baker's six-week affair with Brigitte Bardot while he was at Pinewood Studios filming The Woman for Joe (1955) and she was making Doctor at Sea put a strain on his marriage to the costume designer Julia Squire, which also suffered from the constant pressure of being in debt. He lived with Sally Home for 10 years before she became his second wife. His confidence was knocked by the film director Tony Richardson's description of him as the worst actor in England and another disappointment was the James Bond author Ian Fleming's assertion that Baker would make the perfect 007, before the part went to Sean Connery.

However, Baker appeared in three Bond films: as a Nasa engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967), Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), in which he also dubbed the voice of George Lazenby – in that actor's one screen appearance as the secret agent – for a scene in which 007 impersonates his character.

Television began to play a bigger part in Baker's career, with dramatic roles such as the second Number Two in The Prisoner (1967), Tiberius in I, Claudius (1976) and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn in four feature-length adaptations of Ngaio Marsh's novels, made in New Zealand in 1977.

He also had some success in sitcoms. After playing Peter Craven's boss in The Fenn Street Gang (1972), Baker was spun off into his own series, Bowler (1973), in which he was seen as a spiv and petty villain trying to exude class but failing abysmally. Later, alongside Penelope Keith in the first two series of No Job for a Lady (1990-91), he played the Conservative MP Godfrey Eagan, sparring with the newly elected Labour MP Jean Price.

As a writer, Baker adapted four of the Ruth Rendell stories himself and scripted many radio dramas and the television play The Fatal Spring (1980), about the First World War poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, which won the United Nations Media Prize Award of Merit.

In 1999, Baker underwent surgery to remove his prostate gland after being diagnosed with cancer. His autobiography, The Way to Wexford, was published three years later. He also collected together recipes from his own culinary exploits in A Cook for All Seasons (1989). In 2007, Baker was made an MBE for youth club fund-raising activities in his then home village of West Lavington, Wiltshire.

George Morris Baker, actor, writer and director: born Varna, Bulgaria 1 April 1931; MBE

2007; married 1950 Julia Squire (divorced 1974, died 1989; four daughters), 1974 Sally Home (died 1992; one daughter), 1993 Louie Ramsay (died 2011); died 7 October 2011.

George Baker (I) (1931–2011)
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Filmography

Actor (144 credits)

2007 New Tricks (TV Series) - Steve Palmer
- Ducking and Diving (2007) ... Steve Palmer
2007 Heartbeat (TV Series)
Maurice Dodson - - Vendetta (2007) ... Maurice Dodson
2005 Spooks (TV Series) - Hugo Ross
- Episode #4.8 (2005) ... Hugo Ross
2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) - Charlie / Jack Magwood
- The House in the Woods (2005) ... Charlie / Jack Magwood
2003 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Cecil Newton 6 episodes
- Episode #1.5635 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5634 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5633 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5632 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5631 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
2001 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series) - Berry Pomeroy
- O Happy Isle (2001) ... Berry Pomeroy
1987-2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Det. Chief Insp. Wexford / Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford / Chief Insp. Wexford / ... 50 episodes
- Harm Done (2000) ... D.C.I. Wexford
- Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... D.C.I. Wexford
- Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... D.C.I. Reg Wexford
- Simisola: Part Three (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
- Simisola: Part Two (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
2000 Back to the Secret Garden - Will Weatherstaff

1995 Johnny and the Dead (TV Mini-Series) - Alderman
- Part 4 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 3 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 2 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 1 (1995) ... Alderman
1995 Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Mini-Series) - The Earl of Dorincourt 6 episodes
- Episode #1.6 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.5 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.4 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.3 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.2 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
1992 ITV Telethon (TV Series) - Chief Inspector Wexford
- Telethon '92 (1992) ... Chief Inspector Wexford
1990-1991 No Job for a Lady (TV Series) - Godfrey Eagan 12 episodes
- No Rumour in the Truth (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- Undesirable Aliens (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- Poetic Justice (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- White Knights (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- But I Voted for You (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
1990 Hudson & Halls (TV Series) - Guest
1980-1989 Minder (TV Series) - Cooper / Altman
- Days of Fines and Closures (1989) ... Cooper
- You Gotta Have Friends (1980) ... Altman
1988 Journey's End (TV Movie) - The Colonel
1988 For Queen & Country - Kilcoyne
1988 Bergerac (TV Series) - Higgins
- A Man of Sorrows (1988) ... Higgins
1987 Out of Order - Chief Inspector
1987 The Charmer (TV Mini-Series) - Harold Bennett
- Gorse in the Middle (1987) ... Harold Bennett
- Gorse, the Deceiver (1987) ... Harold Bennett
1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) - Chief Inspector Fred Davy
1986-1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Greaves / Valentine Swift
- Coast to Coast (1987) ... Greaves
- Time After Time (1986) ... Valentine Swift
1986 Lenny Henry Tonite (TV Series) - - Gronk Zillman (1986)
1986 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - Uncle Hesketh
1986 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
- Winter Schedule (1986) ... Director General
- The Siege (1986) ... Director General
1984-1986 Robin Hood (TV Series) - Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Power of Albion (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 2 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 1 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Prophecy (1984) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) - Maximillian Pierpont
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Maximillian Pierpont
1986 Dead Head (TV Mini-Series) - Eldridge
- The Patriot (1986) ... Eldridge
- Anything for England (1986) ... Eldridge
- Why Me? (1986) ... Eldridge
1985 We'll Support You Evermore (TV Movie) - Colonel
1985 Marjorie and Men (TV Series) - Norton Phillips
- Be Your Age (1985) ... Norton Phillips
1985 Bird Fancier (TV Movie) - Albert Seers
1985 A Woman of Substance (TV Mini-Series) - Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Bruce McGill (credit only)
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - George Damos
- Death Dig (1984) ... George Damos
1984 Goodbye Mr. Chips (TV Mini-Series) - Meldrum
- Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Meldrum
1983 Spyship (TV Mini-Series) - Irving
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Irving
1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Whittington
1982-1983 Triangle (TV Series) - David West 52 episodes
- Episode #3.26 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.25 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.24 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.23 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.22 (1983) ... David West
1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Jack Balfe
- Chorale (1982) ... Jack Balfe
1982 Q.E.D. (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Harold Metcalfe
- The Great Motor Race (1982) ... Sir Harold Metcalfe
1982 Little Miss Perkins (TV Movie) - Mr. Macauley
1981 The Gentle Touch (TV Series) - Gerald Harvey
- The Hit (1981) ... Gerald Harvey
1981 The Member for Chelsea (TV Series) - Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
1981 Goodbye Darling (TV Series) - Jonathan Cowper
- Maude (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
- Anne (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
1981 Crown Court (TV Series)
- The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
1981 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series)
Janaka
- The Mouse, the Merchant and the Elephant (1981) ... Janaka
1980 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Login
- Full Circle: Part Four (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Three (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Two (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part One (1980) ... Login
1980 Hopscotch - Parker Westlake
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
- Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday (1980) ... Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
1980 Square Mile of Murder (TV Series) - Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 2 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 1 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
1980 ffolkes - Fletcher

1979 Empire Road (TV Series) - Mr. Butterworth
- Godfadder at Bay (1979) ... Mr. Butterworth
1968-1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Ballard / George King
- Print Out (1979) ... Robert Ballard
- The Bonegrinder (1968) ... George King
1978 Died in the Wool (TV Movie) - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
1978 The Thirty Nine Steps - Sir Walter Bullivant
1977 Colour Scheme (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Vintage Murder (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Opening Night (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Capt. Benson
1977 Three Piece Suite (TV Series) - Frank - This Situation / Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
- Come in, No.1/This Situation/All in the Mind (1977) ... Frank - This Situation
- Miss/Celluloid Dreams/Mea Culpa (1977) ... Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Tiberius 10 episodes
- Old King Log (1976) ... Tiberius
- Zeus, by Jove! (1976) ... Tiberius
- Reign of Terror (1976) ... Tiberius
- Queen of Heaven (1976) ... Tiberius
- Some Justice (1976) ... Tiberius
1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Frank Chandler
- Baked Beans (1976) ... Frank Chandler
1976 Intimate Games - Professor Gottlieb
1976 Get Some In! (TV Series) - Wing-Commander Birch
- Flight (1976) ... Wing-Commander Birch
1970-1976 Z Cars (TV Series) - Gerald / Calvin Flood / Gordon Glossop
- A Preacher in Passing (1976) ... Calvin Flood
- Friends (1974) ... Gordon Glossop
- A Big Shadow: Part 2 (1970) ... Gerald
- A Big Shadow: Part 1 (1970) ... Gerald
1975 Sea Area Forties (Short) - Commentator (voice)
1975 The Firefighters - Station Officer Harrison
1975 Three for All - Eddie Boyes
1975 Spy Trap (TV Series) - Colonel Jacoby
- April Sixty-Seven (1975) ... Colonel Jacoby
1975 Survivors (TV Series) - Arthur Wormley
- Genesis (1975) ... Arthur Wormley
1974 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Det. Inspector Martin
- The Final Chapter (1974) ... Det. Inspector Martin
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Martin Willis
- Murder on Demand (1974) ... Martin Willis
1974 Zodiac (TV Series) - Mark Braun
- The Cool Aquarian (1974) ... Mark Braun
1973 The Laughing Girl Murder (Short) - Chief Sopt Keegan
1973 Bowler (TV Series) - Stanley Bowler 13 episodes
- Without Let or Hindrance (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- Bowler's Analysis (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- The Family Tree (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- R.I.P. (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- Sweet and Sour Charity (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
1973 Between the Wars (TV Series) - Walter Jeffries
- Voyage in the Dark (1973) ... Walter Jeffries
1973 A Warm December - Dr. Henry Barlow
1973 Because of the Cats - Boersma
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - George Dixon
- Your Witness (1973) ... George Dixon
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
- The Salesman's Job (1973) ... Mr. Lewis
1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Bowler
- Low Noon (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Left Hand Path (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- Smart Lad Wanted (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Great Frock Robbers (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series) - John Randall
- Two Into One Will Go (1972) ... John Randall
1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Philip Lockley
- Mandala (1972) ... Philip Lockley
1972 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Major Donovan
- Love's Old Sweet Song (1972) ... Major Donovan
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Britten
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Britten
1971 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Morell
- Candida (1971) ... Morell
1970 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Bill Garland
- Golden Island (1970) ... Bill Garland
1970 The Goodies (TV Series) - Chief Beefeater
- Tower of London (1970) ... Chief Beefeater
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jamus Bondus
- Secret Agents Jamus Bondus (1970) ... Jamus Bondus
1970 The Executioner - Philip Crawford
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - John Mitchell
- Train and De-Train (1970) ... John Mitchell
1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Mark
- Games People Play (1970) ... Mark
1970 Kate (TV Series) - Tom Prentice
- One Good Turn (1970) ... Tom Prentice

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Sir Hilary Bray
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Lord Sutterwick
1969 Justine - British Ambassador David Mountolive
1968 The Sex Game (TV Series) - - Women Can Be Monsters (1968)
1968 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Wing Commander Stebbs
- Private Pimpernel (1968) ... Wing Commander Stebbs
1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series)
Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
- Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
1957-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
Kenny Baker / Theodore Quill / Mike / ...
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... Kenny Baker
- Love Life (1967) ... Theodore Quill
- The Paraffin Season (1965) ... Mike
- The Pillars of Midnight (1958) ... Dr. Stephen Monks
- The Constant Stranger (1957)
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Ernest Whipple
- Happiness Is E Shaped (1968) ... Ernest Whipple
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - The New Number Two
- Arrival (1967) ... The New Number Two
1967 You Only Live Twice - NASA Engineer (uncredited)
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Tim Johnson
- Myself, I have Nothing Against South Ken (1967) ... Tim Johnson
1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Martin
- Surface of Innocence (1967) ... Martin
1967 Mister Ten Per Cent - Lord Edward
1965-1967 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Jacques / Louie Summers / Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson / ...
- Days in the Trees (1967) ... Jacques
- The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966) ... Louie Summers
- Alice (1965) ... Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson
- The Navigators (1965) ... Vera
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Frank Ashton
- So Dark the Night (1966) ... Frank Ashton
1966 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Patrick
- Four Triumphant: St Patrick (1966) ... Patrick
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Matthew Hobhouse / Edward Jackson
- Up and Down (1966) ... Matthew Hobhouse
- The Queen and Jackson (1966) ... Edward Jackson
1966 The Master (TV Series short) - Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Death by Misadventure (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- World of Disbelief (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- The Squadron Leader (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Behind the Antlers (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Totty McTurk (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
1965 Londoners (TV Series) - Bruce
- Common Ground (1965) ... Bruce
1965 Undermind (TV Series) - Thallon
- End Signal (1965) ... Thallon
1965 Drama 61-67 (TV Series)
- Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965)
1965 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Edward Drayton
- Insufficient Evidence (1965) ... Edward Drayton
1965 Curse of the Fly - Martin Delambre
1965 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bailey
- The Great Plane Robbery (1965) ... Bailey
1964 Curtain of Fear (TV Series) - Stewart Caxton 6 episodes
- The Regan Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Shand Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Linton Compact (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Tannikov Dilemma (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Liebert Question (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Geoffrey Harrison
- Any Other Business (1964) ... Geoffrey Harrison
1964 Rupert of Hentzau (TV Series) - Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V 6 episodes
- The Decision of Fate (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
- A Perilous Reunion (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
- The Wheel of Chance (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
- Audience with the King (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
- Return to Zenda (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Lord Randolph (voice)
1964 The Full Man (TV Series documentary) - MacBeth
- Tragedy (1964) ... MacBeth
1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Gawaine
1963 It Happened Like This (TV Series) - Miles Standish
- The Hidden Witness (1963) ... Miles Standish
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Cargan
- Glidepath (1962) ... Cargan
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Dominic Père
- The Simple Case (1961) ... Dominic Père
1957-1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Giorgio / Docker Starkie / Biff Loman / ...
- Faraway Music (1961) ... Giorgio
- The Square Ring (1959) ... Docker Starkie
- Death of a Salesman (1957) ... Biff Loman
- The Guinea Pig (1957) ... Nigel Lorraine
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Louis Cornudet
- Boule de Suif (1961) ... Louis Cornudet
1961 The Dickie Henderson Show (TV Series)
- The Exchange Visit (1961)
1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Bill Walker
- Episode #2.31 (1961) ... Bill Walker

1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.9 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.8 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- The Mystery of Cabin 5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.6 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
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1958 Tread Softly Stranger - Johnny Mansell
1958 The Moonraker - The Moonraker
1958 The Truth About Melandrinos (TV Series) - David Westbrook
1958 Doomsday for Dyson (TV Movie) - Goltsev
1957 No Time for Tears - Dr. Nigel Barnes
1957 Dangerous Youth - Padre
1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Percy French
- The Last Troubadour (1957) ... Percy French
1956 Hell in Korea - The National Servicemen: Lt. Butler / Lt Butler
1956 Adventure Theater (TV Series) - - The Wilful Widow (1956)
1956 The Extra Day - Steven Marlow
1956 The Gentle Touch - Jim
1955 The Woman for Joe - 'Joe Harrop'
1955 The Dam Busters - Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955 PT Raiders - Bill Randall
1953 The Intruder - Adjutant

Writer (3 credits)

1991-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (adaptation - 5 episodes)
- Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... (adaptation)
- Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... (adaptation)
- The Strawberry Tree: Part 1 (1995) ... (adaptation)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (adaptation)
- From Doon with Death: Part One (1991) ... (adaptation)
1982 Imaginary Friends (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- Fatal Spring (1980) ... (screenplay)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
1992 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (production associate - 3 episodes)
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) (performer: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" (1887) - uncredited)

Up Pompei - James Bondus

2012: The "Skyfall" single charts at #4 in the UK 48 hours after release, later peaking at #2.

2014: Dynamite Entertainment receives its licence to James Bond material.
2015: Daniel Craig jokingly tells Time Out "I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists" than do another Bond film. And that if he did, it "would only be for the money."

Daniel Craig interview: ‘My advice to
the next James Bond? Don’t be shit!’

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeout.com/london/film/daniel-craig-interview-my-advice-to-the-next-james-bond-dont-be-shit

As Daniel Craig bursts back onto our screens as 007, he talks to Time Out about staying in
shape, Sam Mendes and ‘Spectre’
By Dave Calhoun Posted: Wednesday October 7 2015

Photograph: Paul Stuart. Styling: Gareth Scourfield

RichardTheBruce

2021: No Time To Die released in New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
2021: Не время умирать (Ne vremya umirat', This Is Not the Time to Die) released in Russia.

2023: An auction of Sir Roger Moore's watches at Bonham's generates donations to UNESCO.

Roger Moore’s Collection of James Bond Watches and
Collectibles Sells for Over $1 Million

See the complete article here:

Among the top lots were a collection of commemorative Swatch 007 timepieces and two Omegas.
Published on October 6, 2023
By Cait Bazemore

Omega limited edition Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Bonhams

When it comes to some of the most iconic watches in pop culture, those of James Bond surely top the list. This year marked the 50th anniversary of one special actor’s first appearance as 007. Sir Roger Moore was the third actor to portray the famed secret agent in the iconic film series; his first Bond film Live and Let Die debuted in 1973. In celebration of this acclaimed actor and his legacy as 007, Bonhams hosted a special auction in his honor, selling his personal collection of important Bond memorabilia, collectibles, and other ephemera. The top three lots included a collection of twenty Swatch 007 wristwatches and two Omega timepieces.

Of course, you couldn’t have an auction in honor of one of the legendary James Bond actors without a few watches being involved. Omega didn’t become the official watch of 007 until 1995, many years after Sir Roger Moore’s run as Bond. However, the brand has since become synonymous with the secret agent, so it comes as no surprise the actor had a few in his personal collection.

Omega Speedmaster Triple Calendar Moonphase
Bonhams

The first was a limited edition Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary watch, which sold for nearly double its high estimate at just over $70,000 (£57,550). The second model was a stainless steel Speedmaster with a triple calendar and moonphase with a personal engraving to Sir Roger Moore. This truly one-of-a-kind model sold for more than eight times its high estimate for nearly $75,000 (£61,400).

Still, the top lot of Moore’s entire collection of ephemera was a series of twenty Swatch 007 wristwatches presented in a stealthy 007 case dedicated to Sir Roger Moore to commemorate the 40th anniversary of James Bond on film. This truly unique collection ultimately sold for more than three times its high estimate at over $92,000 (£76,000), marking the highest sale of the auction.

Altogether, the 224-lot archive of Sir Roger Moore’s personal collection brought in well over $1 million (£1,117,300) against a pre-sale high estimate of roughly $500,000 (£415,300). Moore was also a passionate UNICEF ambassador, and therefore his family decided to donate a percentage of the sale proceeds to the charity.

Roger Moore’s Swatch collection sells for
£76,000, and not a MoonSwatch among
them

See the complete article here:

https://www.watchpro.com/roger-moores-swatch-collection-sells-for-76000-and-not-a-moonswatch-among-them/

By Rob Corder - October 6, 20231

50 years after his first appearance as James Bond in Live and Let Die, and six years after his death, a collection of memorabilia and personal items owned by Sir Roger Moore has been sold at auction by Bonhams.

The highest price paid during the sale was for a collection of 20 Swatch 007 watches in a presentation case.

The lot hammered at £76,000, smashing its pre-sale estimate of £10,000 to £20,000.
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The 20 Swatch watches were made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first James Bond film.

A swatch 007 presentation case dedicated to Sir Roger Moore
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An Omega Speedmaster MK40 (ref. 38205300) triple calendar chronograph in steel from around 1995 sold for £61,400, ten-times its estimate.

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Omega watches have been worn by James Bond in movies since 1995 and the brand is a long-standing official partner with the franchise.

007 Omega seamaster

A second Omega at the Bonhams auction, a special edition 50 Years of 007 Seamaster, sold for £57,550.

Corum coin

An 18ct gold Corum watch in the form of a $20 coin was sold in a group lot with four other wristwatches, including one by Longines, which sold for £16,640.

Gold ingot clock roger moore scaledA Jean Roulet ‘gold ingot’ desk clock with the timepiece made by Baume & Mercier, achieved £10,880.

007 Swatch
Perhaps the most shocking price achieved was for a single Swatch, an unremarkable piece of merch made in 2002 as a gift set commemorating the The Spy Who Loved Me.

Somebody paid £8,320 for it.

In total, the auction raised over £1.1 million, a percentage of which will be donated to UNESCO.

Geoffrey Moore, son of Sir Roger Moore, spoke after the auction on behalf of the Moore family.

“We always knew our father was popular, but never fathomed just how much he was loved. We are overwhelmed by the incredible success of the sale which surpassed all our expectations, and we are thrilled to share his legacy with his adored fans. We want to thank Bonhams for their tireless work. They have poured love, care, and passion into this sale. We are truly grateful to everyone who took part,” he remarked.

RichardTheBruce

October 8th

1963: From Russia with Love press screening at the Leicester Square Odeon, London.

1965: A five-day serialization of Octopussy finishes in The Daily Express.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/06/daily-express-illustrations-by-robb.html

1965: The Daily Telegraph reports "James Bond as Villain in Soviet Novel.”

1972: Roger Moore travels to New Orleans, Louisiana.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Colombia.
1983: Author Steven Jay Rubin hosts the 007 Master Trivia Marathon near Los Angeles.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 17 of 65 - "Appointment in Macau" in Macau.

James Bond Jr - Appointment in Macau

Season 1 Episode 17
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807092/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Doctor No kidnaps Lily Mai, a new student at Warfield, in an attempt to settle old scores with Macau's chief criminal organisation, the Raven Triad.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Mary Crawford ... (writer)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Alan Templeton ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 17 Appointment in Macau

2011: Duntrune Castle's owners confirm the filmmakers pursued it as a possible location for the final action sequence at the Bond family estate.

2012: Christie's of London hosts an online charity auction celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bond movie franchise, ending this date after 11 days.

2013: HarperCollins publishes William Boyd's Bond novel Solo in the US.

IT'S 1969, AND, HAVING JUST
celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James
Bond -- British special agent 007 -- is sum-
moned to headquarters to receive an un-
usual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West
African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter
civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the
rebels threatening the established regime.

Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start
of a feverish mission to discover the forces
behind this brutal war -- and he soon realizes
the situation is far from straightforward.
Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause
of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a
twisting conspiracy that extends further
than he ever imagined.

Moving from rebel battlefields in West
Africa to the closed doors of intelligence
office in London and Washington, this novel
is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted
story full of memorable characters and
breathtaking twists, and a masterful study
of power and how it is wielded -- a brilliant
addition to the James Bond canon.

WILLIAM BOYD
is also the author of A Good Man in Africa,
winner of the Whitbread Award and the
Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream
War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys
Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize;
Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the
Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunder-
storms; and Waiting for Sunrise; among other
books. He lives in London.

WWW.IANFLEMING.COM

2015: Title song "Writing's on the Wall" reaches #1 on the UK charts, first ever for a James Bond film.

2015: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC releases The Man with the Golden Typewriter.

2016: Daniel Craig on the Bond role: "As far as I'm concerned, I've got the best job in the world.
I'll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it."

Is Daniel Craig not quitting as Bond after all?
"I've got the best job in the world"​

Maybe hold off on those Hiddleston/Elba bets for now.

See the complete article here:

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/james-bond-007/news/a810428/daniel-craig-not-quitting-bond-best-job-in-the-world/

By Sam Warner | 08/10/2016

Sony Pictures

Will he? Won't he? It's the question that has plagued Bond fans for the better part of the year - or at least since Spectre was released.

And it looks like Daniel Craig is still happy to keep us all guessing, as despite previously saying he would rather "slash his wrists" than play the role of James Bond again, now it seems Daniel is still up for returning again after all.

"They say that shit sticks, and that definitely stuck," he said at the New Yorker Festival last night (October 8) when recalling that particular statement, Vulture reports.

"It was the day after filming [stopped on Spectre]," he explained. "I'd been away from home for a year."

Craig also added that the physical strains of the role coupled with the filming schedule taking him a great distance away from his family had all taken its toll on him - but not enough to completely dampen his spirits about playing 007.

"Boo-hoo," he added. "It's a good gig. I enjoy it."

He continued: "As far as I'm concerned, I've got the best job in the world. I'll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it."

So, he's staying then? At the very least, it looks like Craig doesn't want to NOT be Bond, adding later on that "if [he] were to stop doing it, [he'd] miss it terribly".

Randy Holmes / ABCGetty Images

Of course, after his original controversial comments, speculation hit fever drive over who could potentially replace the star as 007 should he not return.

Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba have been seen by many as the frontrunners - Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie is firmly on Team Idris, for one - although maybe those bets are off for the moment, going by Craig's latest comments.

He is, after all, still "absolutely" the producers' first choice to play Bond despite his return still being up in the air.

"I know [producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson] are hoping for him to come back," executive producer Callum McDougall revealed earlier this year, though he still didn't know if Craig had signed on or not.

So, the role is still his if he wants it (and the rumoured $150 million that goes with it), so let's remind ourselves of what makes Craig so good as Bond by re-watching the Spectre trailer:

2021: No Time To Die released in Canada, Iceland, and the US.

RichardTheBruce

October 9th

1902: Frederick Archibald (Freddie) Young is born--London, England.
(He dies 1 December 1998 at age 96--London, England.)

Gentleman Genius
All Time Greats / Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

See the complete article here:

https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/freddie-young-obe-bsc-asc/

Frederick Archibald Young was born on 9 October 1902 in London. He entered the film industry in 1917 at Lime Grove Studios, West London.

At that time it was run by Gaumont and had a glass exterior to allow light for shooting. Later it was re-built. It became Gaumont British in 1922. Young said the glasshouse was good in theory but in practice wasn’t so good. If it was a foggy day the studio became a pea souper. If it was cloudy, lights would be required to provide exposure, but if the sun came out the studio would be filled with sunlight and the shot would be ruined.

Young started in the laboratory and eventually moved into cameras, remaining with the studio for ten years. In those days he operated the Debrie Parvo camera. He worked with a cameraman called Arthur Brown. Later, Bill Shenton worked there and despite only having one eye he was considered to be a very good cameraman. Eventually the studio became the home to BBC Television. Housing now stands on the site. One of the films he worked on after leaving Gaumont was Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) photographed by Jack Cox and made at British International Pictures (BIP). Young was asked to shoot a montage for the silent version.

For several years he worked at British and Dominions at Elstree for producer and director Herbert Wilcox. Cinematographer Oswald Morris said: “He was a powerful cinematographer. He treated filmmaking rather like being in the army. There was strict discipline. At the height of his career his crew had to call him Mr Young.”

Sir Sydney Samuelson says: “The first technical marvel for which he was responsible, and which held me in awe of his genius, was as far back as 1938 on Sixty Glorious Years. I remember two technical aspects quite clearly. One sequence was an early example of British Technicolor three-strip. There was a remarkable ballroom scene, which was achieved by means of an early matte shot. Called something like the ‘Shufton process’. There was a glorious wide-angle shot of an elegant ballroom. Freddie once told me that as clever as Shufton was, the most stunning effect was actually brought about by him, pricking holes in the top part of the back of the matte then shining through each chandelier painted on its front. Amazing!”

During WW2 Young was in the Army Kinematograph Service with Freddie Francis. Francis said: “He always insisted on being called Mr Young or sir. After the war Freddie was Freddie to everyone.”

Young was the first President of the BSC 1949-1952. He was President again from 1957-1960. He was also a member of the ASC and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).

Following the war Young became head of cameras at MGM Elstree. “I suppose it was the finest studio in the country. It had a beautiful lot and was beautifully equipped,” remarked Young.

Renowned director Nicolas Roeg, who worked with Young at MGM and later photographed the second unit on Lawrence of Arabia, said Freddie was a terrific guy to work with.

In 1959, faced with a pay cut due to production cuts Young decided to leave the company. The day after leaving he realised that it was the first time he’d been out of work since 1917. In 1960 he was approached by producer Sam Spiegel to photograph Lawrence Of Arabia for director David Lean. Other notable directors he worked with include George Cukor, John Ford and John Huston.

He first met Lean on Major Barbara (1941). Lawrence was released in 1962 and was the start of three 65mm wide screen pictures with Lean, earning Young three Oscars. Sydney Samuelson said: “Young is definitely ‘the master’ in my book of cineastes. Arguably and certainly in his era he was the best cameraman in the world. I had the pleasure of involvements with him and his crew from Lawrence Of Arabia onwards. David Lean was such a brilliant storyteller but nobody when working on one of his movies would accuse him of being easygoing. Freddie carried on for him regardless of personal and technical problems. Apart from three American Oscars Freddie won many awards including only the second Fellowship after Hitchcock from our own Academy BAFTA.”

The three films he made with Lean were a challenge. “Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees. We had a sunshade over the camera and a wet cloth on top of the camera, which acted like refrigerator. We never saw rushes, the results were cabled from London. The famous mirage scene was shot using a 500mm lens. This was obtained from Panavision in Hollywood along with the rest of the camera equipment,” said Young.

His next outing with Lean was Dr Zhivago (1965). It was filmed in the heat of Spain but was set in Russia, so a lot of faking was required. Some was shot in Finland. “We painted trees white, coloured hedge rows with white plastic and used hundreds of tons of marble dust,” said Young. “We used a blue filter for much of the film and it was my hardest technically.”

His final film for Lean was Ryan’s Daughter (1971). The whole of the film is set on the west coast of Ireland. He said: “Winter came and the summer scenes hadn’t been completed, so the main unit went to South Africa, a second unit stayed behind headed by Roy Stevens. Denys Coop was in charge of the cinematography. Lean gives you an inspiration so you go out of your depth and try and do something extraordinary.”

In conversation with cinematographer Robin Vidgeon’s wife Angela, Young said: “Whenever I had a candlelit scene I would go into a dark room, light a candle, sit and watch it for a while, blow it out and then take those images to set and light accordingly.”

"Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees."
- Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

In 1992 Lawrence of Arabia was re-launched and Young went to several screenings. At one screening Steven Spielberg told him it was seeing Lawrence in 1962 that made him decide a film career was for him.

Later in 1992 he was invited to speak to film students at the royal college of art. In July 1994 the college honoured him by making him a doctor of art.

Young said that people often asked him about his techniques. He said he had no plan or technique; he lit the scene according to what was in the script.

Following Ryan’s Daughter he carried on shooting until 1983. The same year he directed Arthur’s Hallowed Ground, his only film as director and the last he worked on. After this he shot commercials until his retirement aged eighty-five. His autobiography was published by Faber and Faber in 1999 called Seventy Light Years, which can be obtained through Amazon.

Finally, he said: “I worked in the industry for seventy years, photographing more than 120 films and being paid for a job I love. At the age of ninety-six I look back and think I’ve been incredibly lucky.”

Freddie Young OBE passed away on 1 December 1998 age 96.

Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002875/

Filmography

Cinematographer (130 credits)

1985 Invitation to the Wedding
1984 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1981 Stainless Steel and the Star Spies (TV Movie)
1980 Ike: The War Years (TV Movie)
1980 Richard's Things (director of photography)
1980 Rough Cut

1979 Bloodline
1978 Stevie (director of photography)
1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1976 The Blue Bird (director of photography)
1975 The Executioner
1974 Great Expectations (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1974 The Tamarind Seed (director of photography)
1974 Love from A to Z (TV Movie)
1974 Luther
1972 The Asphyx
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra (director of photography)
1970 Ryan's Daughter (photographed by)
1970 The Maker and the Process (TV Short)
1969 Battle of Britain (director of photography)
1969 Sinful Davey (director of photography)
1967 You Only Live Twice (director of photography)
1967 The Deadly Affair (director of photography)
1965 Doctor Zhivago (director of photography)
1965 Rotten to the Core
1965 Lord Jim (as Frederick A. Young)
1964 The 7th Dawn (as Frederick Young, photographed by)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1961 Loss of Innocence (as Frederick A Young, photographed by)
1961 Hand in Hand (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1961 Gorgo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) (as F.A. Young)

1959 Solomon and Sheba (director of photography - as Fred A. Young)
1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1958 Indiscreet (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1958 I Accuse! (director of photography)
1957 Island in the Sun
1957 The Little Hut (as F.A. Young)
1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (as F.A. Young)
1956 Beyond Mombasa (as Frederick A. Young)
1956 Lust for Life (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1956 Invitation to the Dance (segments "Circus", "Ring Around the Rosy", as F.A. Young)
1956 Bhowani Junction (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1955 Bedevilled
1954 Betrayed (as F.A. Young)
1953 Knights of the Round Table (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1953 Mogambo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1953 Terror on a Train (as F.A. Young)
1952 Ivanhoe (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1952 Giselle (Short)
1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond (as F.A. Young)
1950 Treasure Island (as F.A. Young)

1949 Conspirator (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
1949 Edward, My Son (as F.A. Young)
1948 The Winslow Boy (director of photography)
1948 Escape (as Frederick A. Young)
1947 While I Live (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1947 So Well Remembered (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1946 Bedelia (as Frederick A. Young)
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra (as F.A. Young, photography)
1942 The Young Mr. Pitt (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
1941 49th Parallel (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
1940 Haunted Honeymoon (as F.A. Young, photography)
1940 Suicide Legion
1940 Blackout (as F.A. Young)

1939 Nurse Edith Cavell (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
1938 Queen of Destiny (as F.A. Young)
1938 A Royal Divorce
1937 Millions (uncredited)
1937 The Rat (as F.A. Young)
1937 Victoria the Great (as F.A. Young)
1937 Backstage
1937 The Frog (as F.A. Young)
1937 Girl in the Street (as F.A. Young)
1936 The Show Goes On (as F.A. Young)
1936 This'll Make You Whistle
1936 Two's Company
1936 Fame
1936 When Knights Were Bold (as F.A. Young)
1935 Come Out of the Pantry
1935 Peg of Old Drury (as F.A. Young, photography)
1935 Escape Me Never (uncredited)
1934 The King of Paris
1934 Nell Gwyn (as F.A. Young)
1934 Girls Please!
1934 Runaway Queen
1933 It's a King (as F.A. Young)
1933 Just My Luck
1933 Night of the Garter
1933 Up for the Derby
1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest (uncredited)
1933 Trouble
1933 That's a Good Girl
1933 Summer Lightning
1933 Yes, Mr. Brown
1933 Bitter Sweet (as F.A. Young)
1933 The Little Damozel
1933 The King's Cup
1932 Leap Year
1932 The Love Contract
1932 Thark
1932 The Mayor's Nest
1932 Magic Night
1932 A Night Like This
1932 The Blue Danube
1931 Up for the Cup
1931 Mischief
1931 Venetian Nights (as F.A. Young)
1931 The Chance of a Night Time
1931 Tilly of Bloomsbury
1931 The Speckled Band (as F.A. Young)
1931 The Sport of Kings (as Fred Young)
1930 Tons of Money
1930 Plunder
1930 A Warm Corner (as Fred Young)
1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930 On Approval
1930 Die Somme: Das Grab der Millionen (as Frederick Young)
1930 The Loves of Robert Burns (uncredited)
1930 The W Plan
1930 One Embarrassing Night (uncredited)

1929 White Cargo
1929 A Peep Behind the Scenes
1929 The Bondman
1928 Blue Bottles (Short) (as F.A. Young)
1928 Day-Dreams (Short)
1928 The Tonic (Short)
1928 Victory

Camera and Electrical Department (8 credits)

1979 Ike: The War Years (TV Mini-Series) (cinematographer - 2 episodes)
- Part II (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
- Part I (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)

1959 The Wreck of the Mary Deare (additional photographer - as F.A. Young)
1956 Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light (Documentary short) (cinematographer: scenes from "Lust for Life (1956)
1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris (location camera - uncredited)

1927 The Somme (second camera operator)
1927 The Flag Lieutenant (second camera operator)
1922 Rob Roy (assistant camera)

1919 The First Men in the Moon (film development technician)

Director (1 credit)

1984 Arthur's Hallowed Ground (TV Movie)

1959: The Spectator publishes Ian Fleming's article "If I Were Prime Minister".

If I were prime minister, by Ian Fleming

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/if-i-were-prime-minister-by-ian-fleming/
Ian Fleming | 14 May 2015

This article was first published in The Spectator on 9 October, 1959.

I am a totally non-political animal. I prefer the name of the Liberal Party to the name of any other and I vote Conservative rather than Labour, mainly because the Conservatives have bigger bottoms and I believe that big bottoms make for better government than scrawny ones. I only once attended a debate in the House of Commons. It was, I think, towards the end of 1938 when we were unattractively trying to cajole Mussolini away from Hitler. I found the hollowness and futility of the speeches degrading and infantile and the well-fed, deep-throated ‘hear, hears’ for each mendacious platitude verging on the obscene. If this is politics, I reflected, I would much rather not see it happening and I swore never to re-enter the Chamber. I never have.

My own particular hero is Sir Alan Herbert, an independent-minded though admittedly think-shanked man, who swimming alone, stayed out of the muddy red and blue stream and more or less single-handed changed a section of our law for the benefit of the common man. And of course I have the affectionate reverence for Sir Winston Churchill that most of us share. But in general I regard politicians as a race apart and if the Bottle Imp were to offer me high office I would accept, and that with reluctance, nothing less than the Premiership.

On taking office, I would concentrate on small things.

The big things — the H-bomb, the conquest of outer space, the colour problem— these are too vast and confused for one man’s brain; I would leave them to my ministers and to the wave of common sense, which, it seems to me, by a process of osmosis between peoples rather than between politicians, is taking a rapid and healthy control of the world.

My first ‘Action This Day,’ through my Minister of Transport, would be simple but significant: on the road signs displaying a diamond-studded black banana with the word ‘CURVE’ underneath, I would have the word ‘CURVE’ removed. By this and other small tokens, I would proclaim that the English people are no longer babies and that, after all these years of universal education, I propose to deal with the citizens as if they were in fact universally educated. All my education would start with this assumption.

Next, I would try and stop people being ashamed of themselves. In the United Kingdom we have a basically nonconformist conscience and the fact that taxation, controls and certain features of the welfare state have turned the majority of us into petty criminals, liars and work-dodgers is, I am sure, having a very bad effect of the psyche of the kingdom. Tax-dodging in all its forms would have my attention and I would proceed to reduce income tax, surtax and death duties by the maximum amount possible in exchange for abolishing all expense accounts and other forms of fiscal chicanery. Motor-cars, whether Rolls-Royces or Fords, owned by a company, would have the name of that company displayed in half-inch letters in a prominent position so that if a company’s car was seen disgorging a load of mink and cigar smoke in theatreland in the evening, any of the company’s shareholders who happened to be a witness could, if he wanted, ask the company to justify the use of a company vehicle. But the real deterrent would be snobbery. I think everyone would gain morally by this legislation and no real harm would be done to anyone. To begin with, of course, the restaurants would suffer from the absence of the expense-account aristocracy who have ridiculously inflated the price of meals all over the world, while at the same time deflating the quality of the food. I would hope that the really good restaurants would survive, but that the hosts of bogus eating places with Algerian ‘Infuriator’ (otherwise known as ‘Instant’ Burgundy), described as Beaujolais selling at 15s. for half a carafe, would disappear.

Having looked after the moral fibre of the ‘Haves,’ I would next direct my attention to the work-shy ‘Have-nots,’ being convinced that the man who is not returning good work for good money is basically ashamed of himself. In consultation with the trade unions, I would devise a scheme of benevolent Stakhanovism. There would be a minimum wage in every industry, but rapidly mounting merit bonuses for real work in either quantity or quality. This would not abolish tea breaks or the games of whist but make them unpopular with the wives. I would also request the trade unions to re-examine the whole question of overtime. Having obtained an eight-hour day and a five-day week, it seems to me wrong that workers should use two extra days and many extra hours earning overtime double money when they should be enjoying the leisure and repose they have fought to obtain.

And while on the subject of leisure, I would certainly consider appointing a Minister of Leisure, with a small staff, to make every effort to enhance the pleasure people get from their increasing spare time.

Having observed at close quarters the great waste of money on paint and canvases in one of our art schools, I am not convinced that the welfare ‘artist,’ copying as he usually does, one or another, or very often several, of the modern theories of painting, is worth encouraging any farther. Instead, therefore, of spending larger sums on the arts, I would spend them on the crafts. I would encourage the fine metal workers, enamellers, binders, printers, woodworkers, etc., in a most lavish fashion and attempt to arrest at once the decline of the craftsman, even down to the lowly thatcher.

To give the craftsman, the designer and, of course, the artist an outlet for his capabilities, I would take the Rolls-Royce motor-car as an example and persuade all manufacturers that, let us say, 5 per cent of output should consist of an absolutely top-grade, luxury product in which price is an entirely secondary consideration. Every firm would then be producing, perhaps only in small quantities, the Rolls-Royce of its particular line of manufacture — real grain whisky and gin, quintessentially distilled, ice-cream made with real strawberries and real cream, lavatory paper as luxurious as a peach skin, scissors that actually cut your nails, and so on through the list of all our products. By this means I would make quality goods available to those here and abroad who like these things and can afford them and I would hope to educate the admass to eschew the shoddy. Coincidentally, in the world’s markets, ‘British made’ would go back to the place where it used to belong.

Next I should proceed to a complete reform of our sex and gambling laws and endeavour to cleanse the country of the hypocrisy with which we so unattractively clothe our vices. To deal only with my most far-reaching proposal, I would consult with my Minister of Leisure about the possibility of turning the Isle of Wight into one vast pleasuredome (cf. Fr. Baisodrome) which would be a mixture of Monte Carlo, Las Vegas, pre-war Paris and Macao. Here there would be casinos (they are building one on Gibraltar and they have one in Nassau; why not one on the Isle of Wight?) and the most luxurious maisons de tolérance in the world. Bingo, poker, faro, fan-tan, craps— even whist drives with money prizes! This would be a world where the frustrated citizen of every class could give full rein to those basic instincts for sex and gambling which have been crushed through the ages. At last our cliff-girt libido would have an outlet and the sleazy strip-tease joints, rump-sprung street-walkers and backroom card games would be out of business forever. Since it is impossible to suppress the weaknesses of mankind, I would at least put an honest face on the problem and do something to release the homme moyen sensuel, or femme for the matter of that, from some of their burden of shame and sin.

After dealing with the spiritual comfort of the electorate, I would proceed to his physical state, and my first step would be the abatement of noise, carbon-monoxide gas and exasperation caused by the traffic problem in our big towns. I would solve these with the help of Mr Francis Bacon’s recently invented, much-publicized battery. Our present internal-combustion engine is a ridiculous steam-age contraption which turns only a modest proportion of fuel into energy and spews the rest out in the form of petrol vapour of a more or less solid consistency. When there is no wind, this lies in a dense layer in our streets and we breathe it in day and night. It then rises into the upper atmosphere, where I am told, it forms a kind of envelope round the world which has the effect of interfering with the beneficial rays of the sun. Whether that is so or not, the petrol engine is obviously a noxious and noisy machine, and I would gradually abolish and replace it by some form of electric motor. This would take some time, but I would hope that, within three years of assuming office, I could have converted the whole of central London to electric transport. Very cheap, State-owned garages would be built at the point of entry into London of our main roads and drives would there transfer into electric buses or the Underground and later into cheap, state-run electric taxis. There would be quiet, no smell and no parking problems. Gradually I would extend this system to our other great towns and in due course the problem would be solved for the whole country.

In an attempt to make government more honest, I would face up to the fact that my Exchequer battens fatly on the vices and follies of the electorate and I would have HM Stationery Office publish quarterly a periodical entitled Hazard. Hazard would give, without comment, the very latest information obtainable anywhere in the world on the ill-effects of smoking too much, drinking too much and consuming white bread, TT tested milk, refined sugar, foods too long frozen, etc. Hazard would also give the correct odds for football pools and Premium Bonds and, from time to time, publish the annual accounts of the bookmaking firms throughout the country. Road accident figures would be given in detail, and in cases where mechanical failure (those shattering windscreens, for instance) attributable to faulty manufacture was involved, the name of the manufacturer would be published. There would, as I say, be no editorial comment in the magazine, but I should be able to face with a clear conscience the fact, from the Exchequer’s point of view, the most valuable citizen is the man who drinks or smokes himself to death.

There are other various small matters I would attend to, such as men’s clothing, which I regard as out-of-date, unhygienic and rather ridiculous; press reform — we have the grimiest press in the world; the matter of titles — I would greatly reinforce the Orders of Chivalry and, if a Lord or a Baron or an Earl did not behave as a lord or a baron or an earl should, he would lose his title after the third offense (as is more or less the case with service rank); rich state prizes for all inventions or innovations that were even of remote benefit to the Commonwealth; enthusiastic encouragement of emigration, but more particularly of a constant flow of peoples within the Commonwealth; a Commonwealth super-Parliament; and less fried food for the constipated masses.

All these, as I have said, are small, workaday things — too small, alas, for the attention of either M. Harold Macmillan or Mr Gaitskell. So I look forward, with squared shoulders and glazed resignation, to five years of Summitry, pensions and the 11-plus.

Ian Fleming Estate
This article was first published in The Spectator on 9 October, 1959. Anthony Horowitz’s new James Bond novel will be published in September by Orion.

1966: The Sunday Times of London quotes the late Ian Fleming.

''A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.''

1972: The Gleaner reports the Hanover Parish Council agrees to filming in Lucea, Louisiana. Involves closure of the new road at Johnson Town and assurances local labour will support the filming of the bus chase.

1982: Octopussy films OO7 on horseback catching a plane.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 18 of 65 - "Lamp of Darkness" in the Middle East.

James Bond Jr - Lamp of Darkness

Season 1 - Episode 18
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807106/?ref_=ttep_ep18

James, IQ and Phoebe take off for the Middle East in a race to find the legendary Lamp of Aladdin before Maximillian Cortex gets there first.

James Bond Jr Episode 18 - Lamp of Darkness

2008: BBC Audiobooks publishes My Word Is My Bond, read by Sir Roger Moore himself.

2012: DK Books publishes Bond On Set: Filming Skyfall by Greg Williams in the UK.

2013: Ian Fleming Publications announces the Young Bond series of books by Steve Cole.

2015: GQ Australia proposes "What Your James Bond Film Car Choice Says About You."

What Your James Bond Car Choice Says About You
GQ Australia 9 Oct 2015

See the complete article here:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/nr-coventry/nailcote-hall-hotel/pink-ball-at-the-hall-james-bond-theme/e-ejqkxo

Comedic cursing or racing driver sliding,
your Bond depends on your driving style.

Providing they've got $3 million, any Tim, Sean or Roger can buy a Bond car (the going rate for a classic Aston Martin DB5). But driving like 007 - a man capable of imbuing a Citroen 2CV with a certain frisson - is an entirely different matter.

Like the way he carries an Anthony Sinclair suit or Walther PPK, there's something instinctive and wordless about it. But buried under the kudzu of tyre smoke and arched eyebrows there's an imitable kernel of… Bondness.

"Fast, stylish and controlled. That's how you define Daniel Craig's Bond in the car!" shouts Mark Higgins, three-time Word Rally champion and Bond's driving double in Spectre. He's currently steering Bond's new Aston-Martin DB10 at roughly three times the speed of sound at Longcross studios, where some scenes were shot for the film.

As GQ contemplates the swift, savage and extremely irreversible implications of what seems like an imminent crash, he adds, "You'll see through the chase sequences that he's always on the [racing] line, adding a little bit of oversteer because his [Aston Martin DB10] has the power to kick the back end out.

He might even tweak the handbrake going into the corners so he gets a bit of a drift, but he's always in control and his focus is getting from A to B."

Photo: Rex Features

With Craig, says Higgins, it's all about the details. Small reactions, "but the car's dancing." In Spectre, for instance, he casually calls in for intel while drifting past the Vatican, where the major chase sequence is filmed, at 100mph. More importantly, says Higgins: Craig's not scared of a few stone chips. "He doesn't mind scratching the paint."

Not all Bonds drive equally. Craig is gritty and realistic: almost like he wants to see damage (see Quantum), or at least void the warranty (see literally every other car he drives). By the end of filming, says special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, who's directed the stunts on 15 Bonds, "the cars are wrecked. That's Daniel's style - he doesn't want the car to be shiny and pristine after a chase."

Unlike Brosnan, who is "more accurate and tidy". Roger Moore: "more comedic."

Photo: Rex Features

And herein lies a problem with defining 007's driving style. Like every Bond, the actor that plays him nuances the idiom. Sean Connery's JB, for example, spends most of his wheel time as he does elsewhere - stroking his jaw as if he himself can't quite believe how handsome he is. Beyond a brief foray on two wheels in a Ford Mustang, the most exciting thing he does in a car is Bond girl Sylvia Trench.

Photo: Rex Features

And then, of course, there's Roger Moore, driving the likes of the AMC Hornet and, of course, the Citroen 2CV.

Photo: Rex Features

"There's a lot of slop and play in the cars Moore was driving," says Higgins. "His Bond chucks it into a corner, waits to see what happens next then reacts with an arched eyebrow." Not entirely dissimilar to his approach with the Bondettes, then.

Failing to engender the exuberance of Moore's Bond actually lost a stunt driver his job once. During filming for The Spy Who Loved Me, the second unit director felt that the Lotus Espirit (which defers only to the Aston DB5 in Bond legend), looked too composed during early takes of the chase.

He promptly drafted in Roger Becker, the man sent by Lotus to deliver the car.

"I drove the car as it could be driven," says Becker, "and the second unit director said 'That's how I want it.' From there on in I was behind the wheel most of the time."

Photo: Rex Features

Timothy Dalton's Bond replaced the wit and mischief of Moore's helmsmanship, driving his Aston Martin V8 Vantage with lock-jawed precision, and joylessly deploying Q Branch's extras with the same intense deadpan as his lines. The car was out of date (it was new in 1977 - The Living Daylights came out in '87) and Dalton, in his stoic seriousness, was ahead of his time.

Photo: Rex Features

Enter Pierce Brosnan, who, like so many 40-somethings, went through an unfortunate BMW stage. The producers were keen to use the car of the moment, and, reasons stunt man Corbould, "the Pierce Brosnan films were very much made in the BMW era."

Luckily, the high-tech 750iL suited the first 007 to truly enter the digital age, and it was unapologetically tedious enough to befit the dawn of brazen product placement (the manufacturer bought a three-film deal).

The wobbly saloon was such a bad driver's car that Bond didn't bother driving it, rather controlled it via a smartphone from the rear seat. Though he did so with a smile, possibly because he knew he was about to launch it off a multi-storey car park.

Photo: Rex Features

But despite his questionable wheels, Brosnan was the only Bond to truly relish driving. Even off-duty he raced his Aston Martin DB5 against Xenia's Ferrari 355 in GoldenEye, both sharing a flirtatious cackle as they nearly smear cyclists, some hay bales and each other across the hills above Monaco (though the road that scene's filmed on is actually just north of Nice in France).

Despite his enthusiasm, Bond's speed seems to be qualified by nothing but his own bravura - he's off the racing line, twitchy and very much about to run out of talent. Not Bond driving to aspire to.

Back to Craig. As Higgins says, "he's athletic and minimal - unquestionably the Bond you should drive like." Brosnan's what you do drive like when you think you're driving like Dalton. But really, you want to drive like Moore.

He'll do everything his colleagues can - confound the henchman, dodge the missiles, get the girl (oops, sorry Lazenby), and nobody else drove a 2CV better.

Words: Matt Jones

2022: Media report on Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and their contributions to the Bond franchise over fifteen years and five films.

Duo were 'privileged' to renew 007 story

See the complete article here:

https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/entertainment/duo-were-privileged-to-renew-007-story/

October 9, 2022 12:02 pm

Purvis and Wade developed Daniel Craig's arc as Bond over fifteen years and five films [Photo Credit: BBC Entertainment]

They have written seven James Bond screenplays, including all the Daniel Craig films, and their previous collaborations date back over 20 illustrious years.

Yet Neal Purvis and Robert Wade seldom discuss in public the complex way the Bond scripts come together.

The 60th anniversary of the release of Dr No got them to open up about keeping the franchise alive – and killing Bond off.

When, in the late 1990s, the team of Purvis and Wade signed on to write The World is Not Enough, they already had a couple of successful screenplays to their credit.

However, it was their first Bond – Pierce Brosnan’s third – that lifted them to the top rank of screenwriters.

But they weren’t alone in the writing process. The film carried another writing credit too – the American writer Bruce Feirstein.

In fact, almost all their Bond screenplays have then been passed on to at least one other writer for what Purvis terms “a polish”.

Last year, with No Time to Die, Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge was on the writing credits too.

Wade adds that it can get complex. “In the case of Skyfall, John Logan came on after us and then we did a bit more again. Skyfall in particular just kept developing and it developed really well I thought.”

Any discussion with movie writers tends at some point to include the term “story arc”. Purvis and Wade faced the ultimate challenge: developing Daniel Craig’s arc as Bond over fifteen years and five films.

Purvis recalls they started work on Casino Royale when the situation paralleled how it is now: a Bond had left and a new actor was yet to be cast.

“So in that case we were writing our story with no actor in mind but from Ian Fleming’s original Casino Royale novel [published in 1953]. We wrote to his conception of the story as faithfully as we could. Daniel then inhabited the role and of course, over time we saw what Daniel could do.”

Neal Purvis (left) and Robert Wade (right) have co-written seven Bond movies [Photo Credit: BBC Entertainment]

According to Wade, it was a different experience to write from the beginning.

“In the two films we’d written for Pierce it was always essentially a continuum of what came before. The basics of character couldn’t change – he was always infallible.”

“We tried to make Pierce’s Bond more vulnerable and Pierce played it very well. But you couldn’t do a big shift in the character because you knew he’d always have to end up being James Bond. Whereas with Daniel we knew we could start developing an arc. In a way, we were starting anew.”

Purvis says dialogue scenes inevitably changed their character with Craig on board because the storyline was changing. “Daniel’s Bond could have the strength and determination and bravado that Pierce had before him. But the actual dramatic scenes were different so inevitably the dialogue moved on. As early as Casino Royale the tone changed.”

The following film, Quantum of Solace, provided a different challenge. Its title came from a Fleming short story of 1959 but otherwise, the men had to create a totally new story. The critical delight which greeted Casino Royale was not repeated.

Since its release, it has regularly been placed near the bottom end of the charts ranking all the films from the long-running franchise.

Wade says Quantum was conceived to be the second half of Casino Royale. “And then it changed during production. But it was still James Bond being completely affected by what had happened in the previous movie.”

RichardTheBruce

October 10th

1945: The Royal Navy discharges Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming.
1946: Charles Dance is born--Redditch, Worcestershire, England.

1956: Fiona Fullerton is born--Kaduna, Nigeria.

1963: London premiere of From Russia With Love at the Odeon Leicester Square.

1963: The Kinematograph Weekly grudgingly admits crowds had been gathered at the theatre since mid-day and opening day records would be bettered by From Russia With Love. It was just the beginning for that type of thing and the film triggered outright spy mania through the 60s. (Later reports say Soviet premier Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev got a copy of the film from the British embassy. And screened it. At least three times.)
1968: Comic strip The Harpies begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 June 1969. 816-1037)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=999


Swedish Semic Comic 1978 Fågelkvinnorna ("Bird Woman" - The Harpies)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Fågelkvinnorna
("The Bird Women" - The Harpies)

Swedish Semic Comic 1989
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358

Fågelkvinnorna
("The Bird Women" - The Harpies -
Part 1 | Part 2)

Danish 1970 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-19-1970/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 19: “The Harpies” (1970)
"Fuglekvinderne" [The Bird Women]

1979: Moonraker released in France.

Novelization.
https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_and_Moonraker

1985: Orson Welles dies at age --Los Angeles, California.
(Born 6 May 1915--Kenosha, Wisconsin.)

A Cocktail Recipe For
Disaster: Peter Sellers And
Orson Welles On The
Making Of Casino Royale

https://sabotagetimes.com/tv-film/a-cocktail-recipe-for-disaster-peter-sellers-and-orson-welles-on-the-making-of-casino-royale
Take one deluded producer, two huge egos, four directors, five 007s and half-a-dozen writers. Sprinkle with cash, add jokes to taste, shake, stir - and voila! Casino Royale: a cocktail recipe for disaster
Richard Luck | Updated on Nov 2, 2015

Casino Royale must have looked an appetising prospect when it went into pre-production in 1965. The Saltzman/Broccoli Bond movies had established the playboy spy as a bankable commodity, and when producer Charles Feldman signed up comic genius Peter Sellers for his film version of Fleming's novel, he doubtless thought he had a licence to print money. Rather than breaking box-office records, however, Feldman's $12 million movie would devour its budget, fail to recoup its costs and destroy careers, including his own.

But Casino Royale was cursed even before Feldman optioned it in the early '60s. CBS, who had made a US TV movie of it in 1954, passed the option on to actor-director Gregory Ratoff. He signed to make a big-screen version for Fox in 1960 - only to die before a frame was shot.

As for Feldman, his problems began the day he hired Sellers - at the time one of the biggest movie stars in the world. The impact of his performances in Dr Strangelove, in addition to the commercial success of the Pink Panther movies, elevated Sellers to a position of rare power for a comic actor. Feldman knew from experience that Sellers was a draw - the actor had helped make a hit of the producer's giddy comedy What's New Pussycat? - so he agreed to pay the former Goon a then-unheard-of $1m to play accountant and Bond imposter Evelyn Tremble.

No sooner had he agreed terms than Sellers fell out with Feldman and began to act irrationally. He insisted that the producer hire his friend, TV director Joe McGrath, and refused to appear on set with co-star Orson Welles. Many concluded that the already eccentric Sellers had gone mad, especially after he came to blows with McGrath and then fled the set - never to return.

The impact of his performances in Dr Strangelove, in addition to the commercial success of the Pink Panther movies, elevated Sellers to a position of rare power for a comic actor

Peter Sellers' walkout seemed to spell the end of Casino Royale. But rather than capitulating, Charles Feldman reverted to his original plan and set about making a truly immense movie. Out went McGrath and original writer Wolf Mankowitz; in came a string of different directors - Val Guest, John Huston, Richard Talmadge, Robert Parrish, Ken Hughes - and a raft of screenwriters that included co-stars Woody Allen and David Niven, Hollywood legend Billy Wilder and groundbreaking novelist Terry Southern .

The end result has to be one of the strangest films ever made by a Hollywood studio. The combination of Sellers' walkout and Feldman's extravagance deprived Casino Royale of anything approaching structure and transformed it into a series of unconnected sketches. Worst of all, here was a comedy almost totally devoid of laughs.

It was to be Feldman's swansong: he died of stomach cancer within a year of the film's 1967 premiere. The paranoid Peter Sellers had predicted as much. "Feldman is going to die!" he once ranted, "and the reason he'll die is so he can blame me! He'll say, 'Sellers killed me!' He'll do it to spite me!"

Charles Feldman (producer): I love the movies, always have. I like money too, but only because it lets me make the movies I want to make.

Orson Welles (actor, Le Chiffre): The movies need people like Charles Feldman: rich, jolly, generous men who're happy writing cheques.

Val Guest (director): Charlie found out that, when he bought the book, all he got was the title. Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had already used everything in the book except the baccarat game, so the whole thing had to be structured around that.

Woody Allen (actor, Jimmy Bond/Dr Noah): I was offered a lot of money and a small part. My manager said, "Why not? It could become a big movie." So I went to London. I was on a good salary and expense account. But they didn't film me for six months! I stayed in London at their expense for six months! That's only one example of how utterly wasteful the project was.

I once saw him on one phone to Peter Sellers, on a second to United Artists and on a third to the Italian government

Bryan Forbes (first-choice director): Charlie came into my life brandishing a copy of Casino Royale. He told me he wanted to have five James Bond and would guarantee me an all-star cast. "You can write it wherever you want. Do you like the south of France?" Gifts started to arrive - silk scarves, theatre tickets. Charlie was talking Monopoly money to secure my services. Every time I expressed doubts, he sweetened the deal.

Peter Sellers (actor, Evelyn Tremble): People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.

Woody Allen: Charlie was a genius. I once saw him on one phone to Peter Sellers, on a second to United Artists and on a third to the Italian government. He was a big-time charming con man and I never trusted him for a second.

Bryan Forbes: I said 'yes' to Charlie and then thought about the basic idiocies of the script. Five Bonds! That meant departing from the novel. I called one of Charlie's assistants who went into a fit on the phone. But I stuck to my guns.

Wolf Mankowitz (screenwriter): Peter Sellers was a treacherous lunatic. My advice to Feldman was not in any circumstances to get involved with Sellers. But Sellers was at his peak. I told Charlie that Sellers would fuck it all up.

Joseph McGrath (director): Feldman was glad to get Peter at any price. He'd put up the money for Sellers' insurance on What's New Pussycat? - after his heart attack, nobody would cover him.

Wolf Mankowitz: Charlie gave Sellers a Rolls Royce on the first day of shooting as a come-on.

Peter Sellers: I was offered $1 million to play Bond. I said, "You must be out of your bloody minds - what about Sean Connery?" Feldman said, "Yes, I know, but I have this book and I'm going to make it." I said, "I certainly can't play Bond!"

Wolf Mankowitz: Charlie Feldman offered Peter more and more money to play 007. In the end, the fee was so large Peter would have been mad to turn it down.

Peter Sellers: I wanted to play James Bond the way Tony Hancock would play him. But Ian Fleming's people would never have allowed it.

Wolf Mankowitz: In the end, Peter didn't play Bond. He played Evelyn Tremble. "Who's Evelyn Tremble?" everyone asked. Nobody knew. But then we didn't know who Sellers was either.

Charles Feldman: The only way to make a film with Peter is to let him direct, write and produce it as well as star in it.

Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers wanted different directors; he wanted to piss around with the script. He knew nothing about anything except doing funny faces and funny voices.

Joseph McGrath: Peter asked me if I'd be interested in directing a film he'd agreed to star in. I said, "I'd be delighted to." And that's where the trouble started.

Wolf Mankowitz: By Casino Royale, Peter Sellers was pretty well round the bend and couldn't function properly. He'd change the order of shooting. He'd be 'unavailable' or constantly change his timing, making it hard to splice material together.

Sellers was frightened of the scale of Orson - his legend, literally his weight and immensity.

Orson Welles: Sellers wasn't terribly bright, but he came on as the great actor.

Joseph McGrath: One of the problems that blew the film apart was that Orson and I got along really well. And Sellers got really annoyed. "I didn't think you and Orson would take sides against me." I said, "I'm not - but Orson thinks we can come up with some funny stuff." Sellers replied, "I'll only attempt to come up with funny stuff so long as he's not here." He was frightened of the scale of Orson - his legend, literally his weight and immensity.

Wolf Mankowitz: I'll never forget the occasion Orson and I, two rather large fellows, were in the lift. The door opened and Sellers was there. Sellers wasn't talking to Orson, and he was none too keen on me either. He wouldn't go down in the lift with us - said it wasn't safe. Orson was pissed off. "What the fuck is he talking about?" "I think he means the combined weight, Orson." "What the fuck does he weigh? Skinny as a shrimp. Looks like a shrimp, come to think of it."

Joseph McGrath: Orson didn't have the same attitude about his career as Peter did. Peter was what he did. Orson thought, I'll be here for four weeks, let's enjoy ourselves. Peter's thing was: My career is on the line.

Wolf Mankowitz: Peter was terrified of playing with Orson and converted this into an aversion for him.

Joseph McGrath: Orson would come onto the set at 9am prompt, sit down at the baccarat table and say, "So, Joe, where's our thin friend today?"

Orson Welles: Sellers was very proud of how thin he was. Apparently, he'd taken a lot of pills to help shift the weight. If you listened to him talking, you'd think it was the greatest achievement of his career.

Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers claimed Orson was surrounded by a dark aura and said it would not be healthy for him to be close to Orson. He was incredibly superstitious. He was obsessed with horoscopes, tarot cards and colours.

Peter Sellers: Green has been a superstition of mine for a long time. And purple. Vittorio De Sica told me, "My dear Peter, purple is the colour of death." And certain shades of green. The hard, acidy green is bad. I pick up strange vibrations from it. It disturbs me.

Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers was completely obsessed with royalty. He was always going on about Princess Margaret. His biggest thrill was to present people to her.

Orson Welles: The fact that Princess Margaret was stopping by every day at my house was unknown to Sellers. One day she came to the set to have lunch with Peter, or so he claimed. He couldn't wait to tell the cast and crew who he was dining with. Then she walked past him and said, "Hello, Orson, I haven't seen you for days!" That was the real end. That's when we couldn't speak lines to each other. "Orson, I haven't seen you for days!" absolutely killed him. He went white as a sheet, because he was going to present me!

Joseph McGrath: Peter and I had a fist fight in his caravan. He threw a punch and I hit him back. We got separated by Gerry Crampton, the stunt coordinator. "I love you both. I don't know who to thump first," Gerry said. Sellers and I started laughing and crying, but I said, "There's no point going on, because somebody's going to hit somebody again." And he did.

Peter Sellers: If I find myself surrounded by stupid people, I get rid of them.

Joseph McGrath: After I was fired - at Peter's request - Sellers phoned and said, "Come back! Feldman's going to give you a Rolls Royce." I said, "I don't want one." Two years later, I was in LA and Jerry Bressler, who got a credit on Casino Royale as an executive producer, pulled up in a white Coriniche. "Are you Joe McGrath?" he said. "I'm driving your Rolls Royce!"

Peter Sellers: In the end, Peter did one of his celebrated walkouts.

Ken Hughes (director): Peter stated that he was not prepared to complete the movie. Casino Royale came to a ghastly halt. Charles Feldman was left with a few scenes shot with Sellers but no movie. He had to consider closing down. But big money was involved and he decided to go ahead.

Joseph McGrath: It's hard to finish a film when you lose your star.

Ken Hughes: At a panic script meeting, it was decided that since they no longer had Sellers, they'd have to improvise. The writers were working like crazy trying to save the day. Feldman hired everyone in sight: Woody Allen, David Niven, John Huston. It was total chaos. Units were shooting in three studios. I was shooting at Shepperton, another unit was shooting at MGM. And none of us saw a completed script. I had to call the director at MGM to find out what he was shooting so I'd know how it dovetailed into what I was shooting.

Orson Welles: At the end of it, Charlie Feldman hired John Huston to direct and John moved everybody to Ireland because he wanted to go fox hunting.

Ken Hughes: The end result speaks for itself - a mish-mash that came into being because the star had walked out.

Wolf Mankowitz: The film doesn't make any sense. Because of Sellers it was cut, re-cut, screwed around with a thousand different ways.

Joseph McGrath: Peter told me years later, "I don't have a lot of friends, but I can trust you. Because we've been through hell together. You've actually faced me and thrown a punch at me. I know you won't put up with any shit.

Peter Sellers: I am not a funny man. I don't have a strong comedy personality. But even without that, you can be successful if the material is funny.

Woody Allen: I never bothered to see Casino Royale. I knew it would be horrible. The set was a madhouse. I knew then that the only way to make a film is to control it completely.

Peter Sellers: The making of that film would make an interesting film in itself.

Orson Welles (1915–1985)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/

Filmography

Actor (129 credits)

2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short) - Narrator

1987 Someone to Love - Danny's Friend
1986 The Transformers: The Movie - Unicron (voice)
1985 Moonlighting (TV Series) - Orson Welles
- The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice (1985) ... Orson Welles
1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Klingsor
1983 Hot Money - Sheriff Paisley
1981-1983 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Robin Masters
- The Big Blow (1983) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
- Birdman of Budapest (1983) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
- Double Jeopardy (1982) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
- J. "Digger" Doyle (1981) ... Robin Masters (voice)
1982 The Dreamers (Short) - Marcus Kleek
1982 Wagner e Venezia (TV Short) - Richard Wagner (voice)
1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
Aliens' Father (voice, uncredited) -
1982 Butterfly - Judge Rauch
1981 The Enchanted Journey - Pippo (voice)
1981 Tales of the Klondike (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
- Love of Life (1981) ... Narrator
- The Unexpected (1981) ... Narrator
- Scorn of Women (1981) ... Narrator
- The Race for Number One (1981) ... Narrator
- The One Thousand Dozen (1981) ... Narrator 7 episodes
1981 History of the World: Part I - Narrator (voice)
1981 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow - Narrator
1980 The Greenstone Narrated by Orson Welles (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1980 Shogun (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
- Episode #1.5 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
1980 Shogun (TV Movie) - Narrator (voice)
1980 The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla - J.P. Morgan

1979 The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (Video) - Narrator
1979 The Double McGuffin - Narrator (voice)
1979 The Muppet Movie - Lew Lord
1978 A Woman Called Moses (TV Series) - Narrator
- Episode #1.2 (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
1978 The Biggest Battle - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1977 Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1977 Some Call It Greed - Narrator (voice)
1977 It Happened One Christmas (TV Movie) - Henry F. Potter
1977 Hot Tomorrows - Parklawn Mortuary (voice)
1976 Voyage of the Damned - Jose Estedes
1975 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (TV Short) - Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
1974 Ten Little Indians - U. N. Owen / and the voice of (voice)
1973 The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles (Short) - Narrator
1973 The Battle of Sutjeska - Winston Churchill
1972 The Man Who Came to Dinner (TV Movie) - Sheridan Whiteside
1972 Treasure Island - Long John Silver
1972 Get to Know Your Rabbit - Mr. Delasandro
1972 Necromancy - Mr. Cato
1971 London (Short) - Presenter / Winston Churchill / One-Man Band / ...
1971 Malpertuis - Cassavius
1971 Freedom River (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1971 Ten Days Wonder - Théo Van Horn - un multimillionnaire qui vit en despote dans sa maison
1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Narrator (segment "Silent Snow, Secret Snow")
- The Phantom Farmhouse/Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1971) ... Narrator (segment "Silent Snow, Secret Snow") (voice)
1971 A Safe Place - The Magician
1970 The Deep - Russ Brewer
1970 Is It Always Right to Be Right? (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1970 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #4.7 (1970) ... Guest Performer
1970/I Waterloo - Louis XVIII
1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Narrator
- The Enemy Before Us (1970) ... Narrator
1970 Upon This Rock (TV Movie) - Michelangelo (voice)
1970 Catch-22 - General Dreedle
1970 Start the Revolution Without Me - The Narrator
1970 The Kremlin Letter - Bresnavitch

1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short) - Shylock
1969 To Build a Fire - Narrator (voice)
1969 The Battle of Neretva - Senator
1969 Twelve Plus One - Maurice Markau
1969 Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat - Justinian
1969 The Southern Star - Plankett
1969 Tepepa - Colonel Cascorro
1968 The Last Roman - Emperor Justinian
1968 House of Cards - Leschenhaut
1968 Oedipus the King - Tiresias
1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie) - Mr. Charles Clay
1967 I'll Never Forget What's'isname - Jonathan Lute
1967 The Sailor from Gibraltar - Louis de Mozambique
1967 Casino Royale - Le Chiffre
1966 A Man for All Seasons - Cardinal Wolsey
1966 Is Paris Burning? - Consul Raoul Nordling
1965 La isla del tesoro (Short) - Long John Silver
1965 Treasure Island (Short) - Long John Silver
1965 Chimes at Midnight - Falstaff
1965 Marco the Magnificent - Akerman, Marco's Tutor
1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Narrator (voice)
1963 The V.I.P.s - Max Buda
1963 Ro.Go.Pa.G. - The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
1962 The Trial - Albert Hastler - The Advocate / Narrator
1962 Lafayette - Benjamin Franklin
1961 King of Kings - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1961 The Tartars - Burundai
1960 The Battle of Austerlitz - Robert Fulton
1960 An Arabian Night (TV Movie) - Storyteller
1960 Crack in the Mirror - Hagolin / Lamerciere
1960 David and Goliath - King Saul

1959 High Journey (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1959 Ferry to Hong Kong - Captain Hart
1959 Compulsion - Jonathan Wilk
1958 Masters of the Congo Jungle (Documentary) - Narrator, English Language Version (voice)
1958 The Roots of Heaven - Cy Sedgewick
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
- Fountain of Youth (1958) ... Narrator
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short) - Host / narrator
1958 South Seas Adventure - Supplemental Narrator (voice)
1958 The Vikings - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1958 Touch of Evil - Police Captain Hank Quinlan
1958 The Long, Hot Summer - Will Varner
1957/I Man in the Shadow - Virgil Renchler
1956 I Love Lucy (TV Series) - Orson Welles
- Lucy Meets Orson Welles (1956) ... Orson Welles
1956 Moby Dick - Father Mapple
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) - Oscar Jaffe
- Twentieth Century (1956) ... Oscar Jaffe
1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie) - An Actor Manager / Father Mapple / Ahab
1955 Confidential Report - Gregory Arkadin
1955 Napoleon - Sir Hudson Lowe
1955 Three Cases of Murder - Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
1954 Trouble in the Glen - Sanin Cejador y Mengues
1954 Royal Affairs in Versailles - Benjamin Franklin
1953 Return to Glennascaul (Short) - Narrator / Orson Welles
1953 Omnibus (TV Series) - King Lear (segment)
- King Lear (1953) ... King Lear (segment)
1953 L'uomo la bestia e la virtù - Captain Perella - the Beast
1952 Trent's Last Case - Sigsbee Manderson
1952 The Little World of Don Camillo - Narrator (voice)
1951 Othello - Othello
1950 The Black Rose - Bayan

1949 Prince of Foxes - Cesare Borgia
1949 The Third Man - Harry Lime
1949 Black Magic - Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
1948 Macbeth - Macbeth
1947 The Lady from Shanghai - Michael O'Hara
1946 Duel in the Sun - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1946 The Stranger - Professor Charles Rankin
1946 Tomorrow Is Forever - John Andrew MacDonald / Erik Kessler
1944 Follow the Boys - Orson Welles
1943 Jane Eyre - Edward Rochester
1943 Journey Into Fear - Colonel Haki
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons - Narrator (voice)
1941 Citizen Kane - Kane
1940 Swiss Family Robinson - Opening Narrator (uncredited)
1939 The Green Goddess (Short) - Rajah / Narrator
1938 Too Much Johnson - Keystone Kop
1934 The Hearts of Age (Short) - Death
1933 Twelfth Night (Short)

Director (54 credits)

2018 The Other Side of the Wind
2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short)
1955-2000 Around the World with Orson Welles (TV Mini-Series documentary) (7 episodes)
- The Dominici Affair (2000)
- Madrid Bullfight (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Queen's Pensioners (1955) ... (uncredited)
- St. Germain des Prés (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Third Man in Vienna (1955)
2000 Moby Dick (Short)
1993 It's All True (Documentary)
1992 Don Quixote (original footage)

1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (9 episodes)
- Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986)
- Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964)
- Tempo di flamenco (1964)
- Siviglia (1964)
- Le cantine di Jerez (1964)
Show all 9 episodes
1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short)
1984 The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (Short)
1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short)
1982 The Dreamers (Short)
1981 Filming 'The Trial' (Documentary)

1979 The Orson Welles Show (TV Special) (as G.O. Spelvin)
1978 Filming 'Othello' (Documentary)
1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short)
1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
1972 Don Quixote
1971 London (Short)
1970 The Deep

1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short)
1969 The Southern Star (opening scenes, uncredited)
1968 Vienna (Short)
1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie)
1967 The Heroine
1965 Treasure Island (Short)
1965 Chimes at Midnight
1962 The Trial
1962 No Exit (uncredited)
1961 Tempo (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Art of Bullfighting/The Death of Fiction (1961)
1960 David and Goliath (his own scenes, uncredited)

1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (TV Short documentary)
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Fountain of Youth (1958)
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short)
1958 Touch of Evil
1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short)
1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie)
1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Bullfighting (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Police (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Critics (1955) ... (uncredited)
1955 Confidential Report
1955 Three Cases of Murder (segment "Lord Mountdrago", uncredited)
1951 Othello
1950 The Miracle of St. Anne (Short)

1949 Black Magic (uncredited)
1948 Macbeth
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (uncredited)
1946 The Stranger
1943 It's All True (Documentary)
1943 The Story of Samba (Short)
1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
1941 Citizen Kane

1939 The Green Goddess (Short)
1938 Too Much Johnson
1934 The Hearts of Age (Short)
1933 Twelfth Night (Short)

Writer (61 credits)

Something Else (inspired by) (filming)
2018 The Other Side of the Wind (written by)
2014 Citizen Vader (Short) (characters)
2008 F for favor (Short) (writer)
2007 The Hitchhiker (radio script - uncredited)
2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short)
2002 The Magnificent Ambersons (TV Movie) (1942 screenplay)
Around the World with Orson Welles (TV Mini-Series documentary) (1 episode, 1955) (writer - 5 episodes, 1955 - 2000) (script - 1 episode, 1955)
- The Dominici Affair (2000) ... (writer)
- Madrid Bullfight (1955) ... (script - uncredited)
- The Queen's Pensioners (1955) ... (writer - uncredited)
- St. Germain des Prés (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Third Man in Vienna (1955) ... (writer) 7 episodes
2000 Moby Dick (Short) (play)

1999 The Big Brass Ring (earlier screenplay)
1998 The Way to Santiago (Short) (writer)
1997 The Big Brass Ring (Documentary short)
1997 The Hearts of Age (Short) (concept)
1992 Don Quixote (uncredited)

1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short)
1984 The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (Short)
1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short) (written by)
1982 The Dreamers (Short) (screenplay)
1978 Filming 'Othello' (Documentary) (writer)
1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short)
1976 NBC: The First Fifty Years (TV Movie documentary)
1973 F for Fake (Documentary) (writer)
1972 Don Quixote (written by)
1972 Treasure Island (adapted for the screen by - as O. W. Jeeves)
1971 London (Short)
1970 The Deep

1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short)
1968 Vienna (Short) (writer)
1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie)
1967 The Heroine (written by)
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... (uncredited)
1965 La isla del tesoro (Short)
1965 Treasure Island (Short)
1965 Chimes at Midnight
1962 The Trial (written by)
1961 Tempo (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- The Art of Bullfighting/The Death of Fiction (1961) ... (written by)

1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (TV Short documentary)
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (teleplay - 1 episode)
- Fountain of Youth (1958) ... (teleplay)
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short)
1958 Touch of Evil (screenplay)
1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short)
1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie)
1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Bullfighting (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Police (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Critics (1955) ... (uncredited)
Show all 6 episodes
1955 Confidential Report (screenplay) / (story)
1951 Othello (uncredited)
1950 The Miracle of St. Anne (Short)

1949 Portrait of a Killer (uncredited)
1949 The Third Man (uncredited)
1948 Macbeth (adaptation - uncredited)
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (screenplay)
1947 Monsieur Verdoux (based on an idea by)
1946 The Stranger (uncredited)
1943 It's All True (Documentary) (screenplay)
1943 The Story of Samba (Short)
1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (script writer)
1941 Citizen Kane (original screen play)

1939 The Green Goddess (Short) (adaptation)
1938 Too Much Johnson (writer)
1934 The Hearts of Age (Short)
1933 Twelfth Night (Short) (writer: voice-over)

Producer (25 credits)

2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short) (producer)

1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (producer - 9 episodes)
- Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986) ... (producer)
- Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964) ... (producer)
- Tempo di flamenco (1964) ... (producer)
- Siviglia (1964) ... (producer)
- Le cantine di Jerez (1964) ... (producer)
Show all 9 episodes
1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short) (producer)
1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short) (producer)
1982 The Dreamers (Short) (producer)
1981 Filming 'The Trial' (Documentary) (producer)

1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short) (producer)
1972 Don Quixote (producer)
1970 The Deep (producer)
1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short) (producer)
1968 Vienna (Short) (producer)

1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Fountain of Youth (1958) ... (producer)
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short) (producer)
1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short) (producer)
1955 Confidential Report (producer)
1951 Othello (producer - uncredited)

1948 Macbeth (producer - uncredited)
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (producer)
1943 The Story of Samba (Short) (producer)
1943 Jane Eyre (associate producer - uncredited)
1943 Journey Into Fear (producer - uncredited)
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (producer - uncredited)
1941 Citizen Kane (production)

1939 The Green Goddess (Short) (producer)
1938 Too Much Johnson (producer)

Editor (8 credits)

2018 The Other Side of the Wind

1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (9 episodes)
- Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986)
- Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964)
- Tempo di flamenco (1964)
- Siviglia (1964)
- Le cantine di Jerez (1964) 9 episodes

1973 F for Fake (Documentary) (uncredited)
1972 Don Quixote

1967 The Heroine
1962 The Trial (uncredited)
1955 Confidential Report (uncredited)
1938 Too Much Johnson

1988: Licence to Kill films Professor Joe Butcher.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 19 of 65 - "Hostile Takeover."

James Bond Jr - Hostile Takeover

Season 1 - Episode 19
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807103/?ref_=ttep_ep19

James and his friends are forced to fight a war on the homefront when Warfield Academy's staff are mysteriously called away for a retraining program.

James Bond Jr Episode 19 - Hostile Takeover

2002: Planned release date for the "Die Another Day " single.

News Roundup: Oct. 9

http://www.hollywood.com/general/news-roundup-oct-9-57205166/

Warner Bros. Records confirms that “Die Another Day,” Madonna‘s new single and the title song for MGM’s forthcoming James Bond film, will be in stores on October 22. The song was to officially debut Oct. 10 but was leaked to radio stations last week. Launch.com reports that Madonna and members of her camp were beside themselves when the song–which they claim wasn’t even finished–aired on a pop station in New York City.

2005: John Murray publishes Secret Servant--The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg) in the UK.

2009: Michael Omara publishes Roger Moore's My Word is My Bond: The Autobiography.

One of the most recognizable big-screen stars
of the past half-century, Sir Roger Moore
played the role of James Bond longer than any other
actor. Beginning with the classic Live and Let Die,
running through Moonraker and A View to a Kill,
Moore brought his finely honed wit and wry charm
to one of Hollywood's most beloved and long-lasting
characters. Still, James Bond was only one in a
lifetime of roles stretching back to Hollywood's
studio era, and encompassing stardom in theater
and television on both sides of the Atlantic. From
The Saint to Maverick, Warner Brothers to MGM,
Hollywood to London to extreme locations the
world over, Roger Moore's story is one of the last of
the classic Hollywood lives as yet untold.

Until now. From the dying days of the studio
system and the birth of television, to the quips of
Noël Coward and David Niven, to the bedroom
scenes and outtakes from the Bond movies, Moore
has seen and heard it all. Nothing is left out --
especially the naughty bits. The "special effects" by
which James Bond unzipped a dress with a magnet;
the spectacular risks in The Spy Who Loved Me's
opening scene; and Moore's preparation for facing
down villains (he would imagine they all have
halitosis): the stories in My Word is My Bond
are priceless.

Throughout his career, Moore hobnobbed with
the glamorous and powerful, counting Elizabeth
Taylor, Jane Seymour, and Cary Grant among his
contemporaries and friends. Included are stories
of a foul-mouthed Milton Berle, a surly Richard
Burton, and a kindhearted Richard Kiel, infamous
as Bond enemy Jaws.

As much as it is Moore's own exceptional
story, My Word is My Bond is a treasure trove of
Hollywood history.

MY WORD IS MY BOND
"Guy (Hamilton) wanted to toughen up my Bond a little. I think
it's most evident in the scenes I had with Maud Adams, where I
twisted her arm and threatened -- rather coldly -- to break it unless
she told me what I wanted to know. That sort of characterisation
didn't sit easy with me, but Guy was keen to make my Bond a
little more ruthless, like Fleming's. I suggested my Bond would
have charmed the information out of her by bedding her first.
My Bond was a lover and a giggler."

RichardTheBruce

October 11th

1935: Harold Dan Meaden is born--Bournemouth, England.
(He dies 28 November 2011--Blackheath, London, England.)

Dan Meaden (1935–2011)

Actor | Director | Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574987/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t27

1963: From Russia With Love general release in the UK.

1968: LIFE magazine identifies finalists for the Bond role as Hans DeVries, Robert Campbell, John Richardson, Anthony Rogers and George Lazenby.

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Cairo, Luxor, and the pyramids in Egypt.
1979: 007: Misión espacial released in Mexico.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 20 of 65 - "Cruise to Oblivion" in Bermuda.

James Bond Jr - Cruise to Oblivion

Season 1 - Episode 20
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807097/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

During a cruise on one of Phoebe's father's ships, James runs into Goldfinger in Bermuda during his attempt to raise a sunken galleon filled with gold.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Oddjob (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 20 - Cruise to Oblivion

2006: Casino Royale soundtrack completion this day, for a November release.
2007: Roger Moore receives the 2,350th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California.

2011: Javier Bardem confirms his casting in BOND 23.
2012: A multimedia exhibition BOND by GQ opens to the public to celebrate 50 years of Bond films.
Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

multimedia exhibition

BOND by GQ

http://www.mymarka.ru/en/project/3
11 October 2012 – 20 November 2012
Solyanka State Gallery

We created this exhibition with a two-fold purpose: the 50th anniversary of the release on screen of the first film about the adventures of the most suave spy of all time, as well as the forthcoming premiere on 26 October, of the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall. The name is Bond, James Bond. Retired Royal Navy Commander, and current secret agent On Her Majesty’s Service, licensed to kill, with the number 007. Here was the darkened lair of Colonel-General Grubozaboyshikov, head of SMERSH (you can read about him in that most well-known of all Fleming’s books, From Russia with Love); this was a Soviet bunker straight out of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. In the Chocolate space there are spy accessories spanning the whole Bond legend. In the Made for Gentlemen corner the viewer found the attributes of this quintessential gentleman: three suits by Brioni which appeared in the Bond films; hats, shoes and a golden gun. And, of course, the girls: one whole wall of the gallery was given over to the girls who won Bond’s heart; on the other, vintage portraits of all the 007 stars; glossy photos taken by the legendary photographer Terry O'Neill, who has dedicated half a century of his life to Bondiana. The museum was showing the first screening of a documentary about the filming of the last part of Quantum of Solace. In addition, BOND by GQ was showing a unique collection of the titles to twenty-two of the Bond films.

Artists: Terry O’Neill, Katya Bochavar, Ivan Razumov,

Curators: Katya Bochavar, Nina Tsirkun, Alexander Pumpyanskiy, Natalia Chechel, Dmitriy Sukhodolskiy, Oksana Smirnova, Leonid Gavriliuk, Elena Kaimanova

October 10, 2012
Solyanka State Gallery | | Opening exhibition

https://in.bookmyshow.com/national-capital-region-ncr/events/james-bond-under-the-stars/ET00315338

RichardTheBruce

October 12th

1942: Daliah Lavi is born--Shavei Tzion, Israel.
(She dies 3 May 2017--Asheville, North Carolina.)

Daliah Lavi obituary

Glamorous film actor who made her name in spy spoofs of the
1960s

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/09/daliah-lavi-obituary
Ronald Bergan | Tue 9 May 2017 07.57 EDT

In the 1970s Daliah Lavi left the silver screen behind and started a new career as a singer. She was particularly popular in Germany. Photograph: Alamy

With the huge success of the James Bond film franchise, starting with Dr No in 1962, a plethora of spin-offs appeared throughout the 1960s. They followed the original recipe of exotic locales, an evil genius who wishes to take over the world, a laidback, oversexed super spy hero and a bevy of (mostly treacherous) beautiful women. Among the actors portraying the last of these was Daliah Lavi, who has died aged 74.

Almost all Lavi’s film career took place in that swinging decade during which she was most likely to be seen in miniskirt and kinky boots, or displaying her underwear. The multilingual Lavi (born in the British Mandate of Palestine) had already made several French, German, Italian and Hollywood films before she starred as a sexy double agent opposite Dean Martin in The Silencers (1966), the first of the “bosoms and bullets” Matt Helm series.

Continuing in the light-hearted parodic tone was The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966) – the title refers to a bulldog with a microphone implant – in which Lavi as a Russian princess slips into the bed of a British counterintelligence agent (Lionel Jeffries), something he has long dreamed of. Lavi, with her tongue firmly in her cheek, was one of the plethora of 007s in Casino Royale (1967) and, her dark hair in a high beehive, was an alluring and mysterious woman who runs a gambling house in London in the cold war thriller Nobody Runs Forever (1968). The run of spy spoofs ended with Some Girls Do (1969), in which she was a villain, opposing and attracting “Bulldog” Drummond (Richard Johnson).[/img]

Daliah Lavi with Dean Martin in The Silencers, 1966. Photograph: Alamy

She was born Daliah Lewinbuk in the village of Shavi Zion in what was to become Israel. Her Jewish parents, Reuben and Ruth, were Russian and German respectively. When Daliah was 10 years old, she met the Hollywood star Kirk Douglas, who was making The Juggler near the Lewinbuks’ village.

Discovering that she wanted to become a ballet dancer, Douglas arranged for her to get a scholarship to study ballet in Stockholm. However, after three yearsshe was advised to give up dancing because of low blood pressure. It was then that she switched her ambitions to acting, making her first screen appearance while still a teenager in Arne Mattsson’s The People of Hemso (1955), a Swedish production based on the August Strindberg novel.

Daliah Lavi in The Spy With a Cold Nose, 1966. Photograph: Alamy

On her return to Israel, Lavi worked as a model and starred as a femme fatale in Blazing Sand (1960), a trashy “matzo western”, in which she does an exotic dance in a nightclub, a foretaste of her later roles in campy spy movies. Then moving to Paris, and changing her surname to Lavi, which means lioness in Hebrew, she won the part of Cunégonde in Candide (1960), an update to the second world war of Voltaire’s satirical novel.

She had an uncharacteristic part in Violent Summer (Un Soir Sur La Plage, 1961) as a girl found murdered on the beach after a fleeting sexual encounter. For her role as the beautiful Italian woman causing friction between a washed-up movie star (Douglas) and a temperamental newcomer (George Hamilton) in Vincente Minnelli’s Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) – shot in Italy – Lavi won a Golden Globes award as the most promising female newcomer. One of her rare straight dramatic roles was as a young woman who brings comfort to the complex eponymous hero (Peter O’Toole) in Lord Jim (1965), Richard Brooks’s sluggish epic based on Joseph Conrad’s novel, and shot in Cambodia and Malaysia.

Daliah Lavi and Peter O’Toole in Lord Jim, 1965. Photograph: Alamy

But she had made only a slight impression in the films that preceded the spy spoofs, the exception being The Whip and the Body (1963), a gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava, the father of the Italian giallo genre. One of the fetish set pieces takes place on a beach when the cruel aristocrat (Christopher Lee) horsewhips his brother’s bride (Lavi), before they engage in sado-masochistic love play.


Daliah Lavi performing one of her biggest German hits

After a turn as a furious Mexican woman scorned by an outlaw (Yul Brynner) in the mediocre western Catlow (1971), Lavi deserted the silver screen and began a whole new career as a singer. The Israeli actor Topol had persuaded Lavi to make recordings of Hebrew songs for the BBC in 1969. She soon became one of the most popular singers in Germany, her biggest hits being Oh Wann Kommst Du? (Oh, when will you come?) and Willst Du Mit Mir Gehen? (Do you want to go with me?).

She is survived by her fourth husband, the businessman Charles Gans, and their three sons and daughter.

• Daliah Lavi (Daliah Lewinbuk), actor and singer, born 12 October 1942; died 3 May 2017

Daliah Lavi (1942–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492002/

Filmography

Actress (33 credits)

1997 Duell zu dritt (TV Series)
- Manöver des letzten Augenblicks (1997)
1991 Mrs. Harris und der Heiratsschwindler (TV Movie) - Jill Howard

1975 Hallo Peter (TV Series)
- Episode dated 28 September 1975 (1975)
1970-1973 Die Drehscheibe (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode dated 29 November 1973 (1973) ... Singer
- Episode dated 25 August 1971 (1971) ... Singer
- Episode dated 25 July 1971 (1971) ... Singer
- Episode dated 6 June 1971 (1971) ... Singer
- Episode dated 23 April 1971 (1971) ... Singer 7 episodes
1972 Sez Les (TV Series)
- Episode #5.3 (1972)
1971 Catlow - Rosita
1970 Schwarzer Peter (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode #1.2 (1970) ... Singer

1969 Some Girls Do - Helga
1968 The High Commissioner - Maria Cholon
1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools - Madelaine
1967 Casino Royale - The Detainer (007)
1966 The Spy with a Cold Nose - Princess Natasha Romanova
1966 The Silencers - Tina
1965 Ten Little Indians - Ilona Bergen
1965 Shots in 3/4 Time - Irina Badoni
1965 La Celestina - The Girl
1965 They're Too Much - Lolita, Charly's Step-sister
1964 Cyrano et d'Artagnan - Marion de l'Orme (as Dalhia Lavi)
1964 Old Shatterhand - Paloma
1963 Das große Liebesspiel - Sekretärin
1963 The Whip and the Body - Nevenka
1963 The Demon - Purificata
1962 Black-White-Red Four Poster - Germaine
1962 Two Weeks in Another Town - Veronica (as Dahlia Lavi)
1961 Le jeu de la vérité - Gisèle Palerse
1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse - Maria Sabrehm
1961 Le puits aux trois vérités (uncredited)
1961 No Time for Ecstasy - Nathalie Conrad
1961 Violent Summer - Marie
1960 Candide - Cunégonde (as Dahlia Lavi)
1960 Blazing Sand

1955 The People of Hemso - Professor's Daughter

Soundtrack (6 credits)

2014 Tito's Glasses (Documentary) (performer: "Willst Du mit mir geh'n")
2010 Cindy Does Not Love Me (performer: "Willst du mit mir geh'n" (Original: "Would you follow me"))
2002 Richtung Zukunft durch die Nacht (performer: "Oh, wann kommst du?")
1996 Tohuwabohu (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Beweisstück 30 (1996) ... (performer: "Oh, wann kommst du?" - uncredited)
1973 Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Messe (1973) ... (performer: "Wär' ich ein Buch", "Auf 'ner Messe als antik" - uncredited)
1971 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1 (1971) ... (performer: "Wer hat mein Lied so zerstört" - uncredited)

Thanks (1 credit)

2008 The Making of 'Casino Royale' (Video documentary) (special thanks)

1962: Dr. No released in Ireland.

1965: The Daily Gleaner in Kingston reports another author may continue to write Bond novels post-Fleming.

To continue Bond series

See the complete article here:

https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner-oct-12-1965-p-7/

By LONDONER

LONDON:
ON the day that the very
last lames Bond story writ-
ten by the late Ian Fleming
begins to appear in the Daily
Express, there is word that a
new author is being consider-
ed to carry on the Bond saga.

He is none other that Mr.
Kingsley Amis, author of
Lucky Jim, That Uncertain
Feeling, and also more recent-
ly of The James Bond Dos-
sier, a detailed study of Flem-
ing's creation.

Negotiations are still in a
relatively early stage, says
Ian Fleming's agent,
Peter Janson-Smith: decision
has been made yet. The es-
tate is a very complex busi-
ness and there are. Lots of peo-
pie involved."

And Kingsley Amis himself
will only say: "I was ap-
proached three or four
months ago but have heard
nothing about the plan since.
I suppose it would be a rather
frightening thing to do. One
would have a great sense of
responsibility to the readers,
but I think it would be great
fun all the same."

One intriguing aspect of
this proposal is that the new
Bond series should be written
under a pseudonym! Someone
who has heard a whisper of
the royalties being offered
for this work suggests that
the best pseudonym would be
"Lucky Jim."

But I doubt if Mr. Amis
would agree. So I offer a fiver
for the best suggestions on a
postcard that I receive by
first post on Wednesday.

--Express

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films OO7 chased by Jaws through the pyramids.
1977: L'espion qui m'aimait released in France.

1983: The Ian Fleming Estate supported by MGM/UA and Danjaq file an injunction to block the release of Never Say Never Again in England. (It's later rejected by the lower court plus the court of appeals.)

2006: AOL Music says Chris Cornell was inspired by Tom Jones and "Thunderball".

CHRIS CORNELL Inspired By TOM JONES For
JAMES BOND Theme

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/chris-cornell-inspired-by-tom-jones-for-james-bond-theme/
October 12, 2006

AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell recently told AOL Music that being asked to do the theme song for a James Bond movie is both a great honor and responsibility. "The Bond soundtrack song is different than any other movie you're going to write a song for, because it's steeped in lore," explained Cornell. "It's part of the tradition of the franchise."

Cornell, who has the distinction of doing "You Know My Name", the main song from the upcoming "Casino Royale", told AOL Music he understood the significance in large part because of Paul McCartney. "If you would've told me when I was 10, the first time I heard 'Live and Let Die', being a huge BEATLES and Paul McCartney fan, that I would be doing the song for the 21st James Bond film — imagining that is a fantasy," he said.

But it was another U.K. icon whom Cornell looked to for inspiration in recording "You Know My Name". He says he was thinking about Tom Jones' over-the-top singing style when someone mentioned that Jones actually did a Bond theme.

"So I heard his version of the song 'Thunderball'," Cornell said. "It's kind of a funny song. The words are about a secret agent. His voice is incredible. The band sounds small and thin, and it's Tom Jones singing, so his voice sounds enormous."

2012: Christie's reports the James Bond 50th anniversary combined online auction plus in-house party auction raised $2.6 million/€2,000,000 for charity.

James Bond auction raises $2.6 million

https://nation.com.pk/12-Oct-2012/james-bond-auction-raises-2-6-million

LONDON (AFP) - A London sale of James Bond souvenirs to mark the secret agent’s 50th silver-screen anniversary has raised over $2.6 million (two million euros), Christie’s auction house said Wednesday.

Buyers from 42 countries took part in the auction with all proceeds going to a charity.

The auction took place in two stages, firstly online from September 28 to October 8, and secondly during a party at Christie’s auction house on Friday.

Notable guests included actor Roger Moore, who played the famous agent on the big screen, and Judi Dench, who appears in Skyfall, the saga’s latest installment which is released on October 24. Many of the objects on offer were supplied by Eon Productions, the British company that has produced the Bond films.

The highlight of the collection was the Aston Martin DBS driven by Daniel Craig, the current Bond, in the opening scene of “Quantum of Solace” (2008), during an Italian car chase.

The car, estimated pre-auction at between $160,000 and $240,000, finally went under the hammer for $390,101.

The titanium Omega watch worn by Craig in Skyfall sold for $250,000 euros while his Tom Ford tuxedo was snapped up for $75,000.

2015: Daniel Craig visits Cyprus in his role as United Nations advocate against the use of land mines.

Entertainment News

UK actor Craig drops Bond killer
role to see mines in Cyprus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-entertainment-craig-landmines/uk-actor-craig-drops-bond-killer-role-to-see-mines-in-cyprus-idUSKCN0S71J620151013
October 13, 2015

British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.

Entertainment News October 13, 2015 / 10:31 AM / 3 years ago UK actor Craig drops Bond killer role to see mines in Cyprus 2 Min Read NICOSIA (Reuters) - His James Bond character might blow things up and kill for a living, but actor Daniel Craig was in Cyprus on Tuesday to see first hand the perils of unexploded ordnance littering the ethnically-split island. British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases Hammerhead #1.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #1
(OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272201011
Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
Cover B: Robert Hack
Cover C: Ron Salas
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: October 2016
Format: Comic Book | Page Count: 32 Pages | ON SALE DATE: 10/12

Bond is assigned to hunt down and eliminate Kraken, a radical anti-capitalist who has targeted Britain's newly-upgraded nuclear arsenal. But all is not as it seems. Hidden forces are plotting to rebuild the faded glory of the once-mighty British Empire, and retake by force what was consigned to history. 007 is a cog in their deadly machine - but is he an agent of change, or an agent of the status quo? Loyalties will be broken, allegiances challenged. But in an ever-changing world, there's one man you can rely on: Bond. James Bond.

2022: Conversations With the Past: Talking About James Bond, Route 9 & Me at Glens Falls, New York.

Conversations With the Past: Talking About
James Bond, Route 9 & Me

See the complete article here:

https://www.glensfalls.com/event/james-bond-route-9-234048/

woman on scooter
Hosted By: Chapman Museum
When: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022 7:00 PM
Where: The Chapman Museum, 348 Glen Street Glens Falls, NY 12801
Phone:(518) 793-2826

Frieda Toth recreated the route of a Bond girl, going by motor scooter from the Canadian border to Lake George. It’s true! A Bond girl was in Lake George, where she and James Bond, 007, tackled some baddies at a motel near Storytown. Find out all about this on October 12.

This program requires a reservation. To register, please call (518) 793-2826.

Earlier account
https://literary007.com/2021/11/28/viv-and-let-die-route-9-and-me/

RichardTheBruce

October 13th

1923: Cyril Leonard Shaps is born--London, England.
(He dies 1 January 2003 at age 79--London, England.)

Cyril Shaps (1923–2003)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788670/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Actor

The son of a tailor, Cyril studied at the London School of Broadcasting aged 12 years. His first professional appearance, at 12, came on Radio Lyons and Radio Luxembourg in such commercials as O.K. Sauce and Quaker Oats. After demob from the Army, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art which was followed by Guildford rep and the West End. He worked in Hollywood for two years with Radio Netherland as English announcer, scriptwriter and producer of programmes. Then came BBC Radio Drama Rep. for two years (1952 - 54). Cyril, whose forebearers were Polish, was the father of three children, Michael, Simon and Sarah.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary P. Rose

1960: Richard Sammel is born--Heidelberg, Germany.
1968: EON announce Diana Rigg as the lead female role of Teresa di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

1972: Live and Let Die films a boat chase on the Irish Bayou, Louisiana.

1997: Sony Pictures Entertainment Company and partner Kevin McClory announce their plan to remake Thunderball. Again. Rumored title: Warhead 2000.

2008: Benjamin Pratt's book Ian Fleming's Seven Deadlier Sins & 007's Moral Compass published in paperback.

2009: Sir Ken Adam appears on In Conversation with Shumon Basar.

ADAM, Sir Ken
'In Conversation' with Sir Ken Adam

https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1163

Series:
Date: Tuesday 13 October 2009
Time: 15:01
Venue:
Running time: 71 mins

Sir Ken Adam is one of the most important production designers of the 20th century. In this illustrated conversation with AACP Director Shumon Basar, Adam will discuss highlights from an extraordinary career stretching back over 60 years: the transition from architecture to film, the origins of his iconic James Bond sets and the unique relationship he developed with legendary director Stanley Kubrick.

Sir Ken Adam (b. 1921) originally trained in architecture and interior design. In 1962 he designed the first James Bond film, Dr No, and six subsequent Bonds until Moonraker in 1979. Adam’s design for the war room in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1962) became an icon of Cold War paranoia, and his minutely detailed period sets for Barry Lyndon (1974) and The Madness of King George (1994) both earned him Academy Awards.

All lectures are open to members of the public, staff and students unless otherwise stated.

2021: Last day for Rocket League 007's Aston Martin Valhalla.

Aston Martin Valhalla Rushes Into Rocket
League

See the complete article here:

https://www.rocketleague.com/news/aston-martin-valhalla-rushes-into-rocket-league/

October 5, 2021 Max Parker Announcements

A new mission calls for a new car, and this one is equipped to take the pitch by storm. The new 007's Aston Martin Valhalla supercar will make its way in Rocket League starting October 7!

007's Aston Martin Valhalla, a marvel of British engineering, features a sophisticated design with a mid-engined 950PS gasoline/battery electric powertrain, making it the first hybrid vehicle in Rocket League! Check out this sleek supercar in the trailer above. The car, which has a Dominus Hitbox, comes with a Reel Life Decal specific to 007's Aston Martin Valhalla, a unique Engine Audio, and its own signature Wheels. Add it to your inventory for 1100 Credits

*Note: The items included in the bundle can only be equipped by 007's Aston Martin Valhalla. 007's Aston Martin Valhalla cannot be customized with all item types.

To celebrate James Bond's return to Rocket League, pay close attention to three in-game Challenges, each with its own 007-themed reward. Complete these Challenges, and unlock the 007’s Aston Martin DB5 Player Banner, Agent 007 Avatar Border, and the "00 Agent" Player Title.

And, for any agents who failed the previous mission, 007’s Aston Martin DB5 will return to the Item Shop on the same day, and will be offered in a complete Bond 007 Collection that includes both cars and their additional items for 2000 Credits.

Rocket League will also host a special Agent vs. Villains event on our Twitch channel featuring personalities from the community! Stay laser focused on our Twitter account for more details about who will be on each side!

Get 007's Aston Martin Valhalla on October 7 through October 13. Be careful out there, agents!

Rocket League - Aston Martin Valhalla de No Time To Die

2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Himeros #1.
Antonio Fuso, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230301011

Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
Cover B: Butch Guice
Cover C: Blank Authentix
Writer: Rodney Barnes
Artist: Antonio Fuso
Genre: Spy/Fiction, Action/Adventure
Publication Date: October 2021
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 10/13/2021

Himeros is the Greek God of sexual desire and one of the Erotes, the winged gods of love. When Aphrodite was born from the sea-foams she was greeted by the twin loves Eros and Himeros.

But when sexual desire goes too far, it takes the legendary super-spy James Bond to bring justice to the most vulnerable among us as he investigates the suspicious death of an accused sex trafficker - one whose ties run deep... and deadly.

Writer Rodney Barnes make his Dynamite 007 debut in this special series, featuring art by returning Bond superstar artist Antonio Fuso and two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and Jackson "Butch" Guice!

• Created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952.
• The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964.
• There have been twenty-seven films in total, produced between 1962 and 2021.
• Rodney Barnes is an American screenwriter and producer. Barnes has written and produced The Boondocks, My Wife and Kids, Everybody Hates Chris, Those Who Can't, Marvel's Runaways, American Gods, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, and is currently an executive producer/writer on HBO's Untitled Los Angeles Lakers drama.

RichardTheBruce

October 14th

1927: Roger Moore is born--Stockwell, London.
(He dies 23 May 2017 at age 89--Crans-Montana, Mollens, Valais, Switzerland.)

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class, Biography, 1995.

Roger Moore (I) (1927–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000549/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (97 credits)

Astrid Silverlock (filming) - Narrator (voice)
Troll Hunters (filming) - Leif (voice)
2017 The Saint (TV Movie) - Jasper
2016/I The Carer - Roger Moore
2015 GivingTales (Video Game)
Narrator - The Princess and the Pea; The Steadfast Tin Soldier (voice, as Sir Roger Moore)
2014 The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (TV Series) - Sir Roger Moore
- The Day of the Triffids (2014) ... Sir Roger Moore (as Sir Roger Moore)
2013 Incompatibles - Roger Moore
2011 A Princess for Christmas (TV Movie) - Edward Duke of Castlebury
2011 The Lighter (Short) - George Boreman (voice)
2010 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Tab Lazenby (voice)

2009 De vilde svaner - Archbishop (voice)
2008 Agent Crush - Burt Gasket (voice)
2005 Foley & McColl: This Way Up (TV Short) - Butler (as Sir Roger Moore)
2005 Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (Video) - January Q. Irontail (voice)
2004 The Fly Who Loved Me (Short) - Father Christmas (voice, as Sir Roger Moore)
2002 Boat Trip - Lloyd Faversham
2002 Tatort (TV Series) - Celebrity actor
- Schatten (2002) ... Celebrity actor
2002 On Our Own Vesna - Roger Moore
2002 Alias (TV Series) - Edward Poole
- The Prophecy (2002) ... Edward Poole
2001 The Enemy - Supt. Robert Ogilvie

1999 The Dream Team (TV Series) - Desmond Heath
- El Conquistador (1999) ... Desmond Heath
- Diplomatic Immunity (1999) ... Desmond Heath
- Merchant of Death (1999) ... Desmond Heath
- The Team (1999) ... Desmond Heath
1997 Spice World - Chief
1997 The Saint - Car Radio Announcer (voice)
1996 The Quest - Lord Edgar Dobbs
1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (TV Movie) - Thomas Grace / Inspector Fulbright
1993 Stakka Bo: Living It Up (Video short)
1991 Bed & Breakfast - Adam
1990 Bullseye! - Gerald Bradley-Smith / Sir John Bavistock
1990 Fire, Ice & Dynamite - Sir George

1987 The Magic Snowman - Lumi Ukko, the Snowman (voice)
1985 A View to a Kill - James Bond
1984 The Naked Face - Dr. Judd Stevens
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (as Turk Thrust II)
1983 Octopussy - James Bond
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
1981 The Cannonball Run - Seymour
1980 Sunday Lovers - Harry Lindon (segment "An Englishman's Home")
1980 The Sea Wolves - Captain Gavin Stewart
1980 ffolkes - Ffolkes

1979 Moonraker - James Bond
1979 Escape to Athena - Major Otto Hecht
1978 The Wild Geese - Lt. Shawn Fynn
1977-1978 Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #1.6 (1978) ... Guest Performer
- Episode #1.4 (1977) ... Guest Performer
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Guest Performer
- Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Guest Performer
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - James Bond
1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV Movie) - Sherlock Holmes
1976 Shout at the Devil - Sebastian Oldsmith
1976 Street People - Ulisse
1975 That Lucky Touch - Michael Scott
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - James Bond
1974 Gold - Rod Slater
1973 Live and Let Die - James Bond
1971-1972 The Persuaders! (TV Series)
Lord Brett Sinclair / The General / The Admiral / ...
- Read and Destroy (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
- Nuisance Value (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
- A Death in the Family (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair / The General / The Admiral / ...
- Element of Risk (1971) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
- The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
... 24 episodes
1970 The Man Who Haunted Himself - Pelham
1969-1970 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #3.16 (1970) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)
- Episode #3.13 (1969) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)

1969 Crossplot - Gary Fenn
1962-1969 The Saint (TV Series) - Simon Templar
- The World Beater (1969) ... Simon Templar
- Portrait of Brenda (1969) ... Simon Templar
- The Man Who Gambled with Life (1969) ... Simon Templar
- The Ex-King of Diamonds (1969) ... Simon Templar
- Vendetta for the Saint: Part 2 (1969) ... Simon Templar
...118 episodes
1969 Vendetta for the Saint - Simon Templar
1968 The Fiction-Makers - The Saint
1965 The Trials of O'Brien (TV Series) - Roger Taney
- What Can Go Wrong (1965) ... Roger Taney
1962 No Man's Land - Enzo Prati
1961 Romulus and the Sabines - Romulus
1961 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) - 14 Karat John
- Right Off the Boat: Part 2 (1961) ... 14 Karat John
- Right Off the Boat: Part 1 (1961) ... 14 Karat John
1959-1961 Maverick (TV Series) - Beauregarde Maverick / John Vandergelt
- Red Dog (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- Flood's Folly (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- Diamond Flush (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- Dutchman's Gold (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- The Cactus Switch (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
...
1959-1961 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series)
Roger Moore / Radio Announcer
- Tiger by the Tail (1961) ... Roger Moore
- Vacation with Pay (1959) ... Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
1961 Gold of the Seven Saints
Shaun Garrett
1961 The Sins of Rachel Cade - Paul Wilton
1959-1960 The Alaskans (TV Series) - Silky Harris
- The Devil Made Fire (1960) ... Silky Harris
- The Ballad of Whitehorse (1960) ... Silky Harris
- White Vengeance (1960) ... Silky Harris
- Sign of the Kodiak (1960) ... Silky Harris
- Calico (1960) ... Silky Harris
...

1959 The Miracle - Captain Michael Stuart
1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Inspector Benson
- The Avon Emeralds (1959) ... Inspector Benson
1959 The Third Man (TV Series) - Jimmy Simms
- The Angry Young Man (1959) ... Jimmy Simms
1958-1959 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe / Trumper
- The Devil's Dungeon (1959) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Circus (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Fledgling (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Princess (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Swindler (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
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1957 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) - Old Man / Randolph Churchill
- Avenging of Anne Leete (1957) ... Old Man
- The Remarkable Mr. Jerome (1957) ... Randolph Churchill
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1957)
1957 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Gavin
- The Taggart Light (1957) ... Gavin
1957 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Legionnaire Paul Harding
- The Richest Man in the Legion (1957) ... Legionnaire Paul Harding
1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series) - Patrick Simmons
- A Murder Is Announced (1956) ... Patrick Simmons
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) - Billy Mitchell
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... Billy Mitchell
1956 Diane - Prince Henri
1955 The King's Thief - Jack
1955 Interrupted Melody
Cyril Lawrence
1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris - Paul
1954 The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series)
- Black Chiffon (1954)
1953 Black Chiffon (TV Movie)
1953 Julius Caesar (TV Movie)
1953 The Clay of Kings (TV Movie) - Josiah Wedgwood
1953 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - French Diplomat
- The Wind Cannot Read (1953)
- World by the Tail (1953) ... French Diplomat
1951 Honeymoon Deferred - Ornithologist on a Train (uncredited)
1951 One Wild Oat - Man Watching Elevator Repair (uncredited)
1950 Drawing-Room Detective (TV Movie)

1949 The Interrupted Journey - Soldier in Paddington Café (uncredited)
1949 The Gay Lady - Stage Door Johnny (uncredited)
1949 Paper Orchid - Bit Part
1949 A House in the Square (TV Movie) - John Anstruther
1949 The Governess (TV Movie) - Bob Drew
1946 Piccadilly Incident - Guest Sitting at Pearson's Table (uncredited)
1946 Showtime - Member of the Audience (uncredited)
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra - Roman Soldier (uncredited)
1945 Vacation from Marriage - Soldier (uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
2017 And the Winner Isn't (Documentary) (additional filming)
1971-1972 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (clothes - 24 episodes)
- Read and Destroy (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- Nuisance Value (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- A Death in the Family (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- Element of Risk (1971) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
...

Producer (12 credits)
2017 The Saint (TV Movie) (co-producer)
1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1991 Bed & Breakfast (producer - uncredited)
1987 CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
- The Saint in Manhattan (1987) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) (producer - uncredited)
1975 Hugo the Hippo (executive producer - uncredited)
1973 Night Watch (executive producer - uncredited)
1973 A Touch of Class (executive producer - uncredited)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
- Overture (1971) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
1969 Crossplot (co-producer - uncredited)
1969 The Saint (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
- Vendetta for the Saint: Part 1 (1969) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
1968 The Fiction-Makers (co-producer - uncredited)

Director (2 credits)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- The Long Goodbye (1971) ... (directed by)
- The Time and the Place (1971) ... (directed by)
1964-1968 The Saint (TV Series) (9 episodes)
- Where the Money Is (1968)
- Invitation to Danger (1968)
- Escape Route (1966)
- The House on Dragon's Rock (1966)
- The Old Treasure Story (1965)

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1980 The Muppet Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Roger Moore (1980) ... (performer: "Talk to the Animals" - uncredited)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Greensleeves (1971) ... (performer: "Greensleeves" - uncredited)

Writer (1 credit)

1962 The Saint (TV Series) (uncredited)

1959: Ian Fleming writes Ivar Bryce about Kevin McClory with budget concerns.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

With the financial aspects of the production under such serious
discussion, once again Fleming raised doubts over McClory. Not his
inexperience this time, but whether he would be able to keep proper rein on
the budget. He wrote Bryce 14 October: "There's a great difference between
the sorf of Bobo Commando (meaning McClory) that has been running
hitherto and the hard working, professional units like the Boulting Brothers
and such like who get down to work on tight schedules and simply have to
stick to their budget. I think such a unit might be got together under Kevin,
but I regard it as absolutely essential that you should sit over his head
be prepared to command the team."

For some time now Fleming had grown concerned about his friend
ploughing money into a film whose script hadn't even been written yet, and
that he really ought to take a tougher stance. "You will have to be a fairly firm
hand on top of the whole thing and not just a horn of plenty paying the bills."

Again, McClory saw this kind of intervention as Fleming "obviously using
his influence upon Bryce, my co-partner, gradually to edge me out of the
projected company and the partnership."

1966: LIFE publishes Ian Fleming Part 2 - James Bond is Born.

1971: De Rusia Con Amour re-released in Argentina.

1975: James Bond comic strip Till Death Do Us Apart ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 7 July 1975 - October 14, 1975 2898-2983) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




http://www.impulsegamer.com/james-bond-omnibus-005-review/


Swedish Semic Comic 1977
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Kontraspionaget Slår Till: Intrig På Balkan!
(Till Death Do Us Part)

Danish 1978 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no45-1978/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 45: “Till Death Do Us Part” (1978)
"Ballade på Balkan" [Trouble in the Balkan]

1980: Ben Whishaw is born--Clifton, Bedfordshire, England.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 21 of 65 - "A Race Against Disaster" at Le Mans, France.

James Bond Jr - A Race Against Disaster

Season - Episode 21
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807280/?ref_=ttep_ep21

Doctor Derange uses the 24-hour race at Le Mans, France, as a cover for a daring plutonium theft from a nearby nuclear facility.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 21 - A Race Against Disaster

1997: Studio head John Calley announces that Sony Pictures Entertainment division, Columbia Pictures, plans its own James Bond motion picture franchise using Kevin McClory's rights to film Thunderball. They plan a 1999 release date, McClory producing.

Bond vs. Bond?

See the complete article here:

October 14, 1997: 9:10 p.m. ET

Sony inks deal to produce Bond films, leaving MGM threatening a lawsuit

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - In the midst of going public, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is threatening to file suit against Sony Pictures Entertainment over the claim to James Bond -- one of the most successful film series in history.

Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures late Monday said it has entered into an agreement with producer/director Kevin McClory and his company, Spectre Associates Inc., to make a series of new James Bond feature films. McClory wrote the original screenplays which were made into "Thunderball" in 1965 and "Never Say Never Again" in 1983.

"We're evaluating options including legal action," said Craig Parsons, a spokesman for MGM, which has owned the rights to the James Bond franchise since 1962. (3.56M QuickTime movie)

MGM has hired entertainment lawyer Pierce O'Donnell to advise the company as legal counsel, Parsons told CNNfn.

Sony's announcement comes at a particularly sensitive time for MGM, which filed a $250 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 11.

The legendary motion-picture studio is hoping to peg the success of the IPO with publicity surrounding the upcoming December release of the 18th edition of the James Bond franchise, "Tomorrow Never Dies."

Indeed, MGM's dependence on Bond films and their producer, Danjaq LLC, is highlighted in the "Risk Factors" portion of its S-1 IPO filing.

Because of the public offering, MGM is restricted from commenting on material issues. But the so-called "quiet period" still isn't keeping down MGM Chairman and Chief Executive Frank Mancuso, who termed McClory's claim to the Bond franchise "delusional."

"Kevin McClory's claims of ownership of rights to James Bond have been disputed for over 10 years," Mancuso said in a written statement. "We hope that Sony has not been duped by Mr. McClory's deception. Today, more than ever, we will vigorously pursue all means to protect this valued franchise."

To date, Bond films have recorded worldwide gross ticket receipts of $3 billion.
-- Robert Liu

2005: Official announcement introduces Daniel Craig as the sixth actor to play Bond for EON at naval training facility HMS President on the Thames.

Craig crowned as new James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.screendaily.com/craig-crowned-as-new-james-bond/4024739.article

By Robert Mitchell13 October 2005 [Event happened on the 14th]

After taking $3.6bn worldwide, 43 years, 20 films, 58 girls and 18 Martinis, James Bond has a sixth face - English actor Daniel Craig.

The 37-year-oldactor was officially announced as the new James Bond today at a London news conference held at HMS President, a naval training facility, on the River Thames.

Craig arrived at the venue on a speedboat. "it's a huge challenge and life is about challenges. It's an iconic figure in movie history and these things don't come along very often," he said.

Craig will take on the world famous role in Casino Royale, due for worldwide release through Sony Pictures from November 2006. The film is based on author Ian Fleming's first Bond title, the only Bond book never adapted by producer Cubby Broccoli and the first film since 1987's The Living Daylights to be based on work originated by Fleming.

Only the second English Bond (after Roger Moore, the actor who remained in the role longest with seven official films) Craig has been building his international profile with lead supporting roles in films such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Road To Perdition (2002). He will also be seen in Steven Spielberg's Munich at the end of this year. He has also seen critical acclaim in recent years from a variety of leads in British films including The Mother, Sylvia, Enduring Love and Layer Cake.

Director Martin Campbell will return to the Bond helm with Casino Royale for the first time since introducing Pierce Brosnan to the role with 1995's Goldeneye. [sic]

2009: Entertainment Weekly ranks James Bond #1 of ”The 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture” claiming “Without 007, the action-hero genre as we know it would not exist.”

2012: "Skyfall" rises to #2 on the UK Singles Chart, tying "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran for Bond theme success.
2019: Tristan Rutherford writes about "007 on the Silver Meteor" in The Daily Telegraph.

Rutherford & Tomasetti Travel Writers

007 on the Silver Meteor, by Tristan Rutherford

See the complete article here:

https://www.rutherfordtomasetti.com/james-bond-silver-meteor-telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/rail-journeys/new-york-to-miami-silver-meteor/

Daily Telegraph, 13 October 2019

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New York is the starting point of the iconic Silver Meteor train Credit: Getty

In 1943 an Allied conference was planned in Kingston, Jamaica to assuage Nazi U-boat threats to the Caribbean. In attendance was Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Ian Fleming. The trip so inspired Fleming that the ‘Train Of Tomorrow’ that carried him from New York to the Jamaica-bound aircraft in Florida featured in several Bond novels: the Silver Meteor.

Fleming would still recognise the gunmetal grey leviathan. Like an endless airstream, today’s Silver Meteor is taller, broader, longer and stronger than any European train. Its double-diesels hum in readiness to thwack the 1,389 miles down to the Miami sun. The 28-hour route allows for holiday stops in 33 cities across 11 states. My wife and I booked with Great Rail Journeys - but tickets for Bond and escaping siren Solitaire were sorted by Felix Leiter: “Pennsylvania Station. Track 14. Very luxurious. Car 245. Compartment H. Ticket’ll be in the name of Mr and Mrs Bryce.”

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The Silver Meteor is celebrating 80 years in service Credit: Getty

Our Silver Meteor sways out of New York’s Penn Station like a dancing heavyweight. Skyscrapers are obscured by cloud. Interstates ribbon like ticker tape. We charge through a backdrop of Americana with a pummelling gait. Baseball diamonds. School buses. Marshalling yards (“Freight Can’t Wait”). Junk crushers (“New York Collision Center”). There’s Republican and Democrat. Anti-Trump signs and stars’n’stripes. Clapperboard houses and lonely ghettos. Black and white. Rich and poor. The train bolts undescrimatingly through it all.

Every 10 miles brings the continent a day forward: there’s more sunshades and less jackets as we plough relentlessly south. A pageant of boats paddle in the Susquehanna River after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Atlantic-going yachts ply the lakes near Wilmington, Delaware. Fortunately Amtrak’s Viewliner bedrooms offer panoramic windows. Plus ensuite showers, a double-bed day sofa and another single that unfolds from the roof.

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The Susquehanna river is visible from the train's panoramic windows Credit: Getty

Our cabin attendant introduces herself and unclips the swing-out armchair. “There’s coffee and apple juice in the hall, y’all.” The dining car forms a glass frame around a green and pleasant Maryland. The glorious thing is that the Silver Meteor’s route is far lengthier than board-at-night, disembark-at-dawn European sleepers. That means we have hours to tuck in.

Better still, cabin passengers like us eat for free. There's black angus steak grilled under a flat iron. A Norwegian salmon with rice pilaf. Sadly all is served with plastic forks on plastic plates. Boldly named portraits of other Amtrak greats line the dining car, summoning a bygone era of railroad style (The Southwest Chief to Albuquerque and Flagstaff; The Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle).

Outside street signs spotlight the quickening night. “We Pay Cash”. “Kennys Gym”. “Mason-Dixon Line.” Sunset ushers last drinks. In a 1955 postcard of theSilver Meteor the lounge complement is all caucasion, barring an African-American waiter. Now an entire continent offers reasons to railroad along the Eastern Seaboard. There’s the lady from Wilmington with airplane phobia. The family decamping to Jacksonville with 50kg of luggage - each. Plus a Mormon couple on a proselytising mission south. Two single travellers, of differing race and sex, mix over $16.50 half-bottles of Californian Merlot.

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Menu in the Silver Meteor's dining car Credit: Getty

Yet outside a blood red sky reflects into the Potomac River at Washington, DC. This ring of fire encircles the Capitol Building, home of the US Congress, as if its divisive politics seethe from within. During the 20-minute stretch-your-legs stop at DC’s beaux-arts Union Station it’s tempting to stroll to the National Mall. Equally alluring are the crisp sheets of our freshly made double bed, towards Richmond, Virginia - where a cigarette break is scheduled in Philip Morris country.

Now the Silver Meteor snorts and fumes like a mustang. The sleeping cars buck and rattle with an untamed fury that would put a Deutsche Bahn techniker off his bratwurst. The water in our washbasin swings like the Bay of Biscay. We need earplugs too. But the thumping rattle rings with the vivid dreams of a thousand other occupants as we gun past Selma, Fayetteville and into the Deep South. Like 007, aboard the fictionalised Silver Phantom in Live and Let Die, we sleep deeply: “The great train snaked on through the dark...the long shaft of its single searchlight ripping the black calico of the night.”

Service at the brand new Amtrak terminus at Charleston, South Carolina, is suffused by languorous Deep South fug. It’s one of two stops we’ve planned enroute to Miami. Speech here is slower. Highfalutin’ manners and blasphemous cusses are best left in New York. Grammar at our breakfast diner is questionable: “Employees Must “Wash Hands” Before Returning To Work”. But our breakfast of chicken and waffles and coffee-rubbed bacon, served by the team of Leslee, Bree, Raquel and Cheree, is a Southern classic.

Named after Charles II of England, this Atlantic city is one of America’s oldest and most gorgeous. A House Museums tour with the Historic Charleston Foundation showcases preserved anglo-tropical mansions - alongside garden yields that include a pipe from Cornwall, a plate from the Potteries and a 6-pound cannonball from the Royal Navy. Among the finest pre-Civil War mansions is the Aiken-Rhett House, former home of William Aiken Jr, a Governor of South Carolina. His papa, William Aiken, laid the city’s wealthy foundations by building America’s first steam powered, scheduled passenger train here in 1833. Although like much else the Charleston track was built using slave labour; between one-half and two-thirds of African slaves entered the United States via Charleston’s port.

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Charleston Credit: Getty

The following morning early birds commute one state south to Savannah, Georgia. The Silver Meteor’s café car - as opposed to the ritzy sleeper diner - is burnt coffee and blue collar. Outside a glorious sunrise highlights a Kalahari safari of ochre sand ripening to emerald forest. From Savannah’s art deco station the city looks pretty from the taxi window. “That’s ‘cause it’s the only place that General Sherman don't burn,” says the driver. Although the Civil War ended over 150 years ago, resentment burns hotter than the Deep South sun.

Yet Savannah is another dazzling showcase of Southern charm. Drooping oaks that recall British royals and French Huguenots form a guard of honour over every piazza. Other trees planted for seasonal scents - sweet gum, magnolia, crepe myrtle - promise a revolving carousel of tropical bloom. One restaurant warns: “Kitchen Closes One Hour Before, Folks!” Another: “My Oh My, We Got Key Lime Pie!” Lunch is a $10 blowout of clam chowder and snow crab. On sultry afternoons Christian sects promise salvation from stone benches studded with oyster shells. Each one is shaded by Spanish moss and palmettos. It’s a fine place to be a Jehovah’s Witness.

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Savannah: a dazzling showcase of Southern charm Credit: Getty

Riding a sleeping car by day is an uproarious treat. We take in our final state of Florida - advertised in vintage Silver Meteor posters by orange orchards and pink flamingos - from the comfort of a bed on wheels. Our attendant confirms a cheeky sleeper is a popular treat for business people. “They can sleep off work while avoiding them crowds, sir.” Yet unlike the latest trains in continental Europe, Amtrak offers no push-button waiter service nor at-seat movies. Our attendant is shocked that Italy’s two largest cities are connected by train quicker, and faster, than by air. The speed on Amtrak’s flagship route from New York to Boston averages 68mph. In China, Beijing to Shanghai tops 200mph. The Silver Meteor is a comely cruise through the American soul, not a rocketship to the stars.

James Bond was in a hurry at Jacksonville, our next station stop. After cheating Mr Big in Live and Let Die he rejoined the train for views of swampy lakes and - had he been travelling today - Orlando for Walt Disney World, Tampa for St Petersburg and Winter Haven for Legoland. Then a cross-state saunter through an urban jungle of swimming pools and shopping malls: “Dental Excellence”. “Worship Center”. “Do Not Feed The Alligators.” We arrive in Miami on time. In place of historical legacy, there’s galleries, rollercoasters, Cuban sandwiches and golden sands. Indeed before theSilver Meteor arrived in 1939 Florida’s population was under two million. Now it’s 22 million. It’s neither North nor South, just a sunny state of mind.

Fleming rode the Silver Meteor a final time in 1953. However by then there were BOAC flights from London to Jamaica on the Boeing Stratocruiser via Lisbon, the Azores and Bermuda.

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The final destination: sunny Miami Credit: Getty

Now it’s far quicker and cheaper to fly across the USA, but the train still unites a disparate, welcoming and intensely vast nation. Furthermore, Bond remained a fan. After outwitting Auric Goldfinger at a Miami Hotel in his 1959 novel, 007 railroaded north. “Book me a compartment on the Silver Meteor to New York tonight. Have a bottle of vintage champagne on ice in the compartment and plenty of caviar sandwiches.” Make it a Taittinger, James.

How to do it
Train journey expert GRJ Independent (01904 734486; greatrail.com/grj-independent) offers New York-Miami Silver Meteor sleeping tickets for £605pp, based on two sharing and including a stay at Moxy NYC Times Square and the Hyatt Regency Miami.  BA (0844 493 0787; ba.com) runs open-jaw returns from London to New York, returning via Miami, from £298pp.

For a grander trip, Great Rail Journeys (01904 527180; greatrail.com) operates a 20-day coast-to-coast tour from £4,395pp including a New York harbour cruise, Amtrak rides on the Capitol Limited and California Zephyr, and Durango and Silverton heritage railways.

Virgin Trains is coming to America
It may come as a surprise to train travellers in Britain, but Floridians have cause to be excited about Virgin Trains. The firm led by Sir Richard Branson, currently the country’s only private intercity rail operator, is expanding its current route from Miami to West Palm Beach. By 2022 some 170 miles (274km) of new track will lead to Orlando.

When completed, the line’s trains will whizz along the Florida seaside at 125mph. That’s not all. Next year Virgin Trains USA will begin construction of a track that will connect Los Angeles with Las Vegas. The duration? As little as 75 minutes. It could be operational by 2023.


Tristan Rutherford writes about great train journeys for The Daily Telegraph
https://www.rutherfordtomasetti.com/travel-journalist-global-tourism

2022: Barbara Broccoli recalls Roger Moore.

James Bond: Roger Moore’s
incredible generosity at 3am on
The Man with the Golden Gun
set

See the complete article here:

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1682392/James-Bond-Roger-Moore-The-Man-with-the-Golden-Gun-Barbara-Broccoli

James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli remembers a sweet incident from her teenage years on the set of The Man with the Golden Gun when Roger Moore went above and beyond as the ultimate gentleman.
By George Simpson
17:03, Thu, Oct 13, 2022 | UPDATED: 17:15, Thu, Oct 13, 2022
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The Man With The Golden Gun: Trailer for 1974 James Bond film

Sir Roger Moore would have been 95 this Friday, having been born on October 14, 1927. The James Bond legend, who died at 89 on May 23, 2017, starred in more official 007 movies than any other actor – even surpassing Sir Sean Connery whose Never Say Never Again wasn’t made by EON Productions. In fact, when The Saint actor was cast in 1973’s Live and Let Die he was 45, three years older than the original Scottish star.

By the time Roger starred in 1985’s A View To A Kill he was 57, the oldest official Bond captured on screen. Aside from the lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek nature of his 007 movies, in real life the star was known for being a true gentleman.

When shooting 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun, future Bond producer Barbara Broccoli was just a teenager and has fond memories of her time with Roger. Barbara’s father Cubby Broccoli helmed the 007 movies in those days and The Man with the Golden Gun was the second film starring the new Bond after Connery and George Lazenby’s incarnations.

James Bond: Roger Moore’s incredible generosity at 3am on The Man with the Golden Gun set (Image: GETTY)


Roger Moore with Barbara Broccoli (Image: GETTY)

Speaking previously with Empire and commenting on a photo from the movie, Cubby’s daughter who now heads up EON Productions remembered: “Charm was Roger’s middle name. He was such a gentleman. I’d known him since I was a kid. I remember we were night-shooting at about 3 o’clock in the morning and some people came over. He had just sat down to eat something. He didn’t take a beat. He got straight up.”

Roger Moore and his The Man with the Golden Gun Bond girls (Image: GETTY)


James Bond movies (Image: EXPRESS)

Introducing himself with his incredible charm when anyone else probably would have been rather frustrated to be interrupted, Roger said: “Where are you from? Nice to meet you.”

Broccoli remembered: “I was just like ‘Wow.’ It was very unusual. These films were so impactful to him. He traveled all over the world and obviously saw both sides of life. Audrey Hepburn was sick and asked him to take over as a UNICEF ambassador and he did. He was an incredible man.”

2022: Anthony Robert McMillan OBE (Robbie Coltrane) dies at age 72--Larbert, Scotland.
(Born 30 March 1950--Rutherglen, Scotland.)

Robbie Coltrane death: Harry Potter and James Bond star
dies aged 72

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CultureFilmNews
Tom Murray | 14 October 2022

Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor best known for playing half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film franchise, has died aged 72.

His agent of 40 years, Belinda Wright, confirmed the news on Friday 14 October. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

Wright thanked the medical staff at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, near Falkirk in Scotland, for their “care and diplomacy”.

In a statement, she added: “Robbie was a unique talent, sharing the Guinness Book of Records’ Award for winning three consecutive Best Actor Baftas...

“For me personally, I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client as well as being a wonderful actor. He was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his Agent, I shall miss him.”

Aside from the towering, wizarding half-giant Hagrid, Coltrane also starred in two James Bond films as ex-KGB intelligence officer Valentin Zukovsky. The Russian mafia head was a recurring ally of Pierce Brosnan’s 007 in Goldeneye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999).

Coltrane as the imposing Rubeus Hagrid
(Warner Bros)

He will also be remembered for his breakout role as Dr Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald in Jimmy McGovern’s ITV series Cracker, which ran between 1993 and 2006.

The actor was born Anthony Robert McMillan on 30 March, 1950, in Glasgow, Scotland.

After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, Coltrane pursued a career in comic acting, beginning his career alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco in 1983.

Fry was among the first of a raft of actors to pay tribute to the late star.

“I first met Robbie Coltrane almost exactly 40 years ago,” Fry wrote on Twitter. “I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, ‘Alfresco’. Farewell, old fellow. You’ll be so dreadfully missed.”

In 2006, Coltrane was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama and in 2011, was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film.

The actor is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his children Spencer and Alice and their mother Rhona Gemmell.

RichardTheBruce

October 15th

1955: Victoria Leigh Blum (Tanya Roberts) is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.
(She dies 4 January 2021 at age 65--Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.)

Tanya Roberts, a Charlie’s Angel and a
Bond Girl, Is Dead at 65

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/arts/television/tanya-roberts-dead.html

After finding stardom in the 1980s, she fell out of the spotlight
until re-emerging in 1998 in the sitcom “That ’70s Show.”

Tanya Roberts with Roger Moore in the 1985 James Bond
film A View to a Kill. She had earlier starred in the last
season of Charlie's Angels.
Credit...Alexis Duclos./Associated Press

By Anita Gates | Jan. 5, 2021

Tanya Roberts, the breathy-voiced actress who found fame in the 1980s as a detective on “Charlie’s Angels” and as a brave earth scientist in the James Bond film “A View to a Kill,” died on Monday night in Los Angeles. She was 65.

Her death, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, was confirmed on Tuesday by her companion, Lance O’Brien. Her publicist, who was given erroneous information, had announced her death to the news media early Monday, and some news organizations published obituaries about her prematurely.

The publicist, Mike Pingel, said Ms. Roberts collapsed on Dec. 24 after walking her dogs near her Hollywood Hills home and was put on a ventilator at the hospital. He did not give the cause of death, but said it was not related to Covid-19. He said she had not been noticeably ill before she collapsed.

Ms. Roberts’s big acting break came in her mid-20s, when she was cast in the fifth and last season of “Charlie’s Angels,” the ABC drama series that, trading on its stars’ sex appeal, followed the exploits of three attractive former police officers who often fought crime wearing short shorts, low-cut blouses and even bikinis.

The show was an immediate hit in 1976, but Farrah Fawcett, its breakout star, left after one season, replaced by Cheryl Ladd. Kate Jackson quit in 1979, and her replacement, Shelley Hack, was gone after just one season. Ms. Roberts replaced Ms. Hack. Jaclyn Smith appeared throughout the series run.

There were high hopes for Ms. Roberts when she joined the cast. Her character, Julie, had some of Ms. Jackson’s character’s streetwise attitude; Julie was known to knock a handgun right out of a tough criminal’s hand. Her part couldn’t save the show’s plummeting ratings, but it did lead to an active decade for her in Hollywood.

Ms. Roberts, second from left, starred in Charlie's Angels in its fifth and final season. The other angels in this 1980 photo were Cheryl Ladd, left, and Jaclyn Smith, right. Second from right is Patti D'Arbanville, who appeared in an episode.
Credit...Getty Images

Most notably, she was a “Bond girl,” playing a geologist threatened by a microchip-monopolist madman (Christopher Walken) in “A View to a Kill” (1985), Roger Moore’s last appearance as Agent 007.

Ms. Roberts also appeared in “The Beastmaster” (1982), a fantasy film. And she played the title role in “Sheena” (1984), a highly publicized adventure film inspired by a queen-of-the-jungle comic book character. Sheena, a female Tarzan type, wore skimpy fur outfits with décolletage, rode a zebra, talked to animals and shape-shifted. The film flopped at the box office, and Ms. Roberts began fading from public view.

She returned to the spotlight in 1998 on the sitcom “That ’70s Show” as the glamorous, youngish Midwestern mom of a teenage girl (Laura Prepon). In that role she was beautiful, slim and sexy — and delightfully dimwitted. The comic mystery, year after year, was how her short, dumpy husband, played by Don Stark with frighteningly overgrown sideburns, had ever won her heart. Ms. Roberts appeared on the show for three seasons and later made guest visits.

She was born Victoria Leigh Blum in the Bronx on Oct. 15, 1955, the second of two daughters of Oscar Maximilian Blum, a fountain pen salesman, and Dorothy Leigh (Smith) Blum. According to some sources, Tanya was her nickname. She spent her childhood in the Bronx and lived briefly in Canada after her parents’ divorce. She began her career by running away from home to become a model when she was 15.

Back in New York, she studied acting, appeared in some Off Broadway productions and worked as a model and a dance instructor to make ends meet. Her modeling career included work for Clairol and Ultra-Brite toothpaste. She made her screen debut in the horror thriller “The Last Victim” (1976), about a serial rapist-murderer.

Ms. Roberts, right, in 1999 in a scene from the sitcom That 70s Show; with Laura Prepon, another star of the show. Ms. Roberts had kept a low profile for many years until re-emerging in the show.

Ms. Roberts, right, in 1999 in a scene from the sitcom “That ’70s Show” with Laura Prepon, another star of the show. Ms. Roberts had kept a low profile for many years until re-emerging in the show.
Credit...Frank Carroll/Fox

After “Charlie’s Angels,” Ms. Roberts acted in both television and films. Her roles included the private eye Mike Hammer’s secretary in the television movie “Murder Me, Murder You” (1983), a detective working undercover at a sex clinic in “Sins of Desire” (1993) and a talk-radio host on the erotic anthology series “Hot Line” (1994-96). Her final screen appearance was on the Showtime series “Barbershop” in 2005.

Even in her heyday, Ms. Roberts appeared not to enjoy being interviewed. Chatting with Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” in 1981, she laughed nervously, gave short answers and flirted with Michael Landon, her fellow guest. At one point, Mr. Carson mentioned a cover article about her in People magazine, prompting Ed McMahon, the host’s sidekick, to suggest, “Maybe there’s something in the magazine that’d be interesting.”

Ms. Roberts was a teenager when she married in 1971, but the union was quickly annulled at the insistence of her new mother-in-law. In 1974, she met Barry Roberts, a psychology student, while both were standing in line at a movie theater. They married that year. Mr. Roberts became a screenwriter and died in 2006 at 60.

In addition to Mr. O’Brien, she is survived by a sister, Barbara Chase, who was Timothy Leary’s fourth wife.

Ms. Roberts had always insisted that she was a New Yorker at heart, and not just because she hated driving.

“L.A. drives you crazy,” she said in the 1981 People magazine article. “I’m used to weather and walking and people who say what they mean.”

1964: Kinematograph Weekly (an early doubter of Bond, later affirming the success of From Russia With Love) reports "staggering figures" for Goldfinger's box office.
1967: Götz Otto is born--Dietzenbach, Hesse, Germany.

1975: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 15 January 1976. 2984-3060.)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1016


Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

En Enkel, Acapulco!
(The Torch-Time Affair)

Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no47-1979/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 47: “The Torch-Time Affair” (1979)
"En enkelt Acapulco"
[One-way to Acapulco]

1978: The Los Angeles Times reports Albert R. Broccoli confirming NASA's assistance with research and script approval for Moonraker.

1982: Octopussy films OO9's arrival at the British Embassy.
1984: A View To A Kill films Stacy getting fired by Mr. Howe and OO7 dropping the F-bomb.

A View to A Kill Deleted Scene - Stacey Gets Fired (1:58)

1987: 007: Su nombre es peligro (007: His Name is Danger) released in Peru.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 22 of 65 - "The Inhuman Race" in Germany.

James Bond Jr - The Inhuman Race

Season 1 - Episode 22
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807302/?ref_=ttep_ep22

James and his friends head to South Germany to represent Warfield in high school competition. However, Trevor gets abducted by Skullcap and Nick Nack so that Dr. Derange can use him for a guinea pig to bring a prototype mutant android to life.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Alan Oppenheimer ... Professor Frederick (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Skullcap (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer

Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 22 - The Inhuman Race

2005: James Bond OO7 - From Russia With Love video game released in the US as Gamecube.

James Bond 007: From Russia with Love

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455566/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

This game follows the storyline of the novel and 1963 movie, with adding in new scenes to make the game more action-oriented, as well as changing the affiliation of the main villains.

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Bruce Feirstein
Ian Fleming ... (novel)
Nuno Miranda ... (translation and adaptation)

Cast (in credits order)
Sean Connery ... James Bond (voice) (as Sir Sean Connery)
Natasha Bedingfield ... Elisabeth Stark (voice)
JB Blanc JB Blanc ... Kerim Bey / Additional Voices (voice)
Brian McCole ... Red Grant / Additional Voices (voice)
Maria Menounos ... Eva Adara (voice)
Phil Proctor ... Q / Bartender / Party Guests (voice)
Peter Renaday ... M / Party Guests (voice)
Karly Rothenberg ... Rosa Klebb / Miss Moneypenny / Party Guests (voice)
Kari Wahlgren ... Tatiana / Additional Voices (voice)
Gabriel Alaverdashvili ... Additional Voices (voice)
Steve Blum ... International Thugs (voice) (as Steven Jay Blum)
Dimitri Diatchenko ... Additional Voices (voice)
Grant George ... Various Russian Henchmen (voice)
Leslie Hedger ... Additional Voices (voice)
David Anthony Pizzuto ... Octopus Commando / Radio Voice (voice)
Dorota Puzio ... Additional Voices (voice)
Lloyd Sherr ... Additional Voices (voice)
André Sogliuzzo ... Additional Voices (voice)
Sylvio Sumavaski ... Additional Voices (voice)
Jim Ward ... Additional Voices (voice) (as James Kevin Ward)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pedro Armendáriz ... Kerim Bey (archive footage) (as Pedro Armendariz)
Fred Haggerty ... Krilencu (archive footage)
Bernard Lee ... M (Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG) (archive footage)
Lotte Lenya ... Rosa Klebb (archive footage)
Desmond Llewelyn ... Q (archive footage)
Kimani Ray Smith ... James Bond
Joseph Wiseman ... Dr. No (archive footage)
Paul Lazenby ... Various (uncredited)
Bob Simmons ... James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (archive footage) (uncredited)

007 From Russia with Love Gamecube Trailer


From Russia with Love Q-Lab Trailer

2005: Rik Van Nutter dies at age 76--West Palm Beach, Florida.
(Born 1 May 1929--Los Angeles, California.)

Rik Van Nutter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Van_Nutter
Born: Frederick Allen Nutter - May 1, 1929 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died: October 15, 2005 (aged 76) - West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.

Nationality American
Years active 1959-1979
Spouse(s) Anita Ekberg (1963-1975)

Rik Van Nutter (May 1, 1929 – October 15, 2005) was an American actor who appeared in many minor films and the James Bond picture Thunderball.

Career

He is best known for playing the third version of Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). He also had a role alongside Peter Ustinov in Romanoff and Juliet (1968), and his later films included Foxbat (1977) with Henry Silva and Vonetta McGee and the Jim Brown WW2 adventure Pacific Inferno (1979).

Personal life
Van Nutter was married to film actress Anita Ekberg from 1963 until 1975. They lived in Spain and Switzerland and started a shipping business together.

Death
Van Nutter died on October 15, 2005 at the age of 76.

Rik Van Nutter (1929–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887607/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (14 credits)

1979 Pacific Inferno - Dennis
1977 Foxbat - Crays

1968 A Stroke of 1000 Millions - Fraser
1967 Joe l'implacabile - 'Dynamite Joe' Ford
1965 Thunderball - Felix Leiter
1965 Seven Hours of Gunfire - Buffalo Bill Cody (as Clyde Rogers)
1965 The Revenge of Ivanhoe - Ivanhoe (as Clyde Rogers)
1962 Tharus figlio di Attila - Oto
1961 A noi piace freddo...! - German Officer
1961 Romanoff and Juliet - Freddie (as Rik Von Nutter)
1960 The Passionate Thief (as Rik Von Nutter)
1960 Assignment: Outer Space - Ray Peterson (IZ41) (as Rik Von Nutter)

1959 Guardatele ma non toccatele - Charlie (as Rick Van Nutter)
1959 Uncle Was a Vampire - Victor (uncredited)

Writer (1 credit)

1971 Casting Call (as Clyde Rogers)

Self (1 credit)

1965 Thunderball: James Bond Follows Beatles in Filming in the Bahamas (Documentary short)

2012: The Olive Press proposes Bond just isn't the same in Spain. And hasn't been since early on.

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/10/15/bond-just-isnt-the-same-in-spain/

2012: Sir Roger Moore declares the Best Bond Ever.

Sir Roger Moore: "Daniel Craig Is The Best James Bond Ever"
"Skyfall is going to be the biggest Bond film there has ever been."

See the complete article here:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/15/sir-roger-moore-daniel-craig-is-the-best-james-bond-ever

Tom Butler | 15 Oct 2012 5:39 am

Sir Roger Moore has predicted that Skyfall is going to be a huge hit following a private screening over the weekend, and has nothing but good things to say about the incumbent 007.

Speaking at "An Evening With Roger Moore" at the Rose Theatre in Kingston-Upon-Thames last night Sir Roger revealed, "I was invited on Saturday morning to a private screening of Skyfall. Now, I have always said that the best Bond was obviously Sean [Connery], but I’m happy to say when Skyfall is released on October 26, it is going to be the biggest [Bond film] there has ever been in the cinema, and he [Daniel Craig] will go down as the best Bond in history. It is fantastic."

Speaking to packed house on the former 007's 85th birthday to promote his new book Bond on Bond, Sir Roger went on to reveal how he had always backed Craig to make a big impact, "Before I saw Skyfall, I felt very angry about the way that the English press treated Daniel Craig. Before he’d started Casino Royale they predicted doom and gloom and they criticised him. I used to write letters of support to him, and I was so pleased when I saw Casino Royale because he was truly excellent in it. He’s a wonderful actor, if you’ve seen Munich or In Cold Blood, you know he’s a terrific actor."

2017: Pinewood Studios designates The Roger Moore Stage in honor of the late Bond actor.

Roger Moore stage opened at Pinewood Studios

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41641574
16 October 2017

Sir Roger had had his own office at Pinewood since 1970 [??]

A soundstage named after the late Sir Roger Moore has been opened by the Countess of Wessex at Pinewood Studios.

Dame Joan Collins, Sir Michael Caine and Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli were among the attendees at Sunday's private event.

Lady Moore and the star's three children paid an emotional tribute, saying how proud Sir Roger would be.

Sir Roger, who played secret agent James Bond in seven films, died from cancer in May at the age of 89.

It would have been his 90th birthday on Saturday.

Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli were among the speakers at the celebration

Other guests included Stephen Fry, Sir Tim Rice, Stefanie Powers and David Walliams, representing Unicef.

Sir Roger acted in more than 40 productions at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire and also had an office there.

Sir Michael Caine, Sir Tim Rice, Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams were also present

Moore's Bond movies

Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)
A View to a Kill (1985)

RichardTheBruce

October 16th

1924: Alan Hume is born--London, England.
(He dies 13 July 2010 at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.)

Alan Hume: Cinematographer who
switched between James Bond and the
Carry On films

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alan-hume-cinematographer-who-switched-between-james-bond-and-the-carry-on-films-2104788.html

Anthony Hayward | Wednesday 13 October 2010 00:00

In 1976, Alan Hume was standing on a snow-covered, 3,000ft-high rock on Baffin Island, north of Canada. As the second-unit director of photography on the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), he had to capture the breathtaking, pre-title, ski-jump sequence.

For three weeks, Hume and the crew lived in tents on this freezing, far-flung peninsula while they waited for the cloud to lift. When it finally did, they sprang into action, capturing the spectacular sight of 007's stunt double, Rick Sylvester, skiing over the edge and, finally, opening his Union Jack parachute. Being a one-take sequence, there were three cameras shooting the action, one of them with Hume in a helicopter.

It was an example of the dedication that this veteran of more than 100 feature films gave to his job, and it led to his becoming the fully fledged director of photography on the Bond pictures For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985). This signalled a change of gear for Hume, although he had already been earning his living as a director of photography – establishing the look of films and lighting them appropriately – for almost 20 years.

He took that role on many of the Carry On productions, whose low budgets and tight schedules – in contrast to the resources he enjoyed with the 007 pictures – taught him to work quickly. Carry On Cabby (1963) presented particular challenges. "There were a lot of close-ups in taxi cabs," recalled Hume. "When they were travelling along, I was often hanging outside the cab with the camera or fixing cameras on the front bonnet or inside looking forward. It was difficult lining the shot up and getting the actors to look as if they were driving the taxi. While driving one of the cabs, Charlie Hawtrey banged into my car in the car park and made a dent. Not only did he do that, but he knocked my scooter down as well, making a few dents in that, too."

George Alan Hume was born in Putney, south London, in 1924. His father worked on track maintenance for London Underground and found him a job in its stores on leaving school. The teenager then moved to Olympic Film Laboratories, in Acton, often picking up the daily "rushes" of film footage from Denham Studios.

When Hume heard of a vacancy for a clapper loader there, he left Olympic and found himself working on the wartime picture The First of the Few (1942), the story of the real-life Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell, directed by and starring Leslie Howard. Because there were several other people at the studios called George, he became known by his middle name, Alan.

His next film was In Which We Serve (1942), directed by David Lean and its screenwriter, Noël Coward, who also played the ship's captain in the patriotic tale of a British Second World War destroyer and its crew. Within a year, Hume had been promoted to focus puller on The Yellow Canary (1943), featuring Anna Neagle as a British wartime spy. In this capacity, he also worked on Lean's definitive version of Oliver Twist (1948).

His career was briefly interrupted when, in 1944, he was called up and joined the Fleet Air Arm, working as a photographer. On his return to Denham Studios two years later, Hume continued as a focus puller but had his first opportunity as a camera operator with the second unit working on Lean's Great Expectations (1946), notable for its stark, atmospheric, black-and-white photography.

It was another seven years before he became a fully fledged camera operator, on the comedy Our Girl Friday (1953), starring Joan Collins as a woman stuck on a Pacific island with three love-hungry men. He was soon much in demand in his new role, working on several films a year, including the black comedy The Green Man (1956), starring Alastair Sim and George Cole.

Then, in 1958, came the call from the producer-director team of Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas to shoot Carry On Sergeant, the first of the long-running comedy series featuring stars such as Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey and, from Carry On Constable (1960, the fourth in the series), Sid James.
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Hume was camera operator on all of the first four, then graduated to director of photography on Carry On Regardless (1961) and another 15 of the 30 films, including the final one, Carry On Columbus (1992).

In between, he was director of photography on many other films, such as Return of the Jedi (1983, later retitled Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi), A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as 26 episodes of the television fantasy series The Avengers (1965-68).

Before his retirement in 1998, Hume spent the last few years of his career working in television, on programmes such as the Gerry Anderson-produced, live-action drama Space Precinct (1994-95), Tales from the Crypt (1996), and a feature-length version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997).

Hume, whose autobiography, A Life Through the Lens: memoirs of a film cameraman, was published in 2004, was president of the British Society of Cinematographers from 1969 to 1971. In retirement, he continued to attend Carry On and James Bond conventions and other events.

All four of his children followed him into the film industry: Lindsey, who died in a car crash in 1967, aged 21, was an assistant editor; Martin is a camera operator; Pauline is a titles designer; and Simon is a focus puller. Simon's son Lewis is a camera assistant.

George Alan Hume, cinematographer: born London 16 October 1924; married 1946 Sheila Nevard (two sons, one daughter, and one son deceased); died Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire 13 July 2010.

Alan Hume (I) (1924–2010)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401727/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

1959: Kevin McClory praises Ian Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

McClory responded positively to Fleming's second treatment. "Very
exciting," he called it in a letter dated 16 October. "Although a great deal of
work has to be done on it, and I am not as yet convinced that we have the full
story, but I think this will come in the next few script conferences."

1967: Sólo se vive dos veces (We Only Live Twice) released in Spain.

1984: A View to a Kill films Zorin murdering Howe and framing OO7.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 23 of 65 - "Live and Let's Dance" in Switzerland.

James Bond Jr - Live and Let Dance

Season 1 - Episode 23
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807291/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

James and his friends escort a ballerina to Switzerland, but Baron Von Skarin hires an assassin, posing as a famous ballet dancer, to go after her and the King.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Mary Crawford ... (writer)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Alan Templeton ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Baron Von Skarin (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 23 - Live and Let Dance


Paperback

1992: Vladek Sheybal dies at age 69--London, England.
(Born 12 March 1923--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland.)

Vladek Sheybal Online

https://www.vladeksheybal.com/

In 1963, Vladek was offered a small part in the second James Bond film
From Russia With Love but was reluctant to take the part and turned
it down. Eventually he was persuaded by Sean Connery (who was by now
a close friend) to take the role of the villainous chess master "Kronsteen."
Vladek played the part as usual, to perfection; creating a character so
elegantly arrogant that "Kronsteen" is one of the more memorable
Bond villains of the genre to date.

Here is an interview with Vladek Sheybal which originally appeared in issue #8 (December 1992) of FAB, the magazine produced by the official Gerry Anderson fan club Fanderson. This interview was conducted by Tim Mallett and Glenn Pearce, and is reproduced here with permission from Fanderson.
https://ufoseries.com/magazines/fab08.html

THE FAB INTERVIEW
VLADEK SHEYBAL
UFO - DOCTOR DOUG JACKSON

Wladislaw Sheybal was born in March 1923, into a Catholic family at Zgierz, near Lodz in Poland, the son of a university professor. Imprisoned in a concentration camp during the war, Sheybal escaped only to be captured and to escape once again. During each spell in prison, he was forced to face a mock execution as part of the Nazi 'punishment by terror'.

As an actor, Sheybal's first major role came in 1957 with a part in Andrzej Wajda's Kanal, a film about the Polish Resistance and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, but the increasingly Soviet face of his native country dismayed Sheybal, and in 1958 he fled his homeland and re-established his career in Britain. He arrived almost destitute, unable to speak a word of English and knowing no-one.

His first employment in London was as a dish-washer in the kitchens of a drama college, where he eventually began to teach acting to the students who recognised him from Kanal. He learnt English and gradually involved himself in the London theatrical world, staging Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina for the Oxford University Opera Club. This led to a job with the BBC, directing opera for television, and in 1960, he became joint director of a theatre company based at the Little Theatre, Bromley, where his first production - Donald Howarth's All Good Children - was promoted to Hampstead Theatre Club.

Sheybal had originally wanted to be a romantic actor, but the course of his acting career was laid down by his friend Bette Davis, whom he met in Hollywood. She told him, "Just be the bitch, darling. You'll never stop working then." In 1962, on Sean Connery's request, he took the role of the villainous Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia With Love, and this led to a career of similarly creepy roles as middle-European or Soviet villains, in episodes of The Man In Room 17 (twice), The Saint, Danger Man, Strange Report and The Champions.

In the cinema, he was particularly liked by Ken Russell who used him in the award-winning film of D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love (1970), in which he played the artist-sculptor cavorting in the snow with Glenda Jackson; The Music Lovers (1970); and The Boyfriend (1971), in which he played the film director Cecil B. de Thrill. Russell had previously 'discovered' Sheybal in the BBC canteen in 1961, and hired him to play Debussy in his television production Strauss. Sheybal also appeared in John Boorman's Leo The Last, in which he played a political schemer in the entourage of Marcello Mastroianni's Italian prince.

However, it was his role as the Eurosec physician Dr. Beauville in Gerry Anderson's Doppelganger, that led to his being cast as Dr Doug Jackson in the UFO episode Exposed. Vladek reprised the role on an episode-by-episode basis during the first production block (he was not contracted for the whole series) as his character was required, more often than not as a replacement to Maxwell Shaw's Dr Shroeder when Shaw became seriously ill during production. This resulted in an intriguing character whose real loyalties were uncertain, and whose area of expertise enabled him to function in a variety of roles for both SHADO and the International Astrophysical Commission. For the second block, Jackson's function within SHADO was more clearly defined as a psychiatrist, and Vladek became a more permanent member of the cast.

Following UFO, Vladek appeared in such films as Puppet On A Chain (1971), in which he played the smuggler pursued by Interpol along the canals of Amsterdam, and The Wind And The Lion (1975) as Sean Connery's brother, while on television he made a brief return to the Anderson fold as Sandor Karolean in The Protectors episode Brother Hood, and also made a memorable guest appearance as the bird-man Zacardi in The New Avengers episode Cat Amongst The Pigeons.

More recently, Sheybal had forged a second acting career for himself in France. Leaving his villainous roles behind him, he found a niche playing middle-aged romantics in love with much younger women. His last screen appearance was in The Bill episode Sympathy For The Devil in September 1992, while his last interview was with Fanderson for The UFO Documentary. He died suddenly of an abdominal haemorrhage at his home in London on October 16th, 1992.

How did you come to get the part of Dr. Jackson in UFO?

"I started playing UFO in...1969? Yes, 1969. So long ago, I can't believe it. And I can't believe that it became a cult film all over the world! It's incredible. Anyway, Sylvia Anderson, who was very beautiful and looked like a film star, with big eyelashes, asked through my agent, "Would I be interested at all to play a Dr Jackson?" and she didn't elaborate at all. Well, I got the (script of the) first episode, I learned my lines and I went to the studio where Sylvia Anderson - with the big eyelashes and a very beautiful hairdo - was there, and I met all these friends afterwards from UFO for the very time, including Gabrielle Drake. You remember Gabrielle Drake? She was my pupil at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - I once was teaching acting there and she was my pupil, and I was very surprised when she was there in the studio.

"Anyway, to cut a long story short, I didn't know who this Dr Jackson was and Sylvia Anderson, after we had finished - or maybe it was while we were filming? - she said, "Would you be at all interested if we feed a script in with Dr Jackson, because we like very much the way that you are doing it." And then I asked her, "Who is this Dr Jackson?". "We don't know," she said. And that is what happened, so from time to time when they wanted to write in Dr Jackson they would ask my agent if I would be free for, let's say, next week for ten days to come to the studio to play Dr Jackson.

"And then I started forming my opinion about the character, and I came to the conclusion that he's got lots of colours and whatever, and I think that I developed it while I was playing it. But I wasn't a regular of UFO like the others - I was only from time to time, whenever I was free and whenever they wanted to write in Dr Jackson."

Jackson spoke with a heavy Eastern European accent, which seemed at odds with the character's ordinary Anglo-Saxon name, leading to speculation that perhaps the character was using an assumed name to hide a secret in his life before SHADO?

"Lots of things happen in films that we don't understand. You know, I have been in about 35 films as an 'international film actor' - as I am called - and believe it or not, in one, which was called The Wind And The Lion, they asked me to play the brother of Sean Connery. Can you imagine that? I was looking up at him and we had completely different hair colour, completely different accents and yet I was his brother. So it is unpredictable.

"You see, my name is Sheybal, which is not Polish name, which is not Armenian name, which comes from Scotland as a matter of fact. And I was brought up in about four or five languages. I was brought up in a terribly international family - as a matter of fact, I don't have a drop of Polish blood. I am mostly Armenian, a little bit of Scottish, a little bit of Austrian, and yet I am Polish actor and I arrived into this country as Polish actor, and (yet) I was lucky enough to have been (cast) in several cult films - Women In Love with (director) Ken Russell and Glenda Jackson, then with Marcello Mastroianni in John Boorman's Leo The Last, then Puppet On A Chain with Barbara Bach, and then UFO of course - and it's incredible really.

"I never aimed at it, I never thought that these sort of things would happen to me, but everything in my career was always the unexpected and coincidence and I was never pushing it or anything - just things were happening."

Prior to UFO, you were best-known for your role as the sinister chess-master and SPECTRE agent Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia With Love.

"It was the second James Bond film. I first of all started my career in this country as a teacher in drama school and as a director in television. I had done quite a lot for BBC Television and suddenly, quite by chance, I was seated in the canteen at BBC Television eating my lunch and a man came up to me and he said, "My name is Ken Russell and I do short artistic films and I would like you to play a part because I saw you in the Polish film Kanal." It was a film about Debussy, the composer, and this was Oliver Reed, who was not yet Oliver Reed and Vladek Sheybal when he was not yet Vladek Sheybal. And then, you know, Harry Saltzman was one of the producers, I think, of James Bond, and he telephoned my agent, my first agent, and he said, "I saw you in Ken Russell's film and I would like you to play a part in From Russia With Love."

"I said to my agent that I would like to read the script and he gave me the script and I just thought, 'No, I'm not going to be bothered about that - one scene in the beginning, one scene in the middle and then Lotte Lenya kills me with that spiked shoe!' I thought this was just ridiculous. I was very serious actor before I started acting in films and I just said to my agent, "This is ridiculous. Why should I bother to play this part? I was just playing a leading part in Ken Russell's film for television!", and he said, "Look, listen! It was Sean Connery who asked personally that you accept the part!" Why did Sean Connery ask me to accept the part? Because I met Sean Connery as well when he wasn't Sean Connery. He was the boyfriend of Diane Cilento, who was an actress and I was directing a television (play) with her, and he was always coming to the rehearsal room to pick her up and the three of us would go for a drink and then Diane Cilento would try to sell him to me. She would say, "Look at him! Isn't he sexy? Doesn't he have star quality? Do you have a part for him?", because nobody wanted him. And two years later he was James Bond and Diane Cilento went into decline or whatever - this happens. And then Sean Connery wanted me to play The Wind And The Lion as well, as his brother, because he thought this would be a good bit of fun.

"So, anyway, when I refused flatly to play this part, suddenly there was a telephone call from Sean Connery saying, "Look, listen! This is something which is going to change the world! It's a new series - 'James Bond' - and it's going to be next episode and next episode, and if you take a part in it you are in cult thing." So I signed to do it. He was very kind because he was waiting personally for me at the doorstep of the studio and he said, "Welcome to From Russia With Love."

"But during the filming there was an incident which shows my tempestuous character, or my honest character perhaps - that I can't be bought for the money. Harry Saltzman, the producer, started interfering in my scenes, in the way I was acting the scene. So I said to Harry Saltzman, "This is the director Terence Young and he doesn't want me to play the part in any different way. Why should I do what you say?" "Because I am the producer," he said. So I said, "You mean that you represent money?" and he said, "Yes."

"Lotte Lenya supported me very much and I played it my way and then Harry Saltzman became completely unbearable so I just said, "I've had enough of it!" I just walked off the studio, not being a star or whatever - later I learned that only the stars walk off the studio! But perhaps I was born a star? I always felt like a star. So I walked off the studio. They followed me (saying), "What are you doing? What are doing?" I went to the dressing room, I started taking off my make-up and I said, "Get away with you! I go back home!" and I went home!

"And in the evening, Terence Young rings me up and he says, "Vladek, I promise that Harry Saltzman won't be in the studio tomorrow. Will you come and finish the part?" So I came in and finished it."

After your role in From Russia With Love, you found yourself playing a string of memorable villainous roles in series such as The Man In Room 17, The Saint, Danger Man, Strange Report, The Champions and The New Avengers. Did you find that you were becoming typecast?

"Not necessarily, but this happens in the acting profession, that if you chisel for yourself a niche, then you're in. If you can't be identified immediately with your voice, without your villain-ness, with your looks or whatever, then you are in my position when I was completely unknown actor in this country and the western world. I had an accent - I didn't have any chance at all.

"I didn't know anything about it until one fantastic person, great friend of mine for several years, who was Bette Davis, and she said to me, "Honey, you have no chance whatsoever. You're ugly - everything is against you. I think that you should start playing threatening things and everybody will remember you." And I said, "How do I play threatening things? I'm such a loveable character." and she said, "You just narrow your eyes, you lower your voice and just whisper and make long pauses." So that was the trick and I started doing it, and she said, "Just look at me when I'm playing the bitch. I narrow my eyes like that and lower my voice and whisper and make long pauses." And so she launched me - and I'm ever grateful to her - into the part of playing the villains or frightening people.

"But later on, I was playing quite a number of parts in which I wasn't the villain at all, and people will say, "How villainous you were!" People don't want to remember. Once they establish you in a niche, they just want you to stick to this, so I gave them what they wanted.

"But a few years ago, I started playing fringe theatres here in London, and I found I was playing the 'greats' such as Gustav Mahler and Frederick Nietzsche, and I realised that I had to use exactly the same trick to play the 'greats' - whisper, make long pauses and narrow your eyes - so what is the difference between the villain and the 'great', you know?"

More recently, you have been cast in more varied roles both in England and abroad, and have made extensive film appearances in France and Germany. What sort of roles do you prefer to play?

"I have lived, for several years now, partly in France, in Paris mainly, and I have started playing in French films. You know, I had the same trouble, because I thought, 'If I'm going to launch myself into French films, then I've got to find a niche.' But they didn't cast me as villains in France. They cast me as aging men who are madly in love with very young girls and then rejected. So I decided to play them as unhappy, with long pauses as well because it helps, and speaking very fluently, but very softly, and it took off. Here, I'm turning down quite a lot of things, because, quite simply, after so many years now having acted in so many things, I couldn't be bothered playing the same character.

"You see, we actors, we always say that any part which could give you the material to build a character on it in your own way, your own interesting way, is a good part - whether this is cameo part, or larger part, or medium part, or just one close up or whatever. So I think that all actors are multi-character people and that's why they enjoy everything.

"I think I'm no different in being an actor than anybody else. I like playing these unhappy elderly men in France."

Vladek Sheybal (1923–1992)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792996/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Kronsteen


Le Chiffre's Representative

2007: Deborah Jane Trimmer aka Deborah Kerr CBE dies at age 86--Botesdale, England.
(Born 30 September 1921--Helensburgh, Scotland.)

Deborah Kerr

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/19/guardianobituaries.obituaries1

Graceful and versatile British star whose work across four decades made her a Hollywood icon
Brian Baxter | Thu 18 Oct 2007

Many Hollywood stars of the wartime generation ended their careers in cameo roles or cult movies, even schlock horror or, worst of all, television soaps. But Deborah Kerr, who has died of Parkinson's disease aged 86, escaped that. Her health would not allow such a route, but it seems unlikely that such an innately graceful and consummately professional actor would have chosen it. The theatre at Chichester perhaps, but not movie Grand Guignol.

She worked steadily, averaging one film a year, with directors of stature, and often opposite chums such as David Niven, Robert Mitchum and Cary Grant. The result was a career that sailed on rather majestically, like an elegant ocean liner, only occasionally hitting a squall or rough passage. There was little to interest gossip columnists or to shock the public and, at least on the surface, she seemed rather serene in the midst of such a frantic profession.

It is impossible not to admire the performances and the performer herself. She achieved fame when barely 20, in a star-laden version of Major Barbara (1941), followed rapidly by four further movies, and for 45 years remained at or near the pinnacle of her profession. Within a period of 12 years, she received six Oscar nominations but did not receive the statuette until 1994, when an honorary Academy award was given for her lifetime's work.

By the late 1980s, in poor health, she had effectively retired from acting, gravitating from her home in Switzerland to Spain with her second husband, the writer Peter Viertel (whose screen credits include The African Queen). Much later still, she was to return to England. Her rare public appearances reminded us of her great popularity in such contrasted roles as the governess in The King and I (1956) and the adulterous wife in From Here to Eternity (1953). She was greatly admired by her fellow actors and always brought a touch of class to the most mundane of roles.

Kerr was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, the daughter of a first world war officer, and educated at Northumberland House, in the Bristol suburb of Clifton. She dabbled in acting during her teens, including radio work for the BBC West Region in Bristol, and in amateur theatricals. She moved to London to study at the Sadler's Wells ballet school, making her debut in Prometheus in 1939. That year too saw her in a small role in Much Ado About Nothing at the Regent's Park open air theatre, and from 1939 to 1940 she worked with the Oxford Repertory. An abortive screen debut as a cigarette girl in Contraband (1940), ended on the editing-room floor. But the directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were soon to remedy that unkind cut.

Kerr's break came when the ebullient Gabriel Pascal, who had the confidence of George Bernard Shaw, cast her in Major Barbara, in which she gave a touching performance as Jenny Hill. Under contract to Pascal, she was given the lead in 1941 in Love on the Dole and rapidly followed this excellent movie with Penn of Pennsylvania and then a plum role as Robert Newton's downtrodden daughter in the melodramatic Hatter's Castle - where she encountered her first husband, fighter pilot Tony Bartley, who was involved in the nearby filming of The First of the Few. All this in that same year, followed by The Day Will Dawn (1942), opposite Ralph Richardson.

In a piece of casting that Martin Scorsese has justly described as audacious, Powell and Pressburger gave the then 21-year-old the triple roles of driver, governess and wife/nurse, the women who appear throughout Blimp's story in their monumental The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). The film did not receive official approval or the critical acclaim now accorded it, and Kerr's film career paused as she toured and then went into the West End in Heartbreak House. She also worked for the forces' entertainment organisation Ensa throughout Europe, and again met Bartley. They married in 1945.

That year she returned to the screen, opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers, where they play - delightfully - a couple transformed and humanised by their wartime experiences. She moved on to an interesting role in I See a Dark Stranger (1946) as an Irish girl who, through hatred of the English, spies for the Germans. Her love for a British officer (Trevor Howard) reforms her. Her only other screen work that year was in a short in aid of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund. The best was yet to come.

In 1947, Kerr was reunited with Powell and Pressburger for a heady masterwork, Black Narcissus. She played the pivotal role of Sister Clodagh, an insecure nun in charge of a Catholic missionary school (Pinewood stood in - remarkably - for the Himalayas). Jealousy, passion, frustration and death become the order of the day in this timeless work. A blend of repression, gentleness and inner turmoil was to feature in many later, often inferior, films but this remains a benchmark in her career.

Meanwhile, Pascal had sold her contract to MGM and Kerr found herself in a postwar drama, The Hucksters (1947), opposite Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. A modestly successful Hollywood debut was soon followed by If Winter Comes (1947). She was subsequently directed by one of the studio's top names, George Cukor, in a rather stodgy version of Robert Morley's stage success, Edward My Son (1948). Despite fine credits and the presence of the screen's greatest actor, Spencer Tracy, the film fails to ignite.

The studio began to use Kerr as decorative contract fodder opposite sturdy leading men and costume became the order of the day in such movies as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Quo Vadis (1951) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). She had the small role of Portia in Julius Caesar, but this movie - the best-ever screen treatment of Shakespeare - is remembered for Marlon Brando and John Gielgud, and not the refined Miss Kerr. The MGM period ended dismally with Young Bess (1953).

That year was, however, to prove a highlight, if not a turning point in her fortunes. She extricated herself from the MGM straitjacket and landed the controversial role opposite Burt Lancaster in Fred Zinneman's From Here to Eternity. Cast against her seemingly fragile type, she was formidable as the sexually rapacious officer's wife who has an affair with an NCO, played by Lancaster, at the time of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Today, the famous beach scene - indeed the whole adaptation of James Jones's brutal novel - seems somewhat tame. Not so in the early 1950s.

Adultery was a theme of a rather greater book, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1954), which brought Kerr back to England. An underrated film, it suffers from a miscast, rather lightweight Van Johnson as the writer, but she and a fine British cast save the day.

An attempt was made to revamp Eternity, with William Holden replacing Lancaster, in The Proud and the Profane (1956) before she went on to her biggest popular success: a lacklustre version of The King and I. Kerr and Yul Brynner redeemed Walter Lang's rather staid direction and thanks to dubbing from Marni Nixon on the difficult passages and high notes, Kerr sang, danced and acted herself into a third Oscar nomination, and a box office smash.

In 1957 she was reunited with friend Cary Grant in the romantic drama, An Affair to Remember and donned her nun's habit in the popular Heaven Knows, Mr Allison for a favourite director, John Huston. This virtual two-hander reworks Huston's great success, The African Queen, with Robert Mitchum as the reprobate marine who meets his match in the seemingly demure nun. Together they tackle the Japanese just as missionary Katharine Hepburn and drunk Humphrey Bogart had scuppered the Germans in the earlier movie.

There were better parts and higher salaries than in the MGM days and Kerr moved on to Bonjour Tristesse (1957) and another spinster role in the botched version of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables (1958). Only her old friend David Niven emerged with modest credit from this fiasco. Three duff movies followed before Zinnemann gave her a wonderfully rich part - opposite Robert Mitchum - in The Sundowners (1960). It proved one of the director's most relaxed and commercially successful films.

Kerr joined Mitchum and Grant again in a conventional reworking of the stage hit, The Grass is Greener (1960), followed by an altogether less happy experience. At best The Naked Edge (1961) was a routine thriller, made painful by Gary Cooper, already ill with cancer, in his last role and the last year of his life.

The highlight of this British period came the same year when she again played a governess - this time in Jack Clayton's version of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Transformed into a handsome CinemaScope film as The Innocents, it showed that Kerr was as good as the material allowed and often better. Her role as the haunted and taunted governess gave perfect rein to her upright demeanour and hidden depths.
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After a dull version of The Chalk Garden (1963), she was rescued by John Huston and cast as the poet spinster in the steamy The Night of the Iguana (1964). After this she sank without trace in a Frank Sinatra vehicle, Marriage on the Rocks (1965), and then made a trio of films opposite Niven, her Swiss-based neighbour.

They failed to salvage the thriller Eye of the Devil (1966), but had some fun working with Huston again on the chaotic James Bond spoof, Casino Royale (1967). This was followed by a dated comedy, Prudence and the Pill (1968).

Two big movies in 1969 offered Kerr dull parts - with Burt Lancaster in the sky drama The Gypsy Moths and Kirk Douglas in The Arrangement. They proved only that she was still in demand opposite heavyweight actors. But the films, one lugubrious, the second overwrought, were not to her taste and she effectively retired from Hollywood.

A handful of made-for-television films kept her occupied - Witness for the Prosecution (1982), Reunion at Fairborough (1985) and Hold the Dawn (1986) among them.

Her greatest stage success had been in the once controversial Tea and Sympathy, in a role as a schoolteacher who seduces a pupil who believes himself to be gay. She filmed it in 1956, but the screen version was even milkier than the Broadway success. Her other stage successes included Separate Tables, Candida and The Last of Mrs Cheyney, among many others.

But it is as a screen actor that Kerr will be best remembered, since she had the beauty, the reserve and the inner quality that the camera loves. By a happy chance, her farewell to the big screen utilised those attributes.

In The Assam Garden (1985) Kerr played an isolated middle-class widow who befriends an Indian woman (Madhur Jaffrey) from a nearby council estate. A modest two-hander, it gave her an intriguing, somewhat unglamorous role that perfectly suited her subtle technique and quiet dignity.

Visiting her on location in the Forest of Dean, I was touched by her commitment to the film and her determination to complete what was proving to be an extremely demanding role. She clearly missed her home comforts and had been greatly pleased by the film's attentive publicist - who brought her caviar from his London trips.

The location, charming though it was, and the budget were a far cry from her Hollywood heyday, but the film turned out to be a success and she ended her screen career on a personal high note. She received a spontaneous ovation at the 1994 Oscar ceremony and few actors can so richly have deserved the award.

In 1998 she was made a CBE, but said that she felt too frail to travel to London to receive it personally. In 45 films, in as many years, she seldom, if ever, gave a weak performance and certainly never gave a less than professional one.

Her marriage to Tony Bartley ended in divorce in 1959. He died in 2001. She married Viertel in 1960. He survives her, as do two daughters from her first marriage and three grandsons.

· Deborah Jane Kerr (Deborah Kerr Viertel), actor, born September 30 1921; died October 16 2007

Deborah Kerr

(I) (1921–2007)
Actress | Soundtrack
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The King and I

Agent Mimi (Alias Lady Fiona). Casino Royale

2012: Eurocom's North American release of first-person shooter video game 007 Legends, published by Activision.

2012: Globe Pequot Press publishes Bond On Bond by Roger Moore.

2018: Daniel Craig receives support after Piers Morgan's dad-shaming comments.

The best responses to Piers Morgan dad-
shaming Daniel Craig

Good Morning Britain host mocks James Bond actor for using ‘emasculating’ baby carrier

https://www.theweek.co.uk/97146/the-best-responses-to-piers-morgan-dad-shaming-daniel-craig

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Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1995.
Chapter 9 - The Cup and the Lip

Goldfinger came up. His face was glistening with triumph. 'Well, thanks for the game. Seems I was just too good for you after all.'

'You're a good nine handicap,' said Bond with just sufficient sourness. He glanced at the balls in his hand to pick out Goldfinger's and hand it to him. He gave a start of surprise. 'Hullo!' He looked sharply at Goldfinger. 'You play a Number One Dunlop, don't you?'

'Yes, of course.' A sixth sense of disaster wiped the triumph off Goldfinger's face. 'What is it? What's the matter?'

'Well,' said Bond apologetically.' "Fraid you've been playing with the wrong ball. Here's my Penfold Hearts and this is a Number Seven Dunlop.' He handed both balls to Goldfinger. Goldfinger tore them off his palm and examined them feverishly.

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RichardTheBruce

October 17th

1959: Ivar Bryce is impressed by Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball, though he shares criticisms.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

Bryce was likewise impressed, though in a letter dated 17 October made
these criticisms to Fleming: "Be careful not to take Domino off the scene for
too long. Also, is it necessary to bump off poor Felix? You will need him again
you know -- a problem you have already had once. I should like to do Live and
Let Die one day." Bryce also mentioned Ernest Cuneo's positive reaction.
"Although he is worried by all Italian names of Mafia villains, and fears
resentment in Italian minority here, but I cannot go along with that." Nor did
Fleming pay much credence in Cuneo's suggestion that using the Mafia would
infuriate America's Italian population. "Don't agree with Ernie about the Italian
names," Fleming wrote back. "The Mafia is a villainous organisation and if the
Italians don't like it, they ought to suppress it."

In his letter Bryce also referred to a recent news incident of an American
bomber that collided with a tanker plane and crashed. It was carrying two A-
bombs, which did not explode. "Of interest for your script?" Is Bryce
suggesting that this would be a more realistic way of bring the aircraft down,
of getting the villains to orchestrate a mid-air collision that would look to the
authorities like an accident? If it was, it was never followed up in any of the
subsequent scripts.

1962: A review of Dr. No in Variety says "As a screen hero James Bond is clearly here to stay. He will win no Oscars but a heck of a lot of enthusiastic followers."

Original 31 December 1961 review.

Dr. No

https://variety.com/1961/film/reviews/dr-no-1200420202/
December 31, 1961

First screen adventure of Ian Fleming's hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.

With: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Zena Marshall

First screen adventure of Ian Fleming’s hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.

The hero is exposed to pretty (and sometimes treacherous) gals, a poison tarantula spider, a sinister crook, flame throwers, gunshot, bloodhounds, beating up, near drowning and plenty of other mayhem and malarkey, and comes through it all with good humour, resourcefulness and what have you.

Connery is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British confidential agent and his secretary. Since both murders happen within three or four minutes of the credit titles the pic gets away to an exhilarating start. He becomes involved with the activities of Dr. No, a sinister Chinese scientist (Joseph Wiseman) who from an island called Crab Key is using a nuclear laboratory to divert off course the rockets being propelled from Cape Canaveral.

Among the dames with whom Connery becomes involved are easy-on-the-eye Ursula Andress, who shares his perilous adventures on Crab Key, and spends most of her time in a bikini; Zena Marshall, as an Oriental charmer who nearly decoys him to doom via her boudoir; and Eunice Gayson, whom he picks up in a gambling club in London and who promises to be the biggest menace of the lot.

Dr. No
UK
Production: Eon/United Artists. Director Terence Young; Producer Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli; Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather; Camera Ted Moore; Editor Peter Hunt; Music Monty Norman; Art Director Ken Adam

Crew: (Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1962. Running time: 110 MIN.

With: Sean Connery Ursula Andress Joseph Wiseman Jack Lord Bernard Lee Zena Marshall

1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 flying Little Nellie.

1983: People Magazine features Sean Connery promoting Never Say Never Again.

After a 12-Year Leave, Sean Connery Is
Back as 007 but Willing to Say Never Again

See the complete article here:

https://people.com/archive/after-a-12-year-leave-sean-connery-is-back-as-007-but-willing-to-say-never-again-vol-20-no-16/

Jesse Birnbaum
October 17, 1983 12:00 PM

His name is Bond. James Bond. And he has a problem: lower back pain and a slight paunch. It’s mid-life crisis for 007. And now—of all times—his superiors want to pluck him form semiretirement for the toupee-raising assignment of saving the world from nuclear holocaust. Dispatched ingloriously to a health clinic, he must work out, lift weights and sweat himself into top spy form. Is he getting older, or better?

This clever, thoroughly ingratiating setup for Never Say Never Again is pointedly ironic: The real high-stakes issue is whether the star, after 12 years in retirement from the high-tech spy biz, can carry the film. His name is Connery. Sean Connery. And he has a problem. At 53, Connery is no longer the slim young Scot who began it all with Dr. No in 1962 and five more through Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. Still, he is back as Bond for one last hurrah.

“I may be 20 years older,” admits Connery, who once aspired to the Mr. Universe title. But, he adds confidently, “The age factor is no crisis.”

Not now, anyway. Onscreen he rides horseback, fights live sharks in scuba gear and mauls all manner of assailants in hand-to-hand combat. In bed (with girlie magazine co-stars Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera), he proves that if he’s gained a pound or two across his brawny torso, he hasn’t lost a step on his bygone Bonds.

The thing is—it didn’t come easy. Connery trained hard, keeping barbells in his location trailers through the grueling eight-month shoot in England, France and the Bahamas. He did many stunts and most fight scenes himself, he says. Somehow, his short-cropped toupee never budged. “He was fabulous underwater,” says a very impressed Basinger, who also did her own swimming stunts. “You couldn’t tell Sean from the stunt divers.” She says Connery helped production on land as well. “He took things lightly, instead of panicking. He would tell jokes all day.”

Some stunts were no joke. “I dived 50 feet underwater into a sunken wreck,” says Sean. “I hated that; it’s claustrophobic.”

So why do it at all? That Connery has long expressed his boredom with the character he created and helped make into the longest-running major series in movie history is the joke behind the film’s title. Connery will only say that his wife encouraged him to do it. Other reasons might be the lack of success of his last films (Wrong Is Right, Five Days One Summer).

But pride is also at stake. Connery’s disenchantment with the series began when his character began to give way to gimmickry and gags. But Roger Moore’s six flashy Bonds have been huge hits anyway, eclipsing the memory of Connery in some quarters. Never’s producer Jack Schwartzman thinks audiences might want to see a 007 who is “not a cardboard figure.”

Connery won’t compare himself to Moore, 55, a longtime pal. But some criticism does slip in. “I think the trap with Roger’s way is that one is a bit overwhelmed with the hardware,” says Connery. “You get the feeling they dream up the stunt first, then write the story around it. I try for a more realistic, credible film, within the realm of possibility.”

To keep his life the same way, Connery and his second wife, Micheline Roquebrune, 48, a French artist he married in 1975, shuttle in tax exile between a villa in Marbella, on Spain’s southern coast, and a home in the Bahamas, where he golfs (eight handicap) and plays tennis. British tax laws make it impossible to spend more than 90 days a year in his homeland without going broke. His proudest investment may well be son Jason, 20, by his first wife, actress Diane (Tom Jones) Cilento. The lad made his film debut in Lords of Discipline this year. Though Connery’s own truckdriver father is deceased and his mother bedridden, Sean is atypically emotional about home and hearth. His suntanned arms are emblazoned with two tattoos: One says, “Scotland Forever,” the other, “Mum and Dad.”

Still, coming home to Bond is another matter. For Connery, Never Say Never Again is a movie title, not a promise. “Why do it again,” he says. “I’m too old.”

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 24 of 65 - "The Sword of Power" in Tokyo, Japan.

James Bond Jr - The Sword of Power

Season 1 - Episode 24
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807125/

James Bond and his friends head to Tokyo, Japan to recover a Japanese sword stolen by Dr. No's Ninjas in his plan to learn of the sword's powerful material origin and uses it to create a powerful weapon for his arsenal.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Ted Pedersen ... (written by)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by Dennis C. Brown, Larry Brown

James Bond Jr - Episode 24 - The Sword of Power


James Bond Jr #5: The Sword of Death, John Vincent.

2004: Julius Harris dies at age 81--Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 17 August 1923--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

Julius Harris, 81; Broke Stereotypes of Movie Roles for Black Actors

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-22-me-harris22-story.html

By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer
Oct. 22, 2004

Julius Harris, the deep-voiced stage and screen actor who played the villainous Tee Hee in the James Bond film Live and Let Die and Ugandan President Idi Amin in the TV movie “Victory at Entebbe,” has died. He was 81.

Harris, a former member of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, died of heart failure Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.

In an acting career that spanned four decades, Harris appeared in more than 70 film and television productions.

He played such diverse roles as a preacher who headed a slave group in the 1982 Civil War miniseries “The Blue and the Gray” and a gangster in the 1972 blaxploitation film classic “Superfly.”

“Even today, if I am walking in a black neighborhood, people call me by my ‘Superfly’ name -- Scatter,” Harris told The Times last October before being honored with a tribute by the Next Generation Council of the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Legacy Film Series at the Directors Guild of America Theatre.

“His work helped African Americans break out of stereotypical movie roles and be seen as dynamic heroes and fully realized human beings,” actress Halle Berry said in a taped introduction to Harris’ film work.

A Philadelphia native whose mother was a Cotton Club dancer and whose father was a musician, Harris served as an Army medic during World War II. After leaving the service in 1950, he found work as an orderly and eventually became a nurse before moving to New York City.

As a regular at a Greenwich Village bar, he became friends with James Earl Jones, Yaphet Kotto, Al Freeman, Louis Gossett Jr. and other actors, whom he teased for being out of work.

“I would say to them, ‘You bums. You are always broke. What kind of actors are you? ... I can do your job with my arms tied behind my back,’ ” he recalled in The Times interview.

To back up his claim, he landed the small role of Ivan Dixon’s drunk, defeated father in “Nothing but a Man,” a critically acclaimed 1964 film about black life in the South starring Dixon and Abbey Lincoln.

“Not knowing the business, feeling I had to be in character, I got me a pint of bourbon, some of the worst rotgut stuff I could get,” Harris said.

When he arrived on the set, the producer and director took one look at him and said, “We can’t do anything with you today, Julius, but if you are the man we think you are, you’ll come back tomorrow.”

Harris said: “I was so embarrassed. So I went back home, sobered up and came back the next day and did the master [shot] in [one] take and close-ups in two [takes] and went home.”

In his review of the film, The Times’s Kevin Thomas deemed Harris’ performance superb.

He is survived by his children, Kimberly and Gideon.

A private memorial service will be held.

Julius Harris (1923–2004)

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2008: David Arnold's Quantum of Solace soundtrack album released by J.

2018: Dynamite releases James Bond: The Body Vol. 1, including Parts One through Four (The Body, The Gut, The Brain, The Heart).

James Bond: The Body (2018) Vol. 1

https://www.comixology.co.uk/James-Bond-The-Body-2018-Vol-1/digital-comic/704425?ref=Y29taWMvdmlldy9kZXNrdG9wL3NsaWRlckxpc3Qvc2VyaWVz

"As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them. PART TWO - THE BRAIN James Bond leads the interrogation of a scientist who allowed a lethal virus to be stolen. But when the investigation takes a surprising turn, Bond begins to question whether he is enough. PART THREE - THE GUT One sauna. Twenty Neo-Nazis. One Bond. James Bond. This weapons deal won't go according to plan. PART FOUR - THE HEART On the run from a lethal antagonist, weaponless and wounded deep in the Highlands, Bond finds solace with a woman who exchanged her job as a doctor and a life in the city for a cottage and solitary life of a writer. Can Bond find a quiet peace unlike he has known before or will his life choices catch up with him? AND MORE…"

2021: Noise11 reports Coldplay pursued a Bond theme five times across twenty years.

Coldplay Have Five Unreleased James Bond Themes

See the complete article here:

http://www.noise11.com/news/coldplay-have-five-unreleased-james-bond-themes-20211017

by Music-News.com on October 17, 2021

Coldplay spent 20 years trying to write a decent Bond theme.

Chris Martin has revealed he and his bandmates spent two decades attempting to pen a theme tune for a 007 flick, but he admitted the five songs they ended up with weren’t “very good”.

Martin doesn’t think the titular fictional suave spy – last portrayed by Daniel Craig, who has just completed his tenure in the blockbuster action-thriller franchise with his final film ‘No Time To Die’ – would be impressed with their efforts.

He told NME: “We kept trying to write one for 20 years, but never submitted them.

“We have Bond themes for about five movies, but they’re not very good, to be honest.

“I don’t know if we’re spiritually on the same trip as James. As much as I like the films, I don’t know if us singing would do it for him.

“He’d be like, ‘That’s not what I’m into at all, fellas. I like guns and shit. All this hippie stuff just isn’t going to work.'”

Coldplay have just released their ninth studio album, ‘Music of the Spheres’, and previously revealed another famous film franchise inspired the record.

The music came to life after Martin sat down to watch the ‘Star Wars’ movies and was left wondering what music on other planets sounds like.

He said: “One time I was watching ‘Star Wars’ and they had the scene with the Cantina band right? And I was like: ‘I wonder what musicians are like across the universe?’ and that led to this whole thing and now here we are.”

And the whole album is set on a fictional planet.

He added: “It led us to imagining this whole other place called ‘the spheres’, which is like a group of planets, like a solar system with lots of different places and creatures and stuff.

“And what I found is when you’ve imagined a place like that, you can sort of become any artist within that.

“It’s a very freeing thing to take yourself out of Coldplay and just think: ‘OK, I’m not even human, what does music sound like?'”

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October 18th

1898: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) is born--Vienna-Penzing, Austria Hungary.
(She dies 27 November 1981 at age 83--New York City, New York.)

Lotte Lenya

See the complete article here:

https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/lotte-lenya/

Award-winning Austrian actress and singer Lotte Lenya (b. Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary, October 18, 1898; d. New York City, November 27, 1981), transplanted to the United States for the latter part of her career, is best remembered by music-lovers for her interpretations of songs by her husband Kurt Weill (1900–1950), and by moviegoers for her performances in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and From Russia With Love (1963). She was nominated for an Academy Award® for the former film; from her Broadway performances, which spanned over three decades, she had one Tony Award® (The Threepenny Opera 1957) and was nominated for another (Cabaret 1967).

Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer was born into a working class family in an outlying district of Vienna. At the age of sixteen she moved to Zurich in Switzerland, where she studied classical ballet, singing, and acting, and made a stage debut under the name of Lotte Lenja. In 1921, against the cosmopolitan but precarious backdrop of the Weimar Republic, she moved to Berlin and began rounds of theatrical auditions. In 1924, through playwright Georg Kaiser, she met composer Kurt Weill – actually he had played the piano for her at an audition two years earlier but she had taken no notice of him – and they married early in 1926.

In collaboration with Bertholt Brecht, Weill wrote the leading part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) as a vehicle specifically for Lenya, and the first performance in 1928 was a big breakthrough for both of them. Soon she was very busy in the theatre, especially in works created by the Weill-Brecht team: Happy End (1929), Der Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny 1930), and Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins 1933), produced in exile in Paris.

In 1933, with the rise of Nazism and the banning of Weill’s works in Germany, both Lenya and Weill fled to France – although they were now estranged and going through a divorce (Weill was a workaholic and not especially communicative). Weill began work on an unprecedentedly ambitious spectacle-opera with text by Franz Werfel entitled Der Weg der Verheißung (The Promised Road), in the midst of which, in 1935, Lenya and Weill came to be reconciled. They emigrated together to the United States and were married again in 1937.

Lenya sang the roles of Miriam and the Witch of Endor in Weill’s new opus, now called The Eternal Road, for 153 performances at the Manhattan Opera House in early 1937. The cast included 245 actors and singers, wearing a total of 1,772 costumes, and the show – a frightening depiction of Jews hiding from a pogrom in a synagogue that included several generous slices of Biblical history – lasted over six hours. It has not been staged since.

Two successful musicals, Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and introducing the immortal “September Song,” and Lady in the Dark (with Ira Gershwin, 1941) established Kurt Weill’s reputation on Broadway, and the couple was able to move upstate to New City in Rockland County. Their marriage would last until Weill’s death in 1950.

Lenya meanwhile appeared in Anderson’s Candle in the Wind (1941). Her next role was in a Weill “operetta,” The Firebrand of Florence (1945), that was such a box-office disaster that Lenya decided to quit the stage. But in 1951, a little more than a year after her husband’s death, she returned as Xantippe in Maxwell Anderson’s short-lived Barefoot in Athens.She starred again as Jenny in the English-language revival of The Threepenny Opera (1954, 1955), winning the 1956 Tony® for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Lotte Lenya’s American film career began when she was sixty-three, with The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961), and hit a high point in 1963 when she played Rosa Klebb, the Spectre agent with poisoned blades in the toes of her boots, in From Russia with Love. She played the title role in Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder on German television in 1965, and the Gypsy in Tennessee Williams’s sleeper Ten Blocks on the Camino Real on National Education Television in 1966. The same year on Broadway she originated the role of Fräulein Schneider in Kander and Ebb’s musical Cabaret.

Lenya was married three more times in the thirty-one years between Weill’s death and her own. She established the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, which is still active in the promotion of Weill music and theatre, in 1962. Cancer was the cause of her death in 1981; she is entombed alongside Weill in a mausoleum in Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. A musical play, Lovemusik, a meditation on the relationship of these two musical and theatrical greats, was produced on Broadway in 2007.

– LEC

Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502322/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actress (10 credits)
1980 Mahagonny (voice)

1977 Semi-Tough - Clara Pelf
1974 CBS Daytime 90 (TV Series) - Rosa Harcourt
- Trio for Lovers (1974) ... Rosa Harcourt
-
1969 The Appointment - Emma Valadier
1966 Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (TV Movie) - The Gypsy
1965 Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (TV Movie) - Mutter Courage
1964 Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler (Short)
1963 From Russia with Love - Rosa Klebb
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales

1931 The 3 Penny Opera - Jenny (as Lotte Lenja)

Soundtrack (6 credits)

2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Truth Tellers at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "Alabama Song")
2016 Uncle Howard (Documentary) (performer: "September Song")
2007 The Savages (performer: "Salomon-Song")
2001 Guileless Guile (Short) (performer: "Denn wie Man sich bettet")

1997 Seven Years in Tibet (performer: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer/The Ballad of Mack the Knife")

1952 Because of My Hot Youth (performer: "Die Seeräuber-Jenny. Ur Die Dreigroschenoper")

1916: Anthony Dawson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.
(He dies 8 January 1992 at age 75--Sussex, England.)

Anthony Dawson

See the complete article here:

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

Dawson as Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No

Born Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson, 18 October 1916, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Died 8 January 1992 (aged 75), Sussex, England
Nationality British
Alma mater RADA
Occupation Actor
Years active 1940–1991

Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in British films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954) and Midnight Lace (1960), as well as playing Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No (1962). He also appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

Life
Dawson was born in Edinburgh, the son of Ida Violet (Kittel) and Eric Francis Dawson.

Career
Following RADA training and WW II service, he made his film debut in 1943's They Met in the Dark. He went on to appear in such classic British films as The Way to the Stars (1945), The Queen of Spades (1948) and The Wooden Horse (1950), before moving to America in the early 1950s.

It was while there that he appeared on Broadway in the play, and then the subsequent Alfred Hitchcock film of Dial M for Murder (1954), playing C. A. Swann/Captain Lesgate.[5][6] In the film, he is blackmailed by Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) into murdering his wife Margot (Grace Kelly). In his unpublished memoirs, Rambling Recollections, Dawson reminisced about getting the part:

... I had never met Hitchcock before, and yet he was about to do me the most fantastic good turn I could imagine. In that wonderful fat man's Cockney voice, he said, slowly, drooping every word separately, as though he had all day: 'Tony, I just called to let you know that I want you for this picture, so you're quite safe to make yourself a nice deal.' What could I say? I mumbled my thanks and put the phone down, feeling rather dazed, electrified, stunned; all of these. The full impact of this call from Hitch was very soon to come home to me.

He had two other memorable roles on his return to Britain, including the evil Marques Siniestro in Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and henchman Professor Dent in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962).[7]

Throughout his career he could often be found in the films of director Terence Young, including the aforementioned Dr. No, They Were Not Divided (1950), Valley of Eagles (1951), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), Triple Cross (1966), Red Sun (1971), Inchon (1982) and The Jigsaw Man (1983). Young also cast him as the physical presence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), stroking the ubiquitous white cat. His face was never seen, however, and Blofeld's voice was provided by Eric Pohlmann. Dawson appeared alongside fellow Bond veterans Adolfo Celi, Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee in the Italian Bond knockoff O.K. Connery.

After the early 1960s, his roles got progressively smaller, but he continued to act until his death.

Death
He died in Sussex of cancer at the age of 75 in January 1992.

Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206060/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

1991 Selling Hitler (TV Mini-Series) - Marquess of Bath
- Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Marquess of Bath
1990 The Gamblers - Roy

1988 Run for Your Life - Colonel Moorcroft
1987 Ghoulies II - Priest
1986 Pirates - Spanish Officer
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Vicar
1981 Inchon - Gen. Collins

1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - Noirtier De Villefort
1973 Massacre in Rome
1973 The Big Game - Burton (uncredited)
1972 Cool Million (TV Series) - Prefect
- Mask of Marcella (1972) ... Prefect
1972 The Valachi Papers - Federal Investigator
1971 Red Sun - Hyatt (as Tony Dawson)
1970 Deadlock - Anthony Sunshine, der alte Killer
1970 Rosolino Paternò, soldato... - Italian General

1969 The Battle of Neretva - Morelli
1968 A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof - Samuel Pratt (as Anthony M. Dawson)
1967 Dirty Heroes - American Colonel (as Anthony M. Dawson)
1967 Hell Is Empty - Paul Grant
1967 Your Turn to Die - Dr. Evans
1967 The Rover - Captain Vincent
1967 Death Rides a Horse - Burt Cavanaugh
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Alpha
1966 Triple Cross - Major Stillman (as Tony Dawson)
1966 Kaleidoscope - English Casino Manager (uncredited)
1965 Change Partners - Ben Arkwright
1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (uncredited)
1964-1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Simpson / Lucas
- A Very Dangerous Game (1965) ... Simpson
- Don't Nail Him Yet (1964) ... Lucas
1965 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Ben Arkwright
- Change Partners (1965) ... Ben Arkwright
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Officer of Dragoons
1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Mickey (uncredited)
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Colonel Nathan
- We the Hunted (1964) ... Colonel Nathan
1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavros Blofeld (as ?)
1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Harris
- Key Witness (1963) ... Harris
1962 Seven Seas to Calais - Lord Burleigh
1962 The Saint (TV Series) - Floyd Vosper
- The Arrow of God (1962) ... Floyd Vosper
1962 Dr. No - Professor Dent
1961 The Devil Inside - James Dawson
1961 Naked City (TV Series) - Mike Grundy
- A Kettle of Precious Fish (1961) ... Mike Grundy
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - George Frobisher
- I Heard You Calling Me (1961) ... George Frobisher
1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - The Marques Siniestro
1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Martin / Security Officer
- The Leak (1960) ... Martin
- The Sisters (1960) ... Security Officer
1960 Midnight Lace - Ash
1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Clouston
- Ascent to Murder (1960) ... Clouston
1960 The Valley of Decision (TV Movie)
1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Gilles Porret
- The Dennison Case (1960) ... Gilles Porret

1959 The Flying Doctor (TV Series) - Al Vintner
- The Conspiracy (1959) ... Al Vintner
1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Stranger
- Markheim (1959) ... Stranger
1959 Libel - Gerald Loddon
1959 Tiger Bay - Barclay
1958 The Haunted Strangler - Supt. Burk
1958 Dial M for Murder (TV Movie) - Captain Lesgate (Swann)
1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Sir Maurice
- Wedding Cake (1958) ... Sir Maurice
- Freeing the Serfs (1958) ... Sir Maurice
1957 Action of the Tiger - Security Officer
1957 Hour of Decision - Gary Bax
1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Count Victor Mattoni
- I Killed the Count: Part 3 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
- I Killed the Count: Part 2 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
- I Killed the Count: Part 1 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
1956 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Captain Pierre Cordier
- The Debt (1956) ... Captain Pierre Cordier
1956 The Buccaneers (TV Series) - Captain Flask
- The Hand of the Hawk (1956) ... Captain Flask
1956 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Lucas
- Blackmail (1956) ... Lucas
1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Archduke Johann Salvator
- The Mayerling Affair (1956) ... Archduke Johann Salvator
1955 London Playhouse (TV Series) - Adrian Childe
- Area Nine (1955) ... Adrian Childe
1955 That Lady - Don Inigo
1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - German
- The Bridge (1955) ... German
1954 Dial M for Murder - Charles Swann
1951-1953 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
- Beyond Reason (1953)
- Colonel Judas (1951)
1951-1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - - Of Lena Geyer (1952)
- Claire Ambler (1952)
- Top Secret (1951)
1952 The King's Author (TV Movie) - Lord Chamberlain
1951 Repertory Theatre (TV Series) - - A Little Night Music (1951)
- Women of Intrigue (1951)
1951 Valley of the Eagles - Sven Nystrom
1951 The Long Dark Hall - The Man
1951 Lucky Nick Cain - Secret Agent (uncredited)
1950 Five Angles on Murder - Inspector Wilson (uncredited)
1950 The Wooden Horse - Pomfret
1950 They Were Not Divided - Michael

1949 The Queen of Spades - Fyodor
1947 Meet Me at Dawn - First Duelling Opponent (uncredited)
1946 Secret Flight - Flt. Lt. Norton
1946 Beware of Pity - Lt. Blannik
1945 Johnny in the Clouds - Bertie Steen
1943 They Met in the Dark - 2nd Code Expert
1940 Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt - Student (uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series)
1958 The Snorkel (from "The Snorkel" by)

1939: Earl Jolly Brown is born--Houston, Texas.
(He dies 26 August 2006 at age 66--Las Vegas, Nevada.)
(Born 18 October 1939--Houston, Texas.)

Earl Jolly Brown

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Earl Jolly Brown
Born Edwin Earl Brown - October 18, 1939 - Houston, Texas
Died August 26, 2006 (aged 66) - Clark County, Las Vegas, Nevada
Occupation Actor
Years active 1973-1990

Edwin Earl "Jolly" Brown (October 18, 1939 – August 26, 2006) was an American actor.

Brown's best known role was as Whisper, a henchman in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. Other film appearances include Black Belt Jones (1974), Truck Turner (1974) and Linda Lovelace for President (1975). He was also active on television, with credits including Perry Mason, The Odd Couple, and Laverne and Shirley.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1973 Live and Let Die - Whisper
1974 Black Belt Jones - Jelly
1974 Truck Turner - Overweight Bar Patron Uncredited
1975 Linda Lovelace for President - Polmes
1984 Beverly Hills Cop - Bar Patron Uncredited

Earl Jolly Brown (1939–2006)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113484/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t12

1979: Moonraker released in Belgium.

1985: Od nišana do smrti (Serbian, Croatian) and Od tarče do smrti (Slovenian) released in Yugoslavia.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 25 of 65 - "It's All in the Timing" in Switzerland.

James Bond Jr - It's All in the Timing

Season 1 - Episode 25
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807104/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Dr. Derange's plot threatens to stop the rotation of the Earth. It's up to James Bond, IQ and a Swiss police officer to stop him. Elsewhere, Trevor Noseworthy cheats in the bicycle race in Bern by using IQ's bicycle motor on his bike.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 25 - It's All in the Timing

2008: The "Quantum of Solace" single charts at #15 on the Canadian Hot 100, mostly on downloads.

2017: Dynamite Comics publishes James Bond Kill Chain #4 (of 6).
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #4
(OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017804011

Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: October 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/18

As 007 closes in on rogue agent Rika Van De Havik, a deadly drone attack strikes at the heart of Europe. Russia's covert ops agency SMERSH is plotting to split NATO - by pitting Britain's MI6 against the CIA!

2021: Anthony Lane in The New Yorker writes about One For the The Road and "James Bond's Heavy Heart in No Time To Die". (Spoilers)

James Bond’s Heavy
Heart in “No Time to
Die”

Cary Joji Fukunaga’s relentlessly self-referential film, with
Daniel Craig making his last bow as Bond, is often exciting,
but there’s something inward and agonized about the thrills.

See the complete article here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/james-bonds-heavy-heart-in-no-time-to-die

Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film stars Daniel Craig, in his final appearance as James Bond, and Léa Seydoux. Illustration by Clément Soulmagnon
By Anthony Lane | October 8, 2021

A big welcome back to 007. The news is that nothing much has changed, and all the fixtures and fittings are in place. The license to kill, and the supple deployment of weaponry. The occasional whip of a wisecrack. The prime spot in the cockpit of an aircraft. The Aston Martin. The dress sense. The knockout shades. No question about it: she’s the right woman for the job.

As we are reminded by the latest chapter in the franchise, “No Time to Die,” 007 is not a person so much as a designated slot. Once vacated, it fills up like a parking space. Thus, when James Bond (Daniel Craig)—male, pale, and staled by years of trouncing megalomaniacs—goes off the grid, his prized 00 number is taken by Nomi (Lashana Lynch), who is proud, Black, younger than springtime, and much amused by the autumnal state of her predecessor. “You get in my way, I will put a bullet in your knee,” she says to him, adding, “The one that works.” Harsh.

They meet in Jamaica, whither Bond has retired. (Lord knows what he does all day. Maybe he sets off with a pair of binoculars, a packed lunch, and a copy of Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, the American ornithologist from whom Ian Fleming, another Jamaica resident, pinched the name.) Nomi is on the trail of villainy, and Bond has been asked to follow the same scent—not by the British government but by the C.I.A., in the person of Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Who’d have guessed that the cream of Her Majesty’s spies would end up being milked by Uncle Sam? Is that why the opening credits show the symbolic figure of Britannia, with her trusty shield, falling into a giant hourglass and slipping away into the sands of time?

The film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, runs almost two and three-quarter hours. That’s a lot of movie, longer than some recordings of the St. Matthew Passion, but Fukunaga has a lot of ground to cover. He begins, if you please, with a flashback to the childhood of a secondary character—not, alas, the infant Q, solemnly building particle accelerators out of Lego bricks, but a young French girl who will grow up to be Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the heroine of the previous Bond adventure, “Spectre” (2015).

We now learn that Madeleine, as befits her doubly Proustian name, was marked for life by a potent early experience: the slaying of her mother by Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), who has a scratchy voice and an unfortunate skin condition. Later, fulfilling the standard brief of a Bond baddie, Safin will occupy an island lair and hatch plans to dominate the planet. Needless to say, if only our leading nations had clubbed together to buy him a pot of moisturizer, the whole crisis could have been avoided.

At the conclusion of “Spectre,” Bond beetled off toward Big Ben in his Aston Martin DB5, with the adult Madeleine at his side. The new film finds him in the same car, with the same passenger, in a slightly trickier environment: a hilltop town in Italy, with his enemies circling and his bulletproof windows starred but not yet broken by incoming fire. It’s the perfect moment not just for Bond to ask Madeleine, whom he suspects of betraying him, what the hell’s going on but also for Craig, in his last bow as Bond, to demonstrate what he has brought to the role. Relaxed under pressure, and pressurized by the need to relax, he has the action man’s dread of inactivity. Suits and tuxedos don’t really become him, even if they fit him, until they are bloodied and torn. Craig has been the right Bond for our times, grudging with his charm—barely a virtue nowadays—and nourished by a steady supply of traumas. He has a sense of humor, yet one-liners embarrass him, for the world is too laughably treacherous to be fobbed off with a joke. Even love seems to toughen him up.

To whom or what, then, can Bond be true? To his country? Returning to M.I.6, he is obliged to give his name at security and is handed a plastic nametag. On the way out, in the office of Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), he tosses the tag into the trash: a bitter coda to the memory of Sean Connery, deftly lobbing his hat onto the hat stand. Worse still, Bond learns that M (Ralph Fiennes), usually the solid soul of wisdom, has overseen a secret project called Heracles, which will allow Britain’s foes (unspecified, but possibly the European Union, in a war over sausage exports) to be targeted with nasty nanobots. Safin, naturally, gets hold of Heracles, and prepares to unleash it everywhere. It’s up to Bond—with a little help from Q (Ben Whishaw), the Royal Navy, the loyal Nomi, and, yes, a submersible glider—to save the day. Plus, if possible, himself.

There are many surprises in “No Time to Die.” The major ones I would scorn to reveal, even if you trained a laser on my undercarriage or suspended me over a tank of unfed sharks. Less important, but equally unexpected, are the glitches in continuity: Bond driving directly from labyrinthine Italian streets to a railroad station, on the flat, in what looks like another town entirely, or emerging from a foggy Norwegian forest into a nice bright day. A happier shock is the disclosure that Q has a cat, of the hairless variety. (“You know, they come with fur these days,” Bond remarks.) Maybe Q had cats all along—pussies galore!—and kept us in the dark.

The plot, too, is crawling with twists, yet we soon grasp, all too clearly, where it’s heading: du côté de chez Swann. It turns out that Madeleine has a daughter, named Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet). “She’s not yours,” Madeleine says to Bond, reassuringly, yet the kid does have blue eyes, like his, and he is so drawn to her that, in the heat of the finale, he—the sort of fellow who used to blow up a volcano before breakfast—pauses to retrieve her knitted toy, Dou Dou, and tucks it into his suspenders. Lucky for Dou Dou, of course, but what does this herald for the brand of Bond? Everyone agrees that the age of the ladykiller is dead, unmourned, but are we ready for Bond the babysitter?

Fans will fret, and, as if to assuage them, Fukunaga piles on the retro treats: a guest appearance from Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), for one thing, and multiple morsels of Bonds past. As in “Skyfall” (2012), someone is trapped under a frozen lake, and the bunker where Safin breeds his toxins resembles the mega-garage where the madman in “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977) parked his stolen submarines. In a tribute to “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), we get an Aston Martin DBS, a reprise of Louis Armstrong in the end credits, and, during a conversation between Bond and M beside the Thames, a gentle echo of John Barry’s electronic score. (How I miss Barry. Would the myth of Bond even have survived without him?) As a valediction to Craig, though, “No Time to Die” leans so relentlessly on his earlier Bond films that anyone who never saw them, or failed to take copious notes, will be stranded. You mean you’ve forgotten that Madeleine’s father was Mr. White, introduced in “Casino Royale” (2006)? Shame on you!

The problem with “No Time to Die” is that it’s all about itself, and the tug of its own origins. Such is the current mode: we live under the spell of long-form television, and of the Marvel universe, both of which woo us with recurring characters and reward us for the stamina of our emotional investment. You could argue that no form has been longer than Bond’s, but the changes of cast—the actors playing 007, M, Q, Moneypenny, and Blofeld—have refreshed the fun, and each movie, by and large, has stood alone. Not so the new film, which throbs with old wounds. It’s often exciting, but there’s something inward and agonized about the thrills, and the insouciance of Connery’s epoch, for better or worse, seems like ancient history. “No Time to Die” has a heavy heart, and right now, more than ever, we could use a light one. As we trickle back to cinemas, is it merely frivolous to hope that a James Bond flick should leave us feeling cheered up?

Still, let us give thanks for what we have. Listen to M, for a start, as he issues a command: “Q, hack into Blofeld’s bionic eye”—a strong candidate for the most Bond-tastic line ever spoken. (Top marks to Fiennes for saying it with a straight face.) Best and blithest of all is Bond’s trip to Cuba, where he teams up with a novice agent named Paloma. She is played by Ana de Armas, who is Havana-born, and who consorted so nimbly with Craig in “Knives Out” (2019). Now, in evening dress, and in extreme peril, Paloma and Bond have to shoot their way out of trouble, though not before pausing for a brace of vodka Martinis. Paloma drains most of hers in a single glug. Mid-mayhem, they pause again to refuel, with a quick tot of something at the bar, before getting back to work. What bliss: in the depths of a wry and disconsolate film, it’s like watching Fred and Ginger. “You were excellent,” Bond tells Paloma as they part. She smiles and replies, “You, too.” And so say all of us. ♦

Published in the print edition of the October 18, 2021, issue, with the headline “One for the Road.”
Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. He is the author of Nobody’s Perfect.

RichardTheBruce

October 19th

1931: Ian Fleming begins his association with Reuters.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

...On 7 October Ian travelled along
the Thames to the Reuters office on the Embankent at the end of
Carmelite Street, close to Blackfriars Bridge. There, on the first floor, he
was interviewed again, and then by Cecil Fleetwood May, a wireless technician
who, following the introduction of the City ticker-tape three years earlier,
was beginning to develop the business information side of the service.
Both were impressed by the young man's qualities. Rickatson-Hiatt, a
former Coldstream Guards officer, with a clipped moustache and a
monacle, had worked with Associated Press in the United States and was
keen to introduce AP's speed and efficiency to European news-gathering
operations. He reported to Jones that Ian was "quite the right type and
seemed most intelligent". He added, "After leaving Eton, he went to
Sandhurst. He will therefore know the value and importance of discipline."
Rickatson-Hiatt suggested that Ian should be hired initially on a trial basis
for one month without pay.

The aspiring young journalist started work at Reuters on Monday, 19
October 1931. In the circumstances, Ian was particularly anxious to do
well and within a couple of days Rickatson-Hiatt was commending the
new recruit to Sir Roderick. His only negative comment was that Ian
suffered from a slight Foreign Office "bum". He promised, however, that
"you can depend on us to put some pep into him before many days have
gone by." The Reuters chef also had Ian's praises heaped on him from
another source. Ever mindful of her maternal duties, Eve Fleming wrote
to thank him for taking her son on, gushing, "He has great character and
is supposed to be very intelligent, though I ought not to say so!" She
dissembled slightly when she said she was disappointed that Ian was
not trying again for the Forein Office since he had never been expected
to get in first time round.

After his month's trial, Ian was judged a success and offered a permanent
post at a salary of £150 a year. ...

1931: Spy novelist John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) is born--Poole, Dorset, England.
(He dies 12 December 2020 at age 89--Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, England.

Ian Fleming vs John Le Carré

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https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/ian-fleming-vs-john-le-carre-anthony-horowitz-and-david-farr/

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Following the wild popularity of our previous cultural combat events, Intelligence Squared turned to the two giants of spy fiction. Which of them should wear the laurels?

They are the titans of the spy novel, who have elevated thrillers to the level of literary fiction. Much imitated, much adapted by the big and small screens, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré have painted our picture of post-war espionage: Fleming through the dashing figure of James Bond, with his lush locations and Martinis as icy as his heart; Le Carré through his damning portrait of the British secret service drawn from his own time in MI5 and MI6. But which of the two novelists is the greater?

In this thrilling contest, Fleming’s case was made by Anthony Horowitz, creator of the bestselling Alex Rider spy novels and author of the official Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis. Championing Le Carré – whose memoir about his life as a former spy currently sits in the bestseller lists – was David Farr, Emmy-nominated screenwriter of the BBC’s adaptation of The Night Manager.

‘Fleming is one of the very few writers – Charles Dickens and JK Rowling might be two others – who have transcended fiction, who have created stories that capture a particular time and place, that are universally recognisable and that are, it would seem, immortal,’ says Horowitz. ‘George Smiley is a fascinating character. James Bond is an icon. That’s the difference.’

By contrast, pointing to Le Carré’s own experiences in the secret service, Farr says: ‘John Le Carré turns espionage into existentialism. His canvas is betrayal — of the realm and of the heart. His greatness comes from the personal nature of that exploration.’

To illustrate their arguments, Horowitz and Farr called on a cast of actors to bring the novels to life.

Featuring
Anthony Horowitz, Bestselling author
David Farr. Screenwriter, playwright and director
Simon Callo, Acclaimed actor, writer and director
Matthew Lewis, Film, television and stage actor
Alex Macqueen, One of the UK’s best known comedy actors
Lesley Manville, Bafta-nominated film and theatre actress

Chair
Erica Wagner, Author and novelist

Ian Fleming vs John le Carré (1:27:08)

1964: Comic strip for Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 October.)
1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond getting married.

1988: Licence to Kill films villain Sanchez explaining his caper.

2005: IGN interviews Martin Campbell on Casino Royale.

Interview: Campbell on Casino
Royale
The director talks Bond!

https://uk.ign.com/articles/2005/10/19/interview-campbell-on-casino-royale
By Jeff Otto | 19 Oct 2005 2:48 pm

The James Bond news machine is heating up with the recent announcement (finally!) of the lead actor to portray Bond in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig. The film is to begin shooting soon and the release date is now set for November 17, 2006.

This weekend IGN FilmForce had the chance to question Royale helmer Martin Campbell at the press day for his latest film, the upcoming Sony sequel Legend of Zorro, which releases on the 28th of this month.

Though Campbell and everyone else involved is still remaining tight-lipped about the specifics of James Bonds' 21st big screen adventure (not counting the original Casino Royale or Never Say Never Again), Campbell answered as many questions as he could this weekend and shed at least a bit of light on the upcoming spy flick.

Craig as Bond

Q: Did you have any input in the selection of Mr. Craig?

MARTIN CAMPBELL: Oh, yeah.


Q. Is there going to be anything of the novel in the movie?

CAMPBELL: A lot of it, yeah.

Q: How are you going to handle the genital flogging scene from the book?

CAMPBELL: Very interesting. You're the second person who's asked that. I think I'll do it in close up. (Laughs) There are a lot of women who will love that. I've got to get PG-13, so it's a very interesting dilemma.

Q: Every time they have gone from a popular Bond and replaced him, the films have not been as successful. How do you avoid that?

CAMPBELL: I dunno. You just do the best movie you can make. It's as simple as that.

Q: Why do you think Craig will make a great Bond?

CAMPBELL: Because, first of all, he's a great actor. And I think it's in Casino Royale, where Fleming said he looked like Hoagie Carmichael, which is a very interesting comparison. And he's a very interesting looking guy and I think he has all the attributes to make a grittier and tougher bond. A much more interesting – just different and more interesting in my view.

Q[/b]: It seems every time they say that the story is overwhelmed by all those gadgets.

CAMPBELL: Well, first of all there are no gadgets in the first one. So, how about that?

Q: So is it mostly the title being used and the basic plot rather than specifics from the book?

CAMPBELL: The only thing you can't use from the book – I don't know how many of you have read it – it was written in 1953 [and] was set against the Cold War. In fact, it was the first one that involves Smersh, and we've obviously had to change that. But, essentially the book remains pretty much in tact. The whole game takes place. La Chiffre is the bad guy, who was the bad guy there. Your genital whacking scene, whomever came up with that, that all remains. So, it's pretty much the last 2/3rds of the movie will be like the book. And Bond will fall in love with Vesper Lynd, as he does in the book. He's just got his 007 stripes when he gets into the story so he's got some rough edges on him to begin with and hopefully, by the end of it, he'll become the 007 we all know and love.

Martin Campbell on the set of
the first Zorro with Anthony Hopkins
and Antonio Banderas

Q: Does it restart the franchise?

CAMPBELL: Yeah, I guess so.

Q: Does this mean you start remaking the other movies?

CAMPBELL: That's exactly the same question I asked them. When's the point you start re-making Dr. No? Who knows? No, this is the last book they are filming. Because, all the rest have been done.

Q: Do you think the re-start of Batman Begins had to do with this?

CAMPBELL: No, I think they always wanted to get the book and they never have been able to till just recently. Now they have the book. I think Cubby, Barbara, said Cubby always wanted to make the book. They made one. Not a good movie. A spoof with five bonds, which Ursula Andress was one, by the way.

Q: Have you cast any of the new Bond girls?

CAMPBELL: Not yet. We were more worried about casting Bond…

Q: Is there a chance Judi Dench will return as M?

CAMPBELL: Yeah, we're discussing that at the moment. Yeah, maybe.

Q: Did you talk to Pierce about coming back?

CAMPBELL: No, that wasn't my choice. That was over before I came into those discussions as they were.

Q: When is it going to start?

CAMPBELL: End of January. I hope!

Q: Do they have a release date?

CAMPBELL: Yes, November.

2008: BBC airs the documentary Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began.

2009: Joseph Wiseman dies at age 91--Manhattan, New York City, New York.
(Born 15 May 1918--Montreal, Quebec, Canada.)

Joseph Wiseman obituary

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/20/joseph-wiseman-obituary

Versatile character actor best remembered on screen as James
Bond's adversary Dr No
Ronald Bergan | Tue 20 Oct 2009 13.33 EDT

‘I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery,’ said Wiseman of his role in Dr No.

Despite the fact that Joseph Wiseman, who has died aged 91, appeared in dozens of movies and countless TV series and had only 20 minutes of screen time in Dr No (1962), it is for his performance in that film, as the eponymous adversary to James Bond in the first movie of the series, based on the books by Ian Fleming, that he will best be remembered.

Dressed in a white Nehru jacket with a pair of shiny black, prosthetic hands, the result of a "misfortune", Wiseman was cool and calculating as the half-German, half-Chinese arch enemy of 007, played by Sean Connery, and one of the most effective of Bond villains. Dr Julius No is a member of Spectre – the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. "The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains in the world," he explains. "Correction. Criminal brains," says Bond. "A successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be," retorts Dr No.

Wiseman was fortunate that Noël Coward, a friend and neighbour of Fleming's in Jamaica, where the film was set, turned the role down, saying, "Doctor No? No. No. No." Of his most famous role, Wiseman said: "I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I had no idea it would achieve the success it did. I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them. As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery."

Wiseman was born in Montreal, Canada, and his family subsequently moved to the US. He started his acting career on stage in his late teens, making his Broadway debut as part of the ensemble in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), with Raymond Massey in the title role. There followed parts in three plays by Maxwell Anderson: Journey to Jerusalem (1940), Candle in the Wind (1941) and Joan of Lorraine (1946), and he was the eunuch Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), directed by and starring Kathleen Cornell.

But it was his role on stage in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story (1949) that launched his film career, during which he typically played slightly crazy off-beat characters. Wiseman, in a loud striped suit, was both sleazy and comic as the lowlife burglar, becoming hysterical when interrogated by overzealous policeman Ralph Bellamy. He repeated the role in William Wyler's 1951 film version, starring Kirk Douglas, without toning down his manic stage performance.

This coiled-up energy proved to be highly effective in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952), in which he played the opportunistic journalist and agent provocateur who finally betrays Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando). He continued to steal scenes in two rather risible biblical epics, as an imposing priest in The Silver Chalice (1954), Paul Newman's debut picture, and as a wily beggar in The Prodigal (1955). Around the same time, Wiseman was able to reveal more of his talent on stage. He played Edmund to Louis Calhern's King Lear; the gangster Eddie Fuselli in a revival of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (1952), and The Inquisitor in Jean Anouih's The Lark (1955), with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc.

In 1960, returning to movies, Wiseman had a typically flashy role as a one-eyed, deranged itinerant evangelist armed with the "Sword of God" in John Huston's western The Unforgiven. Then, in 1962, came The Happy Thieves, in which, third-billed after Rita Hayworth and Rex Harrison, he seemed to have some fun as a master forger, and the infamous Dr No. It was six years before Wiseman made another movie.

Making up for lost time, he appeared in seven films within a few years. Apart from playing ruthless Italian gangsters in Stiletto (1969) and The Valachi Papers (1972), Wiseman created a niche for himself portraying a variety of Jewish characters. In The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Wiseman is the bemused Jewish owner of the notorious burlesque theatre, who disapproves of his son's introducing striptease.

Bye Bye Braverman (1968) saw him as a pedantic lecturer on his way to a friend's funeral. Of his performance, Time magazine wrote that Wiseman "wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried ham … What picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical littérateur … As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity."

Back in Canada for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Wiseman played a Trotskyite owner of a blouse factory, who calls his nephew (Richard Dreyfuss) "a pushy Jewish boy".

On Broadway, Wiseman originated the role of LeDuc, a Jewish psychotherapist, in Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy (1964), who asserts that "the Jew is only the name we give to that stranger within everyone". Also on Broadway was his Drama Desk award-winning performance in the title role of In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer (1969).

Wiseman continued to be active on television throughout his career, notably in Crime Story (1986-88) as the menacing gang boss Manny Weisbord. In his later years, Wiseman would often give readings of Yiddish writers, and his last stage performance was in 2002 at a gala concert called Yiddish in America at the New York town hall. His last Broadway appearance had been the previous year, as a prosecution witness in Abby Mann's stage adaptation of his film drama Judgment at Nuremberg.

Wiseman's first marriage, to Nell Kennard, ended in divorce, and he is survived by his daughter, Martha, by that marriage, and his sister Ruth. His second wife, the dancer, teacher and choreographer Pearl Lang, died last February.

•Joseph Wiseman, actor, born 15 May 1918; died 19 October 2009

Joseph Wiseman (1918–2009)
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Filmography

Actor (95 credits)

1996 Law & Order (TV Series) - Seymour Bergreen
- Family Business (1996) ... Seymour Bergreen
1994 A Passover Seder (Video short) - Grandfather
1994 L.A. Law (TV Series) - Isidore Schoen
- Finish Line (1994) ... Isidore Schoen
1992 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Julius Schiff
- For Better or Perverse (1992) ... Julius Schiff

1989 MacGyver (TV Series) - Joe Catano
- The Battle of Tommy Giordano (1989) ... Joe Catano
1988 Lady Mobster (TV Movie) - Victor Castle
1986-1988 Crime Story (TV Series) - Manny Weisbord
- The Hearings (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
- Last Rites (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
- Little Girl Lost (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
- Shockwaves (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
- Atomic Fallout (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
... 18 episodes
1986 Seize the Day - Dr. Adler
1985 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Eddie Vanessi
- The Confirmation Day (1985) ... Eddie Vanessi
1984 The A-Team (TV Series) - Zeke Westerland
- The Bells of St. Mary's (1984) ... Zeke Westerland
1984 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Judge Leopold Wapter
- The Ghost Writer (1984) ... Judge Leopold Wapter
1983 Rage of Angels (TV Movie) - Antonio Granelli
1983 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Dr. Albert Tessa
- Birdman of Budapest (1983) ... Dr. Albert Tessa
1981 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - James J. Beck
- Don't Mess Around with Jim (1981) ... James J. Beck
1981 Masada (TV Mini-Series) - Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part IV (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part III (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part II (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part I (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
1980 Freebie and the Bean (TV Series) - Dr. Dorf
- Health Nuts (1980) ... Dr. Dorf

1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Carl Morphus
- Vegas in Space (1979) ... Carl Morphus
1979 Jaguar Lives! - Ben Ashir
1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - King Draco
1978 The Betsy - Jake / Angelo's uncle
1977 Murder at the World Series (TV Movie) - Sam Druckman
1976 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) - Barbado
- The Thrill Killers: Part 2 (1976) ... Barbado
- The Thrill Killers: Part 1 (1976) ... Barbado
1975 Journey Into Fear - Colonel Haki
1975 Zalmen: or, The Madness of God (TV Movie) - Rabbi
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Morris Cady
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Morris Cady
1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Uncle Benjy
1974 The Suicide Club (TV Movie)
1974 Men of the Dragon (TV Movie) - Balashev
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Hon Chi Kai
- The Illusion of the Lost Dragon (1974) ... Hon Chi Kai
1973 If I Had a Million (TV Movie)
1971-1973 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Gilford / Big Julio
- The Pay-Off (1973) ... Gilford
- Bitter Harbor (1971) ... Big Julio
1973 Nightside (TV Movie) - Grudin
1973 The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) - Mr. Silverado
- Suicide Club (1973) ... Mr. Silverado
1972 Pursuit (TV Movie) - Dr. Nordman
1972 McCloud (TV Series) - Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
- Fifth Man in a String Quartet (1972) ... Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Armand Pringle
- Operation: White Fire (1972) ... Armand Pringle
1972 The Valachi Papers - Salvatore Maranzano
1971 Lawman - Lucas
1970 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
- Room with a View/The Little Black Bag/The Nature of the Enemy (1970) ... Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
1970 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Lev
- They Have Taken Over (1970) ... Lev
1970 The Mask of Sheba (TV Movie) - Fandil Bondalok

1969 Stiletto - Emilio Matteo
1968 The Night They Raided Minsky's - Louis Minsky
1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Rajeski
1968 Bye Bye Braverman - Felix Ottensteen
1967 The Outsider (TV Movie) - Ernest Grimes
1967 Coronet Blue (TV Series) - Rudi Nateseh
- The Presence of Evil (1967) ... Rudi Nateseh
1966 T.H.E. Cat (TV Series) - Prince Nicky Cavalcante
- The System (1966) ... Prince Nicky Cavalcante
1966 Preview Tonight (TV Series) - Pharaoh
- Great Bible Adventures: Seven Rich Years and Seven Lean (1966) ... Pharaoh
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Rajeski
- The Faceless Man (1966) ... Rajeski
1966 The Legend of Jesse James (TV Series) - Captain Hammel
- The Last Stand of Captain Hammel (1966) ... Captain Hammel
1964 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Jim Case
- The Santiago Quesada Story (1964) ... Jim Case
1963-1964 Quest (TV Series) - Eli Peck
- Eli, the Fanatic (1964) ... Eli Peck
- Eulogy (1963)
1962 Dr. No - Dr. No
1962 The New Breed (TV Series) - Clayton Grimes
- Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? (1962) ... Clayton Grimes
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Paul Radin
- One More Pallbearer (1962) ... Paul Radin
1961 The Happy Thieves - Jean Marie Calbert
1961 Festival (TV Series) - Prisoner / Messenger
- The Police (1961) ... Prisoner
- The Dybbuk (1961) ... Messenger
1960-1961 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Russell Shield / Albert Maris
- The Antidote (1961) ... Russell Shield
- The Tommy Karpeles Story (1960) ... Albert Maris
1961 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Manson
- A Possibility of Oil (1961) ... Manson
1960 The Westerner (TV Series) - 'Serafin'
- Ghost of a Chance (1960) ... 'Serafin'
1958-1960 Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series) - Lurgan / Sorcerer
- Kim (1960) ... Lurgan
- The Wild Swans (1958) ... Sorcerer
1960 The Unforgiven - Abe Kelsey
1960 CBS Repertoire Workshop (TV Series) - Anton
- Tessie Malfitano and Anton Waldek (1960) ... Anton

1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) - Lepke Buchalter
- Lepke (1959) ... Lepke Buchalter
1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Torok
- The Derelict (1959) ... Torok
1956-1959 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) - Max Gebler / Antonio
- False Alarm (1959) ... Max Gebler
- Twice in Peril (1956) ... Antonio
1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Dr. Newland
- Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
- Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
1958 Rendezvous (TV Series) - - Alone (1958)
1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Max Gebler
- False Alarm (1958) ... Max Gebler
1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) - Hosea
- The Prophet Hosea (1958) ... Hosea
1957 Suspicion (TV Series)
- The Deadly Game (1957)
1957 The Garment Jungle - George Kovan
1957 Studio 57 (TV Series)
- You Take Ballistics (1957)
1956 Three Brave Men - Jim Barron
1956 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Will Prentiss
- The Marked Bullet (1956) ... Will Prentiss
1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series)
- Darkness at Noon (1955)
1954-1955 Ponds Theater (TV Series) - Death
- Billy Budd (1955)
- Death Takes a Holiday (1954) ... Death
- Arrowsmith (1954)
1955 The Prodigal - Carmish
1954 The Silver Chalice - Mijamin
1954 Justice (TV Series) - Vincent Wilbec
- Terror on the Tracks (1954) ... Vincent Wilbec
1954 Inner Sanctum (TV Series) - Insurance Inspector
- Ghost Mail (1954) ... Insurance Inspector
1954 Medallion Theatre (TV Series)
- Contact with the West (1954)
1950-1954 Suspense (TV Series)
- The Fourth Degree (1954)
- Criminals Mark (1950)
1953 The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series) - Baroff
- Brandenburg Gate (1953) ... Baroff
1953 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
- Tour of Duty (1953)
1953 Champ for a Day - Dominic Guido
1953 Danger (TV Series)
- Circus Story (1953)
1953 Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series)
- Lazarus Walks (1953)
- The Squeeze Play (1953)
1952 Frontiers of Faith (TV Series)
- As a Wind That Blows (1952)
1952 Les Miserables - Genflou
1951-1952 Lights Out (TV Series) - The Croupier
- Man in the Dark (1952)
- The Deal (1951) ... The Croupier
1952 Viva Zapata! - Fernando Aguirre
1951 Detective Story - Charley Gennini
1950 With These Hands - Mike Deleo

2010: Clement Graham Crowden dies at age 87--Edinburgh, Scotland.
(Born 30 November 1922--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

Graham Crowden (1922–2010)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189561/

2010: During pre-production, writer Peter Morgan exits the BOND 23 project leaving an unfinished film treatment.

2016: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond #11 Eidolon Chapter 5.
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #11

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181811011
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: October 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/19

EIDOLON, CHAPTER 5: Eidolon have M and Moneypenny, in a remote safehouse, with no hope of backup, no aid on the way, and no sign of James Bond. Fear and paranoia and the collapse of governmental structure are in sight. Britain is going back to the Dark Ages and SPECTRE, finally, have won.

2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond - Big Things in hardcover, collects James Bond 1 - 6 (2019).
Eric Gapstur, Erica D'Urso, Brent Peeples, Marco Renna, artists. Vita Ayala, Danny Lore, writers.

Enjoy Our Colossal Twenty-Two Page Preview For
Dynamite Comics’ ‘James Bond: Big Things’ HC

https://www.comicon.com/2021/10/03/enjoy-our-colossal-twenty-two-page-preview-for-dynamite-comics-james-bond-big-things-hc/
by Olly MacNamee

Cover by Jim Cheung
Written by Vita Ayala, Danny Lore
Art by Eric Gapstur

“When a priceless piece of art is found to be fake, investigations lead down a rabbit hole of international crime and corruption. But what the hell does James Bond know about the world of art forgery?

Agent 007 is a loner, by nature. But finally, he accepts that he needs help. But will trusting someone else help his mission…or lead to the deaths of innocents?

Collects issues #1-#6 of James Bond (2019).”

https://www.comicon.com/2021/10/03/enjoy-our-colossal-twenty-two-page-preview-for-dynamite-comics

2021: Leslie Bricusse dies at age 90--Saint Paul de Vence, France.
(Born 29 January 1931--Pinner, Greater London, England.)

Leslie Bricusse, OBE

See the complete article here:

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

Leslie Bricusse, OBE (29 January 1931 – 19 October 2021) was a British composer, lyricist, and playwright who worked on theater musicals and wrote theme music for films. He was best known for writing the music and lyrics for the films Doctor Dolittle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Scrooge, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, the songs "Goldfinger", "You Only Live Twice", "Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman, and "Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria.

Early life and education
Born in Pinner, Middlesex (now a northwest London suburb), Bricusse was educated at University College School in London and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he was Secretary of Footlights between 1952 and 1953 and Footlights President during the following year.

Career
In the 1960s and 1970s, Bricusse enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Anthony Newley. They wrote the musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1961), which was the basis for 1966 film version. Also in collaboration with Newley, Bricusse wrote the show The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965) and music for the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's book by Roald Dahl. For the latter, they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song Score. When he collaborated with Newley, the two men referred to themselves as the team of "Brickman and Newburg", with "Newburg" concentrating mainly on the music and "Brickman" on the lyrics. Ian Fraser often did their arrangements.

Working solely as a lyricist, he collaborated with composer Cyril Ornadel on Pickwick (1963), based on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. His later collaborators included with Henry Mancini (Victor/Victoria in 1982 and Tom and Jerry: The Movie in 1992) and John Williams (Hook in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the film, Doctor Dolittle (1967), which flopped at the box-office, receiving an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Talk to the Animals"), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).

Sammy Davis Jr. had hits with two songs by Bricusse, "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off) and "The Candy Man" (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) which became a No. 1 hit. Other recording artists who recorded successful versions of his songs include Nina Simone ("Feeling Good"), Matt Monro and Frank Sinatra ("My Kind of Girl"), Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger"), Harry Secombe ("If I Ruled the World"), Nancy Sinatra ("You Only Live Twice"), The Turtles ("A Guide for the Married Man"), Maureen McGovern ("Can You Read My Mind"), and Diana Krall ("When I Look in Your Eyes"). Bricusse partnered with George Tipton to write the opening theme of the U.S. television sitcom It's a Living.

Pure Imagination: The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, devised and directed by Bruce Kimmel, opened at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013. In 2015, it went to the St James Theatre, London.

On 29 October 2001, Bricusse received an OBE for services to the film industry and the theatre from Queen Elizabeth II at a Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony.
Personal life

Bricusse resided in California and was married to actress Yvonne Romain[8] and had a son, Adam.

Bricusse died on 19 October 2021 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France at the age of 90.[9][10]

Works
Musicals
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (with Anthony Newley) (1961) – includes "Once in a Lifetime" and "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
Pickwick – with Cyril Ornadel (1963)
The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (with Newley) (1965) – includes "Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)?" and "Feeling Good"
Doctor Dolittle (1967) – includes "Talk to the Animals"
Sweet November (with Newley)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

Scrooge (with Ian Fraser; Herbert W. Spencer, 1970) – includes "Thank You Very Much"
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (with Newley, 1971)
Beyond the Rainbow (lyrics only, 1978)[14]
The Good Old Bad Old Days (with Newley, 1974)
Peter Pan (television, with Newley, 1976)

Victor Victoria (film with Henry Mancini, 1982)
Babes in Toyland (1986 film) (with Newley, 1986)
Sherlock Holmes: The Musical – book, music, and lyrics by Bricusse (1989)

Hook (with John Williams) (1991) – includes "When You're Alone"
Jekyll & Hyde (lyrics only, 1990/1994/1997)
Scrooge (1992 stage musical)
Victor/Victoria (1995 Broadway musical)
Doctor Dolittle (1998 stage musical)

Cyrano (2009, Tokyo, with Frank Wildhorn)
Sammy (2009) – Old Globe Theatre

Songs
Source:
"Out of Town" with Robin Beaumont (1956)

"My Kind of Girl" (1961)
"What Kind of Fool Am I?" with Anthony Newley (1963)
"Who Can I Turn To" with Anthony Newley (1964)
"Feeling Good" with Anthony Newley (1964)
"Goldfinger" (with John Barry and Anthony Newley) from Goldfinger (1964)
"A Guide for the Married Man" (with John Williams) from the film A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
"You Only Live Twice" (with Barry) from You Only Live Twice (1967)
"Two for the Road" (with Henry Mancini) from Two for the Road (1967)
"Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle (1967)
"Your Zowie Face" for film In Like Flint, music by Jerry Goldsmith (1967)
"Fill The World With Love" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) originally sung by Petula Clark and also popularised by Richard Harris
"You and I" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) sung by Petula Clark, Barbara Cook, and Michael Feinstein

"Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge (1970)
"Candy Man" and "Pure Imagination" (with Newley) from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
"Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman (1978)
"Move Em Out" (with Henry Mancini) from Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

"Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria (1982)
"Making Toys", "Every Christmas Eve/Santa's Theme (Giving)", "It's Christmas Again", "Patch! Natch!" and "Thank You, Santa!" (with Henry Mancini) from Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
"Life in a Looking Glass" (with Henry Mancini) from That's Life! (1986)

"Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone (with John Williams) (1990)
"When You're Alone", "We Don't Wanna Grow Up" from Hook (with John Williams) (1991)
"Christmas at Hogwarts" (with John Williams) in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
"The Perfect Song" (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) for Michael Ball.

Awards
Academy Award
Best Original Song, 1968 – "Talk to the Animals"
Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1982 - Victor/Victoria
Grammy Award
Song of the Year, 1963 – "What Kind of Fool Am I"
Songwriters Hall of Fame[18]

Nominations
Tony Award
Best Musical, 1963 – Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
Tony Award for Best Score, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical, 1965 – "The Roar of Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd"
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1997 – "Jekyll & Hyde"
Academy Awards
Original Music Score, 1967 – Doctor Dolittle
Original Music Score, 1969 – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Original Song Score, 1970 – Scrooge
Best Original Song, 1970 – "Thank You Very Much"
Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1971 – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Best Original Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass"
Best Original Song, 1990 – "Somewhere in My Memory"
Best Original Song, 1991 – "When You're Alone"
Golden Raspberry Award
Worst 'Original' Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass" (lyrics)

Sammy Davis Jr Medley of Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley songs .1968 .HQ

RichardTheBruce

October 20th

1955: Thomas Newman is born--Los Angeles, California.
1956: Danny Boyle is born--Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

1957: The Sunday Times ends its six week serialization of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers, started 15 September.
1959: Ian Fleming writes to fan Eunice Jenkins in Hong Kong.

Sale 2543 - Lot 188

See the complete article here:

https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/FLEMING-IAN-Typed-Letter-Signed-to-Bond-fan-Eunice-Jenkins-o?saleno=2543&lotNo=188&refNo=769390]

1997: Ronald Lawrence Morisco-Tarr (Ron Tarr) dies at age 60--Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England
(Born 14 November 1936--Municipal Borough of Willesden, Middlesex, England.)

Ron Tarr (1936–1997)

Actor | Miscellaneous Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850611/

A View to a Kill

1999: Garbage introduces "The World Is Not Enough" during a University of Denver concert. The same day MTV screens its documentary Making the Video, then premieres it.

Garbage, Making the World Is Not Enough, 1999

The World Is Not Enough - Official Video, 1999 (4:03)

2001: Geoffrey Boothroyd dies--UK.
(Born 1925--Blackpool, England.)

Geoffrey Boothroyd

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

Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) was a British firearms expert and author of several standard reference works on the subject. He gave weapons advice to James Bond author Ian Fleming, who named the character Major Boothroyd after him as a result. He was born in Blackpool. Beginning with A Guide to Gun Collecting and Guns Through the Ages (both 1961) to The British Over and Under Shotgun co-authored with Susan Boothroyd (2004), Boothroyd was a prolific author on the subject of firearms.

Whilst employed with Imperial Chemical Industries, an ammunition manufacturer, Boothroyd wrote a letter to Fleming professing admiration for the character of James Bond, but not his choice of weapons, particularly the .25 calibre Beretta. Fleming responded to Boothroyd, and their correspondence about weaponry has been reprinted in various places. As a result of the correspondence Fleming gave Bond a 7.65mm Walther PPK pistol in Dr. No and created a character named "Major Boothroyd" in the novel (the real Boothroyd held no such rank). Prior to the correspondence Fleming is reported to have thought the subject of guns to be rather dull and uninteresting. Boothroyd advised Fleming on the use of silencers and suggested various firearms for use by Bond and other characters.

Boothroyd provided illustrator Richard Chopping with his own .38 Smith & Wesson snubnosed revolver, modified with one third of the trigger guard removed, to meet Fleming's wish for a design incorporating a pistol and a rose for the first edition cover of From Russia, with Love. Boothroyd had to assist the police with their enquiries when a similar weapon was used in a triple murder in Glasgow explaining that his weapon had been posted to Ian Fleming for a book cover. Peter Manuel was later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder.

In the first Bond film, Dr. No, Major Boothroyd, portrayed by Peter Burton, recreates the scene from the novel. Geoffrey Boothroyd appeared as himself in a short film The Guns of James Bond available on the Dr. No Ultimate Edition DVD.

Geoffrey Boothroyd

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2508719/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Self (1 credit)

1964 The Guns of James Bond (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (2 credits)

2015 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) - Himself - Armourer 'Q'
- Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC (2015) ... Himself - Armourer 'Q'
2008 Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1964 Time Out - The Guns of James Bond (5:08 clip)

S.H.I.E.L.D. Boothoryd

2008: "Another Way to Die" single released in Europe.

2012: The "Skyfall" single enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #8.

2021: The Petersen Automotive Museum displays James Bond vehicles at Los Angeles, California.

Design | Tim Lappen
Petersen Automotive Museum
Showcasing James Bond Vehicles

See the complete article here:

https://beverlyhillscourier.com/2021/10/17/petersen-automotive-museum-showcasing-james-bond-vehicles/

I was lucky enough to have a pre-opening private preview of the newest exhibit at the
Petersen Automotive Museum, an incredible display of over 20 screen-used vehicles
from many James Bond 007 films over the past six decades.
BY Tim Lappen October 17, 2021

2008 Aston Martin DBS destroyed in "Quantum of Solace"

The Courier’s Fine Autos Contributor, Tim Lappen, is the Fine Autos Editor for Haute Living, Haute Time, Haute Residence and Haute Auto and a partner in a Century City law firm, where he chairs his firm’s Family Office Group and the Luxury Home Group. He can be reached at [email protected] and his website is www.LifeInTheFastLane.org.

I was lucky enough to have a pre-opening private preview of the newest exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum, an incredible display of over 20 screen-used vehicles from many James Bond 007 films over the past six decades. I have to say that, especially after viewing the seriously thrashed Aston Martin DBS from “Quantum of Solace” and then taking in the beauty of the Aston Martin DB10 (a model only made for the Bond film “Spectre”), the experience left me both shaken and stirred. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

First, an admission – I love the James Bond stories and started reading them not that long after Ian Fleming started creating them in the early 1950s. Bond was like Superman to me but, of course, the cars were far better. The stories were fantastical, for sure, but the special effects of the films – well, the opening credits alone were worth the price of admission.

2008 Aston Martin DBS destroyed in “Quantum of Solace”

But even with today’s computer-generated images (“CGI”), some of the best effects come from at least some of the scenes being generated IRL (in real life). And the newest Petersen exhibit shows us some pretty amazing vehicles, which mostly were created solely so that they could be used in (and often destroyed by) the making of the movie.

2015 Aston Martin DB10, made only for “Spectre” (DB10s were not sold to the public)

The Museum’s exhibit, which is being billed as “The Largest Official Bond Car Display!” is entitled “Bond In Motion.” It is the official collection of original James Bond vehicles and is produced in collaboration with EON Production and the Ian Fleming Foundation. It is scheduled to run through October 20, 2022. Museum visitors can experience the exhibit without any extra charge over and above their entrance ticket.

1985 Aston Martin V8 Vantage (with skis!) from “The Living Daylights”

And what a terrific assemblage of special vehicles it is (no surprise there). Most of the cars are Aston Martins (again, not a shocker) with a smattering of others, like a few BMW cars and bikes, plus a Jaguar which was driven by the bad guy (“Zao”) in “Die Another Day,” in the incredible chase scene across a frozen lake. Luckily (especially for the audience), both Bond’s Aston and Zao’s cars had special weaponry, like rockets, a Gatling gun and more. There was one very special trick —Bond’s Aston featured a disappearing technique that allowed the car to become invisible as long as the option was enabled. Who wouldn’t want that on occasion?

A big part of what makes this exhibit so special is that each vehicle (there are also some motorcycles, boats, submersibles and those flying machines that enabled 007 to engage in all of those chases and escapes) is accompanied by a repeating loop of film in which the vehicle was seen. These terrific visual components help even those of us who were and are big fans remember how the vehicle was used in the movie. It’s a great feature and makes the exhibit really interesting.

1964 Aston Martin DB5 like the one modified for “Goldfinger”

Of course, no article about the Bond cars would be complete without a big mention of the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, which made its debut in the movie “Goldfinger.” The unprecedented gadgetry includes gun barrels which could be used after flipping down the front turn-signal indicators, a three-way revolving license place, a smokescreen generator, an oil slick creation device and a bullet shield behind the rear window. The main attraction in this car—and the feature which ushered in major trickery and cleverness in the Bond franchise —was the ejection seat which, when one flipped open the gearshift knob and hit the button, launched the passenger into the wild blue yonder.

Want to see the latest and greatest Bond vehicles? The 25th film in the James Bond franchise, “No Time To Die,” is now showing.

2002 Jaguar XKR driven by the villain in “Die Another Day”

The Petersen Museum is right on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax Boulevards, literally across the street from the just-opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Here are some of the many vehicles featured in this special exhibit but the show is so grand that only a part of the exhibit could be showcased here.

All photos by ted7

RichardTheBruce

October 21st

1945: Everett McGill is born--Miami Beach, Florida.

1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs the live television production of Casino Royale featuring American CIA Agent Jimmy Bond, British Agent Clarence Leiter, and Bond Girl Valerie Mathis.

Casino Royale

William H. Brown... Director
Ian Fleming ... source novel
Antony Ellis, Charles Bennett... writers for television

Cast
Barry Nelson ... James Bond
Peter Lorre ... Le Chiffre
Linda Christian ... Valerie Mathis
Michael Pate ... Clarence Leiter
William Lundigan ... Himself - Host
Music by Jerry Goldsmith

Climax! Casino Royale (TV-1954) JAMES BOND (51:49)

1959: Ivar Bryce gives feedback to Fleming on his not being present for future filming.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 10 - Money Problems

Bryce's response to Fleming's revelations that he might not be on hand for
the shooting arrived on 21 October. "The time you are essential is obviously
during preparation of the script. Even if Whittingham writes every word, you
really must be within reach for overall decisions. I think once that is over, you
needn't be there at all, expect for fun. I personally think the Nassau shooting
should be from mid-April to June, when the weather is much the most reliable,
and when Nassau costs of living are quart of 'season' costs."

Whittingham, too was expecting to work closely with Fleming and was
more than surprised when he instead grabbed a portable typewriter, visas and a
round-the-world suit with concealed money pockets and hopped on a BOAC
Comet bound for Hong Kong to begin a five-week tour round the world. The
Sunday Times wanted Fleming to write series entitled "The Six Wicked
Cities - observations on places like Las Vegas, Tokyo and Las Angeles.
Fleming confessed to being the world's worst sightseer and that he had "often
advocated the provision of roller-skates at the doors of museums and art
galleries." But his editor argued that such a trip would be a perfect opportunity
to pick up material for future Bond stories. Indeed Fleming's Tokyo visit, his
first, led to an enthusiasm, for Japan and his decision to later use it as the
location for You Only Live Twice.

1965: Original premiere date planned for Thunderball at the Odeon. Leicester Square.
(Postponed due to delays in post-production.)
1968: Principal photography begins at Piz Gloria, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With the restaurant still in development, the production paid for electricity, airlifts, and the construction of the helipad.

1972: James Bond comic strip Isle of Condors finishes its run. (Started 12 June 1972. 1952–2065)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/



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


Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

Kondorernas ö
(Isle of Condors)

Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3

Kondorernas ö
(Isle of Condors)

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-28-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 28:
“Isle of Condors” (1974)
"Kondorernes ø"

1976: Andrew Scott is born--Dublin, Ireland.

1984: Marc Zinga is born in Likasi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1987: Bob Simmons dies at age 65.
(Born 31 March 1922--Fullham, London, England.)

Bob Simmons (stunt man)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simmons_(stunt_man)

Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.

Biography
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.

Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.

Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Bob Simmons (I) (1922–1987)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799689/

Filmography

Stunts (49 credits)

1987 Going Bananas (stunt coordinator - as Robert Simmons)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt team supervisor)
1983 Octopussy (action sequences arranger)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1982 The Wall (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (action sequences arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts - uncredited)

1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) (action arranger)
1979 Moonraker (action sequence arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1979 Zulu Dawn (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Mister Deathman (stunt coordinator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (action arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones (fight instructor)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Happy Days Are Here Again (stunt coordinator)
1975 Paper Tiger (action arranger)
1975 The Wilby Conspiracy (stunts)
1974 Caravan to Vaccares (stunts: fight sequence)
1973 Live and Let Die (stunts co-ordinator)
1973 A Touch of Class (stunt and fight arranger)
1973 The Offence (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb (fight arranger)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Hopkins - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War (stunt arranger)
1970 The Adventurers (stunts - uncredited)

1968 Shalako (action sequences arranger)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunt double: Guy Doleman - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Genghis Khan (action sequences)
1964 Goldfinger (action sequences by) / (stunt double: Harold Sakata - uncredited) / (stunt double: Michael Mellinger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunt double - uncredited) / (train fight double: Sean Connery - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Night Creatures (fight sequence staged by)
1961 The Hellions (stunt double: Lionel Jeffries - uncredited)
1961 The Secret Ways (stunt supervisor)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Gregory Peck - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Scent of Mystery (stunt double: Denholm Elliott - uncredited)

1958 Tom Thumb (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited)
1957 Action of the Tiger (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Fire Down Below (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Zarak (stunts)
1954 The Black Knight (stunt double: Alan Ladd - uncredited)
1953 Paratrooper (stunts - uncredited)
1952 Ivanhoe (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Jamaica Inn (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (25 credits)

1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)

1978 The Wild Geese - Pilot (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - KGB Thug #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Next Man - London Assassin
1976 Montana Trap
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Jeep Driver / Card Player
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Jeep Driver (uncredited)
- To the Death, Baby (1971) ... Card Player (uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War - member of German sub crew (uncredited)

1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Fake Limo Driver
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Fake Limo Driver (uncredited)
1965 Thunderball - Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love- James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 Sparrows Can't Sing
Pub Patron (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Astronaut (uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone - German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Carlos, a pirate
1960 Exodus - Man of arms (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Perce's Opponent

1959 Great Van Robbery - Peters
1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Brading
- The Man Who Was Twice (1958) ... Brading
1958 Tank Force (aka No Time To Die) - Mustapha
1955 Tangier Assignment - Peter Valentine (as Robert Simmons)
1953 The Sword and the Rose - French Champion
1953 Bad Blonde - Booth Man (uncredited)

1939 Reform School - Johnny

Miscellaneous Crew (16 credits)

1982 The Final Option (action arranger)
1980 The Sea Wolves (action arranger)

1978 The Wild Geese (action arranger)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (master of horse)
1973 The Man Called Noon (action supervisor)
1971 Catlow (action sequence coordinator)
1970 The Adventurers (action sequences arranger: second unit)

1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (action arrangements)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences by)
1965 Thunderball (action sequences by)
1964 Goldfinger (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1964 The Long Ships (action sequences)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 The Pirates of Blood River (horse master) / (master at arms)
1961 The Naked Edge (fight arranger)

Camera and Electrical Department (2 credits)

George & Mildred (TV Series) (lighting director - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (lighting - 2 episodes, 1979)
- The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979) ... (lighting)
- A Military Pickle (1979) ... (lighting)
- I Believe in Yesterday (1978) ... (lighting director)
- The Right Way to Travel (1977) ... (lighting director)
- All Around the Clock (1977) ... (lighting director)
1977 The Upchat Line (TV Series) (lighting director - 1 episode)
- Accommodation Address (1977) ... (lighting director)

Art department (1 credit)

1987 Promised Land (storyboard artist)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (second unit director)

Producer (1 credit)

1973 The Man Called Noon (associate producer)

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 26 of 65 - "Dance of the Toreadors" in Pamplona.

James Bond Jr - Dance of the Toreadors

Season 1 - Episode 26
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807283/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

When IQ falls in love with flamenco dancer Dulce Nada and follows her to Pamplona, he has no idea that she's unwittingly embroiled in Baron von Skarin's plot to cause a nuclear meltdown in Britain.

James Bond Jr Episode 26 - Dance of the Toreadors

James Bond Jr Issue 5 Dance of the Toreadors
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-005/

2019: Liam Gallagher "jokes" he's available for the next Bond theme song.

Liam Gallagher: 007 bosses can give me a call
for Bond tune

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21 October 2019, 11:40

Liam Gallagher. Picture: Press

The former Oasis rocker has teased he wouldn't say no to being approached for the upcoming No Time To Die film.

Liam Gallagher has expressed an interest in singing the next Bond theme tune.

The former Oasis frontman has revealed he'd be happy to record the soundtrack for Daniel Craig's last outing as the famous spy.

Speaking of the forthcoming film, which is entitled No Time To Die, Gallagher joked: "The new James Bond one, it's all about dying innit.

"Die not next week, can't be arsed dying today, might die f***ing next month, there's a lot of death going on. "But you know they can give us a call, why not."

Speaking to Ireland's Today FM, the Manchester legend also said he thought that his Gone track would work for a Quentin Tarantino film.

"Tarantino, he's pretty good, isn't he? There's a lot of him in Gone," mused the rocker.

"But we don't write music to go, 'Right let's put it in a film,' but if people pick up on it then they're welcome to it.

So far, a few artists have been rumoured for the new Bond soundtrack, including Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa, as well as Sam Smith and Adele - who have both previously performed on Bond themes and won Academy Awards for 2015's Writing's On The Wall and 2012's Skyfall respectively.

No Time To Die is set for release in April 2020.

2019: Naomie Harris proposes Moneypenny spinoff film in discussion.

Naomie Harris Says 'Conversation Has Started' for
'James Bond' Spin-Off film as Miss Moneypenny!

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Mon, 21 October 2019 at 12:10 pm

Naomie Harris is ready for her very own stand-alone James Bond film!

While making an appearance on Good Morning America on Monday (October 21) in New York City, the 43-year-old actress opened up about her Moonlight director Barry Jenkins wanting to do a spin-off film for her Bond character, Miss Moneypenny.

“He’s wanted to do a bad ass, kick-ass kind of action thing with Moneypenny which I’m all for actually,” Naomie revealed. “I got together with Barbara Broccoli, our producer, and I was like let’s make this happen but she wasn’t so down with it – but maybe one day it should. Who knows.”

“The conversation has started at least and we’re continuing it here so who knows,” Naomie concluded.

Naomie Harris also talked about her role as a police officer in the new action film Black and Blue, which will be released on October 25 – Watch the trailer here!

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2022: The Martini Bar launches a new and decadent mixology and culinary experience at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas.

Shaken, Not
Stirred at The
Martini Bar

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21 Oct, 2022
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort

A nod to its glamorous and star-studded legacy, The Martini Bar at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas has launched a new and decadent mixology and culinary experience.

The Martini Bar is known best as the backdrop for the 2006 remake of the Casino Royale film where James Bond can be seen sipping his famous Vesper Martini. This limited seat Living Room Bar transports guests into the scenes of their very own movie.

Whether sipping on a classic Vesper Martini or indulging in the new ultra-luxe Caviar Martini, it’s an unforgettable experience. While cocktails are the heart of The Martini Bar signature experience, new unique culinary creations are presented with suggested Martini pairings.

The Martini Bar and Lounge is open every Friday and Saturday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Reservations can be made by calling the Resort at +1-242-363-2501.

RichardTheBruce

October 22nd

1918: James Duncan (Jim) Lawrence is born--Detroit, Michigan.
(He dies 19 March 1994 at age 75--Summit, New Jersey.)

Lawrence, Jim

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April 03, 2020

Working name of US teacher and author James Duncan Lawrence (1918-1994), active from 1941 until the 1980s; he was one of the main authors in the Second Series of Tom Swift books (see Children's SF), comprising the Tom Swift Jr sequence as by Victor Appleton II (see Victor Appleton); Lawrence's contributions begin with #5: Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster (1954) and end with #30: Tom Swift and his G-Force Inverter (1968), all as by Victor Appleton II (for list of titles by other authors see Tom Swift). Lawrence also revised various Hardy Boys titles as by Franklin W Dixon for 1960s reissue: see John Button for an example of mild genre interest. His remaining sf output consists of the unremarkable, mildly erotic Man from Planet X sequence – The Man from Planet X #1: The She-Beast (1975), The Man from Planet X #2: Tiger by the Tail (1975) and The Man from Planet X: The Devil to Pay (1975), all as by Hunter Adams – and two novels tied to Shared-World franchises: ESP McGee and the Haunted Mansion (1983 chap) for the ESP McGee series, and The Cutlass Clue (1986) for the A.I. Gang series. [JC]
James Duncan Lawrence

born Detroit, Michigan: 22 October 1918
died Summit, New Jersey: 19 March 1994

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1959: Ivar Bryce by letter lectures Kevin McClory on spending.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 11 - The Search for James Bond

What rankled the most with Bryce was McClory's passion for touring The
Boy and the Bridge around the European film festival circuit, all at great cost (in
Venice, McClory chartered a luxury yacht to live on), but with little effect on
the box office. "I'm afraid the very thought of festivals infuriates me," he wrote
McClory on 22 October. "We simply cannot go on spending money faster than
it is coming in. Unless we stop spending, and start collecting some of the
proceeds, it is obvious not only shall I never get back my $400,000, but
neither of us will ever have any profits to divide."

1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, the first of three volumes, illustrated by John Burningham. Ian Fleming writes this for son Caspar.

1964: Desde Rusia con amor released in Uruguay.

1981: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Για τα μάτια σου μόνο (James Bond, Agent 007: For Your Eyes Only) released in Greece.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 27 of 65 - "Fountain of Terror" in Tibet.

James Bond Jr - Fountain of Terror

Season 1 - Episode 27
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807285/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

James, IQ and Phoebe go to Tibet to find IQ's cousin, who was kidnapped by Dr. Derange, Jaws, Ms. Fortune and Snuffer, who use him to show him the way to a secret village where he hides a fountain that gives people eternal life.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (story)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Snuffer / Tour guide (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Miss Fortune (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 27 - Fountain of Terror

1995: Sir Kingsley Amis CBE dies at age 73--London, England.
(Born 16 April 1922--Clapham, London, England.)

Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis

]See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-kingsley-amis-1579017.html[/center

David Lodge | Monday 23 October 1995 01:02

Kingsley Amis was the most gifted of the British novelists who began publishing in the 1950s and were grouped together - by the media rather than by their own volition - as "Angry Young Men". He also proved himself to be the one with the most stamina and capacity for development.

Amis was a key figure in the history of British post-war fiction, but his originality was not always fully appreciated because it did not manifest itself in any obvious novelty of form. Indeed the literary new wave of the Fifties, in which Amis played a leading role (its poetic wing, to which he also contributed, was known as "The Movement"), was an aesthetically conservative force, consciously setting itself against modernist experimentation. A passage in a review Amis contributed to the Spectator in 1958 is representative in both its sentiments and the down-to-earth blokeishness of its manner:

The idea about experiment being the life-blood of the English novel is one that dies hard. "Experiment" in this context boils down pretty regularly to "obtruded oddity", whether in construction - multiple viewpoints and such - or in style. It is not felt that adventurousness in subject matter or attitude or tone really count.

This is a thinly disguised manifesto for Amis's own early fiction, but it is as obscuring as it is revealing. It is true that Lucky Jim (1954) and its successors dealt with what was then new or neglected social territory (for example, the provincial university) from unhackneyed perspectives (for example, the upwardly mobile young professional who is unimpressed by the values and lifestyle of the bourgeoisie). This is presumably what Amis meant by adventurousness of subject matter, attitude and tone. And it is also true that these novels were very traditional in form - the specific tradition to which they belonged being that of the English comic novel, in which satirical comedy of manners and robust farce are combined in an entertaining and easily assimilable story. Fielding, Dickens, Wodehouse and Waugh are some of Amis's obvious precursors. But it is also true that Amis's novels are triumphs of "style" - a way of using language that, if not obtrusively "odd", is highly original, and wonderfully expressive.

Dixon had read, or begun to read, dozens [of scholarly articles] like it, but his own seemed worse than most in its air of being convinced of its own usefulness and significance. "In considering this strangely neglected topic," it began. This what neglected topic? This strangely what topic? This strangely neglected what?

Lucky Jim (1954)
Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap, I got indoors, vigorously rubbing lipstick off my mouth with my handkerchief.

That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
All that type of stuff, dying and so on, was a long way off, not such a long way off as it had once been, admitted, and no doubt the time when it wouldn't be such a long way off as all that wasn't such a long way off as all that, but still. Still what?

Take a Girl Like You (1960)
There is nothing quite like this in English fiction before Amis (though a good deal afterwards, for other writers were quick to learn his tricks). It is a kind of English equivalent to the prose of Samuel Beckett (though Amis would have spluttered derisively at the comparison). In each case, language, denied the luxury of metaphysical affirmation and romantic afflatus, coils back upon itself, mocking its own pretensions as well as the follies and foibles of human behaviour. Both writers use repetition and bathos to marvellous effect, eschewing "elegant variation" and "fine writing" except for purposes of parody. The effort is always to be scrupulously exact, honest and undeceived. It was of course carried to a bleaker, more challenging and subversive extreme by Beckett.

Amis's fundamental scepticism is actually quite dark and disturbing, but it is cushioned or concealed by the conventions of the well-made novel. Some critics have seen this as an evasion or betrayal of artistic integrity, a kind of refusal to be "serious". Amis himself would have taken his stand on the writer's responsibility to entertain as well as instruct. The career of Kingsley Amis crystalises, without resolving, a perennial debate about the contemporary English novel: whether, by remaining faithful to the native realistic tradition and refusing the legacy of modernism, it ensures its own authenticity or fails to be significant in a Hegelian "world-historical sense".

Kingsley Amis was born, ironically enough, in 1922, the year in which the great masterpiece of modernist fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, was published. He was brought up in a dull outer suburb of south London called Norbury, the only child of respectable lower- middle-class parents, and won a scholarship to the City of London School, to which he commuted daily like his father, a clerk in a commercial office. From this school, of which he always spoke highly, Amis went up to Oxford in 1941, as an Exhibitioner of St John's College, to read English. Here he met Philip Larkin, and formed the basis of a lifelong friendship. The two young men had similar backgrounds, tastes, and sensibilities, and fertilised each other's imaginative development. In this chance conjunction lay the seeds of the literary revolution of the 1950s.

After only a year at Oxford, Amis was called up for military service and served in the Royal Signals in Normandy, Belgium and Germany from 1944 to 1945, an experience which left surprisingly little overt trace in his work apart from a few early short stories. After the Second World War he returned to Oxford, graduating with a First Class degree in 1947, and began research towards a BLitt which he never completed. In this period he kept in touch with Larkin, now a librarian at University College, Leicester, and met another young undergraduate who shared his admiration for Larkin's verse, John Wain. The nucleus of the Movement was beginning to form.

In 1947 Amis published his first "slim volume" of verse, Bright November, and later, along with Larkin and Wain, was one of the contributors to Robert Conquest's anthology New Lines (1956), which marked the arrival of the Movement on the English poetic scene, and its displacement of the late modernist mode epitomised by Dylan Thomas (memorably parodied in That Uncertain Feeling). Amis continued to write poetry, not very prolifically, throughout his life. In this department he was always somewhat overshadowed by Larkin, to whom he paid the homage of imitation, but he was an excellent exponent of light verse, especially of a satirical and ribald kind.

Amis married Hilary Bardwell in 1948, and the following year took up a post as lecturer in English Literature at the University College of Wales, Swansea. He settled down in that pleasant but deeply provincial seaside town to teach, write, and raise a family of three children, one of whom was called Martin. From this congenial but humdrum and materially somewhat pinched existence, Amis was catapulted to fame by the publication of Lucky Jim (dedicated to Larkin) in January 1954. It became a bestseller and a cult book - not surprisingly, for it was a sublimely funny novel which also put its finger very accurately on certain changes which had taken place in post-war British culture and society. Although Amis himself belonged to a small elite of pre-war scholarship boys, he articulated through his hero, Jim Dixon, the feelings of a much larger number of people in the next generation (my own) who were products of the 1944 Education Act and the Welfare State. Through the comedy of Jim's private fantasies and accidental breaches of social decorum, Amis gave us, as it were, permission not to be overawed by the social and cultural codes of the class to which we had been elevated by education. It was enormously liberating.

Measured on a simple laugh-out-loud scale, Lucky Jim was probably the funniest novel Amis wrote, and for some readers his career was therefore downhill all the way. But in spite of his talent for comedy, Amis was, in the words of Larkin's poem, always surprising in himself a hunger to be more serious, and in the novels that followed he combined amusing social satire with a thoughtful and sometimes uncomfortable investigation of the moral life, especially in the sexual sphere. Take A Girl Like You (1960) was a particularly interesting response to the first intimations of the Permissive Society.

Because of the antiestablishment stance of the early novels, Amis was identified with the Left, and in 1957 he declared his allegiance to the Labour Party in a Fabian pamphlet. Ten years later, however, he announced his conversion to Conservatism, in an essay entitled "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right". Henceforward he adopted a combatively right-wing stance on the political issues of the day - Vietnam, nuclear arms, the expansion of higher education and women's liberation.

There was always an element of deliberate provocation and self-parody in this stance, as in the case of Evelyn Waugh (whom Amis came to resemble more and more, in all kinds of ways, as he got older), but there is no reason to doubt the fundamental sincerity of his views. The young Amis's identification with the party of the Welfare State was always emotional rather than ideological, and Lucky Jim was a rebel rather than a revolutionary. As soon as left-wing attitudes became trendy, as they did in the late 1960s, Amis's innate scepticism was turned upon them and their proponents.

One does have the impression, however, that in an increasingly unsympathetic cultural climate Amis became less certain of his constituency, and of his own literary identity, than he had been in the heyday of the Movement. This may have been connected with change and upheaval in his private life. In 1961 he had moved from Swansea to Cambridge, to teach English as a Fellow of Peterhouse, but the notoriously factious English Faculty was not very welcoming. Dr Leavis was reported to have described his new colleague as "a pornographer", a failure in close reading if nothing else, for Amis's novels, though much concerned with sex, are notable for their reticence about the sexual act. He resigned his fellowship after three years to become a full-time writer. At about the same time his marriage broke up, and he married the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

In the late Sixties and Seventies he experimented a good deal with "genre" fiction: science fiction (The Anti-Death League, 1966, and The Alteration, 1976), the James Bond thriller (Colonel Sun, 1968), the classic detective story (The Riverside Villas Murder, l973) and the ghost story (The Green Man, 1969). These forms perhaps attracted him as ways of escaping the constraints of the realistic novel and the expectations of an audience who kept hoping he would repeat Lucky Jim. In some of them he addressed himself to weighty philosophic and religious themes, such as the nature of evil.

In spite of having had an essentially secular upbringing, Amis always took a lively, though pugnaciously sceptical, interest in Christian doctrine. An essay boldly entitled "On Christ's Nature" reveals an impressive familiarity with the New Testament, and a characteristic refusal to be awed. (A representative passage raises "the question why, if God wanted human beings to have religion, he did not simply give it to them, instead of arranging the world in one way and then sending someone along to explain that really the whole set-up was quite different").

Amis's best novel after Take A Girl Like You was arguably Ending Up (1974), a black comic tale of a group of retired people failing to cope with the afflictions of old age. "I suppose", says one of their young relatives to another in the course of a particularly joyless Christmas, "I suppose with luck we might get a couple of weeks between the last of them going and us being in their situation." The brilliantly titled Jake's Thing (1978) brought the same mordant scrutiny to bear on male impotence and sex therapy, often to wonderfully comic effect, though without the elegant economy of its predecessor. Both these novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

There followed something of a lull in Amis's creativity. But in the late Eighties he enjoyed a kind of second spring, producing in quick succession Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), Difficulties with Girls (1988) and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990). The first of these achieved some notoriety as a misogynist tract, and it was rumoured that a feminist cabal in the New York publishing world significantly delayed its publication in America. Amis's distrust of the female psyche was evident, for those who had eyes to see, as early as Lucky Jim, in the characterisation of the hysterical and devious Margaret. Stanley and the Women caused particular offence perhaps because it is cunningly constructed to catch the unwary liberal reader in its narrative trap. In Difficulties with Girls, however, Amis made some amends with a sympathetic portrait of Jenny Bunn, the heroine of Take a Girl Like You, coping with marriage to the compulsively unfaithful Patrick Standish.

These late novels are notable for their intricate if uneventful narrative structures and frequent shifts of point of view, which require considerable powers of concentration and inference from the reader. The best of them was The Old Devils, for which Amis was deservedly awarded the Booker Prize in 1986. This is another fictional study of old age. The setting in Amis's old haunts in south Wales lends the book an affectionate, nostalgic glow which is deceptive; an appalling abyss of pain, despair and anxiety gradually opens up beneath the novel's comic surface. But Amis is in total command of his material and his unique narrative style. The reader knows he is in for a treat from the first few pages describing Malcolm's cautious negotiation of breakfast:

He had not bitten anything with his front teeth since losing a top middle crown on a slice of liver-sausage six years earlier, and the right-hand side of his mouth was a no-go area, what with the hole in the lower lot where stuff was always apt to stick and a funny piece of gum that seemed to have got detached from something and waved about whenever it got the chance.

Kingsley Amis's second marriage broke up in 1983 and in later life he happily shared a house in Hampstead with his first wife, Hillie, and her second husband, Lord Kilmarnock - a twist in his biography that might have come from one of his own late novels. He took pride in the literary success of his son Martin, who occupies much the same key position among the British novelists who came of age in the 1970s as Kingsley did among those of the 1950s - a dynastic succession unprecedented in the annals of English literature. In spite of the differences of tone and ideology that divide them, it is a fascinating critical exercise to track the stylistic gene that unites these two novelists.

It would be an understatement to say that Kingsley Amis enjoyed a drink. He was an opinionated connoisseur of wine, and an unsurpassed observer of bar-room speech and behaviour. In later life he was a habitue of the Garrick Club, in London. He was appointed CBE in 1981, was granted the freedom of the City of London in 1989, and knighted in 1990. In many ways he became a pillar of the Establishment that he had once tilted at. He did not care for foreign travel, and apart from a spell in Portugal to spend the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1955 (which he was awarded for Lucky Jim), and a couple of visiting professorships in America a few years later, "Abroad" made little impact on his life or work. The title of the book inspired by the visit to Portugal was I Like It Here, and "here" meant England. He exploited the English prejudice that foreigners speak funny to marvellous comic effect - witness the overseas students solemnly interrogating the hero of I Like It Here about Grim Gin, Ifflen Voff, Zumzit Mum, Shem Shoice, and that popular classic Sickies of Sickingdom by Edge-Crown.

In 1991 Amis published his Memoirs, consisting mainly of amusing, scandalous and sometimes cruel anecdotes about his literary contemporaries, many of whom were now dead, including Philip Larkin. The two men kept a wary distance from each other in later years, communicating mainly by letter, as if conscious they could never recover the easy intimacy of youthful friendship. "He was my best friend and I never saw enough of him or knew him as well as I wanted to," Amis wrote, rather sadly, in the Memoirs.

This year, Eric Jacobs published a biography, with Amis's collaboration. It revealed (as literary biographies tend to do) a closer correspondence between the life and the fiction than one might have supposed, especially as regards difficulties with women. It also revealed a surprisingly vulnerable person behind the bluff, blimpish public mask, and the poised, sardonic prose stylist: a rather timid man, fearful of flying, unable to drive a car or perform the simplest domestic tasks, needing a regular and repetitive daily routine to keep the black dog of depression at bay: work, club, pub, telly. Work was the most important of these resources. In spite of increasing physical debility, Amis kept writing up till the end of his life. You Can't Do Both (1994) was generally well received and is perhaps the most openly autobiographical of his novels. If The Biographer's Moustache, published earlier this year, was not the biographee's revenge that many reviewers had hoped for, it still had more than a touch of past mastery.

In That Uncertain Feeling the hero is accosted one evening in the street of a small Welsh town by two lascars, one of whom seems to ask him:

"Where is pain and bitter laugh?" This was just the question for me, but before I could smite my breast and cry, "In here, friend", the other little man had said: "My cousin say, we are new in these town and we wish to know where is piano and bit of life, please?"

That is one of my favourite quotations from Amis because it seems to epitomise his art. He did not dodge the pain of existence and his laughter was sometimes bitter, but he always retained the liberating, life- enhancing gift of comic surprise.

Kingsley Amis, writer: born London 16 April 1922; CBE 1981; Kt 1990; books include A Frame of Mind 1953, Lucky Jim 1954, That Uncertain Feeling 1955, A Case of Samples 1956, I Like it Here 1958, Take a Girl Like You 1960, New Maps of Hell 1960, My Enemy's Enemy 1962, One Fat Englishman 1963, The Egyptologists 1965, (with Robert Conquest) The James Bond Dossier 1965, The Anti-Death League 1966, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 1966, A Look Round the Estate 1967, Colonel Sun 1968, I Want it Now 1968, The Green Man 1969, What Became of Jane Austen? 1970, Girl, 20 1971, On Drink 1972, The Riverside Villas Murder 1973, Ending Up 1974, Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975, The Alteration 1976, Jake's Thing 1978, Collected Poems 1944-79 1979, Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980, Collected Short Stories 1980, Every Day Drinking 1983, How's Your Glass? 1984, Stanley and the Women 1984, The Old Devils 1986, (with J. Cochrane) Great British Songbook 1986, The Crime of the Century 1987, Difficulties with Girls 1988, The Folks that Live on the Hill 1990, We are All Guilty 1991, Memoirs 1991[/i], The Russian Girl 1992, Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993, You Can't Do Both 1994, The Biographer's Moustache 1995; married 1948 Hilary Bardwell (two sons, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1965), 1965 Elizabeth Jane Howard (marriage dissolved 1983); died London 22 October 1995.

Kingsley Amis
(Kingsley William Amis)

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/kingsley-amis/
(1922 - 1995) Father of Martin Amis, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard

aka Robert Markham, William Tanner

Sir Kingsley Amis, who died in October 1995, was born in London in 1922. In 1954 his first novel, 'Lucky Jim', burst onto the literary scene with extraordinary force, gaining him instant fame and notoriety as one of the most prominent of the so-called 'angry young men'. He went on to write over twenty novels (winning the Booker Prize in 1986 for 'The Old Devils'), and many volumes of poetry and non-fiction. He was knighted in 1991. His last novel, 'The Biographer's Moustache', was published in September 1995.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller

Series
Jim Dixon
Lucky Jim (1954)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
I Like it Here (1958)
Lucky Jim's Politics (1968)

Jenny Bunn
1. Take a Girl Like You (1960)
2. Difficulties with Girls (1988)

Novels
My Enemy's Enemy (1962)
One Fat Englishman (1963)
The Egyptologists (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
The Anti-Death League (1966)
I Want It Now (1968)
The Green Man (1969)
Girl, 20 (1971)
Dear Illusion (1972)
The Riverside Villas Murder (1973)
Ending Up (1974)
The Crime of the Century (1975)
The Alteration (1976)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978)
Jake's Thing (1978)
Russian Hide-and-Seek (1980)
Stanley and the Women (1984)
The Old Devils (1986)
The Folks That Live On the Hill (1990)
We Are All Guilty (1991)
The Russian Girl (1992)
The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

Omnibus
A Kingsley Amis Omnibus (1980)

Collections
Bright November (poems) (1947)
A Frame of Mind (poems) (1953)
Poems: Fantasy Portraits (poems) (1954)
A Case of Samples (poems) (1956)
Poems (poems) (1962)
A Look Round the Estate (poems) (1967)
Collected Poems 1944-1979 (poems) (1979)
Collected Short Stories (1980)
Mr Barrett's Secret (1993)
Complete Stories (2011)

Series contributed to
James Bond Non Fiction
The Book of Bond (1965) (as by William Tanner)
The James Bond Dossier (1965)

James Bond Fiction
James Bond (as by Robert Markham)
Colonel Sun (1968)

Anthologies edited
Spectrum (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 2 (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 3 (1963) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 4 (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 5 (1966) (with Robert Conquest)
The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (1978)
The Faber Popular Reciter (1978)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
The Amis Anthology (1988)
The Pleasure of Poetry (1990)
The Amis Story Anthology (1992)

Non fiction
New Maps of Hell (1960)
What Became of Jane Austen? (1970)
Tennyson (1972)
On Drink (1972)
Rudyard Kipling and his World (1975)
Harold's Years (1977)
An Arts Policy? (1979)
Every Day Drinking (1983)
How's Your Glass? (1984)
The Great British Songbook (1986) (with James Cochrane)
The Amis Collection (1990)
Memoirs (1991)
Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters (1991)
You Can't Do Both (1994)
The King's English (1997)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000)
Conversations with Kingsley Amis (2010)
Raising A Smile (2019)

Anthologies containing stories by Kingsley Amis
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967)
Best SF: 1974 (1975)
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)

Short stories
My Enemy's Enemy [short story] (1955)
Court of Inquiry (1956)
The 2003 Claret (1958)
Moral Fibre (1958)
Hemingway in Space (1960)
Something Strange (1960)
All the Blood Within Me (1962)
I Spy Strangers (1962)
The Friends of Plonk (1964)
Dear Illusion [short story] (1972)
Mason's Life (1972)
Too Much Trouble (1972)
Who or What Was It? (1972)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery [short story] (1978)
The House on the Headland (1979)
To See the Sun (1980)

Awards
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1974) : Ending Up
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1977) : The Alteration
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : Jake's Thing
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1986) : The Old Devils

Books about Kingsley Amis
The Anti-Egotist (1996) by Paul Fussell
Lucky Him (2001) by Richard Bradford

Kingsley Amis recommends
The Bell (1958). Iris Murdoch.
"A distinguished novelist of a rare kind."
The Other Side of the Sky (1958), Arthur C Clarke.
"Science fiction of the finest quality: original, imaginative, disturbing."
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1959), Brian Aldiss.
"...Takes us far from the here-and-now into regions of sharply-flavoured eeriness."
The Drowned World (1962), J G Ballard.
"Ballard is one of the brightest new stars in post-war fiction. This tale of strange and terrible adventure in a world of steaming jungles has an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad."
Day Million (1970), Frederik Pohl.
"The most consistently able writer science fiction, in the modern sense, has yet produced."
The Xanadu Talisman (1981). (Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, book 9) Peter O'Donnell.
"One of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson."
The Alternative Detective (1993) (Hob Draconian, book 1), Robert Sheckley.
"Always he crackles with ideas."

2002: Warner Bros. and Maverick Records release the "Die Another Day" single (delayed from 10 October due to a radio station leak). The video premieres worldwide on MTV the same day--a first for the music channel.

2008: Jessica Fellowes' piece "Necklace with a starring role" appears on The Telegraph online.

Necklace with a starring role

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG3365680/Necklace-with-a-starring-role.html
BY Jessica Fellowes | 22 October 2008

In Quantum of Solace, it's not a gizmo or Q invention that holds the key to the plot, but a piece of jewellery.

Having designed two sets of earrings and a loveknot necklace for Eva Green's Vesper Lynd (above) to wear in the casino scene for Casino Royale, jeweller Sophie Harley was called upon once again. In Quantum of Solace, the beginning of which is set an hour after the climax of Casino Royale, the necklace makes another appearance.

"Obviously, the producers were very strict about revealing the plot," says Sophie, "But they told me that the necklace is the only thing that Bond has left of Vesper Lynd's. In the trailer there is a shot of the necklace on a table just as Camille (Olga) asks Bond: "Do you love someone?". "I do," he replies.

Is this the end of Bond as we knew him? Has he at last found "enduring love" or will he stay true to form and give the necklace to another girl?

"The producers did indicate that the necklace would be worn again in Quantum," says Sophie.

The original loveknot necklace can be bought for £1,939, as can the original garnet drop earrings (£323 and £384) but there are also cheaper designs based on the same shape, from £135. www.sophieharley.com ; 020 7430 2070.

2012: Sky launches a James Bond HD channel in Belgrade, Serbia.

2015: The Sydney Morning Herald reports unanimous raves in the UK for Spectre.

EntertainmentMovies

Spectre movie reviews: James Bond's latest gets unanimous raves in the UK

See the complete article here:

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/spectre-movie-reviews-james-bonds-latest-gets-unanimous-raves-in-the-uk-20151022-gkfmkk.html

By Karl Quinn - 22 October 2015 — 9:01pm, first published at 1:06pm

The first reviews of Spectre have landed from the UK, and they are uniformly raves.

The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian have all lavished the 24th James Bond film with five-star ratings, while The Sun and the London Evening Standard raved without rating the film, dubbing their assessments "first impressions".

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Monica Bellucci with Daniel Craig in Spectre.

At any rate, the unanimous praise almost guarantees a monster opening in the UK for the fourth film starring Daniel Craig as 007 this weekend.

In Spectre, Bond comes face to face with a ghost from his past in the form of Christoph Waltz's Franz Oberhauser, head of the secretive and up-to-no-good organisation SPECTRE (the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion).

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Cool as cucumber, sharp as ice: Daniel Craig in the 24th Bond film Spectre.

In The Telegraph, Robbie Collin wrote that "ghosts of Bond films past come gliding through the film, trailing shivers of pleasure in their wake". He praised the film's director Sam Mendes, who also made 2012's Skyfall, the most successful film in the long-running franchise with global box office of more than $US1.1 billion ($A1.38 billion), for what he described as "a swaggering show of confidence".

Kate Muir of The Times said the fourth outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond "is achingly cool, as sleek and powerful as the silver Aston Martin DB10 that races through the movie".

She added that Mendes and Craig now seemed so comfortable with the terrain "that a relaxed wit percolates almost every scene. Their recipe, like the car, now seems to be bulletproof".

For The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw described the film as "pure action mayhem with a real sense of style" and called it "a terrifically exciting, spectacular, almost operatically delirious 007 adventure".

Could the latest Bond film shatter the record set by the last, 2012's Skyfall?

The Evening Standard's Ben Travis said "director Sam Mendes has, against all the odds, delivered a film that at least matches, and perhaps even betters, Skyfall", while The Sun's showbiz reporter Ed Dyson effused that "all the classic elements fans expect from Bond await in Spectre – and then some", adding that "we were expecting you to deliver Mr Bond... and you certainly didn't disappoint".

What does disappoint, though, is the fact that Australia will have to wait until November 12 for its chance to similarly froth in collective excitement.

Hurry up, Mr Bond. We've been expecting you.

2015: BBC News reports on 5-star reviews of Spectre.

Spectre: Five-star reviews greet new Bond movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34600980

22 October 2015
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Daniel Craig in Spectre image copyright MGM/Columbia/Eon
Daniel Craig makes his fourth big-screen appearance as Bond in the eagerly awaited film

Critics have given the new James Bond film an enthusiastic welcome, with one saluting it as "pure action mayhem".

Spectre, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw continued in his five-star review, is "terrifically exciting, spectacular [and] uproariously entertaining".

The Times said Sam Mendes' film was "achingly cool", while The Independent said it was "every bit the equal of its predecessor", 2012 release Skyfall.

Critics were shown Spectre on Wednesday ahead of its release next week.

The film sees Daniel Craig return as British spy James Bond, aka 007, in a globe-trotting blockbuster named after a sinister criminal syndicate.

Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, French actress Lea Seydoux and Italy's Monica Bellucci also appear in the 24th official entry in the long-running series.

'Jaw-dropping'

According to the Daily Mirror, Spectre is "an adventure right up there with the superspy's best" featuring "moments of jaw-dropping stuntwork".

The Sun's reviewer concurred, saying the film contains "all the classic elements fans expect", including a "jaw-dropping opening sequence".

Variety also singled out this "expensively ludicrous opening sequence, set in Mexico City on the Day of the Dead," saying it "ranks among the great 007 intros".

Other industry papers were less effusive, though, with the Hollywood Reporter saying it "ultimately feels like a lesser film than Skyfall, falling back on cliche and convention."

Screen International, meanwhile, said the film "falls back on the formula to deliver a slightly flat, old-fashioned 007 by the numbers".

RichardTheBruce

October 23rd

1959: Ian Fleming writes an enthusiastic letter to Ivan Bryce on the Bond film project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 11 - The Search for James Bond

While the growing rift widened between Xanadu's principal players,
Fleming remained as positive as ever about the Bond picture. "I'm personally
of the opinion that we have a financial winner in this film," he wrote excitedly
to Bryce on 23 October. "Whether done in colour or monochrome, so long as
we have a couple good stars, though Jean de la Bruyere should remember
that Bond must be an Englishman." This of course refers to Bruyere's earlier
suggestion that an American actor be chosen. This flies in the face of Fleming's
previous suggestions of a Welsh-born Burton and his acceptance of James
Stewart donning a tuxedo. Nor was Fleming much interested in going into
partnership with Columbia, or indeed anyone else, but keeping the Bond film
solely as a Xanadu production, keeping it, as he says, "in the family." So
confident was he that they had the right team "with Kevin as producer, X as
director. Whittingham as script writer and you as general organizer, assisted as
much as possible by me, I don't see why the vehicle shouldn't roll."

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the Angels of Death at Piz Gloria.

1986: From Russia With Love re-released in Norway.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 28 of 65 - "The Emerald Key" in Mexico.

James Bond Jr - The Emerald Key

Season 1 - Episode 28
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807124/?ref_=ttep_ep28

James and IQ's friendship is under threat when IQ has taken a fancy on a pretty girl who uncle has been abducted by Derange to get his hand on a golden statue which is a key to a fortune of gold in a temple in Mexico.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 28 - The Emerald Key

James Bond Jr 007 Hasbro Original Wax Sculpting Unproduced Action Figure Rare
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/james-bond-jr-007-hasbro-original-wax-520556415

2012: The Atlantic leveraging The Wire report on Bond's declining returns.

The Declining Return on Investing
in James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/10/declining-return-investment-james-bond/322215/

The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME.
By Serena Dai
October 23, 2012

The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME. Using data from The Numbers, BIME compared James Bond film budgets with each film's return on investment, or the gross earnings divided by the budget. The yellow bars represent budgets, which have increased steadily, and the line graph represents ROI. As you can see, since 1963's Dr. No, James Bond movies have gotten more expensive and less profitable.

While production companies invest more money in the films, they're making far less than they did in the '60s. Of course, this may speak more to the movie industry as a whole rather then the value of Bond. Movie production costs are higher now, and often franchises earn money from peripheral products like video games and merchandise—not just ticket sales. From the looks of the solid reviews, Skyfall, which premieres in the U.S. on November 9, will probably keep the franchise strong, even if huge numbers of people don't go to see it.

This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.

https://www.businessinsider.com/james-bonds-diminishing-roi-in-charts-2012-11

2012: Skyfall premieres at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

2015: The Telegraph explains the meaning of 13 Bond film titles.

13 James Bond film titles explained

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/titles-explained-goldfinger-quantum-goldeneye/

Sean Connery in Goldfinger, the title of which was named after
Ian Fleming's golf partner's cousin, who sued him
Credit: Everett/REX

Patrick Smith 23 October 2015 • 11:17am

Which Bond film owes its title to a typo? Who was Goldfinger? And what's a quantum? Ahead of the SPECTRE release, we reveal the meanings of previous 007 titles

1. Goldfinger (1964)
The first James Bond film to win an Oscar took its title from a man 007 creator Ian Fleming used to know called Ernő Goldfinger. He was the cousin (by marriage) of Fleming’s golf partner, John Blackwell, and threatened to sue over the use of his name. The matter was settled out of court.

2. You Only Live Twice (1967)
Fleming was inspired by the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, who wrote these words more than 300 years before they were used as the title for the 12th Bond novel.

Sean Connery and Donald Pleasance in 1967's You Only Live Twice,
the title of which came from Japanese poetry
Credit: MGM/Everett/REX

3. Diamonds are Forever (1971)
In 1947, copywriter Frances Gerety coined the phrase "A Diamond Is Forever" in an advertising campaign for De Beers. It seems inconceivable that Fleming wouldn’t have been directly influenced by this.

4. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Unlike the film, The Spy Who Loved Me novel is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel, and Bond doesn’t appear until two thirds of the way through. The title makes a lot more sense when you think about it that way.

5. Octopussy (1983)
The 1983 movie takes its name from a coracle Ian Fleming received from his neighbour – and lover – in Jamaica, Blanche Blackwell (the small boat was called Octopussy].

Peter Lamont's concept for Octopussy's barge. The film, incidentally,
shared its name with one of Ian Fleming's boats
Credit: 1984 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq LLC.

6. A View To A Kill (1985)
This grammatically suspect title comes from an unrelated Fleming short story called "From A View To a Kill". The film attempts to make some sort of sense of it with the following lines of dialogue from villain Zorian (Christopher Walken) and his henchwoman May Day (Grace Jones): Her: "What a view." Him: "To a kill!"

7. Licence to Kill (1989)
Timothy Dalton’s second Bond outing was originally titled Licence Revoked, which makes perfect sense given that in the film M suspends 007 after he refuses to give up the hunt for the person who fed his friend Felix Leiter to a shark. However, because polled American audiences said the phrase reminded them of confiscated driving licences, it was changed to Licence to Kill – absurd, really, when you consider it’s the only film he’s not legally allowed to shoot people.

8. GoldenEye (1995)
Pierce Brosnan made his Bond debut in this 1995 film, named after Ian Fleming’s estate in Jamaica. The novelist claimed a number of origins for the name of the estate, including Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye and Operation Goldeneye, a plan he developed during the Second World War for maintaining communication between Britain and Gibraltar. Goldeneye is also a type of duck …

GoldenEye, which was named after Fleming's Jamaican estate, is also a type of duck
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

9. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The film was originally supposed to be called Tomorrow Never Lies – a reference to the (fictional) newspaper, Tomorrow, run by the villainous Elliot Carver (played by Jonathan Pryce). Word has it, however, that when the title was faxed to MGM, there was a typo, and the marketing department preferred the incorrect version. The title for Tomorrow Never Lies, meanwhile, came to scriptwriter Bruce Feirstein while he was listening to The Beatles’ trippy song, "Tomorrow Never Knows".

10. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
This phrase, believed to originate from Alexander the Great’s epitaph, appeared in the 1963 Bond novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as the family motto of Sir Thomas Bond, whose Coat of Arms 007 is shown while on assignment.

Syd Cain's designs for Blofeld's coat of arms in On Her Majesty's Secret Service,
the film in which Bond learns his own family motto
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq. LLC.

11. Die Another Day (2002)
There’s a 1896 poem by AE Housman called A Shropshire Lad, which features the line “But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day”. That’s the only explanation for this terrible title for an equally terrible film.

12. Quantum of Solace (2008)
After this title was announced in 2008, many struggled to understand its meaning – including the film's screenwriter, Paul Haggis. "I have no idea," he admitted when asked. "It's not my title." Indeed, it's the title of a Fleming short story about Bond meeting a cuckolded husband, and more inquiring minds were quick to point out that "quantum" is the smallest possible amount of a physical property. For Daniel Craig, it was about relationships: "When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace," he clarified. But perhaps comedian Adam Buxton explained it best in his alternative Quantum of Solace theme song: “I want a quantum of solace, but just a quantum / I know they do big bags of solace, but I don’t want ‘em.”

13. SPECTRE (2015)
SPECTRE is a fictional terrorist organisation that featured in both the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming and the films adapted from them. Fleming originally pitted Bond against SMERSH, the arm of the KGB set up by Stalin as an equivalent of the Gestapo. Believing the Cold War to be coming to an end, and fearing a recurring Soviet enemy would make his novels look dated, the author told Playboy in 1964 that he created this network of spies and assassins to replace the Soviets as natural enemies for the British Secret Service.

Franz Oberhauser: SPECTRE's number one in the new film

The organisation's name is an acronym for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. It made its first appearance in Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball, and on screen in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962). It is headed by the franchise's ultimate villain, the cat-stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose name was inspired by a boy Fleming knew at Eton, Thomas Blofeld – father of the cricket commentator Henry "Blowers" Blofeld.

2015: Capital releases "Writing's on the Wall" as a CD single.

2015: Universal Music Classics releases the Spectre soundtrack by Thomas Newman in the UK.

2022: The Bond In Motion Exhibition closes at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California.

EXHIBITION
CLOSURE | Bond in
Motion
Sunday, October 23, 2022
5:00 PM 6:00 PM

See the complete article here:

https://www.petersen.org/events/bond-closure

EXHIBITION CLOSING OCTOBER 23

BOND IN MOTION
OFFICIAL COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL JAMES BOND VEHICLES
Purchase Tickets

EXHIBITION ABSTRACT
Produced in collaboration with EON Productions and The Ian Fleming® Foundation, Bond in Motion is the first official exhibition in the United States to feature original vehicles from the James Bond film franchise. The exhibit celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 007 films, since Dr. No was released in 1962.

With the publication of his first spy novel, Casino Royale (1953), author and former naval intelligence officer Ian Fleming introduced the world to the enchanting exploits of James Bond, a British officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. In all, Fleming would produce twelve novels and two short stories, laying the foundation for what would become a global literary and cinematic legacy.

Beginning in 1962, with the movie adaptation of Fleming’s sixth title, Dr. No, the exciting and dangerous world of James Bond was translated to screen, setting the tone for Bond films to come. Much like the novels on which they are based, Bond films combine the adventure of exotic locations and scheming villains with the action of death-defying stunts, and heart-pounding chases in nearly every type of vehicle imaginable. Often modified by quartermaster “Q,” these vehicles, much like Bond himself, conceal their true nature until their weapons and gadgetry become important plot devices.

The Bond in Motion exhibit offers visitors a rare up-close experience of the most iconic vehicles associated with the world’s most famous secret agent, 007.

https://www.petersen.org/bond

RichardTheBruce

October 24th

1943: Martin Campbell is born--Hastings, New Zealand.

1983: Maclean's prints its Never Say Never Again review "James Bond as a familiar fuzz."

James Bond as a familiar fuzz
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN Directed by Irvin Kershner
October 24 1983 L.O’T.

See the complete article here:

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1983/10/24/james-bond-as-a-familiar-fuzz

James Bond as a familiar fuzz
October 24 1983 L.O’T.

NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN Directed by Irvin Kershner

After a viewer walks out of the latest James Bond movie, Never Say Never Again, he might well scratch his head and wonder what was so sorely missing from it. The gadgets and chases are there, as are the double entendres and centrefold women. There is also the original 007, Sean Connery, albeit this time sleepwalking through his action-packed environment. But there is no James Bond theme—a simple piece of music as familiar to most viewers as the backs of their own hands. That theme has developed by now into a Pavlovian efficiency: it has become part of the texture of the Bond fantasy, indelibly ingrained as part of the pleasure in watching the most successful movie series ever. Legally, the makers of Never Say Never Again could not use the theme, since the copyright to the series belongs to another interest. However, the rights to an earlier Bond opus, Thunderball, lapsed after 15 years, the result being Never Say Never Again, which is a quasi-remake.

Though it has its sharp, inspired moments, Never Say Never Again denies the audience the thrill of discovery. The plot—SPECTRE trying to take over the world by stealing two nuclear warheads—has the fuzz of familiarity on it and is not well worked out. The relationship between SPECTRE and the chief villain (Klaus Maria Brandhauer) is illdefined, and villainousness itself seems to be at a premium. Except for Barbara Carrera as the fur-and-leather assassin, Fatima Blush, no slimy juices run through these evildoers; they are simply not worthy adversaries. And there is a new Bondette—a Linda Evans look-alike named Kim Basinger—as vacuous as she is physically velvety.

To his credit, director Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) achieves some moments of pure comic-book style, particularly with a tuxedo-clad Bond on a motorcycle. There is, too, a rip-roaring fight between Bond and a practically impregnable brute, a terrific stunt on a horse, a shark attack and plenty of underwater action—all of which we have seen once too often. The biggest disappointment is, of course, Connery, looking as fit and trim as ever—but also in another world. Originally, the moviemakers dallied with the idea of having Connery, without his toupée, play Bond as an out-of-shape retiree called back into action. Lorenzo Semple Jr.’s limp script is no help to Connery either, lacking both purr and pounce. Never Say Never Again uses up the last of 007’s nine lives. —L.O’T.

L.O’T.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey showering. Plus the robot.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 9 of 65 - "Ship of Terror" in Kua-Kua.

James Bond Jr - Ship of Terror

Season 1 - Episode 29

A theft by a S.C.U.M. agent of a pendant belonging to James's friend Prince Malmo leads the gang on a deadly cruise, stalked by Walker D. Plank and a metallic henchman.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (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 / Pirate Parrot (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 29 - Ship of Terror

2005: The Design Museum showcases iconic Robert Brownjohn contributions.

Robert Brownjohn at the Design Museum

See the complete article here:

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/1804

Many of the most memorable images of the Sixties are on show as part of
the Design Museum's Robert Brownjohn restrospective.

From the top floor windows of the museum on the exhibition's opening day it was possible to watch Daniel Craig arrive by speed boat on the far bank where he was revealed as the latest actor to play James Bond.

In the exhibition we learn that it was Brownjohn's work which helped to make the James Bond legend so enduring. His opening title sequences for the 1963 Bond film From Russia With Love and the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, which required exacting attention to detail in a pre-digital age, can be enjoyed on a screen. Almost as important is the poster depicting Sean Connery and Honor Blackman which had such impact.

Also playing are his Midland Bank cinema commercials which received standing ovations at the Cannes Film Festival.

Brownjohn's arresting Fifties' graphic art includes a Harper's cover drawing featuring red skull caps surrounding a single white one. This was to illustrate the article on the new Pope John XXIII who was the first pontiff to make a global impact.

Other early work, before the artist's move from New York to Britain in 1960, is a pleasing use of letterpress for festival posters. In America he had come under the influence of Andy Warhol as his collection of slides confirms.

Two years before his death in London he designed the artwork for the Rolling Stones' album Let It Bleed.

The exhibition is curated by Emily King who to coincide with the Design Museum show has written a book Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography (Laurence King Publishing £25). This is closely related to the exhibition making it both a worthwhile souvenir as well as a fascinating overview of Robert Brownjohn's work and influence.

In a foreword Alan Fletcher of Pentagram writes: "Bj was the right man, in the right job, in the right place."

Robert Brownjohn is at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, daily 10am-5.45pm until Sunday 26 February; admission £7 (conc £4; child under 12 free)

2005: John Murray publishes James Bond: The Man And His World by Henry Chancellor.

http://commanderbond.net/2831/james-bond-the-man-and-his-world.html

2012: Digital Spy reports on Daniel Craig crying.

Daniel Craig: 'I cried when I first heard
Adele's Skyfall'

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a433007/daniel-craig-i-cried-when-i-first-heard-adeles-skyfall/

The James Bond actor says that the song was what he wanted from the beginning.
BY MAYER NISSIM
24/10/2012
Daniel Craig has admitted that he cried when he first heard Adele's 'Skyfall'.

The James Bond actor said that the theme for the 23rd 007 movie perfectly fitted the on-screen action.

"I cried," Craig told Yahoo! Movies

"From the opening bars I knew immediately, then the voice kicked in and it was exactly what I'd wanted from the beginning.

"It just got better and better because it fitted the movie. In fact the more of the movie we made, the more it fitted it."

Adele - 'Skyfall' preview video
by Digital Spy GB

Skyfall director Sam Mendes added of Adele: "She came in very early before we started shooting and her main concern was, 'I write songs about myself, how can I make a 'Bond' song?'

"My answer was, 'Just write a personal song!' Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does it Better' was a love song."

Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson have maintained that Adele was always their first choice to record the theme for the movie.

'Skyfall' has been covered by Jedward and Willow Smith since its release.

Skyfall will open in UK cinemas on October 26 and November 9 in the US.

Watch the Adele 'Skyfall' lyric video below:

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RichardTheBruce

October 25th

1936: Terrance Mountain is born--Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

1965: Mathieu Amalric is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

1972: James Bond comic The League of Vampires begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 28 February 1973. 2066–2172) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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





https://www.popoptiq.com/the-league-of-vampires/



Swedish Semic Comic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3

Vampyrligan
(The League of Vampires)

Danish 1975 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no32-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 32:
“The League of Vampires”
"Vampyrligaen"

1977: Eileen Alderton reviews the Christopher Wood novelization James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me in The Australian Women's Weekly..

Books
reviewed by Eileen Alderton

JAMES BOND LOVES ON

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51275146

ENTIRELY different from the late
Ian Fleming's original story The
Spy Who Loved Me is Christopher
Wood's JAMES BOND, THE
SPY WHO LOVED ME.

Published by Jonathan Cape ($9.95) it is
a gutsy, punchy novel written under licence
(from the owners of Ian Fleming's
copyrights) from the script Christopher
Wood and Richard Maibaum produced for
the latest Bond film.

Ian Fleming made his indestructible
Bond immortal - and here he is again, a
woman chaser, charming, ironic, decadent,
ruthless, with a constitution that stands up
to any amount of bashing and bruising.
In this thriller British and Russians get
together because a nuclear-powered
submarine is missing. There is, of course, a
beautiful girl called Anya with the rank of a
major in the Russian army, deadly villains
and as much action as anyone could take.

1982: Octopussy films Magda seducing OO7 for the egg.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 30 of 65 - "Deadly Recall" at Monte Carlo.

James Bond Jr - Deadly Recall

Season 1 - Episode 30
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807098/?ref_=ttep_ep30

James and the gang's trip to Monte Carlo with Trevor turns into another adventure when Dr. Derange uses his hypnotic roulette wheel to hypnotise and rob wealthy people blind before transforming them into S.C.U.M agents. And Trevor becomes their next candidate.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Damona (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 30 - Deadly Recall

1995: David Healy dies at age 66--London, England.
(Born 15 May 1929--New York City, New York.)

David Healy (actor)

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Healy_(actor)

David Healy
Born May 15, 1929
New York City, U.S.
Died October 25, 1995 (aged 66)
London, England
Occupation Actor
Years active 1963–1995
Spouse(s) Peggy Walsh
Children 2

David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor who appeared in British and American television shows.

Healy was born in New York City. His television credits include voices for the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as parts in UFO, The Troubleshooters, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Strange Report, Dickens of London, Space Police (a TV pilot), Space Precinct and Dallas. He also starred as Dr. Watson opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1983 TV film of The Sign of Four.

His big screen credits include The Double Man (1967), Only When I Larf (1968), Assignment K (1968), Isadora (1968), Patton (1970), Lust for a Vampire (1971), Madame Sin (1972), Embassy (1972), Endless Night (1972), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Winterspelt (1979), Supergirl (1984), and Haunted Honeymoon (1986).[7][8] He also gave uncredited performances in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

In 1983, Healy received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Guys and Dolls during the 1982 theatre season. His performance of "Nicely Nicely Johnson" was praised as "show-stopping" as he sang "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat". He performed a mid-show encore each night. In late 1980s he played the character of Buddy Plummer in the original London run of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Healy died following a heart operation on October 25, 1995 in London, England.
Contents

Personal life
David married Peggy Walsh and had two sons, William and Tim. He was a devoted amateur polo player and his wife was the manager of Ham Polo Club in London. Both of his sons remain polo players and the David Healy Trophy is still played for in his memory.

Filmography
Be My Guest (1965) - Milton Bass
The Double Man (1967) - Halstead
You Only Live Twice (1967) - Houston Radar Operator (uncredited)
Assignment K (1968) - David
Inspector Clouseau (1968) - Villain in TV Western (uncredited)
Only When I Larf (1968) - Jones
Isadora (1968) - Chicago Theatre Manager
Patton (1970) - Clergyman
Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Raymond Pelley

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Vandenburg Launch Director (uncredited)
Madame Sin (1972) - Braden
Embassy (1972) - Phelan
Endless Night (1972) - Jason
Ooh... You Are Awful (1972) - Tourist
A Touch of Class (1973) - American (uncredited)
Phase IV (1974) - Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
Stardust (1974)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - Maj. Winters
La Ballade des Dalton (1978) - Joe Dalton (English version, voice)
Winterspelt (1979) - Pfc Foster

The Ninth Configuration (1980) - 1st General
Supergirl (1984) - Mr. Danvers
Labyrinth (1986) - Right Door Knocker (voice)
Haunted Honeymoon (1986) - P.R. Man
Turnaround (1987) - Sheriff Huddleston

Puerto Rican Mambo (Not a Musical) (1992) - Businessman, 'biff'
All Men Are Mortal (1995) - Movie Producer (final film role)

David Healy (I) (1929–1995)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372242/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

You Only Live Twice

Diamonds Are Forever

2012: The Scotsman reviews the new James Bond film Skyfall.

Film review: The new James Bond film ‘Skyfall’

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/film-review-the-new-james-bond-film-skyfall-1-2597521/amp

Published: 02:35 Thursday 25 October 2012

In Skyfall, Sam Mendes has given us a James Bond for the 21st century and also made a film with genuine heart. Alistair Harkness is bowled over

WITH the traditional hype and hoopla surrounding the release of the latest Bond film Skyfall reaching fever pitch over the past month or so, it’s been impossible to ignore the fact that the world’s longest running film franchise is also celebrating its 50th anniversary. That’s partly down to Skyfall itself making a virtue of celebrating its heritage. Directed by Sam Mendes and once again starring Daniel Craig as cinema’s most conspicuous secret agent, Craig’s third outing is both a playful tribute to the entire history of Bond on the big screen and a worthy modern-day action movie that finally advances 007 into the 21st century with the panache one might expect from a character whose chief appeal has always been his penchant for sophistication, insouciance and ruthless violence.

Those traits were, of course, present almost from the first moment a tuxedoed Sean Connery, cigarette hanging loosely from his mouth, uttered the immortal words “Bond, James Bond” in Dr No. That film’s release on 5 October 1962, the same day as The Beatles’ first single "Love Me Do" – and a mere ten days before the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of disaster – has elevated Bond’s cinematic origins to near mythical status, so much so that it’s hard to deny that this weird confluence of seismic cultural and political events has played an important role in shaping and defining an entire era.

As such, the release of a new Bond film can never simply be dismissed as just another movie. Twenty-two “official” films on from Dr No (and with rogue entries into the canon in the form of the star-stuffed 1967 Casino Royale spoof and Sean Connery’s contentious rival outing Never Say Never Again), the very existence of Skyfall is testament to the resilience of Ian Fleming’s original creation. Sure, there have been some lean years (Timothy Dalton’s brief tenure in the role), some creaky years (Roger Moore’s later efforts), and some increasingly silly years (Pierce Brosnan’s invisible car; Madonna’s cameo as a fencing instructor), but the character’s remarkable gift for reinvention and resurrection has enabled him to survive the ravages of time surprisingly well with each new iteration.

As it happens, it is precisely those ravages that form the primary thematic concerns of Bond 23. Even though it barely feels like yesterday that Craig’s blond, bloodied, brutal and, let’s face it, ludicrously buff take on the character radically reinvented him for an age in which Jason Bourne already seemed to have shown him the door, the otherwise soporific Casino Royale is now six years old and its frenetic follow-up Quantum of Solace is already four. For those paying close attention to Craig’s more rooted-in-reality approach, that means his Bond is already starting to feel the punishing effects of being a double-0 agent, effects Roger Moore would likely have dismissed with an arched eyebrow jutting into his wrinkly forehead, but which Mendes and his team of writers (regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade; Scorsese collaborator John Logan) smartly weave into the main body of the story.

That story kicks off in typically spectacular style with Bond being accidentally shot and left for dead by MI6 (a sequence that ends with him floating away into a hauntingly illustrated title sequence to the strain’s of Adele’s instant classic Bond theme). When he re-emerges from the shadows – after M (Judi Dench) has written his obituary – his physical prowess has largely deserted him, but his ailments are symptomatic of a wider concern percolating down through the security services: namely that Bond’s cold-blooded methodology – and the practices of MI6’s entire double-O branch – is outdated and irrelevant, especially in an age of cyber-terrorism where, as Ben Wishaw’s new Q surmises, more damage can be done with a laptop while drinking a cup of Earl Grey than by Bond with an entire arsenal of gadgets.

Though Bond films have periodically commented on their imminent obsolescence – in GoldenEye, M famously scolded Pierce Brosnan’s 007 for being “a sexist misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War”), Skyfall feels as if Mendes is genuinely trying to engage with who the character is and what his function should be, especially at a time when audiences want the old-school excitement of a Bond film but with an ever greater degree of verisimilitude.

Mendes negotiates that tricky path by effectively turning Skyfall into a comment on its own creation. The 50th anniversary, for instance, gives him licence to spoon-feed fans a number of treats in the form of overt references to past films, but he’s careful not to abuse that privilege and works some more subtle ones in, too. In fact, the biggest influence is probably On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which may feature the least-loved 007 (George Lazenby, making his sole outing in the role) but, thanks to its dazzling technical achievements and jaw-dropping emotional beats, now seems like the most accomplished of all the Bond films.

Mendes has certainly absorbed a lot from it, using its acknowledgment of the Scottish parentage Fleming subsequently furnished the character with in tribute to Connery’s definitive performance for a fantastic third act sojourn to the Highlands, where the titular significance of Skyfall comes into play. But he also uses its influence to land some moments of real poignancy, giving the film the emotional kick Bond’s doomed romance with Vesper Lynd in the much-praised Casino Royale sorely lacked.

What’s particularly thrilling about Skyfall is that Mendes has reconfigured the tropes of the series so that Bond is once again out in front, setting the template anew for what a Bond film can really do. That’s something that’s made clear early on courtesy of a rooftop fight sequence in which Mendes (working with genius cinematographer Roger Deakins) frames Bond in silhouette against Shanghai’s neon-lit night sky as he battles an assassin. As action sequences go it’s as gorgeous as it is gutsy, and works as a real statement of intent for the film.

The other big piece of the Bond pie that Mendes gets right – aside from finally using the Monty Norman theme properly (there’s both a reassuring two-second blast of it at the start of the film and reprise later on to accompany a typically iconic moment) – is Javier Bardem’s deliciously outré villain, Raoul Silva. A former agent with a personal vendetta against M, Silva is certainly a memorable throwback to Bond villains of old: he’s both an irrational megalomaniac and as camp as Diamonds are Forever’s Mr Kidd and Mr Wint. The difference is he’s progressive and transgressive with it. In their most intimate exchange, Silva taps into the hitherto unexplored homoerotic side of Bond, something the movie thoroughly embraces by giving Bond his funniest comeback in the film. It’s a further sign of how far the Bond films have come and also works as a belated acknowledgment of one of the more subversive aspects of Craig’s Bond: his willingness to be objectified.

As a result, it makes sense that Bond girls in the classic sense barely feature, with only Naomi Harris’s Eve sticking in the memory beyond the end credits. That’s perhaps also because over three films it has become clear that the only woman Craig’s Bond really has space for in his life is M, and it’s their relationship that provides Skyfall with something that Bond films have consistently lacked: genuine heart. If that sounds sappy then so be it: Skyfall is the kind of film that makes it easy to love Bond the way you probably did as a kid. When “James Bond will return” flashes up ahead of the end credits, it’s hard not to hold out hope for his next 50 years.

• Skyfall is on general release from tomorrow.

2019: The original planned release date for BOND 25, delayed since Danny Boyle's departure August the same year.

Bond 25 'will miss 2019 release date' after Danny Boyle exit

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45294809
24 August 2018

Boyle was originally confirmed as the director of Bond 25 in May

The release date of the next James Bond film is widely expected to be put back following Danny Boyle's abrupt decision to exit the currently untitled project.

"Bond 25" is scheduled to arrive in UK cinemas on 25 October 2019 and open in US cinemas two weeks later.

But the film may not now be released "until late 2020", according to the Hollywood Reporter's unnamed sources.

The Oscar-winning director's shock departure earlier this week was attributed to "creative differences".

According to The Telegraph, those may have included Boyle's purported wish to cast Polish actor Tomasz Kot as the film's main Russian villain.

Kot, 41, can currently be seen in Pawel Pawlikowski's film Cold War, which had its premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The Telegraph also claimed the film's producers had concerns over the script's focus on current political tensions with Russia.

A spokeswoman for Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, author of the script in question, confirmed this week that he was also no longer involved.

MGM and Eon, who produce the Bond films, declined to comment.

Boyle reportedly wanted Tomasz Kot to play the film's villain

Filming had been due to start in December at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as Ian Fleming's iconic spy.

David Mackenzie, Yann Demange and Joe Wright are among the film-makers who have been tipped to take over the director's chair.

With the exact reasons for Boyle's departure still unclear, people previously involved in the Bond films are being asked for their thoughts on the situation.

These include actor Jonathan Pryce, who is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying that the producers parted company with Boyle because "they obviously couldn't take a socialist Bond".

"There are the Dannys of this world and then there are people who do the blockbusters," continued Pryce, who played the villainous Elliot Carver in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies.

Boyle has never concealed his left-leaning sympathies, though he declined to identify himself as a socialist in a 2013 interview.

His opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics featured a Bond-based short and a set-piece tribute to the National Health Service.

2019: No Time To Die principle photography wraps at Pinewood Studios. Director Cary Fukunaga proposes looking forward to an April 2020 release.

https://ew.com/movies/2019/10/25/james-bond-no-time-to-die-wraps-shooting-daniel-craig/

RichardTheBruce

October 26th

1959: Ian Fleming to Ivan Bryce counters Jean de la Bruyere's suggestion for the title of the first Bond film.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 12 - The First James Bond Screenplay

Since its inception, the 007 project had simply been known as "James Bond."
No suitable title had yet been found. Jean de la Bruyere's suggestion it be
called "The Right to Kill" (which Bryce liked) caused Fleming to hurriedly
think of an alternative and he wrote to Bryce on 26 October. "Regarding
name for the film. I suggest 'James Bond of the Secret Service.' He is well
enough known now to bring the customers in and the titles like 'The Right to
Kill"' are all too common."

1967: Men leeft slechts tweemaal (Flemish - One Only Lives Twice; also in French -On ne vit que deux fois, We Only Live Twice) released in Brussels, Belgium.

1972: Live and Let Die films the jazzy death of Agent Hamilton in New Orleans.

2012: Skyfall released in the UK, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, UK, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Iraq, Iceland, Jordan, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malta, Norway, Oman, Poland, Palestine, Qatar, Sweden, and Slovakia.
2012: 007 - Operação Skyfall released in Brazil.

2012: 007 Skyfall released in France and Portugal. Bérénice Marlohe promotes the premiere in France.

2012: 007: Coordonata Skyfall (007: Skyfall Coordinate) released in Romania.

2012: 007: Координаты Скайфолл (007: Skyfall Coordinates) released in Russia.

2015: Spectre London premiere at Royal Albert Hall.

2015: Spectre general release for the UK and Ireland.

2015: BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime airs the first installment of Trigger Mortis, read by Rupert Penry-Jones.
2015: Sam Smith expresses (then denies) regret for writing the theme to Spectre.

Sam Smith: ‘I Have to Grab My Balls’ to
Sing ‘James Bond’ Theme

See the complete article here:

https://www.spin.com/2015/10/sam-smith-james-bond-spectre-grab-my-balls/

The singer says he "almost regrets" the very high track
James Grebey | October 26, 2015 - 10:40 am

Sam Smith’s renown for his angelic voice, but sometimes even he needs, um, a little bit extra to hit those really high notes. Such is the case for “Writing’s on the Wall,” his theme song to the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre. Speaking to Graham Norton ahead of his first live performance of the tune on the host’s show this past weekend, Smith explained that it’s a bitch to sing. “I’ve only actually sang the song once really. I did the demo in the studio, and they used it,” he said. “It’s horrible to sing. Horrible. I almost regret — no, I don’t regret… It’s just so high.” Then he went a step further: “I have to grab my balls, it’s awful.”

So when you’re sitting in a movie theater, enjoying the opening credits to Spectre, remember — Sam Smith’s balls took one for the team. (h/t NME)

RichardTheBruce

October 27th

1915: Harry Saltzman is born--Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
(He dies 28 September 1994 at age 78-- Paris, France.)

Obituaries
Harry Saltzman, 78, Bond-Film Producer

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html

SEPT. 29, 1994

Harry Saltzman, who with Albert R. Broccoli produced early James Bond films like "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger," died yesterday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a Paris suburb. He was 78 and lived in a village near Versailles.

The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Adriana.

He was born on Oct. 27, 1915, in New Brunswick, Canada, and was brought to the United States as an infant. He entered the film business in the mid-1940's and made his name in Britain with hard-hitting social dramas, including "Look Back in Anger" in 1958 and "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in 1960.

Mr. Saltzman and Mr. Broccoli rounded up the screen rights to practically all of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and began the film series in the early 1960's. The two struck it rich with the highly profitable movies, most of which starred Sean Connery as Agent 007. Their Bond films included "From Russia With Love," "Thunderball," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "The Man With the Golden Gun." The partnership ended in the mid-1970's.

Among Mr. Saltzman's other productions were "The Entertainer," "The Ipcress File," "Funeral in Berlin" and "The Battle of Britain."

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Steven, of Paris; two daughters, Hilary, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Merry, of Marina del Rey, Calif., and a sister, Mina Reizes of Reseda, Calif.

September 29, 1994, Page 00012 The New York Times Archives

Harry Saltzman (1915–1994)

Filmography

Producer (28 credits)

1988 Time of the Gypsies (co-producer)
1980 Nijinsky (executive producer)

1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (producer)
1973 Live and Let Die (producer)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (producer)
1970 Nijinsky: Unfinished Project (producer)
1970 Toomorrow (producer)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (producer)
1969 Battle of Britain (producer)
1969 Play Dirty (producer)
1967 Billion Dollar Brain (producer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (producer)
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1967 Shock Troops (presents)
1966 Funeral in Berlin (executive producer)
1965 Chimes at Midnight (producer)
1965 Thunderball (executive producer - uncredited)
1965 A Man Named John (producer)
1965 The Ipcress File (producer)
1964 Goldfinger (producer)
1963 From Russia with Love (producer)
1963 Call Me Bwana (executive producer)
1962 Dr. No (producer)
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (executive producer)
1960 The Entertainer (producer)
1959 Look Back in Anger (producer)
1956 The Iron Petticoat (produced in association with)
1955 Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (TV Series) (producer)

Production manager (1 credit)

1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) (production supervisor - 9 episodes)
- The Citadel (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Champion (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Rebecca (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Pitfall (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Phantom Lady (1950) ... (production supervisor)

Writer (1 credit)

1956 The Iron Petticoat (story - uncredited)

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/photos/2012/09/harry-saltzman-bond-secret-spy-life

1939: John Cleese is born--Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England.

1967: Men leeft slechts twee maal (Flemish title) released in Gent, Belgium. Also On ne vit que deux fois (French title).

1977: La espía que me amó released in Argentina.

1977: De spion die me liefhad released in Belgium.

1983: Octopussy released in Colombia.
1983: Octopussy released in Portugal.
1983: 007 - Operação Tentáculo (Tentacle Operation) released in Portugal.

Later video covers.

2008: Roy Stewart dies at age 83--London, England.
(Born 15 May 1925--Jamaica.)

Roy Stewart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stewart
Born 15 May 1925, Jamaica
Died 27 October 2008 (aged 83).
London, England
Occupation actor
Years active 1959–1981

Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television.

In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973). Other film appearances include Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Leo the Last (1970), Games That Lovers Play (1971), Twins of Evil (1971), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) and Arabian Adventure (1979). He was also active on television, with credits including: Out of the Unknown, Adam Adamant Lives!, Doctor Who (in the serials The Tomb of the Cybermen and Terror of the Autons), Doomwatch, Up Pompeii!, The Troubleshooters, Space: 1999 and I, Claudius.

Background
One of seven brothers, Roy Stewart was born in Jamaica, and came to Britain in 1948 with aspirations of being a doctor. But either theatre or a television commercial changed that.

Having suffered for some time from heart disease, Stewart died on 28 October 2008, aged 83.

Film and television career
In a role, possibly his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for Fry's Turkish Delight, playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain.

Film

Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, The Mummy. In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe the changes that had taken place over the years.

One of his last roles in film was as Pomeroy in Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, a 1981 made-for-television movie.

Television
He appeared in Dr. Who at least twice. He played Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and Tony in Terror of the Autons.

Television commercials
Fry's Turkish Delight[10]
Surf washing powder[11]

Business interests
Stewart ran a basement gymnasium at 32A Powis Square, Kensington, west London which was opened in 1954. It had the policy of allowing all races to train there. Some actors trained there too, one of them, David Prowse, a Commonwealth Games weightlifter in 1962, went on to play Darth Vader in the film Star Wars. The Gymnasium had a dual purpose. It was also an unofficial after-hours drinking club. By 1964, Stewart had been convicted four times for selling liquor without a license. He also ran a nightclub in Bayswater. Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison and Bob Marley were some of the patrons.

The Globe
In the 1960s he opened a Caribbean restaurant and bar called The Globe. The Globe, formerly Bajy's, was located at 103 Talbot Road. Jimi Hendrix was reportedly seen there the night before his death in September 1970. Stewart ran The Globe until he died in October 2008. The Globe functions to this day and is one of longest-running nightclubs in London. It also has a Caribbean restaurant upstairs.

Roy Stewart (II) (1925–2008)

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Filmography

Actor (42 credits)

1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Pomeroy

1979 Rentaghost (TV Series) - Djinn
- Rentasanta (1979) ... Djinn
1979 Arabian Adventure - The Nubian
1978 Sykes (TV Series) - Porter
- Football Match (1978) ... Porter
1977 Follow Me (TV Mini-Series) - General
- Episode #1.7 (1977) ... General
- Episode #1.6 (1977) ... General
1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - American sailor
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Sentor
- Waiting in the Wings (1976) ... Sentor
1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Tall Alien in Cave
- The Metamorph (1976) ... Tall Alien in Cave (uncredited)
1976 Caesar and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Nubian Slave
1975 Quiller (TV Series) - John Cornelius
- Objective Caribbean (1975) ... John Cornelius
1973 Live and Let Die - Quarrel
1972 Call Me by My Rightful Name - Doug's Agent
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb - Black Pug
1971 Twins of Evil - Joachim
1971 Lady Chatterly Versus Fanny Hill - Mr. Howanda
1965-1971 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Toberman / Strong Man / Saracen warrior
- Terror of the Autons: Episode Two (1971) ... Strong Man
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 3 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 2 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1 (1967) ... Toberman
... 6 episodes
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jeremy
- Guess Who's Coming to Sin'Er Nymphia (1970) ... Jeremy
1970 Mogul (TV Series) - Security Man / Carlos
- Let's See the Colour of Your Money (1970) ... Security Man
- Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1970) ... Carlos
1970 Julius Caesar - Slave
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Negro
- Spectre at the Feast (1970) ... Negro
1970 Leo the Last - Jasper's Bodyguard
1970 Carry On Up the Jungle - Nosha (uncredited)

1965-1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Boxer / Major Buba
- Son of Man (1969) ... Boxer
- For the West (1965) ... Major Buba
1968 Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Mulatto
- Wisteria Lodge (1968) ... Mulatto
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Pompey
- The High Adventure (1968) ... Pompey
1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Giles
- Have Guns - Will Haggle (1968) ... Giles
1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - 3rd Guard / Guard
- The Great Ring of Akba (1968) ... 3rd Guard
- Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier (1968) ... Guard
1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) - Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
1966-1967 Adam Adamant Lives! (TV Series) - Guard / Negro Bodyguard / Weightlifter
- The Basardi Affair (1967) ... Guard
- A Slight Case of Reincarnation (1966) ... Negro Bodyguard (uncredited)
- Beauty Is an Ugly Word (1966) ... Weightlifter
1967 Prehistoric Women - Warrior (uncredited)
1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Wrestler
- The Man Who Liked Lions (1966) ... Wrestler (uncredited)
1966 On the Margin (TV Series)
- Episode #1.2 (1966)
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - A Dervish
- Gordon of Khartoum (1966) ... A Dervish
1965 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Security guard
- No Place Like Earth (1965) ... Security guard
1965 The Mind of the Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Chief Nwambe
- The New Member (1965) ... Chief Nwambe
1965/I She - Black Guard (uncredited)
1964 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series) - Ali
- An End to Revenge (1964) ... Ali
- Dishonour (1964) ... Ali
- Evidence of a Crime (1964) ... Ali
- Unlimited Credit (1964) ... Ali
- A Garden in Auteuil (1964) ... Ali
1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Bearer in Museum (uncredited)
1963 First Night (TV Series) - Broccoli
- The Strain (1963) ... Broccoli
1961 Operation Snafu - Trinidad (uncredited)
1960 Sands of the Desert - Gong Banger at Sheik's Tent (uncredited)

1959 The Mummy - Flashback Slave (uncredited)

2008: "Another Way to Die" enters the UK Singles Chart at twenty-six, later peaking at number nine.

2012: Skyfall released in Switzerland.

2018: BBC News reports on a famous gun owned by a familiar figure about to go to auction.

'First' James Bond 007 gun to
go under the hammer

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-46360414

27 November 2018

The original Walther PPK pistol given to James Bond at the beginning of Dr No (1962)

A handgun handed to Sean Connery in the opening scenes of Dr No in 1962 is to be auctioned.

The Walther PPK pistol was owned at the time by M actor Bernard Lee, who brought it on set when a prop was not available.

A letter signed by Lee confirms the then fully-active gun was the "first ever to appear in a James Bond film".

Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert described the piece as a "superlative piece of British film history".

Bernard Lee was the longest-serving M actor, playing the role in the first 11 Eon-produced Bond films, from Dr No in 1962 to Moonraker, in 1979.

Humbert Ellis
The pistol appears in the opening scenes of Dr No, starring Sean Connery

Mr Lee brought the live gun along for the filming of the early Dr No scene after a prop gun ordered by Eon Productions did not arrive on time.

According to provenance notes, a different Walther pistol was used for the rest of the film because Mr Lee's gun was deemed "inappropriate".

The actor later gave the weapon to the parents of the vendor in 1974, with a signed letter in which he says: "This pistol is the first ever to appear in a James Bond film."

The letter adds: "It was fully functional at the time. I have since removed the firing pin."

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Actor Bernard Lee, who died in 1981, played M in the first 11 James Bond films

The firearm is expected to fetch as much as £80,000 in the auction.

A pistol held by Sean Connery in a poster to promote the 1963 film From Russia With Love sold at auction for £277,250 in 2010.

2024: Scheduled last day for the 007 Science displays at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois. Now extended to Spring 2025!

now through spring 2025!
007 Science:
Inventing the World of
James Bond

https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/007-science-inventing-the-world-of-james-bond

Open Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Access the adventure where science and imagination meet.

Explore the iconic cars, gadgets and props of the James Bond film series. 007 Science: Inventing the World of James Bond is the first-ever official exhibition to focus on the science and technology behind the world’s longest-running movie franchise.

Go behind the scenes to learn how the Bond production teams harness real-world science to craft 007’s on-screen adventures. See fantastical gadgets created for the Bond films alongside the real-life inventions they prefigured—see a prototype jetpack from “Thunderball” and the modern Gravity Industries Jet Suit.

You’ll also enter a lab space inspired by “Q”—the source of secret field technologies in the Bond movies—and test your abilities to design the perfect spy vehicle, dangle from a steel beam, and devise amazing stunts. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the science behind the tech and technique of the world’s most famous spy.

007 Science: Inventing the World of James Bond is open through spring 2025. It is not included in Museum Entry and requires an additional ticket.