On This Day

RichardTheBruce

November 24th

1959: Jack Whittingham meets Ian Fleming and Ivor Bryce in New York.

1965: Variety reports Tom Jones signed up for the Thunderball title song, plus (not entirely correctly) that Shirley Bassey recorded a John Barry-Leslie Bricusse tune for the end titles.
1966: You Only Live Twice films the throwing star and Blofeld. Actor Donald Pleasance is photographed on set.

1981: Altin Tabancali Adam (The Golden Gun Man) released in Turkey.

But not this one from 1970

1983: Octopussy released in Australia.

Australian Daybill

1983: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Οκτάπουσι (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Octopus) released in Greece.

1995: GoldenEye released in the UK, Ireland, and Poland.

2006: Casino Royale released in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Romania, and Sweden.
2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Spain.
2006: Казино Pоял released in Bulgaria.

2014: The Sony Corp. entertainment computer network is hacked, releasing sensitive information including details of the Spectre script. The biggest cyberattack to that date in the US. North Korea denies involvement. The FBI investigates.

2018: Ricky Jay (Richard Jay Potash) dies at age 70--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 26 June 1948--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.)

Ricky Jay, Master Magician and
Actor in ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Boogie
Nights,’ Dies at 72

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS

Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter

Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.

Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”

His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”

A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.

He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”

Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”

In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

In the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Jay played a cyber-terrorist to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.

He also provided the narration for movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” His one-man Broadway show directed by Mamet, “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” was recorded for an HBO special in 1996.

With Weber, he created the Deceptive Practices company, which provided solutions to movies and TV productions such as the wheelchair that hid Gary Sinise’s legs in “Forrest Gump.” They also worked on films including “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist” and “Oceans Thirteen.”

Jay, who was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, was introduced to magic by his grandfather. He began performing in New York, opening for rock bands. Jay first worked in film with on Caleb Deschanel’s “The Escape Artist.”

A documentary about his life, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” was released in 2012.

A student of all facets of magic, prestidigitation and trickery, he maintained a large library of historic works and wrote two books, as well as numerous articles for the New Yorker; he also frequently lectured at museums and universities.

Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Trivia
Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta) is also an acclaimed magician, who holds a world record for the fastest throwing playing cards. The producers initially wanted a scene where he threw playing cards at Bond. They set up the scene to block, Ricky was fifty or seventy-five feet away, and was asked to hit Pierce Brosnan in the face. Ricky warned them it wasn't a good idea, safety wise. After they convinced him to do it, he agreed, and hit Pierce right above the eyes. To his disappointment, for some reason, they never asked him to repeat it on film. Gupta is shown throwing cards in the DVD deleted scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cofb-jJiFk

Filmography

Actor (41 credits)

2019 Sneaky Pete (TV Series) - T.H. Vignetti
- The Sunshine Switcheroo (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Little Sister (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The California Split (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Invisible Man (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Brooklyn Potash (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti (voice, uncredited)
- The Vermont Victim & The Bakersfield Hustle (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Stamford Trust Fall (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Huckleberry Jones (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
2015 The Automatic Hate - Josh / Howard's son
2014 Getting On (TV Series) - Thoracic Surgeon
- Turnips... North Day... Yes, yes. (2014) ... Thoracic Surgeon
2013 Breathe Life Radio TV (TV Series)
2013 Teen Titans Go! (TV Series short) - Narrator
- Double Trouble (2013) ... Narrator (voice)
2011 The End of 'Sluggers' (Short)
2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (Video short) - Narrator
2009-2010 Flashforward (TV Series) - Ted Flosso / Man in Warehouse
- Revelation Zero: Part 2 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
- Revelation Zero: Part 1 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
- Playing Cards with Coyote (2009) ... Man in Warehouse
2009 Lie to Me (TV Series) - Mason Brock
- Fold Equity (2009) - .. Mason Brock

2009 Intense - John
2007-2009 The Unit (TV Series) - Agent Kern
- Bad Beat (2009) ... Agent Kern
- Pandemonium: Part Two (2007) ... Agent Kern
- Paradise Lost (2007) ... Agent Kern
- Bedfellows (2007) ... Agent Kern
2008 The Brothers Bloom - Narrator (voice)
2008 Redbelt - Marty Brown
2008 The Great Buck Howard - Gil Bellamy
2006-2007 Kidnapped (TV Series) - Roger Prince
- Mutiny (2007) ... Roger Prince
- Gone Fishing (2007) ... Roger Prince
- Number One with a Bullet (2006) ... Roger Prince
- Pilot (2006) ... Roger Prince
2006 The Prestige - Milton
2005 Last Days - Detective
2004 Deadwood (TV Series) - Eddie Sawyer
- Sold Under Sin (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Mister Wu (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- No Other Sons or Daughters (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Suffer the Little Children (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Bullock Returns to the Camp (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Plague (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- The Trial of Jack McCall (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Here Was a Man (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Reconnoitering the Rim (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
2004 Incident at Loch Ness - Party Guest
2001 Heist - Don 'Pinky' Pincus
2001 Heartbreakers - Dawson's Auctioneer
2000 State and Main - Jack
2000 The X-Files (TV Series) - The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
- The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck

1999 Magnolia - Burt Ramsey / Narrator
1999 Mystery Men - Vic Weems
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Henry Gupta
1997/I Hacks - The Hat
1997 Boogie Nights - Kurt Longjohn
1997 The Spanish Prisoner - George Lang
1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) - Hawkes
1993 Magiskt (TV Series) - Magic film clip
- Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
- Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
- Special guest: Lars-Peter Loeld (1993) ... Magic film clip
1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) - Special appearance
1992 Ring of the Musketeers (TV Movie) - Kerns (as Rickey Jay)
1992 The Water Engine (TV Movie) - Ratty Inventor
1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Lenny NiCastro
- Pilot (1991) ... Lenny NiCastro
1991 The Thrill Is Gone (TV Movie) - Dealer
1991 Homicide - Aaron

1988 Things Change - Mr. Silver
1987 House of Games - George / Vegas Man
1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Philostrate
1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Bird
- Red Dog Blues (1983) ... Bird

Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)

2008 The Great Buck Howard (technical consultant: magic)
2007 Ocean's Thirteen (consultant)
2006 The Prestige (technical advisor: magic)
2006 The Illusionist (technical advisor: magic)
2001 The Affair of the Necklace (technical consultant)
2001 Heist (technical consultant)
2001 Heartbreakers (technical consultant: con games)

1998 The Parent Trap (technical consultant)
1997 The Spanish Prisoner (technical consultant)
1995 Congo (illusion creator) / (technical consultant)
1994 Forrest Gump (illusion wheelchair designer)
1994 Wolf (technical consultant)
1994 I Love Trouble (technical consultant)
1992 Leap of Faith (consultant: cons and frauds)
1992 Sneakers (sleight of hand consultant)
1990 The Magic Balloon (Short) (technical consultant)

1987 House of Games (consultant: confidence games)
1987 The Believers (technical consultant)
1984 The Natural (technical consultant)
1983 New Magic (Documentary short) (magic advisor)
1982 The Escape Artist (technical advisor)
Hide Hide Writer (5 credits)
2007 The Unit (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Bedfellows (2007) ... (story)
2004 Deadwood (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... (written by)
1996 Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (TV Movie)
1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) (12 episodes)

1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)

Music department (1 credit)

1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) (music effects)

2020: Sotheby's auctions Lot 160 Italian James Bond film festival poster Tutti Contro James Bond (All Against James Bond) from 1975.

Tutti Contro James Bond / All
Against James Bond (1975)
Poster, Italian, James Bond film
festival

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/original-film-posters/tutti-contro-james-bond-all-against-james-bond
Estimate: 1,000 - 1,600 GBP

2020: Yaroslav Horak dies at age 94--Sydney, Australia.
(Born 12 June 1927--Harbin, China.)

In Memoriam: James Bond comic artist Yaroslav
Horak

See the complete article here:

https://downthetubes.net/?p=123513&fbclid=IwAR2OztK1Hj9eCj16H9EVQrZag8EkYebdcpRSqcU9hC89hhm5JsT_La3IpR4

By John Freeman on December 5, 2020

We’re sorry to report the passing of James Bond newspaper strip artist Yaroslav Horak, who passed late last month, aged 93. He passed away peacefully at his rest home in Australia, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Born in Manchuria to the son of a Russian mother and Czech father in 1927, Yaroslav was renowned for his dynamic black and white art for James Bond 007, which he drew for the Daily Express from 1966 to 1977, taking over from John McLusky.

James Bond – The Man with the Golden Gun

Horak and his family migrated to Sydney, Australia before World War Two, first working as an artist as a portrait painter but switching to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers. His appreciation for storytelling, art and adventure led him into writing and illustrating comic strips, and became one of Australian’s most prolific cartoonists, producing thousands of pages of comics in Australia before moving to England in 1962.

In his detailed biography on Comics Down Under Kevin Patrick notes Horak’s first published comics work, “Grey Thorne, Counter Espionage Agent”, appeared in Frank Johnson Publications’ Gem Comics in 1947.

He created his first recurring character, “Rick Davis, Special Correspondent”, as a supporting feature in H.J. Edwards’ top-selling Action Comic. This was followed by “The Skyman”, which ran in both Action Comic and John Dixon’s Tim Valour Comic. This aviation-themed series was the first comic to carry the artist’s Anglicised by-line, “Larry Horak”.

(Documenting the holdings of Horak’s held by the National Library of Australia, Liesl Mitchell notes it was publisher John Edwards who gave Horak the name “Larry” by which he is also known. This was not to the artist’s liking and he only managed to shed this imposed name when he moved to Europe).

Art from Jet Fury #17 via Pikitia Press

Horak’s first solo comic book, Mr Combat, for Elmsdale Publications, was published in 1950, but his “globetrotting crime-buster” was cancelled after just three issues. But “Jet Fury”, a series which began as a supporting feature in Michael Chance Comic, about a masked aviator who flew to global trouble-spots aboard the Comet, an “anti-gravity” jet, firmly established his reputation as a comics artist. Its popularity led to the title being re-named as Jet Fury Comic with its 16th issue in 1951.

Other early credits include The Mask – The Man of Many Faces for Atlas Publications – but Comics Down Under notes the ran foul of Queensland’s Literature Board of Review, which objected to the character’s full-face mask, and imposed a state-wide sales ban on the comic, forcing Atlas Publications to reluctantly cancel the title with its third issue in 1954.

Disillusioned, Horak turned to newspaper strips, creating “Captain Fortune“, running in Sydney’s Sun-Herald from December 1957 until July 1962; and drawing “Mike Steel – Desert Rider“, for Woman’s Day magazine, written by editor Keith Findlay (under the pseudonym “Roger Rowe”), running from August 1962 until January 1969.

Moving to England in 1963, he secured work from DC Thomson his known credits including “Johny Hop” for The Victor, telling the adventures of Constable Bill Lennox and his Aboriginal tracker companion, Wally Omes, in Outback Australia in 1964, followed by “The Bent Copper” for The Hornet, about ex-Scotland Yard detective John Bright, who sought revenge against the criminal who framed him for a crime he did not commit, published in 1965.

Between 1963 and 1966, he also drew stories for Fleetway’s War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library, before replacing John McLusky on the James Bond newspaper strip, at the suggestion of writer Peter O’Donnell, drawing some 33 adventures starring the secret agent between 1966 and 1984.

Horak’s take on the secret agent resembled Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, long before either actor took up the role on the big screen.

He first drew adaptations of The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity, and The Living Daylights, followed by an adaptation of Colonel Sun (the Bond novel written by Kingsley Amis).

It was Horak’s acclaimed adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun, published between January 1966 and September 1966, that led to writer Jim Lawrence being given permission by the Fleming Trust to write original Bond stories for Horak to draw, including River of Death, Trouble Spot and The Girl Machine.

Horak returned to Australia in 1975, drawing a newspaper strip adaptation of the Australian TV show Cop Shop for Sydney’s Sun-Herald, which ran from 1980 to 1983, collected in a tie-in magazine.

His final comics project was his own – the SF series, “Andea”, published by Australia’s Daily Mirror, centring on a glamorous female extra-terrestrial who travelled to Australia from the distant planet Xavax.

“‘Andea’ showcased Horak’s storytelling skills to brilliant effect,” notes Kevin Patrick, “with his intricate plots, fantastic characters, and exquisite artwork demonstrating his complete mastery of the medium throughout the series’ seven-year run. It was a fitting end to Yaroslav Horak’s incomparable career as one of Australia’s great comic artists.”

Refocusing on painting in later life, Horak was awarded the Ledger of Honour in recognition of his contributions to Australian comics, as part of the Ledger Awards for 2018.

Our sympathies to his family at this time, who requested that donations in his memory be made to Dementia Australia.

Yaroslav Horak, artist, born 12th June 1927, died 24th November 2020. Survived by his wife, Jacqueline and children Anton, Natasha and Damon

Comics Down Under

Yaroslav Horak: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

See the complete article here:

http://comicsdownunder.blogspot.com/2015/06/yaroslav-horak-portrait-of-artist-as.html

While recently browsing through a box of old magazines and newspapers in an antiques shop, I came across a tattered and torn copy of The News, a tabloid newspaper produced by the Australian Journalists Association and the Printing Industry Employees' Union during a wartime industrial dispute with Sydney Newspaper Proprietors' Association. This copy of The News, dated Tuesday, 17 October 1944, caught my eye because it contained a brief profile of a talented young high-school student from Sydney, Yaroslav Horak (See image). The text of the article reads as follows:

Sixteen-year-old Russian, Yaroslav Horak, of Centennial Park, pupil of St Mary's Cathedral High School, displays a poster he has entered in the Australia-wide Second Victory Loan School contests. Born in Manchuria, Yaroslav came to Australia four years ago. He has since learnt to speak English fluently.

Yaroslav Horak, of course, went on to become a talented and highly sought-after comic book artist in Australia following World War Two, creating such popular characters as Jet Fury (originally a back-up feature in Michael Chance Comics), along with The Mask, which was controversially banned by Queensland's Literature Board of Review in 1954, at the height of anti-comics hysteria in Australia (A comprehensive interview with Yaroslav Horak was published in the Australian Cartoonists' Association's Inkspot magazine in 2009).

Emigrating to Great Britain in the 1960s, Horak worked for British comics publishers, such as IPC's popular Battle Picture Library series, and went on to succeed John McLusky as the illustrator of the James Bond comic strip appearing in The Daily Express newspaper (An informative profile of Horak's work on James Bond appears on the Dave Karlen Original Art Blog).

Posted 25th June 2015 by Kevin Patrick

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Dave Karlen Original Art Blog

Yaroslav Horak on James Bond

See the complete article here:

http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/yaroslav-horak-on-james-bond.html

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Russian born Yaroslav Horak began his early career as a portrait sketch artist, but soon switched to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers after migrating to Sydney. His successful comic series The Mask, ran afoul with Victoria's State censors, but was soon followed by his daily outback adventure strip Mike Steel for Sydney's, The Woman's Day. A quick talent for animation and storyboards also kept Horak busy on many different projects. When given the James Bond strip in 1965, Horak's adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun was highly praised in the new direction he approached the series. The syndicate was so pleased with their creative team that Jim Lawrence was given permission by the Fleming Trust to produce original stories for Horak to draw. Overall they worked on thirty-three thrilling Bond tales for the Daily Express and other various newspaper syndicates in Europe.

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In the UK recently he presented Pierce Brosnan with a portrait of the "Brosnan Bond", at a UK fan club occasion, in Horak's new rough style. I have a full size copy of it and he also did one of Ursulla Andress, which he didn't get to present to her for some reason, the large original ink on paper is of her in a bikini depicted from Dr. No. with two diving knives.

Yaroslav Horak

See the complete article here:

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

War Picture Library

WPL 214 Rough Justice 1963
WPL 303 Death Or Dishonour 1965
WPL 304 Battle Drill 1965
WPL 315 Cross For Courage 1965
WPL 323 Passage Of Arms 1966
WPL 648 The Curse 1971
BPL 156 The Savage Sands 1964
BPL 173 The Stronghold 1964
BPL 190 Killers Code 1965
BPL 197 Gun Crazy 1965
BPL 231 Victory Cry 1965

James Bond strips

Title | Writer | Published date | Serial no.
The Man with the Golden Gun | Jim Lawrence 10 January 1966 – 9 September 1966 1-209
The Living Daylights | Jim Lawrence 12 September 1966 – 12 November 1966 210-263
Octopussy | Jim Lawrence 14 November 1966 – 27 May 1967 264-428
The Hildebrand Rarity | Jim Lawrence 29 May 1967 – 16 December 1967 429-602
The Spy Who Loved Me | Jim Lawrence 18 December 1967 – 3 October 1968 603-815
The Harpies | Jim Lawrence 10 October 1968 – 23 June 1969 816-1037
River Of Death | Jim Lawrence 24 June 1969 – 29 November 1969 1038–1174
Colonel Sun | Jim Lawrence 1 December 1969 – 28 August 1970 1175–1393
The Golden Ghost | Jim Lawrence 21 August 1970 – 16 January 1971 1394–1519
Fear Face | Jim Lawrence 18 January 1971 – 20 April 1971 1520–1596
Double Jeopardy | Jim Lawrence 21 April 1971 – 28 August 1971 1597–1708
Starfire | Jim Lawrence 30 August 1971 – 24 December 1971 1709–1809
Trouble Spot | Jim Lawrence 28 December 1971 – 10 June 1972 1810–1951
Isle Of Condors | Jim Lawrence 12 June 1972 – 21 October 1972 1952–2065
The League Of Vampires | Jim Lawrence 25 October 1972 – 28 February 1973 2066–2172
Die With My Boots On | Jim Lawrence 1 March 1973 – 18 June 1973 2173–2256
The Girl Machine | Jim Lawrence 19 June 1973 – 3 December 1973 2257–2407
Beware Of Butterflies | Jim Lawrence 4 December 1973 – 11 May 1974 2408–2541
The Nevsky Nude | Jim Lawrence 13 May 1974 – 21 September 1974 2542–2655
The Phoenix Project | Jim Lawrence 23 September 1974 – 18 February 1975 2656–2780
The Black Ruby Caper | Jim Lawrence 19 February 1975 – 15 July 1975 2781–2897
Till Death Do Us Apart | Jim Lawrence 7 July 1975 – 14 October 1975 2989-2983
The Torch-Time Affair | Jim Lawrence 15 October 1975 – 15 January 1976 2984-3060
Hot-Shot | Jim Lawrence 16 January 1976 – 1 June 1976 3061-3178
Nightbird | Jim Lawrence 2 June 1976 – 4 November 1976 3179-3312
Ape Of Diamonds | Jim Lawrence 5 November 1976 – 22 January 1977 3313-3437
When The Wizard Awakes | Jim Lawrence 30 January 1977 – 22 May 1977 1-54
Sea Dragon | Jim Lawrence 1977 55-192
Death Wing | Jim Lawrence 1977-1978 193-354
The Xanadu Connection | Jim Lawrence 1978 355-468
Shark Bait | Jim Lawrence 1978-1979 469-636
Snake Goddess | Jim Lawrence 1983-1984 822-893
Double Eagle | Jim Lawrence 1984 894-965

2022: The ice Q restaurant re-opens at Sölden, Tyrol, Austria.

Gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, Tyrol
SOPHISTICATED GOURMET DELIGHTS & GREAT MOMENTS

See the complete article here:

https://www.iceq.at/en/

Welcome at Austria’s highest located toque-rated gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, 3,048 metres above sea level. Surrounded by over 250 superb three-thousand metre mountains. Where freedom reaches for the stars. Where the skies are so close that you want to touch them. At the spectacular shooting location for the James Bond SPECTRE movie.

Where sophisticated gourmet delights combine with fine wines and dreamy panoramas to create one exceptional symbiosis. In the ice Q gourmet restaurant and in the ice Q Lounge, which has a panorama terrace, you get to re-experience what is unique.

In the mountain restaurant ice Q in Sölden – belonging to the 5-star hotel Das Central and awarded 2022 by Gault Millau with 2 toques – you get to feel life with all your senses. Right at the Gaislachkoglbahn in Sölden. For the most exclusive break in the Austrian Alps.

Opening hours - Winter 2022/2023
Unique ice Q restaurant in Solden in Austria
Highest located gourmet restaurant in Austria

ICE Q IS OPEN AGAIN ON NOVEMBER 24 2022!
Open daily from 9 am to 4 pm
Warm meals served from 11.30 am to 3 pm
Reservation time: from 12 noon to 1.45 pm & from 2 to 4 pm

CONTACT & RESERVATIONS
Phone: 0043 664 96 09 368
E-Mail: [email protected]

GOOD TO KNOW
Reservations are recommended at anytime!
********
We ask for understanding, that a table by the window cannot be guaranteed. Except in combination with a Chef’s Table booking.

LOCATION & GETTING HERE
Car parking available at the valley station of the Gaislachkogl cable car.

Cuisine. Panorama. Experience.
FINE DINING & HEARTY TAPAS IN OUR MOUNTAIN RESTAURANT ice Q

ice Q Restaurant
Treat yourself to some exquisite food & wine at the ice Q gourmet restaurant at an altitude of 3,048m. In addition to our special history, ice Q is also defined by a fascination for sophisticated gourmet cuisine. From exquisite wines from the best winegrowers to the finest cuisine, exquisite snacks and the breath-taking backdrop of the Ötztal Alps.

Wine & Tapas Lounge
The ice Q Tapas Lounge is one of the best-kept insider tips of the winter. Snazzy snacks, exquisite tapas and sophisticated refreshments for the fastidious gourmet means gourmet time at the summit of alpine lifestyle. Enjoy some time out at the peak of the Alpine lifestyle while soaking up the unique panoramic views.

Summit Dinner
Every Wednesday at sunset – from the end of December until the end of March – the ice Q restaurant is transformed into a beaming paradise. Up at 3000m sea level we serve you a toque-awarded menu as part of our Summit Dinner. Please make your reservation in advance!

PINO 3000
3 COUNTRIES - 3 WINEMAKER'S = 1 WINE

Wine PINO 3000 on the Gaislachkogl
Bringing together the mountains & vines
Our exceptional Pinot Noir
A great idea of the 5-star hotel Das Central in Sölden meets the passion of three renowned winegrowers from Austria, Germany and Italy here. The result – one outstanding Pinot Noir, which matures on the summit of the Gaislachkogl at 3,048 metres in precious ‘barrique’ oak barrels, portraying the unique altitude climate and the spirit of the Ötztal Alps.

5-star hotel DAS CENTRAL in Sölden, Tyrol
Das Central - Alpine. Luxury. Life.
Sölden’s 5-star hotel Das Central impresses with its combination of Tyrolean cosiness and Alpine lifestyle. Fastidious Alpinists and gourmet aficionados alike from across the globe cherish what is offered. Especially the culinary fare in the à la carte gourmet restaurant Ötztaler Stube which is devoted to Alpine cuisine and knows just how to forge a link between the traditional and the luxurious in a manner which is unique, and has been rightly awarded with 3 toques by Gault Millau. Accompanied by over 30,000 bottles of fine wines from the superb range available in the hotel. With the ice Q restaurant, Das Central now carries on with this great passion up above 3,000 m altitude.

CINEMATIC INSTALLATION '007 ELEMENTS'
On a secret mission
James Bond in ice Q in Sölden
Fast. Adrenaline-charged. Explosive – the coolest agent of all time in Sölden. The ice Q restaurant is the most spectacular shooting location in the Austrian Alps. Find out everything about the James Bond’s SPECTRE here with us.

James Bond cinematic installation 007 ELEMENTS in Sölden, Austria
In the footsteps of James Bond
007 ELEMENTS
Discover the cinematic installation ’007 ELEMENTS’ on the summit of the Gaislachkogl in Sölden in Tyrol! State-of-the-art technology, puristic architecture and a concomitant sound backdrop make the new James Bond adventure realm the ‘place-to-be’ in the Tyrol Alps. 007 ELEMENTS puts the focus primarily on SPECTRE and the scenes shot in Sölden, but also touches upon other chapters of the 24 James Bond movies. Our recommendation: Combine your visit in our ice Q restaurant with a visit at 007 ELEMENTS!

Action Hall with the original aircraft from James Bond SPECTRE



Tech Lab - a unique place in 007 ELEMENTS

RichardTheBruce

November 25th

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Jaws exiting the train, his final scene filmed.

1977: 007 - La spia che mi amava released in Italy.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 51 of 65 - "Ol' Man River" in New Orleans, Louisiana.

James Bond Jr - Ol' Man River

Season 1 - Episode 51
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807112/?ref_=ttep_ep51

Captain Walker D. Plank plans to flood New Orleans by destroying the levee with a large amount of explosives placed in a fake River Queen. During evacuation, Plank attempts to use this to his advantage to gain access to the U.S. Mint and steal the printing press.

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 / Nick Nack (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 (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 51 - Ol' Man River

1997: Filmtracks.com publishes Christian Clemmensen's review of the Tomorrow Never Dies score.
(Revised 3 March 2008.)

EDITORIAL REVIEW

FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #47

See the complete article here:

https://www.filmtracks.com/titles/tomorrow_nevter.html

WRITTEN 11/25/97, REVISED 3/3/08

Tomorrow Never Dies: (David Arnold) If one thing is certain about Pierce Brosnan's tenure as British agent James Bond, it's the superiority of Tomorrow Never Dies. Everything clicked in this, the second of his films as 007. His performance reached back to the confidence of Sean Connery, the love interest came packaged as Michelle Yeoh (who is more Bond's equal than just another conquest), a previous flame's death provokes a malice in Bond loyal to the books' original intent, the villain is charmingly enthusiastic and has a cool new stealth weapon as a toy, and David Arnold's score combined the best of the John Barry years with the younger composer's techno-saavy sensibilities. While Goldeneye had revived the series by becoming the first $100 million grossing Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies was far better packaged and drew greater interest from hardcore fans of the franchise's classics. With John Barry now out of the picture (despite his seeming renewed interest in scoring another Bond film during the Brosnan years), Arnold was a perfect successor. His love of the franchise and knack for imitating the expansive style of Barry in his early scores, not to mention his British heritage, made him the logical choice. And fans weren't disappointed. The score than Arnold assembled for Tomorrow Never Dies is a sophisticated and intelligent tribute to the classic Barry scores while pushing the envelope with synthetic rhythms and drum pads to aide the traditional orchestra in joining Bond in a rapidly evolving technological age. The trademark action style that Arnold established in Stargate and Independence Day is combined with a distinct return to the flamboyant style of the jazzy Bond scores of the 1960's, and with the presence of the synthetic elements native to Arnold's roots in the rock genre, every variety of Arnold fan had something to look forward. Arnold would become the franchise's regular voice, allowing the subsequent films to really define his career (with very few notable scores for non-Bond films mixed in between). He would continue pushing the synthetic side of his music for the franchise until a somewhat dissatisfying score for Die Another Day would pull Arnold back to the combo style of Tomorrow Never Dies in the outstanding Casino Royale.

Arnold was obviously keenly aware that the Bond frachise's scores had their own unique formula while Barry was in charge, and that formula would continue here. The franchise theme by Monty Norman is quoted liberally in Tomorrow Never Dies, with its incorporation ranging from full-blown three-minute tributes to clever counterpoint against the new themes for the film. Arnold's full expressions of the Norman theme are extremely astute in an instrumental sense. Even the opening fifteen seconds of the score offers brass and cymbal accents true to Barry's introductions. The muted trumpets, solo flute, and electric guitar performances in "Company Car" provide the most true and entertaining modern performance of the Norman concept available. This three-minute cue establishes a standard by which fans and students of the franchise can worship and study. Acoustically, the recording is flawless. Aside from the statements of Norman's theme throughout the score, Arnold wrote one of the franchise's best title songs and integrated its theme extremely well throughout the entire score. With all the wailing brass flair of Goldfinger, his title theme is both seductively alluring and strikingly defiant, an easily memorable aspect of the film. In the opening action sequence before the credits ("White Knight"), Arnold introduces the theme with nobility at the 7:10 mark (in between ample development of Norman's theme). This theme punctuates many of the action sequences and is given an Eastern personality in "Kowloon Bay" before a last monumental statement for strings and bold brass counterpoint at the resolution of the film. A theme for Teri Hatcher's role as the villain's wife and former Bond lover is provided twice in Tomorrow Never Dies. As they reunite, Arnold allows the Barry-like idea to flourish with the full ensemble (once again in layered strings under brass counterpoint) before a solo woodwind echos accompany her demise. A deliberate, pounding motif for the villain Elliot Carver and his stealth ship is sparsely utilized throughout the score (its fullest appearance is at 3:55 into "The Sinking of the Devonshire"), though it receives some intriguing, less obvious exploration in "Underwater Discovery." If the score for Tomorrow Never Dies has a weakness, it's in the largely understated musical representation for Carver, as well as other "badguy" elements such as in "Doctor Kaufman."

To counter the theme for Carver's wife earlier in the film, Arnold writes a theme for Michelle Yeoh's agent and the Eastern locations of the story. It's only receives brief treatment, but it is quite gorgeous on solo guitar and piano in the early portions of "Bike Shop Fight" and "Kowloon Bay." A full rendition in the latter cue, merging with the title theme, is a highlight of the score. Faint hints of this theme come through in the very last minute of the score, though this progression seems to be a nod to Barry's You Only Live Twice. And that brings up another important point about Tomorrow Never Dies: the many references to previous scores in the franchise. In the opening battle, Arnold states a fragment of From Russia With Love. The following cue offers brass wails identical to later action sequences in Goldfinger. In both "White Knight" and more obviously at 0:45 into "Hamburg Break In," Arnold quotes the five-note bass sequence that preceded Tina Turner's song for Goldeneye, arguably the most memorable element from the soundtrack of that film. He would not make the same number of references in his scores for the subsequent Brosnan/Bond films, though he does make a clever reference to the title theme for Tomorrow Never Dies during a conversational cue after Bond's early rescue in Die Another Day. In retrospect, Tomorrow Never Dies is a much better score than many gave it credit for being at the time. Some listeners were turned off by the extensive synthetic percussion used in "Back Seat Driver" and "Hamburg Break Out," among a few others, and these cues are indeed less effective outside the context of the film (where they come in conflict with the better balance of the surrounding material). But the varied, slapping percussion of "Bike Chase" is a perfect combination of both worlds, and its highly effective sound would set the stage for cues like the one for the opening chase sequence in Casino Royale. For the most part, the balance in mixing in Tomorrow Never Dies is outstanding, and the gorgeous piano solos in several cues are testimony to this clarity. Subsequent Arnold scores tended to get muddy in their rowdy action cues, especially in Die Another Day, though a total lack of theme in that later score is the greater problem.

As anyone can expect, not everything with Tomorrow Never Dies went well. First and foremost, the song situation would be very dissatisfying for both Arnold and Bond fans alike. While the recording of the title song by k.d. lang would match the style and theme of Arnold's score with incredible cohesion and effectiveness, the producers of the film saw fit to hire a bigger name to provide a replacement song for the traditional opening credits sequence. This move was unfortunate not only because of Arnold's song was superior and in spirit of the franchise, but also because of lang's sulty voice and spirited performance. The replacement song is performed by Sheryl Crow, whose popularity at the time was seen as an asset, but whose beach-bum voice and lazy performance was a disgrace to the film. The video game score for Tomorrow Never Dies would heavily favor the use of Arnold's song theme, retitled "Surrender," over the presence of Crow's song. With critics, fans, and producers all easily recognizing the superiority of the lang song, Arnold was rewarded with the opportunity to write his own song for The World is Not Enough two years later (before suffering from extraordinary frustration trying to adapt Madonna's non-thematic song into the score for Die Another Day). A more minor criticism of Tomorrow Never Dies responds to the fact that Arnold only used his trademark, beautiful choir for a short snippet of "The Sinking of the Devonshire," though given that this cue sounds awkward in its sudden shift to Stargate during the slow-motion sinking and death sequence, that's not necessarily a negative. A truly major problem with Tomorrow Never Dies, however, was its album release. Much to the angst of Arnold, a hectic and disorganized post-production schedule for the film caused the music to be recorded chronologically in small portions over a matter of many months. As a result, the original 1997 album release by A&M Records could only feature the score material that had been mixed and mastered from the first half of the film. The entire last third of the score was missing from this product, including all of the Eastern-flavored cues and the pivotal "Bike Chase" and "All in a Day's Work" music of over ten minutes. This omission, which didn't make sense to consumers at the time, combined with the replacement of lang's song from the title credits, caused Bond fans to go stir crazy immediately.

After much fuss and delay, controversy and discussion, most of the remaining music from the film was finally made available on a commercial release from Chapter III Records in 2000 (along with a concurrent release of Tommy Tallarico's score for the Tomorrow Never Dies video game). At the time, The World is Not Enough was failing to muster the same approval as its predecessor, and the latter film's release date forced Chapter III to hold back the expanded version of Tomorrow Never Dies by several weeks. Despite providing 26 minutes of score not available on the previous album, the Chapter III product does have its share of flaws. Although the packaging and press information advertised it as being "complete," it's actually missing several important pieces of music from the film. One major omission is the track "Station Break," the four-minute cue that plays as Bond takes Elliot Carver off the air and Arnold provides a darkly dramatic performance of the love theme that foreshadows an uncertain future for the Paris character. Ironically, this cue appeared in full on the 1997 album. Additionally, several very short snippets of music remain missing on album, including the film's ending to "White Knight." The second major drawback to the expanded album is the lack of the k.d. lang song. None of the songs on the original album appears on the expanded volume, likely due to financial reasons. The eleven-minute interview with Arnold at the end of the 2000 album is interesting; the questions are intelligent and the interview is mixed nicely with some of Arnold's cues. But it's not something you'll find yourself listening to a second time. A perfect album could have resulted if the interview were dumped in favor of "Station Break" and "Surrender," but failing that, fans of the film and franchise are forced to own both products. The sound quality on both albums is equally vibrant. For the most hardcore of fans, there do exist 2-CD bootlegs that are indeed complete, featuring the isolated DVD score, the two songs, and bonus material totalling over 140 minutes in length. Overall, Tomorrow Never Dies remains ahead of Casino Royale as the definitive David Arnold entry in the James Bond franchise. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the best film of the Brosnan era featured the best score during that period.

1999: The World Is Not Enough preview screening in the UK.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Australia.
1999: A világ nem elég (The World Not Enough) released in Hungary.

1999: Ha-Olam E'ino Maspik released in Israel.

2008: Media recognize Quantum of Solace topping box office for a full month in the United Kingdom.

Bond makes it a month at top of box office

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https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-boxoffice/bond-makes-it-a-month-at-top-of-box-office-idUKTRE4AO4II20081125

By Reuters Staff

File picture shows Daniel Craig at the the Italian premiere of the latest James Bond movie 'Quantum of Solace' in Rome, November 5, 2008. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

LONDON (Reuters) - The latest James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” has notched up a month at the top of the box office, blowing away the competition for a fourth straight weekend according to Screen International.

The 22nd official Bond film, with Daniel Craig in his second outing as 007, earned another 2.8 million pounds for a total of 45.1 million pounds so far.

Its nearest rival, director Ridley Scott’s espionage drama “Body of Lies” which came in at No. 2, could only manage 991,979 pounds, despite boasting stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.

New at three was “My Best Friend’s Girl,” with Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs and Dane Cook in a sex-and-swearing, love-triangle comedy.

“High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” with Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale was down one place at four while “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” slipped a place to five with its tale of two friends going triple-XXX to pay their rent.

Down four places at six was “Max Payne,” a video game spin-off with Mark Wahlberg as a lone avenger in New York.

Ricky Gervais was down two at seven as the cantankerous dentist in “Ghost Town.”

Horror thriller “Quarantine” made its debut at No. 8 with a documentary-style tale of madness, death and zombies in a locked tenement building.

The animated evil scientists of “Igor” were unchanged at nine while Bollywood movie “Dostana” was down from six to 10.

2011: English actor Ben Whishaw is revealed as "Q" for BOND 23.

New Q cast for next Bond -
report
Ben Whishaw is to play Q in the new James Bond film.

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Fri, 25 Nov, 2011 - 09:44

The 31-year-old actor has been cast as the MI6 gadget master in 'Skyfall' and for the first time in the franchise's history Q will be younger than 007, who will be played again by 43-year-old Daniel Craig.

A source told The Sun newspaper: "Female fans will now have more than Daniel to gush over now Ben's been cast as Q. He'll be a big draw. It's a bold decision as it means Q will be younger than Bond for the first time.

"His role will be very different from previous Qs. He'll be far more serious, as is the trend with the new films."

Q last appeared in 2002's 'Die Another Day', with John Cleese in the role, after he took over from the late Desmond Llewelyn, who played the inventor for 36 years.

This is not the first time Ben has starred in a movie alongside Daniel Craig. In 2004, they appeared together in gangster movie 'Layer Cake'.

'Skyfall' – which will be directed by Sam Mendes and is the 23rd Bond movie – is due for release next October.

2020: One-time scheduled release date for No Time To Die in the US.

2022: The Times suggests what makes James Bond and Daniel Craig tick.

The Times Diary: What makes
James Bond tick?

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-diary-what-makes-james-bond-tick-6pqpxrlfm

Patrick Kidd | Friday November 25 2022

He may have handed in his Walther PPK but Daniel Craig can’t quite escape James Bond. The actor was the star guest at a 60 Years of Bond party hosted by Omega on Wednesday night and suggested that every 007 is defined by their watch. While his predecessor Piers [sic] Brosnan’s were elegant and came with a built-in laser beam, Craig said he insisted on something chunkier, telling the producers:

“I want to wrap it round my fist and punch someone in the nose with it.”

This was a change from Roger Moore, who used the magnet in his watch to unzip dresses. Strangely, Bonds seldom just want a watch that keeps good time. That must explain why they do so much running.

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2022: Bond actor Daniel Craig proposes (the United States' own) Thanksgiving is his favorite holiday.

Daniel Craig reveals Thanksgiving is his
‘favourite holiday’ now

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News Desk | November 25, 2022

LOS ANGELES - Daniel Craig has shared that Thanksgiving Day is now his favourite holiday since he became a U.S. citizen in 2019. The James Bond famed actor also revealed that enjoy and celebrate the holiday every year. In a latest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, the Spectre actor, 54, talked about his love of the fall holiday.

“I do understand Thanksgiving. It’s about giving thanks as I understand it,” Craig said.

Craig, who is a British-born actor, announced in 2019 that he had been granted US citizenship, eight years after his wife, Rachel Weisz, became an American citizen in 2011. The No Time to Die star, who lives in New York City with his family – said he had been celebrating Thanksgiving for several years now. “I’ve been celebrating it for quite a long time, I think it’s probably my favourite holiday,” he said. “Good things are hard to do. I’m incredibly proud to be part of this, to have an American passport and call myself an immigrant in this country,” he added. Craig also admitted he’s “not so good” with the trimmings, such as stuffing. “I think it’s an abomination.” “You stuff it up the chicken-turkey!,” Craig said of the classic Thanksgiving festive dish. “I think it should be cooked separately. It’s good, but I don’t think you should bring it anywhere near the bird.” Craig’s latest film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is currently streaming on Netflix.

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November 26th

1939: Anna Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) is born--Nutbush, Tennessee.
(She dies at 24 May 2023 at age 83--Küsnacht, Switzerland.)

Tina Turner, Magnetic Singer of
Explosive Power, Is Dead at 83

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/arts/music/tina-turner-dead.html
By William Grimes Published May 24, 2023

Hailed in the 1960s for her dynamic performances with her first husband, Ike, she became a sensation as a recording artist, often echoing her personal struggles in her songs.

Tina Turner in concert in Los Angeles in 1984. Her album “Private Dancer,” released that year, returned her to the spotlight after a long absence and lifted her into the pop stratosphere.Credit...Phil Ramey/Associated Press

Tina Turner, the earthshaking singer whose rasping vocals, sexual magnetism and explosive energy made her an unforgettable live performer and one of the most successful recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, near Zurich. She was 83.

Her publicist Bernard Doherty announced the death in a statement but did not provide the cause. She had a stroke in recent years and was known to be struggling with a kidney disease and other illnesses.

Ms. Turner embarked on her half-century career in the late 1950s, while still attending high school, when she began singing with Ike Turner and his band, the Kings of Rhythm. At first she was only an occasional performer, but she soon became the group’s star attraction — and Mr. Turner’s wife. With her potent, bluesy voice and her frenetic dancing style, she made an instant impression.

Their ensemble, soon renamed the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, became one of the premier touring soul acts in Black venues on the so-called chitlin’ circuit. After the Rolling Stones invited the group to open for them, first on a British tour in 1966 and then on an American tour in 1969, white listeners in both countries began paying attention.

Ms. Turner, who insisted on adding rock songs by the Beatles and the Stones to her repertoire, reached an enormous new audience, giving the Ike and Tina Turner Revue its first Top 10 hit with her version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Proud Mary” in 1971 and a Grammy Award for best R&B vocal performance by a group.

Ike and Tina Turner in performance in Texas in 1964. Their ensemble became one of the premier touring soul acts on the Black circuit; after the Rolling Stones invited the group to open for them, white listeners began paying attention.Credit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

“In the context of today’s show business, Tina Turner must be the most sensational professional onstage,” Ralph J. Gleason, the influential jazz and pop critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, wrote in a review of a Rolling Stones concert in Oakland in November 1969. “She comes on like a hurricane. She dances and twists and shakes and sings and the impact is instant and total.”

But if the Ike and Tina Turner Revue was a success, the Ike and Tina Turner marriage was not. Mr. Turner was abusive. After she escaped the marriage in her 30s, her career faltered. But her solo album “Private Dancer,” released in 1984, returned her to the spotlight — and lifted her into the pop stratosphere.

Working with younger songwriters, and backed by a smooth, synthesized sound that provided a lustrous wrapping for her raw, urgent vocals, she delivered three mammoth hits: the title song, written by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits; “Better Be Good to Me”; and “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”

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Ms. Turner in 1969. “In the context of today’s show business,” one critic wrote that year, “Tina Turner must be the most sensational professional onstage.”Credit...Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

Referring to its “innovative fusion of old-fashioned soul singing and new wave synth-pop,” Stephen Holden, in a review for The New York Times, called the album “a landmark not only in the career of the 45-year-old singer, who has been recording since the late 1950s, but in the evolution of pop-soul music itself.”

At the 1985 Grammy Awards, “What’s Love Got to Do With It” won three awards, for record of the year, song of the year and best female pop vocal performance, and “Better Be Good To Me” won for best female rock vocal performance.

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The album went on to sell five million copies and ignite a touring career that established Ms. Turner as a worldwide phenomenon. In 1988 she appeared before about 180,000 people at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, breaking a record for the largest paying audience for a solo artist. After her “Twenty Four Seven” tour in 2000 sold more than $100 million in tickets, Guinness World Records announced that she had sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history.

Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tenn., northeast of Memphis, and spent her earliest years on the Poindexter farm in Nutbush, an unincorporated area nearby, where she sang in the choir of the Spring Hill Baptist Church.

Her father, Floyd, known by his middle name, Richard, worked as the farm’s overseer — “We were well-to-do farmers,” Ms. Turner told Rolling Stone in 1986 — and had a difficult relationship with his wife, Zelma (Currie) Bullock.

Ms. Turner in the studio in an undated photo.Credit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

Her parents left Anna and her older sister, Alline, with relatives when they went to work at a military installation in Knoxville during World War II. The family reunited after the war, but Zelma left her husband a few years later and Anna lived with her grandmother in Brownsville.

After rejoining her mother in St. Louis, she attended Sumner High School there. She and Alline began frequenting the Manhattan Club in East St. Louis, Ill., to hear Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm.

“I wanted to get up there and sing sooooo bad,” Ms. Turner recalled in “I, Tina: My Life Story” (1986), written with Kurt Loder. “But that took an entire year.”

One night, during one of the band’s breaks, the drummer, Eugene Washington, handed her the microphone and she began singing the B.B. King song “You Know I Love You,” which Mr. Turner had produced. “When Ike heard me, he said, ‘My God!’” she told People magazine in 1981. “He couldn’t believe that voice coming out of this frail little body.”

In his book “Takin’ Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner” (1999), written with Nigel Cawthorne, Mr. Turner wrote: “I’d be writing songs with Little Richard in mind, but I didn’t have no Little Richard to sing them, so Tina was my Little Richard. Listen closely to Tina and who do you hear? Little Richard singing in the female voice.”

Mr. Turner used her as a backup singer, billed as Little Ann, on his 1958 record “Boxtop.” When Art Lassiter, the group’s lead singer, failed to show up for the recording of “A Fool in Love,” she stepped in. The record was a hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 27 on the pop chart.

Mr. Turner gave his protégée — who by now was also his romantic partner — a new name, Tina, inspired by the television character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. And he renamed the group the Ike and Tina Turner Revue.

Ms. Turner performing with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue in 1975. After a turbulent 14-year marriage, she would leave Mr. Turner the next year.Credit...Dezo Hoffman

It was a dynamic, disciplined ensemble second only to the James Brown Revue, but until “Proud Mary,” it never achieved significant crossover success. Up to that point it had only one single in the pop Top 20 in the United States, “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” in 1961. The group did generate several hits on the R&B charts, notably “I Idolize You,” “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” and “Tra La La La La,” but most of its income came from a relentless touring schedule.

Ms. Turner’s relationship with Mr. Turner, whom she married in 1962 on a quick trip to Tijuana, Mexico, was turbulent. He was dictatorial, violent at times and, in the 1970s, hopelessly addicted to cocaine. She left him in 1976, with 36 cents and a Mobil gasoline card in her pocket, and divorced him two years later. He died of a cocaine overdose in 2007.

“When I left, I was living a life of death,” she told People in 1981. “I didn’t exist. I didn’t fear him killing me when I left, because I was already dead. When I walked out, I didn’t look back.”

Her marriage provided much of the material for the 1993 film “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” with Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne in the lead roles. Ms. Turner rerecorded some of her hits, and a new song, “I Don’t Wanna Fight,” for the film, but otherwise declined to participate. “Why would I want to see Ike Turner beat me up again?” she said at the time.

A Second Career
In 1966, the record producer Phil Spector, after hearing the Ike and Tina Turner Revue at the Galaxy Club in Los Angeles, offered $20,000 to produce their next song, on condition that Mr. Turner stay away from the studio. The result, “River Deep, Mountain High,” is often regarded as the high-water mark of Mr. Spector’s patented “wall of sound.” It failed in the United States, barely reaching the Top 100, but it was a big hit in Britain, where it marked the beginning of a second career for Ms. Turner.

“I loved that song,” she wrote in her 1986 memoir. “Because for the first time in my life, it wasn’t just R&B — it had structure, it had a melody.” She added: “I was a singer, and I knew I could do other things; I just never got the opportunity. ‘River Deep’ showed people what I had in me.”

Ms. Turner in concert at Madison Square Garden in 2000. Her “Twenty Four Seven” tour that year sold more than $100 million in tickets.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

After she walked out on her marriage, encumbered with debt, Ms. Turner struggled to build a solo career, appearing in ill-conceived cabaret acts, before signing with Roger Davies, the manager of Olivia Newton-John, in 1979. Guided by Mr. Davies, she returned to the gritty, hard-rocking style that had made her a crossover star and would propel her through the coming decades as one of the most durable performers on the concert stage.

Her fellow artists took notice. In 1982, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, of the band and production company known as the British Electric Foundation, recruited her to record the Temptations’ 1970 hit “Ball of Confusion” for an album of soul and rock covers backed by synthesizers. Its success led to a second collaboration, a remake of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” A surprise hit in the United States and Britain, it was the turning point that led to “Private Dancer.”

Ms. Turner followed the runaway success of “Private Dancer” with two more hit albums: “Break Every Rule” (1986) and “Foreign Affair” (1989), which contained the hit single “The Best.”

Ms. Turner performed with Beyoncé on the 2008 Grammy Awards telecast.Credit...Mike Blake/Reuters

She made an impact onscreen as well. Ten years after she solidified her persona as a rock ’n’ roller with a riveting performance as the Acid Queen in Ken Russell’s film version of “Tommy,” the Who’s rock opera, she drew praise for her performance as Aunty Entity, the iron-fisted ruler of postapocalyptic Bartertown, in “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” in 1985.

That film also provided her with two more hit singles, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” and “One of the Living,” which was named the best female rock vocal performance at the Grammys in 1986.

In 1991 she and Mr. Turner, in prison at the time for cocaine possession, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. (She was inducted again as a solo artist in 2021.) She received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2005 and a Grammy lifetime achievement award in 2018.

In 1985 she began a relationship with the German music executive Erwin Bach, whom she married in 2013 after moving with him to Küsnacht and becoming a Swiss citizen. He survives her. Ron, her only child with Mr. Turner, died of colon cancer complications in 2022. Another son, Craig, from her relationship with Raymond Hill, the saxophone player for the Kings of Rhythm, died by suicide in 2018. Her sister, Alline Bullock, died in 2010. Ms. Turner raised two children of Mr. Turner’s, Ike Jr. and Michael.

Complete information on her survivors was not immediately available.

After releasing the album “Twenty Four Seven” in 1999, at 60 and touring to promote it, Ms. Turner announced her retirement. It did not last. In 2008, after performing with Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards, she embarked on an international tour marking her 50th year in the music business.

Ms. Turner at her home in Switzerland in 2019.Credit...Charlie Gates for The New York Times

She announced her retirement again a few years later, but she remained active in other ways. In 2018, she published her second memoir, “My Love Story.”

She and Mr. Bach were executive producers of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” a stage show based on her life and incorporating many of her hits, which opened in London in 2018 and in Hamburg and on Broadway in 2019; Ms. Turner worked with the show’s choreographer and shared memories with its writers.

While reviews were mixed, the musical earned 12 Tony Award nominations; Adrienne Warren, who starred as Ms. Turner, won the award for best actress in a leading role. “In a performance that is part possession, part workout and part wig,” Jesse Green wrote in a review for The Times, “Adrienne Warren rocks the rafters and dissolves your doubts about anyone daring to step into the diva’s high heels.”

The show closed after four months because of the pandemic lockdown, reopening in October 2021 before closing again a year later and going on the road. There is currently a production touring the U.S., as well as productions in Stuttgart, Germany; Sydney, Australia; and London.

Through it all, Ms. Turner’s music endured.

“My music doesn’t sound dated; it’s still standing strong,” she told The Daily Mail in 2008. “Like me.”

A correction was made on May 24, 2023
An earlier version of this obituary misstated at one point where Ms. Turner attended high school. As correctly noted elsewhere, it was St. Louis — not East St. Louis, Ill.
A correction was made on May 25, 2023
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Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this obituary misstated the current number of productions of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.” In addition to the one touring the United States and the one in London, there are productions in Stuttgart, Germany, and Sydney, Australia.

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1959: During a meeting in the Bahamas, Jack Whittingham signs a £5,000 contract that gives Kevin McClory rights to Thunderball.

1963: An out-of-court settlement between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham gives McClory credit on all reprints of Thunderball--plus the film rights.
1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Volume 2 (of 3).

1965: NBC television airs David Wolper's documentary The Incredible World of James Bond (replacing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for that Friday night schedule).

The Incredible World of James Bond

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

Original television advertisement designed prior to Sean Connery quitting the project

Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Produced by David L. Wolper
Written by Jack Haley Jr. & Al Ramrus
Narrated by Alexander Scourby
Production company - Wolper Productions
Distributed by United Artists Television
Release date November 26, 1965 (U.S.)
Running time 51 min.
Country - United States

The Incredible World of James Bond was a 1965 television special produced by David L. Wolper for United Artists Television to showcase the James Bond film series and promote the upcoming December 1965 release of the film Thunderball.

In the United States, the show replaced The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on NBC on Friday, 26 November 1965; the day after American Thanksgiving that unofficially begins the shopping frenzy for Christmas. It was the highest rated American television show for the week.

Plot and production
The show featured film scenes of the worldwide popularity of James Bond novels, films, and tie-in merchandise, black and white scenes of Ian Fleming at his home Goldeneye in Jamaica giving comments on his writing, a biography of James Bond with footage of Glencoe, Eton, Fettes College, and Royal Marine Commandos on exercise, home movie footage shot by production designer Ken Adam in the Bahamas during the production of Thunderball, and scenes from four Bond films.

Behind the scenes footage from the making of Thunderball included scenes of the preparation and filming of a scene of a rocket firing motorcycle destroying Count Lippe's car, a choreographed fist fight in a studio mock up of the cabin of the Disco Volante, a photo shoot of the Bond girls on a beach in the Bahamas, and a scene of the Aston Martin DB5 driving away from the Château d'Anet that was not seen in the finished film.

Director Terence Young, producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Kevin McClory, editor Peter R. Hunt and action director and stuntman Bob Simmons are shown during sequences. The "James Bond Theme" and other music from the Bond film soundtracks are heard with the gun barrel titles and 007 logo from the Goldfinger film trailer appearing in the opening titles.

The narration was to have been originally given by Sean Connery. However, when Connery read the script and found out they were referring to James Bond as an actual person he refused to do the show. Telephone calls from Joan Crawford who was a major shareholder in Pepsi Cola, the sponsor of the show, failed to sway Connery and his narrating chores were taken by Alexander Scourby.

Pepsi Cola used the special to unveil commercials for its latest products.

The special is available as a featurette on the "James Bond Ultimate Edition" DVD of Thunderball.

Pepsi Cola and Frito Lay also sold promotional James Bond tie-in toys and a record album titled The Incredible World of James Bond. The album featured the original soundtrack music and cover versions of four of the themes from the first three Bond films played by United Artists Records house band The Leroy Holmes Orchestra. The back of the album cover was full of photographic stills from the Bond films. The record was later reissued with an attractive Frank Gauna designed album cover on Unart Records in 1967 with two music tracks deleted to fit on the budget album.

1982: Octopussy films the assault on Kamal Khan’s fortress.
1985: Variety reports Roger Moore giving notice to producer Cubby Broccoli he will not return.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 52 of 65 - "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" in Australia

James Bond Jr - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Season 1 - Episode 52
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382320/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

James and his friends race against time to get to an advanced prototype fighter jet which has crashed somewhere in wild country of Australia before Dr. Derange and his henchmen get there first.

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 / Oddjob (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 / Jaws (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 52 - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

1999: Boxtree publishes The James Bond Girls by Graham Rye.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, and South Africa.

2002: Die Another Day released in the Republic of Macedonia.

2011: Skyfall filming at the Ascot Racecourse (doubling for the Shanghai airport terminal).
2012: The South China Morning Post posts Jason Y Ng's review of Skyfall.

Movie Review: Skyfall

See the complete article here:

https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1091054/movie-review-skyfall
25 Nov

As I see it by Jason Y Ng
Movie Review: Skyfall
Published: 12:11pm, 26 Nov, 2012

What Daniel Craig lacks in good looks and hair, he more than makes up for in quiet confidence and depth.

English author Ian Fleming wrote his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It became an instant hit. Other bestsellers like From Russia, with Love, Dr. No and Goldfinger soon followed. In all, Fleming published 14 full length novels and nine short stories under the series. If the British Empire has lost much of its former glory, then Fleming’s flamboyant spy character promises to restore some of it with his snazzy handguns, tailored suits and wry sense of humor.

In 1961, Fleming sold the film rights to Eon Productions, owned by filmmakers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli. Since then, every Bond film has been made by the same studio. In the past 50 years, the film series has grossed nearly US$13 billion in total box office earnings (inflation adjusted), second only to the Harry Potter franchise. That the Broccolis have kept the film rights within the family and overseen the production of every installment has contributed to the series’ enduring success and lasting relevance.

That brings us to Skyfall, the latest Bond film that opened a month ago. With the memories of the universally scorned Quantum of Solace still fresh in our minds, Eon Productions this time went with a director with more weight: Oscar-winning Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition). And it worked. Skyfall is every bit as compelling as Casino Royale and comes close to Goldfinger, the gold standard of Bond films.

The movie opens with an elaborate chase scene in Istanbul, culminating in a hand-to-hand combat on top of a speeding train and ending in 007 being shot by another MI6 agent. Bond then falls – presumably to his death – into a raging river, which reminds me of the cathartic bridge jump in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. But that’s not the end of our spy hero. Bond soon resurrects to tackle villain Raoul Silva, an ex-MI6 spy who has stolen the names of undercover agents as part of an elaborate scheme to exact revenge on his ex-boss M. The movie is a cross between Mission Impossible (remember the stolen “NOC list”?) and the Batman franchise. Indeed, Mendes borrows heavily from Christopher Nolan who has reinvented the superhero genre by making his villains more contemplative, self-righteous and apocalyptic.

Back in 2005 when Daniel Craig was tapped to be the fifth generation James Bond, many questioned whether he could fill the role. But Craig has proven his critics wrong and is now hailed as the best Bond ever. What he lacks in good looks and hair, he more than makes up for in quiet confidence and depth. In Skyfall, his character shoots with poise, cuts himself up without a wince, and heck, he even walks into a girl’s shower without looking like a fool or a pervert! That alone makes him every man’s hero and every woman’s dream. Craig, now 44, can make at least two or even three more Bond films before he is too old is to do a chin-up. After all, Roger Moore was 57 when he made his last Bond film A View to Kill.

Other than Craig, Skyfall owes much of its success to a star-studded supporting cast. Spanish actor Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), one of the most talented character actors of our time, plays the diabolical and sexually ambiguous villain. His presence is large enough to maintain the tension throughout the movie but not too large to upstage Craig. Shakespearean actor Ben Wishaw (Perfume, Bright Star) plays quartermaster Q brilliantly. He lights up the screen and leaves the audience craving for more. French actress Bérénice Marlohe makes a dark femme fatale, although she isn’t as dynamic as Eva Green and her character dies too early in the movie. Last but not least, there is Dame Judi Dench, who portrays M with equal grit and vulnerability. Dench is one of the handful of actresses who can rival Meryl Streep in versatility and the number of Oscar nominations.

Skyfall is about an aging spy who goes back to the basics. It is about being old-fashioned without being old. It will go down in film history as one of the strongest entries in the Bond canon. My only gripe is that, even in this day and age, Asia is still portrayed by Hollywood with stereotypical exoticism. In Skyfall, Bond arrives in Macau and is taken by a bamboo raft to a floating casino in the middle of a lantern-lit lake before he tackles a pair of sumo wrestler-like hit men in a pit filled with man-eating lizards. That must have given Stanley Ho a few chuckles.

Born in Hong Kong, Jason is a globe-trotter who spent his entire adult life in Europe, the United States and Canada before settling back in his birthplace to rediscover his roots. He is a full-time lawyer and a freelance writer who raves and rants about Hong Kong and its people. Jason is the bestselling author of HONG KONG State of Mind and No City for Slow Men.

2015: Spectre special screening hosted by the UK Embassy at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Bond is GREAT: British Embassy hosts
private screening of SPECTRE in
Honduras

See the complete article here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bond-is-great-british-embassy-hosts-private-screening-of-spectre-in-honduras

The British Embassy hosted a 'Bond is GREAT' private
screening of SPECTRE in Tegucigalpa.
Published 27 November 2015
From: British Embassy Guatemala City (for Honduras)

Ambassador Carolyn Davidson

On Thursday 26 November the British Embassy together with Sony Pictures Entertainment, hosted a private screening to celebrate the release of Bond’s latest movie, SPECTRE, premiered in November around the world, including Honduras.

Her Excellency Carolyn Davidson, British Ambassador to Honduras, welcomed authorities, political figures, prominent business leaders and members of Honduran society to an elegant cocktail reception at City Mall, a luxury shopping mall in the heart of Tegucigalpa.

To mark the event, the British Ambassador to Honduras said:

James Bond is one of the greatest film franchises of all times, and the UK is a world leader in movie production and the creative industries. $2.4bn were spent on UK film production last year, as many directors and producers recognised the talent and expertise of British filmmakers. SPECTRE has been the most popular film in the world for the last two weeks and I hope it will encourage many people in Honduras, and elsewhere, to go and visit some of the stunning locations in the UK featured in the film I would also like to thank the sponsors of tonight’s gala: Heineken, Belvedere Vodka, Land Rover and Sony Entertainment.

As the reception drew to a close, guests made their way up to a special private screening of SPECTRE at Cinemark VIP, following the film’s official release in Honduras at the beginning of the month.

2019: The Hong Kong Watch Auction moves some Bond-related items.

The Hong Kong Watch Auction: NINE
Hong Kong Auction 25-26 November 2019

https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/HK080319/filter/makers=Corum!Omega

Auctions
25 November at 6:30pm HKT
Session 1 (Lot 801-853)
26 November at 12:00pm HKT
Session 2 (Lot 854-1121)

JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong
88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong (map)

22 November 10am-6pm
23 November 10am-7pm
24 November 10am-6pm
25 November 10am-6pm
Contact [email protected]

1046
Omega
Ref. 2537.80
Model: Seamaster “40 Years of James Bond”
A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 06317 out of a limited edition of 10007
Estimate HK$16,000 - 30,000
Sold for HK$30,000
Omega - A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 03689 out of a limited edition of 11007 pieces

https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1046/

1047
Omega
Ref. 212.30.41.20.01.005
Model: Seamaster “50 Years of James Bond”
A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 03689 out of a limited edition of 11007 pieces
Estimate HK$24,000 - 40,000

https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1047/

1048
Omega
Ref. 233.32.41.21.01.001
A very fine limited edition stainless steel “Spectre 007” diver’s wristwatch with international warranty card and presentation box, numbered 5731 out of a limited edition of 7007 pieces

歐米茄，型號233.32.41.21.01.001，限量版精鋼自動上弦腕錶，特別為電影007鬼影帝國，限量發行7007枚，編號第5731 號，約2015年製。附錶盒、國際保證卡和配件

Circa 2015
41mm Diameter
Case, dial, movement and clasp signed

Estimate
HK$63,000 - 100,000
€7,200-11,400
$8,100-12,800

Sold for HK$68,750

Manufacturer: Omega
Year: Circa 2015
Reference No: 233.32.41.21.01.001
Movement No: 87’624’420
Case No: 5731/7007
Model Name: Seamaster 300, “Spectre”
Material: Stainless steel
Calibre: Automatic, cal. 8400, 38 jewels
Bracelet/Strap: Omega Nato strap
Clasp/Buckle: Stainless steel Omega buckle
Dimensions: 41mm Diameter
Signed: Case, dial, movement and clasp signed
Accessories: Further accompanied by International Warranty card dated 18 November, 2015 and stamped Watches of Switzerland, Cardiff, Certificate of Authenticity numbered 5731/7007, Pictograms card with limited edition number 5731, stainless steel Omega link bracelet with 007 deployant clasp, Omega lug tool, operating instruction manual, polish cloth, Omega cloth pouch, Spectre 007 presentation box and outer packaging.
Catalogue Essay

In 2015, the 24th James Bond film “Spectre” premiered pitting Bond against the global crime syndicate “Spectre”. The “Spectre 007” Seamaster replicated the watch worn by the British spy and was released in a limited edition of 7007 examples. The stainless steel wristwatch had several unique characteristics including a black ceramic bi-directional bezel with 12-hour scale in Liquidmetal™. The dial was given a vintage feel with aged hour markers, Broad Arrow hands and a lollipop center seconds hand. The sapphire crystal display back was engraved “Spectre” along with the timepieces edition number, while the Nato strap holder was engraved 007.

The present Omega “Spectre” 007 wristwatch is in near new condition and has probably only been worn a handful of times. Complete with guarantee and presentation box, this model is a modern reinterpretation of a classic mid-20th century timepiece and embodies not only the ethos of Omega but of that of James Bond.

https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1048/

RichardTheBruce

November 27th

1928: Ronald William "Josh" Kirby is born--Waterloo, England.
(He dies 23 October 2001 at age 72--Shelfanger, England.)

https://www.joshkirbyart.com/bio

https://www.joshkirbyart.com/gallery

1961: Samantha Bond is born--Kensington, London, England.

1981: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) dies at age 83--New York City, New York.
(Born 18 October 1898--Vienna-Penzing Austria, Hungary.)

Lotte Lenya

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
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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")

1982: 유 아 이 즈 온 리 (Yoo ah-ee-jeu own-lee) released in the Republic of Korea.

1987: Lashana Lynch is born--London, England.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 53 of 65 - "Sherlock I.Q." in London, England.

James Bond Jr - Sherlock I.Q.

Season 1 - Episode 53
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807119/?ref_=ttep_ep53

In London, James and IQ come from a Sherlock Holmes convention, but Baron von Skarin, with his henchmen Jaws and Nick Nack, use a prototype super tank they stole and attack the city, but then a knock on the head causes IQ to think he is Sherlock Holmes.

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 / Nick Nack (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Baron Von Skarin (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / John Q.Law (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 53 - Sherlock IQ
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

1995: Documentary 007: The Return presenting the new film and the Royal Premiere airs on British television.

007: The Return (1995)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934770/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
1h | Documentary | TV Movie 27 November 1995

Promotional documentary television special celebrating the release of the then new James Bond film GoldenEye (1995) including cast interviews, clips from the movie and a cross to the Royal Premiere of the film.

Director: Bob Cousins
Star: Mariella Frostrup

1997: A&M releases David Arnold's Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack.

2002: Die Another Day released in Belgium and the Philippines.
2006: Daniel Craig in The Irish Examiner proposes "I wouldn't dye for Bond".

Craig: 'I wouldn’t dye for Bond'

See the complete article here:

New James Bond Daniel Craig refused to dye his blond locks
dark brown for his role in new 007 smash Casino Royale.
Mon, 27 Nov, 2006 - 07:26

The actor faced a barrage of criticism when he was chosen to play the world's most famous secret agent, with opponents saying he was too short, too ordinary-looking and too blond to play Bond.

But while the 38-year-old actor agreed to undertake a punishing gym regime to build up a 007 body, he drew the line when directors asked him to change his hair colour for the movie.

He admits: "I was asked to dye my hair brown to play this role but it was out of the question. I suggested instead that I could cut my hair really short to create a more brutal appearance."

2008: Quantum of Solace released in New Zealand.

2010: Irvin Kershner dies at age 87--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 29 April 1923--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

Irvin Kershner obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/29/irvin-kershner-obituary

Chosen to direct The Empire Strikes Back, he turned in one of the best sequels – and highest box-office earners – of all time
The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner's The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/ Lucasfilm

Ronald Bergan | Mon 29 Nov 2010

The film director Irvin Kershner, who has died aged 87, was known in the trade as a hired gun. His most famous film, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the fifth episode in the Star Wars saga, is most commonly linked to its executive producer, George Lucas. Never Say Never Again (1983) is celebrated as the film in which Sean Connery made his comeback as James Bond after 12 years away from the role, the director merely providing the vehicle. Kershner's first feature, Stakeout On Dope Street (1958), was made under the aegis of Roger Corman, who usually gained the main credit for the films he produced. Yet, eclectic as Kershner seemed, his best films reveal a visual flair, with an eye for the telling detail and a sympathy for the rebel.

The Philadelphia-born Kershner's background was in painting, photography and design. He took a degree at Temple University's Tyler School of Art in his home town. He studied painting under Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. During the second world war, he served in the US air force as a flight engineer on B-24 bombers.

After the war, Kershner began his film career at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, teaching photography and taking film courses under Slavko Vorkapich, the great montage artist. Kershner next accepted a job as still photographer for the US state department in the Middle East, which eventually led to an assignment as a director and cinematographer of documentaries in Iran, Greece and Turkey with the United States Information Agency, including titles such as Malaria, Locust Plague and Childbirth. When he returned to the US, he worked as writer, director, cinematographer and editor on Confidential File (1953-55), a documentary television series that recreated the events behind contemporary news headlines.

Kershner on the set of RoboCop 2. Photograph: Deana Newcomb/AP

Kershner and his cameraman Haskell Wexler experimented with a mixture of cinéma vérité and narrative conventions in Stakeout On Dope Street, about a trio of youths who discover a cache of uncut heroin and try to sell it. Despite the heavy warning against the evils of drug peddling, the film, shot on location using handheld cameras and a cast of unknowns, was a lively feature debut.

Kershner followed it with another taut low-budget crime story, The Young Captives (1959), whose publicity shrieked "Teenage elopers' love turns to terror as they battle crazed killer!" The plot concerned a couple who pick up a psychopathic hitchhiker. The Hoodlum Priest (1961) was, despite its mildly provocative title, a mostly routine crime melodrama based on a true story about a Jesuit priest known for his work among ex-cons. Well photographed by Wexler, Kershner's restrained documentary approach counteracted Don Murray's movie-star good looks and the dollops of do-good philosophy.

Kershner's use of locations, such as a wintry Montreal in The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964), which starred Robert Shaw and Mary Ure as an Irish immigrant couple coping with unemployment and separation, and New York in A Fine Madness (1966), was particularly effective. In the latter, a sour screwball comedy, Sean Connery rants and raves as a radical poet, telling a group of women: "Open your corsets and bloom, let the metaphors creep above your knees."

Kershner continued to get fine performances from stars such as George C Scott, turning on the charm in The Flim-Flam Man (1967), and George Segal in Loving (1970), a touching and sharp drama of a commercial artist rebelling against the routine of marriage and career. In Up the Sandbox (1972), Barbra Streisand rebels against her domesticity by having garish fantasies, one involving seduction by Fidel Castro.

In 1970, Kershner was to have directed A Man Called Horse, about an Englishman captured and ultimately converted by the Sioux, but he was taken off the project, without even receiving credit for his work on the screenplay. However, he got to direct the sequel, The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976), which, while subtly avoiding the exploitative aspects of the original film, still has Richard Harris, in the title role, suspended by clamps to his pectoral muscles, in a 20-minute sequence. The film, which gets closer to the Native American experience than most previous attempts, also has one of the longest pre-credit sequences, lasting 17 minutes.

Subsequently, Kershner's films got flashier and more expensive. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) was glossy gore, with Faye Dunaway as a chic New York photographer who is psychically linked to a murderer. When Lucas decided not to direct a sequel to Star Wars (1977) himself, he chose Kershner out of a possible 100 directors. He felt that Kershner, who had remained apart from the Hollywood system and was a student of Zen Buddhism, would appreciate the film's philosophical implications, and would be able to explore mythology and the subconscious fantasy life of children. Besides, Lucas thought The Return of a Man Called Horse was one of those rare sequels that was actually better than the first movie.

Kershner's contribution to The Empire Strikes Back was considerable. He spent several hours a day for a year storyboarding the action himself, getting his perspective on each scene. "According to the books, I didn't even exist," Kershner said. "Of course, I couldn't have made the movie without George; on the other hand, they couldn't have made that movie without me." The Empire Strikes Back, much darker and more realistic than the first Star Wars film, became one of the highest box-office earners ever, as well as being considered one of the best sequels. The same could not be said of the violent, humourless RoboCop 2 (1990).

"Kersh", as the tall, bald and goateed Kershner was known to his intimates, appeared in a number of his friends' films: as Zebedee in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and in a small role in Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground (1994). In 1997, he produced an interesting independent film for a first-time British director, Paul Chart, called American Perfekt.

In his last years, Kershner lectured at universities across the US, and plannned a number of projects, few of which saw the light of day. "My career is a disaster," he remarked. "After The Empire Strikes Back, I got to make big films that I didn't care about, Never Say Never Again and RoboCop 2, and then I got too old. I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality. I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about."

He is survived by his sons, Dana and David.

Irvin Kershner, film director; born 29 April 1923; died 29 November 2010

Irvin Kershner (1923–2010)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449984/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Director | Cinematographer | Actor

Filmography

Director (32 credits)
2011 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back: Deleted Scenes (Video short)
1993 SeaQuest 2032 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- To Be or Not to Be (1993)
1990 RoboCop 2

1989 Traveling Man (TV Movie)
1986 Amazing Stories (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Hell Toupee (1986)
1983 Never Say Never Again
1980 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (directed by)

1978 Eyes of Laura Mars
1976 Raid on Entebbe (TV Movie)
1976 The Return of a Man Called Horse
1974 S*P*Y*S
1972 Up the Sandbox
1970 Loving
1967 The Flim-Flam Man
1966 A Fine Madness
1964 The Luck of Ginger Coffey
1963 Face in the Rain
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The End of the World, Baby (1963)
1962-1963 Naked City (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) (1 episode)
1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) (1 episode)

1959-1961 The Rebel (TV Series) (35 episodes)
1961 The Hoodlum Priest
1960 The Yank (TV Movie)
1959 Philip Marlowe (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Hunger (1959)
1959 The Young Captives
1958 Now Is Tomorrow (TV Movie)
1958 Stakeout on Dope Street
1953-1958 Confidential File (TV Series) (12 episodes)
1950 Childbirth (Documentary short)
1950 Locust Plague (Documentary short)
1950 Malaria (Documentary short)

Cinematographer (5 credits)
Actor (6 credits)
Editor (3 credits)
Producer (3 credits)
Writer (1 credit)
Editorial department (1 credit)
Additional Crew (1 credit)
Thanks (9 credits)
Self (38 credits)

2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) limited release in Japan.

2015: Spectre released in South Africa.

South Africas' Role in the New Bond
Movie 'Spectre'

See the complete article here:

https://www.sapeople.com/2015/11/04/south-africas-role-in-the-new-bond-movie-spectre/

South Africa plays a feature role – and it’s a good one – in the new James Bond movie, ‘Spectre’, even though South Africa will be one of the last countries in the world that actually sees a major launch of the spy extravaganza.

While the movie itself – which is brilliant – flits from Mexico to Italy to Austria to Morocco, among other places, as Bond tries to track down a mysterious organisation, things aren’t going so well for him back at headquarters in London.

A new major character in MI6 is trying to launch a spy agency called Nine Eyes that will combine all the major spy networks of the world, but South Africa is the only one to vote against it. Later in the movie, Cape Town features not as a location but in TV footage crucial to the story.

Ralph Fiennes as M, Naomi Harris as Moneypenny and a new character behind Nine Eyes, C (played by Andrew Scott).

But South Africans will have to wait longer than most audiences to see the movie. While ‘Spectre’ is already showing in London and will be launched on Friday in the United States, it will only be released in South Africa on 27 November, the world’s last major launch before Japan.

‘Spectre’ (named after the shady evil organisation that has featured in six Bond movies already) is believed to be Daniel Craig’s last movie as Bond, and gossip is rife about who will take over from him.

2020: Mark Edlitz publishes his own book The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

RichardTheBruce

November 28th

1694: Matsuo Bashō (born Matsuo Kinsaku, later Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa) dies at age 50.
Known as the master of haiku.

Matsuo Bashō

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

You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming, 1964.
Chapter 11 - Anatomy Class

The Murasaki Maru was a very modern 3,000-ton ship with all the luxuries of an ocean liner. Crowds waved her goodbye as if the ship was setting off across the Atlantic instead of doing a day trip down the equivalent of a long lake. There was much throwing of paper streamers by groups bearing placards to show whom they represented - business outings, schools, clubs-part of the vast travelling population of Japan, for ever on the move, making an outing, visiting relatives or shrines, or just seeing the sights of the country. The ship throbbed grandly through the endless horned islands. Tiger said that there were fine whirlpools 'like great lavatory pans, specially designed for suicides' between some of these. Meanwhile, Tiger and Bond sat in the first class dining-room and consumed 'Hamlets' - ham omelets - and sake. Tiger was in a lecturing mood. He was determined to correct Bond's boorish ignorance of Japanese culture. 'Bondo-san, I wonder if I will ever get you to appreciate the nuances of the Japanese tanka, or of the haiku, which are the classical forms of Japanese verse. Have you ever heard of Basho, for instance?'

'No,' said Bond with polite interest. 'Who's he?'

'Just so,' said Tiger bitterly. 'And yet you would think me grossly uneducated if I had never heard of Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe. And yet Basho, who lived in the seventeenth century, is the equal of any of them.'

'What did he write?'

'He was an itinerant poet. He was particularly at home with the haiku, the verse of seventeen syllables.' Tiger assumed a contemplative expression. He intoned:

'In the bitter radish
that bites into me, I feel
the autumn wind.

'Does that not say anything to you? Or this:

'The butterfly is perfuming
its wings, in the scent
of the orchid.

'You do not grasp the beauty of that image?'

'Rather elusive compared to Shakespeare.'

'In the fisherman's hut
mingled with dried shrimps
crickets are chirping.'

Tiger looked at him hopefully.

'Can't get the hang of that one,' said Bond apologetically.

'You do not catch the still-life quality of these verses? The flash of insight into humanity, into nature? Now, do me a favour, Bondo-san. Write a haiku for me yourself. I am sure you could get the hang of it. After all you must have had some education?'

Bond laughed. 'Mostly in Latin and Greek. All about Caesar and Balbus and so on. Absolutely no help in ordering a cup of coffee in Rome or Athens after I'd left school. And things like trigonometry, which I've totally forgotten. But give me a pen and a piece of paper and I'll have a bash, if you'll forgive the bad joke.' Tiger handed them over and Bond put his head in his hands. Finally, after much crossing out and rewriting he said, 'Tiger, how's this? It makes just as much sense as old Basho and it's much more pithy.' He read out:

'You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.'

Tiger clapped his hands softly. He said with real delight, 'But that is excellent, Bondo-san. Most sincere.' He took the pen and paper and jotted some ideograms up the page. He shook his head. 'No, it won't do in Japanese. You have the wrong number of syllables. But it is a most honourable attempt.' He looked keenly at Bond. 'You were perhaps thinking of your mission?'

1966: You Only Live Twice films the ninja assault.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 54 of 65 "Killer Asteroid" in Iceland. And Outer Space.

James Bond Jr - Killer Asteroid

Season 1 - Episode 54
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807105/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Goldfinger hijacks a space shuttle in midair so that he can use it to bring an asteroid made up solid gold on a collision course with Earth. With the tracing software being designed by IQ, James and the gang head to Iceland where the signal of the space shuttle is coming from.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon 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 54 - Killer Asteroid

1999: And the Word Was Bond documentary promoting The World Is Not Enough airs in the UK.

And the Word Was Bond (1999)

25min | Documentary, Short | TV Short 28 November 1999
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918490/
Promotional documentary released to promote The World Is Not Enough (1999).

Director: Rob Done
Writer: David Castell

And The Word Was Bond - James Bond Documentary (24:48)

2002: Die Another Day released in Sweden.

2002: James Bond 007 - Stirb an einem anderen Tag (James Bond 007 - Die of One Other Day) released in Austria, Germany, and the German-speaking region of Switzerland.

2002: Umri drugi dan (Die the Other Day) released in Croatia.

2002: Lamut B'Yom A'her (To die with more invincible values) released in Israel.

2005: Marc Lawrence dies at age 95--Palm Springs, California.
(Born 17 February 1910--New York City, New York.)

Marc Lawrence

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

Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith, February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.

Early years
Lawrence was born in New York City, the son of a Polish Jewish mother, Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith. He participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. In 1930, he received a two-year scholarship to the repertory theater operated by Eva Le Gallienne.
Career

In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence's film debut came in 1933.

Lawrence's pock-marked complexion, brooding appearance and New York street-guy accent made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. He named Sterling Hayden, Lionel Stander, Anne Revere, Larry Parks, Karen Morley and Jeff Corey as Communists. He was blacklisted[citation needed] and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films.

Following the demise of the blacklist, he returned to America and resumed his position as a familiar and talented purveyor of gangland types. He played gangsters in two James Bond movies: 1971's Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery, and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun opposite Roger Moore. He also portrayed a henchman opposite Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) and a stereotypical Miami mob boss alongside Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise in the comedy Hot Stuff (1979).

One of his last roles was as Mr. Zeemo in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang", which aired in February 1999. Previously he played the elderly Gatherer Volnoth in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor".

His final film role was in Looney Tunes Back in Action (2003), appearing as an Acme Corporation vice president.

Lawrence directed Nightmare in the Sun (1965).

Books
In 1991 Lawrence's autobiography was published entitled Long Time No See: Confessions of a Hollywood Gangster (ISBN 0-9636700-0-X). Lawrence was also the subject of a novel, The Beautiful and the Profane (ISBN 978-1-4107-0292-0) (published in 2002).

Personal life
For much of his adult life Lawrence lived in Palm Springs, California (1971–2006).[7] Lawrence married Odessa-born novelist and screenwriter Fanya Foss; she died on December 12, 1995. They had two children, Michael and Toni.

Death
Lawrence died of heart failure on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95. He was buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, California.

Marc Lawrence (I) (1910–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492908/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2

Filmography

Actor (221 credits)

2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
2001 The Shipping News - Cousin Nolan

1999 End of Days - Old Man
1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Mr. Zeemo
- Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (1999) ... Mr. Zeemo
1998 ER (TV Series) - Mr. Newton
- Shades of Gray (1998) ... Mr. Newton
1996 Gotti (TV Movie) - Carlo Gambino
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn - Old Timer Motel Owner
1995 Four Rooms - Sam the Bellhop
1994 Metaltech: Earthsiege (Video Game) - Pilot #5 (as Marc C. Lawrence)
1992 Newsies - Kloppman
1992 Ruby - Santos Alicante
1990 Donor (TV Movie) - Ben Beloit
1990 Shannon's Deal (TV Series) - Abe the Just
- Art (1990) ... Abe the Just

1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) - Volnath
- The Vengeance Factor (1989) ... Volnath
1989 Blood Red - Michael Fazio
1986 The Big Easy - Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti
1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sam Marlini
- The Little Town with an Accent (1986) ... Sam Marlini (as Mark Lawrence)
1985 Night Train to Terror - Mr. Weiss / Dieter (segment "The Case of Claire Hansen")
1983 Savage Journey (TV Movie) - Chief Walker (uncredited)
1983 Thieves and Robbers - Don Salvatore Licuti
1982 Terror at Alcatraz (TV Movie) - Daniel Ginelli
1981 Border Pals (TV Short) - Joe Cincinnati
1980 Cataclysm - Abraham Weiss / Dieter
1980 Super Fuzz - Torpedo

1979 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Rostosky
- The Meeting (1979) ... Rostosky
1979 Swap Meet - Mr. Booth
1979 Hot Stuff - Carmine
1979 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Mr. Jones
- Going, Going, Gone (1979) ... Mr. Jones
1978 Goin' Coconuts - Webster
1978 Foul Play - Stiltskin
1978 CHiPs (TV Series) - Co-Driver
- Crack-Up (1978) ... Co-Driver
1977 A Piece of the Action - Louie
1976 Baretta (TV Series) - Linsky
- Street Edition (1976) ... Linsky
1976 Marathon Man - Erhard
1976 The Rookies (TV Series) - Roger Marsten
- Journey to Oblivion (1976) ... Roger Marsten
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Don Vincenzo / Franks
- Kiss of Death (1975) ... Don Vincenzo
- Las Vegas Roundabout (1975) ... Franks
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Rodney
1974 McCloud (TV Series) - Vito Gilardi
- The Gang That Stole Manhattan (1974) ... Vito Gilardi
1969-1974 Mannix (TV Series) - Al Stanik / Ty Webber / Angelo Palerma
- A Fine Day for Dying (1974) ... Al Stanik
- Overkill (1971) ... Ty Webber
- The Nowhere Victim (1969) ... Angelo Palerma
1973 Frasier, the Sensuous Lion - Chiarelli (as Mark Lawrence)
1973 Pigs - Zambrini
1973 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Stefano Magaddino
1972 In Pursuit of Treasure
1972 Nichols (TV Series) - Prouty
- Zachariah (1972) ... Prouty
1971 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Frankie Fury
- The Wings of an Angel (1971) ... Frankie Fury
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
1970-1971 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Ruby / Joe Grapefruit
- Lucy and Mannix Are Held Hostage (1971) ... Ruby
- Lucy and Ma Parker (1970) ... Joe Grapefruit
1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Kelso
- The Prisoner of Fender (1971) ... Kelso
1970 Dream No Evil - Undertaker
1970 Bonanza (TV Series) - Red Gaskell
- Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing (1970) ... Red Gaskell
1970 The Kremlin Letter - The Priest

1969 Il killer (TV Mini-Series)
1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Jacobs
1968 King of Kong Island - Albert Muller
1967 Custer of the West- Gold Miner
1967 Du mou dans la gâchette - Magnum
1966 7 monaci d'oro - Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
1966 Savage Pampas - Sgt. Barril
1966 The Rat Patrol (TV Series) - Abu Hassan
- The Moment of Truce Raid (1966) ... Abu Hassan
1966 Johnny Tiger - William Billie
1966 2 mafiosi contro Al Capone - Joe Minasi
1965 Mister Ed (TV Series) - Spike the Bank Robber
- The Bank Robbery (1965) ... Spike the Bank Robber
1965 Petticoat Junction (TV Series) - Barney Dawson
- Hooterville Crime Wave (1965) ... Barney Dawson
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Plato Atutle
- The Timothy Heist (1964) ... Plato Atutle
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Leo Tucci
- Tigers Are for Jungles (1964) ... Leo Tucci
1963 Johnny Cool - Johnny Colini
1960-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Lou Cagan / Mike Genna / Luigi Renaldo
- Blues for a Gone Goose (1963) ... Lou Cagan
- The Genna Brothers (1961) ... Mike Genna
- Star Witness (1960) ... Luigi Renaldo
1960-1962 The Detectives (TV Series) - Marcus Maroon / Ed Watkins / Rocco Silvano
- Three Blind Mice: Part II (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- Three Blind Mice: Part 1 (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- The Other Side (1960) ... Ed Watkins
- Life in the Balance (1960) ... Rocco Silvano
1961 Whispering Smith (TV Series) - Frankie Wisdom
- Death at Even Money (1961) ... Frankie Wisdom
1961 Lawman (TV Series) - Frank Walker
- Homecoming (1961) ... Frank Walker
1961 The Deputy (TV Series) - Alvy Burke
- The Hard Decision (1961) ... Alvy Burke
1960 Thriller (TV Series) - Dr. Emil Berland
- The Mark of the Hand (1960) ... Dr. Emil Berland (uncredited)
1958-1960 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Cougar / Gavin
- Trail of Hate (1960) ... Cougar
- The Safe Guard (1958) ... Gavin
1960 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) - Vito Doria
- Running Scared (1960) ... Vito Doria
1960 Bronco (TV Series) - Joe Russo
- Tangled Trail (1960) ... Joe Russo
1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) - Wade Migill
- Killer Instinct (1960) ... Wade Migill

1959 Shotgun Slade (TV Series) - Gideon Finch
- Mesa of Missing Men (1959) ... Gideon Finch
1959 Johnny Staccato (TV Series) - Vic Raffe
- The Unwise Men (1959) ... Vic Raffe
1959 Tightrope (TV Series) - Frankie Farrell
- Man in the Middle (1959) ... Frankie Farrell
1959 M Squad (TV Series) - Vince Cronin
- Jeopardy by Fire (1959) ... Vince Cronin
1959 Peter Gunn (TV Series) - Max Grayco
- Vendetta (1959) ... Max Grayco
1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - El Sordo / The Cajun / Scarface
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2 (1959) ... El Sordo
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1 (1959) ... El Sordo
- Child of Our Time (1959)
- Old Man (1958) ... The Cajun
- Days of Wine and Roses (1958) ... Scarface
1958 Wagon Train (TV Series) - First Mate Ferris
- Around the Horn (1958) ... First Mate Ferris
1957 Kill Her Gently - Connors
1956 Helen of Troy - Diomedes
1955 Ballata tragica - Felipe Alvaro
1955 La catena dell'odio - Braschi
1955 Suor Maria - Don Mario, proprietario del night club
1955 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Cow Nelson
- A Terrible Day (1955) ... Cow Nelson
1955 New Moon - Pierre
1954 Vacation with a Gangster - Jack Mariotti
1953 Funniest Show on Earth - Il proprietario del circo
1953 Trouble for the Legion - Serg. Schwartz
1953 Noi peccatori - Camillo
1953 Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair - Van Gould
1952 Brothers of Italy - Il capitano March - un ufficiale austriarco
1952 The Three Pirates - Van Gould
1952 La tratta delle bianche - Machedi
1952 Torment of the Past - Andrea Rossi (alias Piero)
1951 My Favorite Spy - Ben Ali
1951 Hurricane Island - Angus Macready (uncredited)

1950 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion - Frankie--Loan Shark
1950 The Desert Hawk - Samad
1950 The Asphalt Jungle - Cobby
1950 Black Hand - Caesar Xavier Serpi

1949 Tough Assignment - Vince
1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass - Harry Dean
1949 Jigsaw - Angelo Agostini
1948 Out of the Storm - Red Stubbins
1948 Key Largo - Ziggy
1947 I Walk Alone - Nick Palestro
1947 Captain from Castile - Corio
1947 Unconquered - Sioto - Medicine Man
1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout - John Mitchell
1947 Yankee Fakir - Duke
1946 Cloak and Dagger - Luigi
1946 Inside Job - Donovan
1946 The Virginian - Pete
1946 Blonde Alibi - Joe DeRita
1945 Life with Blondie - Pete, Blackie's Henchman
1945 Club Havana - Joe Reed
1945 Don't Fence Me In - Clifford Anson
1945 Flame of Barbary Coast - Joe Disko
1945 Dillinger - Doc Madison
1944 The Princess and the Pirate - Pedro
1944 Rainbow Island - Alcoa
1944 Tampico - Valdez
1943 Hit the Ice - Phil
1943 Submarine Alert - Vincent Bela
1943 Calaboose - Sluggsy Baker
1942 The Ox-Bow Incident - Jeff Farnley
1942 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge - McGaffey
1942 Eyes of the Underworld - Gordon Finch
1942 Call of the Canyon - Horace Dunston
1942 This Gun for Hire - Tommy
1942 Yokel Boy - Henchman Trigger
1942 Nazi Agent - Joe Aiello
1941 Public Enemies - Mike
1941 Sundown - Abdi Hammud
1941 A Dangerous Game - Joe
1941 Hold That Ghost - Charlie Smith
1941 Lady Scarface - Lefty Landers
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills - Pete Matthews
1941 Blossoms in the Dust - La Verne
1941 The Man Who Lost Himself - Frank DeSoto
1941 The Monster and the Girl - Sleeper
1941 Tall, Dark and Handsome - Louie
1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum - Steve McBirney
1940 The Great Profile - Tony
1940 Brigham Young - Prosecutor
1940 The Golden Fleecing - 'Happy' Dugan
1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much - Lefty Kyler
1940 Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! - Tony Luffo
1940 Johnny Apollo - Bates

1939 Invisible Stripes - Lefty
1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter - Floyd
1939 Beware Spooks! - Slick Eastman
1939 Dust Be My Destiny - Venetti
1939 Think First (Short) - Joe
1939 S.O.S. Tidal Wave - Melvin Sutter
1939 Ex-Champ - Bill Crosle - Olsen's Manager
1939 Blind Alley - Buck
1939 Code of the Streets - Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
1939 Romance of the Redwoods - Joe
1939 Sergeant Madden - 'Piggy' Ceders
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt - Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
1939 Homicide Bureau - Chuck Brown
1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu - Johnny McCoy
1938 There's That Woman Again - Stevens (uncredited)
1938 While New York Sleeps - Happy Nelson
1938 Adventure in Sahara - Poule
1938 The Spider's Web - Steve Harmon
1938 I Am the Law - Eddie Girard
1938 Convicted - Milton Militis
1938 Squadron of Honor - Lawlor
1938 Who Killed Gail Preston? - Frank Daniels
1938 Penitentiary - Jack Hawkins (uncredited)
1937 The Shadow - Kid Crow
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village - Rusty Morgan
1937 Counsel for Crime - Edwin Mitchell
1937 Life Begins with Love - Pearson (uncredited)
1937 Charlie Chan on Broadway - Thomas Mitchell
1937 A Dangerous Adventure - Calkins
1937 It Can't Last Forever - Hoodlum (uncredited)
1937 What Price Vengeance - Pete Brower
1937 San Quentin - Venetti
1937 Criminals of the Air - 'Blast' Reardon
1937 I Promise to Pay - Henchman Whitehat
1937 Motor Madness - Gus Slater
1937 Racketeers in Exile - 'Blackie' White
1936 Night Waitress - Dorn (as Marc Laurence)
1936 Charlie Chan at the Opera - Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1936 The Cowboy Star - Johnny Sampson
1936 Blackmailer - Pinky (uncredited)
1936 The Final Hour - Mike Magellon
1936 Trapped by Television - Frank Griffin (uncredited)
1936 Counterfeit - Dint Coleman
1936 Under Two Flags - Grivon (uncredited)
1936 Robin Hood of El Dorado - Manuel (uncredited)
1936 Love on a Bet - County Fair Barker (uncredited)
1936 Desire - Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
1936 Don't Gamble with Love - Gambler (uncredited)
1936 Road Gang - Pete
1935 3 Kids and a Queen - Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Dr. Socrates - Lefty Croger - a Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Little Big Shot - Doré's Henchman
1935 After the Dance - Tom - a Prisoner (uncredited)
1935 Don't Bet on Blondes - Gangster #6 (uncredited)
1935 The Arizonian - Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay (uncredited)
1935 Men of the Hour - Joe
1935 Strangers All - Communist Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
1935 Go Into Your Dance - Eddie Logan (uncredited)
1935 'G' Men - Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
1934 Million Dollar Baby - Gangster
1934 Death on the Diamond - Bookies' Doorman (uncredited)
1934 Straight Is the Way - Monk's Henchmen (uncredited)
1933 White Woman - Connors
1933 Lady for a Day - Nick - Mug at Reception (uncredited)
1933 Her First Mate - Orderly with Message (uncredited)
1933 Gambling Ship - Hood (uncredited)
1932 If I Had a Million - Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)

Director (8 credits)

1973 Pigs
1965 Nightmare in the Sun
1961-1962 Maverick (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Mr. Muldoon's Partner (1962)
- A Technical Error (1961)
1962 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Jennifer (1962)
1960-1962 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Footlights (1962)
- Vendetta on Bleecker Street (1960)
1961 Bronco (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- The Equalizer (1961)
- Prince of Darkness (1961)
1960-1961 Lawman (TV Series) (16 episodes)
- The Juror (1961)
- Conditional Surrender (1961)
- Blind Hate (1961)
- The Trial (1961)
- Whiphand (1961)
- Fugitive (1961)
- Mark of Cain (1961)
- The Inheritance (1961)
- Detweiler's Kid (1961)
- Hassayampa (1961)
- The Squatters (1961)
- The Marked Man (1961)
- The Frame-Up (1961)
- Cornered (1960)
- The Catcher (1960)
- The Post (1960)
1960 M Squad (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Man with the Ice (1960)
- The Twisted Way (1960)

Writer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (as F.A. Foss)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun

Producer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (producer)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun (producer)

2022: An international auction offers artwork by Pierre Auguste-Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger. And not least Salvador Dali's tarot card deck created for a Bond film. All at New Delhi, India, and online.

Iconic works by Renoir, Picasso to go
under hammer at AstaGuru's online
auction

See the complete article here:

https://newsdrum.in/business/iconic-works-by-renoir-picasso-to-go-under-hammer-at-astagurus-online-auction

NewsDrum Desk | 24 Nov 2022

New Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI) Artworks by iconic global artists, including Pierre Auguste-Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger and Salvador Dali, will go under the hammer at India's "first exclusive international auction", starting November 28.

Organised by online auction house AstaGuru, the two-day auction, showcasing a medley of works by revered artists, will present experimentative artworks by leading contemporary artists as well, including the likes of Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Indiana and Marc Sijan.

Leading the auction line-up is a beautiful work by French impressionist master Pierre Auguste–Renoir, who created an extraordinary artistic legacy with his fascinating canvases bearing sublime female nudes.

Titled "Baigneuse Assise" or the "Seated Bather", the 1915 work was once in the collection of seminal novelist Somerset Maugham. It was also featured on the cover of his book "Purely For My Pleasure" (1962). It will be offered at an estimate of Rs 4.34 – 5.53 crore.

"We are extremely happy to curate a collection which brings together works of several historic and big names from the history of modern and contemporary art and does complete justice to the auction titled 'International Iconic'...We are certain that the auction is highly anticipated and will definitely witness enthusiastic bidding," said Siddanth Shetty, vice- president, business strategy and operations, AstaGuru.

Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali's limited series of 78 custom decks of tarot cards known as Dali's 'Universal Tarot' will also be showcased at the auction. The work, first commissioned to him by a Hollywood producer Albert Broccoli, was meant to be used as a prop in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

Each of the cards are estimated at Rs 19.75-27.65 Lakh.

Other highlights of the auction are works by Pablo Picasso, widely celebrated as one of the foremost figures of modern art. His 1969 work, executed with coloured wax crayon on paper, will be offered at an estimate of Rs 2.37-3.95 crore.

French master visual artist Henri Matisse's 1940 work 'Femme et Bouquets' (estimated at 1.97-2.76 crore) and Russian-French artist Marc Chagall 'Violoniste Au Village Enneigé' (estimated at Rs 3–3.79 crore) are also up for grabs in the auction.

Featuring flowers, fruits, objects, musical instruments, and scenes of everyday moments, the still life works by Colombian artist Fernando Botero paying homage to the Dutch masters of the 16th and 17th centuries are part of the auction as well.

A still work by the artist will be offered at an estimate of Rs 1.18-1.58 crore.

English artist Damien Hirst's 'Beautiful Hours Spin Painting IX' (estimated at Rs 2.37-3.95 crore), first unveiled as the cover for the album 'See the Light' by British rock band 'The Hours', and famous 'Love Sculptures' by American artist Robert Indiana are also among the highlights in the auction.

"First executed as a painting in 1965 and being displayed at a solo exhibition at the Stable Gallery, it became a career-defining piece for Indiana. It will be offered with an estimate of Rs 3.16-4.74 crore," said the online auction house in a statement.

Making it to the auction is also a unique work by iconic artist Andy Warhol. The presented work, marking a departure from the artist's popular body of work focusing on the culture of consumerism, was created in 1983 and gifted to his friend Christopher Mako.

It is offered at an estimate of Rs 1.10-1.89 crore. PTI MG MAH MAH

See Surreal Tarot Cards Designed by Salvador Dalí
for a James Bond Movie
The spooky deck features images of classic art and Christian symbolism with a signature Dalí twist

See the complete article here:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-surreal-tarot-cards-designed-salvador-dali-james-bond-movie-180973506/

Nina Kravinsky, Freelance Writer | November 7, 2019

Salvador Dali tarot card magician
The 78-card deck didn't actually make it into the James Bond film Live and Let Die. Cartamundi, Turnhout Belgium/Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

In 1973, producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned Salvador Dalí to create a set of tarot cards for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. The Catalan artist indulged his mystical side when designing the very surreal deck of cards, but his prop deck failed to make the movie’s final cut: As Hakim Bishara explains for Hyperallergic, Dalí reportedly asked for an enormous fee beyond even the Bond film’s $7 million budget.

The famed surrealist continued working on the spooky set after Broccoli rescinded his offer, and in 1984, he released a limited edition of the deck. Now, for the first time in more than 30 years, the 78-card set is back on the market. (The deck and a companion book are available from Taschen Books for $60.)

Salvador Dali tarot card empress
Gala Dali as the "Empress" Cartamundi, Turnhout Belgium/Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

Dalí’s deck blends elements of his bombastic personality with typical surrealist motifs—think ants and disembodied heads—and traditional tarot symbolism. In one card, the artist himself poses as the Magician, and in another, his wife, Gala Dalí, assumes the role of the Empress. The deck’s “Lovers” card, according to Architectural Digest’s Stephanie Strasnick, mirrors Jan Gossaert’s 16th-century painting Neptune and Amphitrite but replaces the mythical scene’s classical setting with a giant butterfly and flower.

The surrealist pioneer’s interest in mysticism extended beyond his encounter with Hollywood. Gala, Dalí’s muse, business partner and agent, had a penchant for the esoteric. She used to read tarot cards in an attempt to predict her husband’s career path and may have even encouraged him to accept the Bond producer’s commission.

“This mysterious, cultured woman, a gifted creator, colleague and peer of poets and painters, lived her art and her life in an intensely literary manner,” said Dalí Museums director Montse Aguer in a statement on the 2018 exhibition “Gala Salvador Dalí: A Room of One’s Own in Púbol.”

Salvador Dali tarot card lovers
The "Lovers" card is inspired by Jan Gossaert's Neptune and Amphitrite. Cartamundi, Turnhout Belgium/Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

Just as Gala’s mystical leanings likely influenced the deck, Dalí’s surrealist background is evident in full force. The “Magician” card features the artist standing above one of his iconic melting clocks, while the “Death” card shows a cypress tree emblazoned with a skull beside a single blooming rose.

As Lindsay Rainwater writes for GALO magazine, “Dalí’s deck is a pastiche of old-world art, surrealism, kitsch, Christian iconography and Greek and Roman sculpture.”

Many of the tarot cards feature classic works of art juxtaposed with collage elements. Per Strasnick, Dalí reimagines Vincenzo Camuccini’s 19th-century painting The Death of Julius Caesar as the “Ten of Swords,” topping a cut-out of the brutal attack with 10 painted blades. In the “Empress” card, meanwhile, the artist superimposes Gala’s face on the statue of a goddess seen in Eugène Delacroix’s 1826 painting Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi.

Dalí even pokes fun at Roger Moore, the then-new actor portraying James Bond, by including original 007 Sean Connery’s face on the “Emperor” card.

And while Dalí’s deck doesn’t appear in Live or Let Die, Bond girl Solitaire, played by Jane Seymour, does flip through a custom-made tarot deck in the film. Artist Fergus Hall designed the set of cards—likely for much less money—following the better-known surrealist’s split from the project.

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November 29th

1901: Varley Thomas is born--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.
(She dies 29 January 1983 at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.)

Varley Thomas

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859620/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Biography

Born November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK
Died January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey, England, UK
Birth Name Margaret Ada Thomas
Height 5' (1.52 m)

Varley Thomas was born on November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England as Margaret Ada Thomas. She was an actress, known for Goldfinger (1964), Jack the Ripper (1973) and Home Tonight (1961). She died on January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey.

Filmography

Actress (10 credits)

1973 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - Emily Holland
- The First Two (1973) ... Emily Holland

1969 Public Eye (TV Series) - Janet
- The Comedian's Graveyard (1969) ... Janet
1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mrs. Neehan
- A Family Likeness (1967) ... Mrs. Neehan
1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Minnie Fry
- Two's Company (1966) ... Minnie Fry
1965 Television Club (TV Series) - Mrs. Bostock
- The Brent Family: Its None of Your Business (1965) ... Mrs. Bostock
1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Neighbour
- The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Neighbour
1964 Crossroads (TV Series) - Madame Durand
1964 Goldfinger - Swiss Gatekeeper
1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Coggins
- Accessories After the Fact (1962) ... Mrs. Coggins
1961 Home Tonight (TV Series) - Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.40 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.39 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.38 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.37 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.36 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson

Archive footage (2 credits)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Old Lady with Gun
1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short)

1961: Variety reports their estimation Eon bought rights to Fleming's novels for $500,000.
1963: Kevin McClory receives Thunderball film rights and £50,000 damages. Any additional Bond films would necessarily be remakes.

1964: The San Francisco Examiner publishes the Donald Stanley short story "Holmes Meets 007". Later published by Beaune Press in 1967 in a very limited run.

"Holmes Meets 007"
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_uncollected_and_other_miscellaneous_short_stories

Then I noticed the crestfallen figure standing near the window. "What should we do with Bond?" I asked. "Bond? Oh, send him back to his little bureaucratic niche, I expect. Really, I couldn't be less concerned."

Donald Stanley wrote this short story - under two-thousand words - first published in The San Francisco Examiner on 29 November 1964. The Beaune Press (San Francisco) subsequently published 247 copies of this seven page story in December 1967. There is no copy 222: this is instead numbered 221B. Copies 223 through to 247 are numbered I to XXV and were printed especially for the author's friends.

Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's amanuensis, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes's Baker Street address. Holmes's deductive abilities impress M who wishes Bond had the same ability. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a Smersh assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing morphine into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious. Holmes reveals that M is none other than Professor Moriarty; Bond is nothing more than a "fairly ignorant tool" who had been unaware of his boss's treachery all this time.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupParodies.aspx?id=12


https://colinatthemovies.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/james-bond-will-not-return-the-device-of-the-ignominious-end-in-007-parodies/
[some detail of the seven-page story given here]

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/holmes-meets-007/
(San Francisco: The Beaune Press 1967, Donald Stanley)

1969: Bond comic strip River of Death ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 24 June 1969. 1038–1174) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54698


http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1000


Spanish publishing house Buru Lan Ediciones, James Bond (vol. 1, #13)
https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/buru-lan-reprints/
Reprints The River of Death, written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak.


Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3

Dödens Flod
(The Dead River - River Of Death)

Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

Dödens Flod
(The Dead River - River Of Death)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-21-1971/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 21:
“River of Death” (1971)
"Dødens flod"

1972: The Live and Let Die production moves to Jamaica, doubling for San Monique.
1973: 007: Vivir y dejar morir released in Argentina.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 55 of 65 - "Danger Train" in San Francisco, California.

James Bond Jr - Danger Train

Season 1 - Episode 55
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807284/?ref_=ttep_ep55

James Bond Jr. and IQ get caught in a S.C.U.M. feud between Ms. Fortune and Walker D. Plank over stealing a super powerful engine from the 'Cold Fusion' Train.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Scumlord (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 / Snuffer (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Miss Fortune / 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
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 55 - Danger Train

2002: Die Another Day released in Iceland.
2002: 007: Surra veel üks päev released in Estonia.

2002: 007 - Döden får vänta (007: Death Has to Wait; also 007 - Kuolema saa odottaa, 007: Death Must Wait) released in Finland.

2002: Mirsti Citu Dienu (To Die Another Day) released in Latvia.
2002: Pasveikink mirti kitą dieną (Happy to Die the Next Day) released in Lithuania.

2003: Norman Burton dies at age 79--California.
(Born 5 December 1923--New York City, New York.)

Norman Burton

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

Norman Burton
Born December 5, 1923
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
Imperial, California, U.S.
Occupation Film, television actor
Years active 1957–1993

Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.

Early life
Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).

Career

His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).

On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.

Death
Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.

Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (89 credits)

1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
- 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
- Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers

1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
- Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
- Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
- Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
- A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
- Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
- Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
- The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
- Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
1981 Amy - Caruthers
1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
- Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
- No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)

1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
- Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
- Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
- Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
- The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
- The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
- The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
- Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
- Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
- The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
- Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
- Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
- Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
- The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
- The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
- The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
- The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
- The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
- Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
1973 Hit! - The Director
1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
- The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy

1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
- The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
- Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
- Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
- Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
- Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
1966 The Hero (TV Series)
- The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
- The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
- What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
- 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
- The Reward (1965) ... Ed
1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
- Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
- Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
- See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
- Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
- Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
- The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
- 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
- Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
1962 Womanhunt
1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
- Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
- Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney

1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter

Archive footage (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu

Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Diamonds Are Forever

2005: Joseph Fürst dies at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(Born 13 February 1916--Vienna, Austria.)

Joseph Fürst

Joseph Fürst (13 February 1916 – 29 November 2005) was an Austrian-born international film and television actor known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia, after first appearing on the Canadian stage.

Career
Fürst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace. Many people believe his accent in this role to have been put on; this is incorrect, it is in fact his real accent. He also played the role of Schneider in the Armchair Theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", which launched Edward Woodward as the character of Callan. (The play led to the highly regarded Callan TV series.)

Fürst's notable film appearances included 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Dr Metz, and Inn of the Damned (1975).

He emigrated to Australia and starting in the mid-1970s acted in several guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He played an ongoing role in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi, who was introduced to the series as a new Italian family alongside Arianthe Galani and Harry Michaels, his character romanced wine bar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly). He also played Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1979, and was a guest on situation comedy Kingswood Country, again opposite Kennelly. He guest starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s. In 1984, he starred in the ABC TV film The Schippan Mystery.

Fürst was interviewed by Dwayne Bunney and Dallas Jones for "Loose Cannon" and spoke about his career in an interview to be an extra feature for the reconstruction of the missing Doctor Who story "The Underwater Menace". This interview took place shortly before his death.

032 The Underwater Menace Interview with Joseph Furst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv2arY95lc

Joseph Fürst (1916–2005) Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299822/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (80 credits)

1986 Tusitala (TV Mini-Series) - Von Pilsarch
- Teller of Tales: Part Three (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
- Teller of Tales: Part Two (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
- The Teller of Tales: Part One (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
1985 The Dunera Boys (TV Mini-Series) - The Baron
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
1984 Special Squad (TV Series) - Raddich
- The Würzburg Link (1984) ... Raddich
1984 The Schippan Mystery (TV Movie) - Mathias Schippan
1982 Jonah (TV Mini-Series) - Hans Paach
- Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hans Paach
1982 A Country Practice (TV Series) - Alex Popovich
- Mates: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Mates: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Suffer Little Children: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Suffer Little Children: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
1980 Kingswood Country (TV Series) - Enzo Bertoluci
- There's No Place Like Rome (1980) ... Enzo Bertoluci
1980 Spy! (TV Series) - Colonel Malini
- The Venlo Incident (1980) ... Colonel Malini
1979-1980 Skyways (TV Series) - Poppa Fanelli / Pappa Fanelli
- Pili (1980) ... Poppa Fanelli
- Homecoming (1979) ... Pappa Fanelli

1976 The Young Doctors (TV Series) - Heinrik Smeaton (1978)
1976 Number 96 (TV Series) - Carlo Lenzi - 5 episodes
1976 Luke's Kingdom (TV Series) - Storekeeper,
- The Prisoner (1976) ... Storekeeper
- An Enemy Too Many (1976) ... Storekeeper
- Devil's Man (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Dam and the Damned (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Hypocrites (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The King's Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Surveyor (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Woman Waiting (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Man Worse Than Cormac (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Man From Home (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Bait (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Land Lovers (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Sort of Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
1975 Plugg - Judge, Fraudenheist
1975 Inn of the Damned - Lazar Straulle
1973-1975 Division 4 (TV Series) - Ernst Kaufmann / Emmanuel Czoski / Stefan Gronowski
- Check, Check, Check (1975) ... Ernst Kaufmann
- The Fanatic (1975) ... Emmanuel Czoski
- Today Is Eagle Day (1973) ... Stefan Gronowski
1974-1975 Behind the Legend (TV Series) - Ferdinand von Mueller
- Tom Roberts (1975)
- Ferdinand von Mueller (1974) ... Ferdinand von Mueller
1974 Mother's Day (TV Movie)
1974 The Evil Touch (TV Series) - Dr. Gornak
- Gornak's Prism (1974) ... Dr. Gornak
1973 ...And Millions Die! (TV Movie) - Franz Kessler
1973 Ryan (TV Series) - Eric Stahl
- Liz (1973) ... Eric Stahl
1972 The Money Game (TV Movie)
The Foreigner (voice)
1972 The Far Country (TV Series) - 5 episodes
- Episode #1.6 (1972)
- Episode #1.5 (1972)
- Episode #1.4 (1972)
- Episode #1.3 (1972)
- Episode #1.2 (1972)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Yelker
- The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Yelker (as Joseph Furst)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Dr Metz (as Joseph Furst)
1971 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Leon Mailer
- The Company of Madmen (1971) ... Leon Mailer
1971 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Josef Walczak
- Cue Murder! (1971) ... Josef Walczak
1970 Goodbye Gemini - Georgiu
1970 Sudden Terror - Local Police Sgt (as Joseph Furst)
1970 Callan (TV Series) - Sabovski
- A Village Called 'G' (1970) ... Sabovski (as Joseph Furst)
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Dr. Charles Goldsworthy
- Re-Entry Forbidden (1970) ... Dr. Charles Goldsworthy

1968-1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Dr. Rudolf Mueller / Chislenkan
- The Search (1969) ... Dr. Rudolf Mueller
- The Beginning (1968) ... Chislenkan
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - President Obotnik
- The Flag (1968) ... President Obotnik
1968 Vendetta (TV Series) - Paul Bonner
- The Anniversary Man (1968) ... Paul Bonner
1968 Hammerhead - Count Ortega
1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Zaluchin
- Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart (1968) ... Zaluchin
1967 Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) - Mr. Swyvoski
- Lucinda (1967) ... Mr. Swyvoski
1967 Theatre of Death - Karl Schiller (as Joseph Furst)
1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Schneider / Ekhart / Ex-King Gustavus III
- A Magnum for Schneider (1967) ... Schneider
- Till the Day I Die (1961) ... Ekhart
- A Heart and a Diamond (1960) ... Ex-King Gustavus III
1967 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 4 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 3 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff (as Joseph Furst)
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 2 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 1 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
1966 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Carl Mildenhoff
- An Epic in the Sand (1966) ... Carl Mildenhoff
1966 Arrivederci, Baby! - German Brasshat
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Brodzinski
- Corridors of Power (1966) ... Professor Brodzinski
1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Koplaski
- The Great Kopalski (1966) ... Koplaski
1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series)
Karel Jorovitch / Kane Luker / Dr. Ernst Zellerman
- The Russian Prisoner (1966) ... Karel Jorovitch (as Joseph Furst)
- The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Kane Luker
- The Saint Sees It Through (1963) ... Dr. Ernst Zellerman (as Joseph Furst)
1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu - Otto Lentz (as Joseph Furst)
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Colonel Bucholz
- Enemy of the State (1966) ... Colonel Bucholz
1961-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
Bertheimer / Dr. Heller / Lecherenko / ...
- Finesse in Diamonds (1965) ... Bertheimer
- The Finambulists (1963) ... Dr. Heller
- Freedom in September (1962) ... Lecherenko
- I Remember Mama (1961) ... Lars Papa Hanson
- The Poisoned Earth (1961) ... Dr. Brockmeyer
1965 McGuire, Go Home! - Dr. Andros
1964 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) -General Fitz Fromm
- The July Plot (1964) ... General Fitz Fromm
1964 The Midnight Men (TV Series) - King Alexander
- Promise to Kill (1964) ... King Alexander
- The King's Business (1964) ... King Alexander
- Time of Danger (1964) ... King Alexander
- The King Shall Die (1964) ... King Alexander
- The Man from Miditz (1964) ... King Alexander
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Von Elm
- Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... Von Elm
1963 Sergeant Cork (TV Series) - Ernst Lukas
- The Case of the Girl Upstairs (1963) ... Ernst Lukas
1963 55 Days at Peking - Capt. Hanselman (as Joseph Furst)
1963 Anna Christie (TV Movie) - Chris Christopherson
1962 Freud - Herr Jacob Koertner (as Joseph Furst)
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Glidepath (1962) ... (as Joseph Furst)
1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Doctor Korczak
- Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962) ... Doctor Korczak
1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Wilhelm
- Shadow of the Wall (1962) ... Wilhelm
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Gastin
- The Liars (1961) ... Gastin
1960-1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hauptmann Denker / Colonel von Kohl / Dr. Görtler
- Cross of Iron (1961) ... Hauptmann Denker
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Colonel von Kohl
- Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before (1960) ... Dr. Görtler
1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Koster
- Assassin (1961) ... Koster
1961 The Devil Inside - Paul Varna (as Joseph Furst)
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Judge
- The Sorcerer (1961) ... Judge (as Joseph Furst)
1961 A Coming-Out Party - Luftwaffe Interrogator (as Joseph Furst)
1960 Exodus - Avidan (as Joseph Furst)
1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Descius Heiss
- The Shop at Sly Corner (1960) ... Descius Heiss
1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Vasyl
- Violence at the Wedding (1960) ... Vasyl
1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jacob Leibmann
- The Protege (1960) ... Jacob Leibmann
1960 Skyport (TV Series) - Dr. Haltrecht
- Episode #1.44 (1960) ... Dr. Haltrecht
1960 Counter-Attack! (TV Series) - Major Heinrich Wolf
- Last Chance (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Guard Duty (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Traitor's Mark (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Secret Agent (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Sealed Orders (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Escape (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- White Flag (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf

1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor
- Echo from Afar (1959) ... Doctor
1953-1959 Encounter (TV Series) - Voller / ex-King Gustavus / Emil Thibodeau / ...
- A Leap in the Dark (1959)
- The Delicate Deal (1958) ... Voller
- A Heart and a Diamond (1958) ... ex-King Gustavus
- Chain Reaction (1958) ... Emil Thibodeau
- A Question of Discipline (1958) ... Joe Greenwood
- The Acrobats (1957)
- It's Murder in Algiers (1955) ... Kadis
- The Duke in Darkness (1954)
- Deadlier Than the Male (1954)
- A Look in the Mirror (1954)
- Flight Into Egypt (1954)
- Captain Carvallo (1953)
- Operation North Star (1953)
- Fortune My Foe (1953)
- Guilt (1953) ... Inspector
- The Vigil (1953) ... Prosecutor
- Othello (1953) ... Iago
1958-1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series)
- Mademoiselle Fifi (1959)
- The Ikon of Elijah (1958)
1957-1958 Folio (TV Series)
Doc Schwartz
- The Strong Are Lonely (1958)
- The Ottawa Man (1958) ... Doc Schwartz
- The Secret Agent (1957)
1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) - Policeman
1954-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Henry Barron / Mr. Klotsy
- The Absentee Murderer (1958) ... Henry Barron
- They Shot an Arrow (1956) ... Mr. Klotsy
- A Handful of Salt (1955)
- The Waltz (1955)
- Miracle at the Windsor (1954)
- The Bottle Imp (1954)
1955 First Performance (TV Series)
- The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Baron
- Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Baron
1955 Scope (TV Series)
- The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
1953-1955 Playbill (TV Series) - Vanluven
- The Mayerling Riddle (1955)
- Death Pulls No Strings (1955)
- Tobacco Farm (1954) ... Vanluven
- Greek Street (1953)
- Confession (1953)

Self (1 credit)

Citizen Varek (Short documentary) 1953

2008: "Another Way to Die" charts at #81 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (spends one week on the chart).

2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh.
2013: The Guardian reports on a tribute to Lewis Collins and his greatest disappointment.

Unthinkable? 007, working-class hero
Editorial

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/29/unthinkable-james-bond-working-class-hero

Lewis Collins's greatest disappointment was his failure to get
the James Bond role after Roger Moore
Fri 29 Nov 2013 18.03 EST

A tribute to Lewis Collins, the Mojo musician who became famous in the late 1970s as hit man Bodie in The Professionals, reveals that his greatest disappointment was not his decision to be a hairdresser rather than join the Beatles as a drummer but his failure to get the James Bond role after Roger Moore. Too aggressive, it was said, but really – since they chose cleft-chinned toff Timothy Dalton instead – they probably meant he wasn't smooth enough. Yet, as Ian Fleming said when he wrote to the Guardian in 1958 to defend his creation against encouraging a cult of luxury (eg choosing a brand of cigarette for its exclusivity rather than its taste), his James Bond was meant to be a blank sheet, an unobtrusive figure to whom exotic things happened. The personal style – the martini cocktail and the Walther PPK – were added as mere dabs of colour, at least as understood by an old Etonian living in Jamaica. It was Hollywood, not Fleming, that fleshed out the empire's last superhero, building up his suave style and the one-liners and making him a maverick rather than Fleming's classic Englishman. But Fleming enjoyed suggesting that Bond's sadistic violence was actually a rejection of the post-war world of teeth and specs on the state, while what one critic called his satyriasis was, according to Fleming, merely blatant heterosexuality in a world of gender confusion. It's harder to know the face of the enemy now, and Daniel Craig's Bond has become less upper-crust and more complex. But not yet a man of the people.

2021: Tommy Lane dies at age 83--Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
(Born Tommy Lee Jones 1936--Tipton, Atoka, Tennessee.)

Tommy Lane, Actor and Stuntman in ‘Live
and Let Die,’ ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 83

See the complete article here:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tommy-lane-dead-live-and-let-die-shaft-1235122222/

Tommy Lane
Courtesy of Kamala Lane

Stuntman and actor Tommy Lane, who appeared in films including “Live and Let Die” and “Shaft,” died Monday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 83.

His daughter Kamala reported that he died after a long bout of COPD.

In Richard Roundtree’s “Shaft,” his character Leroy could be seen crashing through Richard Roundtree’s Times Square office window. “That’s some cold shit, throwing my man Leroy out the window. Just picked my man up and threw him out the goddamn window,” says Willy in the 1971 blaxploitation classic.

Roger Moore with Tommy Lane during the shooting of “Live and Let Die”
Courtesy of Kamala Lane

In the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die,” he played Adam, one of Kananga’s henchmen who chases Roger Moore in a speedboat off the coast of the fictional island of San Monique. His character threatens, “You made one mistake back on that island, Bond. You took something that didn’t belong to you. And you took it from a friend of Mr. Big’s. That kind of mistake is tough to bounce back from.”

Before the speedboat scene, he can be heard to say “Bond ripped off one of our boats. He’s headed for the Irish Bayou. The man that gets him stays alive! Now, move you mothers!”

He also appeared in “Cotton Comes to Harlem,” “Ganja & Hess,” Burt Reynolds-starrer “Shamus” and TV shows including “Simon & Simon” and “Flipper.”

Born Tommy Lee Jones in Miami, Lane was also a jazz musician, and played trumpet and flugelhorn at New York City’s Blue Note throughout the 1980s.

He is survived by wife Raquel Bastias-Lane, seven children; a stepson and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

2020: La-La Land Records a 2-CD set with an expanded and remastered original score for Tomorrow Never Dies.

‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ 25th Anniversary
Expanded Edition Soundtrack Album
Announced

See the complete article here:

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/11/24/tomorrow-never-dies-25th-anniversary-expanded-edition-soundtrack-album-announced/

Posted: November 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums

La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher and Judi Dench. The 2-CD set features the expanded and remastered original score from the MGM production composed by David Arnold (Independence Day, Casino Royale, Die Another Day, Stargate, Sherlock, Quantum of Solace), including previously unreleased music, as well as the opening and closing titles songs, Tomorrow Never Dies performed by Sheryl Crow and Surrender performed by k.d. lang, and alternate score and source cues. The 25th Anniversary Edition soundtrack is limited to 5,000 copies and will be available to order on La-La Land’s official website at 12:00pm PST on November 29.
https://lalalandrecords.com/

Here’s the track list of the album:

Score Presentation:
Disc 1:
1. White Knight (8:28)
2. Backseat Pilot*† (1:41)
3. Tomorrow Never Dies – Sheryl Crow (4:50)
4. The Sinking Of The Devonshire (Extended Version) (7:22)
5. MI6 / Launch The Fleet (1:34)
6. Company Car (Extended Version) (3:35)
7. You Have A Phone Call, Mr. Bond (1:02)
8. Station Break (3:29)
9. Carver And Paris (1:06)
10. Paris And Bond (Film Version) (1:56)
11. The Last Goodbye (1:34)
12. Hamburg Break In (2:52)
13. Hamburg Break Out (1:24)
14. Printing Press Fight (1:22)
15. Escape To Hotel (2:28)
16. Doctor Kaufman (2:27)
17. *-3-Send (1:15)
18. Backseat Driver (Film Version) (4:35)
19. Okinawa / HALO Jump (2:25)
20. Underwater Discovery (3:37)
21. Vietnam (1:36)
22. Banner Escape (1:10)
23. Bike Chase (6:43)
24. Bike Shop Fight (Film Version) (2:32)

Disc 2:
1. Ha Long Bay (2:32)
2. Boarding The Stealth (4:57)
3. Grenade (1:39)
4. A Tricky Spot For 007 (3:49)
5. Stealth Shoot Out (3:33)
6. Carver Gets It (2:53)
7. All In A Day’s Work (5:08)
8. Surrender – k.d. lang (3:56)
Additional Music:
9. White Knight (Original Version) (8:37)
10. Backseat Pilot (Original Version) (2:20)
11. The Sinking Of The Devonshire (Original Version) (5:37)
12. Company Car† (3:06)
13. Shaken But Not Stirred – Simon Greenaway / Sacha Collisson (3:27)
14. It Had To Be You – Simon Greenaway (2:03)
15. Adrift – Simon Greenaway / Sacha Collisson (3:58)
16. Paris And Bond (1:56)
17. The Last Goodbye (Alternate Version) (1:30)
18. Printing Press Fight (Film Opening) (1:10)
19. Backseat Driver† (4:35)
20. Banner Escape (Film Mix) (1:10)
21. Bike Shop Fight (2:42)
22. Surrender (Alternate Version) – k.d. lang (3:53)

RichardTheBruce

November 30

1917: Ilse Steppat is born--Barmen, Germany.
(She dies 21 December 1969 at age 52--West Berlin, Germany.)

Ilse Paula Steppat

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

Born Ilse Paula Steppat
30 November 1917
Wuppertal, Germany
Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52)
West Berlin, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Actress
Years active 1932–1969

Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

Biography
She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.

In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]

Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.

Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (60 credits)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
- Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
- Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
- Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
- Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
- Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller

1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
1951 Die Tat des Anderen
1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde

1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")

1933: Tsai Chin is born--Shanghai, China.

1949: Wendy Leech is born--Buckinghamshire, England.
1949: Nicholas Woodeson is born--Sudan.

1956: Claude-Oliver Rudolph is born--Frankfurt, Germany.
1959: On the ninth day of the trial over rights to Thunderball, proceedings pause that Friday for a weekend of small conferences.

1969: Marc Forster is born--Illertissen, Bavaria, Germany.

1994: Famke Janssen signs on to the GoldenEye production in the Xenia Onatopp role.

2010: Clement Graham Crowden is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.
(He dies 19 October 1922 at age 87--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

Obituary: Graham Crowden,
actor

See the complete article here:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituary-graham-crowden-actor-1699734

SCOTS actor Graham Crowden, best remembered for the medical drama
A Very Peculiar Practice and sitcom Waiting for God, has died at the age
of 87.
By The Newsroom | Thursday, 21st October 2010, 12:59 pm

Though known for comedy-drama roles, Crowden began as a Shakespearean actor, appearing on the big screen, television, stage and radio, in a career that stretched over seven decades.

Born and brought up in Edinburgh, he lived in London for much of his life but had returned to his birthplace with his wife, actress Phyllida Hewat, several years ago.

He died on Tuesday following a short illness.

His daughter, actress Sarah Crowden, said: "His legacy lives on. He did so much work that there's something of his on almost all the time somewhere in the world."

Born Clement Graham Crowden on 30 November, 1922, he was the third of four children born into a respectable Scottish Presbyterian family laid low by the First World War in which his father, a classics teacher, was seriously injured.

He had an unremarkable time at Edinburgh Academy, failing all of his exams, before going on to work in a tannery.

He joined the Royal Scots Youth Battalion in 1940, but his military career ended after a year when he suffered internal injuries from a gunshot fired by his own platoon sergeant.

His burgeoning theatre career could have ended in a similarly inglorious fashion had he heeded the advice of Shakespeare Without Frills director Robert Atkins, who told him: "You're too tall, too thin, you're not good looking and you have a funny voice."

Despite this early knock he persuaded Atkins to grant him a student contract, beginning a long stage apprenticeship with a succession of rep companies.

He married Phyllida Hewat, then a costume designer, in 1952. In the ensuing years the couple had four children, and Mr Crowden's stage career began to take off starting with major role in a Bristol Old Vic production of Major Barbara.

His introduction to movies started inauspiciously with a series of flops, beginning with 1961's Don't Bother To Knock, but he finally found his form with his appearances in director Lindsay Anderson's iconic satirical trilogy of If..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.

Among some of the many films he appeared in were Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky, Out of Africa and the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.

In 1974, Crowden turned down the chance to succeed Jon Pertwee as Dr Who.

Unable to commit the amount of time required by the part, he recommended Tom Baker for the role instead.

Speaking of his decision to refuse the role, he once joked: "Working with a lot of Daleks didn't sound like much fun."

When asked for his epitaph, Mr Crowden first thought of Lewis Casson's observation that "he looked funny even in serious roles", but he eventually settled on his own verdict: "I've done very good work for very bad money."

Graham Crowden (1922–2010)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189561/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh and South Africa.

RichardTheBruce

December 1st

1930: Matt Monro is born--London, England.
(He dies 7 February 1985 at age 54--Ealing, London, England.)

Matt Monro, Britain’s ‘Cockney
Como,’ Dies at 54

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-08-mn-4672-story.html
By BURT A. FOLKART | Feb. 8, 1985 | Times Staff Writer

Matt Monro, an East London bus driver who perfected his lyrical baritone techniques while serenading his passengers, died Thursday of liver cancer in London.

The popularizer of such hits as “Born Free” and “From Russia With Love” died in London’s Cromwell Hospital after a liver transplant operation was deemed useless two weeks ago.

Likened to Perry Como because of his effortless versions of the ballads of the day, Monro, 54, had the speaking voice of a Cockney but phrased like an English troubadour. Although he once had a succession of such hit recordings as “My Kind of Girl,” “Portrait of My Love,” “Softly, As I Leave You” and “Yesterday,” in recent years he had been out of the international arena and his appearances limited to nightclubs and cameos on British television.

Munro admitted in the late 1960s that alcohol had once been a problem but that he had overcome it. He also confessed to being an ongoing nicotine addict.

‘Smoked Incessantly’
“I have smoked incessantly since I started at 9 on tea leaves,” he had said. “If they’re announcing, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen--Matt Monro,’ I’ll light a cigarette because I know we’ve got two minutes of overture time and I can have a puff.”

Monro, who was born Terence Parsons in London’s middle-class East End, got his first paying job as a lorry operator. He later graduated to buses. But even as a boy, he told The Times in a 1968 interview when he was appearing in Las Vegas, he had always wanted to sing.

He took those frustrated ambitions out on his passengers who encouraged him, and he soon made his debut in small clubs.

In 1960 he recorded “Portrait of My Love” and followed it with “Walk Away.” Both were popular in England and abroad but it was his agent, lyricist Don Black, who made Monro a true international star.

Monro recorded Black’s lyrics to “Born Free,” the theme from the film about a lioness domesticated by a British couple in Africa, and the song topped charts in Britain, America and Japan.

He also had capitalized on a recording industry oversight. One of The Beatles’ most popular tunes, “Yesterday,” had not been released as a single and Monro, by then called the “Cockney Como,” soon filled that gap with his own version.

It stayed on Britain’s Top 10 for months.

Favorite Among Fellow Vocalists
His warm, relaxed interpretations of old and new songs and his gentle phrasing made him a favorite among fellow vocalists.

Frank Sinatra once said that Monro was the only British singer he ever listened to.

Monro’s hospitalization and recent illnesses were kept from the public until an exploratory operation Jan. 20 revealed that his cancer had spread too far for a liver transplant to save him.

He is survived by his wife, Mickie, and three children.

Matt Monro (1930–1985)

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Filmography

Soundtrack (32 credits)

2016 Cuéntame (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- La boda de cristal (2016) ... (performer: "No puedo quitar mis ojos de tí (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)")
2014/II Nightingale (performer: "The Good Life")
2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) (performer: "From Russia With Love")
2011 Rude Tube (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Extreme Rides (2011) ... (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
2010 Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The European Grand Prix: Qualifying (2010) ... (performer: "From Russia With Love" - uncredited)
2010 From Paris with Love (performer: " They Long to Be - Close to You"))

2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Yesterday")
2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (performer: "Put on a Happy Face")

1997 Super Speedway (Documentary) (performer: "On Days Like These")
1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (performer: "Born Free")
1990 The Krays (performer: "Walk Away")

1985 The Humans and The Jinns (performer: "Yesterday")
1983 Lady Is a Tramp (TV Series) (performer: "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Title theme))
1980 The Sea Wolves (performer: "The Precious Moments")

1978 Tomorrow Never Comes (performer: "Alone am I")
1973 Three Giant Men (performer: "The Southern Star")
1972 Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3 (1972) ... (performer: "The Second Time Around", "Time After Time", "I Want to Be Happy")
1970 Hoffman (performer: "If there ever Is a next time")
1970 Satan's Harvest (performer: "Two People")

1969 Burbujas (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Sueños y pesadillas (1969) ... (performer: "Alguien cantó", "Qué tiempo tan feliz (Those Were the Days)", "Todo pasará")
1969 The Italian Job (performer: "On Days Like These")
1969 The Southern Star (performer: "The Southern Star")
1967 A Matter of Innocence (performer: "Pretty Polly")
1966 The Quiller Memorandum (performer: Theme Song - "WEDNESDAY'S CHILD")
1966 Born Free (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
1965 Go Go Mania (performer: "Pop Gear", "Walk Away" (uncredited), "For Mamma" (uncredited))
1964 Shindig! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.12 (1964) ... (performer: "My Kind of Girl', "Walk Away")
1964 The Eurovision Song Contest (TV Special) (performer: "I Love The Little Things")
1964 A Song for Europe (TV Movie) (performer: "Choose", "Its Funny How You Know", "I've Got the Moon on My Side", "Ten Out of Ten", "Beautiful, Beautiful")
1963 From Russia with Love (performer: "From Russia with Love")
1959 The Chaplin Revue (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas")
1923 The Pilgrim (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas" (1971))

Actor (2 credits)

1970 Satan's Harvest - Bates
1961 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode #15.16 (1961) ... Singer
- Episode #15.6 (1961) ... Singer

Archive footage (8 credits)

2015 Spectre: My Bond Song - Sam Smith (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
2012 ... Sings James Bond (TV Movie) - Himself - From Russia with Love
2010-2011 Breakfast (TV Series) - Himself - Singer
- Episode dated 9 March 2011 (2011) ... Himself - Singer
- Episode dated 8 February 2010 (2010) ... Himself - Singer
2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2007 Legends (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Matt Monro: The Man with the Golden Voice (2007) ... Himself
2007 La tele de tu vida (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #1.5 (2007) ... Himself
2006 James Bond's Greatest Hits (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2005 An Evening with Matt Monro (Video) - Himself

1935: Woody Allen is born--New York City, New York.

1961: This month Argosy magazine for men Volume 353, Number 6, includes an extra bonus book Thunderball.

'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy'
magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961.
FLEMING, Ian.

https://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/pages/books/39259/ian-fleming/thunderball-a-james-bond-spy-thriller-contained-within-argosy-magazine-for-men-volume-353-number-6

Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1961. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. Minor wear to spine and postal label to upper else fine. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a sepia-toned frontispiece illustration by Gil Cohen. An abridged version published shortly after the bookform edition. This is the first American periodical appearance and the first US illustrated edition. Scarce. Item #39259

Gilbert A9b 'Periodical Appearances', page 319

'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961. Ian FLEMING.

1962: This month Classics Illustrated releases a Dr. No film comic in the UK. DC version in the US 1963.

https://13thdimension.com/the-curious-case-of-when-james-bond-joined-the-dc-universe/

http://secretagentlair.blogspot.com/2016/12/james-bond-comic-book-day.html


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Above: A panel from "Dr No" by artist Norman J. Nodel, who used production stills from the movie.

1964: This month Takao Saito's 007 manga begins monthly serialization in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine through August 1967. Republished by Shogakukan's Golden Comics. Re-reprinted 1981 by Shogakukan Bunko, again in 2015 by Big Comics Special imprint.

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

1964: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd publishes Double O Seven, James Bond: A Report by O.F. Snelling.

1965: Maclean's proposes conflict with "Agent 007 and the Great Christmas Caper."

AGENT 007 AND THE GREAT
CHRISTMAS CAPER

See the complete article here:

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1965/12/1/agent-007-and-the-great-christmas-caper

Last year’s war toys and brassiere-clad dolls seemed bad enough. But now along comes James Bond to flash a startling array of ingenious weapons and pose a bewildering moral dilemma for parents
December 1 1965 EILEEN MORRIS

LAST CHRISTMAS, the militant group calling itself the Voice of Women stirred up a national argument with an Appeal to Parents: “Have you noticed the increase in war toys each Christmas? It is time to call a halt — plastic hand grenades, land mines, booby traps, automatic guns, toy missiles, etc., the whole grisly collection must be repudiated. We, the buyers. make the ultimate decision."

Parents who thought toys were a grim problem last year will go right around the bend this year. For now that cash registers are beginning to ring Noël again, a violent new figure has come swinging onto the scene to complicate the argument as never before. James Bond, the Ian Fleming hero, has suddenly become Mr. Big with toymakers and retailers. Several manufacturers hold franchises entitling them to stamp the magic 007 insignia on products ranging from guns to sweat shirts. But even in the toy division of the spy business, anything goes, and firms without franchises are shamelessly jumping on the Bond wagon, using the great hero’s name in their promotional pitches and devising legal variations of what’s guarded by franchise. In their wildly creative moments, Reliable Toy has come up with Secret Agent 009, and the Mattel toy company’s man is Secret Agent Zero M. Meanwhile Ideal Toy has signed up TV’s answer to Bond — The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

The Soviet press has lately been attacking the West for promoting the James Bond cult as part of an international plot. But in the toy business, at least, 007 is getting the big buildup for a purely capitalistic reason: each year, Canadians spend a fantastic $160 million for toys, most of it in the hectic eight weeks before Christmas.

Since it is adults who buy most of the toys, many new' items have builtin father appeal. The James Bond 007 Road Race, for instance, features an authentic model of Bond's famed customized Aston Martin DB5. fully equipped for action with a varied speed motor sound, bullet shield, tire “cutters" and machine guns.

The 007 Automatic Pistol shoots plastic bullets and has a James Bond identification card. Secret Sam is an international spy set. Its innocent looking attache case packs a pistol that shoots bullets while concealed within the case. And its secret camera actually takes photos.

Parents more concerned about the influence of toys will find plenty of cause for anxiety. This year, many weapons wear camouflage for guerilla fighting. For instance, a paratrooper set billed as “a one-man junior army” features a camouflaged burp gun with recoiling barrel, bullet-shooting, capfiring .45 automatic with holster and belt, camouflaged helmet with netting, a grenade and a Sooper-Snooper 4way scope. A kit called Attack supplies two field cannons, howitzers, machine guns and mortar units, cases of shells, sand bags, and one bombedout house.

What about the girls? Between the time I outgrew my last baby doll and today’s Barbie craze, Santa revolutionized little-girlhood. The most popular dolls — toy dolls, I mean — aren't babies anymore. They're swinging teenagers, and a lot of them are named Barbie. They wear nÿlons and brassieres and mink stoles. For their hair, they need curlers, driers, wig packs and hair-coloring kits.

A few baby dolls survive, but the most highly touted of these are battery-powered. Baby Wiggles has her own built-in, wind-up music box. Baby First Step walks alone. Baby Boo cries when she wants to sleep — turn out the light and she stops.

Surprisingly, the commercial adult hand in the kid glove is nowhere more evident than in one kind of item in the plush-toy corner. Esso did a tiger promotion to sell more gas to car drivers—and now there are tigerface purses for tots, tiger TV chairs, tiger pyjama bags, tigers on casters.

Which underlines my point: it is our own adult fault that guns make up an estimated ten percent of the toy market. Just as our gasoline buying created tiger pyjama bags, our giftbuying created the moppet Mafia. And it’s a bit late in the day to plead ignorance if the gimmicky secret - agent guns, the battlefield rifles, cowboy derringers and teen fashion dolls result in a mass of psychic kinks for our children.

So what s the answer? Psychologist Dee Appley, of York University, defined for me the three things children need tor play: space, time and suitable material. We have substituted TV for space and time, and we hand children Bond-based toys for materials. Instead, - she suggested, “Before deciding to buy any toy, we should ask. What does 'it tell the child about the world? What does it tell him about himself?"

According to the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto, espionage toys appeal to adults with jaded imaginations. Plainly, if we want our children to have better values, we have to raise our own. Psychologist Fred Hopley gave a quick measure of a good toy: “A toy that gives a child an opportunity to develop his skills and imagination, one requiring he use his hands and brain.” The experts I talked to approve hockey games, child-guidance toys, trains, hobby and sports equipment, models, storybooks and tea things.

On the other hand, people who deplore the Barbie doll as a sick fad aren’t looking at the way the world is today. Mrs. I. Hoff, president of the Nursery Education Association of Ontario, points out: “Barbie reflects the reality of family life today. Mummy isn’t maternal anymore; she doesn’t cuddle and feed her babies over a number of years. She’s very busy — a good person, but on a different level. The little girl can no longer absorb the mother image. But she does see and admire teenagers, so she longs for teen-type dolls.”

The experts agree: a toy in itself won’t harm a child, as long as you are combatting the immorality of Bond, the self-appointed executioner. Says Fred Hopley, “Aggressiveness is normal, part of learning to get along with others. The aggression suggested by these toys reflects, in part, our society’s new freedom."

“War toys won’t make war seem natural—we aren’t giving ourselves enough credit as adults. The important thing is the way parents see things: if you are against violence and war, your child will reflect this. It all comes down to how we relate to one another. In the long run, it will be the good qualities that parents stress that will win out.”

1965: Variety reports the Shirley Bassey filed an (unsuccessful) injunction regarding an oral agreement to use "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” as the title song to Thunderball. Still, it appears on the official soundtrack if not in the film (which used an instrumental version).

1969: Bond comic strip Colonel Sun begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 28 August 1970. 1175–1393)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/10/colonel-sun-by-kingsley-amis.html


https://www.cbr.com/the-james-bond-omnibus-003/











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

Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 1) | Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 2)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-22-1971/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 22: “Colonel Sun” (1971)
"Møde med døden"
[Rendezvous with death]

1982: Octopussy films Q in the gondola getting attention from Octopussy's Girls.

1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr. #12, "Homeward Bound!"
His last, with: Scumlord, Jaws, Dr. Derange, Odd Job, Dr. No, Walker D Plank and Baron von Skarin.

James Bond Jr. #12 - Homeward Bound!

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-jr-12-homeward-bound/4000-36542/

Creators
Bambos Georgiou - inker
Mario Capaldi - penciler
Sophie Heath - colorist
Stuart Bartlett - letterer

James Bond Jr Issue 12 Homeward Bound!
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-012/

1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single. Some releases also include "Strong Enough", "The Book", "No One Said It Would Be Easy", "Ordinary Morning..

1998: Freddie Young dies at age 96--London, England.
(Born 9 October 1902--London, England.)

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

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/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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 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)
1939 Suicide Legion
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)

1999: Robert Hale Ltd. publishes Sean Connery: A Celebration by Robert Sellers.
1999: Fox Studios Australia in Sydney opens the final location of the 007: License to Thrill simulator ride.

James Bond 007: A License
To Thrill

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_007:_A_License_To_Thrill

James Bond: Unknown
Director: Keith Melton[1][2]
Producer(s):
Gary Goddard
Troy Lee Bryans (Executive Producer)
Alan Cole-Ford (Executive Producer)
George Wade (Executive Producer)
Martin Zapp (Executive Producer)[2]

Writer(s):
Bruce Feirstein
Gary Goddard
Ty Granoroli[2]

Cinematographer: Suki Medencevic
Editor: Denny Kelly
Music: Gary Guttman
Facts & Figures
Distributed By: Landmark Entertainment
Released:
May 9, 1998 (Paramount, North America)
August 17, 1999 (London Trocadero)
December 1, 1999 (Fox Studios, Australia)[3]
Running Time: 4 mins[1]

"For years he's risked his life to save the world... now its your turn!"
― Attraction tag line, Fox Studios, Australia.

James Bond 007: A License To Thrill (also named 007: Licence to Thrill at the London Trocadero) was a simulator ride theme park attraction that appeared in numerous amusement parks worldwide. The attraction was produced by Landmark Entertainment, best known for producing attractions at Universal Studios including "Jurassic Park: The Ride," and "Terminator 2 3D." Then-current M, Judi Dench, and Q, Desmond Llewelyn, both reprised their parts for the project. Its script was penned by GoldenEye screenwriter Bruce Feirstein, who also collaborated on the mechanical aspects of the ride. The experience centers around the adventures of James Bond (first-person perspective) as he tries to foil a kidnapping attempt by terrorist Gunther Thorne. Sequences from the four-minute stunt film include a motorcycle chase, a shoot-out with the villains, leaping onto the trailing ladder of a helicopter from a moving train, dodging bullets and explosions, finally landing on a jet ski and saving the kidnapped girl.

A License To Thrill opened on May 9, 1998, with a joint premiere at Paramount's five North American amusement parks - Paramount's Great America, Paramount's King Dominion, Paramount's Carowinds, King's Island, and Canada's Wonderland in Toronto, Canada. On August 17, 1999, the attraction was opened in the London Trocadero. The final location of the attraction was Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, which opened December 1, 1999.

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License To Thrill Ride James Bond 007 Great America Commercial (0:29)


Canada's Wonderland - "James Bond 007: A License to Thrill" Commercial (1998) (0:30)

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Belgium and Switzerland (French speaking region).
1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in France.

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2006: Casino Royale released in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
2006: 007 カジノ・ロワイヤル (007: Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.

2008: "Another Way to Die" reaches top forty status in Australia, peaking at twenty-nine.

2012: 007 スカイフォール (007 Sukaifōru) released in Japan.

2015: The Guardian reports on a potential Canadian low-budget remake of For Your Eyes Only.

James Bond goes to Ottawa in For Your
Eyes Only remake

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/01/james-bond-for-your-eyes-only-remake-ian-fleming

Low-budget film-making duo announce plans to take advantage of
Canadian copyright laws and adapt the Ian Fleming story. Ideally,
with Ryan Reynolds

Roger Moore as 007, with Lynn-Holly Johnson as Bibi Dahl, in the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only.
Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver | Tue 1 Dec 2015

A duo of low-budget Canadian film-makers have announced plans to remake the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, thanks to a loophole in copyright laws.

Lee Demarbre and Ian Driscoll, whose back catalogue includes the Mexican-wrestler thriller The Dead Sleep Easy and comedy musical Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, say they are planning to take advantage of Canada’s 50-year copyright limit to start work on a new adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1960 short story. Unlike most other major film markets, Canada does not enforce the Berne convention that extended authors’ copyright to 70 years after death, meaning that Fleming, who died in 1964, is in the public domain in the country.

Ian Fleming with his 1964 short story collection For Your Eyes Only – which is out of copyright in Canada.
Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

Pitching their film as “James Bond comes to Ottawa”, Demabre and Driscoll told CBC they were interested in For Your Eyes Only because Fleming has 007 visit the Canadian capital. In an interview with CBC’s Shadrach Kabango, the pair said they were not intending to compete with the blockbuster style of Spectre, and would instead be making an “arthouse James Bond”. They suggested Ryan Reynolds as a potential Canadian 007, with Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland and Michael Ironside as their favourites for supporting roles. Mad Men’s Jessica Paré was named as a possible female lead, and Montreal rappers Dead Obies as possible theme song performers.

The film-makers concede that copyright regulations mean they would be unable to release the proposed film in the US, limiting potential investment, but suggest that the restriction would not apply to “China and most of Asia”. As yet, the project lacks a producer.

2019: No Time To Die releases a 15-second teaser to the upcoming trailer.

2020: The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapses in Puerto Rico.

The Massive Radio Telescope From GoldenEye Just
Collapsed

See the complete article here:

https://kotaku.com/the-massive-radio-telescope-from-goldeneye-just-collaps-1845785337

ByMike Fahey | December 1, 2020

Photo: Ricardo Arduengo (Getty Images)

The massive Arecibo Observatory radio telescope, made famous in the James Bond movie GoldenEye and paid homage to in the classic Nintendo 64 game, completely collapsed early Tuesday morning. This breaking news comes just a few weeks after the announcement that the invaluable astronomy tool would be demolished due to fears that it would completely collapse.

The telescope’s demise began in August of this year, when a socket holding one of the auxiliary cables suspending the 900-ton receiver platform hanging over the dish failed, causing the cable to break. The National Science Foundation began planning the site’s demolition last month following the breaking of the platform’s main cable. As if the massive mechanical construct sensed the end was near, the receiver platform collapsed completely in the early hours of Tuesday, December 1, crashing into the dish near 500 feet below. No one was harmed in the collapse.

After the fall.
Photo: ScienceMag.Org

Built in the early 1960s in a natural sinkhole in Puerto Rico, the Arecibo Telescope was a 1,000 foot reflector dish primarily used for radio astronomy, radar astronomy, atmospheric science, and programs created to search for proof of extraterrestrial life. Aside from its magnificent dish, the radio telescope’s most distinguishing feature was the cable-mount steerable receiver positioned above the main installation. The receiver’s unique look and perilous structure are what led to it being used as the stage for the climactic battle in 1995 James Bond classic, GoldenEye. The movie scene served as the inspiration for the “Cradle” level in Rare’s GoldenEye 007 for the N64.

The collapse of the Arecibo telescope is a tragic loss to science, having been used for decades as a tool for research and teaching. Now everyone’s going to have to borrow China’s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, as seen in Battlefield 4’s Rogue Transmission map.

2022: Herb Alpert & Lani Hall - A Christmas Wish performance at Stuart, Florida.

Herb Alpert & Lani Hall - A Christmas Wish

See the complete article here:

https://lyrictheatre.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=846

Thursday, December 1, 2022 7:00 PM
The Lyric Theatre Stuart, FL

Herb Alpert was drawn to the trumpet when he heard it played in a music appreciation class at his elementary school. He was 8. That early love led him to a legendary career that includes five Number One hits, nine Grammy awards, the most recent in 2014, 15 Gold Albums and 14 Platinum ones. At one point Alpert and his band, The Tijuana Brass, outsold the Beatles two to one. They had the unmatched feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Top 10 and five in the Top 20. Songs like “A Taste of Honey,” “This Guy’s in Love with You,” and “What Now, My Love,” propelled Alpert and The Brass to the top of the charts again and again.

An entrepreneur as well as musician, Alpert and his friend, Jerry Moss, founded A & M Records in a garage in 1962. It became one of the most important independent labels in the industry. Alpert and Moss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and are a part of the Grammy Museum’s “Icons of the Music Industry” series. In 2013, Alpert was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Obama for his contributions to music and philanthropy. A talented painter and sculptor, his works are displayed in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. “There is a certain satisfaction and energy that comes from playing the horn-a feeling that I am really in my element,” he has said. “I am passionate about what I am doing, whether painting, sculpting, or playing the trumpet. I am just trying to create whatever comes out in the spontaneity of the moment.”

In 1966, A & M signed Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66. Alpert met their lead singer, Lani Hall, and the two were married in 1973. Hall has recorded 22 albums in three languages, sang the title song for the James Bond film, Never Say Never Again, and won two Grammy Awards for performing and producing. The two have been touring together since 2006. Hall is also an author. Her first book, Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories, compiles ten short stories with a connecting personal narrative. With the release of her audiobook, she mixed her two forms of creative expression together with a musically-scored soundtrack as a backdrop to the stories. With this work, Hall provides a rare glimpse at the double-edged sword that is the life of an artist.

Alpert and Lani have assembled a top-flight group to accompany them, including keyboardist and vocalist Bill Cantos, bassist Hussain Jiffry and Michael Shapiro.

Bill Cantos also tours with Burt Bacharach and he has toured and recorded with artists including Lea Salonga, Ramsey Lewis, Phil Collins, Kirk Whalum, Leon Russell and Elton John. His most recent solo album is New Standards for the New Millennium, a collection of original songs written in the style of classic standards. He was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Hussain Jiffry is a musician, writer, arranger, producer, engineer and music educator. He won a Grammy in 2014 for engineering Herb Alpert’s CD, Steppin’ Out. He has recorded or performed with Michael Bolton, the Atlanta Symphony, Michael McDonald, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston and The Four Tops.

Michael Shapiro has spent 35 years as a drummer, percussionist, producer and educator. A self-taught musician, he has worked with will.i.am, Justin Timberlake, Macy Grau and Sergio Mendes, with whom he has recorded many albums, including 1993’s Grammy-winning Brasileiro, 2006 Latin-Grammy-winning Timeless and 2010’s Latin- Grammy-winning Bon Tempo. His movie soundtrack credits include Shrek the 3rd, People Like Us, and The Jersey Boys. He teaches at UCLA.

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December 2nd

1916: Jack London shares his thoughts on life and time with Ernest J. Hopkins in San Francisco's The Bulletin.

Where M's Touching Tribute to James Bond
at the End of 'No Time to Die' Originates
From

See the complete article here:

https://www.newsweek.com/m-quote-james-bond-no-time-die-ending-1634622

By Jamie Burton On 10/9/21

Where does the Jack London quote originate?
The quote used by M in No Time To Die was a snippet from a larger quote attributed to London.

According to Bartleby.com, the full quote was said by London to journalist Ernest J. Hopkins, who published them in San Francisco's The Bulletin on December 2, 1916.

London reportedly told Hopkins this while discussing his life just two months before his death. He was just 40 years old when he passed away on November 22, 1916.

The full excerpt from both the newspaper report reads:

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

The wider quote was eventually unearthed from The Bulletin by Irving Shepard in his 1956 book Jack London's Tales of Adventure.

1931: Nadezda Poderegin (Nadja Regin) is born--Niš, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
(She dies 6 April 2019 at age 87--London, England.)

Nadja Regin, Bond Girl in
‘From Russia With Love’ and
‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 87

https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-nadja-regin-james-bond-movies-1203183106/
By Dave McNary | April 8, 2019 10:14AM PT


Credit: Photo by Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886267ec)Sean Connery, Nadja Regin
CREDIT: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Serbian actress Nadja Regin, who appeared in two early James Bond movies, has died at the age of 87.

The news was announced on the official 007 Twitter account, which said: “We are very sorry to learn that Nadja Regin has passed away at the age of 87. Nadja appeared in two Bond films, ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Goldfinger.’ Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

She was born as Nadezda Poderegin on Dec. 2, 1931, and began acting while a student. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and also the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy.

Regin began appearing in British films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting with the horror film “The Man Without a Body,” followed by the comedy “Don’t Panic Chaps!,” “Edgar Wallace Mysteries,” “Solo for Sparrow” and “The Fur Collar.” TV roles included “Danger Man,” “The Saint” and “Dixon of Dock Green.”

She acted in “From Russia with Love” as the mistress of Kerim Bey, portrayed by Pedro Armendariz as the station chief of MI6 in Istanbul. Regin also appeared as Bonita, a dancer who sets a trap for James Bond in the pre-credit sequence of “Goldfinger.”

During the 1970s, Regin worked for Rank Film and horror producers Hammer, selecting film scripts for production. In 1980, she co-founded Honeyglen Publishing Ltd. She recently published her own novel, “The Victims and the Fools,” under her full name Nadja Poderegin. The book is set during World War II and is centered on a romance between a poet and a dancer.

Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716605/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actress (52 credits)

1967-1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Smyrna (maid) / Frederique Duval
- Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Smyrna (maid)
- The Old Campaigner (1967) ... Frederique Duval
1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
- Episode #1.6 (1968)
- Episode #1.4 (1968)
1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Mrs. Green
- Ania (1968) ... Mrs. Green
1967 Death Happens to Other People (TV Movie) - Bettina
1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Ylena Davos
- Reason for Sale (1967) ... Ylena Davos
1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Lucille Legrand
- The Art Collectors (1967) ... Lucille Legrand
1966 The Man in Room 17 (TV Series) - Roxana Polynescu
- The Catacombs (1966) ... Roxana Polynescu
1966 Donaug'schichten (TV Series)
- W. M. und die Diplomatie (1966)
1966 The Liars (TV Series) - Madame Moraldi
- Episode #1.1 (1966) ... Madame Moraldi
1965 The Third Man (TV Series) - Aldrina
- Members Only: Part 2 (1965) ... Aldrina
- Members Only: Part 1 (1965) ... Aldrina
1965 Riviera Police (TV Series) - Lisa
- The Lucky One Was the Snake (1965) ... Lisa
1965 The Flying Swan (TV Series) - Tanja Sykes
- Company Property (1965) ... Tanja Sykes
1964 Downfall - Suzanne Crossley
1964 Runaway Killer - Laura Kossovich
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Ira Frankel
- The Professionals (1964) ... Ira Frankel (as Nadja Ragin)
1964 Goldfinger - Bonita
1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Suzanne Crossley / Mrs. Reynolds / Nadia Leiven
- Downfall (1964) ... Suzanne Crossley
- Solo for Sparrow (1962) ... Mrs. Reynolds
- Number Six (1962) ... Nadia Leiven
1963 From Russia with Love - Kerim's Mistress
1963 Crane (TV Series) - Maria Cortez
- The Golden Attraction (1963) ... Maria Cortez
1963 Man of the World (TV Series) - Maria
- In the Picture (1963) ... Maria
1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Didi Druson
- The Creators (1963) ... Didi Druson
1963 Stranglehold - Lilli
1963 Benny Hill (TV Series) - Russian Girl
- The Vanishing Man (1963) ... Russian Girl
1962 Solo for Sparrow - Mrs. Reynolds
1962 The Fur Collar - Marie Lejeune
1962 Six More Faces of Jim (TV Series)
- The Face of Wisdom (1962)
1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Shirin
- The Lord of Kerak (1962) ... Shirin
1962 Brothers in Law (TV Series) - Nina Zoffany
- Special Examiner (1962) ... Nina Zoffany
1962 Parbottle Speaking (TV Series) - Zuhra
- Railway Lane (1962) ... Zuhra
- Paley Goes It Alone (1962) ... Zuhra
- The Chinese Chauffeur (1962) ... Zuhra
- Manalik Opens Fire (1962) ... Zuhra
- The Secret of the Cellar (1962) ... Zuhra
- The Man from Khazakand (1962) ... Zuhra
1962 Number Six - Nadia Leiven
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Maria
- The Winning Ticket (1961) ... Maria
1961 Blond muß man sein auf Capri - Helga Wagner
1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Melina
- Find and Destroy (1961) ... Melina
1961 International Detective (TV Series) - Nora Galloway
- The Anthony Case (1961) ... Nora Galloway
1960 Wir wollen niemals auseinandergehen - Livia
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Estelle
- Once a Crook (1960) ... Estelle
-
1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mary Darwin
- Murder in Berkeley Square (1959) ... Mary Darwin
1959 Don't Panic Chaps - Elsa
1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Princess Taima
- Man in Power (1959) ... Princess Taima (as Nadia Regin)
1958 William Tell (TV Series) - Maddelena
- The Bride (1958) ... Maddelena (as Nadja Regen)
1957 Es wird alles wieder gut - Lucilla Coletti, Artistin
1957 Franziska - Helen Philipps
1957 Die Unschuld vom Lande - Lollo
1957 The Man Without a Body - Odette Vernet
1955 Der Frontgockel - Claudette, Französin
1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Rita
1955 Esalon doktora M. - Hatidza (as Nadja Poderegin)
1954 Roman eines Frauenarztes - Nina Bertens
1954 Das Haus an der Küste - Marina
1952 Frosina (as Nadja Poderegin)
1950 The Magic Sword (as Nadja Poderegin)

1949 The Factory Story - Tekstilna ranica (as Nadja Poderegin)

Self (3 credits)

2018 Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (Documentary) - Herself
2017 Hammer's Lost Worlds (Short) - Herself
1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself / Bonita

1959: A surprising conclusion to McClory's pursuit of rights to film Thunderball plays out.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 21 - The Court Case That Killed Ian Fleming

All the more strange, then, what was to happen on the trial's ninth day.
McClory had just taken the stand was giving evidence when, as Peter
Carter-Ruck later recorded, "The hearing was unexpectedly and somewhat
dramatically adjourned after Leading Counsel on both sides had seen the
judge in his private rooms." It was Friday afternoon and the hearing was
a weekend of conferences with various lawyers and solicitors, leading to a
meeting on the offices of Fleming's solicitors, Farrer & Co, on the Sunday
afternoon. Fleming arrived accompanied by his wife Ann; Bryce was with
[Ernie] Cuneo and McClory with Bobo, his brother Desmond O'Donovan and Jack
Whittingham. There were also sundry solicitors. Carter-Rock quickly
detected an atmosphere of, "muted hostility."

Everyone was shown into a room with chairs set out in a circle but with
no table in the centre. After the formalities, Carter-Ruck opened the proceedings
by outlining the terms upon which McClory was prepared to settle his
action. This would involve the payment of his costs and the vesting in McClory
of the film rights in Thunderball. The copyright in both the finished picture and
the film scripts should be his as well, plus a sum by way of damages to
recompense him for the mental anguish and physical inconvenience he had been
caused. A figure was mentioned. "So great," Bryce later wrote "as to draw a gasp
even from that sophisticated group." It was a figure of £50,000. In less than 10
minutes it was agreed in principle to come to terms.

Why after nearly three years of expensive legal wrangling did Fleming
and Bryce so quickly throw in the towel after just nine days in court? ...

1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond's last scene, with Blofeld.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 56 of 65 "Quantum Diamonds" at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

James Bond Jr - Quantum Diamonds

Season 1 - Episode 56
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807115/?ref_=ttep_ep56

James and his friend visit Yellowstone National Park where Dr. Derange attempts to extract a crystal from Old Faithful for his latest plot.

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 / Nick Nack (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 ... Jaws (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 56 - Quantum Diamonds

1992: Michael Gothard dies at age 53--London, England.
(Born 24 June 1939--Hendon, Middlesex, England.)

Michael Gothard

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

as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981

Born Michael Alan Gothard, 24 June 1939, London, England
Died 2 December 1992 (aged 53), Hampstead, London, England
Years active 1961–1992

Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

Early life
Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but he never felt comfortable doing that job. He said: "I was as stiff as a board and I couldn’t overcome my sense of the ridiculous. I was a clothes hanger, an object, not a person."

Career
He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making. After landing the lead role, he was encouraged to take up the profession. He attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job. He was involved working in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. His first television role was in an episode of Out of the Unknown in 1966 called "The Machine Stops". He was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968. He then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers).

His performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts. In the film, Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes from the police ever seen. The film also starred Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the biggest thing that ever happened. He had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful. Here is a kid who really threw himself into the picture wholeheartedly. Do you remember the scene where he appears to be walking up the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I’d say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy. I ain't either one.' But the kid agreed to do it, without a double—he was that driven. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) came up with the idea of using an overhead cable to give that illusion of his walking up the cliff."

He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. His performance as a young disillusioned hippie in Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972) contrasted with the rest of his career. He also played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.

He had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s. He became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an effort to make the character more menacing. His later appearances included supporting roles in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror extravaganza, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in the 1988 TV movie, Jack the Ripper, with Michael Caine. He appeared with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight in a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (a.k.a. Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.[4] His last few roles were in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992, where he briefly acted opposite Marlon Brando. It was directed by his For Your Eyes Only director John Glen, but was a box office failure.

Glen had actually cast Gothard in the role beneath Brando with the intention of moving Gothard into the role of Tomás de Torquemada, Brando's character, in case Brando did not show up for filming. Brando did indeed miss the first day of filming, and Gothard took over this role for the day's shooting. However, Tom Selleck told the director that without Brando, he would quit the film. Word apparently got out, for Brando was on the set the next day, and assumed the role of Torquemada, with Glen reshooting the scene. Glen described Gothard as "a very good" and "captivating" actor, as well as a friend.

His final role was in David Wickes's Frankenstein, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.

Death

Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992. He was fifty-three years old.

Michael Gothard (1939–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331788/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (42 credits)

1992 Frankenstein (TV Movie) - Boatswain
1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - Inquisitor's Spy
1990 Out of Time - Xaros

1989 Massacre Play - Zabo
1989 Capital City (TV Series) - Stefan
- Twelve Degrees Capricorn (1989) ... Stefan
1988 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - George Lusk
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... George Lusk
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... George Lusk
1987 Destroying Angel - Ennio Volpe
1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Jake Cutler
- Daddy's Girls (1985) ... Jake Cutler
1985 Minder (TV Series) - Sergei
- From Fulham with Love (1985) ... Sergei
1985 Going Undercover - Strett
1985 Lifeforce - Dr. Bukovsky
1984 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Karl Portillo
- Our Man in Tegernsee (1984) ... Karl Portillo
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Terry Marvin
- The Sweet Scent of Death (1984) ... Terry Marvin
1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Athelstane
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Locque
1981 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Dieter
- The Perfect House (1981) ... Dieter
1980 Shoestring (TV Series) - Harry
- The Mayfly Dance (1980) ... Harry
1980 A Tale of Two Cities (TV Mini-Series) - Gaspard
- Part 3 (1980) ... Gaspard
- Part 1 (1980) ... Gaspard

1979 The Professionals (TV Series) - Kodai
- Stopover (1979) ... Kodai
1978 Warlords of the Deep - Atmir
1978 Warrior Queen (TV Series) - Volthan
- Episode #1.6 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.5 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.4 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.3 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.2 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Volthan
1975 King Arthur, the Young Warlord - Kai
1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge - Felton
1973 The Three Musketeers - Felton
1972-1973 Arthur of the Britons (TV Series) - Kai
- The Girl from Rome (1973) ... Kai
- The Treaty (1973) ... Kai
- The Games (1973) ... Kai
- Daughter of the King (1973) ... Kai
- Six Measures of Silver (1973) ... Kai
- In Common Cause (1973) ... Kai
- The Marriage Feast (1973) ... Kai
- Go Warily (1973) ... Kai
- Some Saxon Women (1973) ... Kai
- The Prisoner (1973) ... Kai
- Rowena (1973) ... Kai
- The Swordsman (1973) ... Kai
- The Prize (1973) ... Kai
- The Wood People (1973) ... Kai
- The Slaves (1973) ... Kai
- Enemies and Lovers (1973) ... Kai
- Rolf the Preacher (1973) ... Kai
- The Pupil (1973) ... Kai
- The Duel (1973) ... Kai
- People of the Plough (1973) ... Kai
- The Penitent Invader (1972) ... Kai
- The Challenge (1972) ... Kai
- The Gift of Life (1972) ... Kai
- Arthur Is Dead (1972) ... Kai
1972 The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) - Olivier
1971 The Devils - Father Barre
1971 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? - Albie
1971 The Last Valley - Hansen
1970 Menace (TV Series) - Pip
- Nine Bean Rows (1970) ... Pip
1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Ivan
- Games People Play (1970) ... Ivan
1970 Scream and Scream Again - Keith
1970 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Perrin
- When the Spirit Moves You (1970) ... Perrin

1969 Department S (TV Series) - Weber
- Les Fleurs du Mal (1969) ... Weber
1969 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Jacky Joyce
- Run for Your Money (1969) ... Jacky Joyce
1969 Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell - John
1969 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Brian
- The Story-teller (1969) ... Brian
1968 Up the Junction - Terry
1967 The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (TV Series) - Mordaunt
- Hunted (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Treachery (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Scaffold (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Trial (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Oath (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Escape (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Boy King (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Abduction (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Peril (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Conflict (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Conspiracy (1967) ... Mordaunt
1967 Herostratus - Max
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Grady
- The Excavation (1966) ... Grady
1966 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Kuno
- The Machine Stops (1966) ... Kuno

Self (1 credit)

1971 Director of Devils (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (6 credits)

2013 Carlsen's Curse with Steve Railsback (Video short) - Bukovsky
2013 Dangerous Beauty with Mathilda May (Video short) - Bukovsky

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Expanded Angles (Video documentary short) - Locque
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Locque

1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Locque
- For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Locque (uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short)

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Lebanon.

2011: Skyfall films Bond swimming at the top of the Four Seasons, Canary Wharf, London (as Shanghai).

2015: Gabriele Ferzetti dies at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
(Born 17 March 1925--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

Gabriele Ferzetti obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/gabriele-ferzetti

Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni’s L’Avventura
and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service

Ronald Bergan | Tue 22 Dec 2015 10.41 EST | Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 07.48 EST

Gabriele Ferzetti (right) with Lea Massari in Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura (1960), in which he played Sandro, a wealthy playboy searching for his missing lover. Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock

The Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 90, was never in danger of being typecast. He played a multitude of different film roles in every known genre, over seven decades, and just about the only constant in his long career was that he was perennially handsome and charismatic without being showy.

To cinephiles, he was most memorable for his intense performance of quiet desperation as the unfulfilled wealthy playboy seeking his missing lover in Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960). However, his most widely known roles, dubbed into English, were as the unscrupulous railroad baron on crutches in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and as James Bond’s father-in-law, a powerful crime boss, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), the one with George Lazenby as 007.

Ferzetti was born in Rome, where he attended the Silvio d’Amico drama school before winning a scholarship to the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art. However, he was eventually expelled for appearing with a professional theatrical troupe. After his role on stage as the young shepherd Sylvius in Luchino Visconti’s 1948 production of As You Like It, designed by Salvador Dalí, Ferzetti had small roles in several films, soon becoming a leading man.

He was first noticed internationally in Mario Soldati’s The Wayward Wife (La Provinciale,1953), although the spotlight was on the ascending star Gina Lollobrigida in the title role. Ferzetti made the most of the thankless part of her husband, a bespectacled science professor who realises his wife does not love him but who wins her round in the end.

In the same year he landed the title role in the sumptuous biopic Puccini, in which he portrayed the philandering Italian opera composer from his student days to a man in his 80s, with a little help from the makeup department. He reprised the role in House of Ricordi (1954), about the music-publishing house.

Ferzetti was then cast by Antonioni in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955), which won the director the Silver Lion at the Venice film festival. Adapted from a Cesare Pavese story, the film manages to hold the 10 bourgeois characters in balance, giving almost equal weight to their individuality and the shifting pattern of relationships. Among them is Ferzetti, giving a nuanced performance as a morose, frustrated artist, envious of his more successful wife, and the cause of a woman’s suicide attempt.

It would take five years and several mediocre melodramas and epics, including the elephantine Hannibal (1959), in which Ferzetti was impressive as a Roman senator, before he was reunited with Antonioni.

L’Avventura, the film in which the director’s style reached maturity, allowed Ferzetti to play a weak and disillusioned man, a failed architect who complains, while looking around his Sicilian town: “Who needs beautiful things nowadays? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then?” He later peevishly spills ink over a young man’s sketch of a church. At the film’s bitter end, not a resolution of the conventional type, he weeps pathetically out of guilt and emptiness. Nothing Ferzetti did in films subsequently equalled this.

L’Avventura led him to a number of English-language movies, including the paper-thin romance Jessica (1962) – set in Sicily, and in which he played a reclusive aristocrat who falls for a young midwife (Angie Dickinson) – and a conventional war film, Torpedo Bay (1963), in which he is a noble Italian submarine captain being stalked by a British ship commanded by James Mason. Ferzetti was suitably grim as Lot, fleeing Sodom with his daughters and wife in The Bible (1966), a bad film from the Good Book, directed by the self-proclaimed atheist John Huston.

Though dubbed, Ferzetti was convincing in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as the rail tycoon Morton, a smooth, cowardly baddie who employs a villainous hired gun, Frank (Henry Fonda), to frighten an owner into selling one of the rare pieces of land with water on it. Being disabled, Morton is vulnerable in his encounters with various unscrupulous bandits, at one stage having his crutches kicked away from him. He is last seen crawling towards a puddle of muddy water in the desert. It was Ferzetti’s favourite role.

He was Draco, a gentlemanly mafia boss in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), enticing Bond to marry his daughter (Diana Rigg), and offering to help 007 track down Blofeld. And he was chilling in Costa-Gavras’s The Confession (1970) as the head Stalinist interrogator who manages to extract a false confession from the Czech dissident Artur London (Yves Montand).

His Italian accent notwithstanding, Ferzetti was equally nasty as an ex-SS officer, now psychiatrist, intent on covering up his tracks in Liliana Cavani’s meretricious The Night Porter (1974), a study of a sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi (Dirk Bogarde) and the woman he raped in a concentration camp (Charlotte Rampling).

Ferzetti was kept busy throughout the 70s and 80s in supporting roles in mostly unremarkable Italian/French co-productions, as well as the occasional English-language film, such as the dreadful Inchon (1981), in which he played a Turkish officer in the Korean war with a miscast Laurence Olivier as General MacArthur.

In the 90s Ferzetti appeared more frequently on television, but played the Duke of Venice in Oliver Parker’s Othello on the big screen and won the Ubu prize for his performance in August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death on stage (both 1992). In 2009, aged 84, he gained much praise for playing the head of a wealthy Milanese industrial family in I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore).

He is survived by his daughter, Anna, also an actor, from his marriage to the actor Maria Grazia Eminente, which ended in divorce, and by two granddaughters.

• Gabriele Ferzetti, actor, born 17 March 1925; died 2 December 2015

Gabriele Ferzetti (1925–2015)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275213/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (168 credits)

2010 18 Years Later - Enrico
2009 I Am Love - Edoardo Recchi Senior
1992-2007 A Wonderful Family (TV Series) - Nono
- Les adieux de Nono (2007) ... Nono
- Un Beaumont peut en cacher un autre (2002) ... Nono
- Panique à bord (2000) ... Nono
- L'amour en vacances (1996) ... Nono
- Nicolas s'en va-t-en guerre (1996) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des vacances mouvementées (1993) ... Nono
- Bonnes et mauvaises surprises (1993) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des jours ça rit, des jours ça pleure (1992) ... Nono
- Des vacances orageuses (1992) ... Nono
- Les parents disjonctent (1992) ... Nono
2006 Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (TV Movie) - Cardinal Siri
2005 Callas e Onassis (TV Movie) - Livanos
2004 Concorso di colpa - Vito Santamaria
2003 Lost Love - Tommaso Pasini
2003 Counselor de Gregorio - Alfonso
2002 Le ragazze di Miss Italia (TV Movie) - The Professor

1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) - Father Jacob
1997 Un prete tra noi (TV Series) - Ettore (1997)
1997 Porzûs - Storno vecchio
1997 Con rabbia e con amore - Leone
1995 Natale con papà (TV Movie) - Vittorio
1995 Othello - The Duke of Venice
1994 First Action Hero - Ben Costa
1994 Black as the Heart (TV Movie) - Signor Noé Alga Croce
1993 Private Crimes (TV Mini-Series) - Dottor Guido Braschi
1992 Alta società (TV Mini-Series) - - Episode #1.3 (1992)
- Episode #1.1 (1992)
1992 Die Ringe des Saturn (TV Movie)
1992 Il coraggio di Anna (TV Movie)
1991 Suffocating Heat - Gaetano Castelli
1990 Pronto soccorso (TV Series)
1990 Una fredda mattina di maggio - Signor Mantoni
1990 Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (TV Movie)

1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Chief of Police
-... Italian Chief of Police
1988 Computron 22 - Il nonno
1988 Due fratelli (TV Mini-Series) - Procuratore
... Procuratore
1988 Gli angeli del potere (TV Movie) - Dr. Donhal
1987 Julia and Julia - Padre di Paolo
1987 La voglia di vincere (TV Mini-Series) - Professor Besson
Professor Besson
1986 Follia amore mio (TV Movie)
1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - Piso
1983 Die goldenen Schuhe (TV Mini-Series) - Marquesade Buenaventa
1983 Le ambizioni sbagliate (TV Movie) - Prof. Malacrida
1983 Delitto e castigo (TV Mini-Series) - Svidrigàjlov
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Prince Mataeo (uncredited)
1983 Il quartetto Basileus - Mario Cantone
1982 Quasi quasi mi sposo (TV Movie) - The Engineer
1982 Vatican Conspiracy - Cardinale Ixaguirre
1982 Grog - Alberto
1981 I giochi del diavolo (TV Mini-Series) - Mastro Gomin
- La mano indemoniata (1981) ... Mastro Gomin
1981 Inchon - Turkish Brigadier

1979 Anni struggenti - Prof. Bivona
1979 Bloodline - Maresciallo Campagna (uncredited)
1978-1979 I vecchi e i giovani (TV Mini-Series) - Flaminio Salvo
1979 Encounters in the Deep - Miles
1978 A torto e a ragione (TV Series)
1978 Porci con la P.38 - Max Astarita
1978 Last In, First Out - Herzog
1978 Mon premier amour - Georges
1978 Suggestionata - Gregorio Lori
1977 Man of Corleone
1977 The Psychic - Emilio Rospini
1977 Oedipus orca - Valerio
1976 La orca - Valerio
1976 A Matter of Time - Antonio Vicari
1976 Nick the Sting - Maurice
1976 The Hornet's Nest - Gaspard
1976 Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga - Father of Stella
1975 Jackpot
1975 End of the Game - Dr. Lutz
1975 Calling All Police Cars - Professore Andrea Icardi
1975 Un uomo curioso (TV Movie) - Moriondo
1975 Smiling Maniacs - Prandó
1974 La prova d'amore - Angela Father
1974 Processo per direttissima - L'avvocato Finaldi
1974 Kidnap - Don Francesco Salvatore
1974 Appassionata - Dr. Emilio Rutelli
1974 The Night Porter - Hans
1973 Secrets of a Nurse - Prof. Daniele Vallotti
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Fieldmarshall Keitel
1973 Divorce His - Divorce Hers (TV Movie) - Turi Livicci
1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator - M. Raphaël
1972 Mendiants et Orgueilleux
1972 Alta tensión - Pablo Moncada
1972 Ripped-Off - Tony La Monica
1971 Million Dollar Eel - Vasco
1970 Cold Sweat (uncredited)
1970 French Intrigue - Inspector Bardeche
1970 Die Welt des Pirandello - Liebe! - Liebe? (TV Movie) - Memmo Viola (segment "Wenn man das Spiel kennt")
1970 The Confession - Kohoutek

1969 L'amica - Paolo Marchesi
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco
1969 That Splendid November - Biagio
1969 Machine Gun McCain - Don Francesco DeMarco
1968 Il mondo di Pirandello (TV Series) - Memmo Viola
- Amori senza amore (1968) ... Memmo Viola
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West - Morton - Railroad Baron
1968 Bandits in Rome - Commissioner
1968 L'età del malessere - Guido
1968 Better a Widow - Don Calogero Minniti
1968 The Protagonists - Il Commissario
1968 Come Play with Me - Stefano / Lea's lover
1968/I Escalation - Augusto Lambertinghi
1968 Un diablo bajo la almohada - Anselmo
1967 Dossier Mata Hari (TV Mini-Series) - Bouchardon
- Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Bouchardon
1967 We Still Kill the Old Way - Avvocato Rosello
1966 The Devil in Love - Lorenzo de' Medici
1966 I Spy (TV Series) - Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 2 (1966) ... Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 1 (1966) ... Aldo
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Lot
1966 Luce a gas (TV Movie) - Rough
1965 Lo scippo - Gambetti
1965 Three Rooms in Manhattan - Comte Larsi
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Victor Dermott
1964 Crucero de verano - Carlos Brul y Betancourt
1964 Desideri d'estate
1964 The Warm Life - Guido
1964 Death Where Is Your Victory? - Max Gurgine
1963 Un tentativo sentimentale - Giulio, Carla's Husband
1963 Torpedo Bay - Leonardi
1963 The Shortest Day - Tenente in trincea
1962 Beach Casanova - Avvocato Leblanc
1962 Imperial Venus - Freron
1962 Cross of the Living - L'abbé Delcourt / Abbe
1962 Crime Does Not Pay - Angelo Giraldi (segment "Le masque")
1962 La monaca di Monza - Gian Paolo Osio
1962 Congo vivo - Roberto Santi
1962 Meetings - Ralph Scaffari
1962 Jessica - Edmondo Raumo
1960 Love, the Italian Way - Alberto Bressan
1960 Il carro armato dell'8 settembre - Tommaso
1960 Red Lips - Avvocato Paolo Martini
1960 It Happened in '43 - Franco Villani
1960 L'Avventura - Sandro

1959 Hannibal - Fabius Maximus
1959 Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne (as Gabriel Ferzetti)
1959 Everyone's in Love - Arturo
1958 Love on the Riviera - Giulio Ferrari
1958 Tant d'amour perdu - Frédéric Solingen
1958 Angel in a Taxi - Andrea
1958 March's Child - Sandro
1957 It Happened in Rome - Lawyer Alberto Cortini
1957 Honor Among Thieves - Desiderio / Plebari
1956 Il prezzo della gloria - comandante Alberto Bruni
1956 Defend My Love - Pietro Leonardi
1956 Donatella - Maurizio
1955 Un po' di cielo - Frank Lo Giudice
1955 Le Amiche - Lorenzo
1955 Adriana Lecouvreur - Maurizio di Sassonia
1955 Sins of Casanova - Giacomo Casanova
1954 House of Ricordi - Giacomo Puccini
1954 Camilla - Dott. Mario Rossetti
1954 Modern Virgin - Gabriele Demico
1954 100 Years of Love
Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segment "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
1954 Vestire gli ignudi - Ludovico Nota
1953 Empty Eyes - Fernando Maestrelli
1953 The Counterfeiters - Dario
1953 Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
1953 The Wayward Wife - Il professore Franco Vagnuzzi
1952 Three Forbidden Stories - Comm. Borsani (First segment)
1952 Inganno - Andrea Vannini
1951 Gli amanti di Ravello - Sandro Deodata
1951 The Naked and the Wicked - Giorgio Suprina
1951 The Forbidden Christ - 1950 Lo zappatore
1950 Sigillo rosso
1950 Mountain Smugglers - Lieutenant Berti
1950 Welcome Reverend

1949 Flying Squadron - Ufficiale D'aviazione
1949 Sicilian Uprising
1949 William Tell - Corrado Hant
1949 Fabiola - Claudius
1949 Vertigine d'amore (as Gaetano Ferzetti)
1948 Les Misérables - Tholomyes, un cliente di Fantina (uncredited)
1946 Lost Happiness
1942 The Countess of Castiglione (as Pasquale Ferzetti)
1942 Bengasi (uncredited)
1942 Via delle cinque lune

Self (6 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 An Opera of Violence (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 Something to Do with Death (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 The Wages of Sin (Video documentary short) - Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
1968 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Filming of James Bond Epic in Progress in the Swiss Alps (Documentary short) - Himself

2015: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #2 (Vargr).

JAMES BOND #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181802011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: December 2015
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
UPC: 725130241818 02011
ON SALE DATE: December 2

James Bond is in Berlin, alone, unarmed and with no idea of the forces ranged in secret against him. If he can make it to the Embassy, he might survive for a few hours more. But he's getting into that car with that woman, which means he has only minutes to live...

2015: Big Comics Special Edition publishes reprints of Takao Saito's manga for ００７死ぬのは奴らだ (007 They are the ones who die; a.k.a. Live and Let Die) and サンダーボール作戦 (Sandābōru sakusen; Thunderball Strategy).

2019: Screen Idle reports new James Bond film cancelled.

New James Bond film cancelled after
cameraman forgot to press record

See the complete article here:

2 December 2019 Neil Tollfree News 18

The latest James Bond film has been cancelled after the discovery that a cameraman forgot to press record during key scenes.

No Time to Die has been beset by problems throughout its production including injury to star Daniel Craig, a change of director, the villain’s lair under a volcano flooding with lava, a biblical plague of toads, minor earthquake, alien abduction, and someone losing their keys.

“We were just sorting through the footage in preparation for editing and there was stuff missing,” explained director Cary Fukunaga as a small meteor landed on his car.

“Bond doing stunts, a bit with Bond getting off with a sexy lady, another bit with Bond getting off with a sexy lady, Bond doing stunts whilst getting off with a sexy lady – they just weren’t there.

“So, we went back to the cameraman and he confessed that he’d forgotten to press record on the camera during key scenes.

“The cameraman was really sorry and everything and even offered to come back and help reshoot the scenes but he was suffering from a really nasty plague of boils so we’d have to wait until after that cleared up.”

Ultimately, producers decided that it simply wasn’t worth it and the best option now would be to simply cancel the whole thing and move on to the next film instead.

“I think it’s the right idea, and I’m really looking forward to starting work on the new movie,” agreed Fukunaga.

“Apparently, we’re shooting in that studio that was built on top of an old Indian burial ground.

“So, I’m sure that will all be fine.”

Note: To everyone reading this article unfamiliar with us at Screen Idle. This is just a joke. Unless something crazy has happened in the last 24 hours, The new James Bond film is still coming soon.

If it made you laugh, then great – stick around, sign up for the newsletter. If it didn’t then try the Onion or Newsthump instead, they’re really funny.

RichardTheBruce

December 3rd

1963: Copyright lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck announces a settlement awarding Kevin McClory Thunderball film rights plus £50,000 damages. Kevin diverts from Jack Whittingham to partner with Broccoli & Saltzman, receiving the producer credit (Broccoli & Saltzman represented as ‘presented by’).

1971: Ola Rapace (Pär Ola Norell) is born--Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.
1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 19 June 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010


https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/




Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet
("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
"Jagten på det sorte guld" (The Hunt for the Black gold)

1985: Roger Moore declares he's retiring from the Bond role after 12 years on screen and 7 films.
1987: Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη (James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali; With the Finger on the Trigger) released in Greece.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 57 of 65 - "Rubies Aren't Forever" in Germany.

James Bond Jr - Rubies Aren't Forever

Season 1 - Episode 57
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807117/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

James saves a girl named Ruby who was captured by a gang who wanted her necklace, but she was set up by her aunt, Tiara Hotstones, who tries to bring them to Baron von Skarin in Germany to use them to steal the F-15 Jets for himself.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Kent Stevenson ... (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)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / First biker / Second biker (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Tiara Hotstones (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon 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 57 - Rubies Aren't Forever

1991: Geffen releases the "Live and Let Die" single from the Guns 'N Roses Use Your Illusion album. (B-side is "Live and Let Die" Live at Wembley Stadium, London recorded 31 August 1991, plus "Shadow of Your Love" (Live).)

UK Orange Vinyl

1999: Amb el món no n'hi ha prou (There Is Not Enough With the World, and Catalan title El mundo nunca es suficiente; The World Is Never Enough) released in Spain.

1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Finland.

Later DVD cover.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Norway and Thailand.
1999: 007 - O Mundo Não Chega (The World Does Not Arrive) released in Portugal.

2010: Digital Trends reports Sam Mendes will still direct BOND 23.

Sam Mendes still directing next
James Bond film

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/sam-mendes-still-directing-next-james-bond-film/

By Ryan Fleming | December 3, 2010

It was never a question of if James Bond would return, just when and how. Following the success of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, a third film with Daniel Craig as Bond was never doubted, and things were moving along at a good pace when it was first announced that Oscar winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Away We Go) had agreed to direct the 23rd Bond film. Then MGM happened.

The studio’s financial woes have been painfully well documented, and following the near collapse of the company under $4 billion of debt, things got weird for Bond. With a property of its magnitude, it was never really a question of whether or not Bond would be back, but when, and under what studio’s banner. If MGM had totally imploded—as many people feared it would—the Bond franchise would have likely been stuck in a legal limbo until a new studio could obtain the rights. Bond would return, but if legal delays persisted, as they have a tendency to do, the delay might make it impractical or even impossible to bring back Craig. Keeping Mendes would be almost impossible to the point of being laughable.

Mendes is very much in demand as a director, and as Bond entered MGM’s gravitational limbo, the Mendes claimed to remain interested but the longer the delays the less likely his schedule would permit. Then MGM joined the ranks of the happily bankrupt, and things began to move again.

The first glimmer of sunshine from MGM’s otherwise overcast future came when the Hobbit was greenlit, which makes sense. After all, the Lord of the Rings franchise earned around $2 billion. Then came word that Bond was up next, and earlier this month, Bond 23 got the greenlight as well.

So with Craig both seemingly excited and contractually obligated to appear in the new film (along with Dame Judi Dench), the ball went back to Mendes.

According to the Daily Mail, Mendes is back on board as the Bond director, and filming is expected to begin later next year. The news comes from Mendes’ estranged wife, Kate Winslet, who offhandedly commented that her husband would be moving to England, partly to spend time with their children, and partly to prepare for Bond. Nothing formal has been announced by MGM, but it seems like Mendes is on board.

Mendes will first head across the pond to direct Kevin Spacey in Richard III at the Old Vic Theater in London. No word yet on any details about the next Bond film, although once this film is in the bag, MGM has stated that they are going to aim for a new Bond release every two years.

2018: BOND 25 originally scheduled production start date at Pinewood with planned director Danny Boyle.

2019: No Time To Die releases character posters anticipating the next day's full trailer.

RichardTheBruce

December 4th

1913: John Kitzmiller is born--Battle Creek, Michigan.
(He dies 23 February 1965 at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

Keeping a wild eye on European Cinema of the past and present

John Kitzmiller

http://www.thewildeye.co.uk/blog/performers-directors/black-actors-in-italy/john-kitzmiller/
November 25, 2010 Matt Blake Americans in Cinecitta, Black Actors in Italy 7

John Kitzmiller was one of the most prominent Afro-American actors to work in Italy during the post war period. Born in Michigan in 1913, he first came to Europe as a soldier during the liberation of Italy, winning a Victory Medal for his efforts. He fell in love with the country, deciding to stay there rather than head home once the conflict was over, and soon drifted into acting, starting his career playing a stock selection of GIs and American expats. In 1948 he had a career defining role in Alberto Lattuada’s Senza pietà, as a GI who becomes friendly with an Italian girl (played by Carla Del Poggio). As well as bringing his face to the international arthouse crowd, this was a popular film on the US university circuit, where it gained a considerable following among Afro-American students.

John Kitzmiller in Dr. No

More roles followed, although with the decline of neo-realism and the growing emphasis on using professional actors they shrunk in size. He was a trumpet player in Luci del varietà (directed by Lattuada and a young Federico Fellini), played a valet in Marino Girolami’s Canto per te (a vehicle for the famed tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano), and appeared as a selection of servants, criminals or workmen. With the resurgence of the swashbuckler and peplum in the 1950s his workrate stepped up a notch, and by the early 60s he was appearing in three or four films a year.

It was at this time that he won a further degree of international success, starring as Quarrel in the hugely succesful Dr No, where his role – most of which was shot in Jamaica – was more prominent than his lowly billing would suggest. This led to one final key role, as the titular character in Géza von Radványi’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was released in the same year as his death in 1965 from cirrhosis of the liver (caused, reputedly, by his long term alcoholism).

Kitzmiller’s importance wasn’t so much for the films he appeared in – although he certainly appeared in some important films. It was in the fact that he was a trailblazer for black actors both in Italy and in the US, at a time in which cinema was an almost entirely caucasian occupation. Given that, it’s surprising how little biographical information is available about him.

About Matt Blake
The WildEye is a blog dedicated to the wild world of Italian cinema (and, ok, sometimes I digress into discussing films from other countries as well). Peplums, comedies, dramas, spaghetti westerns... they're all covered here.

Tom B. | July 22, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Thanks Matt. I agree he was trailblazer in opening up roles for blacks in Italian cinema. Any fan of Italian films has heard of his name, but as you say so little biographical information is available. Thanks for posting on this unique actor in European films.

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm

A little bit more info on Mr. Kitzmiller. In a book on Fellini (Federico Fellini: his life and work by Tullio Kezich, Minna Proctor, Viviana Mazza), he’s described as: “a former chemical engineer who’d slipped accidentally into movie acting”

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

And a bit more, an obituary from a magazine called Jet, March 11th 1965.

John Kitzmiller, who became and Italian star, dies at 51.

A husky American negro who became one of Italy’s most celebrated movie actors but never played in a film produced in his native land, John Kitzmiller, 51, died in Rome after a career that spanned 20 years. Kitzmiller, of Battle Creek, Mich., and a former captain of the Engineers with the famed Negro 92nd Division of World War 2, succumbed to a liver ailment just two months after he was wed to attractive, blond Dusia Bejic, a Yugoslav in Belgrade. Kitzmiller went overseas with the division in the dark days of WW2, but he never forgot his ambition to become an actor. After the war, he decided not to go home but settled in Italy, where he made his first film, To Live in Peace. He received rave notices. There followed a string of ten movies with good roles for Kitzmiller, establishing him, along with cinema-lovely Gina Lollobrigida, as the top motion star in the 1950s in Italy, where realism and authenticity in film making are the sought after ingredients, not the colour of an actor’s skin

And, from From Sambo to Superspade by Daniel J. Leab

John Kitzmiller became an actor while on occupation duty in Italy in 1946. He was playing poker in a sidewalk cafe when he was spotted by two Italians who thought him physically perfect for a war movie they were casting

...

mattblake | November 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm

And here’s another newspaper article mentioning his marriage:

John Kitzmiller's wedding article from Jet

Luciano Benetti was a little known Italian actor who turned up in a handful of cape and sword films

John Kitzmiller (I) (1913–1965)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457839/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (53 credits)

1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom

1965 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom
1965 Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV Series) - Un cliente della Citanguette
- Una vita in gioco (1965) ... Un cliente della Citanguette
1964 Biblioteca di Studio Uno (TV Mini-Series) - Sam
- La storia di Rossella O'Hara (1964) ... Sam
1964 Il ribelle di Castelmonte - Ali
1964 Indios a Nord-Ovest
1964 Night of the Vampires - John - Black Servant
1962 Tiger of the Seven Seas - Serpente - Il pianista
- Episode #1.2 (1962) ... Il pianista
1962 Dr. No - Quarrel (as John Kitzmuller: end credits)
1962 The Son of Captain Blood - Moses
1962 Blood and Defiance
1962 Mars, God of War - Afros
1961 Chiamami bugiardo (TV Movie) - Dr. Bowker
1961 La corona di fuoco - Akim
1961 Totòtruffa '62 - Ambasciatore del Katonga
1961 Revolt of the Mercenaries - Tago
1960-1961 Giallo club - Invito al poliziesco (TV Series) - Joke / Peter
- Partita a tre (1961) ... Joke
- Ultimo avviso (1960) ... Peter
1960 Il corsaro della tortue (TV Movie)
1960 Pirates of the Coast - Rock
1960 Seven in the Sun - Salvador

1959 Due selvaggi a corte - Kato
1959 Pensione Edelweiss - Bougron
1959 Lost Souls - Luca
1958 Aphrodite, Goddess of Love - Tomoro
1958 The Naked Earth - David
1957 A vent'anni è sempre festa - John Miller
1957 I misteri di Parigi - Lo Squartatore
1956 Valley of Peace - Sgt. Jim
1955 Il nostro campione - Raimondo
1954 Lacrime d'amore
1954 Acque amare - Mezzanotte
1954 Il grande addio
1954 Desiderio 'e sole - Simone
1954 Quai des blondes - Michel
1954 Non vogliamo morire - John - il timoniere
1954 Island Sinner - Abul - il pescatore negro
1954 Foreign Earth
1953 Canto per te - Angenore
1953 Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente - Nabus, lo schiavo muto
1953 Trouble for the Legion - Djalmar
1952 Delitto al luna park
1952 Ultimo perdono
1952 At Sword's Edge
1952 Wolves Hunt at Night - Le domestique noir de Miguel
1952 Massacre en dentelles - Rocky Saddler
1950 Variety Lights - Trumpet player Johnny
1950 La forza del destino - Lo scudiero moro

1949 Monastero di Santa Chiara - Il negro
1949 Lieutenant Craig: Missing - The MP
1948 Without Pity - Jerry Jackson
1947 Tombolo - Jack
1947 To Live in Peace - Joe (as Jonny Kitzmiller)

Archive footage (3 credits)

2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Quarrel
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself

1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary)

1913: Claude Renoir is born--Paris, France.
(He dies 5 September 1993 at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.)

Claude Renoir

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

Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
Nationality French

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

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

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

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

Claude Renoir

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

Filmography

Cinematographer (89 credits)

1981 Sphinx (uncredited)

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

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

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

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

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

Camera and Electrical Department (11 credits)

1964 Circus World (second unit cameraman)
1963 Cleopatra (photographer: second unit)

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

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

Set decorator (1 credit)

1980 Mont-Oriol (TV Movie)

Self (4 credits)

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

Archive footage (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Himself

1918: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 9 April 1991--London, England.)

Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/obituaries/maurice-binder-73-007-film-title-artist.html

APRIL 15, 1991

Maurice Binder, a graphic arts designer known chiefly for his dazzling title sequences in the James Bond films, died on Tuesday at the University College Hospital in London. He was 73 years old and lived in London.

He died of lung cancer, his brother, Mitchell, said.

Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.

In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."

Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.

He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.

Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.

A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.

Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.

Maurice Binder (1925–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)

1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
- Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
- Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
- Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
- Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
- Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
- Schani (1991) ... (title designer)
- Emilie (1991) ... (title designer)
- Anna (1991) ... (title designer)
1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
1990 Hamlet (title designer)
1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)

1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)
1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
1980 The Awakening (titles)
1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)

1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
1974 Gold (title designer)
1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)

1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
1969 Staircase (title designer)
1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
1968 The Magus (title designer)
1967 Bedazzled (main title)
1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
1966 After the Fox (title designer)
1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
1966 The Chase (main title)
1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
- A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
- A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
- Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
- The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
- Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
- Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... (titles)
- Castles in Spain (1964) ... (titles)
- The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... (titles)
- We the Hunted (1964) ... (titles)
- Do You Remember Leo Winters? (1964) ... (titles)
- Final Decision (1964) ... (titles)
- Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... (titles)
- Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (1964) ... (titles)
- A Camel to Ride (1963) ... (titles)
- Festival of Pawns (1963) ... (titles)
- The Light of a Friendly Star (1963) ... (titles)
- The Whistling Shrimp (1963) ... (titles)
- The Dragon Slayer (1963) ... (titles)
- To the Very End (1963) ... (titles)
- He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday (1963) ... (titles)
- The Gentle Spies (1963) ... (titles)
- The Incurable One (1963) ... (titles)
- The Weakling (1963) ... (titles)
- Covenant with Death (1963) ... (titles designed by)
1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
1963 Charade (main title designed by)
1963 Stolen Hours (title designer: main titles)
1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)
1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
- Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
- Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
- Hard Luck for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance Goes to Kill (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Blood Money (1960) ... (title designer)
- The Man Who Believed in Law (1959) ... (title designer)
- Return of Monique (1959) ... (title designer)
- The High Cost of Justice (1959) ... (title designer)
1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)

1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
- Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
- Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
- Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
- Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
- The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
- Jukebox (1959) ... (title designer)
- Crown of Silla (1959) ... (title designer)
1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)

Art department (9 credits)

1985 King David (graphic designer)
1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)

1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)
Hide Hide Visual effects (2 credits)
1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
1979 Dracula (visual consultant)

Director (1 credit)

1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)

Art director (1 credit)

1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)

Producer (1 credit)

1979 The Passage (associate producer)

Self (2 credits)

1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Producing (1977) ... Himself
1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie) - Himself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Tracy's rescue.

1973: Bond comic strip Beware of Butterflies begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 11 May 1974. 2408–2541) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1011


https://www.popoptiq.com/beware-of-butterflies/




Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no36-1976/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 36: “Beware of Butterflies” (1976)
"Operation Sommerfugl" [= Operation Butterfly]

1989: 鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔，殺人執照 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn shārén kuáng mó, shārén zhízhào; Iron King Kong fights the murderous madness, the license to kill) released in Hong Kong.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 58 of 65 "Garden of Evil" in Hong Kong. I mean, Shanghai, China.

James Bond Jr - Garden of Evil

Season 1 - Episode 58
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807286/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

In Hong Kong, Trevor picks a purple rose, but it somehow hypnotizes him; now it is up to James, IQ, Tracey, and Jasmine to go to the field of the purple rose to find a cure; however, Doctor No and Oddjob try to stop their plan.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
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 58 - Garden of Evil

1997: MGM announces their purchase of the rights to Never Say Never Again from Taliafilm. Earlier in 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired most of McClory's rights, later bought by MGM.

2006: Casino Royale premieres in Sydney, Australia.

2014: Spectre press conference.

2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) general release in Japan. The last country to open the film in theaters.

2019: No Time To Die trailer debuts.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Vol. 3 #1.
Eric Gapstur, artist. Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers.

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Publication Date: December 2019
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Page Count: 32 Pages
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2022: Bond In Motion continues at the Saratoga Auto Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Have cars, will spy: Museum shows off Bond's
movie vehicles

See the complete article here:

https://www.timesunion.com/art/article/Have-cars-will-spy-Museum-shows-off-Bond-s-17623933.php#photo-23225083

An exhibit at the Saratoga Auto Museum features 23 vehicles used in the filming of James Bond movies, including 007's iconic Aston Martin DB5
Barnes. Steve Barnes | Dec. 3, 2022

A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that appeared in several recent James Bond films is featured in a new exhibit ‘BOND IN MOTION’ at Saratoga Automobile Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The show features twenty-five official James Bond vehicles celebrating the 60th anniversary of the film franchise.

The 1969 Cougar XR-7 convertible from the James Bond film "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service" is part of a new exhibit, "Bond in Motion," on view at the Saratoga Automobile Museum through November 2023. The show, featuring 23 official vehicles used in James Bond movies, celebrates the 60th anniversary of the film franchise.

The Saratoga Automobile Museum is hosting "Bond in Motion," a show featuring 23 official vehicles used in James Bond movies. It celebrates the 60th anniversary of the film franchise. The exhibit is on view through November 2023.

The 1997 BMW 750iL from the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" is part of a new exhibit, "Bond in Motion," on view at the Saratoga Automobile Museum through November 2023. The show, featuring 23 official vehicles used in James Bond movies, celebrates the 60th anniversary of the film franchise.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — At 11 a.m., the Saratoga Auto Museum smells pleasant. This is unlike what surrounds suave British superspy James Bond in the opening of the novel that introduced the character, Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. Its first paragraph:

"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling — a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension — becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it."

To go from the casino to his hotel in the novel, Bond walks. When he does get in a car of his own, Fleming specifies that it is a battleship-gray 1930 Bentley with a supercharger sticking out from the front of its engine. Fleming says of it, "Bond's car was his only personal hobby." The Bentley looks more like a wingless biplane than the sleek motor vehicles with which Bond has been associated since the 1962 release of the first movie from a Fleming novel, "Dr. No," with Sean Connery introducing himself as "Bond. James Bond."

The most iconic Bond vehicle is a 1964 Aston Martin DB5, which has made appearances in six Bond films, from "Goldfinger" in 1964 to last year's "No Time to Die." The actual DB5 used in "Goldfinger," its silver paint and bodywork and wire-spoked wheels as glistening with perfection as one would expect of a vehicle said to be worth $15 million, bathes beneath bright lights in the Saratoga Automobile Museum. A shin-high wire is all that's between you and a car that, in the movie at least, could deploy a smoke screen and an oil slick, and had a button to eject the occupant of the passenger seat and machine guns mounted behind the headlights.

If you go

"Bond in Motion: The Official Collection of Original James Bond Vehicles"

• Where: Saratoga Automobile Museum, 110 Avenue of the Pines, Saratoga Springs
• Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, October to December; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday, January to March; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, April to September. Show closes November 2023.
• Admission: $15 adults (discounts for children, students, seniors and veterans/active military)
• Info: 518-587-1935 and saratogaautomuseum.org

The DB5 is among 23 motor vehicles used in some of the Bond film series' 25 movies that are part of “Bond in Motion: The Official Collection of Original James Bond Vehicles,” a recently opened exhibit at the auto museum that will be on view for a year. Previously seen only at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, "Bond in Motion" is a joint effort by the Ian Fleming Foundation and Eon Productions, which owns the rights to nearly everything cinematically Bond.

The exhibit has the highest profile and was the most expensive to produce in the history of the museum, which opened in 2002 in a former bottling plant. The 27,000-square-foot neoclassical building, completed in 1935, sits in the Saratoga Spa State Park near the Avenue of the Pines entrance to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

Also in the "Bond in Motion" show are other Astons: a 1987 V8, which sported outrigger skis when Bond drove it down a mountain in "The Living Daylights"; two versions of the DBS model, including the badly damaged car that set a world record for flipping seven times in a stunt for 2006's "Casino Royale"; and a DB10, a custom model of which only 10 were built, all for the 2014 movie "Spectre."

Bond's conveyances weren't always so stylish and speedy and Aston-y. "Bond in Motion" includes a Soviet-made Cagiva motorcycle, a comically small all-terrain Honda three-wheeler that Connery improbably rode while wearing a pewter-colored suit in "Diamonds Are Forever," a big BMW sedan, a three-wheeled Thai taxi called a tuk tuk from a chase scene in "Octopussy," a 1974 AMC Hornet ("The Man with the Golden Gun") and a 1970s personal watercraft called a WetBike that carried a naval-attired Roger Moore across the water in "The Spy Who Loved Me."

The show also features the submarining Lotus Esprit from "The Spy Who Loved Me," an actual submarine and a tabletop model of a jet that, to save money, has one side painted with official U.S. livery, the other as the villain Goldfinger's private plane.

"There's a little of everything here," said Carly Connors, executive director of the Saratoga Auto Museum for the past six years. Connors projected that "Bond in Motion" will at least double the museum's 2023 attendance over the pre-pandemic peak of about 18,000 in 2019, though admission income will need to be significant to offset the estimated $200,000 cost of presenting the exhibit. (The fee to Eon Productions alone is $100,000, she said.)

"Bond in Motion" was about three times more expensive than mounting the next most costly exhibit, Connors said, and the museum's board needed persuasion to approve it. The notoriety and visibility of the Bond cars — Aston Martin likes to say the DB5 is "the most famous car in the world" — attendance projections and the potential to introduce the museum to a much larger audience won over the board, she said.

"We've already seen significant interest" in the show's first few weeks, Connors said. "Who doesn't love James Bond and his cars?"

Founded with a mission to "preserve, interpret and exhibit automobiles and automotive artifacts," the museum owns a few vehicles and a small collection of memorabilia; New York-focused permanent exhibits are on the state's automotive industry — once boasting more than 100 manufacturers — and its racing industry. The museum uses its main ground-floor space for rotating exhibitions and has ongoing programs including a Distracted Driving Safety Initiative and automobile-restoration programs for local youth. It also each fall organizes the Saratoga Motorcar Auction, described as a "nationally acclaimed vintage and collector car auction" that is its biggest annual fundraiser. In addition, the museum underwrites exhibits and education with once-a-year sweepstakes of new vehicles; the latest is a Big Bend edition of a 2022 Ford Bronco.

One of the founding members of the museum's board of directors was the legendary automotive journalist Brock Yates, who was editor of and later columnist for Car and Driver magazine. Yates also organized a coast-to-coast race known as the Cannonball Run and wrote the screenplay for the 1981 movie of the same name, which starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett and Roger Moore — who of course drove a silver Aston Martin DB5. (Moore never did in any of his seven Bond movies.)

In the Casino Royale novel, Bond loses his beloved supercharged Bentley in a rollover wreck orchestrated by his nemesis Le Chiffre. Fleming's two sentences evoking the crash total 107 words, their propulsion driven in part by six uses of the word and; coincidentally, that's the same number of ands that are in the book's opening paragraph, excerpted above. It's a word that by its nature amplifies, continues. Likewise, James Bond keeps going. The most recent film, "No Time To Die," came out in September 2021. There's been no definitive word on who will play Bond, succeeding Daniel Craig's run as 007 in five movies over 15 years, starting in 2006.

Speculating on the casting, an Esquire magazine headline mentioned candidates and said they "are all in the running for the keys to the DB5."


Written By Barnes. Steve Barnes

RichardTheBruce

December 5th

1923: Norman Burton is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 29 November 2003 at age 79--Imperial, California.)

Norman Burton

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

Norman Burton
Born December 5, 1923
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
Imperial, California, U.S.
Occupation Film, television actor
Years active 1957–1993

Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.

Early life
Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).

Career

His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).

On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.

Death
Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.

Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (89 credits)

1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
- 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
- Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers

1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
- Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
- Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
- Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
- A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
- Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
- Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
- The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
- Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
1981 Amy - Caruthers
1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
- Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
- No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)

1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
- Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
- Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
- Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
- The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
- The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
- The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
- Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
- Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
- The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
- Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
- Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
- Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
- The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
- The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
- The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
- The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
- The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
- Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
1973 Hit! - The Director
1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
- The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy

1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
- The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
- Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
- Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
- Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
- Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
1966 The Hero (TV Series)
- The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
- The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
- What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
- 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
- The Reward (1965) ... Ed
1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
- Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
- Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
- See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
- Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
- Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
- The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
- 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
- Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
1962 Womanhunt
1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
- Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
- Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney

1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter

Archive footage (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu

Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Diamonds Are Forever

1944: Jeroen Krabbé is born--Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

1974: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a United Artists advertising campaign for The Man With the Golden Gun that put Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, and Hervé Villechaize on a tour of eight cities across two weeks. (At a cost of about $25,000 and recalling Hollywood promotions of old said EON's publicity executive Jerry Juroe.)

1976: The 007 Stage officially opens at Pinewood Studios, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in attendance. Construction began March 1976 supporting the film production of The Spy Who Loved Me. Available for other film-making thereafter.

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1976: The Los Angeles Times reports on producer Albert R. Broccoli pursuing Catherine Deneuve, Marthe Keller, and Dominique Sanda. Then deferring to Barbara Bach. “…Remember this: the money I’ve saved by not using a well-known actress I spent on that marvelous ski stunt.”

Catherine Deneuve


Marthe Keller


Dominique Sanda


Barbara Bach


Rick Sylvester

1985: Halálvágta (Death Gallop) released in Hungary.

Eventual DVD and Blu-ray covers.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 59 of 65 - "The Thing in the Ice" in Antarctica.

James Bond Jr - The Thing in the Ice

Season 1 - Episode 59
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807126/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

The gang is in Antarctica, where they see the massive devastation caused by a metallic monster with acid-spitting tentacles.

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 / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Reginald Farragut (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon 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 59 - The Thing in the Ice

2002: Die Another Day released in Malaysia and Singapore.
2008: 007 released in Venezuela.
2012: Skyfall becomes the highest grossing film to that time in the UK.

2018: Playboy highlights Dynamite Comics' James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

https://twitter.com/Playboy/status/1070820946439757825

James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch

https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch

It's the British operative as you've never seen him in this exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007 adventure
Written by Jeff Parker Illustration by Bob Q Published on December 05, 2018

Jeff Parker/Bob Q/Jordie Bellaire/Simon Bowland/Nate Cosby

James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #2.
Greg Pak, writer. Marc Laming, artist.

JAMES BOND 007 #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532502011
SKU: C72513027532502011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
UPC: 725130275325 02011
Cover B: Marguerite Sauvage
UPC: 725130275325 02021
Cover C: Clayton Henry
UPC: 725130275325 02031
Cover D: Marc Laming
UPC: 725130275325 02041
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Marc Laming
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: December 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/5/2018

The ODD JOB epic continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
Somewhere in the world, a smuggler is trying to deliver a mysterious briefcase to the world's most deadly terrorists. 007 must get this case and is licensed to kill anyone that gets in his way.

This is the story of the man who gets in his way.

RichardTheBruce

December 6th

1921: George Leech is born--London, England.
(He dies 17 June 2012 at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.)

George Leech: Stuntman and actor
best known for his work on the Bond
films franchise

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-leech-stuntman-and-actor-best-known-for-his-work-on-the-bond-films-franchise-8008516.html
Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00

The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".

Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.

Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.

George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.

When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.

Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.

His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).

After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).

When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."

One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.

Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.

Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.

Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.

George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.

George Leech (I) (1921–2012)

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Filmography

Stunts (34)

1985 No Surrender (stunt coordinator)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt double: Willoughby Gray - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (TV Movie) (stunts)
1983 Never Say Never Again (additional stunts - uncredited)
1983 Octopussy (explosion stunt - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt team)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts: attacker on dock - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Game for Vultures (stunt coordinator)
1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Superman (stunts: Man in burglar's office - uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- When the Heat Cools Off (1978) ... (stunt double - uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt driver: Lotus Esprit - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 A Bridge Too Far (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (stunts - uncredited)
1976 The Eagle Has Landed (stunts - uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Brannigan (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Puppet on a Chain (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Kelly's Heroes (stunts - uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt double: Joseph Wiseman - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)

1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (36 credits)

1985 Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) - 1st. Warder
- Hors de Combat (1985) ... 1st. Warder
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)
1980 ffolkes - Magnussen

1978 Superman - Man in Office (uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Asylum Policeman (uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese - Stone (uncredited)
1978 People Like Us (TV Mini-Series) - 2nd Thief
- Hungry Men Are Angry Men (1978) ... 2nd Thief
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cortina Gunman #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Traumer (uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Mr. Stutterstutt
1975 Brannigan - Man in Bar (uncredited)
1971 Puppet on a Chain - Thug (uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 4th Guardian / First Corridor Guard
- Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 4th Guardian (as George Leach)
- The General (1967) ... First Corridor Guard
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Second Guard
- Brainwash (1967) ... Second Guard
1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
- Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Chauffeur / Production Assistant
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Marcia (1963) ... Production Assistant (uncredited)
1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
1966 The Spies (TV Series) - Karl
- I Don't Even Volunteer (1966) ... Karl
1965 Thunderball - Largo's Crewman (uncredited)
1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Manchu Minion (uncredited)
1965 Coast of Skeletons - Carlo Seton
1964 Mozambique - Carl
1964 Scene Nun, Take One (Short)
1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Ship Attacker (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - Man in Bulletproof Vest at 'Q' Division (uncredited)
1964 Carry On Spying - Waiter (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
1962 Billy Budd - Marine (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Jake
1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - War Room Officer (uncredited)

1959 Hot Money Girl - Man In Fight (uncredited)
1956 Port Afrique - Second Arab
1956 Private's Progress - German Soldier (uncredited)
1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
- Teddy Gang (1956)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (film extra - uncredited)

1947 Odd Man Out (stand-in: Mr. Mason - uncredited)

Self (5 credits)

2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Hyderfoil Crewman

30 Years of James Bond, 3/5, George Leech at 4:35

1938: Patrick Bauchau is born--Brussels, Belgium.

1962: Colin Salmon is born--Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
1963 : Ulrich Thomsen is born--Næsby, Odense, Denmark.
1963: Ann Fleming writes to Evelyn Waugh commenting on the Thunderball court case.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

And Bryce convinced himself that Fleming was happy with the case
outcome. But a close friend who dined with Fleming the evening after the
settlement later revealed that the writer bitterly denounced Bryce's perfidy.
Ann was not to happy too. She scrawled in her husband's personal copy of
Diamonds Are Forever, which had a dedication to Bryce inside, the words:
"Dedicated to Ivar Bryce. The man who betrayed Ian in the Thunderball
case." In a letter to Evelyn Waugh, dated 6 December 1963, Ann expressed
her feelings about the trial more succinctly: "Goodness I miss the old Bailey,
the case did Ian a power of good, no smoking in court and one hour for a
simple lunch. It was sad for him having to settle. Our solicitors say we're all
right, but one can never tell. So maybe we'll have to settle up. "

Seeing that the whole ghastly business had lowered his spirits, friends of
Fleming tired to cheer him up. John Betjeman wrote to commiserate but also
to congratulate him on the movie version of From Russia With Love, which
he'd just seen and loved, comparing Bond to a jet-setting Sherlock Holmes.
"Write on, fight on," he championed.

1967: Critic Marjorie D. Lawrie from Punch praises the illustrations by Christopher Chamberlain in The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ as "satisfying". (Short of commenting on the prose.)

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1982: Octopussy films Kamal Khan speaking to a concealed Octopussy.
1985: A View to a Kill released in Sri Lanka.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 60 of 65 - "Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow." In Ireland.

James Bond Jr - Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow

Season 1 - Episode 60
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807102/?ref_=ttep_ep60

James, Phoebe, Gordo, and Trevor head to Ireland to investigate a haunted castle which was taken by a leprechaun who was actually Nick Nack who is scaring the people to find the secret treasure room for Goldie Finger.

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 / Nick Nack (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 ... Goldie Finger / Barbella / Leah Callaghan (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon 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 60 - Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow

1999: Radioactive's release of the "Die Another Day" three-track CD digipak single (from 15 November) ends this day.

2001: BBC News reports a rare book find.

Rare Bond find in charity shop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1695888.stm
Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 18:08 GMT

A rare copy of a James Bond book by Ian Fleming has been discovered in a charity shop in Scotland.

The first edition copy of Live and Let Die was handed in by a mystery donor in a plastic bag full of other books.

It had been in storage when John Fyfe, a volunteer at the Morningside branch of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), spotted the rare edition.

The item has been valued at about £5,000 by book experts at Sotheby's in London, where it is due to be auctioned next Thursday.

Shock
Mr Fyfe admitted he was very surprised at the find.

He said: "I've no idea who handed it in. I work two days a week and I was off when the books were left in the shop.

"It was just lying with a pile of books and we go through them all to check for anything special.

"It's quite a plain looking thing, although its dust jacket was in good condition. When I saw it was a first edition I knew it would be worth a bit."

Jay Hogarty, ICRF area retail manager, said: "If the auction estimate is right, this will be the biggest find we've had in Scotland.

"Mr Fyfe is a volunteer specialist who knows about books, and not all our shops have those specialists.

"The money will go back to the shop and then to our central fund to help vital cancer research."

Origins
In July 2000 a copy of Fleming's first James Bond book, Casino Royale, published in 1953, sold at Sotheby's for £6,500.

Fleming was born in 1908 but it was not until 1952 that he wrote his first James Bond draft.

Casino Royale was a hit, and was televised in the US in 1954.

In the following years he dedicated himself to its successors and oversaw the move of James Bond onto the big screen.

Among his other works was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the story of a mad professor who invents an amazing flying car.

2002: Die Another Day released in South Africa.

2011: Skyfall films Moneypenny handing a box to OO7 on the Department of Energy and Climate Change rooftop, Whitehall.

2012: Skyfall released in the Dominican Republic.

2014: Scheduled start date for the filming of BOND 24.

2022: Titan Books publishes Being Bond: A Daniel Craig Retrospective by Mark Salisbury.

RichardTheBruce

December 7th

1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service bombs the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1955: Priscilla Barnes is born--Fort Dix, New Jersey.
1959: After a signed agreement with Jack Whittingham, Kevin McClory registers the title "Thunderball", anticipating a future film based on meetings with Ian Fleming and Whittingham.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 12 - The First James Bond Screenplay

Despite the amount of work Whittingham had already contributed, it
wasn't until 7 December that an agreement was finally drawn up and signed
between himself and McClory, on behalf of Xanadu. His usual feed of 6,000
reduced to 5,00 on the understanding that this would be his first of a hopeful
series of Bond screenplays. Significantly, Whittingham assigned the copyright
in the script over to McClory. A clause in the contract also stated that all
material written could be used for subsequent motion pictures. This was a
normal contract between producer and writer, but it would later have severe
repercussions for Whittingham.

1965: Jeffrey Wright is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
1966: Variety reports on competing schedules and release dates for Bond films You Only Live Twice and Casino Royale, in that order. (Eventually Casino Royale releases April 1967, ahead of the EON mission.)

1972: Live and Let Die films Bond taking the top off a double decker bus.

1995: GoldenEye released in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
1997: The New York Times prints Adam Bryant's piece "007: License to Shill."

Agent 007: License to Shill

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/weekinreview/agent-007-license-to-shill.html
By Adam Bryant | Dec. 7, 1997

IT seems like only yesterday that the dream of any self-respecting teen-age boy with a freshly minted driver's license was to have his date lean across the front seat and whisper, ''Oh James, you drive beautifully.''

That's James as in ''Bond, James Bond,'' a phrase that got hard-wired into the brains of an entire generation of guys who grew to admire this founding member of the Pantheon of Real Men. After all, nobody ever gets the best of Bond, women are his life and he's smart enough to instantly recognize a counterfeit license plate on a Ferrari in France.

But now this secret agent with a knack for being in the right place at the right time is turning up everywhere, and that hard-wired reverence for the original super-suave Bond is threatening to short out.

These days, it is hard to miss all the Bond cross-promotional ads. Ericsson cellular phones are suddenly ''Bond Approved.'' His BMW car and motorcycle are described as ''Bond's new loves.'' Visa, Smirnoff, Heineken, Avis and Omega are all in on the act. In the market for makeup? L'Oreal is now selling lipstick and nail polish in shades of ''Bond Bordeaux.''

True, Bond and marketing tie-ins are nothing new (guys could once buy 007 cologne, and the last movie, ''Goldeneye,'' helped BMW sell thousands of new Z3 roadsters). But the sheer number of promotional partners for the 18th Bond movie, ''Tomorrow Never Dies,'' which opens Friday, seems over the top. Could this really be James Bond, the seemingly omniscient and omnipotent secret agent for whom stuff and gadgets were simply a means to a variety of ends?

''The blubbery arms of the soft life had Bond round the neck and they were slowly strangling him,'' Ian Fleming wrote in an early Bond book, From Russia, With Love. ''He was a man of war and when, for a long period, there was no war, his spirit went into decline.''

Seeing Bond -- or at least his latest incarnation, Pierce Brosnan -- over and over in ads with a Visa card waved in front of his face by his gadget guru Q will surely cause many other spirits to dip, too. But Karen C. Sortito, executive vice president for worldwide promotions at MGM/UA, which is releasing the new movie, is adamant that the essence of Bond has not been compromised in the name of cutting through ad clutter.

For one thing, she said, Bond is not making any you-should-buy-this-product pitches himself. The ads are also clever and funny, Ms. Sortito said, and are a kind of celebration of Bond in the same way that agencies show off some of their best work for the Super Bowl.

''It's all cool and hip,'' she said. ''If this wasn't creative, we would not be doing it.''

The advertising is also helpful in reaching a broader audience and drawing them into the 35-year-old Bond phenomenon, Ms. Sortito said. It has been hard to generate a lot of interest among the many women who see Bond movies as popcorn for guys, so the L'Oreal products should help. The Heineken and BMW motorcycle ads build interest among young males, she said, while the Smirnoff vodka ads appeal to traditionalists.

''How can you justifiably criticize this when we are trying to grow the audience?'' she asked. Another important test, she added, was that the products were not forced into the screenplay. ''We would never sell out Bond for that and we haven't yet.''

Perhaps the problem is that a lot of these products are kind of pedestrian. Bond and Heineken? Beer cans, unlike martinis, are not supposed to be shaken. Bond and Avis? Avis may boast that ''We Try Harder,'' but the real Bond makes everything look effortless.

Of course, debates over quintessential Bondness are endless. Which actor came closest to capturing the Bond of Ian Fleming's books -- a secret agent who is neither witty nor dapper, but somebody who is somber, ruthless and deadly serious?

But one thing seems beyond dispute: the sight of a cardboard cutout of Mr. Brosnan next to a stack of Heineken cases -- coming to a supermarket near you -- is not what Mr. Fleming had in mind. In Moonraker, Bond describes how he thinks others see him: ''The tough man of the world. The secret agent. The man who is only a silhouette.''

A silhouette should never be confused with a cardboard cutout.

1999: European CD single for "The World Is Not Enough" released.

2006: Casino Royale released in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Hungary, New Zealand, and Peru,
2006: 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายเดิมพันระห่ำโลก (Phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy deimphạn rah̄̀ả lok; The Evil Tiger Stakes the World) released in Thailand.

2008: Daniel Craig confirms BOND 23's plot will not continue the Casino Royale, nor Quantum of Solace story arcs: "I'm done with that story. I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail."
2008: Collider reports Daniel Craig wants Q and Moneypenny in BOND 23.

LATEST NEWS
Daniel Craig Wants Q and Moneypenny in the Next Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/daniel-craig-wants-q-and-moneypenny-in-the-next-bond/

by Alex Billington | December 7, 2008
Source: Collider

Daniel Craig as James Bond
With Quantum of Solace already passing the $150 million mark, things are still looking bright for the future of the James Bond franchise now lead by Daniel Craig. Even though not everyone loved Solace, most have come to respect Craig as a formidable Bond that challenges the likes of even Sean Connery. Being a huge Bond fan myself, I'm already anxious to see where the franchise will go next, especially since Solace finally finishes the origin of Bond and puts us on track to see the kind of stories we've been familiar with since Dr. No in 1962. Collider talked with Craig recently and got an update on where they might head next.

"We've finished this story as far as I'm concerned," Craig asserts. "We've got a great set of bad guys. There is an organization that we can use whenever we want to. The relationship between Bond and M is secure and Felix is secure. Let's try and find where Moneypenny came from and where Q comes from. Let's do all that and have some fun with it."

I'm actually very impressed by Craig's understanding of the Bond franchise and know that we're in good hands with him leading the way. I'd love to see an origin of Q and an origin of Moneypenny story, although I'm slightly worried - since Desmond Llewelyn passed away, no one has been able to fill his shoes. Would they actually find a suitable alternative that isn't John Cleese?

As for when we'll see the next Bond movie, Craig doesn't even know. "We don't know when we're going to do the next Bond. Nobody's thinking about it at the moment. We're giving it a rest for the moment. If I can squeeze something in next year I will… but I haven't figured out what that'll be yet." Bond 23, as it's currently being called, is tentatively scheduled for 2010, because the time between Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace was also two years. Just like the team behind The Dark Knight, however, everyone is taking a break and no one is thinking about the sequel just yet. Don't worry, it'll happen soon enough!


28 Comments

1
Hugh Laurie = Q.

Hauitzer on Dec 7, 2008

2
#1's got the right idea. Laurie makes perfect sense.

al on Dec 7, 2008

3
David Wenham = Q

Scott McHenry on Dec 7, 2008

4
#1 does have the right idea if they're seeking to continue the gritty, tough concept that Bond SHOULD be. However, I can almost see Simon Pegg getting the job of Q. I'm not sure how I'd feel about that...

Quanah on Dec 7, 2008

5
#1 - Best. Idea. Ever.

N on Dec 7, 2008

6
#5 already said it, but I think #1's suggestion would be a casting choice as (or more) inspired than Daniel Craig.

DinoChow on Dec 7, 2008

7
I'm totally kidding when i suggest Russell Brand. I think Hugh Laurie would be great

Twanzel on Dec 7, 2008

8
I didn't like the first one and really was bored with the 2nd one, whats up with these new boring ass bond movies? I'll give them props for good action and hand to hand combat but the stories suck, they are like bourne movies without the story.

Richard on Dec 7, 2008

9
Sir Ian McKellen

Cajun_Mike on Dec 7, 2008

10
dude michael caine.

Darrin on Dec 7, 2008

11
I just love the idea of Daniel Craig and Hugh Laurie having confrontations during the movie. Just imagine: Laurie: You have no respect for this equipment!! It seems like every time you even tie your shoes it somehow results in the utter destruction of valuable machinery!! Craig: Guess you'll have to learn to concentrate on durability and not just making everything shiny, eh?

Houseman on Dec 7, 2008

12
If not Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry. Either way, I'm sold.

Ellinikos on Dec 7, 2008

13
i would love to see Simon Pegg as Q ,he has the humour and sarcasm to pull it off

vanstone on Dec 7, 2008

14
What I loved about the classic humour of the Q and Bond relationship was Q always being on the receiving end of Bond destroying his precious gadgets and cars. But I think we are used to seeing Hugh Laurie in this position of power eg House where he is the one who ridicules others. If the new Bond movie retains this tradition, I don't think Laurie could pull off being seen as a 'weaker' man to one we are so used to seeing.

Ninjabear on Dec 8, 2008

15
Wow, Hugh Laurie. That's brilliant, I didn't even think of him but it's actually pretty obvious. Good call!

Syphous on Dec 8, 2008

16
Ninjabear, Q never came off as the "weaker" man between Q and Bond; he always seemed to take an approach that Bond was reckless and a bit of an idiot (an idea Bond obviously played up on), clearly thinking he was the superior wit between the two. I think Laurie could definitely pull that off.

Liz on Dec 8, 2008

17
michael caine will be good.

Valeska on Dec 8, 2008

18
Apparently #1 has the right idea. I certainly can't think of anyone who would do better than Laurie. Alternatively, he would make a pretty swell villain as well. Or if they wanted someone older for the role, George Lazenby. hah!

kevjohn on Dec 8, 2008

19
Morgan Freeman! Then it could be like Dark Knight. Oh, Dark Knight! Spluge!

LeftHanded on Dec 8, 2008

20
#1 Hugh Laurie = Q. Excellent. I'm all for that. Laurie is very capable of pulling himself away from House, and seeing him speak with he real accent would be welcome. He's got excellent comedic chops, and would be able to handle the technical jargon, seeing as what he's been spouting on House these last few years.

CMK on Dec 8, 2008

21
Hugh Laurie = Awesome. He'd make a great Q. What about Moneypenny, though? For some reason, Scarlett Johansson pops up in my head.

Kyle on Dec 8, 2008

22
Nah not Scarlett it'll definitely be somebody British. Also does she really need to be blonde. I can see Craig and Kate Beckinsale working. But she'll command some money though.

FVD on Dec 8, 2008

23
Hugh Laurie would be a brilliant casting choice for Q. John Cleese is a good man and a terrific comedian, but he's simply not right for Q. As for Ms. Moneypenny, I'd like to see Rachel Weisz or Keira Knightley.

Mr. Mustard on Dec 14, 2008

24
Daniel Craig has moved the franchise from what looked like a part of Grimm's Fairy tales to a grim tale. Hopefully the upcoming movies a lot lighter.

Kartik on Dec 24, 2008

25
Miss Moneypenny - Keeley Hawes, she is the right age, plain gorgeous and a good actress. Q - Hugh Laurie would be interesting. I liked John Cleese, it's not his fault the writing was terrible in D.A.D. I think he should be given a chance aswell. If not maybe James Bolam?

Josh T on Jan 10, 2009

26
I agree with # 4. It might sound like a wierd person to play him and he obviously cannot beat the original Q but I think it could work out. I can imagine Bond using something and it blows up only for Pegg to be yelling at the top of his lungs while in Q's office

CD on Jan 13, 2009

27
What about Liam Nesson As Q I think he'd be a good choice for Q. For money Penny i think that Samantha Bond Should return to the role of Money Penny. they already had a blond Money Penny during the Dalton Era of Bond. Or maybe Robin Williams should take a shot for the Part of Q he might make it.

Kaleb Kochensparger on Mar 11, 2009

28
#1: You're absolutely right!! Hugh would be the best man for the job. 🙂 Being a James Bond villain has always been his on his wish list as an actor! (he mentioned in one of the interviews a while back) And with both their exceptional qualites, it would make the film so much more interesting! Just imagine the two HOTTIES on the big screen. Prepare your drool buckets. XP

Natalie on May 24, 2009

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RichardTheBruce

November 8th

1945: Angela Scoular is born--London, England.
(She dies 11 April 2011 at age 65--Maida Vale, London, England.)

Angela Scoular

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8448951/Angela-Scoular.html

Angela Scoular, the actress who died on Tuesday aged 65, played Agent
Buttercup in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and was Ruby
Bartlett in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); she was also the second
wife of the Carry On star Leslie Phillips.
13 Apr 2011

Angela Scoular Photo: ITV/ REX FEATURES

Her qualifications as a Bond girl are obvious in OHMSS when she becomes Bond's (George Lazenby) first conquest, after writing her room number in lipstick on his inner thigh. "I used to hate chicken," she tells 007. "Used to make me break out. It was all over. You'd be surprised where."

She met Leslie Phillips in 1970 on the set of Doctor in Trouble (in which his character chases her character aboard an ocean liner). They met again in 1976 when they were both in the same play. She was pregnant at the time with a son by another actor, while Leslie Phillips's first marriage to Penny Bartley had foundered in the 1960s following his affair with the actress Caroline Mortimer. They began living together, but at first there was no question of marriage. When Penny was crippled by a stroke, Leslie Phillips was "pulled back into the frame" by his children and he and Angela helped to care for her until her death in a house fire in 1981. They married in 1982.

Despite Phillips's on-screen reputation as a lothario, theirs was a happy marriage. Angela Scoular went on to appear in several more films, stage productions and television series, notably as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the television series You Rang, M'Lord? (1988-93). But during her early years as an actress she had struggled with anorexia and later on she suffered from severe clinical depression which, according to her husband, meant that she lost her ability to face an audience. It was "difficult to be a character actress when you were a sex symbol", he observed.

Angela Scoular was born in London on November 8 1945 and encouraged in her ambitions to be an actress by her aunt, the actress Margaret Johnston.

She began her screen career in the mid-1960s, appearing in the long-running police drama No Hiding Place and taking a bit part in Ian McKellen's adaptation of David Copperfield, before going on to appear in her first feature films, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967, with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren), Casino Royale and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968).

On television she appeared in series such as The Avengers, Penmarric, Coronation Street and As Time Goes By, and was Cathy in a 1967 television adaptation of Wuthering Heights. On stage she starred in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular, at the Criterion Theatre (1974); appeared in a production of Hamlet at the Cambridge Theatre (1971); in Joseph Caruso's Little Lies at the Wyndham (1983); and in Peter Shaffer's White Liars and Black Comedy at the Lyric Theatre (1968).

She is survived by her husband and son.

Angela Scoular (1945–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780029/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actress (35 credits)

1996 As Time Goes By (TV Series) - Glenys
- Avoiding the Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
- The Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
1988-1993 You Rang, M'Lord? (TV Series) - Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Well, There You Are Then...! (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Fall of the House of Meldrum (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Truth Revealed (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Come to the Ball (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Requiem for a Parrot (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- A Day in the Country (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Night of Reckoning (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Gretna Green or Bust (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Current Affairs (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Please Help the Orphans (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Royal Flush (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Wounds of War (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Meldrum Vases (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Trouble at Mill (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Love and Money (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Phantom Sign Writer (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Pilot (1988) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross

1981 The House on the Hill (TV Series) - Aileen Douglas
- Man of Straw (1981) ... Aileen Douglas
1971-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Joanna Trout / The Girl
- Dear Brutus (1981) ... Joanna Trout
- Evelyn (1971) ... The Girl
1979 Penmarric (TV Series) - Maud Castallack / Maud Penmar
- Episode #1.6 (1979) ... Maud Penmar
- Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
- Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
1977 Adventures of a Private Eye - Jane Hogg
1976 Adventures of a Taxi Driver - Marion
1975 Rooms (TV Series) - Madeline Parsons
- Midgely: Part 2 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
- Midgely: Part 1 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
1973-1974 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Thomasine / Patty
- Only the Other Day (1974) ... Thomasine
- Hopcraft Into Europe (1973) ... Patty
1974 Beryl's Lot (TV Series) - Jill Savage
- Backs to the Wall (1974) ... Jill Savage
- A Bit of Culture (1974) ... Jill Savage
- It's a Rum World (1974) ... Jill Savage
1973 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Charlotte
- The Runaway (1973) ... Charlotte
1973 Second City Firsts (TV Series) - Astral Philips
- Mrs Pool's Preserves (1973) ... Astral Philips
1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Frankie Prentiss
- Episode #1.62 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
- Episode #1.61 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
1973 Crown Court (TV Series) - Serena Cutforth
- The Gilded Cage: Part 2 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
- The Gilded Cage: Part 1 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
1972 For Loving (TV Movie) - Girl
1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Dorinda
- Nearly the End of the Picture (1972) ... Dorinda
1972 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1193 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1192 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1191 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1190 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1189 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1188 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
1972 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Francesca Stokes
- Knightsbridge (1972) ... Francesca Stokes
1971 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Pauline
- Equal Partners (1971) ... Pauline
1970 Doctor in Trouble - Ophelia O'Brien
1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Charlotte
- Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It (1970) ... Charlotte
1970 The Adventurers - Denisonde

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ruby
1969 Doctor in the House (TV Series) - Fiona
- Rallying Round... (1969) ... Fiona
1968 Great Catherine - Claire
1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Myra
- Super Secret Cypher Snatch (1968) ... Myra
1968 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Caroline Beauchamp
1967 Wuthering Heights (TV Series) - Catherine Earnshaw / Cathy Earnshaw
- The Last Revenge (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
- The Abduction (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
- The First Revenge (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
- An End to Childhood (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
1967 Love Story (TV Series) - Joy
- Her Freudian Slip (1967) ... Joy
1967 Casino Royale - Buttercup
1967 Girl in a Black Bikini (TV Series) - Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.6 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.5 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
1967 A Countess from Hong Kong - The Society Girl
1966 David Copperfield (TV Series) - Emily
- Toll of the Sea (1966) ... Emily
- Old Acquaintances (1966) ... Emily
1965 Romeo and Juliet (TV Movie) - Juliet
1963-1964 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Chantal Smith / Gillian Kendrick
- Why Baker Died (1964) ... Chantal Smith
- Pillar to Post (1963) ... Gillian Kendrick

Agent Buttercup in Casino Royale 1967


Ruby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969

1969: Insan Iki Kere Yasar (Human Lies Twice) released in Turkey.

The poster below lifts art from spy movie Deadlier Than The Male.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 40 of 65 - "Barbella's Big Attraction" in Rio de Janeiro.

James Bond Jr - Barbella's Big Attraction

Season 1 - Episode 40
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807094/?ref_=ttep_ep40

Barbella's high blood pressure leads her to mutiny when S.C.U.M lord insulted her. So Barbella uses the incoming asteroid that S.C.U.M. Lord wants to go on a collision course with London and send it to destroy Rio de Janeiro where the S.C.U.M conference is taking place.

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 / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Barbella (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 40 - Barbella's Big Attraction

Barbella's Revenge (based on Barbella's Big Attraction), Caryn Jenner, Buzz Books 1991.

1999: The World Is Not Enough premiere at the Fox Bruin Theater, Los Angeles.

2012: Skyfall IMAX premiere in the US prior to a 9 November general release.

2015: Geneva auction of a Rolex wristwatch with ties to Live and Let Die and Roger Moore closes this date.

290
Rolex
Ref. 5513

See the complete article here:

https://www.phillips.com/detail/ROLEX/CH080515/290

A unique and historically significant stainless steel wristwatch-prop with bracelet, specially adapted for James Bond's "Live and Let Die", caseback signed "Roger Moore 007"

1972
39.5mm. Diameter
Case, dial and bracelet signed
Estimate CHF150,000 - 250,000
Sold for CHF365,000

Manufacturer: Rolex
Year: 1972
Reference No: 5513
Case No: 2'683'776
Model Name: Submariner
Material: Stainless steel
Calibre: Movement removed
Bracelet/Strap: Stainless steel Rolex Oyster
Clasp/Buckle: Déployant clasp stamped 7-72
Dimensions: 39.5mm. Diameter
Signed: Case, dial and bracelet signed
Accessories: The present example is accompanied with James Bond memorabilia, 3 corresponding black and white framed stills, the "Live and Let Die" movie tape and the Christie's South Kensington catalogue of the "James Bond" auction in 14.02.2001.
Provenance: The present example was formerly offered at auction at Christie's South Kensington, on 14.02.2001, "James Bond", lot 145. Later offered at Christie's Geneva, 14.11.2011, "Important Watches", lot 182.

Provenance
The present example was formerly offered at auction at Christie's South Kensington, on 14.02.2001, "James Bond", lot 145. Later offered at Christie's Geneva, 14.11.2011, "Important Watches", lot 182.

Catalogue Essay
The most recognizable watch in history with 1 billion people having watched the film “Live and Let Die”, the wristwatch worn on the wrist of Sir Roger Moore as James Bond is in fact a Rolex Submariner reference 5513 made in 1972, and was later modified for the movie.

Art director and British production designer Syd Cain worked on over 30 movie projects, and received international fame for playing a key role as gadget designer in the James Bond movies. The acclaimed Rolex Submariner worn was memorable for its buzzsaw bezel that spun and could cut through rope to escape dangerous situations, and its hyper intensified magnetic field with the ability to deflect bullets. Used for both humor and heightened dramatic events, the magnetic power could unzip Miss Caruso’s dress, and catch a spoon off of a coffee saucer.

The present Rolex reference 5513 “Q” is the most unforgettable watch prop used in a movie and is even signed inside the caseback “Roger Moore 007”. As a highlight in the most iconic scenes of “Live and Let Die”, this watch is sure to interest both watch collectors and true fans of cinematography alike.

SYD CAIN: An accomplished movie production designer, "Syd" Cain is best known for his creative work on four films of the famous James Bond 007 series. His work on the series followed his successful efforts supporting Producer Albert R. Broccoli on two films in 1954 and 1956. Broccoli chose Cain for "Dr. No" in 1962, and went on to assume the role of art director for 1963's "From Russia With Love". That film introduced Q, the legendary character responsible for issuing gadgets to James Bond. It was Cain who was designing these gadgets in actuality, including villains gadgets, such as the poisoned-tipped blade of Rosa Klebb's shoes, and of course this Rolex Submariner 5513 worn in 1973's "Live and Let Die".

Cain (1918-2011) was himself a survivor, having managed to walk away from a plane crash during World War II, and later, surviving a lightning strike. Notably, he also served as assistant art director for Standley Kubrick, and production designer for Alford Hitchcock and Jack Gold. Survived by five sons and three daughters, he was a popular personality with James Bond fans, and wrote an autobiography documenting his experiences with the 007 films: Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain.

Maker Biography

Rolex
Swiss • 1905
Founded in 1905 England by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis as Wilsdorf & Davis, it soon became known as the Rolex Watch Company in 1915, moving its headquarters to Geneva in 1919. Like no other company, the success of the wristwatch can be attributed to many of Rolex's innovations that made them one of the most respected and well-known of all luxury brands. These innovations include their famous "Oyster" case — the world's first water resistant and dustproof watch case, invented in 1926 — and their "Perpetual" — the first reliable self-winding movement for wristwatches launched in 1933. They would form the foundation for Rolex's Datejust and Day-Date, respectively introduced in 1945 and 1956, but also importantly for their sports watches, such as the Explorer, Submariner and GMT-Master launched in the mid-1950s.

One of its most famous models is the Cosmograph Daytona. Launched in 1963, these chronographs are without any doubt amongst the most iconic and coveted of all collectible wristwatches. Other key collectible models include their most complicated vintage watches, including references 8171 and 6062 with triple calendar and moon phase, "Jean Claude Killy" triple date chronograph models and the Submariner, including early "big-crown" models and military-issued variants.

2019: Planned BOND 25 release date (confirmed by an official announcement 24 July 2017).

2022: Columbia University Press and Wallflower Press release Dr. No - The First James Bond Film by James Chapman.

Dr. No

The First James Bond Film

See the complete article here:

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/dr-no/9780231204934

James Chapman
Wallflower Press

When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since: sensational plots, colorful locations, beautiful women, diabolical villains, thrilling action set pieces, and a tongue-in-cheek tone. An explosive cocktail of action, spectacle, and sex, Dr. No transformed popular cinema.

James Chapman provides a lively and comprehensive study of Dr. No, marshaling a wealth of archival research to place the film in its historical moment. He demonstrates that, contrary to many fan myths, the film was the product of a carefully considered transnational production process. Chapman explores the British super-spy’s origins in Ian Fleming’s snobbery-with-violence thrillers, examining the process of adaptation from page to screen. He considers Dr. No in the contexts of the UK and Hollywood film industries as well as the film’s place in relation to the changing social and cultural landscape of the 1960s, particularly Cold War anxieties and the decline of the British Empire. The book also analyzes the film’s problematic politics of gender and race and considers its cultural legacy.

This thorough and insightful account of Dr. No will appeal to film historians and Bond fans alike.

Pub Date: November 2022
ISBN: 9780231204934
256 Pages
Format: Paperback
List Price: $28.00 £22.00

Pub Date: November 2022
ISBN: 9780231204927
256 Pages
Format: Hardcover
List Price: $110.00 £85.00

Pub Date: November 2022
ISBN: 9780231555746
256 Pages
Format: E-book
List Price: $27.99 £22.00

About the Author
James Chapman is professor of film studies at the University of Leicester and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. His books include Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (second edition, 2007), Hitchcock and the Spy Film (2018), and The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945–1985 (2022).

RichardTheBruce

December 9th

1912: Blanche Blackwell is born--Costa Rica.
(She dies 8 August 2017 at age 104--London, England.)

Blanche Blackwell obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/blanche-blackwell-obituary

Heiress who became the ‘Jamaican wife’ of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and was supposedly the model for Goldfinger’s Pussy Galore

Ian Thomson | Tue 29 Aug 2017 12.26 EDT

Blanche Blackwell and Ian Fleming. Photograph:
Taken from the biography of Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett

Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was a divorcee in her 40s when in 1956 she met Ian Fleming, her neighbour in Jamaica and the creator of James Bond; and soon they became lovers. Cracks had by then begun to show in Fleming’s marriage to Ann Charteris. Ann was ashamed of her husband’s success as a thriller writer (the Bond novels were “pornography”, she told friends), and had begun to stay away from their Jamaican home, Goldeneye.

Blackwell’s friendship with Fleming intensified when Ann began an affair with the politician Hugh Gaitskell. Ann became suspicious of “Ian’s Jamaican wife” after Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, mentioned how helpful Blackwell had been at Goldeneye when the prime minister recuperated there in 1956 after the debacle of Suez. In an attempt to make Goldeneye more welcoming for the Edens, Blackwell had planted the garden with flowers; Ann later tore them out and threw them over the cliff.

Fleming wrote all 13 of his 007 novels in Jamaica, though only three (Dr No, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun) were set partly on the island. Noël Coward, another neighbour, dubbed Fleming’s home “Goldeneye, nose and throat” for its lack of creature comforts. It was in this Spartan retreat that Fleming immersed himself in a Bond-like life of tropical oblivion fuelled by vodka and cigarettes (like 007, Fleming smoked 70 a day).

Impishly, he included sketches of his friends (and enemies) in his fiction. Blackwell was supposedly a model for Pussy Galore, the trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess in his novel Goldfinger; for the film, she is a pilot and martial arts expert. In Dr No, the guano-collecting ship was named the Blanche. Blackwell claimed not to have read any of the books, though: “I don’t like violence.”

Daughter of Hilda (nee Lindo) and Percy Lindo, cousins who married, she was born into a wealthy Jamaican family, descended from Sephardic Jews from western Europe who had settled in Kingston in the mid-18th century and came to control much of the island’s commerce. Her father had helped to consolidate the family fortune in Costa Rica – where Blanche was born, in San José – before returning to Jamaica, where he owned property and produced rum.

In 1936, in London, Blanche married Joseph Blackwell, a captain in the Irish Guards and heir to the Crosse & Blackwell foods fortune. Together they ran the family estates in Jamaica and owned a string of racehorses. In 1937 their son Christopher was born. Blanche was not happy in the marriage, however. The actor Errol Flynn (“a gorgeous god,” Blackwell called him) became one of her admirers.

By the time she and Joseph divorced in 1949, she had moved to Jamaica’s north coast, to a house equidistant between Coward’s and Fleming’s. “Noël became a special pal of mine,” Blackwell told me during an interview in 2007, and Coward was said to have based his play Volcano on island life, and one of its central characters, Adela, on Blackwell.

Fleming adored “Birdie” Blackwell and her darting, kingfisher mind. And Blackwell, in her turn, considered Fleming a “charming, handsome, gifted man”, but one plagued by self-doubt and self-hate. “Ian was an angel”, she told me. “Errol was another … Both lovely men – both exceptionally gifted and definitely not for domesticating.”

When Fleming died of a heart attack in 1964, Blanche was invited neither to the funeral nor the memorial service. For years, she kept watch over Goldeneye for Fleming’s son Caspar; and after Caspar’s death in 1975 the house was bought first by Bob Marley, and then by her son, Chris, the founder in 1959 of Island Records, who had “discovered” Marley.

Tough and good-humoured, in later life Blackwell wore her white hair bobbed round an animated, heart-shaped face. Her life, until she decamped in 2003 to a flat in Knightsbridge, London, had been one of island entertainments and literary friendships. Now, looked after by three Jamaican maids, Blackwell became an unlikely devotee of bingo. Each week her chauffeur took her to the Cricklewood Mecca to play. In Kingston, she had liked to bet on the horses, but London bingo was not without its thrills. “Cricklewood might seem a little dull to you,” she said. “It isn’t really. I could sit for hours in the Mecca. The tension as your number comes up. Bing-bing-bingo!”

She is survived by her son.

• Blanche Blackwell, born 9 December 1912; died 8 August 2017

This article was amended on 13 September 2017. The original description of Pussy Galore as a pilot and martial arts expert applies only to the film; in the novel she is a trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess.

1934: Judi Dench is born--York, North Yorkshire, England.

1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 11 September 1961. 988-1065) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

http://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/for-your-eyes-only-comic-strip.html



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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 8: “For Your Eyes Only” (1966)
"Fra dødelig synsvinkel"
Note: The title of the main story is announced as "Fra dødelig synsvinkel" in issue no. 7 and on page 3, but the front page says "Fra en dræbende synsvinkel". Rather confusingly, both Danish titles translate as "From a view to a kill", even though this particular comic is adapted from another Ian Fleming short story, "For Your Eyes Only".

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 29: “For Your Eyes Only” (1974)
"Fra en dræbende synsvinkel"
Note: The story's Danish title somewhat confusingly translates as "From a View to a Kill", though it is based on "For Your Eyes Only".

1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) premieres in Tokyo, Japan.

1974 Re-release

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Australia and South Africa.

1987: Barbara Walters interviews Sean Connery on ABC-TV.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5jduhc

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 61 of 65 - "Dutch Treat" in Holland.

James Bond Jr - Dutch Treat

Season 1 - Episode 61
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807099/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

In Holland, Tiara Hotstones stole an emerald from the museum to get to a counterfeit artist named Rembrandt but she accidentally drops it into a box of chocolates that Phoebe brought.

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)
Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie Kath Soucie ... Tiara Hotstones (voice)
Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon 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 61 - Dutch Treat

1997: World Charity premiere of Tomorrow Never Dies at the London Odeon. No Royal family in attendance this time.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/tnd_premiere

http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere1.html

1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Germany.

2006: “You Know My Name” written by Chris Cornell and David Arnold peaks at 57 on The Billboard Hot 100. Cornell's highest charting single.

Making of video

2016: Radio Christmas interviews John Glen.

Director John Glen on
Radio Christmas

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/director-john-glen-on-radio-christmas/

On 9 Dec, 2016 By Bond on the BoxIn Radio Broadcast

Former James Bond director John Glen will be on the charity station Radio Christmas on Friday, 9 December 2016 from 7:00 – 9:00PM (GMT).

2020: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries present Dressed to Kill: The West End tailors who suited James Bond.

Dec
09

Dressed to Kill: The West End
tailors who suited James Bond

by Royal Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea Libraries

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressed-to-kill-the-west-end-tailors-who-suited-james-bond-tickets-128852155265

Date and Time
Wed, 9 December 2020
13:30 – 14:30 EST

Producer Albert R ‘Cubby’ Broccoli once said of James Bond: ‘Regimes may rise and fall, lapels may widen or narrow, but ultimately he remains the old-fashioned suited hero.’ Since the release of Eon Production’s first Bond film, Dr No, in 1962, the character has been tailored by Anthony Sinclair (Sean Connery), Dimitrov ‘Dimi’ Major (George Lazenby), Cyril Castle, Angelo Vittuci and Douglas ‘Doug’ Hayward (Roger Moore), Benjamin Simon and Lambert Hofer (Timothy Dalton), Brioni (Pierce Brosnan) and Tom Ford (Daniel Craig), respectively. This talk will provide a fun tour of the London-based, Westminster tailors who suited James Bond, and discusses where they were based, who they were, and how they assisted in the creation of the image of the eponymous suited hero who endures today.

Llewella Chapman is a film historian and visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia, completing her PhD in 2018 on the historic relationship between film, television and Hampton Court Palace. Her research interests include British cinema, gender, heritage and costume design. Llewella is under contract with Bloomsbury to publish her monograph, Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the world of 007, which is due to be released next year.

2022: Bond in Motion at the Brussels Expo, Belgium.

Until Sun 14 May
Bond in Motion

See the complete article here:

https://www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/agenda/event-detail.Bond-in-Motion.544641

Exhibition
Brussels Expo
€25

Bond in Motion
For the first time on the European continent, spectacular sets, making of models and about fifty original vehicles (motorcycles, cars, planes, submarines, hovercrafts, helicopters, ...), straight out of the 25 James Bond films, will be gathered in one place from December 9, 2022 to May 14, 2023 at Brussels Expo.

For the first time on the European continent, the Bond in Motion exhibition is a first for the city of Brussels and the Brussels Region. Brussels Expo will host this exceptional event, starting on December 9. Created in 1953 by Ian Fleming, brought to the screen in 1962 with the film James Bond vs b]Dr No[/b, the James Bond saga is more alive than ever. If the most famous agent in the world has succeeded in many of his missions, it is often thanks to the vehicles designed by the ingenious "Q". From the early Aston Martin DB5 to the latest model, from the Lotus that turns into a submarine to motorcycles, boats and planes, Bond in Motion will give film enthusiasts the chance to step behind the scenes. In the 60 years of its existence, the creativity of the teams behind the James Bond adventure has never failed. "Bond in Motion" is an opportunity to discover not only the vehicles but also the secrets of their making through documents gathered for the first time. The realization of the cult scenes and the most extraordinary stunts will finally be revealed. Many other "non-automotive" objects will also be exhibited and will certainly cause some nice surprises.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition Bond in Motion, animations, meetings and events will be organized around the 007 saga. More than an exhibition, "Bond in Motion" promises a real experience that will enthrall all audiences, from the youngest to the first time fans, from the crazy cinema fans to the technology enthusiasts and the adventure fans, without forgetting all those who want to live a family outing that touches all generations.

Many animations and various surprises (still classified top secret for the moment!) will be planned for young and old.

A 007 bar - restaurant and James Bond stores will of course be in the right place, ready to ready to satisfy the desires of visitors.

Timetable
From 9 Dec to 14 May

Monday
11:00 - 18:00
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
11:00 - 18:00
Thursday
Closed
Friday
11:00 - 18:00
Saturday
11:00 - 22:00
Sunday
11:00 - 18:00
Normal
€ 25

Organised by Carbon 12011

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Phone (Booking) +32 2 354 00 06

RichardTheBruce

December 10th

1963: Following the award of film rights for Thunderball plus ten other Bond stories to Kevin McClory, the Los Angeles Times reports his plans for a film budgeted at $2.24 million.
1963: Jack Whittingham issues a writ against Ian Fleming for damages citing libel, malicious falsehood, damage to professional reputation.

1965: Daily Variety reports Ann-Margret and Glenda Grainger recording and releasing versions of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" from the upcoming film Thunderball.

"Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Ann-Margret.


"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Glenda Grainger.

1966: You Only Live Twice finishes filming Blofeld in the control room.

1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and Solitaire transferring from bus to Quarrel Junior's boat.

1977: 007 私を愛したスパイ (Watashiwoai shitasupai; My Beloved Spy) released in Japan.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 62 of 65 - "No Time to Lose" in England.

James Bond Jr - No Time to Lose

Season 1 - Episode 62
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807297/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

A case of mistaken identity leads Spoiler to kidnap IQ, as part of Doctor No's plan to build an impenetrable government airship known as the Vulture.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Michael Gough ... Spoiler
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)
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 62 - No Time to Lose

1992: MGM/UA settles lawsuits delaying production of Bond films--key executives depart. Credit Lyonnais finances future operations.

1995: Zlatno oko (Golden Eye) released in Slovenia.

1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Austria.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Denmark.

“The World is Not Enough”: Danish press book and ad sheet (1999)
https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/twine-dk-pressbook-1999/

2011: Skyfall films late night action on Childers Street, Lewisham, London, for the escape to Scotland.
2019: Last day of Sotheby's online literature sale for the letters of Anne and Ian Fleming.

'Extraordinary' letters between Ian
Fleming and wife to be sold

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/extraordinary-letters-between-ian-fleming-and-wife-to-be-sold

More than 160 letters written over 20 years shine light on James Bond author’s life

Mark Brown Arts correspondent | Mon 11 Nov 2019 15.01 EST
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Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Photograph:
©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's

An extraordinary stash of letters that shine a light on the tangled relationship between the James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, and his wife, Ann, from their intense and secret affair to the bitter end of their marriage, are to appear at auction.

Sotheby’s is selling more than 160 letters between the couple, written over 20 years. Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in books and manuscripts at the auction house, said the letters in their scope and scale provided what “must surely be an unmatchable record of the life of the author as his fortunes changed”.

They also provide insight into the rise of Bond. Heaton said it was no coincidence that Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the year of his marriage.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c80da8e2dabb059ffa334a4d1f5b02f46b28a826/0_1502_4870_2922/master/4870.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7622d11c346b2ee914fd5e39673683f9
Ian Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women. Photograph:
©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's

It was “both as an outlet for his libido and imagination, and also in an attempt to make money for a woman who was used to being unthinkingly rich”.

Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Her first husband was Shane O’Neill, the 3rd Baron O’Neill. After his death in military action in 1944, she married the newspaper magnate Esmond Harmsworth, the 2nd Viscount Rothermere.

During both marriages she and Fleming were lovers, an intense relationship that had sado-masochistic elements. “I long for you even if you whip me because I love being hurt by you and kissed afterwards,” Ann once wrote to Fleming.

In 1948 Ann became pregnant with Fleming’s child, a girl who was a month premature and lived only eight hours. The collection includes a number of sad and gentle letters written by Fleming on Gleneagles stationery shortly after he played golf with Rothermere, the cuckolded husband.

In one letter he writes: “I have nothing to say to comfort you. After all this travail and pain it is bitter. I can only send you my arms and my love and all my prayers.”

Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women and when the couple finally married in 1952 that was never likely to stop.

Ann once wrote to him: “You mention ‘bad old bachelor days’ – the only person you stopped sleeping with when they ceased was me!”

A letter from Fleming written on British Overseas Airways Corporation stationery reads: “In the present twilight, we are hurting each other to an extent that makes life hardly bearable.”

Heaton said the letters were packed with stories of high society, travel, love of nature and gossip.

“They are quite something, it has been a real treat,” he said. “They are an extraordinary read because Ian Fleming is pretty much incapable of writing a dull sentence.”

Fleming wrote all of the Bond novels at GoldenEye, his house in Jamaica, a place visited by many of Ann’s remarkable circle of friends. The artist Lucian Freud, for example, and the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, with whom she had a long affair.

There were also surprising visitors. “Truman Capote has come to stay,” Fleming writes. “Can you imagine a more incongruous playmate for me. On the heels of a telegram he came hustling and twittering along with his tiny face crushed under a Russian Commissars’ uniform hat [...] he had just arrived from Moscow.”

The letters consist of more than 500 typed and handwritten pages, at least three written on endpapers torn from books. Two of the letters from Ann are written on the back of a gin rummy card and a hospital temperature chart.

They will be offered in Sotheby’s online literature sale between 3 and 10 December and come with an estimate of £200,000-300,000.

It was important to keep them together, said Heaton. “They are much more than the sum of their parts, the correspondence as a whole is far more substantial and interesting and revealing and exciting than simply an accumulation of individual letters.”

Ian Fleming's Love Letters at Sotheby's

https://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/features/ian-flemings-love-letters-sothebys

RichardTheBruce

December 11th

1961: James Bond comic strip Thunderball begins its run in The Daily Mail.
(Ends 10 February 1962. 1066-1128) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

1126-11327

First ending, Daily Express.

Second ending in syndication.

Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-6-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 6:
“Thunderball” (1966)

1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) released in Japan.

1975: The British-American Chamber of Commerce honors Roger Moore--Man of the Year.
1979: Moonraker released in Davao, the Philippines.

1984: Daily Variety reports a Christmas respite for the A View to a Kill production while final sets are built. Filming to resume in the New Year on the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage.
1986: Prince Charles and Princess Diana visit the set of The Living Daylights and meet Timothy Dalton.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 63 of 65 - "Monument to S.C.U.M." in Arizona.

James Bond Jr - Monument to S.C.U.M.

Season 1 - Episode 63
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807293/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

James and the gang are in Arizona and entering the scientist competition contest. Meanwhile, Dr. Derange uses a magnetic generator to change the Earth's core.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Michael Gough ... Spoiler (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon 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 63 - Monument to S.C.U.M.

1997: Documentary James Bond Shaken and Stirred airs on television as a Tomorrow Never Dies tie-in.

James Bond: Shaken
and Stirred (1997)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934868/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5
1h | Documentary | TV Movie 11 December 1997

Promotional TV documentary to publicize the release of the then new James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Includes interviews with a number of key cast and crew production personnel.

Stars: Samantha Bond, Vic Armstrong, David Arnold

2002: Die Another Day released in Venezuela.
2006: Interscope Records releases the "You Know My Name" CD single in the UK.

2020: Mark Edlitz appears on James Bond Radio to discuss his book The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews &
Interviews!

https://jamesbondradio.libsyn.com/197-the-lost-adventures-of-james-bond-with-mark-edlitz
Fri, 11 December 2020

#197: The Lost Adventures of James Bond with Mark Edlitz

This week, author, Mark Edlitz returns to the show to talk about his new book: The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

As Bond fans, we've all seen the movies and read the books, but there is a hidden world of 007 content left to discover when it comes to the 'lost' or unmade adventures.

In today's episode, Mark talks us through the ideas and outlines for Timothy Dalton's 3rd and 4th Bond films, explores the unproduced Casino Royale stage play written by Raymond Benson, exposes the secret history of the James Bond Jr. animated series, and much more.

Direct download: JBR197-The-Lost-Adventures-of-James-Bond.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/jamesbondradio/JBR197-The-Lost-Adventures-of-James-Bond.mp3?dest-id=181959

Category:TV/Film -- posted at: 12:30am UTC

The Lost Adventures of James Bond | A James Bond Virtual Book Launch

2020: Scientific Games slot game James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever showcased at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark.

Scientific Games to showcase new slot game
“James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever” at this
week’s Macau After Dark 7

See the complete article here:

https://www.asgam.com/index.php/2020/12/09/scientific-games-to-showcase-new-slot-game-james-bond-diamonds-are-forever-at-this-weeks-macau-after-dark-7/

by Newsdesk | Wednesday 9 December 2020 at 04:11
Inside Asian Gaming names Galeria Lisboa at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf as venue for this Friday’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark event

Leading gaming product developer Scientific Games will showcase its brand new slot game, “James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever” at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark industry networking event this Friday 11 December 2020.

To be held at Galeria Lisboa at Macau’ Fisherman’s Wharf, the invitation-only seventh rendition of Macau After Dark will represent one of the last opportunities for the industry to come together in 2020, with Scientific Games taking pride of place as Showcase Sponsor.

“We are thrilled to continue our 2020 sponsorship for the Macau After Dark,” said Scientific Games Vice President and Managing Director, Ken Jolly.

“This event happening in December is special in bringing the industry together as a very tough year winds down.”

Discussing the company’s product presentation at MAD 7, Jolly added, “Scientific Games continues to work tirelessly, planning and creating new products for the gaming industry’s recovery.

“We are highlighting our upcoming branded slot game ‘James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever’ during the event.

“Also coming in 2021 in our slots line up is the third Duo Fu Duo Cai game on DualosX, ‘Hurricane Horse’, and fourth Jin Ji Bao Xi game – ‘Singing Cats’ – adding to both successful families of games. Additionally, 1,2,3 Wild, a new link progressive, is also coming in early 2021.

“Game changers on the Shufflers and Utilities side are the MDX shuffler, which has up to 10 decks shuffling and sorting capacity. The new Safe-Shoe X also has a 10 deck capacity that works seamlessly with the new iScore®Ultra baccarat display. It is the winning combination for any baccarat gameplay.”

MAD is a regular series of industry networking social events held in Asia’s gaming hub of Macau. Each MAD brings together key industry decision-makers with the people they want to meet in a relaxed and friendly environment. A new venue is chosen for each event.

Attendees of MAD must work for an operator, a supplier to an operator, a VIP promoter or be connected to the industry in some way. All attendees supply their business cards upon entrance.

For the upcoming MAD Santa event on 11 December, attendees must be invited to attend.

For sponsorship, please contact:
Jadeson Ho
+853 2883 6497
[email protected]

For more information, please contact:
Victoria Man
+853 6395 2307
[email protected]

2021: Dallas String Quartet at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri.

Saturday 11 December 2021
Dallas String Quartet

See the complete article here:

https://www.songkick.com/concerts/39973634-dallas-string-quartet-at-ozark-christian-college

Ozark Christian College, Joplin, MO, US
Dallas String Quartet live

Ozark Christian College
1111 N Main 64801 Joplin, MO, US

We had a great time at the concert. Such a nice venue, with all the trees lit up and reflecting in the lake in the background. Really enjoyed their mash-up of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the James Bond theme …

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric

2024: Lani Hall and Herb Alpert perform at the Walker Theatre, Tivoli Theatre Foundation, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Herb Alpert & Lani Hall 2024

https://tivolichattanooga.com/venue-event/ba2bc8fe-7af9-45c7-adda-990fc28c9433

Date(s)
December 11
Time
7:30 PM
Venue
The Walker Theatre

RichardTheBruce

December 12th

1964: The Goldfinger soundtrack makes the Billboard chart, eventually reaches #1. Spends 77 weeks in top 200.
1964: Playboy magazine publishes its Ian Fleming interview.

1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes, also Catalan title Només per als teus ulls) released in Spain.

1987: 007/リビング・デイライツ (007/ Ribingu deiraitsu; Living Daylights) released in Japan.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 64 of 65 - "Northern Lights" in Toronto, Canada.

James Bond Jr - Northern Lights

Season 1 - Episode 64
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807110/?ref_=ttep_ep64

The Warfield students arrive in Toronto on a clean-up project, unaware that Baron von Skarin is also in town with a scheme to hold the city's electricity for ransom.

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 / Nick Nack / Scumlord (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 / Jaws (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 64 - Northern Lights

1993: The (James Bond 007 International Fan Club's) "Diamonds are Forever 22-Carat Christmas Lunch" is held at Pinewood Studios with Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, and the moon buggy.

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/events/events_1993.htm

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the UK, Ireland, and Iceland.

2002: Die Another Day released in Australia, the Dominican Republic, and Lebanon.
2002: 007: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Mexico.

2002: Умри, но не сейчас (Die But Not Now) released in Russia.

2014: Spectre films at Solden, Austria, near the glacier and through the tunnel.
2016: Jamaica reports its nine wins at the 23rd World Travel Awards from 4 December.

JAMAICA WINS NINE AWARDS AT
WTA CEREMONY

https://www.un.int/jamaica/news/jamaica-wins-nine-awards-wta-ceremony
Date: Monday, 12 December 2016

MONTEGO BAY, Dec. 4 (JIS):
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the nine awards won by Jamaica at the 23rd World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony on Friday (December 2) are a testament to the current international value of Brand Jamaica.

Mr. Bartlett said the awards were a vindication of all the hard work and dedication that have been put into enhancing the tourism product and “a ringing endorsement of all the policies and programmes we have been undertaking.”

“Jamaica starred big time and had the most combined awards from the scores of destinations that were nominated,” Mr. Bartlett said via email from the Maldives, southern Asia, on Saturday (December 3).

“It is not an exaggeration to say that the garnering of such prestigious accolades, on such a stage and on that particular night, will be a major advertising boost for us and something which could positively improve on our projections throughout the winter tourist season,” he added.

The ceremony, which was held at the Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Hotel in the heart of the Maldives, saw Jamaica winning individual awards for: World’s Leading Cruise Destination and World’s Leading Wedding Destination.

Mr. Bartlett also received the distinctive award of the World’s Leading Personality for Outstanding Services to Travel at the function.

Other awards won by Jamaica and its resorts and travel partners were: World’s Leading Luxury Hotel Villa (Ian Fleming Villa at GoldenEye); World’s Leading New Island Resort (Melia Braco Village); World’s Leading Villa Resort (Round Hill Hotel and Villas); World’s Leading Family Resort Brand (Beaches); World’s Leading All-Inclusive Company (Sandals Resorts International) and World’s Leading Caribbean Attractions Company (Island Routes Caribbean Adventure).

Meanwhile, Mr. Bartlett stressed that now is not the time for complacency as “rest assured that as we celebrate, our competitors are busy plotting marketing strategies”.

“We must also be cognisant of the fact that the success of our tourism will not be sufficiently measured by the number of international awards that are won, but by the resilience of our people and the nimbleness of our models,” he explained.

He added that the consistency of Jamaica’s tourism growth, both in revenues and visitor arrivals, has positioned the country as world-beaters.

“I offer my deepest and most profound gratitude to the many partners in tourism who over time have conspired to give Jamaica a moment of glory like this,” Mr. Bartlett noted.

Jamaica was also represented at the ceremony by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang who collected the award for World’s Leading Cruise Destination on behalf of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ).

CONTACT: GARWIN DAVIS
JIS REGIONAL OFFICE
MONTEGO BAY

2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Origin #4.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #4

Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Kev Walker
Cover C: Wilfredo Torres
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: December 2018
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/12/2018

"Rocket Sea" continues...Forced to surface in enemy waters, a damaged Royal Navy submarine docks at a mysterious island for repairs. Lieutenant James Bond leads a hunting expedition across the island. But while hunting beasts, he discovers a far more dangerous prey...

Cassaday

Walker

Torres

Moustafa

Bob Q

RichardTheBruce

December 13th

1915: Curd Jürgens is born--Solin, Munich, Germany.
(He dies 18 June 1982 at age 66--Vienna, Austria.)

CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
UPI | JUNE 19, 1982

Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.

Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.

His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners

Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.

A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.

With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''

Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

Curd Jürgens (1915–1982)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432007/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (169 credits)

1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander

1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
- Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
- Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
1975 Second Spring - Fox
1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
- Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
- The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
- The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
1973 Occupation (TV Series)
1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
- Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
- Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
- Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
- Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks

1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
- Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
- Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
- The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
- Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
- The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun

1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
1957 Les espions - Alex
1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
1954 Orient Express - Bate
1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
1954 Circus of Love - Toni
1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor

1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)

Director (6 credits)

1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
- Immer die Bigelows (1966)
- Flug nach Ankara (1966)
- Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
- Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
1951 Gangsterpremiere
1950 Prämien auf den Tod

Soundtrack (4 credits)

1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)

1925: Dick Van Dyke is born--West Plains, Missouri.

1941: Anouska Hempel (The Australian Girl) is born--Wellington, New Zealand.

1958: Lynn-Holly Johnson is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1958: The first Bond comic strip Casino Royale ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 7 July 1958. 1-138) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

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










Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3

Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
(High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)

Swedish Semic Comic 1981 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3

Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
(High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
"Højt spil i Monte Carlo"
[High Stakes in Monte Carlo]

1964: The New York Times prints Richard Maibaum's piece "James Bond's 39 Bumps".

James Bond's 39 Bumps

http://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/13/james-bonds-39-bumps.html?_r=0
RICHARD MAIBAUM - DEC. 13, 1964

I ONCE told the late Ian Fleming that he wrote too well. Speaking strictly as a screenwriter, that is, who is handed a novel by a producer and told to trans­late it into celluloid. In the long run, of course, the di­rector does that, but the screenplay is his blueprint and has inherent in it the completed motion picture.

Mr. Fleming seemed pleased, beaming when I as­cribed to him “an untrans­ferable literary quality,” but I’m sure he did not entirely realize I was paying him a left - handed compliment. Again from the standpoint of the screen dramatist.

There is little doubt in my mind that the success of the Bond films stems directly from the success of the nov­els, their combination of ter­ror and elegance, sophisti­[cation]...

Fleming's tongue‐in-cheek attitude toward his material (intrigue, expertise, violence, love, death) finds a rea­dy mass response in a world where audiences enjoy sick jokes. Incidentally, it is the aspect of Fleming which the films have most developed. Sometimes, I think, far be­yond what Fleming himself intended. He said as much to me once when he com­mented rather innocently, “Somehow the pictures seem funnier than my books.”

Digging Deep
Having said all this about the novels, it would appear that a screenwriter adapting them would feel like a for­tunate prospector discovering an inexhaustible mother‐lode of pure gold. And yet there are problems.

A screenwriter is limited to setting down, as sugges­tion to the director, only what can be said and done by actors and what can be photographed by the camera­man. Lovely descriptive pass­ages; illuminating streams of consciousness revealing char­acter; great hunks of bril­liant, interesting exposition; carefully documented quasi­treatises; all must go.

A case in point is a scene in Goldfinger in which Bond is strapped to a work­bench and menaced by an approaching circular saw. Somehow in the reading, be­cause Fleming writes so effectively, “The Perils of Pauline” do not immediately occur to one. Vividly depicted on the screen, however, we were sure audiences would find the episode old‐fashioned, hackneyed and ludicrous. What to do? We substitut­ed an industrial laser beam, a development as fresh as tomorrow, for the antiquated circular saw. Do I hear any­one asking sotto voce about the screenwriter's blushes? If he was the blushing type he wouldn't be doing Bond screenplays in the first place. Besides, it's all good clean fun, or so he tells himself.

Logic is another problem. Once, as a young man, I worked as Writer Number 34, I think, for Alfred Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent. I told him I thought a cer­tain situation was illogical. He looked at me sadly and replied, “Dear boy, don't be dull. I’m not interested in log­ic, but in effects. If the au­dience ever thinks about log­ic it's on their way home from the theater and by that time they’ve already paid for their tickets.”

Verisimilitude
Still there is a point be­yond which audiences will re­ject a film for too many abuses of actuality. In Gold­finger, for example, Flem­ing has Goldfinger, a suppos­edly criminal genius, plot to break into Fort Knox and steal 16 billion dollars worth of gold bullion. Fleming, bless him, in the best Hitchcockian tradition, never bothered his head about how long it would take to transport that amount of gold, or how many men and vehicles would be re­quired. Obviously, it would take weeks, hundreds of trucks and hundreds of men. The problem that faced us was not an easy one. Why, we...

Rough Grind
Then there is the question of “bumps.” Hitchcock once said to me, “If I have 13 ‘bumps’ I know I have a pic­ture.” By “bumps,” he meant, of course, shocks, highpoints, thrills, whatever you choose to call them. From the be­ginning, through Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and now with Goldfinger, Mr. Broccoli and Mr. Saltzman, the producers, and myself have not been content with 13 “bumps.” We aim for 39. Our objective has been to make every foot of film pay off in terms of exciting en­tertainment. Fleming, too, has his “bumps,” but not nearly enough for the kind of films we’re trying to make.

Actually, Fleming himself, unlike many authors of well­-known literary works to be made into films, seemed un­usually complacent as to how his books were treated. The only question he ever asked...

The actual characterization of James Bond (and we are lucky devils to have Sean Connery) was also a depar­ture from the novels. Both Terence Young and Guy Hamilton, our directors, shared and augmented the concept of Bond as visualized by the producers and myself. That concept retained a basic super‐sleuth, super‐fighter, super‐hedonist, super‐lover of Fleming's, but added another large dimension: humor. Hu­mor vocalized in wry com­ments at critical moments. In the books, Bond was singu­larly lacking in this.

A bright young produc­er accord me one day with glittering eyes. “I’m making a parody of the James Bond films.” How, I asked myself, does one make a parody of a parody? For that is precisely, in the final analysis, what we have done with Fleming's books. Parodied them. I’m not sure that Ian himself ever completely realized this. Or perhaps I underestimate his perception. At any rate, he seemed happy with what we were doing.

The writer adapted Dr. No, From Russia With Love,” and Goldfinger which opens at the DeMille and Coronet Theaters on Dec. 21, to the screen.

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1969: 女王陛下の007 (Joô heika no 007, Her Majesty's OO7) released in Japan. That's ahead of UK 18 December, US 19 December.

1973: Live and Let Die released in the Netherlands.
1973: Å leve og la dø (To Live and Let Die) released in Norway.

1973: Lev og lad dø (live and Let Die) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/category/film/lev-og-lad-doe-live-and-let-die-1973/

1984: A View to a Kill films the death of Bob Conley.

A View to a Kill (1985) - Mine Massacre

1985: Ölüme Bir Bakis (A Look to Death) released in Turkey.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 65 of 65 - "Thor's Thunder." In Norway!
And I'm glad that's over again.

James Bond Jr - Thor's Thunder

Season 11 - Episode 65
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807128/?ref_=ttep_ep65

Captain Walker D. Plank and Skullcap are on the prowl in Norway to find Mjölnir, which gives infinite power to whoever wields it.

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 Ed Gilbert 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 / Skullcap / Digger (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Olga (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 65 - Thors Thunder

1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre premieres in Portugal.

2002: Die Another Day released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay.
2002: ดาย อนัทเธอร์ เดย์ 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายท้ามรณะ (Dāy xnạth ṭhex r̒ dey̒ - 007 phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy tĥā mrṇa; 007 Deadly Tiger) released in Thailand.

2014: EON make a public statement regarding recent incidents at Sony involving hackers absconding with their Spectre script.

Film News

Hackers vs. James Bond: 'SPECTRE' script
stolen in Sony attack

See the complete article here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sony-cybersecurity-bond/hackers-vs-james-bond-spectre-script-stolen-in-sony-attack-idINKBN0JR0ML20141213

December 13, 20144:28 PM | By Reuters Staff

Actors Lea Seydoux, Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci (L-R) pose on stage during an event to mark the start of production for the new James Bond film "Spectre", at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, southern England December 4, 2014.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Early villains have emerged in the next James Bond film “SPECTRE”: hackers who stole a version of the screenplay as part of a devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures.

Producers of the James Bond films said they learned on Saturday morning that an early version of the “SPECTRE” script was among material stolen and made public by hackers who infiltrated computers at the Sony studio.

“Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents,” Eon said in a statement, while warning that the script is protected by U.K. copyright laws.

“SPECTRE,” starring Daniel Craig as 007, is set for release on Nov. 6, 2015. Filming began this month after producer Barbara Broccoli and director Sam Mendes unveiled the title, cast and new car, but little about the plot.

“I was so excited to tell this story but to explain why, I would have to tell you the plot and I can’t do that,” said Mendes at the presentation in England, a reminder of Sony’s might in the movie world.

The Bond franchise is one of the most lucrative for Sony Pictures and the last installment “Skyfall” brought in $1.1 billion worldwide, more than any other Bond film.

A Sony spokesman said news reports that the cyberattack forced the studio to stop production on films, including “SPECTRE,” were wrong.

“Productions are still moving forward,” Robert Lawson told Reuters.

Hackers launched an attack on the Sony Corp. entertainment arm on Nov. 24, disabling the computer network and stealing and leaking a trove of sensitive information in the most severe cyberattack on a company on U.S. soil. The identity of the hackers has yet to be determined.

Reporting by Mary Milliken in Los Angeles and Mike Davidson in London; Editing by David Gregorio

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

EON Productions issued the following statement today (13th December, 2014):

OFFICIAL STATEMENT
EON PRODUCTIONS, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film SPECTRE is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system.

Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents.

The screenplay for SPECTRE is the confidential information of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Danjaq, LLC, and is protected by the laws of copyright in the United Kingdom and around the world. It may not (in whole or in part) be published, reproduced, disseminated or otherwise utilised by anyone who obtains a copy of it. Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Studios and Danjaq LLC will take all necessary steps to protect their rights against the persons who stole the screenplay, and against anyone who makes infringing uses of it or attempts to take commercial advantage of confidential property it knows to be stolen.

2024: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings through Q.

RichardTheBruce

December 14

1923: Janet McLuckie Brown is born--Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
(She dies 27 May 2011 at age 87--Hove, East Sussex, England.)

Janet Brown

See the complete article here:

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

Janet Brown
Born Janet McLuckie Brown, 14 December 1923, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died 27 May 2011 (aged 87), Hove, East Sussex, England
Occupation Actress, comedian, impressionist
Years active 1946–2009[1]
Spouse(s) Peter Butterworth (m. 1946; died 1979)​
Children Tyler Butterworth (born 1959)
Emma Butterworth (1962–1996) (deceased)

Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 1923 – 27 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth who was best known for his appearances in the Carry on films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried.

Career
Brown was born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, and educated at Rutherglen Academy.

During World War II, Brown enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and was the first female performer to take part in Stars in Battledress.

She entered British film as an actress in 1948 noticeably in Folly to Be Wise (1952) then appeared in several British television series such as The Eric Barker Half-Hour (1952), How Do You View? (1952-1953) and Friends and Neighbours (1954).
Margaret Thatcher impersonations

Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Brown gained increasing prominence because of her realistic impression of the Tory politician. She performed as Thatcher on BBC TV's Mike Yarwood Show, on BBC Radio's The News Huddlines, and on film in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

In 1979, Brown starred as Thatcher on the comedy album Iron Lady: The Coming of the Leader, written by Private Eye satirist John Wells and produced by Secret Policeman's Ball series co-creator/producer Martin Lewis and Not the Nine O'Clock News series co-creator/producer John Lloyd. The largely spoken 'song' "Iron Lady" was released as a single, and Brown promoted it on Top of the Pops as a new release, but it did not chart.

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1980 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

During the 1970s and 1980s, she was occasionally confused by some with fellow actress and comedienne Faith Brown because they had the same surname and were both best remembered for their Margaret Thatcher impersonations. In 1990, she recorded a spoken word sequence in her Margaret Thatcher voice for Mike Oldfield's album Amarok. Still acting in her 80s, her last role was as Old Lady Squeamish on the London West End stage in a production of Wycherley's The Country Wife at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which opened in September 2007.

She entitled her 1986 autobiography Prime Mimicker.

Personal life
Brown was married to Carry On actor Peter Butterworth from 1946 until his death in 1979. The two appeared alongside each other in the television comedy series, How Do You View? (1947–53), written by and starring Terry-Thomas. The couple had two children, a son, actor Tyler Butterworth (born 1959), and a daughter, Emma, who died in 1996, aged 34.

Brown never remarried, spending the rest of her life in Hove, until her death following a brief illness in a nursing home in May 2011, aged 87. She is buried alongside her husband Peter Butterworth in Danehill Cemetery, in East Sussex.

Filmography

Title Year | Role | Notes

Floodtide 1949 Rosie

Folly to Be Wise 1953 Jessie Killegrew

A Home of Your Own 1964
Hey Boy! Hey Girl 1967
The Adding Machine 1969 Fat Woman

My Lover, My Son 1970 Mrs. Woods
Bless This House 1972 Annie Hobbs
Wombling Free 1977 Womble Voice

For Your Eyes Only 1981 Margaret Thatcher, The Prime Minister

Summer Solstice 2005 Mrs. Armstrong
Underground Ernie 2006 Victoria Voice

Zorro and Scarlet Whip Revealed! 2010 Mrs. McAlistair Voice, (final film role)

Janet Brown (I) (1923–2011)

Actress | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113789/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

"Iron lady"


This Is Your Life

1953: Vijay Amritraj is born--Madras, Madras State, India.

1960: Gregory Ratoff (born 20 April 20 1897--Samara, Russian Empire) dies at age 63--Solothurn, Switzerland. Later in 1961, his widow sells the Casino Royale film rights to producer Charles K. Feldman for $75,000.
1967: You Only Live Twice released in Australia.

Daybill

1967: 鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺 {Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò huǒjiàn lǐng; Iron King Kong Breaks Through Rocket Ridge) released in Hong Kong.

1971: James Bond 007 - Diamantenfieber released in West Germany. Ahead of the US (17 December) and UK (30 December) dates.

1974: 007 黄金銃を持つ男 (Ōgonjūwomotsuotoko; Man With Golden Gun) released in Japan.

1983: Never Say Never Again UK Royal Charity Premiere at the Warner West End Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

http://007magazine.co.uk/news_nsna40-5.htm

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey in the mine confirming Zorin's caper.

1995: Aranyszem released in Hungary.

https://vitrinfotok.blogspot.com/2018/01/aranyszem-goldeneye-1995.html

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies limited release in the Netherlands.

2006: Surefone releases the single "You Know My Name".
B-side: Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun" acoustic version.

2009: The Orient Express, featured in the From Russia With Love book and film, ceases operations. Replaced by high-speed trains and air travel. (The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train--an Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. private venture, now Belmond--still runs carriages circa 1920s-1930s from London to Venice and even the original Paris to Istanbul route.)

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #3.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #3 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272203011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: December 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130252722 03011
ON SALE DATE: 12/14

After a massacre in Dubai, 007 closes in on the mysterious Kraken. But while investigating a mercenary safehouse in Yemen, Bond discovers the most advanced Q-Branch technology can sometimes prove less an asset than a liability. And a weapon is only as lethal as the man who wields it...

2022: Dynamite Entertainment releases 007 #5.
Marco Finnegan, artist. Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer.

007 #5

See the complete article here:

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513032194705011

Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Artist: Marco Finnegan
Cover A: Tommy Lee Edwards
Cover B: Marc Aspinall
Cover C: Marc Laming
Cover D: Soo Lee
Genre: Spy Fiction Action Adventure
Publication Date: December 2022
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 12/14/22

JAMES BOND MUST PROTECT THE DICTATOR WHO ONCE MARKED HIM FOR DEATH!
A few years ago, a dictator ordered his government to kill James Bond. Today, Bond is assigned to protect that dictator during his stay in London. Little does the dictator realize that Bond is also assigned to kill the dictator...

2022: James Bond 007 Launch Party at Noon Whistle Brewing in Lombard, Illinois.

Noon Whistle Brewing (Lombard, IL) James Bond 007 Launch
Party Wed Dec

See the complete article here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/noon-whistle-brewing-lombard-il-james-bond-007-launch-party-wed-dec

By RazerX

James Bond 007 Launch Party at Noon Whistle Brewing in Lombard, IL.

Where: 800 East Roosevelt Road, Lombard, IL 60148
When: Wednesday Dec 14 2022 from 6:30pm 8:45pm. Finals at 9pm

We will be running a FREE tournament on the new James Bond pinball machine.
Time: 6:30pm 8:45pm. Finals at 9pm
-Top 4 player scores qualify for finals.
-Stern Insider Connect must be used to qualify.
-Unlimited plays to qualify.

Prizes for the top finishers include:
-James Bond game grand champion plaque
-James Bond game banner
-James Bond game translite

Some Noon Whistle Brewing swag will also be given away.

https://pinside.com/pinball/events/noon-whistle-brewing-lombard-il-james-bond-007-launch-party-2022

RichardTheBruce

December 15th

1948: Cassandra Harris is born--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(She dies 29 December 1991 at age 43--Los Angeles, California.)

Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
Dec. 30, 1991

Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39 [correction: she was 43].

Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (9 credits)

1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
- Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
- Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
- Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
- Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
- The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
- Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

Self (4 credits)

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1958: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die begins its run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 28 March 1959. 139-225) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.michaelmay.online/2014/07/



http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2014/09/15/Live-and-Let-Die-newspaper-comic-strip-1958



https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1414401

214 https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=116429


Swedish Semic Comic 1970-71 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3
Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1971 | Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1986

Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 3:
“Live and Let Die” (1965)
"Leve og lade dø"

1965: Agente 007 - Operazione Tuono (Operation Thunder) released in Italy.

1966: You Only Live Twice films Tiger and Kissy at the volcano.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Netherlands.
1977: 007: La espía que me amó released in Mexico.

1983: Never Say Never Again released in the UK and Australia. (Compare to US release 7 October.)

1983: Nunca Mais Digas Nunca released in Portugal.

1989: 007 - Permissão para Matar (Permission to Kill) released in Brazil.

1995: GoldenEye released in Iceland and Switzerland.
1995: 007: GoldenEye released in Mexico.
1995: 007 Contra GoldenEye released in Brazil.

1995: 007 ja kultainen silmä (007 and a Golden Eye) released in Finland.

1995: Altin Göz (Golden Eye) released in Turkey.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Venezuela.

2006: Casino Royale released in Pakistan and Uruguay.
2006: 007: Cassino Royale released in Brazil.

2006: ప్రపంచానికి ఒక్కడు (Prapanchaniki Okkadu; One to the World--Telugu title) released in India.

2014: Vodka producer Belvedere showcases two limited edition 007 bottles at a London Film Museum launch party.

Belvedere Is Making Sure That James Bond Will Actually Drink
A Vodka Martini In The New ‘Spectre’ Movie

businessinsider.com/belvedere-vodka-partners-james-bond-spectre-2014-12
Lara O'Reilly - Dec. 15, 2014, 7:01 PM

Belvedere, the luxury vodka brand owned by the LVMH Group, is partnering with the next movie in the James Bond franchise, Spectre.

Harnessing Bond’s penchant for vodka martinis and his iconic “Shaken, not stirred” line, Belvedere becomes the official vodka of the movie, which is due for cinematic release next November from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The news will be something of a relief for Bond fans: In previous movies the spy had been seen (implausibly) drinking Heineken and (more plausibly) Smirnoff. Fans tend to forget he also drank Red Stripe in the first movie, Dr. No. The arrival of Belvedere will therefore pull Bond upmarket a bit.

Sitting down with Business Insider at a suitably secretive London location this week (think "spies," that's all we're allowed to say,) Belvedere Vodka president Charles Gibbs told us the partnership marks the brand’s “biggest” marketing push to date, although he declined to divulge financial details. It is hoped the partnership will raise awareness of the brand globally and highlight Belvedere vodka's quality credentials.

To kick off the partnership, Belvedere has created two (very large) 1.75l limited edition bottles, which it will showcase at a launch party at London's Film Museum tonight (December 15.)

The MI6 bottle pays homage to 007's HQ, swapping the signature Belvedere blue ink with the color of green ink used by MI6 officials to sign documents. Belvedere has also replaced the iconic Belvedere Palace that appears on its bottles with an etching of the MI6 building. Only 100 of this bottle will be made, but they won’t be available to buy. Instead Belvedere plans to gift them to “Bond aficionados” and put them up for charity auctions.

Here's the MI6 bottle:

The second, more flashy bottle is called the 007 Silver Saber. The metallic bottle lights up, thanks to an in-built LED system. It will be available on sale next year "in selective distribution."

Here's the 007 Silver Saber:

Next year, the campaign will ramp up with TV, cinema, digital ads, additional special packs and events planned. As the film is still in production, Gibbs could not confirm exactly what role Belvedere will play in Spectre. Gibbs also turned coy when asked whether there was the possibility of partnering with one of the other brands paying for product placement in the film (Aston Martin is the only other brand confirmed to appear so far, although that doesn't seem a likely fit.)

The main appeal of the partnering with the Bond franchise was its global reach beyond its core base of 25 to 40-year-old customers, but Gibbs also hopes the partnership will allow the aspirational Belvedere brand to "break through the clutter" of marketing messages from big-spending alcohol brands by associating with a "moment in popular culture."

The martini story also allows Belevedere to authentically talk up the provenance of its ingredients. The vodka is made from Dankowskie Rye and blended with own water from its own source in Poland, all key messages the brand hopes will hit home with lapsed drinkers as well as those new to the brand. It is hoped that making Belvedere Bond's choice for a vodka martini will also encourage bartenders to push the product to their cocktail lists.

LVMH, which also owns the Moët Hennessy brand, saw a 7% drop year on year in reported revenue in the first 9 months of 2014 to €2.63 billion. At the time of reporting, the company said the trend was reflective of a declining cognac market in China. It did not split out separate figures for Belvedere, but said the brand had "sustained volume growth."

2014: Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear are spotted on a boat on the Thames sans life jackets, Spectre filming.

James Bond boat spotted in Spectre filming on Thames

See the complete article here:

https://www.mby.com/news/james-bond-boat-spotted-spectre-filming-thames-43822

Chris Jefferies December 16, 2014

Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear were spotted in London yesterday when the
latest James Bond boat was filmed cruising up the Thames

The latest James Bond boat has been caught on camera as filming for the new 007 movie Spectre got underway on the Thames yesterday (15 December).

Daniel Craig, playing her Majesty’s most famous fictional spy, was seen riding a black and grey RIB near Vauxhall.

Holding onto a handrail on the bow, the star of Skyfall and Casino Royale cut a stark figure all in black. Presumably the producers decided that a luminous lifejacket would somewhat ruin the look.

Accompanied by Rory Kinnear, who plays Mi6 chief of staff Bill Tanner, the James Bond actor made his way up the Thames in the bright December sunshine.

Both men were flanked by a pair of armoured guards – seemingly members of the Marine Policing Unit who had landed a cameo role in the film.

The latest James Bond movie, Spectre, is due out on 6 November 2015 and also stars Christoph Waltz as the chief villain.

Previous Bond outings have seen starring roles for a Fairey Huntress (From Russia With Love), a Glastron GT150 (Live and Let Die) and a Sunseeker XS2000 (Casino Royale).

For more James Bond boat action, read our list of the Top 5 James Bond boat chase scenes.
https://www.mby.com/news/top-5-classic-james-bond-boat-chase-scenes/

2015: Madame Tussauds in Hollywood exhibits six James Bonds in wax. George Lazenby headlines.

2020: Dicebreaker reports on James Bond role-playing games.

d007: How the all-but-forgotten
James Bond RPG
changed roleplaying

Tomorrow Never Dice.

See the complete article here:

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg/feature/james-bond-rpg-changed-roleplaying

Feature by Rob Wieland Contributor
Published on 15 Dec, 2020

Perhaps it's wishful thinking that, were he real, James Bond could have stopped the wild ride that 2020 has been. Every day features a headline that feels like it could like it came out of one of his big action blockbusters, containing the potent mix of doomsday potent and ridiculous on-the-nose circumstances that can only be appreciated after a shaken, not stirred martini or two. With Bond’s next adventure, No Time To Die, delayed until next spring (or perhaps longer) due to the coronavirus, most fans will have to take solace in his previous adventures. But a lucky few can not only be Bond, but see how he changed the way game designers thought of creating RPGs.

[MORE

About James Bond 007:
Role Playing In Her
Majesty’s Secret Service
Released: 1983
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg

James Bond RPG - Character Creation (25:37)

2021: No Time To Die released in the Philippines.

2022: Michael Reed dies at age 93--United Kingdom.
(Born 7 July 1929--Canada. Also reported as born Wandsworth, London, England.)

Michael Reed

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reed_(cinematographer)

Michael Reed (cinematographer)
Born 7 July 1929
Canada
Died 15 December 2022 (aged 93)
Occupation Cinematography
Years active 1947–1990

Michael Reed, BSC (7 July 1929 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films from the 1950s to 1980s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil.[1]

Career
Through the early 1950s he worked in the camera department at Hammer Films as a clapper loader and focus puller on films such as The Man in Black and Meet Simon Cherry before becoming the director of photography on Hammer's The Ugly Duckling (1959) and several Hammer horror films. He acted as director of photography on several ITC television series such as Sword of Freedom, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Saint. At the same time he was 2nd unit Director of Photography on the James Bond films (Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice).[2]

Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Reed worked on such British television series as The New Avengers, Press Gang and Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.

Personal life and death
Reed died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 93.[3][4]

Selected filmography
Devil's Bait (1959)
The Ugly Duckling (1959)
The Devil Ship Pirates (1964)
The Gorgon (1964)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965)
Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)
Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966)
Prehistoric Women (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Hireling (1973)
Galileo (1975)
The Stick Up (1977)
Leopard in the Snow (1978)
The Passage (1979)
Loophole (1981)
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984)
Wild Geese II (1985)
God's Outlaw (1986)

References
"Michael Reed | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
"Michael Reed". BFI.
"In Memoriam of Cinematographer Michael Reed BSC 1929–2022". From Sweden with Love. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-michael-reed?id=05162

RichardTheBruce

December 16th

1967: Bond comic strip The Hildebrand Rarity ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 29 May 1967. 429-602) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

https://www.slideshare.net/luisnarbona/james-bond-007-the-hildebrand-rarity-mu








India Star Comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/


Swedish Semic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 1) | Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 2)

Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Ubåt Saknas (Submarine Missing; The Hildebrand Rarity)

Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no17-1969/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 17: “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1969)
"U-båd savnes" ("Submarine missing")

1967: 007/カジノ・ロワイヤル (007/ Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.

1983: Never Say Never Again released in Ireland and Sweden.
1983: Neka aldrig två gånger (Never Deny It Twice--Swedish title) released in Finland.

1988: People Magazine votes Sean Connery the "Sexiest Man Alive".

1989: Licence to Kill released in the Philippines.

1995: 007 ゴールデンアイ (007 Gōruden'ai; 007 Golden Eye) released in Japan

Japan

1995: 007 골든 아이 (007 goal-deun ah-ee; 007 Golden Eye) released in the Republic of Korea.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies US premiere in Los Angeles, California.

http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere3.html

1997: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Spain.
(Catalan title El demà no mor mai or Tomorrow Does Not Die).

1999: 新鐵金剛之黑日危機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī hēi rì wéijī; New Iron King Kong's Black Sun Crisis) released in Hong Kong.

1999: Svijet nije dovoljan released in Croatia.

2002: The New York Times article "North Korea Denounces Bond Film" reports North Korea denounces Bond film.

North Korea Denounces James Bond Film

nytimes.com/2002/12/15/world/north-korea-denounces-james-bond-film.html
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - DEC. 15, 2002

North Korea issued a statement today denouncing the latest James Bond film, Die Another Day, for ''insulting the Korean nation.''

''The U.S. should stop at once the dirty and cursed burlesque'' the official Korean Central News Agency said, citing a bulletin by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.

In the film, the fictional secret agent 007 is captured in North Korea and tortured. He also has sex in a Buddhist temple.

The film is ''a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation,'' the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation,'' ''an empire of evil'' and ''the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture.''

2014: Spectre films at Notting Hill.

2020: That 1969 Mercury Cougar goes to auction at Bonhams.

1969 Mercury Cougar from James Bond 007
film ready to shake up the auction block

See the complete article here:

https://granthshala.com/1969-mercury-cougar-from-james-bond-007-film-ready-to-shake-up-the-auction-block/

Entertainment Hollywood | December 8, 2020

The car was used in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, which featured George Lazenby as Bond

Replica ‘Goldfinger’ Aston Martin DB5S will have smoke screen and machine gun

The automaker is working with Aston Martin James Bond film franchise special effects supervisors to develop 25 entertainments of the iconic DB5 as seen in the 007 film ‘Goldfinger’. The coupes will be equipped with functional smoke screen generators, simulated oil slick spreaders, recoiling machine gun barrels that emanate from the front corner lights and allow lighted devices to be destroyed as well as other gadgets.

When most people think that “James Bond”, George Lazenby is the last actor to play the role to come to mind. Likewise, the phrase “Bond car” probably does not cause the philosophy of the Mercury Cougar to dance in your head.

But if by chance you are an outsider and you have some money, then we have good news.

(Bonhams)

Used in “On His Majesty’s Secret Service” by the 1969 Merger Cougar XR7, the only film to feature Lazenby as Bond is coming up for auction. Bonhams.

The red convertible was not one of the 007 gadget-filled rides from the Q branch, but the property of Countess Tracy di Vicenzo of Diana Rigg, who (SPOILER ALERT) would become Mrs. Bond and complete an untimely end before the credit roll. .

The “Avengers” chairman of Diana RIGG helped the Lotus Allen family

According to Bonhams, four cars were used during production, it was driven in the snow during a memorabilia “Barn scene. “The car has had more than eight owners since the 1969 film was completed, but belongs to the same person since 1990 and was fully restored this year. Another cougar was damaged during a car chase. Gaya and later separated, while the other two are currently owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation and a private owner.

(Bonhams)

It is equipped with a 428-4V Cobra Jet Ram Air V-8 engine with Ram Air Induction, automatic transmission, screen-corrected French floating license plate and trunk rack fitted with classic Kneel skis.

(Bonhams)

The cougar is being offered appropriately at Bonham’s Bond Street event in London on 16 December, but bids can be submitted remotely. Pre-auction estimates for the car are $ 130,000 to $ 200,000.

2021: Bloomsbury Publishing releases Fashioning James Bond - Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 by Llewella Chapman.

Fashioning James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/fashioning-james-bond-9781350145481/

Description
Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'.

Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1: 'My tailor… Savile Row': Sean Connery (1962)
• 2: 'Fitting Fleming's hero': Sean Connery (1963-1967)
• 3: The Man with the Midas touch: Lifestyle, fashion and marketing in the 1960s
• 4: 'Coming out of Burton's short of credit': George Lazenby (1969)
• 5: 'Provided the collars and the cuffs match': Sean Connery (1971)
• 6: 'Licence to frill': Roger Moore (1971-1975)
• 7: Breaking his tailor's heart: Roger Moore (1976-1980)
• 8: 'You can always spot a Hayward': Roger Moore (1980-1985)
• 9: Licence to tailor revoked: Timothy Dalton (1987-1989)
• 10: Cool Brioni: Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002)
• 11: Slick trigger suits: Daniel Craig (2005-2008)
• 12.You travel with a tuxedo? Daniel Craig (2010 – 2015)
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index

Product details
Published 16 Dec 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9781350145481
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 8 colour and 46 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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2021: Funko POP! Movies tentative release date for James Bond S2 - Pierce Brosnan (Golden Eye) Vinyl Figure.

RichardTheBruce

December 17th

1964: London premiere of Goldfinger.

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling.htm

1965: James Bond 007 - Feuerball (Jame Bond 007 - Fireball) released in West Germany.

1965: Agent 007 i ilden (Agent 007 In the Fire) released in Denmark.

1965: Åskbollen (The Thunderbolt) released in Sweden.

1965: Opération Tonnerre (Operation Thunder) released in France.

1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang released in the UK.

1969: Honor Blackman is featured on This is Your Life, Thames TV. (They had to do it again 17 February 1993.)

1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in US and Canada.

1971: Diamanter varer evigt (Diamonds Last Forever) released in Denmark.

1971: Agente 007 - Una cascata di diamanti (Agent 007 - A Cascade of Diamonds) released in Italy.

1973: Lev og lad dø released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/lald-dk-pressemateriale-1973/

1973: Vive y deja morir released in Spain. (Catalan title Viu i deixa morir.)

1975: Producer Harry Saltzman concludes the sale of his interests in the Bond franchise to United Artists, ending his partnership with Albert R. Broccoli.

1982: Octopussy films OO7 and Octopussy attacked in her bedroom.

1997: Mary Fanning Wickham Bond dies at age 89.
(Born 8 Jun 1898.)

Mary Wickham Bond

See the complete article here:

https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Bond__Mary_Fanning_Wickham

Mary Wickham Bond
6/8/1898 - 12/17/1997

Primary Vocation: Literary
Geographic Connection to Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

Novelist and memoirist Mary Wickham Fanning Bond was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Awards: Philadelphia Browning Society Gold Medal

Abstract:
Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born in 1898 into a well-to-do family in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. In the early 1950s she wrote her first bestseller, Device and Desire: a Novel of Bad Manners. While an accomplished writer, she is also known for her second marriage to James Bond, the namesake of the famous spy character. Bond passed away in 1997.

Biography
Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born on June 8, 1898, the daughter of Samuel and Maria Porcher. Her father Samuel made a good living as the chief purchasing agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. She was born into a life of privilege and was educated at a local private school. As a youth, she enjoyed such pastimes as horseback riding and attending debutante balls. Although born into this lifestyle, she never felt it dictated her behavior. Much to her father's dismay, her first job was selling at Wanamaker's. She was accepted to Bryn Mawr College around the time of World War I but chose instead to be an emergency aide, someone who volunteered as a nurse or air raid warden.

Her first marriage was in 1930 to a man by the name of Shippen Lewis, a prominent lawyer in the region. This marriage lasted until 1952, when Lewis died. Two years later she married a man whose name would inspire one of the most wellknown fictional characters in history: James Bond.

Author of spy novels, Ian Fleming, read James Bond's book Birds of the West Indies and gave his international spy the name James Bond. What was to Mary Bond the "dullest name in the world" would become one of the most wellknown, much to the chagrin of the real life James Bond and his wife. She didn't mind the attention much during the day, but her husband would get calls at 2 and 3 a.m. from women looking for James Bond. She would answer these calls irritably, saying "Yes, James is here, but this is Pussy Galore and he's busy now." Eventually, she set a meeting up between her husband and Ian Fleming, which led to them becoming friends and also inspired her 1966 book How 007 Got His Name (1966).

Bond's writing career actually began in the 1920s and, although none of her seven novels were published, she did receive the Philadelphia Browning Society's gold medal in 1926 for her sonnet entitled "The Gift." She took a hiatus from writing novels but continued to write poetry, magazine articles, and short stories. Then, in the 1940s she found inspiration at a local library in the form of a book titled Unusual and Eccentric Wills. The book was about a rich Viennese man who left nine of his relatives $25,000 but with one condition: they all had to stay away from his funeral. The real twist was that anyone who did show up would receive his entire fortune. Bond transplanted this story into 1950s Philadelphia, and it resulted in her bestseller: Device and Desire (1949).

In 1980, her book To James Bond with Love was published. In this book she chronicled her life married to James Bond. She accompanied her husband on his frequent trips to the Bahamas to gather information on birds. On one of these trips in February of 1964 they dropped in unannounced at Ian Fleming's Jamaica residence, an event she describes in comical detail. Apparently Mr. Fleming first thought that the Bonds may have dropped in unannounced to slap him with a libel suit for the theft of the name James Bond. This was not the case, and all went well with their meeting. Upon their departure, Fleming even presented them with a copy of his then latest novel, You Only Live Twice. On the fly cover Fleming had signed it "To the real James Bond, from the Thief of his Identity." The remainder of Bond's book describes their other adventures in the Caribbean, everything from traveling between islands on small boats and sleeping in less than desirable conditions, to how James proved through his work that birds in the West Indies originated in North America. She also wrote of these experiences in Far Afield in the Caribbean (1971).

Mary Bond released her autobiography Ninety Years At Home In Philadelphia in 1988. Just one year later, James died in February of 1989.

In 1997, Mary Bond died of congestive heart failure at the age of 99 in her home in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.

Selected Works:

• Device and Desire: A Novel of Bad Manners. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1949.
• The Petrified Gesture: A Novel. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1951.
• How 007 Got His Name. London: Collins, 1966.
• Far Afield in the Caribbean: Migratory Flights of a Naturalist's Wife. Wynnewood, PA: Livingston, Publishing, 1971.
• To James Bond with Love. Lititz, PA: Sutter House, 1980.
• White Swallow and Other Poems. Bar Harbor, ME: Bar Harbor Times Press, 1983.
• Ninety Years At Home in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 1988.

Sources:

• Capuzzo, Michael. "A Philadelphia Lady Takes a Stroll Through the Century Mary Bond's New Book Coincides With Her 90th Birthday." Philadelphia Inquirer 5 June 1988: J01.
• Contosta, David R. Suburb in the City. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.
• "Mary Fanning Wickham Bond." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale 2002. 25 Sept. 2011.
• Wallace, Andy."Mary Fanning Bond, 99." Philadelphia Inquirer 17 Dec. 1997: B06.

Photo Credit: rjschatz. "Photograph of Mary Wickham Bond." Photograph. Cropped to 4x3. Source: Online Resource.
Rob Lutz
Written by Rob Lutz, 2011; updated 2018

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland and Kuwait.
1997: Demain ne meurt jamais released in France.

1999: 007: Liiga kitsas maailm (007: Too Narrow a World) released in Estonia.

2018: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications

2020: Artists involved in creating the title theme "No Time To Die" discuss their experience during Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival.

Bond on the Box
James Bond Film, TV and Radio Alerts

Music for Screens: The
Making of ‘No Time To Die’ at
Variety FYC Festival

See the complete article here:

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/

On 12 Dec, 2020 | By Bond on the Box | In Events

Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Johnny Marr
and Hans Zimmer will take part in the
Music for Screens panel discussion
exploring the creation of the James
Bond theme, ‘No Time To Die’, at
Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival on
Thursday, 17 December, 2020 from
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM (PT).

No Time To Die by Billie Eilish Smoke Vinyl

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1337517606153162755

2020: Jeremy Bulloch dies at age 75--St George's Hospital, London, England.
(Born 16 February 1945--Market Harborough, England.)

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch dies
aged 75

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/17/star-wars-actor-jeremy-bulloch-dies-aged-75

English performer played bounty hunter Boba Fett in original
trilogy
PA Media || Thu 17 Dec 2020 17.20 EST

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original films, has died
aged 75.

The English actor died in hospital on Thursday from “health complications following his many years living with Parkinson’s disease”, according to his agent.

Bulloch played the bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. A statement from his agent said: “We are very sad to announce the death of actor Jeremy Bulloch earlier today.

“He died peacefully, in hospital, surrounded by his family.

“Jeremy was best-known for the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.

“He had a long and happy career spanning more than 45 years. He was devoted to his wife, three sons and 10 grandchildren and they will miss him terribly. We ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time.”

Bulloch, who was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, also had roles in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983 and featured in a number of Doctor Who episodes in the 70s.

Some of Bulloch’s Star Wars co-stars paid tribute on social media.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tweeted: “Jeremy Bulloch was the quintessential English gentleman.

“A fine actor, delightful company & so kind to everyone lucky enough to meet or work with him.

“I will deeply miss him & am so grateful to have known him. RIP – DearJeremy.”

Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the original trilogy, said:

“Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, RIP Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett.”

The official Star Wars Twitter account also paid tribute, writing: “He will be remembered not only for his iconic portrayal of the legendary character, but also for his warmth and generous spirit which have become an enduring part of his rich legacy.”

Daniel Logan, who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, paid tribute to Bulloch on Instagram, writing: “RIP legend I’ll never forget all you’ve taught me! I’ll love you forever! Conventions won’t be the same without you – may the force be with you always.”

Jeremy Bulloch (1945–2020)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-original-boba-fett-and-the-empire-strikes-back-star-jeremy-bulloch-passes-away-aged-75-a181030#gs.odi7zx

Bulloch still became synonymous with the role in the years that followed, and when he gave up the convention circuit in 2014, the actor shared a touching message with his fans.

"In 1979 I was called onto the set of Empire Strikes Back to play Boba Fett, and since that day it has changed the entire direction of my life in such a wonderful way," Bulloch said. "It has been a privilege to have had the opportunity to inspire so many generations of Star Wars fans. I have had over 20 years of travelling with my wife Maureen to some amazing countries and have met so many wonderful fans. Thank you all so much and we will miss you all."

The Spy Who Loved Me

For Your Eyes Only


Octopussy

2022: 007 Launch Party at Morgantown, West Virginia.

007 James Bond Launch Party

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/morgantown/007-james-bond-launch-party/200023698748747

Come to Starport Arcade and Pub in Morgantown, WV to celebrate the release of Stern Pinball's newest game, James Bond!

This will be a three-strike tournament.

Entry is FREE!

All rounds will be random assignment of groups of 4 as best as possible, with balanced opponents after the first round.

Starport gift cards and Stern Swag will be up for grabs.

IFPA fee will be covered by the tournament director.

Hosted by Brian Dye

Date & Time
Sat Dec 17 2022 at 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)

Location
Starport Arcade and Pub, 228 Walnut Street,Morgantown,WV,United States, Morgantown, United States

RichardTheBruce

December 18th

1914: James Marne Kumar Maitland is born--Kolkata, India.
(He dies March 1992 at age 77--Rome, Italy.)

Marne Maitland (1914–1992)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537962/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1959: Ivar Bryce questions whether he will continue with the Bond project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes

The Boy and the Bridge was dead in the water.

Fearing its poor box office was going to hit him hard financially,
Bryce was now having grave thoughts about the Bond project. On 18
December he wrote a letter to McClory that must have sent the Irishman's
spirits crashing. Bryce had decided that he no longer wished to proceed any
further with Bond. Already his personal outlay on the film's pre-production
was considerable, and set to rise. With the hope for cash bonanza from Boy
and the Bridge non-existent, the 007 project's only chance of redemption was
through financial backing from outside sources.

Chapter 21 - The Court Case that Killed Ian Fleming

[In court] McClory's counsel pointed out
that the agreement with Fleming was signed on 8 July 1959 and Bryce's letter
of 18 December was only five months later, and so certainly within the
reasonable period in which the company might have been incorporated.

1967: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 3 October 1968. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
The 18th and final Bond comic for them.

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





Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Operation Spökflyg (Part 1) | Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)

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

Operation Spökflyg (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1)
[Operation Ghost Flight]

https://www.comics.org/issue/73996/

Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
[The Night of Horror]

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/jb007dk-no-20-1970/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)
"Rædslernes nat" [Night of Terrors]

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the start of the ski chase with OO7 and Blofeld.
1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service London premiere at the Leicester Square Odeon.

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling2.htm

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the Netherlands.
1969: Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste (Agent 007 In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/ohmss-dk-filmprogram-1969/

1969: James Bond i hemmelig tjeneste (James Bond in Secret Service) released in Norway.

1969: I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst (In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Sweden.

1969: Au service secret de Sa Majesté (At His Majesty's Secret Service) released in France.

1969: Στην υπηρεσία της αυτής μεγαλειότητος (In the Service of the Same Majesty) released in Greece.

1969: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà (At the Secret Service of His Majesty) released in Italy.

1984: Mai Dire Mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland, Lebanon and the Netherlands.
1997: James Bond 007 - Der Morgen stirbt nie released in Germany.

1997: A holnap markában (Tomorrow's Mark) released in Hungary.

1997: James Bond - Jutri nikoli ne umre (Tomorrow He Never Dies) released in Slovenia.

1999: 007 언리미티드 (007 Un-lee-mee-tee-deu; 007 Unlimited) released in the Republic of Korea.

2001: Billie Eilish is born--Los Angeles, California.
2002: Die Another Day released in Indonesia and Kuwait.

2019: Claudine Oger (Auger) dies at age 78--Paris France.
(Born 26 April 1941--Paris, France.)

Claudine Auger, James Bond’s First
French Co-Star, Dies at 78

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/movies/claudine-auger-dead.html

“Thunderball” was her breakthrough, and she went on to appear
in movies with Alain Delon and Giancarlo Giannini. But
Hollywood stardom eluded her.

Claudine Auger in London in 1968. She was a star in Europe,
but her American projects were few and far between.
Credit...Dove/Daily Express, via Getty Images

By Anita Gates | Published Dec. 22, 2019 | Updated Dec. 23, 2019

Claudine Auger, Sean Connery’s co-star in Thunderball and the first French actress to play James Bond’s love interest, died on Wednesday in Paris. She was 78.

Her death was confirmed by the Parisian agency Time Art, which represented her.

Ms. Auger (pronounced oh-JHAY) was 24 when Thunderball, the fourth film in the long-running Bond franchise, was released in 1965. Her character, Domino, is the mistress of an evil mastermind who has stolen two nuclear warheads — and killed her brother. Domino does not hold back when exacting revenge on her former lover. (A harpoon gun is involved.)

Because she spoke English with a heavy accent, Ms. Auger’s voice was dubbed by another actress. But because she was an excellent swimmer, she did her own underwater scenes in the film, which was shot largely in the Bahamas.

- - -

When, during a 1965 interview, the American gossip columnist Dorothy Manners announced, “Hollywood could use you,” Ms. Auger answered cheerfully, “Not as much as I can use Hollywood.” But a couple of decades later, she had reconsidered.

“French actresses have never had much success in Hollywood,” she observed in a 1986 Los Angeles Times interview, adding that Germans and Swedes had done better but that “it’s hard to explain why.”

Still, she was fond of Southern California. In the same interview, she said, “I always go to the end of Santa Monica Pier and throw a coin in the Pacific” at the end of a visit — to ensure her return.

She was born Claudine Oger in Paris on April 26, 1941, the daughter of an architect. At 17, she was crowned Miss France Monde and was first runner-up in the Miss World competition.

She had a modeling career and played an uncredited role in a 1959 Jean Cocteau film, “Le Testament d’Orphée” (“The Testament of Orpheus”). (Almost everyone in the film, with the exception of Cocteau himself, was uncredited.) After that experience, she studied drama at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Ms. Auger’s first credited film role was in Marcel Carné’s “Terrain Vague” (1960), or “Wasteland,” about a teenage street gang in Paris. Her final screen appearance was in a 1997 television movie version of Stendhal’s “Le Rouge et le Noir” (“The Red and the Black”), playing Madame de Fervaques, an elegant widow who receives love letters from a younger man.

She and Pierre Gaspard-Huit, a director and writer 25 years her senior — he had cast her in her first uncredited film role, in the romance “Christine” (1958) — were married in 1959, when she was 18. They divorced a decade later. In 1984 she married Peter Brent, a British businessman, who died in 2008. They had a daughter, Jessica Claudine Brent, who survives her.

In a 1965 television interview, Ms. Auger spoke the words that became her most famous quotation. Asked the difference between acting in a James Bond movie and in classic theater by Molière, she insisted there was none. Acting was “un jeu,” and the two forms were “la même chose,” she said. A game. The same thing.

Claudine Auger (1941–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000805/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

2020: Peter Curtis Lamont dies at age 91.
(Born 12 November 1929--London, England.)

Peter Lamont, Legendary
Production Designer on Bond
Films and 'Titanic,' Dies at 91

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-lamont-legendary-production-designer-on-bond-films-and-titanic-dies-at-91

11:10 AM PST 12/18/2020 by Mike Barnes

GOLDFINGER, from left: Sean Connery, Harold Sakata, 1964
Courtesy Everett Collection

Sean Connery (left) and Harold Sakata do battle on the Fort Knox set of 'Goldfinger.'

An Oscar winner and four-
time nominee, he also
worked on 'The Seven-Per-
Cent Solution,' 'Fiddler on
the Roof' and 'Aliens.'

Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.

Lamont's death was reported by the official 007 account on Twitter. No details of his passing were immediately available.

"Peter Lamont was a much beloved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry," producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. He was "inextricably linked with the design and aesthetic of James Bond since Goldfinger."

Indeed, the four-time Oscar nominee helped create the monumental scenarios for every 007 movie from Goldfinger (1964) through Casino Royale (2006) except for one — Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He had a good reason for missing that, however; he was serving as production designer on James Cameron's best picture winner Titanic.

Lamont, who collaborated often with two-time Oscar winner Ken Adam, landed his other Academy Award noms for Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Lewis Gilbert's The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Cameron's Aliens (1986).

Lamont also contributed to such notable films as This Sporting Life (1963), The Ipcress File (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), The Boys From Brazil (1978) and his final partnership with Cameron, True Lies (1994).

Peter Curtis Lamont was born in London on Nov. 12, 1929. He worked as print boy runner at Pinewood Studios, and after serving for two years in the Royal Air Force, he returned to the studio as a draughtsman on features including Captain Boycott (1950), The Browning Version (1951) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

For art director Peter Murton on Goldfinger, the third Bond movie, he and Adam designed Pinewood's iconic Fort Knox set, which was one of the most expensive ever built at that time.

"I drew it all up and made a model," Lamont recalled in a 2006 interview. "And I remember [director] Guy Hamilton and [producers] Cubby [Broccoli] and Harry [Saltzman] came up and they looked at it and said, 'Well, let's get an estimate of how much it's going to cost.' And I almost fell through the roof because the estimate was for £56,000 … I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to get fired for this.' But nobody turned a hair."

In today's dollars, that set would have cost some $6.3 million.

Lamont graduated to set decorator on Thunderball (1965), to art director on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972), to visual effects art director on Moonraker (1979) and to production designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981).

After working with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, he ended his career on [/b]Casino Royale[/b] (2006), the first Bond film to star Daniel Craig.

His autobiography, The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films, was published in 2016.

Survivors include his son, Neil Lamont, an art director on Harry Potter films and Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, and his daughter, Madeline.

Peter Lamont (I) (1929–2020)

Art Department | Production Designer | Art Director
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483682/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

https://twitter.com/007/status/1339972928864174080

2022: James Bond Pinball Launch Party! at the North End Pub, Lafayette, Indiana.

James Bond Pinball Launch Party!

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/lafayette/james-bond-pinball-launch-party/200023597895509#

We will be running a James Bond Launch Tournament to go along with all of our other events of the day! Best game format for qualifying, unlimited attempts during the day, and at 11:30 PM we will have a finals game on James Bond between the top 4 qualifiers.

Hosted by North End Pub Pinball

Date & Time
Sun Dec 18 2022 at 12:00 pm to 11:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time)

Location
North End Pub, 2100 Elmwood Ave, Lafayette, IN,United States

RichardTheBruce

December 19th

1937: Albert Moses is born--Kandy, Sri Lanka.
(He dies 15 September 2017 at age --London, England.)

Albert Moses: End of ‘A thousand apologies…’

https://archives1.sundayobserver.lk/2017/12/10/features/albert-moses-end-‘-thousand-apologies…’
Sunday, 15 Dec 2019

Albert Moses, the Sri Lankan born actor, who went on to achieve international stardom, gained popularity over his acting in the ITV comedy television series, Mind Your Language, where he was cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India. Indeed he was better known among the populace as Ranjeet Singh, rather than as Albert Moses.

Born on December 19, 1937 in Gampola, Albert Moses passed away on September 15, 2017 in London, and was put to rest at St. Andrew's Church in Gampola yesterday (9). As per his obituary, he has passed away peacefully.

IMDb lists Moses as an actor and producer, known for the movies, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Octopussy (1983). Both, The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy were James Bond movies.

Moses had worked at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya before beginning his acting career in the 1960s. It was in India that he made his first appearances in movies, produced and directed for the first time. He acted in seven movies and was the producer and director of the eighth movie. From there, he had moved on to Africa to work on documentaries. Afterwards, he moved to London to pursue studies in theatre and drama, where his acting career began.

It was after responding to a newspaper advertisement that he had landed the part of Ranjeet Singh, in Mind Your Language. It was set in a class teaching English as foreign language, at an adult education college in London, illustrating the daily trials of the teacher, handling his diverse group of students.

At the auditions, Moses outdid a native Sikh and went on to win the part. Moses spent days learning the lifestyle of the Sikhs, including the food they eat, the way they speak and even the way they wrap the turban round their heads, from his many Sikh friends. Perhaps, it was his indepth research into minute details of the character of Ranjeet Singh which made the character and his ‘thousand apologies’ such a success. Moses went on to produce 13 episodes of Mind Your Language, which was telecast from 1977 to 1986. In his later days, Moses lived in Hertfordshire, teaching English to Eastern European migrant workers, free of charge.

Moses has been in the television and movie industry for over 30 years. During the span of his career, he has worked with legendary directors of the day, including, John Landis, John Houston, Rob Cohen and Alan Parker.

He starred in numerous movies, including, The Man Who Would Be King, a John Huston film; What's Up Nurse, a Derek Ford sex comedy; Stand Up; Virgin Soldiers; Carry On Emmanual; The Little Drummer Girl; The Awakening; The Great Quest; Pink Floyd: The Wall, an Alan Parker film; The Little Drummer Girl, a George Roy Hill film; Scandalous; The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo; and East Is East which was a BAFTA award winning Film4 production.

Albert Moses with Roger Moore

Moses has acted alongside many accomplished actors including, Sean Connery, Michael Caine , Christopher Plummer, Roger Moore, Sir John Gielguld and Pamela Stevenson.

He has participated in theatre productions in London, including, Phædra Britannica , at National Theatre, in which he acted with Diana Rigg, Long March to Jerusalem at the Watford Palace Theatre and Freeway at National Theatre.

He was popular for his acting in the television series including Queenie, a Hollywood mini series; On the Buses, on London Weekend Television; Warship, a BBC television drama; Robin's Nest a Thames Television sitcom; Juliet Bravo, a BBC television drama; four episodes of The Jewel in the Crown, on Granada Television; The Little and Large Show, a BBC television comedy; The Benny Hill Show, a Thames Television comedy; Boon, an ITV Central drama; five episodes of The Bill a talkback, a Thames television drama; Never the Twain, a Thames Television sitcom; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man With The Twisted Lip, on Granada Television; London's Burning, a London Weekend Television drama; and Tandoori Nights, on Channel 4.

Moses directed and produced the television series Gabriella, which was produced in Malta. He has written scripts for The Seventh Commandment, a TV drama, Side by Side, a TV comedy, Don't Talk to Strangers, a TV thriller and The Jokers, a TV drama.

He was also a past Chairman of the St Albans Film Society and of Asian, Caribbean, Oriental and Asian Artistes of EQUITY, and a member of the London regional committee of ITV under the chairmanship of Lord Lipsey.

Moses also wrote children’s books, including Tales from India, The Hawk and the Turtles, and Mustapha Mouse Goes to the City, and published a poetry book consisting of 87 poems.

He was a philanthropist, and the trustee and patron of the children's charity, Ivy Trust. He has also volunteered at hospitals, schools and elders' homes. In recognition of his work for children, he was made a Knight of the Order of St. John.

The man Albert Moses has become the soil of his motherland, but Ranjeet Singh, with his thousand apologies, will eternally remain in the hearts of the millions of fans around the world.

- D A

Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608553/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (77 credits)

2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient

1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
- Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
- A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
- Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
- Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
- Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
- Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
- Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
- House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
- Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh
-
1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
- Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
- Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
1996 The Knock (TV Series)- Mr. Malhorta
- Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
- The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
- Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
- Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
- The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman

1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
- Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
- Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
- The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
- Episode #9.7 (1989)
- Episode #8.5 (1988)
- Episode #6.1 (1986)
1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
- Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
- Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
- The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh -42 episodes
1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
- Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
- Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
- Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
- What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
- The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
- Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
- Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
- Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
- Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
- Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
- The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
- Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
- The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
- Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
- The Garland (1981) ... Huq
- Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
- Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series)
Postman
- Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
- Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal

1979 Shoestring (TV Series) - Tailor
- The Link-Up (1979) ... Tailor
1978 Carry On Emmannuelle - Doctor
1978 What's Up Nurse! - 1st Asian
1978 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Charles Riarcht
- All Part of the Service (1978) ... Charles Riarcht
1977 The Rag Trade (TV Series) - Ahmed
- The New Brother (1977) ... Ahmed
1977 The Fuzz (TV Series) - 2nd Pakistani
- Coppers Under the Sun (1977) ... 2nd Pakistani
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Barman
1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - Indian shopkeeper
1977 Horse in the House (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
1977 Robin's Nest (TV Series) - Conductor
- The Bistro Kids (1977) ... Conductor
1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Abdullah
- El Aziz (1976) ... Abdullah
- Up the Spout (1976) ... Abdullah
- Penny (1976) ... Abdullah
- El Akhram (1976) ... Abdullah
1976 Bill Brand (TV Mini-Series) - Pakistani
- Tranquillity of the Realm (1976) ... Pakistani
- Now and in England (1976) ... Pakistani
- Yarn (1976) ... Pakistani
1975 The Man Who Would Be King - Ghulam
1974 Boy Dominic (TV Series) - Jailor
- Sermons and Snuff (1974) ... Jailor
- A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1974) ... Jailor
1973 A Touch of Eastern Promise (TV Short) - Assistant Manager
1973 White Cargo - Arab (uncredited)
1973 The Two Ronnies (TV Series)
- Episode #3.3 (1973)
1973 Warship (TV Series) - Arab Operator Two
- Nobody Said Frigate (1973) ... Arab Operator Two
1973 On the Buses (TV Series) - Alf
- Friends in High Places (1973) ... Alf
1973 The Regiment (TV Series) - Monkeynut-Wallah
- Heat (1973) ... Monkeynut-Wallah
1973 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Indian Sailor
- Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three (1973) ... Indian Sailor (uncredited)
1972 Doctor in Charge (TV Series) - Sailor
- The Long, Long Night (1972) ... Sailor (uncredited)
1972 The Moonstone (TV Series) - Treasury Guard
- Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Treasury Guard
1971 Budgie (TV Series) - Pakistani
- Some Mothers' Sons (1971) ... Pakistani
1970 Wicked Women (TV Series) - Salmaan
- Augusta Fullam (1970) ... Salmaan

Producer (1 credit)

1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)

Self (1 credit)

1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series) - Himself - Reader
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader

1960: Fleming assigns Thunderball to Trustees – Glidrose Productions.

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the UK and USA.

1969: Hänen majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa (His Majesty in Secret Service; Swedish title I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst, In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Finland.

1969: James Bond 007 - Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (James Bond 007 - In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in West Germany.

1969: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

The New York Times

Screen: New James Bond George Lazenby Follows the Connery Pattern

December 19, 1969 - By A. H. WEILER

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F07E5DC1131EE3BBC4152DFB4678382679EDE&pagewanted=print

A BARE fact must be faced. The superheated screen activities of Ian Fleming's supersleuth and sex symbol, James Bond, are as inevitable as sex or crime or On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth steaming annal in the sock 'em and spoof 'em spy series that crashed into the DeMille and other local theaters yesterday.

Serious criticism of such an esteemed institution would be tantamount to throwing rocks at Buckingham Palace, but it does call for a handful of pebbles. Devotees will note that Sean Connery, the virile, suave conqueror of all those dastards and dames in the five previous capers, has given up his 007 Bond credentials to George Lazenby, a 30-year-old Australian newcomer to films. He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement.

For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.

What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service. What sets our bully boy off and fighting, running, shooting and loving this time is a lissome, leggy lass mysteriously bent on drowning herself in the waves thunderously crashing on a lonely Portuguese beach.

First thing you know he's involved in a battle with two toughs that is as full of karate chops and belts in the belly as a brawl in a Singapore alley. To the credit of Richard Maibaum, the scenarist, the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude is set right at the outset. Once our new Bond emerges triumphant, he turns to the audience and says, somewhat plaintively: "This never happened to the other fellow."

But it does. The lady of his life, the svelte Diana Rigg, who learned her karate chops from the British TV "Avenger" series, is the daughter of the blandly effete Gabriele Ferzetti, Mafioso-like tycoon, who likes Bond and wants to destroy that Spectre chief, Telly Savalas, his competition in world crime. That suits Bond too, and practically right off he's in Switzerland, where our villain maintains an eyrie atop an Alp.

It's an inaccessible retreat, supposedly an institute for allergy research complete with hired guns, scientific gimmicks and an international conclave of allegedly allergic beauties who are really being brainwashed by the oily, bald-domed Mr. Savalas to spread his biological destruction of the world's food supply. Get it?

Bond dallies with the dolls, of course, but the heart of the matter is a series of chases shot by the 41-year-old Peter Hunt, second unit director of the previous adventures, who's making his directorial debut with this one. The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs.

A viewer must remember what seems to be the longest ski chase and bobsled run ever, full of gunfire and spills, that even includes an avalanche. There also is a decibel-filled fight amid clanging Swiss cow bells, the jarring bombing of that eyrie by helicopter-borne rescuers and the inadvertent clashes of the escaping Bond and Miss Rigg in a slithering, bang-up stock car race. One must say amen to a colleague's observation:

"I never expected to see Switzerland defoliated like "this."

It should be reported that the producers and distributors already have rung up a reported $82,200,000 on their first five Bond issues. It is not ungallant to report that Bond marries Miss Rigg, who is gunned down and killed by Savalas on their honeymoon. So it is reasonable to expect that Bond inevitably will be loving, shooting and running again.

1973: James Bond 007 - Leben und sterben lassen released in West Germany

1973: 007 - Vivi e lascia morire released in Italy.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun premieres Leicester Square Odeon, HRH Prince Philip in attendance.

1974: The Man with the Golden Gun released in the US and the Netherlands.

1974: James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt (James Bond 007: The Man With the Golden Colt) released in West Germany.

1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tmwtgg-dk-adsheet-1974/

1985: 007: En la mira de los asesinos (007: In the Sights of the Murderers) released in Mexico.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the US, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Israel.

Danish Teaser

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Canada. (French title Demain ne meurt jamais).

1997: Huominen ei koskaan kuole released in Finland.

1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre released in Portugal.

1997: Завтра не умрёт никогда (Tomorrow Will Never Die) released in Russia,

1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single.

1997: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

The New York Times
FILM REVIEW; Shaken, Not Stirred, Bond Is in Business

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F04E1DB113FF93AA25751C1A961958260

By JANET MASLIN - Published: December 19, 1997

No need to feel badly if the right watch, drink, cell phone, etc., don't turn you into James Bond. They don't really do it for Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies, either. Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.

This is not to say that Tomorrow Never Dies won't be an international success like Goldeneye, which wasn't much better. But it should fare best in corners of the world where nobody knows how little the title means, or how accurately it reflects the rest of the film's shallowness. Closer than ever to cartoon superhero status, Bond is seen battling ridiculous odds, dodging computer-generated explosions, delivering lame bon mots and boasting pitifully about his sexual prowess. All that gives this an up-to-date sensibility is the audience's awareness that M (Judi Dench) and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) could sue him for sexual harassment on the basis of his small talk.

This film does have a lively villain in Jonathan Pryce, as a media mogul who dreams of everything from manufacturing his own war to marketing software with bugs (so that customers will have to upgrade for years). Mr. Pryce reigns mischievously over an empire that Bond must infiltrate, and he also has a wife (Teri Hatcher) who is one of Bond's approximately one million ex-flames. Ms. Hatcher, like Mr. Brosnan, speaks in a perfect monotone, and so does Michelle Yeoh, the Hong Kong action star who is meant to kick some life into the series.

The film's other attempts to show Bond in a romantic light are so hopeless that it's a lucky thing his partnership with Ms. Yeoh's character, the svelte and athletic Wai Lin, stays confined to toylike weaponry and flat double-entendres.

''And now a word from our sponsor,'' muttered the critic beside me, as the camera offered a good look at James Bond's vodka bottle midway through the so-called story. (The humor-free screenplay is by Bruce Feirstein, author of Real Men Don't Eat Quiche as well as Goldeneye. The workmanlike director is Roger Spottiswoode.) Indeed, despite Bond's mission to defeat the evil mogul, product plugs are the film's most serious business, especially since the audience may be bored enough to start looking at labels.

The film's two best supporting turns come from Vincent Schiavelli, who has a cheerfully outrageous scene as a torture expert, and from a nice, smart BMW that works on remote control. Hiding in the back seat, Bond pilots the car through a tire-screeching chase. Don't try this at home.

Tomorrow Never Dies is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence a la videogames, smirky innuendoes and a couple of brief sexual situations.

1999: Desmond Llewelyn dies at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.
(Born 12 September 1914--Newport, Wales. UK.)

Culture

Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-desmond-llewelyn-1133864.html
Tom Vallance - Tuesday 21 December 1999 01:02
The Independent Culture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Desmond Llewlyn
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Filmography

Actor (122 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks (4 credits)

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

2002: Die Another Day released in Chile.
2002: Halj meg máskor (Hang On at Another Time) released in Hungary.

2002: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Peru.

2002: Umri kdaj drugič (Die Sometime Else) released in Slovenia.

RichardTheBruce

2013: Raymond Benson talks The James Bond Phenomenon with PBS Wisconsin.

The James Bond Phenomenon

See the complete article here:

https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/university-place/university-place-james-bond-phenomenon/

University Place
December 19, 2013 | Rating: TV-G | Length: 01:01:05

Video (1:01:05)

Raymond Benson, Author, Film Historian, Musician, joins University Place Presents host Norman Gilliland to discuss the life of Ian Fleming and the history of the James Bond novels. Upon Fleming’s passing, his estate chose authors to continue writing new Bond adventures. Benson was tapped to write James Bond novels from 1997 through 2003.

2019: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications-2/

Sourced from their own

2022: James Bond Pinball Launch Party at Surprise, Arizona.

James Bond Pinball Launch Party

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/surprise/james-bond-pinball-launch-party/200023664308757?ref=eventlist-cat#

19 December | Event in Surprise | AllEvents.in James Bond Pinball Launch Party

Location
Surprise, Arizona, United States

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cap Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH

See the complete article here:

https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

PG10
Select Venue
Western Cape
Theatre On The Bay
Western Cape
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
R180 - R275

RichardTheBruce

December 20th

1959: The Atticus column of the Sunday Times presents some thoughts from Ian Fleming on Christmas.

Thriller-writer Ian Fleming has more positive ideas on Christmas:

"Ideally, the only possible place to spent it is Monte Carlo. You don't have to eat turkey--a detestable bird. There aren't any people there you know at this time of year, and it's perfectly easy to play a little golf and avoid over-eating."

But even for the creator of James Bond, the ideal is not always attainable, and Mr. Fleming will in fact be spending his Christmas near Belfast, reading three good American thrillers, including the latest Rex Stout, and "going to church in a long crocodile with the rest of the family" on Christmas morning. His one way of simplifying Christmas is to give the same present year after year to all and sundry. It consists of a dozen snuff handkerchiefs from Fribourg and Treyer.

1959: As arranged by producer Kevin McClory, writer Jack Whittingham begins working with Ian Fleming in New York on the "Longitude 78 West" screenplay.

1963: Agent 007 jages (Agent 007 is Chased) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-dk-release-poster-1963/
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/from-russia-with-love-1963/


Re-release

1966: You Only Live Twice films the underground war room with Secretary of Defence, military chiefs.
1966: Paul Ritter is born--Kent, Engand.
(He dies 5 April 2021 at age 54--Faversham, Kent, England.)

Paul Ritter: Friday Night Dinner star dies
of brain tumour at 54

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/06/friday-night-dinner-star-paul-ritter-dies-of-brain-tumour-at-54

Ritter, who also appeared in films including Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, died at home beside his wife and two sons

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Paul Ritter at a Friday Night Dinner launch in 2020. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
Toby Moses
@tobymoses | Tue 6 Apr 2021 07.12 EDT

The actor Paul Ritter has died of a brain tumour at the age of 54, his agent has told the Guardian. Ritter, who starred as the family patriarch Martin in Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner alongside Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, died on Monday.

In a statement, his agent said that the actor, who also appeared in numerous films including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Quantum of Solace, died at home with his family by his side.

Robert Popper, the creator of the sitcom for which Ritter is best known, shared his thoughts saying: “Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”

In 2019, Ritter displayed his range with a terrifying performance as Anatoly Dyatlov in the multi-award winning Chernobyl. Toby Whithouse, who wrote spy thriller The Game in which Ritter starred in 2014, said: “This is terrible devastating news. Paul was a stunning actor, a lovely lovely guy. How utterly dreadful.”

Ritter was also a talented stage actor, and was nominated for an Olivier award in 2006 for his performance in Coram Boy and for a Tony award for his 2009 starring role in the Norman Conquests.

“It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” said his agent. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.

“Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”

Ritter is due to appear in the Friday Night Dinner 10th anniversary retrospective, which will air on Channel 4 later this year.

Paul Ritter (I) (1966–2021)

Actor | Soundtrack
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1967: Casino Royale released in Monaco.

1971: Les diamants sont éternels (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in France.

1971: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Τα διαμάντια είναι παντοτινά (James Bond, Agent 007: Diamonds are Forever) released in Greece.
1971: Diamantfeber released in Sweden.

1974: De man met de gouden revolver (Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1974: 007 ja kultainen ase (007 and a Golden Gun; Swedish title Mannen med den gyllene pistolen) released in Finland.

1974: L'homme au pistolet d'or (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in France.

1974: Az aranypisztolyos férfi (The Golden-Haired Man) released in Hungary.

1974: Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro released in Italy.

Not to be confused with.

1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Norway.

1974: Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem (A Man With a Golden Pistol) released in Poland.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in the UK, USA, and Ireland.

1974: Daily Variety reports The Man With the Golden Gun's budget under $7 million. Product placement (free) includes Nikon, Sony, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Dunlop, American Motors Corporation, and Colibri (lighter, fountain pen, cuff link).
1975: William Lundigan dies at age --Duarte, California.
(Born 12 June 1914, Syracuse, New York.)

William Lundigan

See the complete article here:

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

Lundigan in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)

Born June 12, 1914, Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Died December 20, 1975 (aged 61), Duarte, California, U.S.
Resting place Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Occupation Actor
Years active 1937–1971
Spouse(s) Rena Morgan (1945–1975; his death) 1 child

William Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor. His more than 125 films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) and Inferno (1953).

Biography
Growing up in Syracuse, New York, Lundigan was the oldest of four sons. His father, Michael F. Lundigan, owned a shoe store (at which Lundigan worked) in the same building as a local radio station, WFBL. Becoming fascinated by radio, he was playing child roles on radio and producing radio plays at 16.

A graduate of Nottingham High School, Lundigan studied law at Syracuse University, earning money as a radio announcer at WFBL. He graduated and passed the bar examination before events changed his career path. Charles Rogers, a Universal Pictures production chief, heard Lundigan's voice, met him, arranged a screen test and signed him to a motion picture contract in 1937.

Universal
He was in Armored Car (1937) billed as "Larry Parker". Then his name was changed to "William Lundigan" for West Bound Limited (1937).

Lundigan was billed third in The Lady Fights Back (1937) then promoted to male lead for That's My Story! (1937). He was back down the cast list for The Black Doll (1938) and Reckless Living (1938) but was the male lead for State Police (1938). He had support parts in Wives Under Suspicion (1938) directed by James Whale, Danger on the Air (1938), The Missing Guest (1938), and Freshman Year (1938).

Lundigan was one of the romantic leads in Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939). He was borrowed by Warners for a support part in Dodge City (1939).

Lundigan was top billed in They Asked for It (1939) then was Sigrid Gurie's leading man in The Forgotten Woman (1939). He supported in Legion of Lost Flyers (1939). He said "nothing much happened" of his time at Universal and left the studio.

Warner Bros
Lundigan signed with Warner Bros, where he had support roles in The Old Maid (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940), The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940), Young America Flies (1940, a short), The Sea Hawk (1940), Service with the Colors (1940, a short), East of the River (1940), and Santa Fe Trail (1940).

Lundigan later described this period as "I was always turning up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut - that old bugaboo, type casting - and made one quickie after another."

Warners promoted him to the lead of some "B"s, The Case of the Black Parrot (1941) and A Shot in the Dark (1941); he was support in The Great Mr. Nobody (1941), Highway West (1941) and International Squadron (1941).

Lundigan then had a lead in Sailors on Leave (1941) for Republic Pictures.

MGM
Lundigan went to MGM where he had support roles in The Bugle Sounds (1942) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was promoted to the lead of a "B", Sunday Punch (1942) and had the second lead in Apache Trail (1942) and Northwest Rangers (1942).

He reprised his role from the Andy Hardy series in Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) and supported in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) and Salute to the Marines (1943). Republic asked him back to play the lead in Headin' for God's Country (1943).

World War Two
He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps for World War II and served as a combat cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Okinawa, returning at war's end as a Corporal. He was wounded on Okinawa.

Post War
Lundigan returned to Hollywood and tried freelancing. He had support roles in some independent movies, The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) and Dishonored Lady (1947). He was the leading man in Republic's The Inside Story (1948) and was top billed in Mystery in Mexico (1948), State Department: File 649 (1949) and Follow Me Quietly (1949). He decided to try acting on stage and was cast by John Ford in a revival of What Price Glory?.

20th Century Fox
Lundigan's career revived when he successfully auditioned for the role of Jeanne Crain's romantic interest in Pinky (1949) at 20th Century Fox, initially directed by Ford (Elia Kazan took over). The movie was a huge hit and the studio signed him to a long term contract. He went on to be leading man to Dorothy McGuire in Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), June Haver in I'll Get By (1950) and Love Nest (1951), Susan Hayward in I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951).

He was also in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) and Elopement (1951), and was the male lead in Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) and Serpent of the Nile (1953). The New York Times called him "the male counterpart to the girl next door".

He had a good part in Inferno (1953).

Television
In an episode of Desilu Playhouse, "K.O. Kitty", L-R: William Lundigan, Aldo Ray, and Lucille Ball (1958).

Lundigan began appearing on TV shows like Lux Video Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The Ford Television Theatre, and The Star and the Story and was host for Climax! and Shower of Stars.

He had the lead in some low budget films like Riders to the Stars (1954), Terror Ship (1954) and The White Orchid (1954), the latter for Reginald Le Borg. He mostly worked on television now, such as episodes of Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and travelled the country extensively selling automobiles.

From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men into Space.

In 1961, Lundigan was cast as Nathaniel Norgate in the episode, "Dangerous Crossing", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The story focuses on religious settlers who encounter outlaws operating an illegal tollgate.

He had the lead in The Underwater City (1962) and guest starred on The Dick Powell Theatre , Run for Your Life, Medical Center and Marcus Welby, M.D.. His last film was The Way West (1967).

Politics
In 1963 and 1964, Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Lundigan himself waged an unsuccessful campaign for a nominally non-partisan seat on the Los Angeles City Council.

Family
Lundigan married Rena Morgan, and they had a daughter, Anastasia.[2]

Death
Lundigan died at the age of 61 of apparent heart failure at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California.

Radio appearances

1951 Screen Guild Players ("Apartment for Peggy")
1952 Stars in the Air ("Deep Waters")[20]

William Lundigan (1914–1975)

Actor | Soundtrack
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Climax! Casino Royale (TV-1954) JAMES BOND (51:49)

Climax! is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958, hosted by William Lundigan.

"Casino Royale" is a live 1954 television adaptation of the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Philippines.

1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.

1995: GoldenEye released in Belgium, France, and Spain.

2002: ప్రపంచ హీరో (Prapan̄ca vīruḍu 007; World Hero 007, Telugu title) released in India.

2006: 新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場 (xīn tiě jīngāng zhì pò huángjiā dǔchǎng; New Iron King Kong Breaks the Royal Casino) released in Hong Kong.

2009: Screenwriter Peter Morgan reveals an unimaginable twist planned for BOND 23--

The death of M.

2011: Hodder & Stoughton publish a special limited holiday James Bond Edition of Jeffery Deaver's novel Carte Blanche, designed by Bentley Motors.

Bentley Celebrates James Bond in Style!

See the complete article here:

https://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/news/bentley-celebrates-james-bond-in-style/8297/#leadform

by Vikram Gour | Apr 27, 2011

In order to commemorate the latest James Bond novel, Carte Blanche, Bentley Motors was roped in to create an exclusive edition. Judging a book by its cover just got a whole new meaning!

Carte Blanche, the new James Bond book, penned by Jeffery Deaver, and published by, Hodder & Stoughton, has partnered with Bentley Motors for a rather unique promotion which involves creating 500 limited edition copies of the novel in an ultimate luxury edition package.

James Bond, the super MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming has always had a penchant for expensive cars and even in the original 14 novels written by Fleming himself, James Bond owned three Bentleys over the course of the original stories. With Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver has taken the inspiration from Fleming and has reunited Bond with a fully loaded new ‘Bond Spec’ Bentley Continental GT as part of this much anticipated super spy thriller.

A lot of work has gone into creating these special edition books. A team from Bentley worked closely with the publishers in order to capture the essence of Bond and Bentley. In fact the agenda was to work with the book in such a manner that reading this exclusive edition works as an experience in itself. Luckily, the nuances of Bond and Bentley allow for such radical concepts and therefore it was a task of taking exclusive book ownership to the next level.

Each copy of the book arrives in a exquisitely crafted polished aluminium case which has been inspired by the deserts of Dubai as Dubai happens to be one of the major exotic locations that form a part of this latest Bond adventure as well as the new Continental GT. The end result is a sculpture that is reminiscent of the GT’s signature silhouette and the effect is as though the car has risen from the desert sand. That is just the cover.

The book itself comes wrapped in Nappa leather, which incidentally is what Bentley uses on the interiors of their cars. Further similarities to the interior of a Bentley exist in the fact that the white leather is contrasted by the stark red Pillar Box edging. The title, author’s name and Bentley logo have been carefully embossed into the front. The text is printed in two colors, namely black and red and the paper used is high quality ivory paper.

As mentioned earlier, the book boasts of being an experience and taking that to a whole new level is the little ‘twist’ that has been incorporated. Playing on the idea of an agent being given Carte Blanche, is one of the most dramatic features of the design: a die-cut bullet hole that pierces pages of the book. Hidden within the pages is a single polished 9mm bullet, individually marked with a number distinct to each copy, making the edition truly bespoke!

The special edition is strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide at a price of £1,000 each. Incidentally, over 100 million Bond books have been sold and over half the world’s population has seen a Bond film! If in today’s day and age there is anything more popular than Facebook, it’s James Bond, and an association with this brand is always bound to garner enough eyeballs. For Bentley however, this is just being part of the 007 family.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Kill Chain #6.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Kill_Chain
Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130260178 06011
ON SALE DATE: 12/20

SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia's grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.

2018: Ian Fleming Publications shares Season's Greetings.

2022: Dallas String Quartet performance expects a mashup of "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" and The James Bond theme at Marshall, Texas.

Dallas String Quartet

See the complete article here:

https://www.songkick.com/artists/5482893-dallas-string-quartet#review-334477

On tour: yes

On tour Dallas String Quartet live.

Dec
20
Marshall, TX, US
Memorial City Hall Performance Center

Live reviews

We had a great time at the concert. Such a nice venue, with all the trees lit up and reflecting in the lake in the background. Really enjoyed their mash-up of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the James Bond theme music!

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric (4:10)

RichardTheBruce

December 21st

1961: Dr. No screen tests for the role of Miss Taro.

Gabrielli Lucidi


Liha Margo
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Zena Marshall
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Violette Marceau
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Talitha Pol (Talitha Dina Getty)
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Harold Sanderson (Stand-in for Sean Connery)

1963: Bjørn Rasmussen reviews From Russia With Love for the Danish daily magazine Aktuelt.

“From Russia With Love”: Aktuelt’s film review (1963)

[Source: http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-aktuelt-film-review-1963/ ]
Film review, 21 December 1963

Several Danish film critics expressed their dislike of the James Bond 007 films during their original release in the early 1960's. The highly regarded Bjørn Rasmussen, M.A., who reviewed films for the Danish daily Aktuelt and hosted the film programme "Filmorientering" on national Danish television during the 60's, dismissed the Bond films as "sensationalist entertainment marked by poor taste" in his reference book Filmens Hvem-Hvad-Hvor (1967). He did however note that From Russia with Love (1963) was "the best in the series".

When EON Productions' From Russia with Love was released into Danish theatres in December 1963, Bjørn Rasmussen was markedly less kind in his scathing review for Aktuelt:

”Agent 007” returns
Christmas programming at Nørreport Cinema is brutal entertainment

With the pulp thriller From Russia with Love (1963), Nørreport [Cinema] picks up from Dr. No. This is a coarsely brutal, sensational serial based on Ian Fleming's vulgar novels, issued in Denmark by [Sven] Hazel's publishing house (of all!). The films, as well as the novels, are brimming with straightforward suspense, devoid of probability and based on the spectator not having time to detect the obvious gaffes.

This time, a so-called ”Lektor” is to be smuggled out and change hands from Russian to English ownership. We are not dealing with a lecturer [”lektor” in Danish, ed.] but a decoding machine. Fights, murders, sex, and speed is mobilized as well as all kinds of spies for all kinds of nations. They are secretly spying on each other nonstop. The most repulsive of them all would be Lotte Lenja [sic], the widow of Kurt Weill, evil incarnate and an efficient member of the international crime organization ”Spectre” who are also out to get the Lektor.

In the middle of all this nonsense, a glimmer of something truly cinematic shines through as is often the case with rudimentary pulp thrillers such as this. But [the film] is dreadfully simple and unpleasant to watch.

Written by Bjørn Rasmussen
Translation by Bond•O•Rama.dk

1964: Goldfinger premieres in the US--at the DeMille Theatre, New York City, NY.
(Compare to UK premiere 17 September in London. Followed by Hollywood, CA 25 December.
Then US general release 9 January 1965.)

1965: Thunderball premieres in the US--New York City, New York.
(Followed by US general release 22 December. UK release 29 December. The true world premiere was earlier: December 9, Hibiya Cinema, Tokyo, Japan.)

1967: Casino Royale released in Austria, the Netherlands, and West Germany.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Denmark.

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service principal shooting ends. (Began: 21 October.)
1969: Ilse Steppat dies at age 51--West Berlin, Germany.
(Born 30 November 1917--Barmen, Germany.)

Ilse Paula Steppat

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

Born Ilse Paula Steppat, 30 November 1917, Wuppertal, Germany
Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52), West Berlin, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Actress
Years active 1932–1969

Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

Biography
She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.

In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]

Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.

Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

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Filmography

Actress (60 credits)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
- Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
- Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
- Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
- Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
- Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller

1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
1951 Die Tat des Anderen
1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde

1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")

1973: Leven en laten sterven released in Belgium.

French and Dutch

1973: Leva och låta dö (Swedish title) released in Finland.

1973: Vivre et laisser mourir released in France.

1974: Mannen med den gyllene pistolen released in Sweden.

1982: Moonraker released in Iceland.

1995: 新鐵金剛之金眼睛 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī jīn yǎnjīng; Golden Eyes of New Iron King Kong) released in Hong Kong.

2006: 007 카지노 로얄 (007 kah-gee-no low-yal; 007 Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.

2010: BOND 23 resumes pre-production, halted most of this year as related to MGM financial issues.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #12 (Eidolon Chapter 6).
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #12

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: December 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/21

EIDOLON, CHAPTER 6: The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161465?Prevue=1

2017: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings with their annual card.

http://www.ianfleming.com/merry-christmas-ian-fleming-publications/


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2021: No Time To Die released on DVD and Bluray.

No Time to Die (2021)

See the complete article here:

https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/6031/No-Time-to-Die-2021.html

No Time to Die DVD and Blu-ray release date is set for December 21, 2021 and available on Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes on December 7, 2021.

Rating: 4.2/5 (205 users) *Please help rate
Rating: PG-13
imdb: 7.6
Runtime: 163
Theater date | October 8, 2021
Theater gross | $160.5 mil
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller

Actor(s)
Daniel Craig
Rami Malek
Lea Seydoux
Ralph Fiennes
Ben Whishaw
Lashana Lynch
Naomie Harris
Jeffrey Wright
Christoph Waltz
Billy Magnussen

Director(s)
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Producer(s)
Barbara Broccoli
Michael G. Wilson

Overview
Years after James Bond has decided to leave his work behind and retire, he is contacted by a friend of his working in the CIA, Felix Leiter, to help him search for a scientist that has turned up missing. James Bond quickly leaves retirement after meeting up with Felix as they both find out that the missing scientist may have fallen into the arms of dangerous criminals that are looking to use emerging technology for evil.