On This Day

RichardTheBruce

February 17th

1910: Marc Lawrence is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 27 November 2005 at age 95--Palm Springs, California.)

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)

1948: Anne Lönn is born--Berkley, California.

1950: Prunella Gee is born--London, England.

1962: Fleming makes another visit to the Dr. No set, this time filming at Falmouth with OO7 and Honey Ryder dodging bullets behind the sand dune. (Re-filmed due to shots affected by US sailors investigating noise, gunfire.)

1971: Denise Richards is born--Downers Grove, Illinois.
1976: Rory Kinnear is born--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

1995: GoldenEye films OO7 and Natalya's escape from the Russian Military Intelligence Archive.

2004: Electronic Arts publishes its Everything or Nothing third-person shooter video game (developed by EA Redwood Shores) for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube. Represents Pierce Brosnan's final OO7 appearance. With Heidi Klum. Willem Defoe, even. Richard Kiel. Misaki Ito.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_007:_Everything_or_Nothing

2015: Spectre Assistant Director Terry Madden sustains career-ending injuries from an out of control vehicle.
2015: Spectre finishes 9 days of filming at Sölden, Austria.

2019: Christopher Nolan denies he will direct the NEXT James Bond film.

2023: Licence To Thrill – A James Bond Burlesque Tribute Show at Northbridge, Western Australia.

007 - Licence To Thrill

See the complete article here:

https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/007-licence-to-thrill-fw2023

Cabaret & Variety / Burlesque
WA

Ticket prices: $30.00
Duration: 70 min
Performance accessibility
Suitability and warnings: 18+ (Restricted)
Kleenheat Sizzle Factor: Hot

About this event
“Shaken not stirred”

Calling all James Bond fans. Be immersed into this cinema action blockbuster of glamour, drama and intrigue as our cast perform to the iconic scores of the Bond films opening credits and scenes.

Featuring a star studded cast of amazingly delicious performers. With our host, keeping you engaged in Bond knowledge and trivia.

Come dressed to impress or express and join us for an evening of Hollywood glamour, style and class as Skye High Burlesque puts on event to remember.

‘Licence To Thrill’ – A James Bond Burlesque Tribute Show, presented by Skye High Burlesque.

Presented by:
Skye High Burlesque

Skye High Burlesque is Perth's newest production company and burlesque school located in Forrestdale at DivaSquad headquaters. Providing education with theory and movement-based classes, courses, workshops and mentorship. Also, offering performance opportunities for students in Skye High's professional showcases. Owner and Director, Delza Skye prides herself on inspiring body positivity, confidence and inclusivity for all. At Skye High Burlesque, the Skye’s the limit.

2023: The Other Fellow documentary comes available online in Canada and the United States. Limited release in theaters.

The Other Fellow

See the complete article here:

https://www.facebook.com/theotherfellow/

2.6K likes • 2.7K followers

The Other Fellow - Official Trailer (2023) James Bond Documentary (2:30)

RichardTheBruce

February 18th

1915: Henry Francis Gammidge is born--London, England.
(He dies 1981--Richmond Upon Thames, Surrey, England.)

Henry Gammidge

See the complete article here:

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

Henry Gammidge
Born 1915
Died 1981

Henry Francis Gammidge (1915–1981), was a writer of the James Bond comic strip that appeared in Daily Express newspaper and syndicated worldwide. Gammidge adapted Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, which were then drawn by illustrator John McLusky. Gammidge worked on eleven stories, which were published from 15 December 1958. Gammidge's last story was published on 8 January 1966.

1929: Leonard Cyril (Len) Deighton is born--Marylebone, England.

1938: Sadanoyama Shinmatsu is born--Nagasaki, Japan.
(He dies 27 April 2017 at age 79--Tokyo, Japan.)

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu

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

Sadanoyama celebrates his first tournament victory in May 1961

Personal information

Born Shinmatsu Sasada, February 18, 1938 - Nagasaki, Japan
Died April 27, 2017 (aged 79)
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight 129 kg (284 lb)

Career

Stable Dewanoumi
Record 591-251-61
Debut January, 1956
Highest rank Yokozuna (January, 1965)
Retired March, 1968
Championships 6 (Makuuchi)
Special Prizes Fighting Spirit, Outstanding Performance, Technique
Gold Stars 2 (Wakanohana I, Azumafuji)
* Up to date as of August 2012.

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu (佐田の山 晋松, born Shinmatsu Sasada, February 18, 1938 – April 27, 2017) was a former sumo wrestler from Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 50th yokozuna. After his retirement he was the head coach of Dewanoumi stable and served as head of the Japan Sumo Association.

Career
Born in Arikawa, Minamimatsuura District, he made his professional debut in January 1956, and reached sekitori status four years later upon promotion to the jūryō division in March 1960. He made his top makuuchi division debut in January 1961. Sadanoyama won his first tournament title in only his third tournament in the top division, from the rank of maegashira 13. The achievement of winning a tournament from the maegashira ranks is sometimes seen as a jinx on subsequent success in sumo, but Sadanoyama disproved that theory by going on to reach ōzeki in March 1962 after winning his second title, and then yokozuna in January 1965 after capturing his third championship.

Sadanoyama's handprint on a Ryōgoku monument[/img]

He made a cameo appearance in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, as himself.

Although more attention was focused on yokozuna Taihō and Kashiwado, with their rivalry referred to as the Hakuho era after a combination of their shikona, Sadanoyama in fact ended up winning more tournament championships than Kashiwado.

Sadanoyama announced his retirement suddenly in March 1968, despite having won the previous two tournaments, two days after a surprise loss to a new maegashira, the Hawaiian born Takamiyama. It has been suggested that the shock of losing to a foreigner may have prompted a premature retirement.

Retirement from sumo
Sadanoyama remained in the sumo world after his retirement, as an elder. Having married the daughter of the previous stable boss, former maegashira Dewanohana Kuniichi, he became head coach of the Dewanoumi stable. One of the most powerful heya in sumo, he produced a string of top division wrestlers, including Mienoumi, Dewanohana Yoshitaka, Washūyama, Ōnishiki, Ryōgoku, Oginishiki and Mainoumi. In February 1992 he became head of the Japan Sumo Association. He was chosen ahead of his contemporaries Taihō and Kashiwado partly because he was in better health than either of them. He changed his toshiyori name to Sakaigawa in 1996, handing over the Dewanoumi name and the day-to-day running of his stable to the former Washūyama. He did not run for re-election in 1998, after it became clear he lacked enough support, and was replaced by former ōzeki Yutakayama from the rival Tokitsukaze faction. He subsequently became head of the judging department, an unusual move for a former head of the Sumo Association. He stood down as an elder in 2003 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of sixty five.

Death
He died in a Tokyo hospital of pneumonia on April 27, 2017 at the age of 79.

Fighting style
Sadanoyama was known for employing pushing and thrusting techniques such as tsuppari (a series of rapid thrusts to the chest) and regularly won by such kimarite as oshi dashi (push out) and tsuki dashi (thrust out). However he was also good on the mawashi where he preferred a migi-yotsu (left hand outside, right hand inside) grip, and often won by yori kiri (force out) and uwatenage (overarm throw).

Career record
The Kyushu tournament was first held in 1957, and the Nagoya tournament in 1958.

Sadanoyama (1938–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1889384/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (2 credits)

1967 You Only Live Twice - Japanese Sumo Wrestler (uncredited)
1964 Kigeki ekimae okami

Trivia: A professional sumo wrestler, Sadanoyama was the 50th Yokozuna at the time of filming b]You Only Live Twice[/b.

http://www.jamesbondwiki.com/page/Sadanoyama_Shinmatsu,_1938_-_2017

Sumo Forum
Dewanoumi Sakaigawa rijicho Sadanoyama passed away
http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/36512-dewanoumi-sakaigawa-rijicho-sadanoyama-passed-away/

1965: Daily Variety reports the casting of Claudine Auger and principal photography commencing in Paris.

1975: James Bond comic strip The Phoenix Project ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 23 September 1974. 2656–2780) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1013


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

https://www.popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-008-the-phoenix-project/




https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3

Bond Blir Indragen I Projekt Fenix!
("Bond Gets In To Line On..." The Phoenix Project)

Swedish Semic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3

Projekt Fenix (The Phoenix Project)

Danish 1978 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no44-1978/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 44:
“The Phoenix Project” (1978)

1981: The LA Times reports the death of Italian stuntman Paolo Rigoni due to a bobsled accident during filming of For Your Eyes Only.

2002: Die Another Day films Michael G. Wilson's cameo as General Chandler.

2016: James Bond Spectre - The Auction for charity at Christie's. (Total sales: GBP 2,785,500.)

JAMES BOND SPECTRE: THE AUCTION

See the complete article here:

https://www.christies.com/en/auction/auction-13116-cks

18 February 2016 | Live auction 13116
London
Closed

Sale Total GBP 2,785,500

Lot 1
Blu-rayTM disc signed in gold marker pen by Daniel Craig
Estimate GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000
Price Realised GBP 30,000

Lot 2
James Bond’s Day of the Dead Costume worn by Daniel Craig
Estimate GBP 12,000 - GBP 18,000
Price Realised GBP 98,500
https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5973105?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=5973105&from=salessummary&lid=1

Lot 3
Longines 'Conquest Heritage', 18-carat rose gold automatic wristwatch, worn by Ralph Fiennes as M
Estimate GBP 5,000 - GBP 7,000
Price Realised GBP 20,000

Lot 4
Final Legal Spectre Script signed by Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli
Estimate GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000
Price Realised GBP 10,625

Lot 5
Oberhauser’s Spectre gold ring worn by Christoph Waltz
Estimate GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000
Price Realised GBP 32,500

Lot 6
Rankin framed set of character art
Estimate GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000
Price Realised GBP 30,000

Lot 7
Sam Smith signed ‘Writing's on the Wall’ sheet music framed with 45rpm 7” vinyl single and sleeve
Estimate GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000
Price Realised GBP 9,375

Lot 8
A two-piece dinner suit by Tom Ford, worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond
Estimate GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000
Price Realised GBP 27,500

Lot 9
Prototype one of eight Omega Seamaster 300 wristwatches, worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond
Estimate GBP 15,000 - GBP 20,000
Price Realised GBP 92,500

Lot 10
Spectre Aston Martin DB10
Estimate GBP 1,000,000 - GBP 1,500,000
Price Realised GBP 2,434,500

Christies Spectre Charity Auction
Blair Ballard, our European-Man-About-Town-Correspondent, takes us on an unbelievable tour of the Christies Spectre Charity Auction...

2020: Billie Eilish performs "No Time To Die" at the 2020 BRIT Awards.

Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (Live From The BRIT Awards, London)

RichardTheBruce

February 19th

1965: Thunderball films OO7's escape by jetpack.

1967: Benicio Del Toro is born--San Germán, Puerto Rico.

1975: Bond comic strip The Black Ruby Caper begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 15 July 1975. 2781–2897) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1014


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


Swedish Semic 1976

Kodnamn: Svart Storm
("Codename: Black Storm" - The Black Ruby Caper)

https://www.popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-009-black-ruby-caper/




Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no41-1977/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 41: “The Black Ruby Caper” (1977)





Tamil

1979: Moonraker principal photography wrap party.

1986: Adolfo Celi dies at age 63--Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
(Born 27 July 1922--Messina, Sicily, Italy.)

Obituaries

Adolfo Celi Dies at 64; An Actor and Director

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/20/obituaries/adolfo-celi-dies-at-64-an-actor-and-director.html
AP FEB. 20, 1986

Adolfo Celi, the Italian actor and director, died today, two days after suffering a heart attack. He was 64 years old.

Mr. Celi, a Sicilian who began acting on the Italian screen in the 1940's and performed for 15 years in Brazil, was known for his comic roles, but was also frequently cast as a villain in films. He won international fame in the 1965 film of ''Thunderball'' as Emilio Largo, the black eye-patched adversary of James Bond.

He had more than three dozen roles to his credit, including that of Giovanni de Medici in ''The Agony and the Ecstasy,'' the 1965 film biography of Michelangelo, and that of a Scottish colonel in ''King of Hearts'' (1966), which starred Alan Bates.

His other film credits included ''That Man From Rio'' (1964); ''Von Ryan's Express'' (1965); ''Grand Prix'' (1966); ''The Alibi'' (1969), for which he was also co-director and co-author; a 1971 remake of ''Murders in the Rue Morgue,'' and a 1974 version of Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Indians' titled ''And Then There Were None.'' In the past few years he had starred in several Italian-made movies, including the series ''Amici Miei'' (''My Friends'') and also directed stage productions.

He suffered the heart attack a few hours before the premiere in this Tuscan city of ''I Misteri di Pietroburgo'' (''The St. Petersburg Mysteries''), which he directed and acted in.

Adolfo Celi (1922–1986)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148041/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (103 credits)

-1987 International Airport (TV Series) - Il Caposcalo - 10 episodes
1987 T.I.R. (TV Series) - Oreste
- Aki elsönek érkezik (1987) ... Oreste
1985 Il giocatore invisibile
1985 All My Friends Part 3 - Professor Sassaroli
1984 Cindy - Cinderella '80 - Prince Gherardeschi
1982 L'occhio di Giuda (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1982)
- Episode #1.2 (1982)
- Episode #1.1 (1982)
1982 All My Friends Part 2 - Professor Alfeo Sassaroli
1982 Monsignor - Vinci
1982 La sconosciuta (TV Mini-Series) - Taladis - 4 episodes
1981 Madly in Love - Gustavo VI di San Tulipe
1981 The Borgias (TV Mini-Series) - Rodrigo Borgia - 9 episodes
1980 Carnapping - Head of police in Palermo
1980 Café Express - Ispettore capo Ministero

1979 L'altro Simenon (TV Series)
1978 Le braghe del padrone - Eugenio - the president
1978 Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania - Carcamano
1978 Indagine su un delitto perfetto - Sir Harold Boyd
1977 Man of Corleone
1977 The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue (TV Movie) - James Brooke
1977 The Chosen - Dr. Kerouac
1977 Pane, burro e marmellata - Aristide Bertelli
1977 The Passengers - Boetani
1977 Che notte quella notte! - Dottore
1976 Merciless Man - Commissario Lo Gallo
1976 The Big Operator - Rifai
1976 The Next Man - Al Sharif
1976 Febbre da cavallo - Judge
1976 Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen - Commendatore Vladimiro Palese
1976 L'affittacamere - Giudice Damiani
1976 Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife - Antonio
1976 Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man - Captain
1976 Pure as a Lily - L'onorevole
1976 Sandokan (TV Mini-Series) - James Brooke - 6 episodes
1975 L'amaro caso della baronessa di Carini (TV Mini-Series) - Don Mariano D'Agrò - 4 episodes
1975 Amici miei - Professor Sassaroli
1975 Libera, My Love - Felice Valente - Libera's father
1974 Last Moments - Dr. Monforte
1974 Ten Little Indians - The General
1974 The Phantom of Liberty - Le docteur de Legendre / Doctor Pasolini
1974 The Devil Is a Woman - Father Borelli
1973 La villeggiatura - Commissioner Rizzuto
1973 Le mataf - Me Desbordes
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - General Krebs
1973 Pete, Pearl & the Pole - The Pole
1972 Joe Petrosino (TV Mini-Series) - Joe Petrosino - 4 episodes
1972 The Italian Connection - Don Vito Tressoldi
1972 The Long Arm of the Godfather - Don Carmelo
1972 Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco - Inspector Huber
1972 Who Saw Her Die? - Serafian
1972 Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? - Inspector Vezzi
1972 Eye in the Labyrinth - Frank
1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Consul
1972 Il sospetto (TV Movie) - Dott. Fritz Emmemberger
1971 Una chica casi decente - César Martín de Valdés 'Duque'
1971 Murders in the Rue Morgue - Inspector Vidocq
1971 They Have Changed Their Face - Giovanni Nosferatu
1970 Finale di partita (TV Movie)
1970 Brancaleone at the Crusades - Re Boemondo
1970 The Cop - Le commissaire principal / Chief of police
1970 Fragment of Fear - Signor Bardoni
1970 The Night of the Assassin - Hermes

1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Eric 'The Red' Redman / Eric Redman
- The Second Time Around (1969) ... Eric 'The Red' Redman
- The Great Casino Caper (1969) ... Eric Redman
1969 In Search of Gregory - Max
1969 Death Knocks Twice - Professor Max Spiegler
1969 A Man for Emmanuelle - Sandri
1969 Detective Belli - Avvocato Fontana
1969 Midas Run - General Ferranti
1969 The Archangel - Marco Tarocchi Roda
1969 Alibi - Adolfo
1968 Seven Times Seven - Warden
1968 Fantabulous Inc. - Karl Maria van Beethoven
1968 It's Your Move - Bayon / Guinet
1968 Danger: Diabolik - Ralph Valmont
1968 Death Sentence - Friar Baldwin
1967 Dirty Heroes - Luc Rollman
1967 Grand Slam - Mark Milford
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Mr. Thai - 'Beta'
1967 The Bobo - Francisco Carbonell
1967 The Honey Pot - Inspector Rizzi
1967 Master Stroke - Mr. Bernard
1966 Grand Prix - Agostini Manetta
1966 King of Hearts - Le Colonel Mac Bibenbrook (as Adolfo Celli)
1966 Pleasant Nights - Bernardozzo
1966 Target for Killing - Henry Perkins
1966 Yankee - Grande Concho
1966 El Greco - Don Miguel de las Cuevas
1965 Thunderball - Largo
1965 A Man Named John - Msgr. Radini Tedeschi
1965 Slalom - Riccardo
1965 The Agony and the Ecstasy - Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (pope Leo X)
1965 Von Ryan's Express - Battaglia
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Van Willie
1964 Beautiful Families - Professore Della Porta (segment "Amare è un po' morire")
1964 Male Companion - Benvenuto
1964 3 notti d'amore - Alberto (segment "La moglie bambina")
1964 That Man from Rio - Mário de Castro
1963 Sandokan the Great

1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá (uncredited)
1950 Caiçara - Genovês

1948 Immigrants - Il professore
1948 Guaglio - Don Pietro
1947 Natale al campo 119 - John, il sergente americano
1946 Un americano in vacanza - Tom

Director (4 credits)

1969 Alibi

1957 Grande Teatro Tupi (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Esta Noite é Nossa (1957)
1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá
1950 Caiçara

Writer (2 credits)

1969 Alibi (screenplay) / (story)

1950 Caiçara (story and screenplay)

Producer (1 credit)

1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá (producer)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1973 Lucky Luciano (voice dubbing: Charles Siragusa - uncredited)

1987: Albert R. Broccoli receives an honorary Order of the British Empire (OBE).

2015: Spectre films the funeral scene in Rome, Italy.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond in Reflections of Death, six stories in hardcover.
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore.
Art: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez.
Cover: Fay Dalton

JAMES BOND IN “REFLECTIONS OF DEATH” OGN – Hardcover

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115010
Cover: Fay Dalton
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez
Genre: Spy Thriller, Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2020
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 128 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/19/2020
128 stunning pages of nonstop thrills and intrigue!
An ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL James Bond graphic novel, by a cavalcade of superstars!
GREG PAK (Star Wars, Darth Vader)!
ANDY DIGGLE (Daredevil, Green Arrow)!
BENJAMIN PERCY (X-Force, Wolverine)!
GAIL SIMONE (Deadpool, Wonder Woman)!
MARK RUSSELL (Red Sonja, The Flintstones)!
VITA AYALA & DANNY LORE (James Bond ongoing series)!

Six stunning stories, featuring the world's greatest spy! Moneypenny has been kidnapped, and the mystery of who has her, and what they want, will only be revealed when (if?) 007 is able to complete his incredible missions.

2023: Harrods To Host 007 x The Macallan Experience featuring Little Nellie on display in Knightsbridge, London, England.

Harrods To Host 007 x The Macallan Experience
Featuring Little Nellie on display in Knightsbridge

See the complete article here:

https://www.007.com/harrods-to-host-007-x-the-macallan-interactive-experience/

Harrods are to host an interactive experience celebrating 60 years of James Bond in partnership with The Macallan.

For four weeks, from Sunday February 19, the department store will exhibit signature artefacts from the 007 archive to commemorate the release of the Scottish whisky distillery’s 60th anniversary range of six Bond-themed bottles.

At the heart of the experience is a timeline of original concept art and storyboards chronicling the creative process of the Bond movies, which is also featured on the packaging for The Macallan’s 60th Anniversary single malt.

Central to the exhibit is Little Nellie, the autogyro commanded by Sean Connery in 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Other memorabilia on display include Oddjob’s bowler hat from Goldfinger (1964) and Jaws’ metal teeth from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

Exclusive to purchase at Harrods in the UK is a limited edition Globe-Trotter case containing all six bottles of The Macallan’s 60th Anniversary Release.

RichardTheBruce

February 20th

1951: Eva Reuber-Staier is born-- Bruck an der Mur, Austria.

1964: El satánico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Mexico.

1964: From Russia With Love released in Norway.

Frå Moskva med kjærleg helsing (From Russia With Love), Ian Fleming,
Norwegian paperback published by Fonna, 1959
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-norwegian-books.html

1995: GoldenEye films a mini MiG helicopter (model) crashing into Severnaya Station.

Recreation by @Agent_99. Permission pending.

2002: Casino Royale 1967 re-released in France.
2002: News reports say Pierce Brosnan's knee injury halts filming but won't delay release of Bond film.

Bond filming halts as Brosnan injured

See the complete article here:

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2002/0220/395990-brosnanp/

Originally Published / Wednesday, 20 Feb 2002

Irish actor Pierce Brosnan has sustained a knee injury while working on the set of the latest James Bond movie.

According to the production company, EON Productions, Brosnan injured himself while filming an action sequence involving water.

The company described Brosnan as always pursuing the character of James Bond "with extreme physicality" and said that he would be unable to continue working for a fortnight.

Under the working title of 'Bond 20', this is the 20th Bond film and also marks the 40th anniversary of the franchise.

The delay is not expected to effect the release of the film; it is expected to hit screens in November 2002.

2013: Activision finishes its licensed games associated with Bond.
2015: Spectre films the car chase in Rome.
2018: Russian premiere of ‘Casino Royale’ in Concert, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, presented by Zapomni, Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblas.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #4.
Stephen Mooney, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #4

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532504011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Will Robson
Cover C: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover D: Stephen Mooney
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Stephen Mooney
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/20/2019

A new arc begins, by superstar GREG PAK (The Incredible Hulk, Firefly) and new interior artist STEPHEN MOONEY (Half Past Danger)!

MI6 Agent 007 and Korean operative John Lee have been forced by their governments to join forces to secure a dangerous case that may contain nuclear materials. But their current mission requires them to practice patience, guile, and possibly...singing.

RichardTheBruce

February 21st

1943: Multiple German U-boats attack the Norwegian tanker Stigstad (translation: Rising City), sinking it with a torpedo.

Survivors on a life raft, including Kevin McClory, endure two weeks across 600 miles until they make the coast of Ireland. Two die at sea, one dies later. McClory suffers frostbite and is unable to speak for over a year after the incident. He returns to the Navy and serves till war's end.

Aboard Stigstad when hit on 21 Feb 1943
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship2663.html

More detail on the vessel and crew
https://www.warsailors.com/singleships/stigstad.html

1962: Location filming in Jamaica ends and the production team departs for England and the fantastic sets Ken Adam constructed for Dr. No's base, the ventilation gauntlet, and MI6 interiors. A few planned shots delayed for weather would be made up later.

1980: D'Artagnan Extracolor releases #421 Una Carrera Frustrada [A Frustrated Race, or Diamonds Are Forever] collecting the strips of artist John McLusky and writer Henry Gammidge.

They previously published D’Artagnan Extraordinario #279 Los Diamantes Son Eternos to adapt the 1971 film.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

https://www.comicsroyale.com/editorial-columba#/diamonds/editorial-columba/
Originally Published: D’Artagnan Extraordinario #279 as Los Diamantes Son Eternos
Story Type: Film/Novel hybrid adaptation
Writer: Pedro Mazzino (under the pseudonym Pier Michele)
Artist: Lito Fernandez
Translator: Clinton Rawls

Notes: Truly one of the more interesting comics I’ve translated to date. This adventure is primarily an adaptation of Ian Fleming’s novel with characters and elements of the film version thrown into the mix to create a more literary reading experience. For example, in a particularly clever choice the comic creators change Seraffimo Spang’s Spectreville from a restored frontier boomtown to a replica of Cape Kennedy (better known now as Cape Canaveral). This is not only an appropriate space age update, but it allows the creators to substitute Spang’s locomotive for the moon buggy from Guy Hamilton’s film. As the comic progresses, the story takes some notable twists and turns from both narrative sources so surprises are certainly in store for Bond fans.

Artistic Licence: I must confess that I indulged myself in a couple of instances with this particular adaptation. For starters, in the original text when Bond is informed of Spang’s giant replica of Cape Kennedy, he immediately exclaims, “Blofeld!” I felt this ruined the reveal later in the story, particularly since this adaptation adheres so closely to Fleming’s novel, a book which predates the introduction of Blofeld in Thunderball, so I instead changed Bond’s text to something a bit more inconclusive. Finally, when Bond leaps from the lunar buggy, the original text as translated would have been something a bit closer to, “Time to get out of here!” I felt that this lacked a certain Bondian panache, particularly after such an inventive death trap, so I took the liberty of having a bit more fun with that moment.

2012: The second official BOND 23 photo release shows Judi Dench, director Sam Mendes and director of photography Roger Deakins in the MI6 bunker.

2013: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers celebrates Wing Commander Ken Wallis, creator of ‘Little Nellie’.

2015: BOND 24 films car scenes with Daniel Craig in the vicinity of the Colosseum, Rome, Italy.

2015: Taryn Simon's exhibition Simon’s Birds of the West Indies begins at the Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France.

TARYN SIMON | Birds of The West Indies
https://artmap.com/alminerech/exhibition/taryn-simon-2015?print=do

21 February – 14 March 2015

Parallel to Taryn Simon’s exhibition at Jeu de Paume, the American artist’s first monographic exhibition at a French institution, Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present in its Paris space the European premiere of Simon’s Birds of the West Indies, from February 21st until March 14th, 2015.

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

Conflating Bond the ornithologist with 007, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her work Birds of the West Indies (2013–2014). In Birds of the West Indies, 2014, Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon ventured through every scene to discover those moments of chance. The result is a taxonomy not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. The artist has trained her eye away from the agents of seduction—glamour, luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. She forces the viewer’s gaze off center, against the intentions of the franchise, by focusing on the forgotten, insignificant, and overlooked.

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

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

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

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

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

Simon’s works have been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Folkwang Museum, Essen, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013-2014), MoMA, New York (2012), Tate Modern, London (2011), Neue National Galerie, Berlin (2011), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007), Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2008), Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2004), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003). Simon is a graduate of Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) and a Guggenheim Fellow. Several books have been published providing an inventory of her works accompanied by critical texts, including essays by Salman Rushdie, Homi K. Bhabha, and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
www.galeriealminerech.com

https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/2847-taryn-simon

2018: The media speculate that Danny Boyle may direct Bond 25.

Annapurna Might Choose Danny Boyle to Direct ‘Bond 25’

See the complete article here:

https://screencrush.com/james-bond-25-danny-boyle/

Emma Stefansky | Published: February 21, 2018

While MGM and Annapurna are still insisting that the untitled Bond 25 is coming out later next year, the movie doesn’t have a director yet, and there have been no hints that anyone involved knows what the plot is. Understandably, both studios would like to get the ball rolling, and word on the street is that Trainspotting’s Danny Boyle is the top choice to direct it.

Boyle is “high on MGM’s list,” according to Variety, who also report that the director has been in the Bond series’ sights since Skyfall and Spectre. Boyle currently has a movie in the works, but it’s in very early stages, which means it would be easy to temporarily shelf while he directs a movie about the world’s most famous British spy. Sam Mendes directed the last two installments and said that after Spectre he was done with the series, and earlier this week Christopher Nolan said that he was definitely not in the running for Bond 25.

Boyle’s movies, like Trainspotting, 127 Hours, and Sunshine, all have a very distinct, weird style and voice to them, which would probably lend itself well to whatever new direction MGM is considering for the next installment in the series. It’s taken this long to put it together, and Boyle would be the kind of director to re-galvanize the story again after Spectre.

Bond 25 will star at least Daniel Craig, will probably be about James Bond solving crime, and will hit theaters November 8, 2019.

Read More:
Danny Boyle Might to Direct ‘Bond 25’ | https://screencrush.com/james-bond-25-danny-boyle/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

2018: Dynamite Entertainment's James Bond The Body #2 (Part Two - The Brain) comes available for purchase.
Antonio Fuso, artist. Ales Kot, writer.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419002011
Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Antonio Fuso
Genre: Action
Publication Date: February 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/21

PART TWO - THE BRAIN

James Bond leads the interrogation of a scientist who allowed a lethal virus to be stolen. But when the investigation takes a surprising turn, Bond begins to question whether he is enough.

img]https://www.dynamite.com/images/JamesBondBody0202011ACasalanguida.jpg[/img]

2019: No Time To Die releases a second official poster.

2019: No Time To Die releases an IMAX poster.

2024: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond - 007 #2 celebrating 10 years of Bond comics.
Garth Ennis, writer. Rapha Lobosco, artist.

JAMES BOND: 007 #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513033924902011
SKU: C72513033924902011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
UPC: 72513033924902011
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
Publication Date: February, 2024
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 2/21/2024

As 007 tracks the trail of destruction left by the deadly compound Stalvoda - and learns more about its origins - he faces another kill squad determined to stop him in his tracks. But as his quarry leads him higher than he's ever been before, Bond soon discovers that facing gunmen on terra firma is vastly preferable to the freezing hell of outer space!
Illustrated by RAPHA LOBOSCO (James Bond: Black Box) and featuring cover art by DAVE JOHNSON (100 Bullets, Superman: Red Son, Deadpool), part two of "Your Cold, Cold Heart" launches the 10-year celebration of James Bond comics at Dynamite into orbit!

https://screenrant.com/james-bond-007-2-dynamite-ruthless-killing-machine/







https://www.comicsbeat.com/preview-dynamite-celebrates-a-decade-of-bond-with-james-bond-007-2/

2024: Pamela Fortunee Salem dies at age 80--Surfside, Florida.
(Born 1944-Mumbai, India.)

Pamela Salem, British actor who played James Bond
secretary Miss Moneypenny, dies at 80

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-23/pamela-salem-dead-bond-doctor-who-miss-moneypenny

British actor Pamela Salem, shown in a 1971 publicity shot, died on Wednesday at her Florida home. She was 80. (Getty Images)

By Alexandra Del RosarioStaff Writer
Feb. 23, 2024 9:32 AM PT

British actor Pamela Salem, who appeared as Bond secretary Miss Moneypenny in the film “Never Say Never Again,” has died.

Salem’s agent Maddie Burdett Coutts confirmed in a phone call with The Times that the actor died Wednesday at her home in Florida at age 80. Additional details, including a cause of death, were not revealed.

“She was a friend, she wasn’t just a client,” Burdett Coutts said. “We’ve been friends for a long time, so it is all a bit raw. She was just the most lovely person.”

British production and publishing company Big Finish announced Salem’s death in a news release Friday. “Everyone at Big Finish was shocked and saddened to learn about the passing of our friend and colleague Pamela Salem,” the release read, before sharing the details of Salem’s life and career.

Big Finish contributor David Richardson, who produced Salem’s various audio dramas, remembered the actor’s work ethic and warm personality.

“She was a very gentle person — always interested in everyone, from her co-stars to the production team to the guest actors and visitors,” he said in the release. “She talked with joy about her home on Miami Beach, waking up to warmth and waves, and she knew all about our lives and families and life stories.”

Salem, who was born in 1944 in India, touts a screen career spanning multiple decades — starting from the late 1960s and ending just before 2020, according to IMDb. Among the most notable of her projects, however, is a turn as secretary Miss Moneypenny opposite Sean Connery‘s James Bond in the unofficial Bond film “Never Say Never Again” in 1983.

Salem’s legacy also includes appearances in nine episodes of the original “Doctor Who” series. Her time on the beloved sci-fi series informed the multiple audio drama projects she pursued with Big Finish in the years before her death.

The actor’s more substantive television work also included British series “Buccaneer,” “Into the Labyrinth” and “EastEnders.” Her additional TV credits include “French Fields,” and appearances on U.S. dramas “ER,” “The West Wing” and “Big Love.”

Salem’s film credits include 1978’s “The Great Train Robbery” (also alongside Connery), “Salomé,” “Gods and Monsters” and “April’s Shower.”

Salem grew up in England and attended Germany’s Heidelberg University and London’s Royal Central School of Speech, before commencing her acting career with repertory theater in Chesterfield and York.

In the ’90s, she moved overseas and settled in Los Angeles and eventually Miami. She was married to Irish actor Michael O’Hagan, who died in 2017 at age 77. Salem is survived by her sister, puppeteer and poet Gille Robic.

RichardTheBruce

February 22nd

1938: Kätherose Derr (Karin Dor) is born--Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
(She dies 6 November 2017 at age 79--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.)

Karin Dor obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/15/karin-dor-obituary
Actor best known as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice
Ronald Bergan | Wed 15 Nov 2017 06.43 EST | Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 15.07 EST

Karin Dor as the seductive Spectre operative Helga Brandt, with Sean Connery as 007,
in You Only Live Twice, 1967. Photograph: Allstar/United Artists

No matter what roles she played in films, on stage or on television throughout the rest of her career, the German actor Karin Dor, who has died aged 79, was labelled a Bond girl. Her induction as a member of this exclusive group of beautiful women who have provided James Bond with a love interest came in You Only Live Twice (1967), in which she met a memorably grisly end.

Dor played the seductive, titian-haired Helga Brandt, an operative of the criminal organisation Spectre ordered to kill 007 (Sean Connery), who has been conveniently tied up for her. “I’ve got you now,” she states ambivalently. “Well, enjoy yourself!” he replies. She slaps his face and threatens him with a surgical knife, which he wrestles from her, using it to cut the strap on her black dress.

Helga expertly switches from being cold and calculating to passionately kissing Connery. She seems to have changed sides, though she makes a further attempt to kill Bond by trapping him in a booby-trapped plane, which she parachutes out of, before it crashes. When the super-villain Spectre boss Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) discovers that Bond has survived the crash, he activates a mechanism that dumps Helga into a tank filled with piranha fish, which eat her alive.

Karin Dor with Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of the 1969 film Topaz.
Photograph: Allstar/Universal

Dor also fails to survive to the end of Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz (1969). A rare bright spot in one of Hitchcock’s most anonymous films, she is Juanita de Cordoba, a dark-haired anti-Castro resistant, her German accent notwithstanding, known as the widow of a “hero of the revolution”, a description that enables her to work undercover. When her activities are discovered, she is shot by her revolutionary lover, providing the film with its best visual sequence. As Juanita collapses onto a marble floor, her deep purple dress spreads beneath her like a pool of blood.

Surprisingly, these high-profile roles in two English language commercial successes did not help Dor to achieve further international recognition. However, she was hugely popular in Germany and Austria throughout the 1960s, mainly in escapist action movies loosely based on the thrillers of Edgar Wallace (called Krimis from the German Kriminalfilm), and the western adventures of Karl May, co-starring the dubbed ex-Tarzan Lex Barker, almost all of them directed by her first husband, Harald Reinl.

Born Kätherose Derr in Wiesbaden, she studied acting and ballet at school and began in films as an extra. Her marriage at 18 to the Austrian director Reinl, 30 years her senior, gave her the chance to appear as a juvenile lead in numerous period melodramas and operettas such as The White Horse Inn (1960).

Apart from the Wallace and May series, Dor was a favourite fräulein in distress in several horror movies with Barker as the hero, including The Invisible Doctor Mabuse (1962), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) and The Torture Chamber of Doctor Sadism (1967), the last two starring Christopher Lee as an evil mastermind.

In contrast to the range of the low-budget Krimis, horror spin-offs and German westerns, Dor starred as Brunhild in Reinl’s The Nibelungen, shown in two parts, Siegfried (1966) and Kriemhild’s Revenge (1967), an epic that required the use of 8,000 extras in one battle scene alone.

Dor took fewer and fewer film roles from the 70s onwards, although she did appear regularly in series on German television.

Her third husband, the stuntman George Robotham, died in 2007. Dor is survived by a son, the actor Andreas Renell, from her marriage to Reinl, which ended in divorce, as did her second marriage.

• Karin Dor (Kätherose Derr), actor, born 22 February 1938; died 6 November 2017

Karin Dor (1938–2017)

Filmography

Actress (74 credits)

2015 Die abhandene Welt - Rosa
1998-2011 Rosamunde Pilcher (TV Series) - Lady Claire Sherberton / Emily Stockton / Daisy
- Herzensfragen (2011) ... Lady Claire Sherberton
- Ruf der Vergangenheit (2000) ... Emily Stockton
- Der Preis der Liebe (1998) ... Daisy
2010 Das Traumschiff (TV Series) - Ellen Barner
- Panama (2010) ... Ellen Barner
- Indian Summer (2010) ... Ellen Barner

2006 I Am the Other Woman - Frau Winter
2004 Inga Lindström (TV Series) - Elinor Frödin
- Sehnsucht nach Marielund (2004) ... Elinor Frödin
2001 SOKO 5113 (TV Series) - Berenike Stassfurth
- Ludwig der Letzte (2001) ... Berenike Stassfurth

1994 My Friend, the Lipizzaner (TV Movie) - Louise
1992-1993 Die große Freiheit (TV Series) - Jutta van Straaten
- Van Straatens Verlobung (1993) ... Jutta van Straaten
- Besuch aus Bremen (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten
- Liebe, Krach und Phantasie (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten
- Ein Mann erfüllt sich seine Träume (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten

1987 Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown - Jetty
1985 Gipfeltreffen (TV Movie) - Nadine
1983 Der Lord und das Kätzchen (TV Movie)
1980 Achtung Zoll! (TV Series) - Monika Gerber
- Vanloo und der Gast aus Frankreich (1980) ... Monika Gerber

1977 Dark Echoes - Lisa Bruekner
1977 Four Against the Desert (TV Movie) - Karin
1977 Women in Hospital - Claudias Mutter
1977 Warhead - Liora
1974 Only the Wind Knows the Answer - Nicole Monnier
1974 Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies (TV Movie) - Regine Mangold
1972 Liebe ist so selten - Die Krise einer Ehe (TV Short) - Schwester Ruth
1971 Haie an Bord - Andrea Jacobs
1970 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Maria Chernoff
- The Target (1970) ... Maria Chernoff
1970 Ironside (TV Series) - Jeanine Duvalier
- Check, Mate, and Murder: Part 2 (1970) ... Jeanine Duvalier
- Check, Mate and Murder: Part 1 (1970) ... Jeanine Duvalier
1970 Assignment Terror - Maleva Kerstein

1969 Topaz - Juanita de Cordoba
1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Angela
- The Three Virgins of Rome (1969) ... Angela
1968 The Valley of Death - Mabel Kingsley
1968 Dear Caroline - Isabelle de Loigny
1967 The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism - Baroness Lilian von Brabant
1967 You Only Live Twice - Helga Brandt
1967 Die Nibelungen, Teil 2 - Kriemhilds Rache -Brunhilde
1966 Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried - Brunhild
1966 Target for Killing - Sandra Perkins
1966 Killer's Carnival - Denise (Rio segment)
1966 The Spy with Ten Faces - Helen Farheit
1965 The Sinister Monk - Gwendolin
1965 I Knew Her Well - Barbara, the lady friend of Adriana
1965 Winnetou: The Last Shot (uncredited)
1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Maria Muller
1965 The Last Tomahawk - Cora Munroe
1965 Hotel der toten Gäste - Gilly Powell
1964 Winnetou: The Red Gentleman - Ribanna
1964 Room 13 - Denise
1963 Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe - Clarisse
1963 The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle - Claridge Dorsett
1963 Die weiße Spinne - Muriel Irvine
1962 The Treasure of the Silver Lake - Ellen Patterson
1962 Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett - Barbara Holstein
1962 The Carpet of Horror - Ann Learner
1962 The Invisible Dr. Mabuse - Liane Martin
1962 The Bellboy and the Playgirls
1961 Im schwarzen Rössl - Eva Lantz
1961 Am Sonntag will mein Süsser mit mir segeln gehn - Georgie Hagen, die Sprachstudentin
1961 The Forger of London - Jane Clifton, geb. Leith
1961 Pichler's Books Are Not in Order - Anneliese
1961 Der grüne Bogenschütze - Valerie Howett, geb. Bellamy
1960 The White Horse Inn - Brigitte Giesecke
1960 The Terrible People - Nora Sanders

1959 That's No Way to Land a Man - Tessy
1959 A Summer You Will Never Forget - Christine von Auffenberg
1959 The Blue Sea and You - Helga Heidebrink
1959 Skandal um Dodo - Helga, die Nichte
1958 13 kleine Esel und der Sonnenhof - Monika
1958 False Shame - Christa Riek
1958 Sin Began with Eve - Dinah
1957 Almenrausch und Edelweiß - Maresi Meier
1957 Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal - Daniela Kleemann
1957 Little Man on Top - Meike Brauns
1956/I Santa Lucia - Manina
1955 As Long as You Live - Pepita
1954 Ihre große Prüfung - Elena Clausen
1954 Der schweigende Engel (as Rose Dor)
1954 Rosen-Resli (as Rose Dor)
1954 Rosen aus dem Süden (as Kätherose Derr)
1953 The Last Waltz - Extra (uncredited)

1965: Thunderball films OO7 attacked by and attacking Mme. Boitier.
1968: Casino Royale released in Colombia.

2006: Media reports say some disappointed fans organize protests of the latest Bond actor.

Angry Bond fans threaten to boycott movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/angry-bond-fans-threaten-to-boycott-movie-20060222-gdn0q7.html

February 22, 2006 — 11.30pm

They're shaken, stirred and just plain angry. And several months late with their response.

A group of James Bond fans have launched a website, http://www.craignotbond.com, to protest against British actor Daniel Craig replacing Pierce Brosnan in the 007 film franchise, and threaten a boycott of the upcoming Bond movie Casino Royale.

Craig, whose recent screen credits include Munich and The Jacket, was tapped last October to play the secret-agent icon.

"EON Productions angered fans around the world when they fired Pierce Brosnan at the height of his popularity as Bond," said a statement on the site.

"To add insult to injury, EON cast a short, blond, odd-looking Daniel Craig in the role of Bond.

"Craig, described by The New York Times as having a 'pale, flattened face and large, fleshy ears' is a terrible choice for Bond. If EON Productions and Sony Pictures will not accept they've made a big mistake, then Bond fans promise to boycott Casino Royale!"

Brosnan stepped into the shoes of dashing predecessors Sean Connery and Roger Moore to play a blue-eyed, dark-haired Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

In its statement, the website claimed EON did not want to pay for Brosnan or other high-profile actors Hugh Jackman and Clive Owen as replacements.

Meanwhile, Craig has revealed he had his teeth knocked out during a fight scene for Casino Royale.

He said his face was sliced open by a stuntman and he was stitched up a few times. If you throw yourself into it, there are bound to be mishaps, he added.

AP

2012: Omega celebrates 50 Years of Bond.

Magazine | Classic Life

The Man With The Golden Jubilee: Omega celebrates 50 years of James Bond

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/classic-life/man-golden-jubilee-omega-celebrates-50-years-james-bond
22 February 2012

The new Omega boutique at London’s Olympic Stadium has been temporarily transformed into the secret headquarters of MI6. For the presentation of its ‘Seamaster 300 M Bond Edition’ chronometer, Omega was able to exhibit many of Q’s original props, previously unseen by the general public.

Together with Bond movie costume designer Lindy Hemming, Omega President Stephen Urquhart officially presented the Omega Seamaster 300 M Bond Edition anniversary watch.

The Oscar-winning Hemming had first placed an Omega Seamaster on Pierce Brosnan’s wrist for the 1995 film Goldeneye. Speaking today, 22 February, she commented: “For me, James Bond is a ‘blue’ type. He holds the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy, wearing the service’s traditional dark blue uniform. Thus, ‘blue’ really is the colour of the world’s most famous secret agent.”

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For this reason, the agent’s watch in that film had a blue dial and, since Goldeneye, 007 has worn an Omega.

During the presentation of the limited-edition (to 11,007 pieces) watch, selected ‘007’ props were on display, including a gold bar from Goldfinger, and Bond’s space helmet from Moonraker.

Photos: Classic Driver

2019: Cineworld reports that Production Weekly reports that the BOND 25 working title is Shatterhand.

News! The Bond 25 working title has been revealed as
Shatterhand

https://www.cineworld.ie/blog/bond-25-working-title-revealed-as-shatterhand

Sean Wilson | Posted on Friday, 22 February 2019

The working title of Daniel Craig's fifth and reportedly final James Bond movie has been revealed as Shatterhand, according to industry publication Production Weekly.

It's the 25th movie to feature Britain's most famous secret agent 007, and will be brought to the screen by True Detective director Cary Fukunaga after Danny Boyle departed the project last year.

The name Shatterhand comes from an alias used by Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Ian Fleming’s 1964 Bond novel You Only Live Twice. Does this imply that Christoph Waltz's scarred super-villain will return following his appearance in 2015's Spectre?

The title reveal comes amid reports that the film's script, originally penned by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, is being extensively rewritten by Steven Soderbergh regular Scott Z. Burns.

The start of principal photography will commence at Pinewood Studios on 6th April and the movie's release date has now been pushed back from February to 8th April 2020. The movie is said to resolve the story threads introduced in 2006's Casino Royale, which marked Craig's triumphant debut as 007. He then went on to appear in 2008's Quantum of Solace, 2012's Skyfall and the aforementioned Spectre.

What do you think the title Shatterhand means? Let us know @Cineworld.

Everybody seems to hate the
working title of the new James
Bond film - so will they keep it?

See the complete article here:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/everybody-seems-to-hate-the-working-title-of-the-new-james-bond-film-so-will-they-keep-it/MRZZ6EFGVOVOBPZMKO7RON7KSI/

23 Feb, 2019 02:35 AM
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Daniel Craig attends 'Spectre' premiere, 2015 in Beijing. Photo / Getty Images
news.com.au

James Bond fans are shaken, stirred and really quite cranky about the working title of the next installment in the long-running spy series.

James Bond fans are in uproar over the provisional title for the 25th movie in the series: Shatterhand.

The title was revealed in the industry publication Production Weekly, which also claimed that filming will begin on April 6, ahead of an April 2020 release.

The movie will be Daniel Craig's fifth and final appearance as 007. Recent regulars Naomie Harris (Moneypenny), Ben Wishaw (Q) and Ralph Fiennes (M) are also expected to reprise their roles.

Shatterhand would mark the third film in a row in which producers have opted for a grabby one-word title, after 2012's Skyfall and 2015's Spectre.

The 2020 release date will also mark the end of one of the longest running hiatuses between Bond films, beaten only by the six year-wait between 1989's The Living Daylights (Timothy Dalton's last appearance) and 1995's GoldenEye (Pierce Brosnan's first).

Fans steeped in Bond lore were quick to point out that Shatterhand was an alias used by 007's longtime nemesis, Ernst Blofeld, in the novel You Only Live Twice.

But most fans have been quick to slam the new title on social media.

2023: Netflix suggests new James Bond comic cover has an uncanny resemblance to a 007 contender.

New James Bond Comic
Has an Uncanny
Resemblance of Henry
Cavill With the 007

See the complete article here:

https://netflixjunkie.com/netflix-news-new-james-bond-comic-has-an-uncanny-resemblance-of-henry-cavill-with-the-007/

Netflix News
By Srabani Biswas | February 22, 2023

Whenever you think of spy thrillers the first name that pops up in your head is none other than James Bond. Several popular actors over the years have put on the suit and embodied the character from Sean Connery to Pierce Brosnan. Daniel Craig was the last one to step down from the role after delivering No Time to Die in 2021. Ever since then, several names have come up that can play the role, including Henry Cavill.

Cavill was one of the topmost names recommended for the role. Yet, the makers have not confirmed anything yet. However, Cavill fans aren’t ready to lose hope yet.

A comic book cover further emphasizes that Henry Cavill is the perfect Bond
A recent cover for the James Bond comic book is making the rounds on the internet. The cover shows a guy with a gun pointed at a target with a serious expression on his face while he is flanked by a short-haired agent. But it’s not the illustration that has caught fans’ attention. It is Bond’s picture that looks uncannily similar to Henry Cavill.

James Bond in this comic book cover is basically Henry Cavill! #Dynamite #Comics #007 #JamesBond #ComicBooks #ForKingAndCountry #HenryCavill

The hairstyle matches The Tudors star’s hairstyle. The one-cocked-eye look and the facial features are too similar to the Superman actor. Not to mention that Cavill has numerous times rocked suits. This somehow is more convincing that the Brit is indeed perfect to take the mantle from Craig.

Cavill had indeed expressed his desire to play the famous spy. But luck was never on his side. He auditioned for the role years back but was out of the race because he was deemed too young. And of course, Craig won the role. Currently, the makers want someone younger like Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Even though he could probably not get the coveted role, he is set to play a James Bond-like character in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Guy Ritchie is writing and directing the film that will revolve around World War 2, Winston Churchill, and Ian Fleming. The duo is credited with the creation of the first-ever Black ops team. And Cavill will play the leader of the unit. Interestingly, Ian Fleming also created 007.

Do you think the makers will change their minds after one look at the cover?

RichardTheBruce

February 23rd

1947: Shakira Baksh (later Caine) is born--British Guiana.

1964: Ian Fleming is photographed on a beach near his Goldeneye estate.

1965: John Kitzmiller dies at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
(Born 4 December 1913--Battle Creek, Michigan.)

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)

2008: Quantum of Solace films Camille in a Ford Ka trying to shoot OO7.

Olga Kurylenko in the launch of the new Ford Ka

2012: A press release announces November Skyfall IMAX screenings.

2015: Spectre night filming continues in Rome, Italy.

2018: Lewis Gilbert dies at age 97--Monaco.
(Born 6 March 1920--London, England.)

Lewis Gilbert obituary

https://theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/27/lewis-gilbert-obituary
Film director whose long and varied career produced hits including Alfie and Educating Rita
Sheila Whitaker | Tue 27 Feb 2018 13.05 EST

Julie Walters and Michael Caine in a scene from
Educating Rita, 1983, directed by Lewis Gilbert.
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

The film director Lewis Gilbert, who has died aged 97, never sought the limelight: he always said he wanted his films to speak for him, and several of them, including Alfie (1966) and Educating Rita (1983), have become part of cinema history.

Alfie is the story of an amoral young man who philosophises to camera on sex, love and women as he pursues sexual encounters with one girl after another. Paramount wanted the setting moved to New York and Tony Curtis to play Alfie, but Gilbert held out for Michael Caine. Caine’s performance assured his career, and the film was nominated for five Oscars.

Alfie’s success brought Gilbert his first Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967), to be followed a decade later by The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and in 1979 by Moonraker. Lewis wryly commented that in earlier years he used to make a feature film for less than the Moonraker telephone bill.

It was Gilbert’s wife, Hylda, who brought Educating Rita to his attention and, having resisted studio pressure, this time again to move the setting to the US and to cast Dolly Parton as Rita, he finally raised the finance, despite not having any distribution deals in place, and cast Julie Walters and Caine. The film received three Oscar nominations and Hollywood studios vied to distribute it. He followed this with Shirley Valentine in 1989 with Pauline Collins as a housewife striking out for freedom in Greece.

Gilbert was what he described as an unfashionable director and considered this to have been why he survived for so long in the film industry. “I’ve never been known for any one kind of film. So, I’m really somebody like a doctor who you call in when you want the patient to live, as it were.”

Lewis Gilbert described himself as an unfashionable director.
Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian

Born in London into a vaudeville family, Gilbert began touring in an act, the Four Kemptons, with his parents when he was four. His love of theatre and film began there – he watched films, shown as part of the vaudeville programmes, from behind the screen. He went to a theatrical school when he was 12 and he also entered cinema as an actor, appearing in quota quickies, including The Price of a Song (1935) directed by Michael Powell, and Over the Moon (1939).

It was while he was appearing with Laurence Olivier in The Divorce of Lady X (1938) that Alexander Korda, the producer, offered to send him to Rada. Gilbert replied that he would rather direct and so was sent to Korda’s Denham studios in Buckinghamshire as a third assistant director. He graduated up the scale, working with Alfred Hitchcock on Jamaica Inn (1939) – “He was the man I learned the most from” – and with a variety of studios, eventually becoming a first assistant.

At the beginning of the second world war, Gilbert volunteered for the RAF and from there he went to the US Army Air Forces film unit, where he worked on documentaries with Hollywood veterans such as William Wyler, Frank Capra and William Keighley. This gave Gilbert his directing break, as Keighley, hating the British winter cold, preferred his Mayfair hotel to going out filming. During this time he met Arthur Elton, and on being invalided out in 1944 took up his offer of a job at Gaumont-British Instructional directing documentaries.

His first feature, The Little Ballerina (1947), a children’s film with Margot Fonteyn, was successful to the point where, after its Saturday morning children’s run, it was put out on a circuit release. His first major success was Emergency Call (1952, known in the US as The Hundred Hour Hunt), in which Jack Warner has a race against time to find three people with the right blood type to save a child’s life.

He co-wrote the film with Vernon Harris, who became a collaborator for more than 40 years. Gilbert followed this with Cosh Boy (1953, also known as The Slasher), featuring Joan Collins, an X film which was widely banned – “Today, you’d show it to 10-year-olds” – and Johnny on the Run (1953), the first film which he also produced.

Gilbert’s long and varied career included thrillers and a number of war movies – “The war was the single biggest influence in my life, a very traumatic time. I think it was natural in the years after the war had ended to make films that were part propaganda and part portraits of heroism.” These included Albert RN (1953), which the producers had originally wanted shot in 3D, The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) and Reach for the Sky (1955), Gilbert’s personal favourite, in which Kenneth More played the war hero Douglas Bader.

Michael Caine in a scene from Alfie, 1966;
Gilbert resisted the studio’s idea of casting Tony Curtis in the role.
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Paramount

Then followed Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) the true story of the secret agent Violette Szabo, Sink the Bismarck! (1960), HMS Defiant (1962) and Operation: Daybreak (1975). This last Gilbert felt could never be commercial because “it was very realistic and very downbeat but it was a true picture, whilst the earlier films may almost have glamorised wartime”.

In 1959 he had an unhappy experience working with Orson Welles on Ferry to Hong Kong. Gilbert had wanted Peter Finch to play the tramp and Curt Jurgens to play the officer. Instead he got Welles as the captain. Aside from the poor script, Gilbert said, Welles hated Jurgens and every scene that involved both of them had to be shot separately. The film and the overall strategy failed.

The Greengage Summer (1961, also known as Loss of Innocence), starring More (the producers had wanted Richard Burton, but he decided on Alexander the Great instead), was a happier affair, although, during the shooting, a blight on greengage trees forced them to buy in supplies of the fruit from Harrods and stick them on to the trees.

He continued working well into his 80s, and directed Walters again on his last feature film, Before You Go (2002). Always highly professional in his work, Gilbert was also a charming, unaffected and kind man with a friendly welcome for everyone. He and Hylda loved attending festivals (especially the annual festival in Cannes, where they had a flat) and going to screenings to look at the widest possible range of new films from directors of all ages and, most importantly, happily discussing them afterwards.

In 1990, he was awarded the Michael Balcon lifetime achievement award from Bafta, and he was appointed CBE in 1997. In 2010, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, Bafta held an evening of celebration at which he was interviewed on stage by Walters. He published his autobiography, All My Flashbacks, and appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in the same year.

Hylda (nee Tafler), whom he married in 1951, died in 2005. They had two sons, John and Stephen.

• Lewis Gilbert, film director, producer and writer, born 6 March 1920; died 23 February 2018

Lewis Gilbert (II) (1920–2018)

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Filmography

Director (42 credits)

2002 Before You Go

1995 Haunted
1991 Stepping Out

1989 Shirley Valentine
1985 Not Quite Paradise
1983 Educating Rita

1979 Moonraker
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
1976 Seven Nights in Japan
1975 Operation: Daybreak
1974 Paul and Michelle
1971 Friends
1970 The Adventurers

1967 You Only Live Twice
1966 Alfie
1964 The 7th Dawn
1962 Damn the Defiant!
1961 Loss of Innocence
1960 Skywatch
1960 Sink the Bismarck!

1959 Ferry to Hong Kong
1958 A Cry from the Streets
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride
1957 Paradise Lagoon
1956 Reach for the Sky
1955 Cast a Dark Shadow
1954 The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954 Harmony Lane (Short) (as Byron Gill)
1954 The Good Die Young
1953 Break to Freedom
1953 Johnny on the Run
1953 The Slasher
1952 Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952 The Hundred Hour Hunt
1951 Wall of Death
1951 Scarlet Thread
1950 Once a Sinner

1949 Under One Roof (Documentary short)
1947 The Little Ballerina
1946 Arctic Harvest (Documentary short)
1945 The Ten Year Plan (Documentary short)
1944 Sailors Do Care (Documentary short)

Writer (17 credits)

1995 Haunted

1974 Paul and Michelle (story)
1971 Friends (story)
1970 The Adventurers (screenplay)

1962 Emergency (story - uncredited)

1959 Ferry to Hong Kong (screenplay)
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride (screenplay)
1957 Paradise Lagoon (adaptation)
1956 Reach for the Sky (screenplay)
1954 The Sea Shall Not Have Them (screenplay)
1954 The Good Die Young (screenplay)
1953 The Slasher (screenplay)
1952 The Hundred Hour Hunt (written by)

1949 Under One Roof (Documentary short)
1949 Marry Me (original screenplay)
1947 The Little Ballerina (writer)
1945 The Ten Year Plan (Documentary short)

Producer (13 credits)

1995 Haunted (producer)
1991 Stepping Out (producer)

1989 Shirley Valentine (producer)
1985 Not Quite Paradise (producer)
1983 Educating Rita (producer)

1976 Seven Nights in Japan (producer)
1974 Paul and Michelle (producer)
1971 Friends (producer)
1970 The Adventurers (producer)

1966 Alfie (producer)
1960 Skywatch (producer)

1958 Carve Her Name with Pride (A Daniel M. Angel and Lewis Gilbert Production)
1953 Johnny on the Run (producer)

Actor (8 credits)

1979 Moonraker - Man at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)

1940 Room for Two (uncredited)

1939 Over the Moon - Minor Role (uncredited)
1938 The Divorce of Lady X - Tom (uncredited)
1937 Good Morning, Boys - Schoolboy (uncredited)
1935 The Price of a Song - young brother of Margaret Nevern (uncredited)
1934 Death at a Broadcast - Autograph hunter (uncredited)
1934 Dick Turpin - Jem

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1949 Marry Me ("Music in September")

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

2009 Movie Connections (TV Series documentary) (archive - 1 episode)
- Shirley Valentine (2009) ... (archive)