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RichardTheBruce

March 18th

1941: Frank McRae is born--Memphis, Tennessee.
(He dies 29 April 2021 at age 77--Santa Monica, California.)

May 5, 2021

Frank McRae, Actor in ‘Licence to Kill’ and
‘Last Action Hero,’ Dies at 80

See the complete article here:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/frank-mcrae-dead-actor-last-action-hero-1234967488/

Haley Bosselman

Courtesy of Universal/Everett Collection

Frank McRae, the actor who appeared in films such as “Licence to Kill” and “Last Action Hero,” has died. He was 80.

McRae died in Santa Monica, Calif. on April 29 as a result of a heart attack, his daughter-in-law confirmed to Variety.

The NFL player-turned-actor was born in Memphis, Tenn. A star athlete in high school, he went on to Tennessee State University as a double major in drama and history. McRae had a brief career as a professional football player and was the defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams.

Making the pivot to a new kind of stage, McRae found his calling in the entertainment industry. In his 30-plus years as a character actor, he appeared in over 40 movies. Standing at approximately six-and-a-half feet tall, McRae took advantage of scooping up tough guy roles in movies like “Hard Times,” “Big Wednesday” and “F.I.S.T.” with Sylvester Stallone. McRae would go on to appear in three more films with Stallone in the ’70s and ’80s, including “Paradise Alley,” “Lock Up” and “Rocky II.”

In the 1973 gangster film “Dillinger,” McRae played Reed Youngblood, a grinning inmate who helps Warren Oates’ titular John Dillinger escape. According to IMDb, he got the role by standing in a production executive’s parking space until granted a meeting. McRae also appeared in the 1989 James Bond film “Licence to Kill” as Sharkey, a close friend of Bond (Timothy Dalton) and Felix Leiter (David Hedison).

Not to be tied down to just playing tough guys and authority figures — he played a police captain four separate times from 1982 to 1983 — McRae was also featured in comedies like “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Batteries Not Included” and “Used Cars.” He even parodied his own role in “48 Hours” with a performance in 1993’s “Last Action Hero” alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.

McRae is survived by his son Marcellus and his grandchildren Camden, Jensen and Holden. Donations in his memory can be made to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphan elephant rescue and wildlife rehabilitation program in Kenya.

Frank McRae (I) (1941–2021)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574433/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1952: Ian Fleming completes his Casino Royale manuscript. He shows it to ex-girlfriend Clare Blanchard.

Her advice: do not publish it. Or at least use a pen name.

1959: Ian Fleming writes praise to artist Richard Chopping for the Goldfinger cover.

"As you will have gathered, the new jacket is quite as big a success
as the first one and I do think Capes have made a splendid job of it . . .
I am busily scratching my head trying to think of a subject for you again.
No-one in the history of thrillers has had such a totally brilliant artistic collaborator!"

1959: Goldfinger starts as a serial in the Daily Express, with a drawing of Goldfinger by Raymond Hawkley.

1963: On Her Majesty's Secret Service starts as a serial in the Daily Express. Robb, illustrator.
1963: Richard Maibaum completes the From Russia With Love screenplay.
1965: Thunderball films OO7 beating Largo at the card table.
1968: Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis) starts as a serial in the Daily Express. Robb, illustrator.

1985: Aston Martin Lagonda chairman Victor Gauntlett registers number plate B549 WUU.

2012: Ian Fleming Publications confirms there will be no novelization of Skyfall.

thebookbond.com/2012/03/official-no-skyfall-novelization-dang.html


Notional covers.

2014: The London Film Museum, Covent Garden, launches The Bond In Motion exhibition. In attendance: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Ken Adam, Naomie Harris, Caterina Murino, Maryam d'Abo.

2015: A Spectre press conference in Mexico City kicks off filming of the pre-title sequence with the backdrop of Dia del los Muertos--Day of the Dead.

https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/photos-and-review-bond-motion-exhibition-london-film-museum

2020: Nokia announces its new 5G device, to be featured in the now delayed No Time To Die.

Coronavirus may have delayed the next James Bond
film, but we’ve learnt what smartphone he’ll be using..

https://stuff.co.za/2020/03/05/coronavirus-may-have-delayed-the-next-james-bond-film-but-weve-learnt-what-smartphone-hell-be-using/
By Stuff writer on 5th Mar 2020

In some lighter news (remember to wash your hands anyway), the upcoming James Bond film will feature a smartphone brand blast-from-the-past. Nokia has announced that it’ll be the official phone of 007, partnering with the production house to celebrate the 25th James Bond film.

According to a press release, the film will feature Nokia’s upcoming, currently unannounced 5G smartphone. It looks like the brand will also feature some other smartphones, so expect to see Nokia’s in the hands of most of the major characters in the movie. The new 5G device will be announced on 18 March.

“Following the announcement to postpone the movie launch to 12 November, we now have a really exciting year ahead of us in the build-up to this much-anticipated release. Few cultural properties place technology at the heart of their appeal quite like No Time To Die. The film’s commitment to innovation, paired with the amazing technology built into each Nokia smartphone, making our devices the only gadget that anyone – even a 00 agent – will ever need, makes this partnership a real force to be reckoned with,” says Juho Sarvikas, HMD Global chief product officer.

Leading up to the announcement, HMD Global released a new commercial featuring Lashana Lynch as Agent Nomi. The advert shows Agent Nomi using Nokia smartphones as ‘The Only Gadget You’ll Ever Need’.

We’re excited to see Nokia’s new entry in the smartphone market on 18 January. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a little longer to get our Bond fix. The movie has been postponed due to Coronavirus fears, so it’ll only debut on 12 November this year.

NO TIME TO DIE | Lashana Lynch features in Nokia phones’ campaign

2023: The Gene Siskel Film Center screens On Her Majesty's Secret Service at its Theater 1, Chicago, Illinois.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

See the complete article here:

https://gsfc.eventive.org/schedule/on-her-majesty-s-secret-service-63dab17cacca850062730a2b

Saturday, March 18, 2023 8:00 PM CDT
Theater 1

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Naturally, the first time the Chicago Film Society shows a James Bond film, they show the most divisive one, thought by some to be the best of the series and others to be among the worst. The first and only appearance of model George Lazenby as 007 features one exquisite action sequence after another, and its reputation has only improved with time. Noted Steven Soderbergh, “Shot to shot, this movie is beautiful in a way none of the other Bond films are.” All of the pre-1970 James Bond films were printed in Technicolor, which was integral to their reputation as lush, garish works of popular cinema.

Year: 1969
Runtime: 142 minutes
Language: English, German

Director: Peter R. Hunt
Screenwriter: Richard Maibaum
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Stanley Sopel
Cast: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
Cinematographer: Michael Reed
Editor: John Glen
Production Design: Syd Cain
Composer: John Barry

Theater 1
Larger auditorium
164 N State St
March 18, 2023, 8:00 - 10:22 PM CDT

RichardTheBruce

March 19th

1935: Burt Metcalfe is born--Saskatchewan, Canada.
1936: Ursula Andress is born--Ostermundigen, Switzerland.

1958: Dr. No begins as a serial in the Daily Express, with an illustration by Robb. (Ends 1 April 1958.)

1962: Sports Illustrated prints Ian Fleming's article "The Guns of James Bond".

1964: The first day of filming Goldfinger for Sean Connery at Pinewood Studios, Stage D. Includes the pre-titles action at El Scorpio cafe.

1994: James Duncan (Jim) Lawrence dies at age 75--Summit, New Jersey.
(Born 22 October 1918--Detroit, Michigan.)

Lawrence, Jim

See the complete article here:

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lawrence_jim

April 03, 2020

Working name of US teacher and author James Duncan Lawrence (1918-1994), active from 1941 until the 1980s; he was one of the main authors in the Second Series of Tom Swift books (see Children's SF), comprising the Tom Swift Jr sequence as by Victor Appleton II (see Victor Appleton); Lawrence's contributions begin with #5: Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster (1954) and end with #30: Tom Swift and his G-Force Inverter (1968), all as by Victor Appleton II (for list of titles by other authors see Tom Swift). Lawrence also revised various Hardy Boys titles as by Franklin W Dixon for 1960s reissue: see John Button for an example of mild genre interest. His remaining sf output consists of the unremarkable, mildly erotic Man from Planet X sequence – The Man from Planet X #1: The She-Beast (1975), The Man from Planet X #2: Tiger by the Tail (1975) and The Man from Planet X: The Devil to Pay (1975), all as by Hunter Adams – and two novels tied to Shared-World franchises: ESP McGee and the Haunted Mansion (1983 chap) for the ESP McGee series, and The Cutlass Clue (1986) for the A.I. Gang series. [JC]
James Duncan Lawrence

born Detroit, Michigan: 22 October 1918

died Summit, New Jersey: 19 March 1994

https://www.markcarlson-ghost.com/index.php/2019/09/12/friday-foster/

2001: The BBC reports a High Court jury awards Monty Norman £30,000 libel damages for a Sunday Times article stating he didn't write the James Bond theme.

Bond theme writer wins damages
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1229406.stm
Monday, 19 March, 2001, 14:25 GMT

Monty Norman: Libel case victory

Composer Monty Norman has been awarded £30,000 libel damages by a High Court jury over an article which said he did not write the James Bond theme.

"The Sunday Times always said that they were only interested in the truth -
well, now they've got the truth"
Monty Norman

Norman had sued the Sunday Times over the article in October 1997 which claimed John Barry actually wrote the distinctive twanging guitar tune - first heard in the 1962 film Dr No, starring Sean Connery.

It was described during the two-week court case in London as "one of the most famous pieces of music in the world".

Mr Norman said afterwards: "I am absolutely delighted - and vindicated. The Sunday Times always said that they were only interested in the truth. Well, now they've got the truth."

Sean Connery began his
Bond career with Dr No

He was present in court when the jury announced its unanimous verdict after some four hours' deliberation.

Mr Norman had told the court that the article, with the title "Theme tune wrangle has 007 shaken and stirred" had effectively "rubbished" his whole career.

Times Newspapers faces a costs bill unofficially estimated to be well in excess of £500,000.

A spokesman for The Sunday Times said: "This was always going to be a difficult case for a jury given the complexities of the expert musical evidence."

Awards
The court heard that apart from Dr No, Mr Norman was credited with stage and film songs such as Expresso Bongo, Songbook and Poppy.

He has won Ivor Novello, Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier awards.

Mr Norman's counsel, James Price QC, said the article damaged his client's reputation by suggesting he had dishonestly passed himself off as the creator of the Bond theme for 35 years.

Dispute
Mark Warby, for Times Newspapers, denied libel and said the newspaper article was neutral, sensibly balanced and a classic example of a report and comment piece on a live dispute.

He said the article reported only that Mr Barry was claiming to have written the tune.

The Sunday Times
alleged Barry composed
Bond tune

Mr Warby said Mr Barry had been brought in six months into the project to create a more memorable tune, because Mr Norman had run out of inspiration.

Mr Warby added: "In short, it was composed by John Barry with some input from an idea by Monty Norman."

Giving evidence, Mr Barry said that the producers of Dr. No Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had been "unhappy" with Mr Norman's efforts at a theme tune.

Flat fee
Mr Barry said that a deal was struck whereby he would receive a flat fee of £250 and Mr Norman would receive the songwriting credit.

Mr Barry said that he had had never challenged the registration of the songwriting credit with the Performing Right Society and had no intention of doing so.

He had accepted the deal with United Artists Head of Music Noel Rogers because it would help his career - and it was a "terribly good deal because the whole Bond thing took off."

Mr Barry composed soundtracks for many other Bond films as well as Born Free, Zulu and Midnight Cowboy.

2015: BOND 24 films the helicopter sequence at Zócalo main city square, Mexico City, Mexico.

2018: Manchester Univ Press publishes The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine by Claire Hines.

2019: BOND 25 scheduled date to begin filming with director Cary Fukunaga.

2021: Daniel Craig returns to the Bond role.

Daniel Craig confirmed to return as James
Bond, but not in another movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a35871059/daniel-craig-james-bond-comic-relief-catherine-tate/

He's teaming up with Catherine Tate for Comic Relief.
By Amy West | 18/03/2021

Daniel Craig is set to reprise his role as James Bond, having previously vowed that filming No Time to Die would mark his last appearance as the iconic character. It won't be for another 007 movie though, mind.

Instead, the actor has been persuaded to take part in a sketch for Comic Relief, which will be broadcast on Friday (March 19), and see the suited-and-booted super spy share the screen with Catherine Tate's foul-mouthed Nan.

In the skit, it's explained that Nan has taken up a part-time job as a cleaner. While cleaning the office of Bond's MI6 superior M, she finds herself unexpectedly face to face with the secret agent when he video calls in for a security briefing.

BBC/Comic Relief 2021/Mickey Bishop

Craig and Tate are no strangers to teaming up when it comes to the fundraising event. In 2009, the duo performed another short sequence that saw Tate's Elaine Figgis striking up a whirlwind romance with Craig, playing himself.

"Nan had a right old time meeting Bond. What a smashing fella! As ever, it was great fun filming this Comic Relief sketch, huge thanks to Daniel and all the Bond team for being such great sports," Tate told The Mirror.

"I hope it raises lots of money on the night."

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James Bond comes face-to-face with Catherine Tate's Nan
@Comic Relief: Red Nose Day​ 2021 - BBC


Daniel Craig and Elaine Figgis | Comic Relief (2009)

RichardTheBruce

March 20th

1911: Milo Sperber is born in Poland.
(He dies 22 December 1992 at age 81--London Borough of Camden, London, England.)

Milo Sperber

See the complete article here:

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

Milo Sperber (20 March 1911 – 22 December 1992) was a British actor, director and writer, who was born in Poland.

Early life
Sperber was born in 1911 into a family of Polish Hasidic Jews who fled anti-Semitism during the Second World War. His older brother was activist, author and intellectual Manès Sperber. The younger Sperber trained as a lawyer in Vienna before joining Max Reinhardt's school; there he played roles in Six Characters in Search of an Author and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among other plays. Martin Esslin was a classmate during this time. While on the rise as an actor in Germany, in 1939 he fled Germany and the Nazis with his family, eventually landing in Britain as refugees.

Career
Early in the Second World War Sperber joined the Oxford Pilgrim Players; he gained experience directing the company on tour in Case 27 VC and spending a season in London even during the Blitz. He also was involved in producing anti-Nazi propaganda for the BBC before the end of the war. His later career included stints in cabaret, theatre and television; in the last capacity, he performed as shoe salesman Mr. Grossman in four episodes of Are You Being Served?. In 1990, at the age of 79, he appeared in Series 2, Episode 7 of Poirot, "The Kidnapped Prime Minister," as Mr. Fingler, Poirot's kvetching tailor.

His big-screen career included performances in minor roles in such films as Foreign Intrigue, The Spy Who Loved Me, Operation Crossbow, In Search of the Castaways and Billion Dollar Brain. He taught for some time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and served as a scriptwriter for the BBC's German language service. Many of his students at RADA went on to succeed in the arts, including Glenda Jackson.

Sperber's last appearance in the West End was in a 1984 production of The Clandestine Marriage at the Albany Theatre; he spent his last years travelling Britain, giving readings from the works of his brother, writer Manès Sperber.

Sperber died on 22 December 1992, aged 81 in London, United Kingdom

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1942 Thunder Rock Mr. Hirohiti Uncredited
1944 Mr. Emmanuel Student
1948 Noose Taschlik Uncredited
1949 Golden Arrow Black Marketeer

1954 The End of the Road Uncredited
1956 Foreign Intrigue Baum

1960 Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons Librarian Uncredited
1962 In Search of the Castaways Crooked Sailor
1963 The Victors Concentration Camp Prisoner
1965 Operation Crossbow German Hotel Porter
1967 Billion Dollar Brain Basil

1976 Voyage of the Damned Rabbi
1977 Providence Mr. Jenner
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Prof. Markovitz
1978 The Stud Kamara Uncredited

Milo Sperber (1911–1992)

Actor | Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818269/

1942: Signed "F", Ian Fleming presents a paper to Admiral John Henry Godfrey recognizing successful efforts by Germans to send advance Commando forces that seized "documents, equipment, and ciphers" before they could be destroyed. He suggests a similar effort by the Allies. And later in civilian life collects important manuscripts for posterity.

Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Top Secret Story Behind 007, Brian Gordon Lett, 1995.
Chapter 4 - M and Ian Fleming.

Fleming remained a member of Naval Intelligence under
Rear Admiral Godfrey’s command, and continued to act as
their liaison officer with SOE. He clearly got on well with M
and his team, and was trusted by them. Thus when the
question arose of the cover story to be used for Operation
Postmaster, Fleming was the obvious choice to design it. He
continued in his liaison role until the spring of 1942, when in
fact a naval section within SOE was finally set up. Fleming was
not released to take up a job with them. In his mind, however,
he retained an in-depth knowledge of M’s Secret Service and
how it all worked, which he eventually came to use in his
novels. By 20 March 1942, Commander Ian Fleming was
signing himself off on memos and internal correspondence
simply as ‘F’, an affectation no doubt drawn from his desire to
serve as a Secret Agent under M.

After the war, Fleming remained on friendly terms with M
(now retired from the defunct SOE and simply known as
Major General Sir Colin Gubbins). In the late 1940s, when
Gubbins was hoping to write a definitive history of the Secret
Service that he had run, Fleming wrote twice to encourage
him to do so. However, with the Cold War between the old
Allies and the Soviet Union in full swing Gubbins was
Forbidden from wrting in the book, an attitude by the British
Government that did not substantially change until the 1990s,
after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ian Fleming's secret memo
https://www.bbc.com/news/special/panels/13/mar/flemingdocument/img/graphic_1362485324.jpg
5 March 2013

1

Embossed emblem of Admiralty paper
2

MOST SECRET – British equivalent of the American term “top secret”
3

A.D.I.C – Assistant Director (Operational) Intelligence Centre
4

D.D.N.I – Deputy Director Naval Intelligence

D.N.I - Director Naval Intelligence - John Henry Godfrey, Fleming’s boss and said to be inspiration for M in the 007 stories

F – Ian Fleming, author of the document
5

N.I.D – Naval Intelligence Division
6

C.C.O – Chief of Combined Operations – Lord Mountbatten, Admiral of the Fleet
7

R.D.F gear – radio direction finding gear, used to determine where a radio signal is coming from
8

Operation “SLEDGEHAMMER” – plan for US troops to land at Brest or Cherbourg in France, later cancelled. But the idea evolved and Fleming’s proposed unit of commandos first deployed in Operation JUBILEE, the Dieppe raid of 19 August 1942 (operation names were always written in capitals)
9

F, N.I.D (17) – Ian Fleming’s codename, signed in pencil, of Naval Intelligence Division, dated 20 March 1942
10

Pencil note signed JHG - John Godfrey. It reads: Yes, most decidedly but we won’t “submit” [he draws arrow to (ii)] The principle be worked out in detail in collaboration with C.C.O. [Chief of Combined Operations]. He thinks the idea so good, he wants his team to keep hold of it, says historian Nick Rankin

1964: Daily Variety reports Goldfinger principal photography began 16 March with interiors at Pinewood. And location filming of Fort Knox (replica) in the London borough of Middlesex.
1965: The Goldfinger soundtrack reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 charts, remaining at the top through 3 April. The LP was released in October 1964.

1968: Lawrence Mukoare is born--Bastion Point, Auckland, New Zealand.

1976: Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe dies at age 61--Wimbledon, London, England.
(Born 1 October 1914--Bebington, Merseyside, England.)

Michael Goodliffe

See the complete article here:

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

Goodliffe
Painted by Aubrey Davidson-Houston in the role of Hamlet,
performed while a POW in Germany.

Born Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe, 1 October 1914, Bebington, Cheshire, England
Died 20 March 1976 (aged 61), Wimbledon, London, England
Years active 1936–1976
Spouse(s) Dorothy Margaret Tyndale 1945-1976 (3 Children)

Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts.

Biography
Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire, the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Keble College, Oxford. He started his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. He joined the British Army at the beginning of the Second World War, and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940. He was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk. Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper. He was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany.

Whilst in captivity he produced and acted in (and in some cases wrote) many plays and sketches to entertain fellow prisoners. These included two productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noël Coward's Post-Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record of these productions exists.

After the war he resumed his professional acting career. As well as appearing in the theatre, he worked in film and television. He appeared in The Wooden Horse in 1950 and in other POW films. His best-known film was A Night to Remember (1958), in which he played Thomas Andrews, designer of the RMS Titanic. His best-known television series was Sam (1973–75) in which he played an unemployed Yorkshire miner. He also appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance.

Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of Equus. He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape while a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon.

Filmography

The Small Back Room (1949) as Till
Stop Press Girl (1949) as McPherson

The Wooden Horse (1950) as Robbie
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) as Col. Caillard - POW Escort
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) as Martens
The Hour of 13 (1952) as Anderson
Sea Devils (1953) as Ragan
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) as Robert Walpole
Front Page Story (1954) as Kennedy
John Wesley (1954)
The Crowded Day (1954) as Eve's Husband
The End of the Affair (1955) as Smythe
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) as Count De Dunois
The Way Out (1955) as John Moffat
Wicked as They Come (1956) as Larry Buckham
The Battle of the River Plate (1956) as Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires
Fortune Is a Woman (1957) as Detective Insp. Barnes
The One That Got Away (1957) as R.A.F. Interrogator
Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) as Coding Expert
The Camp on Blood Island (1958) as Father Paul Anjou
Up the Creek (1958) as Nelson
A Night to Remember (1958) as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews
Three Crooked Men (1958) as Shop customer
Further Up the Creek (1958) as Le. Commander Blakeney
The 39 Steps (1959) as Brown
The White Trap (1959) as Inspector Walters

Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Captain Banister
Testament of Orpheus (1960) as English narrator (voice, uncredited)
The Battle of the Sexes (1960) as Detective
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) as Father Desmaines
Peeping Tom (1960) as Don jarvis
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Charles Gill
No Love for Johnnie (1961) as Dr. West
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) as 'Jacko' Jackson - Night Editor
Jigsaw (1962) as Clyde Burchard
80,000 Suspects (1963) as Clifford Preston
A Stitch in Time (1963) as Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
Man in the Middle (1963) as Col. Shaw
Woman of Straw (1964) as Solicitor (uncredited)
633 Squadron (1964) as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
The 7th Dawn (1964) as Trumphey
The Gorgon (1964) as Professor Jules Heitz
Troubled Waters (1964) as Jeff Driscoll
Von Ryan's Express (1965) as Captain Stein
The Night of the Generals (1967) as Hauser
The Jokers (1967) as Lt. Col. Paling
The Fixer (1968) as Ostrovsky

Cromwell (1970) as Solicitor General
The Fifth Day of Peace (1970) as Gen. Snow
The Johnstown Monster (1971) as McNeil
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) as Thomas More
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) as Gen. Helmuth Weidling
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Bill Tanner, Chief of Staff (uncredited)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976) as George de Grass

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1955 The Lark play by Jean Anouilh The inquisitor BBC Sunday Night Theatre
1957 The Adventures of Peter Simple Peter's Uncle 4 episodes
1963 Maigret Dr Javet Episode: Maigret's Little Joke
1963 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre Episode: "The £20,000 Kiss"
1967 Inheritance William Oldroyd 10 Episodes
1969 Callan Hunter 5 Episodes (Series 2)
1969 Judge Dee Judge Dee 6 Episodes
1969 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Arthur de Crecy Episode 13 "But What a Sweet Little Room"
1970 The Woodlanders (BBC Series - lost) George Melbury ? Episodes
1973 Sam Jack Barraclough 39 episodes

Michael Goodliffe (1914–1976)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328982/

1978: Tom Mankiewicz submits his For Your Eyes Only first draft screenplay. (Some ideas return for the Christopher Wood Moonraker script.)

1981: Bill Conti flies to London starting a two month focus on the For Your Eyes Only musical score.

The Music of James Bond, Jon Burlingame, 2012.
Chapter 13 - "you see what no one else can see . . " For Your Eyes Only[/u[

Conti had a proven ability to write a hit song (“Gonna Fly Now” from
Rocky had gone to number 1) as well as a muscular, energetic score—a neces-
sity for a Bond composer. The lunch took place just before Christmas 1980.
Conti was announced as James Bond’s new composer in mid-February, and on
March 20, 1981, he flew into London to begin two months’ work on For Your
Eyes Only.

The first order of business was to come up with a title tune. “Before you
think about the movie, you have to think about the song,” Conti said in 1981.
And that meant think about the artist. “I wanted Barbra Streisand to write
the lyrics, and Donna Summer to sing it,” he admitted many years later. “I
thought it was a clever idea. I actually talked to Barbra, who was very busy
doing [iYentl[/i]. The last person I had in mind was the one United Artists sug-
gested to me, which was Sheena Easton.

Easton, then 21, was a Scottish singer whose meteoric rise had already
included three top-10 hits in the U.K., including “Modern Girl” and “9 to 5,”
the latter of which (retitled “Morning Train”) reached number 1 in the United
States awhile Conti was in England working on the Bond film. Conti heard her
album and was not convinced that her “poppy” sound, as he put it, was right
for a Bond film. But he called her producer, Christopher Neil, and he sug-
gested a meeting.

Easton visited Conti at his London apartment and he quickly decided “she
could really sing.” Michael (Mick) Leeson was suggested as a lyricist with
whom Easton was comfortable, and work began on a possible title song. Their
original song used the phrase “for your eyes only” in the chorus added, ‘for your
eyes only could ever see / all of the secrets that once eluded me . . . . “

Conti had a meeting scheduled with Broccoli to audition the song and
chose to meet title designer Maurice Binder for lunch beforehand at Pine-
wood. Binder expressed the hope that Conti’s song would open with the phrase
so that it would coincide with the appearance of that title on the screen. (In
fact, of the 1970s Bonds, the only time the two didn’t coincide was in The Spy
Who Loved Me.)

“I cancelled the meeting with Cubby,” Conti remembered. “I called Mick,
he came over to the house, and I said, “Listen, this tune begins with “for your
eyes only.” I don’t care what you say after that.” So a second “For Your Eyes
Only” song, with some musical similarities but an entirely new lyrics, was writ-
ten. Easton sang demos of both songs, which eventually began to circulate
among Bond buffs, but the second tune was clearly superior. (Even the final
version underwent revision, discarding early lyrics including “I’d never, ever
lose control unless I wanted to / I’m not afraid to play with fire for you . . . “)

Binder too a greater than usual interest in the five-foot-one-inch-tall
Easton. “When he saw Sheena, man, did he fall in love,” Conti said with a
smile. “She’s a slight little girl and he was a short little man. I saw a gleam in
his eye. All of sudden this girl had to be in [the titles]. It was his idea to
include her. It wasn’t a hustle from her people.”

So, months before the debut of MTV and a wide public awareness of the
growing visual art form of the “music video,” Binder decided to incorporate
Easton’s image into his title sequence—the first and only time the singer of a
Bond song is actually seen performing it during the opening titles. The final
version of the song was finished and produced on April 21, with Conti himself
playing the piano, and Binder photographed Easton lip-synching to the com-
pleted track on April 24 on Pinewood’s Stage C.

“Some of the greatest singers had done the Bond themes,” Easton later
reflected, “and it was always something that you think, oh wow, it’s a great
honor to be asked. So it was really exciting. It turned out to be a great song.”
Producer Neil, concerned about Easton’s state of mind during the recording
process, refused to allow Broccoli or other Bond executives into the recording
session. Easton recalled Binder as “wacky [but] really creative,” and that
shooting the title sequence was trying because although she was “supposed to
be perfectly relaxed and sexy and naked and underwater,” she was actually . . .

2002: BOND 20 films Jinx threatened by lasers. Mr. Kil played by Lawrence Mukoare.

2013: Danny Boyle declares to the press he won't direct the next Bond film based on concerns for creative control--and since he's already done a mini-Bond film for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Danny Boyle rules himself out of directing James Bond film

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/danny-boyle-rules-himself-out-of-directing-james-bond-film-8542164.html
Albertina Lloyd | Wednesday 20 March 2013 12:59

'The Queen' and James Bond parachute into the stadium ( Getty Images )

Danny Boyle says he has ruled himself out of directing the next James Bond film because he wants more creative control - and believes he has already had his 007 moment.

The Oscar-winning film-maker was creative director of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, which featured Bond star Daniel Craig jumping out of a helicopter with the Queen.

The director of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire admitted he would not want the constraints of working on a big franchise.

Boyle, speaking at the premiere of his new film Trance, said: "It's not for me. I like working under the radar a bit more, so you can take risks.

"As we do with this film (Trance) and the perception of the characters - who's the antagonist? who's the protagonist? - it keeps changing in this film. And I love that freedom."

He added: "We did a sort of mini Bond film already, in the Olympics."

Trance - starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel - tells the story of a fine art auctioneer who gets caught up in a robbery and has to enlist the help of a hypnotherapist when he loses his memory along with a priceless painting.

The film is set in London, which Boyle said meant a lot to him.

"I love filming here. I live here and it's a city I think I know, but there's always bits of it you don't," he said.

"So going out and finding a location for a film is fantastic because you discover new parts. So it's very special to have the privilege of working here again."

Film company MGM said yesterday that it expects the 24th Bond film to be released within three years, and will announce a director "soon". Skyfall film-maker Sam Mendes has already ruled out a return in the hot seat.

PA

2014: Rumors propose the BOND 24 title is Come and Dive.

James Bond the subject of a (pretty convincing) hoax

See the complete article here:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-james-bond-hoax-come-and-dive-20140320-story.html

By Steven Zeitchik | March 20, 2014

James Bond aficionados are eager for any news of the next film, which is why a few of us — ahem, them — were intrigued by a semi-plausible publicity email this morning claiming the new Daniel Craig film will be called “Come and Dive” and offering a log line for said movie.

“In ‘Come and Dive,’ Bond will be swept away by a dangerous love story. As MI6 rises from its ashes, 007 must protect a mysterious stranger and unveil long forgotten secrets,” it said, even coming in the format of a press release, with the correct names of the producers and links to a fake teaser of Daniel Craig standing at a cemetery.

As it turned out, it was all a hoax, evidenced most prominently by the bogus domain name of “sony-media” behind the unrecognizable and generic-sounding name of “Antonia Garcia.”

It’s easy to understand how it could seem real, though, at least for a second.

The log line was vague — as though someone had just used some daring-sounding adjectives and threw them together with phrases like “long-forgotten secrets” — but then, all log lines these days are kind of like that.

And “Come and Dive” isn’t the snappiest name, but then, neither was “Quantum of Solace.”

Of course, a view of “Come and Dive” outside the Bond lens makes it clear the creators had, er, other connotations in mind. Also, the Daniel Craig-starring, Sam Mendes-directed movie currently referred to as “Bond 24" doesn’t start shooting until the fall (it’s due for a fall 2015 release), which makes a teaser kind of impossible. Oh, and a call to the “senior vice president of media relations” contact listed on the email led to someone named “Edward,” who answered the phone with a “what’s up.”

Still, it does speak to how desperate some fan sites are for Bond tidbits, or at least how desperate someone with access to some nifty editing material believes some fan sites are for Bond tidbits.

In related news, Wayne Knight is reported to be negotiating for the role of the villain in the new film.

Fake Bond 24 teaser claims new film will be
called Come and Dive

See the complete article here:

https://metro.co.uk/2014/03/20/fake-bond-24-teaser-claims-new-film-will-be-called-come-and-dive-4670175/

Ann Lee | Thursday 20 Mar 2014 4:58 pm

The fake trailer for Bond 24 was quickly taken from YouTube
(PIcture: YouTube/Sony Pictures)

James Bond fans thought Christmas had come early after a teaser for the new 007 film surfaced online – along with it’s official title.

The teaser trailer, which features a close up of Daniel Craig and a woman standing in a cemetery, claims the 24th Bond film will be called Come and Dive.

https://twitter.com/Dan_Arlington/status/446685313508077568

https://twitter.com/Brian_KA/status/446685195110866944

https://twitter.com/steve_harnell/status/446691404086267904

Sony Pictures has since confirmed to Metro.co.uk that the teaser and trailer are indeed fake. The teaser has since been taken down from YouTube.

The hoaxers have even gone to the trouble of setting up a Facebook page and emailing a press release to several film outlets but the title doesn’t seem to have duped fans on Twitter.

Craig will reprise his role as Bond in the upcoming blockbuster with Sam Mendes back behind the camera again.

Bond 24 is out in UK cinemas on October 23, 2015.

007 Спектр BOND 24 Come And Dive Official Teaser Trailer 2015 HD

2018: Daniel Craig's 2014 Aston Martin Centenary Edition Vanquish, numbered 007, goes to auction for charity at Christie’s in New York.

Winning bid: $468,500.00.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #5.
Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532505011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Rags Morales
Cover C: Adam Gorham
Cover D: Stephen Mooney
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Marc Laming
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: March 2019
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/20/2019

ODD JOB continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Firefly) and STEPHEN MOONEY (Grayson, The Dead Hand)!
007: Arrested! John Lee: Saving the world, solo! But when the time comes, will Lee be able to pull the trigger, or will his love for the mind-controlled Agent K prevent him from stopping her terrorist organization from succeeding in their world-altering endgame?

2024: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #3 as Part Three of "Your Cold, Cold Heart!"
Artist, Rapha Lobosco. Writer, Garth Ennis.

JAMES BOND: 007 #3

Cover A: Dave Johnson
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Spy Fiction/Action Adventure
Publication Date: March, 2024
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 3/20/2024

Inimitable author GARTH ENNIS accelerates the action in his inaugural James Bond tale with part three of "Your Cold, Cold Heart![["

The hunt for the stolen STALVODA formula has led Bond into orbit, where he meets a man from the project's shady past - but 007 soon learns he's not the only killer in space. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Moneypenny suddenly finds she's also a target!

Featuring newly declassified cover art by DAVE JOHNSON (100 Bullets, Superman: Red Son, Deadpool) and eyes-only interiors by 007 veteran RAPHA LOBOSCO (James Bond: Black Box), James Bond: 007 #3 continues the 10-year celebration of James Bond comics at Dynamite.

RichardTheBruce

March 21st

1946: Timothy Peter Dalton is born--Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales. [Or maybe 1944.]

1963: The Sydney Morning Herald publishes an interview with Sean Connery.

"I had to start from scratch": Sean Connery on
creating the original James Bond

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/i-had-to-start-from-scratch-sean-connery-on-creating-the-original-cinematic-bond-20151105-gkrwtj.html
By Special Correspondent | Updated November 5, 2015 — 7.15pmfirst published at 5.52pm

With the release of the new James Bond film, Spectre, we revisit a 1963 interview with the original 007.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on March 21, 1963

Leaning over our London luncheon table, Sean Connery said in his soft Scottish accent, "I'll be honest with you. There's not much of James Bond in me."

"Nobody knew anything about him." Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in a scene from Doctor No (1963).
Credit: Publicity

In Dr No Connery has brought to the screen for the first time the British secret agent created by novelist Ian Fleming.

He was selected for the role not only because he is 6ft 2in tall, and rugged, but because he has made rapid strides as an actor in the past year.

"He's a man who makes his own rules..." Sean Connery as Bond Credit:United Artists Corporation

"The only real difficulty I found in playing Bond was that I had to start from scratch," Connery told me.

"Nobody knew anything about him, after all. Not even Fleming. Does he have parents? Where does he come from? Nobody knows. But we played it for laughs, and people seem to feel it comes off quite well."

Connery is of particular interest to Australians because he is expected here later this year to co-star with his wife, Diane Cilento, in the D'Arcy Niland story, Call Me When the Cross Turns Over.

At our lunch, however, the actor's concern was James Bond – drawn by Mr Fleming as a pleasure-loving, woman-loving, death-dealing iconoclast.

Sean Connery and his Australian-born wife, actress Diane Cilento. Credit: William Mottram

"I don't suppose I'd really like Bond if I met him. He's a man who makes his own rules. That's fine so long as you're not plagued with doubts. But if you are – and most of us are – you're sunk," said Mr Connery

"That's why Bond appeals so much to women. By their nature, they are indecisive and a man who is absolutely sure of everything comes as a godsend."

"I suppose, too, the Walter Mitty in every man makes him admire Bond a little. That's where writer Ian Fleming is so clever.

"Fleming told me that he studied psychology in Munich before the war," Connery added.

"I don't suppose I'd really like Bond if I met him. He's a man who makes his own rules. That's fine so long as you're not plagued with doubts. But if you are – and most of us are – you're sunk."
Sean Connery

By profession the foreign manager of the London Sunday Times, Fleming spends two months of every winter in Jamaica where he has a seaside home, and does his novel-writing there.

Connery and the rest of the unit made Dr No (today's Regent film), in colour, on location in Jamaica, with the author and Noel Coward as spectators.

"I'm grateful to the film for giving my career a lift like this, but I must be careful not to get too typed.

"I hope to make a completely different type of film." Connery concluded, and his Australian role should take care of that.

But Bond, who drinks champagne where Connery has a whiskey, is not giving the actor much rest.

His second Bond adventure, From Russia With Love goes before the United Artist cameras in London next week.

The company moves on to Istanbul in April and later scenes will be filmed in Venice.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on March 21, 1963

1986: Toby Robins dies at age 55--London, England.
(Born March 21, 1931--Toronto, Canada.

Toby Robins

Toby Robins (March 13, 1931 – March 21, 1986) was a Canadian actress of film, stage and television.

Robins starred in hundreds of radio and stage productions in Canada from the late 1940s through the 1960s, working with such performers as Jane Mallett, Barry Morse, John Drainie, Ruth Springford, and James Doohan among others. She appeared in a number of television and film roles beginning in the mid-1950s, and hosted the first-ever CBC Television series, The Big Revue in 1952. In Toronto she played in repertory with Lorne Greene, Mavor Moore, and Don Harron. At the Crest Theatre she played the leading parts in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dream Girl and many others.[citation needed]

Robins became a popular television personality as an original member of the cast of the long-running CBC television series Front Page Challenge in 1957, remaining with the program until 1961. Originally hosted by Alex Barris and later Fred Davis, Front Page Challenge was a current events series disguised as a panel-style game show in a similar format to the American What's My Line?. Panelists had to guess the news story or person behind a news story by asking questions of the guest; after the game portion, the guest was then interviewed informally by the panel.[citation needed]

Although Robins was initially criticized for asking simple and sometimes unintelligent questions,[1] she soon found her journalistic sea legs and before long was holding her own alongside the more experienced journalists, including her co-panellists Gordon Sinclair and Pierre Berton.[citation needed] She left the series in a salary dispute in 1961 and was replaced by future senator Betty Kennedy (who remained with the show until its demise in the 1990s). Robins returned to the show from time to time as a guest panelist.[citation needed]

In 1964, Robins relocated to London and she appeared in a number of film and television productions, including The Saint ("When Spring Is Sprung"), Space: 1999 (the two-parter "The Bringers of Wonder", which was later re-issued as the television film Destination Moonbase Alpha) and in 1981 she played Melina Havelock's ill-fated mother in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981).[2] She appeared in an episode of Minder entitled "The Willesden Suite", broadcast in February 1984.[3] On London's West End stage, she appeared in such dramas as The Relapse, The Latent Heterosexual, The Flip Side, and The Aspern Papers.[4]

Death
Toby Robins died from breast cancer on 21 March 1986. In 1991, her family founded the Breakthrough Toby Robins Breast Cancer Centre in London, which was opened in 1999 by HRH The Prince of Wales, with the aim of producing a coordinated program of research to tackle breast cancer.[5] It is the first dedicated breast cancer research centre in the United Kingdom, and directly linked to one of the most renowned cancer facilities in the world, the Royal Marsden Hospital.[6]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1950 Parking on This Side -The Girl
1952 The Big Revue Co-host

1965 Game for Three Losers -Frances Challinor
1967 The Naked Runner -Ruth
1969 Department S -Selina Trenton Episode: “The Man In The Elegant Room”

1971 The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder -Sadie Episode: "The Duke"
1971 Friends Mrs. Gardner
1972 The Protectors -Madame Rue Episode: "Ceremony for the Dead"
1974 Paul and Michelle -Jane
1976 Spy Story -Helen Schlegel
1979 Space: 1999 -Diana Morris Two-part Episode:
"The Bringers of Wonder, Part One" & "The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two"
1979 Hazell -Jean Curzon Episode: "Hazell Gets the Part"
1979 Licensed to Love and Kill -Scarlet Star

1981 For Your Eyes Only -Iona Havelock
1983 Princess Daisy -Eleanour Kavanaugh
1984 Scandalous -Pamella Reynolds

References
Barris, Alex. Front Page Challenge: The 25th Anniversary (Toronto: CBC Books, 1981).
"Toby Robins". BFI. Archived from the original on March 1, 2019.
Profile, radiotimes.com; accessed January 26, 2014.
"Toby Robins | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
"Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre - The Institute of Cancer Research, London". www.icr.ac.uk.
"Our research centre". Breast Cancer Now. June 2, 2015.

1995: GoldeneEye films OO7 in peril by the thighs of Xenia.

2001: The Guardian (quoting The Sun) says Whitney Houston could be the next Bond Girl for Pierce Brosnan.

Whitney Houston tipped as Brosnan's Bond girl

https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Exclusive/0,4029,460598,00.html
Wednesday 21 March 2001 | guardian.co.uk

Singer Whitney Houston could be in line to play Pierce Brosnan's love interest in the new James Bond production due to start filming later this year. The Grammy winner is rumoured to be keen on taking the role, though the final decision is down to Dana Broccoli, widow of longtime Bond producer Albert Broccoli.

Today's Sun newspaper quotes an unnamed studio source as saying that: "The movie bosses think Whitney would make a fantastic Bond girl and are desperately working out a deal which will be acceptable."

Houston, 37, scored a major box-office hit nine years ago with her role opposite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard, and later starred in Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher's Wife. But in recent years the diva has been dogged by bad publicity, including reports of a drug bust, rumours of marital strife and backstage gossip that suggested she was thrown off the set during last year's Oscar night rehearsals.

Another possible concern for the Bond backers is that 007 does not have an illustrious track record when it comes to mixed race liaisons. Back in 1973, Roger Moore received death threats after Bond hopped into bed with a black temptress played by Gloria Hendry in Live and Let Die. Brosnan will no doubt be hoping that times have changed since then.

https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.REU.99722670.7055475/7619620.jpg
Entertainer Whitney Houston and her husband, singer Bobby Brown (R),
converse with Roger Moore (L) and Lauren Bacall, as they arrive October 11 for the
4th annual International Achievement in Arts Awards in Beverly Hills.
REUTERS/Fred Prouser

2014: The London Film Museum welcomes Bond In Motion.

Bond on Bikes: Star-studded London Film Museum
welcomes 007's bikes

http://www.motorbiketimes.com/feature/people/celebrity/bond-on-bikes-star-studded-london-film-museum-welcomes-007-s-bikes-$21383585.htm

The exhibit includes the BMW R1200C from Tomorrow Never Dies (centre)

Thursday, 20, Mar 2014 10:44 | by Damien Sharkov

There were action men before James Bond and there have been many since.

Some may bruise more bones, others may be better lovers, but half a century on and 007 has succeeded them all. His timeless class is preserved in the most exotic rivieras thanks to the snazziest of vehicles.

The faithful reader should not be surprised by the fact that there are quite a few motorbikes in an exhibition that includes Goldfinger's Rolls Royce, Roger Moore's submarine Esprit and the legendary Aston Martin DB5.

On Friday (21 March) the London Film Museum welcomes the largest collection of original James Bond vehicles to the capital for Bond In Motion.

We at MotorbikeTimes dusted off our sharpest tuxedos and made our way to the silver railed bowels of Covent Garden for a sneak preview of the collection.

As guests including several Bond Girls, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, special effects gurus and stunt riders extraordinaires, began to flood in, we grabbed an aperitif with Bond's resident motorbike specialists.

Brosnan's BMW

On display is the BMW R1200C from Tomorrow Never Dies, which stunt rider Jean-Pierre Goy, standing in for Pierce Brosnan, took for a 44 foot leap with a passenger on board.

"We were lucky we had one of the best riders I've ever met," says Vic Armstrong, the stunt specialist for 13 Bond films, including TND.

"The day the bike arrived Jean-Pierre took it for a bit of a ride and within 30 minutes he was doing wheelies with it," laughs Vic.

One look at the heavy cruiser and we are already swallowing hard. The BMW R1200C weighs in at a whopping 256kg.

"They had to take out a bunch of the electronics, ABS and all," says Wendy Leech who accompanied Jean-Pierre on his death defying challenge, standing in for Michelle Yeoh.

"It's all about trust," she explains as we ponder the logistics of getting 564lbs of motorcycle in the air, with two riders sharing steering duties.

"He needed to know I wouldn't suddenly flinch or slam the breaks," Wendy adds. "The first few times I sensed him testing it all a little bit, seeing how far he could go."

"We tried to have the actors on the bike as much as possible," says Vic. "For a lot of the shooting it's either Jean-Pierre with Michelle or Wendy with Pierce."

More Bond bikes to come?

Although James Bond is famous for his cars, recent films have really increased his time on two wheels. Skyfall's Honda CRF250R and Quantum of Solace's Montesa Cota 4RT are also on show.

"You are just so much more vulnerable on a bike," says Vic, who has coordinated several of the modern Bond bike scenes.

We try to compare notes on riding. "I used to motocross a bit, but it's mad business," laughs Vic.

We hope, with the upcoming Bond film to begin shooting in a few months time, some local bike dealerships will be getting a call from Pinewood Studios. Everyone here is tight lipped for a response, of course.

For now we are lucky to enjoy Bond's rich past to tide us over until the arrival of 007's next installment.

Bond In Motion opens on 21 March at the London Film Museum, with tickets priced at £14.50, £9.50 and a family ticket for four at £38. For more information about the exhibition click here and for pictures look below.

Tomorrow Never Die's BMW R1200C

Skyfall's Honda CRF250R

Quantum of Solace's Montesa Cota 4RT

2015: BOND 24 films OO7 on the balcony and across rooftops in Mexico City.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond: The Body #3 (Part Three: The Gut).
Rapha Lobosco, illustrator. Ales Kot, writer. Luca Casalanguida, cover illustrator.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419003011
Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Action
Publication Date: March 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130264190 03011
ON SALE DATE: 3/21

PART THREE - THE GUT
One sauna. Twenty Neo-Nazis. One Bond. James Bond.
This weapons deal won't go according to plan.

2023: Yvonne Shima dies at age 89--British Columbia, Canada.
(Born 1935--British Columbia, Canada.)

Yvonne Shima

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

Born 1935
British Columbia, Canada
Died 1 September 2023 (age 88)
British Columbia, Canada
Occupation(s) Actress, Singer
Years active 1958–1965
Spouse Barry Ransom

Yvonne Shima (1935 – 1 September 2023)[1] was a Canadian-born British actress.

Life and career
Shima was born in British Columbia into a Japanese Canadian family and later settled in Toronto. Soon after arriving in the UK in 1958[2] she began playing the role of Lotus Blossom in the play The Teahouse of the August Moon on stage. To the general public, she was probably best known for playing receptionist Sister Lily in the very first James Bond film Dr. No in 1962.[3] In the late 1960s, Yvonne decided to stop acting after suffering a car accident.[1]

Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes ref

1960 The Savage Innocents - Lulik
1960 The World of Suzie Wong - Minnie Ho
1960 Passport to China - Liong Ti Uncredited
1961 The Sinister Man - Tamaya
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Poon Soon
1962 Dr. No - Sister Lily
1963 The Cool Mikado - Peep-Bo
1965 Genghis Khan - Concubine

Television
Year Title Role Notes ref
1958 Television Playwright - Episode: "The Commentator"
Armchair Theatre - Fujiko Maki - Episode: "The Deaf Heart"
1963 The Avengers - Anna - Episode: "A Chorus of Frogs"

References
"In Memoriam Canadian-Japanese actress Yvonne Shima (1935-2023)". jamesbond007.se. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
"Lucky Lotus". Worthing Gazette. 10 September 1958. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
https://jamesbond007.se/eng/stars/yvonne-shima

The Avengers, Series 2, Episode 24 - "A Chorus of Frogs"




Yvonne Shima (1935 - 2024) (2:43)

RichardTheBruce

March 22nd

1945: Ian Fleming returns to England from Jamaica and finds Ann Charteris in better health.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2014.

In 1945, Chris (Blackwell, son of Fleming's mistress Blanche)
had been taken to England and put into Catholic
school, where he spent most of his time in the sanatorium. After that,
he attended Harrow School, but left before completing his A levels.

He always considered himself Jamaican, and that his future was to
be in Jamaica. Before he left England, he had secured himself a job as
an ADC to Sir High Foot. So he was now living at King's House,
which he loved. He adored Sir Hugh, and enjoyed the excitement of
the time when 'Bustamante and Manley and all the top politicians and
people, who were going to take over Jamaica, were coming to King's
House all the time. he was very good with them. They all really loved
Hugh Foot.' Chris remembers all the excitement of visiting
Goldeneye and hearing Fleming and Coward in mid verbal joust.
Fleming had made a good impression on him. 'In those days children were
seen and not heard,' he says, 'but Fleming always talked to me as an
adult. There was a coldness to him, but he would open up and talk to
me.'

After a short trip with Ivar Bryce to Inagua in the Bahamas, Fleming
returned to England on 22 March to find Ann in much better health. At
Enton Hall she had lost nearly five pounds and was now 'free from
pain'. Fleming, however, was suffering from sciatica and a heavy cold,
and checked himself in to the same sanatorium. Though it would
provide useful material for the scenes at 'Shrublands' in Thunderball,
it was of little use for his health, partly because he would not stick to
the regime. He went to see Dr Beal soon afterwards, who noted that
'He complains of greater exhaustion than is natural in a man of his
age.' Beal suggested a better diet and advised against any cigarettes or
alcohol. Fleming cut down to fifty Morlands a day, and switched to
bourbon, but his stepson Raymond remembers noticing that he was
'still drinking a great deal'. There then followed a return of his
agonizing kidney stones, which necessitated a stay in the London
Clink and large quantities of morphine.

1948: Noel Coward arrives at the Fleming Goldeneye estate and remarks: "It is quite perfect."

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

When Coward arrived on 22 March, his reaction was anything but
Jaundiced. "It is quite perfect," he wrote of Goldeneye in his diary; "a
large sitting-room sparsely furnished, comfortable beds and showers, an
agreeable staff, a small private coral beach with lint-white sand and warm
clear water. The beach is unbelievable." And his comment in Fleming's
visitors' book was equally positive. "The two happiest months I have ever
spent," he wrote unambiguously. When Ian was back the following year,
Coward had composed a song, which epitomized the friendly ribbing and
banter between these two unlikely friends:

Alas! I cannot adequately praise
The dignity, the virtue and the grace
Of this most virile and imposing place
Wherein I passed so many airless days.

Alas! Were I to write 'till the crack of doom
No typewriter, no pencil, nib, nor quill
Could ever recapitulate the chill
And arid vastness of the living-room.

Alas! I cannot accurately find
Words to express the hardness of the seat
Which, when I cheerfully sat down to ear,
Seared with such cunning into my behind.

Alas! However much I raved and roared
No rhetoric, no witty diatribe
Could ever, even partially, describe
The impact of the spare-room bed - and board.

1959: Maurice Richardson reviews Ian Fleming's latest Bond novel Goldfinger.

Maurice Richardson on the daft yet extremely readable seventh
novel in Fleming’s Bond series

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/24/goldfinger-ian-fleming-review-archive-back-pages
March 1959 | Maurice Richardson

Ian Fleming: ‘continues to get away with much more than murder’.
Photograph: Ray Warhurst/Daily Mail /Rex

Maurice Richardson worked as a journalist for both the Observer and the
Guardian, and was also a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Goldfinger was the
seventh James Bond novel in Ian Fleming’s series.

Billionaire bullion-smuggler and communist agent Auric Goldfinger is the most preposterous specimen yet displayed in Mr Fleming’s museum of superfiends. He cheats: at open-air canasta by shortwave messages from his secretary – near-naked, of course – behind binoculars in his Florida hotel bedroom; and at golf by kicking his ball, rattling his clubs and bribing his caddy. He paints chorus girls all over with gold until they suffocate, keeps a Korean killer named Oddjob who is expert at karate, the Japanese form of unarmed combat recently seen on television.

Bond outsmarts him easily enough in the opening rounds – still the best part of a Fleming – but is hijacked into taking part in his grand coup: a raid on the United States treasury bullion deposit at Fort Knox. This is carried out by a task force of top gangsters, including a mob of women acrobats who disguise themselves as Red Cross nurses.

They are bossed by a lesbian from Harlem named Miss Pussy Galore. After enticing away his secretary, she succumbs on the last page to Bond’s overwhelmingly normal charm. (It will be interesting to see whether the family newspaper the Daily Express, which is serialising Goldfinger, makes many changes in the text.)

Mr Fleming seems to be leaving realism further and further behind and developing only in the direction of an atomic, sophisticated Sapper. But even with his forked tongue sticking right through his cheek, he remains maniacally readable for some of the time and continues to get away with much more than murder.

Between the wildest pubertal prep-school fantasies there are still excellent pieces of descriptive writing. An occasional sentence – “He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it” – suggests he may be anxious to forestall charges of sadism that have been levelled at his clubman-cad secret service ace.

I doubt, though, whether he will get many letters from readers complaining of a sudden rise in his ethical standards. The real trouble with Bond, from a literary point of view, is that he is becoming more and more synthetic and zombie-ish. Perhaps it is just as well.

1962: Dr. No films OO7 receiving a Geiger counter from London.
1963: Illustrator Robb's work for the Daily Express serialization of On Her Majesty's Secret Service reportedly using Roger Moore as a photo reference.

The changing face of James Bond
http://007magazine.co.uk/factfiles/factfiles_paperbacks1.htm

1965: The Daily Express serializes The Man with the Golden Gun starting this date, with an illustration by Robb.

“Never before has there been a fiction character with the fascination
of James Bond. Wherever intelligent people meet they talk of him.
These coming days – by reading The Express – AND ONLY BY READING
THE EXPRESS – you can leap ahead in 'Bondery'. ”

1971: Will Yun Lee is born--Arlington, Virginia.

2002: The Irish Examiner reports on producer Michael G. Wilson acknowledging the possibility of an actress in the James Bond role.

Bond producer says female lead
is not 'out of the question'

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30043943.html

     | Fri, 22 Mar, 2002 - 14:31

The producer of the new James Bond film says he wouldn't rule out the idea of a female lead one day.

Michael G Wilson said Bond is a film franchise that moves with the times.

He says people were surprised when they first came up with the idea of having a female M.

Speaking at the opening of the new James Bond exhibition at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford he said: "I suppose nothing is out of the question.

"Bond films are contemporary, they're a reflection of the contemporary free world."

2013: Trumpeter Derek Roy Watkins dies--Surrey, England.
(Born 2 March 1945--Reading, England.)

Derek Watkins: Trumpeter who played on every Bond soundtrack

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/derek-watkins-trumpeter-who-played-on-every-bond-soundtrack-8550572.html
Brian Priestley | Wednesday 27 March 2013 01:00

Bell in 2004: his playing echoed Jelly Roll Morton ( PA )

It is rare for orchestral musicians to gain an independent reputation with the public, as opposed to the admiration they earn from their colleagues. In more popular styles, the same rules apply even more forcefully to backing musicians. The trumpeter Derek Watkins gained some recognition latterly, thanks to his enviable record of having performed on the soundtrack of every single James Bond film, playing for the first of these, Dr No (1962), at the age of 17.

He was seen playing and also speaking, along with the composer Thomas Newman, in a promotional video for the most recent entry, Skyfall. Newman noted that "When [the film's director] Sam Mendes went out on to the podium after we'd finished recording and acknowledged Derek, you should've heard the orchestra. He had to take two bows because people kept applauding him." By this stage, however, Watkins had been diagnosed with cancer and was fund-raising for the charity Sarcoma UK.

Watkins got off to an early start, being taught from the age of six by his father, who also conducted him in the Spring Gardens brass band in Reading, of which his grandfather had been a founding member. He played in his father's dance band at the local Majestic Ballroom before turning professional in his late teens. Working in leading London bands, he soon established himself as a freelance player capable of meeting the demands of Ted Heath, John Dankworth and Maynard Ferguson (during the Canadian trumpeter's period of British residence).

His ability in the role of "lead trumpet" required not only interpreting written music in a way that satisfied its composers or arrangers, but executing it with the authority that enabled his brass colleagues to show both unity of purpose and tonal blend. In this capacity he was hired for the 1970s European tours of a notoriously demanding Benny Goodman. When he toured the US as one of the key backing musicians for the singer Tom Jones, he was lauded by the local musicians whom he worked alongside. One of his American equivalents, Chuck Findley, has called Watkins "the greatest trumpet player I ever met in my life, and I have played with them all".

He was soon a fixture in the so-called "session" scene that saw top professionals being booked by the hour to play previously unseen music at a level of accuracy that had to be heard to be believed. As such, he contributed trumpet parts to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", and appeared, usually uncredited, on recordings by artists as different as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Robbie Williams, Placido Domingo, U2, Dizzy Gillespie and many others. Gillespie christened Watkins "Mister Lead".

He also worked for many European-based bands, such as those of Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland, Peter Herbolzheimer, James Last, and the famous Dutch radio ensemble, the Metropole Orchestra. Among his distinctive film soundtrack appearances the opening of Chicago (2002) and the trumpet work behind Shirley Bassey's title song for Goldfinger (1964) stand out. He was the natural choice for lead trumpet when John Altman was asked to augment the St Petersburg tank chase sequence for Goldeneye (1995) and Altman recalled Watkins' role on the rumba section of Shall We Dance (2004): "The director and producers had asked us to make the chart sound more 'over the top'. I asked Derek if he minded playing his lead part an octave higher in some spots. 'Sure, no problem!' This was the first take, and he doesn't miss one super A."

Taking on such essentially background roles meant that Watkins was unlikely to become a "name" performer, although he did make two albums in his own right. Increased Demand (1988) can be fairly described as "easy listening" in the positive sense, while Over The Rainbow (1995) has a definite jazz orientation, as does Stardust (made at the same time), which paired him with the American trumpeter Warren Vaché.

Watkins was also heard in specialised contributions to recordings by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic, when playing their versions of popular music. Not surprisingly, he was also in demand as a teacher when time permitted, becoming Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and conducting workshops when on tour in Europe or the US. In the mid-1980s he entered into a successful business partnership with the acoustician Dr Richard Smith to manufacture handmade trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns under the imprint of Smith-Watkins.

Described by all who worked with him as an unegotistical personality with an unfailing sense of humour, and the epitome of reliability, he made an impact not only on colleagues but on all who heard him. John Barry, who wrote music for the first dozen Bond films, said that Watkins "never failed to deliver the goods".

Watkins, trumpeter: born Reading 2 March 1945; married Wendy (two daughters, one son); died Claygate, Surrey 22 March 2013.

Derek Watkins (II) (1945–2013)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1313432/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Music department (20 credits)

2010 Made in Dagenham (musician: solo trumpet)

2009 Nine (musician: first trumpet)
2006 Casino Royale (musician: trumpet)
2005 The Great Raid (musician: trumpet)
2005 Where the Truth Lies (musician: flugelhorn and trumpet)
2004 De-Lovely (musician: trumpet)
2004 Troy (musician)
2003 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) (composer - 1 episode)
- A Talent for Life (2003) ... (composer: additional music - as Sheen, Watkins & Talbot)
2002 Chicago (musician: trumpet)
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary (musician: trumpet)
2000 Mission: Impossible II (musician: trumpet)
2000 Gladiator (musician: trumpet)

1999 The Mummy (musician: trumpet)
1996 D3: The Mighty Ducks (musician: trumpet)
1996 Aladdin and the King of Thieves (Video) (musician: trumpet)
1994 Aladdin and the Return of Jafar (Video) (musician: trumpet)
1992 Aladdin (musician: trumpet)

1975 The Black and White Minstrel Show (TV Series) (orchestra leader - 2 episodes)
- Episode #17.2 (1975) ... (orchestra leader)
- Episode #17.1 (1975) ... (orchestra leader)
1970 Soldier Blue (musician: trumpet)

1967 The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (Video short) (musician: trumpet)

Soundtrack [/b](6 credits)

2017 Black Mirror (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Hang the DJ (2017) ... (performer: "Moonlight Bossa" - uncredited)

2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (performer: "Hot Lips", "The Japanese Sandman", "Say It with Music")
2008 Definitely, Maybe (arranger: "All Hail to the Chief") / (performer: "All Hail to the Chief")
2006 The Last Kiss (writer: "Beguine")
2002 A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Murder Is Corny (2002) ... (writer: "Cue the Glitz" - uncredited)

1996 KaBlam! (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Why June Refuses to Turn Page? (1996) ... (music: "Palladium (a)" - uncredited)

Self (6 credits)

2013 Skyfall: Shooting Bond (Video documentary) - Himself - Trumpet Player
2012 Skyfall: The Music Making Of (Video documentary short) - Himself - Trumpet Player
2012 Skyfall Videoblog: Music (Video documentary short) - Himself - Trumpet Player

2006 James Bond's Greatest Hits (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1996 Oasis... There and Then (Video) - Himself - Trumpet

1969-1970 Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (TV Series) - Himself - Trumpet
- Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Thelonious Monk, Stéphane Grappelli, Clark Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Guitar Workshop, Mary Lou Williams, Robert Patterson, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Gary Burton, Mary Lou Williams, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Gary Burton, Buddy Tate, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Clarke-Boland, Teddy Wilson, Newport All-Stars, Oscar Peterson (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Johnny Dankworth Orchestra (Encore) (1969) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Johnny Dankworth Orchestra (1969) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Boxing Day Special (1969) ... Himself - Trumpet

2019: Scott Walker dies at age 76--London, England.
(Born 9 January 1943--Hamilton, Ohio.)

Scott Walker, Pop Singer Who
Turned Experimental, Dies at 76

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/scott-walker-dead.html

Scott Walker with the Scottish pop singer Lulu during an awards ceremony in the late 1960s. Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, his group, the Walker Brothers, had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts.
Credit Ballard/Hulton Archive

By Richard Sandomir | March 26, 2019

Scott Walker, who with his American pop group, the Walker Brothers, became a teenage idol in Britain in the 1960s, but who later immersed himself in experimental music that influenced artists like David Bowie and Radiohead, died on Friday in London. He was 76.

His record label, 4AD, said the cause was cancer. He had been living in England since the 1960s.

The Walker Brothers arrived in England in early 1965, reversing the earlier British invasion of America. There, the group — made up of Mr. Walker (his real name was Noel Scott Engel), a dramatic baritone who played bass; John Maus, a guitarist and vocalist; and Gary Leeds, the drummer, all of whom used the surname Walker — found the success that had eluded them in the United States.

Though their popularity never reached Beatlemania levels, their fans, like those of the Beatles, would scream during their performances — and, in one harrowing incident, turned over a van taking them from a concert in Dublin.

Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, the Walker Brothers had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts: “Make It Easy on Yourself,” a ballad by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,” which had first been recorded by Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons. Both songs also rose to the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

Mr. Walker left the group in 1967 to start a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase. In one iteration he recorded songs by the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel. But his most critical period was a retreat into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize: ominous and clangorous, existential and electronic, with big blocks of sound, his baritone voice now used to almost operatic effect. For many years, he did not appear in concert.

Reviewing a recording on which Mr. Walker collaborated with the metal band Sunn O))) in 2014, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described his music as “intricate puzzles of shock, indiscretion, non-resolution, theatrical uses of text and extended technique, often with a 40-piece orchestra.” He added that Mr. Walker was always looking for a “whoops factor”— “a moment of incomprehension from the listener.”
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In a message on Twitter, Thom Yorke, the lead singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, wrote that Mr. Walker had shown him “how I could use my voice and words.”

“Met him once at Meltdown,” he added, referring to the annual music and art festival in England, “such a kind gentle outsider.”

Noel Scott Engel was born on Jan 9, 1943, in Hamilton, Ohio, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati, the only child of Noel and Elizabeth Marie (Fortier) Engel. His father was an oil company geologist whose job took the family to various cities. When Scott was about 6 his parents divorced, and he went to live in Denver with his mother.

They subsequently moved to New York, where in the mid-1950s Scott, still a schoolboy, began his entertainment career. He had small roles in the Broadway musicals “Plain and Fancy” and “Pipe Dream” and recorded singles, including “When Is a Boy a Man?” (1957), as Scotty Engel — hoping, without success, to break through as a teenage idol. Many of those songs were later released in the compilation album “Looking Back With Scott Walker” (1968).

Mr. Walker performing on television in an undated photo. After leaving the Walker Brothers in 1967, he began a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase, eventually retreating into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize.
Credit David Redfern/Redferns

Around 1960 he and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where he attended high school and the Chouinard Art Institute. He also played in various music groups, worked as a session bassist and, in 1964, formed the Walker Brothers with Mr. Maus (who had already been using John Walker as a pseudonym). They played at the Whisky a Go Go and other clubs along the Sunset Strip.

Although the best-known songs of his Walker Brothers period did not portend how radical his music would become, Mr. Walker began to demonstrate a willingness to free himself from the conventions of pop and rock as early as 1967, when he began releasing a series of solo albums — “Scott,” “Scott 2,” Scott 3” and “Scott 4.” He did so again on “Nite Flights” (1978), an album made during a brief reunion of the Walker Brothers.

Along the way, he found an admirer in David Bowie. Mr. Bowie, a transcendent musical experimenter, was in a relationship with a woman who had dated Mr. Walker and kept his albums. Mr. Bowie listened to the music and became so enamored that he later took the role of executive producer of “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” (2007), a documentary directed by Stephen Kijak.

“I like the way he can paint a picture with what he says,” Mr. Bowie said in the film. “I had no idea what he was singing about. And I didn’t care.”

Mr. Walker, who worked on his albums slowly and meticulously, continued his musical evolution with “Climate of Hunter” (1984). With “Tilt” (1995) and “The Drift” (2006), he drew closer to matching his ambition to his creative visions — and to those that crept into his mind while he slept.

“I have a very nightmarish imagination,” he said in the documentary, which focuses on the recording of “The Drift.” He added: “I’ve had bad dreams all my life. Everything in my life is big, it’s out of proportion.”

“Clara,” a song on “The Drift,” reimagines the executions of Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, at the hands of Italian partisans in 1945. (It was inspired by newsreels Mr. Walker had seen as a child.) Another song, “Jesse,” imagines a conversation between Elvis Presley and Jesse, his stillborn twin brother, as a vehicle to write about the destruction of the World Trade Center.

In a plaintive, eerie vocal reminiscent of Mr. Bowie, Mr. Walker sings:

Fame is a tall, tall tower
A building left in the night
Jesse, are you listening?
It casts ruins in shadows
Under Memphis moonlight
Jesse, are you listening?

Howard Kaylan, a founding member of the Turtles, said in a 2013 interview that he had been listening to Mr. Walker since the 1960s. He was a fan of the Walker Brothers, he said, but thought of Mr. Walker’s solo music as the work of genius.

“My jaw hit the ground when I heard ‘Tilt,’ ” Mr. Kaylan told the newspaper Record Collector News. “And by the time he got to ‘Drift,’ I understood what he was doing: He is doing the most conventional pop music I ever heard. He is just doing it as if he was observing it from outer space and then trying to tell you what he saw as an alien.”

Mr. Walker’s survivors include his partner, Beverly; his daughter, Lee; and a granddaughter. Mr. Maus died in 2011.

Some of Mr. Walker’s lyrics were published last year in the book “Sundog,” with an introduction by the Irish novelist Eimear McBride, who compared Mr. Walker to James Joyce.

“Walker’s work, as Joyce’s before it, is a complex synesthesia of thought, feeling, the doings of the physical world and the weight of foreign objects slowly ground together down into diamond,” Ms. McBride wrote. “This is not art for the passive. It does not impart comfort or ease. Tempests will not be reconciled by the final bars, and no one is going home any more.”
A version of this article appears in print on March 27, 2019, on Page B14 of the New York edition with the headline: Scott Walker, 76, Pop Idol Who Turned Experimental.

Scott Walker (II) (1943–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908199/?ref_=fn_al_nm_3

Filmography

Soundtrack (23 credits)

2019 The End of the F***ing World (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2019) (writer - 1 episode, 2019)
- Episode #2.1 (2019) ... (performer: "The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To the Neo-Stalinist Regime)") / (writer: "The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To the Neo-Stalinist Regime)") - 7 episodes
2019 On Becoming a God in Central Florida (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Manifest Destinee (2019) ... (writer: "The Electrician")
Blinded by the Lights (TV Series) (performer - 7 episodes, 2018) (writer - 7 episodes, 2018)
2018 The Old Man & the Gun (performer: "30 Century Man") / (writer: "30 Century Man" - as Scott Engel)
2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Crooners at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "When Joanna Loved Me")
Patriot (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2017) (writer - 1 episode, 2017)
- Dead Serious Rick (2017) ... (performer: "Duchess" - uncredited) / (writer: "Duchess" - uncredited)
2017 Ash vs Evil Dead (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2016) (writer - 1 episode, 2016)
- Home (2016) ... (performer: "The Old Man's Back Again") / (writer: "The Old Man's Back Again")
2014 The Blacklist (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2014) (writer - 1 episode, 2014)
- The Front (No. 74) (2014) ... (performer: "The Seventh Seal" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Seventh Seal" - uncredited)
2014 Fiston (performer: "That's How I Got to Memphis")
2011 The Wrong Ferarri (performer: "Darkness")

2009/I The Box (performer: "When Joanna Loved Me")
2008 Bronson (writer: "The Electrician" - as Engel)
2008 Flashbacks of a Fool (performer: "Fils de...")
2007 Futurama: Bender's Big Score (Video) (writer: "30 Century Man")
2007 Degrassi: The Next Generation (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Love Is a Battlefield (2007) ... (writer: "Showstopper")
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (performer: "30 Century Man") / (writer: "30 Century Man" - as Scott Engel)

1999 Final Rinse (performer: "The World's Strongest Man", "The Big Hurt")
1999 Pola X (performer: "The Cockfighter") / (writer: "Light", "Isabel", "Pola X", "The Cockfighter")
1998 Meeting People Is Easy (Documentary) (performer: "On Your Own Again") / (writer: "On Your Own Again")
1993/I David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise (Video documentary) (writer: "Nite Flights")

1969 Cemetery Without Crosses (performer: "The Rope and The Colt")
1967 Deadlier Than the Male (as Scott Engel, "Deadlier Than the Male")
1965 Beach Ball (writer: "Doin' the Jerk" - as Scott Engel)

Composer (7 credits)

2018 Vox Lux
2015 The Childhood of a Leader
2011 Threads (Short) (music by)

2006 Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Documentary)

1999 Pola X
1993 David Bowie: Nite Flights (Video short)
1979 Am Wegerand (Short)

Music department (3 credits)

2006 Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006 (TV Movie documentary) (composer: song "30th Century Man")

1996 To Have & to Hold (composer: song "I Threw It All Away")
1969 Cemetery Without Crosses (singer: theme song)

Actor (2 credits)

1964 Surf Party - Member of the Routers (uncredited)

1959 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) Guest Singer
- Freddie's Beat Shack (1959) ... Guest Singer (as Scott Engel)

Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye Soundtrack version


Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye end titles


Scott Walker cover, "The Look of Love"

RichardTheBruce

March 23rd

1911: Charles Joseph Russhon is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 26 June 1982 at age 71--Manhattan, New York City, New York.)

Through Airmen's Eyes: The
Airman and James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/109829/through-airmens-eyes-the-airman-and-james-bond/

By Rachel Arroyo, Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs / Published January 19, 2013

(U.S. Air Force graphic/Robin Meredith/courtesy photo)

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Sean Connery feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon was the military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Sean Connery’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Claudine Auger, a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and former Miss France Monde, during the production of “Thunderball.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Claire Russhon, wife of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses in the Aston Martin DB5 made famous in the films. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Martine Beswick, an English actress cast as a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and “From Russia With Love,” during the production of “Thunderball.” Sean Connery sits in the foreground. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Sean Connery is welcomed to the TWA Ambassadors Club during the production of “Thunderball.” Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and friend of Sean Connery’s, is to his right. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


This photograph from a 1945 article published in the “San Francisco Examiner” features Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon as a captain (center) after his return from Japan in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russhon was one of the first Americans on the ground in both locations within 24 hours of the bombs being dropped on both. One of the original Air Commandos, Russhon worked as a military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. (Photo by the "San Francisco Examiner" courtesy of Christian Russhon)


American cartoonist Milton Caniff poses with his “Steve Canyon” comic strip featuring “Charlie Vanilla,” a character inspired by his friend Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The signed photograph features a circled “Charlie Vanilla,” aka Russhon, and says “this guy keeps turning up!” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon (left), military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the original Air Commandos, chats with Major General (ret) Johnny Alison, one of the fathers of Air Force special operations, and Brigadier General J. Jackson. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses with Sean Connery during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon took Connery in tow when he arrived in New York, and they remained friends until Russhon passed away in 1982, Russhon’s wife, Claire Russhon, said. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- (Editor's Note:This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)

Quartermaster "Q" supplied Skyfall's 50-year anniversary James Bond with a radio and a Walther PPK handgun, but Sean Connery's 007 relied on an Special Operations Airman for some of the bigger stuff.

Retired Lt. Col. Charles Russhon, one of the founding air commandos assigned to the China-Burma-India theater in World War II, was a military adviser to the Bond films in the 1960s and 1970s.

Among the gadgets Russhon procured for filmmakers were the Bell-Textron Jet Pack and the Fulton Skyhook, both featured in the 1965 "Thunderball," as well as the explosives that were used to blow up the Disco Volante ship.

He arranged for exterior access to Fort Knox, Ky., coordinated filming locations in Istanbul, Turkey, and facilitated film participation by Air Force pararescuemen in "Thunderball."

"Roger Moore called him 'Mr. Fixit' because he seemed to be able to do or get anything in New York City," Russhon's wife, Claire, wrote in an email. "For example, suspending traffic on FDR Drive for a Bond chase scene (and that isn't done in one take)."

As special associate to the producers, Russhon, a native New Yorker, researched new technologies, locations and permissions for whatever the scripts required, she said.

Russhon, who passed away in 1982, worked on "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," and "Live and Let Die."

"Mr. Fix-It"

Christian Russhon remembers his father's business card read "catalyst -- agent that brings others together."

For him, there was never a dull moment, he said.

"He was larger than life," Christian said.

The film crew commemorated the colonel's penchant for life on the set of "Goldfinger" in which they promoted him to the rank of general. In the film, a banner hung on the Fort Knox airplane hangar reads "Welcome, General Russhon."

Christian Russhon said he also remembers seeing his dad on film in "Thunderball" in which he appeared as an Air Force officer at a conference with other agents. According to the International Movie Database, Russhon is sitting to the right of "M" in the scene.

Russhon's connections with movers and shakers made him the right man for the Bond job after his retirement from active-duty service in the Air Force. His acquaintance with film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli predated Broccoli's work on the Bond films, Claire Russhon said. He was available when Broccoli needed a man stateside to work on the films.

Russhon relied on his acquaintance with President John F. Kennedy's press secretary Pierre Salinger for access to film at Fort Knox in "Goldfinger."

He worked with his military connections to get approval for filming in Turkey in "From Russia with Love" and to arrange for pararescuemen conducting a water training jump to be featured in "Thunderball."

He was also there for a young Sean Connery when he arrived in New York City, Claire Russhon said.

"Connery was a stranger in New York, and Charles took him in tow."

When Connery was at odds with the producers, Russhon would serve as the go-between, she said.

"Despite his reputation with the girls, Sean was a man's man," she said. "They kept in touch long after working together, and Sean called me when Charles died."

Christian Russhon, who has also worked in the film industry for 30 years, remembers Sean Connery stopping by their New York apartment all the time.

"I called him Uncle Sean," he said.

The BSA Lightning motorcycle from "Thunderball," complete with rockets, also left an impression on young Christian Russhon. The motorcycle was gifted to his dad who gave it to his godson. Christian was not old enough to drive yet, so he missed out on the BSA Lightning, he recalled.

Some real spy work

Russhon not only had the connections, but he had the credentials to advise Bond filmmakers. He conducted his own top secret special operations work with the 1st Air Commando Group during World War II.

The group, led by co-commanders and then lieutenant colonels John Alison and Philip Cochran, assisted one of the fathers of irregular warfare, British Army Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate, and his ground forces, the "Chindits," as they penetrated the Burmese jungles in the fight against the Japanese.

Their mission was to provide air support to British ground forces through infiltration and exfiltration, combat resupply and medical evacuations in hostile territory using a wide variety of aircraft flying low-level, long-range missions.

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Russhon worked as a sound engineer for NBC in New York City and for Hollywood-based Republic Pictures, which specialized in Westerns.

Claire Russhon said her husband's deep patriotism and education at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N.Y., motivated him to join the U.S. Army Air Corps following the attack.

As a young lieutenant, he was sent to Burma where he led the 10th Combat Camera Unit, a small group of cameramen supporting the 1st Air Commando Group.

Alison and Cochran built a rapport with Russhon based on his exemplary work as a cameraman. He later became permanently attached to the Group, said Air Force Special Operations Command historian William Landau.

"They became fast friends," Claire Russhon said. "Gen. John Alison was later best man at our wedding."

Russhon became critical to mission success in the days leading up to Operation Thursday when he was cleared by Cochran to defy Wingate's orders and conduct last minute photo reconnaissance of the three landing strips Allied forces were to use during the mission, Landau said.

Operation Thursday, a mission in which gliders were used to drop the Chindits deep behind Japanese enemy lines, marks the first time in military history that airpower was the backbone of an invasion, Landau said.

"The photo reconnaissance was used to survey and select the landing sights," he said. "By cutting it off, Wingate basically left himself open to the possibility of a nasty surprise upon landing."

Russhon got in the air with his camera. The first airstrip, Broadway, was clear. Chowringhee airstrip was clear. Piccadilly, which was to be used in the first night of operations, was strewn with teak logs locals had dragged out to the clearing to dry, he said.

"Russhon was so taken aback, he actually forgot to photograph the area," Landau said. The pilot doubled back.

He rushed to develop about 30 photographs at the nearest base of operations and had them delivered to Cochran, Alison and Wingate.

"(Russhon's photo reconnaissance) not only saved many lives. It saved the operation itself," Landau said. "If they had landed with logs and debris at Piccadilly, the mission had the potential of being a catastrophic failure."

Russhon received the British Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in August 1945. An excerpt from the citation reads: "This officer has displayed exemplary keenness and devotion to duty and was personally commended by General Wingate for his courageous action."

Russhon continued to serve as a photographer through the end of World War II.

After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was among the first Americans on location documenting the destruction.

A 1945 article from the San Francisco Examiner interviewed Russhon about being on the ground in both cities within 24 hours after each bomb dropped.

"A strange, rusty-looking haze hung over Nagasaki when I flew above the city at 3,000 feet the day after it was hit by the atomic bomb," Charles Russhon told the Examiner. "It was unlike anything I've ever run into before or since. I got out of there in one hell of a hurry."

Following his active-duty career with the Air Force, Russhon entered the Air Force Reserve and began his work bringing life to Ian Fleming's Bond on the big screen.

Claire Russhon said her husband enjoyed working on all of the Bond films but that one of the most interesting was "You Only Live Twice," because it required him to return to Japan where he recalled some of his World War II experiences.

"In preparing for the Bond filming, there was a reception for the Japanese officials at which a gentleman greeted Charles and said 'you have gained weight,'" she said. "It was a Japanese general who explained that he was on the welcoming committee at Atsugi Air Base, (Japan,) when that first plane arrived (after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and Charles stepped off."

Russhon's legacy is extensive. Not only has he been immortalized on screen in the Bond films, but friend and celebrated American cartoonist Milton Caniff crafted "Charlie Vanilla" from his "Steve Canyon" comic strip after his person.

The "Charlie Vanilla" character was a mister fix-it with an affinity for vanilla ice cream who always managed to save the day, Claire Russhon said.

"The ice cream cone was fashioned after Charles's addiction to chocolate ice cream, but Caniff decided that 'Vanilla,' with the dangling vowel sounded more ominous," she said.

Beyond the life he breathed into Bond by supplying filmmakers with the cool gadgets and locations viewers remember when they watch classic movies like "Goldfinger," Russhon is immortalized in Air Commando history through his photos and his leadership.

"I get a sense of adventure. I get a sense of cunning," the AFSOC historian said. "To me, he embodied what an Air Commando more or less should be. He was fearless."

(Editor's note: This article was completed with research assistance from the Air Force Special Operations Command Historian)]/i]

Charles Russhon (1911–1982)

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Filmography

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

1973 Live and Let Die (police liaison: New York - uncredited)

1967 You Only Live Twice (military liaison: Japan - uncredited) / (technical advisor - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (technical advisor - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (government liaison: USA - uncredited) / (military liaison: Kentucky - uncredited) / (technical adviser)
1963 From Russia with Love (military liaison: Turkey - uncredited) / (technical advisor - uncredited)

Actor (1 credit)

1965 Thunderball - U.S. Air Force General (uncredited)

Location management (1 credit)

1967 You Only Live Twice (location scout: Japan - uncredited)

1950: Corinne Piccolo (Corinne Cléry) is born--Paris, France.
1954: US publisher Macmillan releases 4,000 copies of Casino Royale to poor sales.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 9 - Escaping the 'gab-fests'

On 23 March Casino Royale was published by Macmillan in the United
States. Ian’s old ally Elsa Maxwell did her best to puff it by referring to his
(and Ann’s) passage through New York ten days earlier and describing his
forthcoming novel as “one of the most breathtaking books I have ever
read”. But the reaction from reviewers was underwhelming. Anthony
Boucher, the man who counted in the New York Times Book Review, com-
plained that Ian had “[padded] the book out to novel length, leading to
an ending which surprises no one but Bond himself”. The Cleveland
Plain Dealer found it all “rather passé” and the Houston Chronicle simply
“disappointing”.

Ian’s “apparatus” reacted more favourably. Bennett Cerf, at Random
House, called Naomi Burton to see if Ian was under option to Macmillan
for his next book. He told Ian he had been disappointed to be given a
positive response. “But in the unlikely event that you and Macmillan
sever publishing relations in this country, we would consider it a great
privilege to be allowed to negotiate with you.” However, Cert’s interest
was not sustained, nor did Korda return with any film offer. Despite Ian’s
efforts, the lucrative markets of both the United States and the movies
were proving extraordinarily hard to penetrate.

1959: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's seventh Bond novel Goldfinger. Richard Chopping cover.

GOLDFINGER

Goldfinger, the man who loved gold, said,
‘Mr. Bond, it was a most evil day for
when you first crossed my path. If you had
then found an oracle to consult, the oracle
would have said to you “Mr. Bond, keep
away from Mr Auric Goldfinger. He is a
most powerful man. If Mr Goldfinger
wished to crush you, he would only have to
turn over in his sleep to do so”.’

With the lazy precision of Fate, this, Ian
Fleming’s longest narrative of secret service
adventure, brings James Bond to grips with
the most powerful criminal the world has
ever known--Goldfinger, the man who had
planned the ‘Crime de la Crime’.

Le Chiffre, Mr Big, Sir Hugo Drax, Jack
Spang, Rosa Klebb, Dr No--and now, the
seventh adversary, a Goliath of crime--
GOLDFINGER!

1964: Peter Lorre dies at age 59--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 26 June 1904--Ružomberok, Slovakia.)

Peter Lorre Dies in Hollywood; Symbol of Film Horror Was 59; Actor Who Made Debut in ‘M’ Also Portrayed ‘Mr. Moto’ —Movie Favorite 30 Years

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MARCH 24, 1964
March 24, 1964, Page 35 The New York Times Archives

HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (UPI) —Peter Lorre, whose mild manner and sinister voice sent shivers up the spines of moviegoers for three decades, died of a stroke today. His age was 59.

When Peter Lorre squinted his baleful brown eyes and took a slow sinister puff on a cigarette, moviegoers throughout the world squirmed in their seats.

On the screen, the actor seemed to be the image of subsurface malevolence, and his pale, almost pasty, moonface seemed to conceal a homicidal maniac with a temporary but firm grip on himself.

From the time of his debut in the German produced “M” in 1931, through scores of Hollywood and television films, Mr. Lorre, a short (5 foot 5 inches), pudgy man, was able to dominate the screen with his own particular brand of evil.

Occasionally, he varied his roles and played humorous parts, but he was never at his best in those parts, and he always returned to the role of the sinister and smart bad man.

As one critic put it, Mr. Lorre made a reputation “by being as mean and as murderous as the Hays office [then the industry's censorship panel] would permit.” Others described him as “one of the cinema's most versatile murderers,” the “gentle‐fiend,” and a “homicidal virtuoso.”

After the terror years of Lon Chaney, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff became Hollywood's stalwarts of horror movies.

Mr. Lorre was born in Rosenburg, Hungary, on June 26, 1904. He went to school in Vienna for a while but ran away at 17 to join a touring German theatrical troupe. With the exception of a short period as a clerk in a bank, he remained an actor for the rest of his life.

After the usual tour in bit parts on the German stage, the producer Fritz Lang saw him as the perfect actor for the role of a pathological killer of little girls in “M.”

Mr. Lorre's portrayal in the film is ranked among the greatest criminal characterizations on the screen, and the film made Mr. Lorre and Mr. Lang famous.

Although he was fluent in several European languages and had made a number of films on the Continent, Mr. Lorre spoke no English when he went to Britain for a role in a film.

However, when he encountered Alfred Hitchcock, Mr. Lorre let the director do all the talking, and by smiling and nodding, convinced him that his English was adequate.

Mr. Hitchcock gave the actor a role in “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” after the one‐way interview, and Mr. Lorre later commented that it was two weeks before Mr. Hitchcock learned that he spoke no English.

By the time the film was completed, Mr. Lorre's English was nearly perfect, and in 1934 he went to Hollywood.

In his first years in Hollywood, Mr. Lorre was cast in the type of roles that had already made him famous. He was an insane doctor in “Mad Love,” and played the seriously disturbed student in Dostoevski's “Crime and Punishment.”

One of his most distinctive features was the soft, nasal quality of his voice, tinged with a European accent, which he used with chilling effectiveness.

In many of the roles, Mr. Lorre seemed to be a man of two sides, a quiet gentle man and a raving maniac.

In one film, “Island of Doomed Men,” which is not considered among his best, Mr. Lorre played a prison warden who equally enjoyed listening to Chopin and flogging prisoners.

In a series of movies, Mr. Lorre appeared as the larcenous sidekick of the late Sydney Greenstreet, a film bad man with a booming laugh that neatly complemented Mr. Lorre's nervous giggle.

Together with Humphrey Bogart, they appeared in “The Maltese Falcon,” and “Casablanca,” screen classics of the early nineteen‐forties.

Mr. Lorre also portrayed the Japanese detective “Mr. Moto” in a series of movies, but soon returned to more sinister roles.

In Hollywood, Mr, Lorre was known as a quiet, almost shy man, with a deadpan sense of humor. He had been . bothered with heart trouble in recent years, but managed to keep up a fairly busy working schedule.

Most recently, he had appeared in a number of “humorous” horror pictures. His latest film was “Muscle Beach Party,” and he recently completed a Jerry Lewis picture, “The Patsy.”

Among his other films were “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “Confidential Agent,” “Mask of Dimitrios,” “Beat the Devil” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”

During the nineteen‐fifties and sixties he made frequent television appearances. He also sought more comic performances after the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1949 had warned parents to send children to bed before he appeared on a late variety show.

But Mr. Lorre had a thoroughly professional attitude toward his career.

“What do I care if I'm a villain?” he once asked. “I’ll be anything they want me to be—ghoul, goon or clown—as long as it's necessary.”

With only a few exceptions, Hollywood found it necessary—and Mr. Lorre found it profitable—for him to remain sinister.

Early in his career, Mr. Lorre worked with Bertolt. Brecht and later was considered an expert on the works of the German playwright.

An avid reader of books in several languages, Mr. Lorre was also a fan of Los Angeles's professional baseball and football teams.

The actor married three times; Cecilia Lvovsky in 1934, Karen Verne in 1945 and Annemaire Stoldt in 1953: The first two marriages ended in divorce.

A spokesman for his studio, American International Pictures, said that Mr. Lorre and his wife were separated. They have a 10‐year‐old daughter, Kathryn.

Peter Lorre (I) (1904–1964)

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Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

1964 The Patsy - Morgan Heywood
1964 Muscle Beach Party - Mr. Strangdour
1963 The Comedy of Terrors - Felix Gillie
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Frederick Bergen
- The End of the World, Baby (1963) ... Frederick Bergen
1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - The Gypsy
- 5: Part 1 (1963) ... The Gypsy
1963 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Archie Lefferts
- Diamond Fever (1963) ... Archie Lefferts
1963 The Raven - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
1962 Route 66 (TV Series) - Peter Lorre
- Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing (1962) ... Peter Lorre
1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon - Ahmed
1962 Tales of Terror - Montresor (segment "The Black Cat")
1961 The Gertrude Berg Show (TV Series) - Professor Kestner
- The Trouble with Crayton (1961) ... Professor Kestner
- First Test (1961) ... Professor Kestner
1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Comm. Lucius Emery
1961 The Best of the Post (TV Series) - Baron
- The Baron Loved His Wife (1961) ... Baron
1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Alonzo Pace Graham
- The Human Touch (1961) ... Alonzo Pace Graham
1960 Rawhide (TV Series) - Victor Laurier
- Incident of the Slavemaster (1960) ... Victor Laurier
1955-1960 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - King Zurium / Boris - Chief Spy / Mad Scientist / ... - 7 episodes
1960 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Alexander Portlass
- The Alexander Portlass Story (1960) ... Alexander Portlass
1956-1960 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Café Owner / Tenzing / Dr. Ostrow / ...
1960 Scent of Mystery - Smiley
1957-1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Carlos / Tomas Salgado
- Man from the South (1960) ... Carlos
- The Diplomatic Corpse (1957) ... Tomas Salgado

1959 Five Fingers (TV Series) - The Colonel
- Thin Ice (1959) ... The Colonel
1959 The Big Circus - Skeeter
1958 The Milton Berle Show (TV Series) - Guest
- Episode #1.11 (1958) ... Guest
1955-1958 Studio 57 (TV Series)
Heitzer / Mr. Grover
- The Queen's Bracelet (1958)
- The Finishers (1956) ... Heitzer
- Young Couples Only (1955) ... Mr. Grover
1957 Collector's Item: The Left Fist of David (TV Movie) - Mr. Munsey
1957 Hell Ship Mutiny - Commissioner Lamoret
1957 The Sad Sack - Abdul
1957 The Story of Mankind - Nero
1957 Silk Stockings - Brankov
1954-1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Benny Kellerman / Mr. Ho / Normie / ...
- A Taste for Crime (1957) ... Benny Kellerman
- The Man Who Lost His Head (1956) ... Mr. Ho
- The Fifth Wheel (1956) ... Normie
- A Promise to Murder (1955) ... Mr. Vorhees
- Casino Royale (1954) ... Le Chiffre
1957 The Buster Keaton Story - Kurt Bergner
1956 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) - Moyzisch
- Operation Cicero (1956) ... Moyzisch
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Japanese Steward - S.S. Carnatic
1956 Congo Crossing - Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas - Peter Lorre (uncredited)
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) - Willy
- No. 5 Checked Out (1956) ... Willy
1955 The Star and the Story (TV Series) - Inspector Andre Mondeau
- The Blue Landscape (1955) ... Inspector Andre Mondeau
1955 The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (TV Series) - Ambrose Dodson
- The Sure Cure (1955) ... Ambrose Dodson
1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Poffy
- Reunion in Vienna (1955) ... Poffy
1955 The Best of Broadway (TV Series) - Dr. Herman Einstein
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1955) ... Dr. Herman Einstein
1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -Conseil
1954 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
- The Pipe (1954)
1953 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- The Vanishing Point (1953)
1953 Beat the Devil - Julius O'Hara
1952 Suspense (TV Series)
- The Tortured Hand (1952)
1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Pratt
- The Taste (1952) ... Richard Pratt
1951 Der Verlorene - Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister
1950 Double Confession - Paynter
1950 Quicksand - Nick

1949 Rope of Sand - Toady
1948 Casbah - Slimane
1947 My Favorite Brunette - Kismet
1946 The Beast with Five Fingers - Hilary Cummins
1946 The Chase - Gino
1946 The Verdict - Victor Emmric
1946 Black Angel - Marko
1946 Three Strangers - Johnny West
1945 Confidential Agent - Contreras
1945 Hotel Berlin - Johannes Koenig
1944 Hollywood Canteen - Peter Lorre
1944 The Conspirators - Jan Bernazsky
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace - Dr. Einstein
1944 The Mask of Dimitrios - Cornelius Leyden
1944 Passage to Marseille - Marius
1943 The Cross of Lorraine - Sergeant Berger
1943 Background to Danger - Nikolai Zaleshoff
1943 The Constant Nymph - Fritz Bercovy
1942 Casablanca - Ugarte
1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You - Dr. Arthur Lorencz
1942 Invisible Agent - Baron Ikito
1942 All Through the Night - Pepi
1941 The Maltese Falcon - Joel Cairo
1941 They Met in Bombay - Captain Chang
1941 Mr. District Attorney - Paul Hyde
1941 The Face Behind the Mask - Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
1940 You'll Find Out - Karl Fenninger
1940 Stranger on the Third Floor - The Stranger
1940 Island of Doomed Men - Stephen Danel
1940 I Was an Adventuress - Polo
1940 Strange Cargo - M'sieu Pig

1939 Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation - Mr. Moto
1939 Mr. Moto in Danger Island - Mr. Moto
1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Mr. Moto
1938 Mysterious Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
1938 I'll Give a Million - Louie 'The Dope' Monteau
1938 Mr. Moto Takes a Chance - Mr. Moto
1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble - Mr. Moto
1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
1937 Lancer Spy - Maj. Sigfried Gruning
1937 Think Fast, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! - Prof. Sturm
1936 Crack-Up - Colonel Gimpy
1936 Secret Agent - The General
1935 Crime and Punishment - Roderick Raskolnikov
1935 Mad Love - Doctor Gogol
1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Abbott
1933 High and Low - Le mendiant
1933 Unsichtbare Gegner - Henry Pless
1933 Les requins du pétrole - Henry Pless
1933 Was Frauen träumen - Otto Fuessli
1932 F.P.1 Doesn't Answer - Bildreporter Johnny
1932 Stupéfiants - Le bossu
1932 Dope - Hunchback
1932 Schuß im Morgengrauen - Klotz
1932 Fünf von der Jazzband - Car thief
1931 A Man's a Man - Galy Gay - a packer
1931 Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. - Redakteur Stix
1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo - Pawlitschek
1931 M - Hans Beckert
1930 The White Devil
1929 Die verschwundene Frau - Patient of a Dentist (uncredited)

Soundtrack (5 credits)

1963 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Peter Lorre/Joanie Sommers Show (1963) ... (performer: "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Murdered Dear Old Dad)" - uncredited)
1957 Silk Stockings (performer: "Too Bad (We Can't Go Back to Moscow)", "Red Blues", "Siberia" - uncredited)
1936 One in a Million ("Horror Boys of Hollywood" (1936))
1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo (performer: "Jawohl, Herr Kapitän")
1931 M (performer: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)

Writer (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene (novel) / (screenplay)

Director (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1995 49/95: Tausendjahrekino (Documentary short) (voice)

Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre in the 1954 television version of Casino Royale

1964: Goldfinger films Bond seducing Jill Masterson.

2020: Guns from a collection connected to Ian Fleming and James Bond are stolen.

James Bond guns 'worth £100k' stolen in
Enfield burglary

27 March 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-52061291

The Magnum is the only gun in the world entirely finished in chrome

Five deactivated guns used in several James Bond films and worth more than £100,000 have been stolen in a burglary.

Thieves broke into the back of the property in north London on Monday evening and fled before police arrived.

A Walther PPK handgun used by Roger Moore in A View to a Kill was among those taken from the private collection.

Owner John Reynolds said it felt like a "flame has gone out of my life".

The Walther PPK was used by Roger Moore in A View to a Kill

Also stolen were a Beretta Cheetah pistol, a Beretta Tomcat pistol, a Llama .22 calibre handgun from Die Another Day, and a Revolver Smith and Wesson .44 Magnum featured in Live and Let Die.

They formed part of a large collection which includes posters, items of clothing and about 60 other guns that engineer Mr Reynolds started 50 years ago.

The 56-year-old described it as "probably the finest collection of its type under one roof".

Neighbours described the suspects as white males with eastern European accents who left the scene in Enfield in a silver vehicle.

Det Insp Paul Ridley, from the Met, said: "The firearms stolen are very distinctive and bespoke to particular James Bond movies.

"They will almost certainly be recognised by the public and to anyone offered them for sale. Many of these items are irreplaceable."

The Beretta Tomcat pistol was used in Die Another Day

He added: "The Magnum is the only one in the world ever made in which the whole gun is finished in chrome. It has a six-and-a-half inch barrel and wood grips.

"The Walther PPK was the last gun used by Roger Moore in A View to a Kill. The owner is very upset that his address has been violated and he truly hopes to be reunited with these highly collectable items."

2022: Faroese Prime Minister reveals a commissioned tombstone at the last known location of 007.

Daniel Craig’s James Bond Lands
Tombstone in Faroe Islands to
Commemorate ‘No Time to Die’

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The tombstone was commissioned by the Faroese government to mark the end of Daniel Craig's turn as the MI6 agent.
Samantha Bergeson | Mar 24, 2022 5:00 pm

“No Time to Die” grave
screenshot/Visit Faroe Islands

Daniel Craig’s take on James Bond is now forever set in stone.

After the final installment of Craig’s turn as Bond, the Faroe Islands commissioned a custom grave to honor the filming location of “No Time to Die.” The island of Kalsoy served as the villain’s lair for Bond’s nemesis Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), who ultimately kills the famed MI6 agent.

The grave is positioned near the Kallur lighthouse on the island and reads, “In Memory of James Bond, 1962–2021,” as reported by the official Guide to the Faroe Islands page.

“Local villagers have taken it upon themselves to erect a tombstone in memory of the renowned spy,” the statement reads. “Made from Faroese basalt, the gravestone has been cut by an acclaimed stonemason in the village of Skopun. It has then been transported to the exact location on Kalsoy, where Bond meets his fate in ‘No Time to Die.'”

The Prime Minister unveiled the statue March 23. The design of the grave matches Bond’s parents’ tombs in “Skyfall,” and a special quote previously read by M (Ralph Fiennes) in “No Time to Die” is included on the grave: “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.”

James Bond creator Ian Fleming used the quote, originally by novelist Jack London, in the book You Only Live Twice as part of an obituary for Bond when he was presumed dead.

Actor Craig took over the role of Bond in 2006 with the release of “Casino Royale.” He subsequently portrayed the famed spy in “Quantum of Solace,” “Skyfall,” and “Spectre” before parting ways with the franchise in 2021’s “No Time to Die.”

Fans can now book a tour through the Guide to Faroe Islands website for a special James Bond Sightseeing excursion, which includes stops in Borðoy island, Kalsoy island, and crossing the Kalsoyarfjørður strait. The “No Time to Die” filming locations tour will culminate in the village of Trøllanes, where the James Bond crew shot on Kalsoy island.

“The James Bond film set found themselves in this far-flung corner of the world and now it is your turn to experience the wilderness and the spectacular landscapes,” the promotion states. “You will feel like you are in the scenes from the movie.”

Star Craig previously told IndieWire that the “only ambition” he ever had with the franchise was to “leave it in a good place.”

Now, audiences can visit Bond’s final resting place. Check out the video below.

2023: Last day of ‘Photographs from the James Bond Archive’ photography exhibition at the Leica Gallery London, London, England.

Leica celebrates 60 years of Bond with the D-Lux 7 007 Edition
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition pays homage to James Bond.
By Abby Ferguson | Published Feb 28, 2023 1:54 PM EST

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The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition in a cityscape
Leica

Leica has just announced another limited edition camera, this time in celebration of the world’s most famous secret agent: James Bond. Bond first arrived on the scene in 1962, just over 60 years ago, in the inaugural Bond movie Dr. No. Leica is celebrating the occasion by releasing a special edition D-Lux 7 007 Edition. The image-making company is also hosting a ‘Photographs from the James Bond Archive’ photography exhibition at the Leica Gallery London through March 23, 2023.

The D-Lux 7 007 Edition is actually the second 007 collaboration for Leica. In 2021, the company released a very limited edition (only 250 cameras) Leica Q2 007 Edition. Luckily the D-Lux 7 camera is much more affordable than the Q2. And this time, it is producing 1,962 cameras in honor of the first film release in 1962.

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition on white background
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition features a textured body and Bond-themed automatic lens cap. Leica

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition styling
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition pulls from the elegant and sophisticated styling of the James Bond character for its design. The trim and handgrip of the camera utilize a high-performance, rhombus-textured material, which makes it look rather similar to the standard Q2 camera. The look is subtle with its all-black colorway, but it provides a better hold on the camera.

The top of the camera features the classic 007 logo to match the one found on the included leather wrist strap. And the camera’s automatic lens cap gets the ‘gun barrel’ design made famous by its use in the opening sequences of the Bond films. The camera comes with a leather case styled like a holster. And it all comes in a specially designed box.

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition set with special box and leather holster-style case
The full set comes with a leather wrist strap, leather holster-style case, and specially designed box. Leica

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition camera specifications
Inside the special edition are the same guts as the original Leica D-Lux 7 camera. Leica built the camera around a 17-megapixel Four Thirds MOS sensor. It features a highly versatile 10.9 to 34mm lens, which offers a full-frame equivalent view of 24 to 75mm. The lens is relatively fast, offering a maximum aperture of f/1.7 to 2.8. And it’s capable of recording 4K30p video.

It’s a small camera, weighing just 14.22 ounces. The compact design, in combination with the 24 to 75mm equivalent lens, makes it a great travel companion.

The top of the Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition camera with Bond logo
The top of the camera features the classic Bond logo. Leica

Pricing & availability
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition is available for preorder now for $1,995.00, which is $600 more than the standard D-Lux 7. And remember, there are only 1,962 cameras available, so if you have your eye on one, you’ll need to order soon.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/james-bond-photographs-go-on-display-60824/

RichardTheBruce

March 24th

1939: Canadian Harry Saltzman pledges his Oath of Allegiance to the United States, later working with U.S. intelligence.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/photos/2012/09/harry-saltzman-bond-secret-spy-life

1952: Ian Lancaster Fleming and Anne Geraldine Charteris are married--Port Smith, Jamaica.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2014.

When not partying, Ann and Ian were 'asleep by 10:30 and bathing
at sunrise, writing, painting, shooting, eating and snoozing for the rest
of the day', as Ann wrote to her brother Hugo 'from the Lotus
Islands'. 'It is frighteningly agreeable.' Ian described it as 'a
marvelous honeymoon among the hummingbirds and barracudas'.

Ann's divorce became absolute on Monday 24 March. She and Ian
married the same day at Port Maria town hall. There were only two
witnesses: Noel Coward, and his secretary Cole Lesley. Coward had
warned Violet, 'I shall wear long elbow gloves and give the bride
away. I may even cry a little at the sheer beauty of it all.' In fact,
according to Lesley, 'We took our duties very seriously; wore ties
(unheard of for Noel in Jamaica) with formal white suits, our pockets
full of rice, and to to the Town Hall early. We attracted a crowd of
six and a smiling though toothless black crone who entertained us with
some extremely improper calypsos, including one called "Belly
Lick".' (Lyrics include the line: 'Drop your pants and lie down',
Fleming refers to the song in his Jamaica novel, The Man with the
Golden Gun.)

Coward, who saw himself as the matchmaker, having assisted
during Ann's previous adulterous trips to Jamaica, remembered Ann
and Ian at their wedding as 'surprisingly timorous'. Fleming wore his
usual nautical belted blue linen shirt with blue trousers. Ann, four
months pregnant and beginning to show, was in a silk dress copied
from a Dior design by a local Port Maria seamstress. Coward noticed
that she was shaking so much the dress fluttered. 'It was an entirely
hysterical affair,' he later wrote.

Inside the parochial office, the first thing they all saw was 'an
enormous oleograph of Churchill scowling down on us with bulldog
hatred', Once married by the registrar, Mr L. A. Robinson, they
headed for Blue Harbor for strong martinis, then back to Goldeneye
for a special wedding supper prepared by Violet. Coward remembered
it as particularly bad: the black crab, which 'can be wonderful to eat if
you have a good cook, but Ian didn't have a good cook', 'tasted just
like eating cigarette ash'. To make things worse, Violet then brought
out 'a slimy green wedding cake, and dusky head peered round the
door to make sure we ate it. Ian had to because he was directly in line
of sight, but later we took the cake outside and buried it so as not to
hurt anyone's feelings.' The evening ended with a punch of Fleming's
own create - white rum poured on citrus peel then ignited.

1961: In a court hearing, Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham pursue action to halt publication of Thunderball due to Ian Fleming's use of screenplay material they contributed to.

The James Bond Bedside Companion, Raymond Benson, 2012 edition.

That same month [March 1961], Kevin McClory read an advance copy of
THUNDERBALL. He found that Fleming had made no
acknowledgement to him or Jack Whittingham for what was essentially a
work of joint authorship. THUNDERBALL contained the plot that was
created over the last two years. McClory and Whittingham immediately
petitioned the high court for an injunction to hold up publication of the
book, which was set for April. At the hearing on March 25, evidence was
given that 32,000 copies of THUNDERBALL had already been shipped
to booksellers, and a hefty amount of money had already been spent on
advance publicity. The judge ruled that the book could be published, but
that in no way affected or slanted in either Fleming's or McClory's and
Whittingham's favor the result of the trial. Unfortunately, it was two
years before the case was resolved.

1965: Thunderball filming relocates from France to Nassau, capital of the Bahamas.

2008: Quantum of Solace films at the European Southern Observatory 'Residencia', Atacama Desert, Chile.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0205/

2013: The Jameson Empire awards honor Skyfall Director Sam Mendes for Best Director, Best Film, plus the Empire Inspiration award. (Danny Boyle is recognized for Outstanding Contribution.)

ITV Report 24 March 2013 at 8:46pm
James Bond director scoops three gongs at Empire Awards
https://www.itv.com/news/2013-03-24/james-bond-director-scoops-three-gongs-at-empire-awards/

Sam Mendes won Best Film and Best Director for Skyfall and the Empire Inspiration award in London.
Photo: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Skyfall director Sam Mendes finally had his moment of glory tonight scooping three gongs at the Jameson Empire Awards 2013.

The latest James Bond film, though a box office hit, was overlooked at the Oscars and the Baftas in the best film and best director categories.

But tonight at the star-studded ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, Mendes took home the best director and best film awards for his 007 effort Skyfall, along with the Empire Inspiration award.

Dame Helen Mirren was queen of the night, receiving the Empire Legend award.

Skyfall wins Best Film at the Empire Film Awards, picked up by Michael Wilson, Rob Wade, Barbara Broccoli, Sam Mendes and Neal Purvis. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The 67-year-old actress was hailed for her screen career spanning five decades, including notable performances in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover, Gosford Park, The Queen and this year's Hitchcock.

Danny Boyle - who along with Mendes has already ruled himself out of directing the next Bond film - was also celebrated for his film career, presented with the Empire Outstanding Contribution award.

The British director has enjoyed a varied career of critically acclaimed films, including his dark debut Shallow Grave, the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, cult hit Trainspotting and his latest effort, thriller Trance.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was named this year's Empire Hero, while his film The Woman In Black won the award for Best Horror.

Danny Boyle won an Outstanding Contribution award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey notched up two wins - Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film and the Best Actor award for star Martin Freeman.

Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for her performance in The Hunger Games. The win is the cherry on the cake for the star, who has won a string of accolades this awards season for her role in indie comedy Silver Linings Playbook, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

The Jameson Empire Film Awards Special will be transmitted on Saturday March 30 on Sky Movies at 8.30pm.

Daniel Radcliffe picked up the Empire Hero gong. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The Jameson Empire Awards 2013 Winners in full:

Best Male Newcomer presented by Entertainment Tonight: Tom Holland for The Impossible
Best Female Newcomer: Samantha Barks for Les Miserables
Best Comedy presented by Magic 105.4: Ted
Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Best Thriller presented by Vue Entertainment: Headhunters
Best Horror presented by Cafe de Paris: The Woman In Black
The Art Of 3D presented by RealD: Dredd 3D
Best British Film presented by Tresor Paris: Sightseers
Best Director presented by Monitor Audio: Sam Mendes for Skyfall
Jameson Best Actor: Martin Freeman for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Best Actress presented by Citroen: Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games
Best Film presented by Sky Movies: Skyfall
Empire Inspiration Award presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey: Sam Mendes
Empire Legend: Helen Mirren
Empire Hero: Daniel Radcliffe
Empire Outstanding Contribution: Danny Boyle

Here's some of the winners with their awards:

Samantha Barks with her award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Martin Freeman who won the Best Actor award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Jane Goldman won Best Horror Movie award, for Women in Black. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Sir Ian Mckellen with the Best Science Fiction Fantasy award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Nira Park, Steve Oram and Ben Wheatley who won the Best British Film award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Tom Holland with his award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Presenter Jonny Vegas with Ted. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Dame Helen Mirren wins the Empire Legend award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

2015: Spectre films on location at Plaza Tolsá, Mexico, and surrounding streets.

2022: Jim Wright via Zoom presents Thursday - My talk at Hawk Mountain including its Real James Bond connection.

Thursday: My talk at Hawk Mountain

See the complete article here:

https://www.realjamesbond.net/2022/03/march-24-my-talk-at-hawk-mountain.html

03/19/2022

I'll be doing a free Zoom talk from my old stomping ground, Hawk Mountain, on March 24.

I'll be talking about the real James Bond, of course, with a bit of new material -- including Bond's connection to Hawk Mountain.

You can learn more and register here:

https://www.hawkmountain.org/events/meet-the-real-james-bond

See you then!

Meet the Real James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.hawkmountain.org/events/meet-the-real-james-bond

The Real James Bond, Jim Wright

FREE Virtual Program

Learn all about the “Real James Bond!" In 1952, Ian Fleming stole the name of a famous Philly ornithologist and explorer named James Bond (1900-1989), the author of the trail-blazing Birds of the West Indies. This colorfully illustrated talk will focus on Bond, the Fleming connection, the Hawk Mountain connection, and some of the birds, bird eggs and other species that Bond collected. There’ll be some 007 moments as well, in keeping with the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die.

Do you remember Jim Bond at Hawk Mountain? Have any photos of Jim Bond at North Lookout? Please email Jim Wright at [email protected].

This FREE virtual program is part of our Stay at Home Speaker Series, targeted towards adults and interested learners, but of course attendees of all ages and backgrounds are welcomed!

A private link to the webinar will be emailed to all registrants about 1 hour before the start of the live program. A recording of the webinar will be posted and shared to all registrants following the event.

Registration closes 2 hours before the start of the program.

Hawk Mountain will be recording this webinar, including all questions, comments, etc., by the audience. By participating, you agree to allow the recording to be posted on Hawk Mountain's website, Facebook page, Instagram feed, and other media.

Date & Time
March, 2022
24
7:00 PM

Location
Online via Zoom

Instructor
Jim Wright

2025: Transaction and deal between Amazon and EON Productions closes. Amazon officially become the creative leads on the James Bond series, and Barbara Broccoli, Michael G Wilson and Co step back.
2025: National Cocktail Day in the United States.

Same rules apply.

National Cocktail Day – March 24, 2023
U.S.

See the complete article here:

https://nationaltoday.com/national-cocktail-day/

National Cocktail Day on March 24 each year celebrates the tasty alcoholic drinks we have come to know and love.

Cocktails remind us of vacations on sandy beaches, relaxing pool-side lounges, or just Friday night out with the girls. Speaking of, did you know that even though cocktails are now often referred to as ‘girly drinks,’ it used to be frowned upon for women to drink them?

On National Cocktail Day, we celebrate the unique concoctions that remind us of good times.

History of National Cocktail Day
National Cocktail Day was created by holidaymaker Jace Shoemaker-Galloway as a fun day to celebrate a fun drink.

Cocktails were traditionally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters, and some mixed drinks today still conform to this, such as the Old Fashioned Whiskey cocktail, the Sazerac cocktail, and the Manhattan cocktail.

Many people believe that cocktails originated in the U.S. While this is partly true, cocktails were actually inspired by British punches from the 18th century. British punches were big bowls of spirits mixed with fruit juice, spice, and other flavors.

No one is exactly sure who first created cocktails, but the world is more than grateful to them. What is known is that by the 1860s, it started gaining popularity. Cocktails became especially popular after alcohol was prohibited in the United States from 1920 to 1933 ironically.

Speakeasies began to sell inferior liquor because it was easier to produce illicitly. Then they started adding honey, fruit juice, and other flavorings to mask the foul taste of this liquor, enabling customers to drink faster, which was very important in case of a raid.

The Industrial Age made a major contribution to the evolution of cocktails with the production of ice. Before the Industrial Age, there was no effective way to make ice blocks and keep them from melting.

In the 90s, a group of bartenders at New York’s famous Rainbow Room brought back classic cocktail culture and followed strict quality standards. Today, there is a substantive cocktail culture in the art of mixology, which draws on traditional cocktails, but uses novel ingredients and complex flavors.

National Cocktail Day timeline
1803
‘Cocktail’ Appears in Written History
The first written mention of a cocktail as a beverage appears in a magazine, “The Famer’s Cabinet.”

1806
The Cocktail is Defined
The cocktail was first defined as an alcoholic beverage in a newspaper, “The Balance, and Columbian Repository” in Hudson, New York.

1862
10 cocktail recipes
Jerry Thomas, the father of American mixology, shares 10 cocktail recipes in his bartenders’ guide, “How to Mix Drinks; or, The Bon Vivant’s Companion.”

1917
Cocktail parties bring in the fun
In Missouri, Clara Bell Walsh (or Mrs. Julius Walsh) invites 50 friends to her house on Sunday at high noon and coins it as a ‘cocktail party.’

National Cocktail Day FAQs
Is there a National Drink Day?[/b]
While there is not a single National Drink Day, there are many holidays celebrating drinks. Some examples are National Drink Beer Day, National Rum Day, National Wine Day, National Irish Coffee Day, National Vodka Day, and National Cocktail Day, among many others.

What is the most popular cocktail in the U.S.?
The most popular cocktail in the U.S. is the Margarita. It ranks top in Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Tampa. However, in Chicago, the Old Fashioned tops the list. The Margarita is most popular in the afternoon and evening.

Does the U.S. have a national cocktail?
While the U.S. does not have a national cocktail as Canada does, it has a national spirit. Bourbon whiskey was proclaimed the U.S. National Spirit by an act of Congress in 1964.

National Cocktail Day Activities

Make a cocktail
On National Cocktail Day, you can create your cocktail from any of the hundreds of recipes available online. Even better, you can test your creativity by coming up with your very own cocktail recipe.

Throw a cocktail party
Gather some of your closest friends and throw the most fabulous cocktail party. Cocktail parties are notoriously great for feel-good times with friends.

Appreciate a bartender
We can’t all be master mixologists. On National Cocktail Day, take the time to appreciate your favorite bartender. You could write them a thoughtful note, get them a nice gift, or leave them an extra big tip.

5 Crazy Facts About Cocktails

Ernest Hemingway had a recipe
Hemingway invented his cocktail called ‘Absinthe and Champagne’ or ‘Death in The Afternoon.’

There’s one with a toe
The Sourtoe Cocktail, which can be found in Yukon, Canada, reputably has a real human toe in it.

Stirred, not shaken
Martini cocktails are traditionally stirred, not shaken, despite how James Bond likes to take his.

Drink a cocktail, get some Chinese wisdom
Cocktail umbrellas traditionally contain hidden scrolls of Chinese newspapers, which you can read like fortune cookies.

A drug or a drink?
Some cocktails can help heal or ease certain diseases, like the Atomic Cocktail, which can cure minor fevers, headaches, and depression.

Why We Love National Cocktail Day

We love the tasty buzz
Alcohol is notoriously bitter, but cocktails break the mold. You can have all kinds of fruity wonderfulness when you get your buzz on with a cocktail. Cocktails make you feel good with drinks that taste good.

It lets us get our party on
On National Cocktail Day, every hour is cocktail hour (don’t tell the boss). National Cocktail Day is all about having good times with wonderful people. When you have a cocktail in your hand, you can let your hair down and truly have fun.

Variety is the spice of life
One of the greatest things about cocktails is that there are so many choices. Although the International Bartender Association only recognizes 77 cocktails, there are at least 300 different cocktail recipes in the world. With cocktails, there are so many options to choose from and you can enjoy the true joy of variety in life.

RichardTheBruce

March 25th

1956: Raymond Chandler reviews the fourth Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever in The Sunday Times.

Originally shared on another forum by @Revelator.

BONDED GOODS

(March 25 1956) The Sunday Times
By RAYMOND CHANDLER

Some three years ago Mr. Ian Fleming produced a thriller which was about as tough an item as ever came out of England in the way of thriller-writing, on any respectable literary level. “Casino Royale” contained a superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, and of course a beautiful girl. His second “Live and Let Die,” was memorable in that he entered the American scene with perfect poise, did a brutal sketch of Harlem, and another of St. Petersburg, Florida. His third, “Moonraker,” was, by comparison with the first two explosions, merely a spasm. We now have his fourth book, “Diamonds are Forever,” which has the preliminary distinction of a sweet title, and of being about the nicest piece of book-making in this type of literature which I have seen for a long time.

“Diamonds are Forever” concerns, nominally, the smashing of an international diamond smuggling ring. But actually, apart from the charms and faults I am going to mention, it is just another American gangster story, and not a very original one at that. In Chapter I Mr. Fleming very nearly becomes atmospheric, and with Mr. James Bond as your protagonist, a character about as atmospheric as a dinosaur, it just doesn’t pay off. In Chapter II we learn quite a few facts about diamonds, and we then get a fairly detailed description of Saratoga and its sins, and a gang execution which is as nasty as any I have read.

Later there is a more detailed, more fantastic, more appalling description of Las Vegas and its daily life. To a Californian, Las Vegas is a cliché. You don’t make fantastic, because it was designed that way, and it is funny rather than terrifying. From then on there is some very fast and dangerous action; and of course Mr. Bond finally has his way with the beautiful girl. Sadly enough his beautiful girls have no future, because it is the curse of the “series character” that he always has to go back to where he began.

Mr. Fleming writes a journalistic style, neat, clean, spare and never pretentious. He writes of brutal things, and as though he liked them. The trouble with brutality in writing is that it has to grow out of something. The best hardboiled writers never try to be tough, they allow toughness to happen when it seems inevitable for its time, place and conditions.

I don’t think “Diamonds are Forever” measures up to either “Casino Royale” or “Live and Let Die.” Frankly, I think there is a certain amount of padding in it, and there are pages in which James Bond thinks. I don’t like James Bond thinking. His thoughts are superfluous. I like him when he is in the dangerous card game; I like him when he is exposing himself unarmed to half a dozen thin-lipped processional killers, and neatly dumping them into a heap of fractured bones; I like him when he finally takes the beautiful girl in his arms, and teaches her about one-tenth of the facts of life she knew already.

I have left the remarkable thing about this book to the last. And that is that it is written by an Englishman, The scene is almost entirely American, and it rings true to an American. I am unaware of any other writer who has accomplished this. But let me plead with Mr. Fleming not to allow himself to become a stunt writer, or he will end up no better than the rest of us.

1964: Reuters circulates a feature on the upcoming Bond film Goldfinger.

Sean Connery & Honor Blackman Making of Goldfinger

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5xqygg
BridgetDeborah38706722
Goldfinger 1964. Guy Hamilton film.

REUTERS (25 March 1964) - Honor Blackman meets Sean Connery: She is to be the leading lady in the new James Bond Film Goldfinger.

Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) meets Sean Connery (James Bond) during a press conference
at Pinewood Studios for the third Bond film, Goldfinger - UK - 25 March 1964[/img]

1967: BBC 1 airs a feature called Bond Wants a Woman They Said... But Three Would Be Better!

James Bond | The changing world of 007

Whicker's World | Bond Wants a
Woman They Said... But Three Would
Be Better!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whickers-world--bond-wants-a-woman-they-said-but-three-would-be-better/z6d9scw
From Pinewood to Japan on the trail of 'You Only Live Twice'.

CHANNEL | BBC 1
FIRST BROADCAST | 25 March 1967
DURATION | 53 minutes 23 seconds

Synopsis

Alan Whicker bounces around the set of You Only Live Twice (1967) in this edition of 'Whicker's World', which takes him not only to Pinewood Studios but also to the film's exotic Japanese locations. Whicker interviews producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, chats to screenwriter Roald Dahl, learns the secrets of a successful Bond girl and experiences at first hand the sometimes bruising 'Bondomania' that attends the star, Sean Connery, wherever he happens to be.

Did you know?

You Only Live Twice, which took $111m at the box office in worldwide sales, was the fifth film in the Bond franchise and the last to star Sean Connery before he announced his retirement from the role, although he later returned in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and 'unofficial' Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983).

Contributors
Alan Whicker - Presenter
Ken Adam - Contributor
Cubby Broccoli - Contributor
Diane Cilento - Contributor
Sean Connery - Contributor
Roald Dahl - Contributor
Lewis Gilbert - Contributor
Harry Saltzman - Contributor
Fred Burnley - Producer

2002: BOND 20 films Gustav Graves chasing Bond with the wrath of Icarus.
2008: An auction of typist Jean Frampton's letters and notes draws comparisons to the fictional Miss Moneypenny.

Revealed: The letters that
show how Ian Fleming called
on his REAL Miss
Moneypenny to bring James
Bond up to scratch

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-544888/Revealed-The-letters-Ian-Fleming-called-REAL-Miss-Moneypenny-bring-James-Bond-scratch.html
by LUKE SALKELD | 25 March 2008

In the Bond movies, Miss Moneypenny's role was mainly confined to witty and flirtatious exchanges with 007.

But for the secret agent's creator Ian Fleming, the input of his secretary was significantly more important.

Jean Frampton

Letters sent by the writer to the woman charged with typing up the manuscripts of his James Bond novels reveal that he was not averse to taking her advice.

Indeed, typist Jean Frampton's notes and suggestions concerning the storylines were encouraged by the author who urged her to use her "quick eye and mind" on his text.

In one letter to Mrs Frampton, written on paper headed with his London address on March 31, 1960, Fleming wrote: "I have written a full-length James Bond story, provisionally called Thunderball.

It continues: "I am afraid this is not a good typescript and I would be deeply obliged if you would apply your usual keen mind to any points - absolutely any - that might help the book get into shape."

He adds: "I only ask you to undertake it because your occasional comments on the work you have done for me have been so helpful.

"Anything that your quick eye and mind falls upon, however critical and in whatever aspect of the writing, would be endlessly welcome.

"I am sorry to have to pass on to you a rather half-baked job."

The letter forms part of a collection due to go under the hammer at an auction next month.

In another, Mrs Frampton wrote of her concerns over the ending of the book Fleming had mentioned.

She tells a colleague: "I still regret the end of Thunderball, as my naive and literal mind would like to know what exactly happened to the Disco [a boat] and the rest of her crew and the bombs, how Domino escaped, and of course, what about Blofeld (or does he live to fight another day?)"

Also included in the sale is Mrs Frampton's bill for typing and subediting the Thunderball novel. It comes to a total of £8.12.6d.

Other letters from Mrs Frampton, who lived in Christchurch, Dorset, and is believed to never have met the famous author, who spent much of his time in Jamaica, refer to the other books including The Man With The Golden Gun, You Only Live Twice and A View to a Kill [incorrect statement].

The sale at Duke's auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, takes places on April 10, and the lot has an estimate of between £2,000 and £3,000.

Amy Brenan, from Duke's, said: "We have definitely chosen the right time to sell the collection as it corresponds with the release of the new James Bond book by Sebastian Faulks and it is 100 years since Fleming's birth.

"Already we've had a lot of interest in the correspondence.

"You can look on Mrs Frampton as Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny because he really does seem to rely on her.

"She was the first person to read the books and the collection is interesting because it details how the James Bond books were put together in the early 1960s.

"James Bond is known around the world and these documents relate to a time when he was just being created."

From the 1960s to the 1980s Lois Maxwell played the role of Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.

Her quips to Bond included: "Flattery will get you nowhere, but don't stop trying."

Caroline Bliss and Samantha Bond have also taken on the role.

2012: Skyfall filming at Surrey, England (as "Scotland"), comes to an explosive end.

2019: No Time To Die second unit films in Nittedal, Norway.

2022: New James Bond competition TV series 007's Road to a Million announced for Prime Video.

New James Bond Competition TV Series Announced
For Prime Video

See the complete article here:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-james-bond-competition-tv-series-announced-for-prime-video/1100-6501919/

The new show is called 007's Road to a Million, and it will see contestants visit famous Bond locations and take part in challenges to win a cash prize.
By Eddie Makuch on March 25, 2022 at 10:51AM PDT

Amazon's $8.45 billion deal to acquire James Bond studio MGM has been completed, and now it's come to light that the retail and entertainment giant is making a 007 TV show. It's not a drama based on the superspy, but instead a competition TV series inspired by the character and his journey.

According to Variety, the show, 007's Road to a Million, is a "Bond-style spin on a race around the world." The eight-episode series is being produced by 72 Films, with series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson attached alongside MGM Television.

The report that this new TV series pre-dates Amazon's deal to buy MGM and has been in the works for four years already. It's separate from any potential new 007 content that might come out of Amazon's takeover of MGM, according to the report.

The show itself will feature contestants taking part in a "global adventure" to earn a prize of £1 million ($1.3 million) in cash. Participants will visit Bond locations from across the film series and take part in physical feats and answer trivia questions about the 007 series to advance. Filming is set to begin this year, the report said, and the show will air in 240 countries and territories worldwide on Prime Video.

The latest James Bond movie was No Time To Die, which was the fifth and final entry in the series featuring Daniel Craig in the title role. The search for a new person to play James Bond is now underway and Broccoli has said the next person to play the role with likely be a British man of any ethnicity or race.

In buying MGM, Amazon gains access to a library of more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV episodes. Outside of James Bond, MGM holds the video game movie rights for Tomb Raider. Some of MGM's other film franchises include Robocop, Rocky, Silence of the Lambs, The Pink Panther, Thelma & Louise, Legally Blonde, and Poltergeist. In terms of TV properties, MGM's catalog includes The Handmaid's Tale, Fargo, and Vikings.

MGM is Amazon's second-largest buyout ever, following its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017.

In other Prime news, Amazon is developing a Fallout TV series with the creators of Westworld, as well as series based on Life is Strange and Disco Elysium. Amazon makes video games, too, with its latest big hits being the MMOs New World and Lost Ark.

007: Road To A Million | Official Trailer | Prime Video (1:50)

2025: Amazon MGM Studios announced that producers Amy Pascal (best known for her work on the Spider-Man franchise) and David Heyman (who produced all eight Harry Potter films) have come aboard to produce the studio’s upcoming James Bond film.

RichardTheBruce

March 26th

1956: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian's Fleming's fourth Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever.
Pat Marriott, cover design.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 10 - Jamaican attraction

[Arthur] Gore had been alerted by Lord Lambton to a passage in
Diamonds Are Forever which ran, “Kidd’s a pretty boy. His friends call him
‘Boofy’. Probably shacks up with Wint. Some of these homos make the
worst killers. Kidd’s got white hair though he’s only thirty. That’s why he
works in a hood.” Ian had done his usual trick of assigning the names of
friends and acquaintances to his characters. But Kidd was a particularly
unpleasant character. Gore railed against Ann: Ian was his best friend,
how could she have allowed him to do this? Ann replied that she was
only married to Ian: she had neither written nor even read the book in
question. Still fuming, Gore contacted Ann’s sister, Laura, who telephoned
Ann, by then out at church for Easter Sunday matins. Fionn fielded her
aunt’s abuse: “Your mother may like pansies but other people don’t. Don’t’
forget Boofy has a million friends and Ian has none.”

The book was received favourably when it was published on 26 March
The Beaverbrook connection continued to work in his favour: “The
author has proved his staying power,” enthused George Malcom Thomson
In the Evening Standard. (Thomson was the reviewer whom Ian had told
Beaverbrook he would like to have at the Sunday Times.) In The Tablet,
Anthony Lejeune heralded an “adult and entertaining thriller”. But the
Notice which meant most to Ian appeared in his own newspaper and was
written by Raymond Chandler. Leonard Russell, the Sunday Times literary
editor, had seized the opportunity to ask Chandler to write apparently his
first-ever book review. Russell cut out a couple sarcastic opening sen-
tences in which Chandler, still smarting from the previous year’s luncheon
party, poked fun at Ian’s pampered existence at Victoria Square. The Tone of
the rest of the review was quizzical and ambivalent. Adopting one of
Ian’s own lines, Chandler criticized the author for trying to make his
descriptions of Las Vegas more fantastic than the real thing. He questioned
if there was any point in presenting Bond as a thinking person. As far as
Chandler was concerned, any cerebral activity from Bond was superfluous.
He preferred 007 when he was “exposing himself unarmed to half a dozen
thin-lipped killers, and neatly dumping them into a heap of fractured
bones.”

Whether this was quite what Ian wanted to hear, he was flattered at the
literary attentions of the great man. He thanked Chandler profusely for
the review and again asked him to lunch. The invitation was declined,
but a lively correspondence ensued. Chandler’s message was blunt: Ian
needed to make up his mind what kind of writer he was; he had great
potential, but on the evidence so far it was only clear that he was a bit of
a sadist. These criticisms touched a raw nerve in Ian.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

James Bond surveyed the glittering
diamonds that lay scattered across the red
leather surface of M’s desk and wondered
what it was all about.

The quiet grey eyes watched him
thoughtfully.

Then M took the pipe out of his mouth
and dryly gave Bond details of the assign-
ment of which even M was afraid. And
Bond walked out of the Headquarters of
the Secret Service and into his greatest
adventure.

Greater than Casino Royale? More
terrible than Live and Let Die? More
hazardous than Moonraker?

Yes

Ian Fleming is in his forties. He was educated at Eton, where
he was Victor Ludorum two years in succession, a distinction
only once equalled. He went on to Sandhurst and then entered
Reuters and served in London, Berlin and Moscow. He was a
special correspondent of The Times in Moscow in the spring of
1939, joined the Naval Intelligence Division in June and served
throughout the war as Personal Assistant to the D.N.I. with the
rank of Commander in the Special Branch of the R.N.V.R.
Since the war he has organized the foreign service of the Sunday
Times and Kemsley Newspapers, of which he is Foreign Manager.
He is married and has one son.

1959: Raymond Thornton Chandler dies at age 70--La Jolla, California.
(Born 23 July 1888--Chicago, Illinois.)

The Only Surviving Recording of
Raymond Chandler’s Voice, in a BBC
Conversation with Ian Fleming

“You starve to death for ten years before your publisher knows you’re any good.”

By Maria Popova

Raymond Chandler (July 23, 1888–March 26, 1959) endures as one of the most celebrated novelists and screenwriters in literary history, an oracle of insight on the written word, a lovable grump dispensing delightfully curmudgeonly advice on editorial manners, and a hopeless cat-lover. In July of 1958, to mark the publication of Chandler’s last book, Playback, BBC brought Chandler and Ian Fleming together on the air. Fleming and the BBC broadcaster producing the program picked up Chandler at 11 A.M. on the day of the interview and even though they “found his voice slurred with whisky,” the broadcast went quite well. Seven months later, Chandler died. This discussion, which covers heroes and villains — Fleming’s James Bond and Chandler’s Philip Marlowe — and the relationship between author and character, is believed to be the only surviving recording of the author’s voice. Transcribed highlights below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6cc0T1z7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxJJo79e00o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sS2DBBrOY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9i00flBWuQ

Chandler on the doggedness literary success (or any creative success) requires:

"How long did it take me [to become a successful writer]?
You starve to death for ten years before your publisher
knows you’re any good."

Fleming on villains:

"I find it … extremely difficult to write about villains, villains
I find extremely difficult people to put my finger on. … The
really good, solid villain is a very difficult person to build
up, I think."

Fleming and Chandler on heroes:

"Your hero, Philip Marlowe, is a real hero — he behaves in a
heroic fashion. My leading character, James Bond, I never
intended to be a hero — I intended him to be a sort of
blank instrument wielded by a government department,
who would get into bizarre, fantastic situations and more
or less shoot his way out of them, get out of them one way
or another."

Chandler on James Bond and how he differs from Marlowe:

"A man with his job can’t afford to feel tender emotions —
he feels them but he has to quell them."

Fleming, responding to Chandler’s amazement at how he can write so many James Bond books in addition to his intense editorial commitments, offers a glimpse of his creative routine and a testament to the value of discipline:

"I have two months off in Jamaica every year, in my contract
with the Sunday Times, and I sit down and a write a book
every year during those two months."

Chandler on the difference between the British and the American thriller:

"The American thriller is much faster paced."

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

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Filmography

Writer (39 credits)

Marlowe (character) (announced)
Trouble Is My Business (book) (abandoned)
2014 The Long Goodbye (TV Mini-Series) (based on the novel by - 5 episodes)
- Episode #1.5 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.4 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.3 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.2 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.1 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
2007 Marlowe (TV Movie) (characters)
2003 Smart Philip (character)

1998 Poodle Springs (TV Movie) (book)
1996 Once You Meet a Stranger (TV Movie) (screenplay "Stranger on a Train") / (teleplay)
Fallen Angels (TV Series) (based on a story by - 1 episode, 1995) (based on a short story by - 1 episode, 1993)
- Red Wind (1995) ... (based on a story by)
- I'll Be Waiting (1993) ... (based on a short story by)

1987 Morning Patrol (excerpt)
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) (novels - 10 episodes, 1983 - 1986) (story - 1 episode, 1986)
- Red Wind (1986) ... (novels)
- Trouble Is My Business (1986) ... (novels)
- Guns at Cyrano's (1986) ... (novels)
- Pickup on Noon Street (1986) ... (novels)
- Spanish Blood (1986) ... (novels)
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot (1986) ... (story)
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... (novels)
- Nevada Gas (1983) ... (novels)
- Finger Man (1983) ... (novels)
- The King in Yellow (1983) ... (novels)
- The Pencil (1983) ... (novels)
1982 Ich werde warten (TV Movie) (novel)

1978 Aspetterò (TV Movie) (based on a short story by)
1978 The Big Sleep (novel)
1975 Farewell, My Lovely (novel)
1973 Double Indemnity (TV Movie) (1944 screenplay)
1973 The Long Goodbye (novel "The Long Goodbye")

1969 Marlowe (novel "The Little Sister")
1961 Storyboard (TV Series) (short story - 1 episode)
- I'll Be Waiting (1961) ... (short story)
Philip Marlowe (TV Series) (character - 24 episodes, 1959 - 1960) (creator - 2 episodes, 1959 - 1960)
- You Kill Me (1960) ... (character)
- Last Call for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- Murder Is Dead Wrong (1960) ... (character)
- Murder Is a Grave Affair (1960) ... (creator)
- Murder by the Book (1960) ... (character)
- Murder in the Stars (1960) ... (character)
- Time to Kill (1960) ... (character)
- Gem of a Murder (1960) ... (character)
- One Ring for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- Death Takes a Lover (1960) ... (character)
- Poor Lilli, Sweet Lilli (1960) ... (character)
- A Standard for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- The Scarlet A (1960) ... (character)
- Ricochet (1959) ... (character)
- The Hunger (1959) ... (character)
- Mother Dear (1959) ... (character)
- Hit and Run (1959) ... (character)
- The Mogul (1959) ... (character)
- Temple of Love (1959) ... (character)
- Bum Wrap (1959) ... (character)
- Child of Virtue (1959) ... (character)
- Mama's Boy (1959) ... (character)
- Death in the Family (1959) ... (character)
- Buddy Boy (1959) ... (character)
- Prescription for Murder (1959) ... (character)
- The Ugly Duckling (1959) ... (creator)

1958 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (screenplay "Strangers on a Train" - 1 episode)
- One False Step (1958) ... (screenplay "Strangers on a Train")
1957 TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Pacto Sinistro (1957)
1957 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Tower Room 14-A (1957) ... (story)
Climax! (TV Series) (story - 1 episode, 1954) (novel - 1 episode, 1954)
- The White Carnation (1954) ... (story)
- The Long Goodbye (1954) ... (novel)
1954 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (previous screenplay - 1 episode)
- Double Indemnity (1954) ... (previous screenplay)
1951-1953 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes)
- The King in Yellow (1953) ... (story)
- The King in Yellow (1951) ... (story)
1951 Strangers on a Train (screen play)
1951 Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Pearls Are a Nuisance (1951) ... (story)
1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) (novel - 1 episode)
- The Big Sleep (1950) ... (novel)

1949 The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Little Sister (1949) ... (story)
1947 The Brasher Doubloon (novel "The High Window")
1946 Lady in the Lake (novel)
1946 The Big Sleep (short story "Killer in the Rain")
1946 The Blue Dahlia (written by)
1945 The Unseen (screen play)
1944 Murder, My Sweet (novel)
1944 And Now Tomorrow (screen play)
1944 Double Indemnity (screenplay)
1942 Time to Kill (novel "The High Window")
1942 The Falcon Takes Over (novel "Farewell, My Lovely")

Actor (1 credit)

1944 Double Indemnity - Man Reading Magazine Outside Keyes' Office (uncredited)

1962: Dr. No films OO7 and Honey with Dr. No in the reactor room.
1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eleventh Bond novel You Only Live Twice.
The last published in his life. Richard Chopping cover.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into
eternity the girl whom James Bond had
married only hours before, the heart, the
zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly,
from being a top agent of the Secret
Service, he had gone to pieces, was even
on the verge of becoming a security risk.
M is persuaded to give him one last
chance -- an impossible mission far re-
moved from his usual duties -- and Bond
leaves for Japan.

There, coming under the orders of the
formidable 'Tiger' Tanaka, Head of the
Japanese Secret Service, the Koan-Chosa-
Kyoku, he is indeed subjected to the
shock treatment his condition demanded.

Shock treatment? The reader will also
be subjected to it in full measure in this,
perhaps the most bizarre and doom-
fraught of all James Bond's adventures.

1973: Sir Noël Peirce Coward dies at age 73--Blue Harbour, Jamaica.
(Born 16 December 1899--Middlesex, England.)

Noel Coward

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Sir Noel Coward

Birth name: Noël Peirce Coward
Date of birth: 16 December 1899
Birth location: Flag of United Kingdom Middlesex, England
Date of death: 26 March 1973 (aged 73)
Death location: Flag of Jamaica Blue Harbour, Jamaica
Academy Awards: Academy Honorary Award, 1943 In Which We Serve

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an Academy Award winning English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. As well as more than 50 published plays and many albums of original songs, Coward wrote comic revues, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance (1960) and three volumes of autobiography. Books of his song lyrics, diaries, and letters have also been published.

Contents

1 Biography
1.1 Early Life
1.2 Success
1.3 World War II
1.4 Later works
2 Legacy
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
6 Credits

Biography
During World War II he entertained the troops but also engaged in intelligence work for the British government, for which he almost received a knighthood. In 1970—three years before his death, he finally did. His work, though often comical, has a serious streak running beneath the surface as he explores such themes as friendship, patriotism, duty and a rapidly changing world that dashed people's hopes one moment, then held out unexpected possibilities the next. His works were in tune with the aspirations especially of the generation that lived through two world wars, and feared a third.

Noel Coward in 1914

Early Life
Coward was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Arthur Sabin Coward, a clerk, and his wife Violet Agnes, daughter of Henry Gordon Veitch, captain and surveyor in the Royal Navy. He was the second of their three sons, the eldest of whom had died in 1898 at the age of six years old. He began performing in the West End at an young age. He was a childhood friend of Hermione Gingold, whose mother warned her against Coward.

A student at the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Coward’s first professional engagement was in the children’s play The Goldfish on January 27, 1911. After this appearance, he was sought after for children’s roles by several other professional theaters.

When he was 14 years old, he met Philip Streatfeild, a society painter who took him in and introduced him to high society through Mrs. Astley Cooper. She gathered a salon of artists and invited him to live on her property at Hambleton, Rutland, but on the farm rather than in the Hall, due to his lower social class.[1] Streatfeild died from tuberculosis in 1915.

He played in several productions with the actor Sir Charles Hawtrey, a Victorian comedian, whom he idolized and to whom Coward virtually apprenticed himself until he was 20 years old. It was from Hawtrey that Coward learned comic acting technique and playwriting. He was drafted briefly into the British Army during World War I but was discharged due to ill health. Coward appeared in the D. W. Griffith film Hearts of the World (1918) in an uncredited role. He found his voice and began writing plays that he and his friends could star in while at the same time writing revues.

Success
He starred in one of his first full-length plays, the inheritance comedy I'll Leave It To You, in 1920. The following year he completed a one-act satire, The Better Half, about a man's relationship with two women, and it enjoyed a short run at the Little Theatre in London in 1922. The play was thought to be lost until a typescript was rediscovered in 2007 in the archive of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, which at that time licensed all plays for performance in the United Kingdom, and imposed cuts or complete bans.[2]

After he enjoyed some moderate success with the George Bernard Shaw-esque play The Young Idea in 1923. The controversy surrounding his play The Vortex (1924), which contains many veiled references to drug abuse and homosexuality, made him an overnight sensation on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Coward followed this with three more major hits, Hay Fever, Fallen Angels (both 1925) and Easy Virtue (1926).

Much of Coward's best work came in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Enormous productions, such as the full-length operetta Bitter Sweet (1929) and Cavalcade (1931), a huge extravaganza requiring a very large cast, gargantuan sets and an exceedingly complex hydraulic stage, were interspersed with finely-wrought comedies such as Private Lives (1930), in which Coward himself starred alongside his most famous stage partner, Gertrude Lawrence; and the black comedy Design for Living (1932), written for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Coward again partnered Lawrence in Tonight at 8:30 (1936), an ambitious cycle of ten short plays that were randomly "shuffled" to make up a different playbill of three plays each night. One of these plays, Still Life, was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter. He was also a prolific writer of popular songs, and a lucrative recording contract with HMV allowed him to release a number of recordings, many now reissued on Compact Disc.

World War II
When England came into World War II in 1939 Coward was working harder than he had before. When the war started he had recently left Paris. He took some time off from writing to perform for the troops, but after a stint at this, coward was eager to return. Alongside his highly-publicized tours entertaining Allied troops, he was also engaged by the British Secret Service MI5 in intelligence work. He was often frustrated by the criticism he faced for his ostensibly glamorous lifestyle, apparently living the high life while his countrymen suffered – especially his trips to America to sway opinion formers there.[3] He was unable, however, to defend himself by revealing his association with the Secret Service.

King George VI, a personal friend, encouraged the government to award Coward a knighthood for his efforts in 1942. This was blocked by Winston Churchill, who disapproved of Coward's flamboyant lifestyle.[4] Churchill advised giving the official reason as being Coward's fine of 200 British pounds for currency offenses (he had spent 11,000 pounds on a trip to America).

Had the Germans invaded Britain, Coward would have been arrested and liquidated as his name was in the The Black Book, along with other public figures such as H. G. Wells, targeted for his socialist views. Some have argued that this attention may have been due to homosexual preferences, but recent documents have surfaced showing Coward to have been a covert operative in the Secret Service.

Coward was active in the war effort as a lyricist for some extraordinarily popular songs during the war, the most famous of which are London Pride and Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans. He complained to Churchill, his frequent painting companion, that he felt he was not doing enough to support the war effort. Reportedly, Churchill suggested he make a movie based on the career of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten. The result was a naval film drama, In Which We Serve, which Coward wrote, starred in, composed the music for and co-directed, with David Lean. The film was immensely popular on both sides of the Atlantic and Coward was awarded an honorary Oscar by the American film industry.

In the 1940s, Coward wrote some of his best plays. The social commentary of This Happy Breed and the intricate semi-autobiographical comedy-drama Present Laughter (both 1939) were later combined with the hugely successful black comedy Blithe Spirit (1941) to form a West End triple-bill, which starred Coward in all three simultaneous productions. Blithe Spirit went on to make box-office records for a West End comedy that were not beaten until the 1970s, and was made into a film directed by David Lean.

Later works
Coward's popularity as a playwright declined sharply in the 1950s, with plays such as Quadrille, Relative Values, Nude with Violin and South Sea Bubble all failing to find much favor with critics or audiences. Despite this decline, he maintained a high public profile, continuing to write (and occasionally star in) moderately successful West End plays and musicals, performing an acclaimed solo cabaret act in Las Vegas, Nevada, and starring in films such as Bunny Lake is Missing, Around the World in 80 Days, Our Man in Havana, Boom!, and The Italian Job.

After starring in a number of American television specials in the late 1950s alongside Mary Martin, Coward left the UK for tax reasons. He first settled in Bermuda but later moved to Jamaica, where he remained for the rest of his life. His play Waiting in the Wings (1960), set in a rest home for retired actors, marked a turning-point in his popularity, gaining plaudits from critics, who likened it to the work of Anton Chekhov. Following that success, his earlier work realized a revival in the late 1960s, with several new productions of his 1920s plays and a number of revues celebrating his music. Coward dubbed this comeback "Dad's Renaissance."

Coward's final stage work was Suite in Three Keys (1966), a trilogy set in a hotel penthouse suite, with him taking the lead roles in all three. The trilogy gained excellent reviews and did good box office business in the Great Britain. Coward intended to star in Suite in Three Keys on Broadway but was unable to travel due to age and illness. Only two of the plays were performed in New York, with the title changed to Noel Coward in Two Keys and the lead taken by Hume Cronyn.

By now suffering from advanced arthritis and bouts of memory loss, which affected his work on The Italian Job, Coward retired from the theater. He was finally knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in March, 1973 of heart failure at 73 years old. He was buried three days later on the brow of Firefly Hill, Jamaica, overlooking the north coast of the island. On March 28, 1984 a memorial stone was unveiled by the Queen Mother in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey.

Legacy
Noel Coward never married, but he maintained close personal friendships with many women. These included actress and author Esmé Wynne-Tyson, his first collaborator and constant correspondent; the designer and lifelong friend Gladys Calthrop; secretary and close confidante Lorn Loraine; his muse, the gifted musical actress Gertrude Lawrence; actress Joyce Carey; compatriot of his middle period, the light comedy actress Judy Campbell; and (in the words of Cole Lesley) 'his loyal and lifelong amitié amoureuse, film star Marlene Dietrich.

He was also a valued friend of Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He was a close friend of Ivor Novello and Winston Churchill.

He was the president of The Actors' Orphanage, supported by the theatrical industry. In that capacity he met the young Peter Collinson, who was in the care of the orphanage, becoming Collinson's godfather and helping him get started in show business. When Collinson was named as director of the The Italian Job he invited Coward to play a role in the film.

Coward was a neighbor of James Bond's creator Ian Fleming and his wife Anne in Jamaica, the former Lady Rothermere. Though he was very fond of both of them, the Flemings' marriage was not a happy one, and Coward reportedly tired of their constant bickering, as recorded in his diaries. When the first film adaptation of a James Bond novel, Dr. No was being produced, Coward was approached for the role of the villain. He is said to have responded, "Doctor No? No. No. No."

The Papers of Noel Coward are held in the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

Notes

↑ The Noel Coward Story Culturevulture.net. Retrieved December 20, 2007.
↑ "Coward's long-lost satire was almost too 'daring' about women", Guardian News and Media Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.
↑ Winston Churchill vetoed Coward knighthood, Telegraph Media Group Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.
↑ Winston Churchill vetoed Coward knighthood, Telegraph Media Group Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.

References

Coward, Noel. Present Indicative. London: Heinemann, 1974. ISBN 9780434147236
Coward, Noel. Future Indefinite. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1980. ISBN 9780306801266
Coward, Noel. Middle East Diary. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1944. OCLC 387771
Coward, Noel, Graham Payn, and Sheridan Morley. The Noël Coward Diaries. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. ISBN 9780316695503
Lesley, Cole. Remembered Laughter The Life of Noel Coward. New York: Knopf, 1976. ISBN 9780394498164
Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse A Biography of Noël Coward. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. ISBN 9780316583718

Noël Coward (1899–1973)

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Filmography

Writer (139 credits)

2020 Blithe Spirit (based on the play by) (post-production)

2019 Present Laughter
2017 Present Laughter
2013 Noël Coward's Private Lives (by)
2013 Burton and Taylor (TV Movie) (extracts from the play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
2011 In Love With... (TV Series)
2011 Brief Encounter (Short) (as Noel Coward)

2008 Easy Virtue (play - as Noel Coward)
2003 Privatni zivoti (TV Movie) (novel "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
2000 Relative Values (play - as Noel Coward)

1991 Angeli caduti (TV Movie) (play)
1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV Series) (writer - 8 episodes)

1988 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) (excerpts from 'TONIGHT AT 8.30' and 'We Were Dancing' by - 1 episode)
- Rumpole and Portia (1988) ... (excerpts from 'TONIGHT AT 8.30' and 'We Were Dancing' by - as Noel Coward)
1987 Sidste akt (play - as Noel Coward)
1986 Földi kacaj (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1986 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality: Bon Voyage (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Me and the Girls (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 What Mad Pursuit? (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Mrs. Capper's Birthday (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1984 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1984 Hayfever (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever")
1983 La comedia (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Fácil virtud (1983) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
Estudio 1 (TV Series) (play "Fallen Angels" - 1 episode, 1982) (play - 1 episode, 1980) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1970) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1968)
- Ángeles caídos (1982) ... (play "Fallen Angels" - as Noel Coward)
- Desnudo con violín (1980) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Un espíritu burlón (1970) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
- La encantadora familia Bliss (1968) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1981 - 1982) (writer - 1 episode, 1982)
- A Song at Twilight (1982) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Come Into the Garden, Maud (1982) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe (1981) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1981 Present Laughter (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1980 Intimitäten (TV Movie)
BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1969 - 1979) (writer - 1 episode, 1968)
- Design for Living (1979) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- The Marquise (1969) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Hay Fever (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)

1978 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play)
1977 Die Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1976 Private Lives (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
Au théâtre ce soir (TV Series) (play - 3 episodes, 1973 - 1975) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1976)
- Week-end (1976) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
- Le nu au tambour (1975) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Jeux d'esprit (1974) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Félicity (1973) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1976 Camera Three (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Mad About The Boy: Noel Coward: A Celebration (1976) ... (written by)
1974 Brief Encounter (TV Movie) (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward)
1974 Fallen Angels (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1973 Play for Today (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Song at Twilight (1973) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
Alta comedia (TV Series) (1 episode, 1970) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1972)
- Espíritu travieso (1972) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
- El cumpleaños de la señora Capper (1970) ... (as Noel Coward)
1972 Joyeux chagrins (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1972 Amouren (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1971 Teatro 13 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Vidas privadas (1971) ... (as Noel Coward)
1971 Temni hrast (TV Movie) (novel - as Noel Coward)

1969 This Happy Breed (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1969 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (short play - as Noel Coward)
1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
- The Vortex (1969) ... (as Noel Coward) / (by - as Noel Coward)
1969 Duett im Zwielicht (TV Movie) (play "A Song at Twilight" - as Noel Coward)
1968 Kratak susret (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes, 1968) (story - 1 episode, 1968)
- The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Bon Voyage (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Star Quality (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
1968 Interlude (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward)
1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Post Mortem (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1968 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1968 Vaimoni kummittelee (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode, 1968) (writer - 1 episode, 1966)
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
- Pretty Polly (1966) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Episode #2.6 (1967) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... (as Noel Coward)
1967 A Matter of Innocence (story "Pretty Polly Barlow" - as Noel Coward)
1967 Brian Rix Presents ... (TV Series) (play "Look After Lulu!" - 1 episode)
- Look After Lulu (1967) ... (play "Look After Lulu!")
1967 Acting in the Sixties (TV Series documentary) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode)
- Maggie Smith (1967) ... (play "Hay Fever")
ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode, 1964) (play - 4 episodes, 1959 - 1964) (writer - 2 episodes, 1960 - 1964) (author - 1 episode, 1967)
- Present Laughter (1967) ... (author - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #3: The Vortex (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #2: Blithe Spirit (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward) / (writer - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #1: Present Laughter (1964) ... (as Noel Coward)
1966 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Wechselkurs der Liebe (TV Movie) (play "Relative Values" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Oh, diese Geister (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Falne engler (TV Movie) (based on play - as Noel Coward)
1965 Südsee-Affaire (TV Movie) (play "The South Sea Bubble" - as Noel Coward)
1965 Present Laughter (TV Movie) (play)
1965 Høyfeber (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1965 Geisterkomödie - Eine unwahrscheinliche Komödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1964 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1964 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Viisas tohvelisankari (1964) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1964 Amouren (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1964 Markisinnan (TV Movie) (play "The Marquise" - as Noel Coward)
1963 Möblemang i ek (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1963 Festival (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Fallen Angels (1963) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1960-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes)
- This Happy Breed (1962) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex (1960) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1962 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Das Maß ist voll (TV Short) (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Minkä minulle voitte (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1961 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Brief Encounter (1961) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Spirito allegro (TV Movie) (play)
1960 TV de comédia (TV Series) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode)
- A Mulher do Outro Mundo (1960) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1960 Art Carney Special (TV Series) (play Red Peppers - 1 episode)
- Three in One (1960) ... (play Red Peppers - as Noel Coward)

1959 Akt mit Geige (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1959 Kurze Begegnung (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1959 Intimitäten (TV Movie) (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
1959 Fim de Semana no Campo (TV Series) (play - as Noel Coward)
1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Private Lives (1959) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1958 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward)
1958 Yoka (TV Short) (texts - as Noel Coward)
1958 Akt mit Geige (TV Movie) (play)
1957 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
Grande Teatro Tupi (TV Series) (2 episodes, 1956 - 1957) (play - 1 episode, 1953) (story - 1 episode, 1952)
- Pancada de Amor (1957) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Breve Encontro (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Espírito Travesso (1953) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo (1952) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
1956 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1956 South Sea Bubble (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes, 1955 - 1956) (adaptation - 1 episode, 1956) (play - 1 episode, 1956)
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... (adaptation - as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- Blithe Spirit (1956) ... (written by)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (written by - as Noel Coward)
1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- The Better Half (1956) ... (play - segment "The Better Half")
1956 Det er så yndigt (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1955 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Cavalcade (1955) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1955 ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall (TV Movie) (play "Private Lives")
1955 TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Desencanto (1955) ... (as Noel Coward)
1955 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1954 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - 1 episode)
- Tonight at 8:30 (1954) ... (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - as Noel Coward)
1952 This Happy Breed (TV Movie) (play)
1952 Tonight at 8:30 (based on three plays from: "Tonight At 8.30")
1951 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Still Life (1951) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1950 The Astonished Heart (by - as Noel Coward) / (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - as Noel Coward)

1948 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1948 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward)
1946 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1946 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1945 Brief Encounter (play "Still Life" - uncredited)
1945 Blithe Spirit (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - uncredited)
1944 This Happy Breed (play - uncredited)
1942 In Which We Serve (by - as Noel Coward)
1942 We Were Dancing (play "Tonight at 8: 30" - as Noel Coward)
1940 Bitter Sweet (original play - as Noel Coward)

1939 Private Lives (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1939 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1939 The Young Idea (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1938 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1938 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1938 Hands Across the Sea (TV Short) (play - as Noel Coward)
1937 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1936 The Terrible Lovers (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
1933 Design for Living (play - as Noel Coward)
1933 Bitter Sweet (play and dialogue - as Noel Coward)
1933 Tonight Is Ours (play "The Queen Was In the Parlour" - as Noel Coward)
1933 Cavalcade (play - uncredited)
1931 Private Lives (from the play by - as Noel Coward)
1928 The Vortex (play - as Noel Coward)
1928 Easy Virtue (adapted from the play by - as Noel Coward)
1927 Forbidden Love (play - as Noel Coward)

Soundtrack (66 credits)

Actor (19 credits)

Composer (9 credits)

1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV Series) (8 episodes)

1980 Song by Song (TV Series) (1 episode)
- By Noël Coward (1980) ... (as Noel Coward)

1973 The Black and White Minstrel Show (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Episode #15.4 (1973) ... (as Noel Coward)

1969 Marvelous Party! (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1968 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Star Quality (1968) ... (as Noel Coward)

1955 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (as Noel Coward, original music by)
1950 The Astonished Heart (as Noel Coward)

1942 In Which We Serve (as Noel Coward, musical score)

1933 The Little Damozel (as Noel Coward)

Music department (10 credits)

1998 Shola Ama: Someday I'll Find You (Video short)
1998 Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (Video documentary) (music and lyrics by)

1980 Song by Song (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- By Noël Coward (1980) ... (lyrics - as Noel Coward)

1978 The Songwriters (TV Series documentary) (music and lyrics by - 1 episode)
- Noël Coward (1978) ... (music and lyrics by)
1973 Lily (TV Special) (composer: 20th Century Blues - as Noel Coward)

1969 The Coward Revue (TV Movie) (lyrics) / (music)
1966 Music for You (TV Series) (music and lyrics by - 1 episode)
- Episode #9.1 (1966) ... (music and lyrics by)
1960 The Grass Is Greener (composer: original theme - uncredited)

1940 Bitter Sweet (music and lyrics by - as Noel Coward)
1933 Bitter Sweet (lyrics and music - as Noel Coward)

Director (4 credits)

1956 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1955-1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Blithe Spirit (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (as Noel Coward)
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1942 In Which We Serve (as Noel Coward)

Producer (5 credits)

1963 The Guest (associate producer - uncredited)

1945 Brief Encounter (producer - as Noel Coward)
1945 Blithe Spirit (producer - as Noel Coward)
1944 This Happy Breed (producer - as Noel Coward)
1942 In Which We Serve (producer - as Noel Coward)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

1957 Witness for the Prosecution (dialogue director - uncredited)
1950 Golden Salamander (industry consultant - uncredited)

Self (18 credits)

Archive footage (22 credits)

Statue of Noel Coward on the grounds of Firefly, his former home, Jamaica
Arnie Weissmann, photographer

RichardTheBruce

2015: BOND 24 films helicopter action in Mexico City, Mexico.

2020: Photographer Terry O'Neill's display of Bond - Photographed would have run from today through 30 March. Cancelled due to the gale of the world.

Bond in pictures: Terry
O'Neill celebrates 007

https://news.sky.com/story/james-bond-rare-terry-oneill-photographs-celebrate-007-11939689

Rarely seen images from the James Bond franchise are going on public display as part of a new 007 exhibition.

The collection of images were shot by the late Terry O’Neill, who snapped more James Bond images than any other photographer.

The shots have been dug out of O’Neill’s archive, offering a rare chance to catch a glimpse of long-hidden away shots.

O’Neill worked with a whole host of Bonds including Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.

Pictures include candid snaps of the actors both on and off-set, as well as body-doubles and stunt performers preparing for scenes.
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One shows Connery in a white dinner jacket sat at a table, as a topless woman floats through a pool playing the harp in Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.

Another shows Australian actor George Lazenby and British [incorrect] actress Jill St John on the Bond set On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

And in a shot from the film set of Live And Let Die Roger Moore and Madeline Smith can be seen cavorting on a bed in 1973.

A contact sheet of behind-the-scenes shots from Goldfinger is dedicated to Honour Blackman – who famously played Pussy Galore in the 1964 film.

Images show her heading into the sea with a little trepidation, before emerging with a big smile.
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Looking back on his career working with the world most famous fictional MI6 agent, O’Neill has said: “I photographed the first Bond film, but I’ve lost all the pictures.

“When we started, we all thought it was going to be a one or two film thing. We never dared to think it was going to turn into this huge franchise.

“What’s great about it, and I think it’s the real secret to why it’s been so successful for so many years, is that with each decade, each James Bond, they have really kept up with the times.

“Sean Connery in the 1960s was cool and classic; he really fits that decade. Roger Moore in the 1970s added more humour; very Cary Grant.

“In the 1990s, Pierce Brosnan came aboard and added a real style. Then Daniel Craig —he’s the perfect modern Bond.”

O’Neill worked on movies including Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
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The exhibition will include portraits and on-set photography and one-of-a-kind original press prints, signed by the photographer.

There are also two unique images each signed by Roger Moore – who played Bond between 1973 to 1985 - and Honor Blackman.

The exhibit will coincide with the latest 007 film which will also be Daniel Craig’s last outing as the secret agent.

No Time To Die is out on 3 April.

Bond: Photographed by Terry O’Neill opens on 26 March and runs until 30 April at the Iconic Images Gallery in Chelsea, London.

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March 27th

1935: Julian Glover is born--London, England.

1944: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about young Ian Fleming in her diary.

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

Monday 27 March, 1944
I. came to dinner, first time since Muriel Wright’s cruel death. We
didn’t talk about her at all. I left it to him if he wanted to but he said
nothing. But he talked about his health and that his fingers trembled.
He’s going to Scotland for a week.

1961: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eighth Bond novel Thunderball. Richard Chopping cover.

THUNDERBALL presents the blue-
print for a monstrous crime that could
be just around the corner in history.

James Bond is in disgrace. His
monthly medical report is critical of the
high living that is ruining his health, and
M packs him off for a fortnight to a
nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his
former pitch of exceptional fitness.
Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame
of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet
regime--and thereby minutely upsets
the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary,
more deadly, more ruthless even than
SMERSH.

Who is SPECTRE ? What are its plans ?
Alas, the organization is all to realist-
ically described, its plans all to contem-
porary for comfort. Of all James Bond's
adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts
the darkest shadow.

1967: Talisa Soto is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

2002: Billy Wilder dies at age 95--Beverly Hills, California.
(Born 22 June 1906--Sucha Beskidzka, Poland.)

Hollywood mourns loss of icon from golden era /
6-time Oscar winner shaped careers as director

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-icon-from-golden-era-2859144.php
By Edward Guthmann Published 4:00 am PST, Friday, March 29, 2002

Billy Wilder, the witty, puckish director of such Hollywood classics as "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard," died of pneumonia Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 95.

One of the last remaining greats of Hollywood's golden era, Wilder was a master director whose films, which also include "The Apartment," "Double Indemnity" and "Sabrina," are models of intelligence, humor and tight, economic storytelling.

Although he directed his last film, "Buddy Buddy," in 1981, Wilder continued to go to his Beverly Hills office almost daily into his 90s -- answering mail and phone calls, reading the trade papers, maintaining his extensive art collection. In recent years, he suffered from poor eyesight and cancer. In April he was hospitalized with a urinary infection.

Wilder was born in Austria in 1906, came to the United States in 1934 and quickly learned the moxie, energy and rhythms of American speech -- proving the maxim that foreigners are often the best observers of the country they adopt as their own.

"There are few filmmakers who don't crave being compared to him," wrote director Cameron Crowe in his 1999 book "Conversations with Billy Wilder." "His is a tough-minded romanticism and elegance; the lack of sentimentality has left him forever relevant as an artist."

One of the most honored of Hollywood directors, Wilder was nominated for 21 Oscars and won six, two for directing "The Lost Weekend" (1945) and "The Apartment" (1960), two for producing those films and one for writing "Sunset Boulevard." He directed the late Jack Lemmon in seven movies ("He Was My Everyman") gave signature roles to Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard," Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity, " and directed three men to Oscars: Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend"), William Holden ("Stalag 17") and Walter Matthau ("The Fortune Cookie").

INTERVIEWED FREUD
Originally a journalist -- he interviewed Sigmund Freud, who kicked him out of his home -- Wilder broke into filmmaking as a screenwriter in Berlin, fled Hitler in 1933 and directed his first film, "Mauvaise Graine" (Bad Seed), in Paris in 1934.

"People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke," Wilder once said. "But at the UFA building, the MGM of Berlin, the elevator boy was suddenly in a storm trooper's uniform. I had a new Graham-Paige American car and a new apartment furnished in Bauhaus, and I sold everything for a few hundred dollars. . . . I was on the train to Paris the day after the Reichstag fire," he said in an interview years ago.

LONG CAREER AS FILMMAKER
Although he hadn't directed a film since "Buddy Buddy" in 1981 -- and chafed at a system that turned its back on aging directors -- Wilder logged one of the longest careers of any filmmaker in the first century of cinema. Best known as a writer and director of comedy, he was also adept at romance ("Sabrina"), film noir suspense ("Double Indemnity"), courtroom thriller ("Witness for the Prosecution") and social satire ("One, Two, Three").

Wilder had a shrewd, penetrating eye for human vanity and greed, and he converted that view into screenplays that often portrayed people as the helpless victims of their own worst impulses: the faded movie goddess-turned- murderess in "Sunset Boulevard," the bored wife who cons an insurance man into bumping off her husband in "Double Indemnity," the sad-sack accountant who offers his flat to philandering executives and their paramours in "The Apartment."

CO-WROTE SCRIPTS
He wrote most of his scripts with a collaborator, at first with Charles Brackett and later with I.A.L. Diamond, and said that he had turned to directing only because he grew tired of directors fouling up his scripts. At one point, filmmaker Mitchell Leisen hired a police officer to keep Wilder off the set of a film he had written.

Underneath the wily, irascible exterior was a melancholic soul who lost his father at 22 and whose mother, stepfather and grandmother all died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Wilder overcame those tragedies with hard work, stoicism, a brilliant, trenchant wit and a happy, 52-year marriage to his second wife, Audrey.

Late in his life, Wilder longed to make "Schindler's List" as a memorial to his mother, but found that Steven Spielberg already owned the rights to the story. "We spoke about it," Wilder said in Crowe's book. "He was a gentleman, of course, and we acknowledged each other's strong desires. In the end, he could not give it up."

TRIALS OF A DIRECTOR
Directing, Wilder said, "is a very important job, because you commit yourself. . . . Unlike the director of a play, you cannot change it anymore, that's it. You choose the best of what you have, and it's in the picture.

"If a young man (says) he would like to be a director, he sees only the glory of it. He does not see the trouble, the fights, the things he has to swallow. . . . You feel like a very small, small man."

And yet, it was one measure of Wilder's genius that every attempt to reinterpret his work was disappointing. Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of "Sabrina" was trounced by critics, and the Broadway musicals that were made from "Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" (renamed "Sugar" for the stage) were doomed to pale when stacked against their source.

"His movies are a worldwide language of love, intelligence and sparkling wit," Crowe said of his mentor yesterday. "To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived, all roads lead to Billy Wilder."

When Crowe asked Wilder whether he had advice for future filmmakers, he laughed and said, "I am not anchored there at some observatory, you know. I think that we're living in very, very important and interesting times. . . . But we're not even close to having an assured peace in this world.

"I don't know. I'm just very curious. That's the one thing that keeps me alive, is curiosity."

Wilder is survived by his wife, Audrey; his daughter, Victoria; and one grandchild.

BILLY WILDER FILMOGRAPHY
. -- AS WRITER

-- "People on Sunday," 1929
-- "Emil and the Detectives," 1931
-- "Adorable," 1933
-- "One Exciting Adventure," 1934
-- "Music in the Air," 1934
-- "Lottery Lover," 1935
-- "Champagne Waltz," 1937
-- "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," 1938
-- "Midnight," 1939
-- "What a Life," 1939
-- "Ninotchka," 1939
-- "Rhythm of the River," 1940
-- "Arise My Love," 1940
-- "Hold Back the Dawn," 1941
-- "Ball of Fire," 1942
-- "A Song Is Born," 1948
-- "Casino Royale," 1967.

-- AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

-- "The Major and the Minor," 1942
-- "Five Graves to Cairo," 1943
-- "Double Indemnity," 1944
-- "The Lost Weekend," 1945
-- "The Emperor Waltz," 1948
-- "A Foreign Affair," 1948
-- "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
-- "Ace in the Hole (also known as 'The Big Carnival')," 1951
-- "Stalag 17," 1953
-- "Sabrina," 1954
-- "The Seven Year Itch," 1955
-- "The Spirit of St. Louis," 1957
-- "Love in the Afternoon," 1957
-- "Witness for the Prosecution," 1958
-- "Some Like It Hot," 1959
-- "The Apartment," 1960
-- "One, Two, Three," 1961
-- "Irma la Douce," 1963
-- "Kiss Me, Stupid," 1964
-- "The Fortune Cookie," 1966
-- "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1970
-- "Avanti! "1972
-- "The Front Page," 1974
-- "Fedora," 1978
-- "Buddy Buddy," 1981.

Source: Associated Press

2002: Die Another Day films Miranda Frost revealed as a double.

2011: Judi Dench confirms her return as M and filming to start in November.
2015: Spectre teaser trailer is released.

2020: Original date for the Decca Records release of the No Time to Die score by Hans Zimmer.

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March 28th

1959: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 15 December 1958.) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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http://www.artofdiving.co.uk/2017/08/live-and-let-dive.html
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Swedish Semic Comic 1971 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3

Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die)

Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die)

Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 3: “Live and Let Die” (1965)

1968: Jonathan Cape publishes Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis).
Tom Adams cover. Sells well.

Colonel Sun
A JAMES BOND ADVENTURE
by
Robert Markham
(Kingsley Amis)

Sooner or later, as James Bond's fol-
lowers have known, certain effects of
his lifework would begin to show. The
reflexes would be just as fast; the au-
dacity as unflagging; but in a man of
Bond's intelligence and perception a
certain speculative turn of mind was
bound to develop. Inevitably, he would
begin to question not the clear neces-
sity of his work but its cost in human
lives and human values. Thus, within
the old Bond, a new Bond was des-

tined to emerge . . . within the man of
action, a man of feeling.

It's happened. Bond is pitted against
a world-menacing conspiracy engi-
neered by the malign Colonel Sun
Liang-tan of the People's Liberation
Army of China. The stakes have never
been higher, nor the dangers more
complex and terrible. His allies--the
fine-boned, tawny-haired agent of a
rival secret service and the Greek
patriot with a score to settle--are all
too quickly neutralized. Alone, un-
armed, Bond faces the maniacal de-
vices of Colonel Sun . . . an ordeal that
pushes him to the verge of his physi-
cal and moral endurance.

Robert Markham is a nom de plume
for Kingsley Amis, author of The Anti-
Death League, Lucky Jim and The
James Bond Dossier. Incredibly, he
has added to the Bond saga not only
his supple prose and marvelous sense
of place but his own imaginative im-
petus, which intensifies and deepens
the excitement, pace and glitter of a
vintage Fleming novel.

1978: At the 50th Academy Awards, Marvin Hamlisch with Sammy Davis Jr. performs a new song "Come Light the Candles". Aretha Franklin sings nominated title song "Nobody Does It Better".

"In Memoriam" Segment - 1978 Oscars Ceremony (Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin etc)


Aretha Franklin The Queen of Soul. LIVE

2008: Quantum of Solace films the climax in the desert hotel.

2020: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. publishes The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue and Ian Fleming by Jim Wright.

Whatever happened to him
actually outshines anything I've
had my James Bond do.
--Ian Fleming

James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman,
and . . . identify-theft victim? When James
Bond published his landmark book, Birds of
the West Indies, he had no idea it would set
in motion events that would link him to the
most iconic spy in the Western world and turn
his life upside down.

Born into a wealthy family but cut off in
his early twenties, James Bond took off to the
West Indies in search of adventure. Armed
with arsenic and a shotgun, he too months-
long excursions to the Caribbean to collect
material for his iconic book, Birds of the West
Indies, navigating snake-infested swamps,
sleeping in hammocks, and island-hopping
on tramp steamers and primitive boats.

Packed with archival photos, many never
before published, and interviews with Bond's
family and colleagues, here is the real story
of the pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist
who introduced the world to the exotic birds
of the West Indies.

Jim Wright is an author, blogger, and longtime
birding columnist for The [Bergen] Record in
northern New Jersey. A prize-winning writer, his
books include The Nature of the Meadowlands,
Jungle of the Maya, and Hawk Mountain. Born
in Philadelphia, he is a lifelong Phillies and
Eagles fan. Wright is a marsh warden at the
Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, New
Jersey, where he lives with his wife Patty. In his
spare time, he spies on birds. Follow his
adventures on Twitter @1realjamesbond, and
read his blog at realjamesbond.net.

"BOND. JAMES BOND. HERE IS THE INTRIGUING BACKSTORY OF THREE HEROES.
ONE WAS A CHARMING MUSEUM ORNITHOLOGIST. ONE A FLAMBOYANT
EX-NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TURNED BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
AND THE THIRD, OF COURSE, OUR SUAVE MI6 AGENT WHO
SAVE THE WORLD OVER AND OVER AGAIN. BUT THIS
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March 29th

1922: Dana Natol (Broccoli) is born--New York City, New York.
(She dies 29 February 2004 at age 82--Los Angeles, California.)

Dana Broccoli

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Dana Broccoli who died on Sunday aged 82, was the widow of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond films; during their 37-year marriage she was her husband's unofficial adviser and muse, and became, after his death, the custodian of the James Bond franchise.

Elegant and well-connected, Dana Broccoli was the perfect foil to her husband who was the son of an Italian-American bricklayer; but while the vast and affable Cubby - who liked to cook pasta for his cast and crew - was noted for his geniality, it was the chic, raven-haired Dana who had a more steely reputation. "I'm half Irish and half Italian," she would explain. "I'm just bloody-minded." Even her adoring husband described her as "formidable" several times in his autobiography. "Dana," he wrote, "takes no prisoners. She does not have the gift of forgiveness".

In 1959 Broccoli was already a successful producer when he married Dana Wilson, a divorcee, following a six-week courtship. A year later Broccoli and the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman set up a film company with the intention of putting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels on the big screen. Broccoli was not the first film-maker to approach Fleming, but, aided by his shrewd and glamorous wife, the bear-like New Yorker struck up an unlikely friendship with Fleming, an Old Etonian with a marked disdain for Hollywood. "I found him a lovely man," Dana Broccoli recalled years later, "charming and intelligent."

Moreover, it was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccoli's attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.

"One day," Dana Broccoli later recalled, "Cubby called me and said: 'Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don't know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal.' I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: 'Cubby, he's fabulous!' He was just perfect, he had star material right there."

But she had little sympathy with Connery after he referred, in 1966, to "fat-slob producers living off the backs of lean actors", and after Connery issued a law-suit in 1984 against Broccoli demanding more royalties from the Bond films. Connery eventually abandoned the dispute after settling for merchandising rights.

But, following Cubby Broccoli's death in 1996, Dana Broccoli was surprised and disappointed when Connery did not appear at the memorial service. "I don't have to understand Sean," she said in 2000, "and he doesn't need my understanding; he's doing very well without my understanding."

She was born Dana Natol in New York on January 3 1922. Having decided at an early age to become an actress, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall in New York. There she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, who was the first actor to play Batman. In 1942 she gave birth to a son, Michael, and three years later the family moved to California where Dana Wilson and her husband joined the Pasadena Playhouse.

After separating from Wilson, she moved to Beverly Hills where she became a screenwriter; in 1959, at a party, she met Broccoli, whose previous wife had died. Broccoli, had been born into an impoverished family of Italian immigrants in Queens, and was a self-made man, descended, apparently, from farmers who had invented broccoli by crossing a cauliflower and a pea.

A keen gambler, he had had a sketchy career, working as a vegetable packer and coffin polisher before getting a job as a tea boy at Twentieth Century Fox. In 1947, while trying to earn some extra dollars, he had got a job selling Christmas trees on a street corner and was particularly struck by a beautiful young woman who had bought one of the trees and for whom he had constructed a stand to hold it. When he was finally introduced to Dana Wilson, 12 years later, he realised that she was the same woman, and she too remembered the incident. Both believed that fate had brought them together.

Following their wedding in Las Vegas (Cary Grant was the best man), the couple returned to Cubby Broccoli's house in London. Dana adopted Cubby's two children from his previous marriage and the following year gave birth to a daughter, Barbara.

In 1967, Danjaq LLC, the film company set up by Cubby and Dana Broccoli, produced Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, another of Fleming's books; and in 2002 Dana Broccoli produced the successful stage version, which is still running in the West End.

Dana Broccoli also published two novels, Scenario for Murder, and Florinda. She adapted the latter for the musical, La Cava, which was staged in London in 2000.

The Broccolis lived in London for many years until, in 1977, they reluctantly sold their house in Mayfair and moved to Los Angeles for tax reasons. Although the couple enjoyed the wealth acquired through the Bond films (they had a large collection of paintings, including a Renoir and a Picasso) they also raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, particularly the NSPCC, which benefited greatly from the Broccolis' largesse.

In 1977 Dana Broccoli's son, Michael G Wilson, and daughter, Barbara Broccoli, took over production of the Bond films, and after her husband's death Dana Broccoli took over as chairman of the board. "It was all family," she explained, "that was a large part of our success; the big extended family . . . We still see a lot of Timothy Dalton, and Roger [Moore] is always popping in. Roger always liked the pasta and the backgammon."

Cubby Broccoli's death left her bereft but by no means bowed. "I was very happy taking care of Cubby," she said recently, adding, "I would never marry again. Cubby was irreplaceable. We went through so much together, ups and downs, but it has been a fabulous journey."

Dana Broccoli is survived by her two sons and two daughters.

Dana Broccoli(1922–2004)

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Filmography

Actress (5 credits)

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

1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)

1952 Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (TV Series) - Sandra Whitney
- The Golden Dagger ... Sandra Whitney (as Dana Wilson)
1951 Wild Women - Queen (as Dana Wilson)
1950 Once a Thief - Jane (as Dana Wilson)

Thanks (26 credits)

2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary)[/b] (special thanks)
2000 Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Licence to Kill' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) (special thanks)

Self (19 credits)

2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Herself
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself

1979 The Paul Ryan Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli (1979) ... Herself
- Episode #1.63 ... Herself
1979 My Name Is Bond... James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1967 You Only Live Twice: The Royal Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- The World of James Bond (1967) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Herself

2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Cafe Martinique Dancer

1928: Philip Locke is born--St. Marylebone, London, England.
(He dies 19 April 2004--Dedham, England.)

Philip Locke, actor

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Born: 29 March, 1928, in London
Died: 24 April, 2004, in London, aged 76

WITH his gaunt and invariably haggard looks, Philip Locke was ideal casting for nervy, rather saturnine villains, corrupt Mafia bosses or somewhat refined bullies. He brought an evil streak to his characters that brought them alive. However, this tall and imposing man also had a fine line in comedy.

His major cinema credit was as Vargas, the silent assassin who fell foul of James Bond’s spear-gun in Thunderball. His list of television credits was substantial and varied (The Avengers seemed to employ him as their resident baddie for a while) and he was often seen to great advantage in the theatre - especially London’s Royal Court in the Sixties.

Philip Locke trained at RADA in the Fifties and he was soon being cast in minor roles at the Royal Court, then soon to enter its golden decade. In 1959, he was in the premiere of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, a musical satire about gossip columnists and critics. It was given a real pasting by the critics - indeed, Noel Coward and John Gielgud were said to have led the booing on the first night - but many still recall the satanic dance Locke performed in the second act.

From the Royal Court, he went on to play at the National Theatre and at the Royal Shakespeare Company (he was Quince in Brook’s famous Midsummer Night’s Dream). His career was to burgeon and Locke was seldom out of work: he played Horatio in Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet which opened the National Theatre in 1975 and four years later he was again directed by Hall in the premire of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. In the latter, he played Salieri’s valet and spent much of the time feeding Mozart cream buns.

Locke’s TV appearances never let up. He was much in demand for the fondly remembered Armchair Theatre plays and was often seen on the wrong side of the small screen’s best-known detectives, including Inspector Morse, Bergerac and Poirot. He also turned up in Minder, played a newspaper editor alongside Michael Caine in Jekyll and Hyde (LWT, 1990) and was a rather camp uncle in Jeeves and Wooster (Granada, 1993).

His most striking film appearance was undoubtedly in Thunderball (1965), in which he made a particularly sinister appearance in dark glasses and black polo-neck jumper. However, a few years later, he showed his lighter side in the movie version of Porridge. In a favourite scene, Ronnie Barker’s Fletcher asks how Locke can face the prison grub, and Locke laconically replies: "I was at a top English public school and the food was very similar."

Strangely, Locke was at only one Edinburgh Festival, in 1954, with the Old Vic Company in a star-studded production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Scottish National Orchestra was in the pit and Moira Shearer and Robert Helpmann were to dance within the play. It was a bold plan to fuse music, drama and dance.

Locke played Puck and although Shearer, in an article in The Scotsman in 1976, recalled that Festival with "particular surprised pleasure" she did refer to the production as "rambling". However, it filled the Empire (now the Festival Theatre) to capacity.

Locke was always a support actor, never a major star, but he had the ability to bring a certain touch of wicked style or a chilling frisson to a role. The fact that he appeared in so many high-profile and prestigious productions in a career spanning 50 years is a sure reflection of the standing he enjoyed in his profession.

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Philip Locke (1928–2004)

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Filmography

Actor (100 credits)

1990-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Magnus Mandeville / Kenneth Ames
- Going Wrong: Part 3 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Going Wrong: Part 2 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Going Wrong: Part 1 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Put on by Cunning (1990) ... Kenneth Ames
1997 Wilde - Judge
1995 Othello - 1st Senator
1994 Jacob (TV Movie) - Diviner
1994 Tom & Viv - Charles Haigh-Wood
1993 Jeeves and Wooster (TV Series) - Glossop
- Honoria Glossop Turns Up (or, Bridegroom Wanted!) (1993) ... Glossop
1993 Minder (TV Series) - Fingers Rossetti
- The Roof of All Evil (1993) ... Fingers Rossetti
1991 Turbulence - Vic
1991 Inspector Morse (TV Series) - Freddie Mortimer
- Who Killed Harry Field? (1991) ... Freddie Mortimer
1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Conrad Molenaar
- Doctor Hoffmann's Children (1991) ... Conrad Molenaar
1990 Jekyll & Hyde (TV Movie) - Editor

1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Richard Stellman
- Next Year in Jerusalem (1989) ... Richard Stellman
1989 Bergerac (TV Series) - Roger Lemaire
- When Did You Last See Your Father? (1989) ... Roger Lemaire
1989 Screen Two (TV Series) - Wilfred Stiff
- Virtuoso (1989) ... Wilfred Stiff
1989 Poirot (TV Series) - Cutter
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1989) ... Cutter
1988 Stealing Heaven - Poussin
1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Sir Larry
- Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (1988) ... Sir Larry
1987 The Secret Garden (TV Movie) - Pitcher
1987 The Inquiry
1985 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Mr. Telfer
- Trelawny of the Wells (1985) ... Mr. Telfer
1985 Connie (TV Series) - Borridge - 6 episodes
1984 The Box of Delights (TV Series) - Arnold of Todi
- Beware of Yesterday (1984) ... Arnold of Todi
1969-1984 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Sir Francis Galton / Dr. Klaus Fuchs
- The Intelligence Man (1984) ... Sir Francis Galton
- For the Safety of Mankind (1969) ... Dr. Klaus Fuchs
1983 And the Ship Sails On - Il Primo Ministro
1983 Ascendancy - Dr. Strickland
1982 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Old man
- Hawkwing (1982) ... Old man
1982 The Disappearance of Harry (TV Movie) - Guthfrithson
1982 The Plague Dogs - Civil Servant #1 (voice)
1982/I Oliver Twist (TV Movie) - Mr. Sowerberry
1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Grand Master
1982 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Bigon / Control
- Four to Doomsday: Part Four (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part Three (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part Two (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part One (1982) ... Bigon / Control
1981 Codename Icarus (TV Series) - John Doll - 5 episodes
1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Harrington
- The Hanging (1980) ... Lord Harrington
1980 Armchair Thriller (TV Series) - Commander Lloyd - 4 episodes

1979 An Honourable Retirement (TV Movie) - Charles Tranter
1979 Doing Time - Banyard
1979 The Omega Factor (TV Series) - Vashrevsky
- Double Vision (1979) ... Vashrevsky
1979 Escape to Athena - Vogel
1979 The Mill on the Floss (TV Mini-Series) - Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Seven (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Six (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Four (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
1978 Play for Today (TV Series) - O'Neil - - Butterflies Don't Count (1978) ... O'Neil
1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) - Farmer
- Says My Heart (1978) ... Farmer
1977-1978 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Acorn / The church superintendent
- She Fell Among Thieves (1978) ... Acorn
- True Patriot (1977) ... The church superintendent
1974 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Agrippa
1974 2nd House (TV Series) - Belok
- An Artist's Story (1974) ... Belok
1973 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Vark
- The Mystery of the Amber Beads (1973) ... Vark
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Hanske
1972 A Day Out (TV Movie) - Wilkins

1969 Department S (TV Series) - Topek
- The Perfect Operation (1969) ... Topek
1965-1969 Z Cars (TV Series) - Ibbs / Thorpe
- Quiet Day: Part 2 (1969) ... Ibbs
- Quiet Day: Part 1 (1969) ... Ibbs
- A Morning's Sport (1965) ... Thorpe
1968 The Saint (TV Series) - Frug
- The Fiction Makers: Part 2 (1968) ... Frug
- The Fiction Makers: Part 1 (1968) ... Frug
1968 The Fiction-Makers - Frug
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Yeats
- The Body Snatchers (1968) ... Yeats
1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) -Hate-Good / Appollyon / Worldly Wiseman / ...
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Giant Despair / ...
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Official
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Interrogator / Worldly Wiseman
1967 The Informer (TV Series) - Croxley
- Here's Where Who Takes Over? (1967) ... Croxley
1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Mr Bateman / Sid / Private Smith / ...
- The Girl (1967) ... Mr Bateman
- Always Something Hot (1962) ... Sid
- Roll on Blooming Death (1961) ... Private Smith
- The Cupboard (1960) ... Bert
- A Night Out (1960) ... Kedge
1967 Honey Lane (TV Series) - Ron
- One and Nine for Two Bob (1967) ... Ron
1967 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Johnny Three
- Boa Constrictor (1967) ... Johnny Three
1967 The Baron (TV Series) - Compton
- Countdown (1967) ... Compton
1956-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Vedoni / Edward / Lenny Roberts
- The Crossfire (1967) ... Vedoni
- Goodnight to Heroes (1964) ... Edward
- The Poisoned Earth (1961)
- Come Read Me a Riddle (1956) ... Lenny Roberts
1961-1967 The Avengers (TV Series) - Primble / Roy Hopkins / Moxon
- From Venus with Love (1967) ... Primble
- Mandrake (1964) ... Roy Hopkins
- The Frighteners (1961) ... Moxon
1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - The Man
- A Pretty Row of Pretty Ribbons (1966) ... The Man
1966 Four People (TV Mini-Series) - Interrogator
- Judas (1966) ... Interrogator
1966 Redcap (TV Series) - Huntly
- The Pride of the Regiment (1966) ... Huntly
1966 The Man in the Mirror (TV Series) - Stern - 6 episodes
1965 Thunderball - Vargas
1965 Jury Room (TV Series) - Boothby - Juror
- The Friendless Lady (1965) ... Boothby - Juror
1965 Front Page Story (TV Series) - Saunders
- The Public Interest (1965) ... Saunders
1965 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Pentelow
- Dan, Dan, the Charity Man (1965) ... Pentelow
1964 Face of a Stranger - John Bell
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Peter Quilpe
- The Cocktail Party (1964) ... Peter Quilpe
1964 The Hidden Truth (TV Series) - Michael Watt
- The Final Analysis (1964) ... Michael Watt
1963-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - John Bell / Dave Hughes / Foster
- Face of a Stranger (1964) ... John Bell
- On the Run (1963) ... Dave Hughes
- Incident at Midnight (1963) ... Foster
1964 Hamlet at Elsinore (TV Movie) - Osric
1963-1964 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Oliver Willowes / Frame
- Studio '64: The Happy Moorings (1964) ... Oliver Willowes
- Drama '63: Rasputin Was a Nice Old Man (1963) ... Frame
1964 Father Came Too! - Stan
1963 Incident at Midnight - Foster
1963 On the Run - Dave Hughes
1963 Bud (TV Series) - Frank Mer
- Episode #1.3 (1963) ... Frank Mer
1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Limousin
- Wives and Lovers (1963) ... Limousin
1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Bert Dogg, driver / Ian / Paul Dyson
- Just You Wait (1963) ... Bert Dogg, driver
- For Tea on Sunday (1963) ... Ian
- The Square Peg (1962) ... Paul Dyson
1958-1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Derek Baynes / Al
- Ben Again (1963) ... Derek Baynes
- Strictly for the Sparrows (1958) ... Al
1963 The King's Breakfast (Short) - 2nd Footman
1962 The Girl on the Boat - Bream Mortimer
1962 Saki (TV Mini-Series) - Roger
- Episode #1.1 (1962) ... Roger
1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Brand
- A Job for Johnny (1962) ... Brand
1961 Follow That Man - Vicar
1961 Hurricane (TV Series) - Bob Wilson
- Part 6 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
- Part 2 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
- Part 1 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
1961 If the Crown Fits (TV Series) - Lucky
- Gambling (1961) ... Lucky
1960-1961 The Charlie Drake Show (TV Series) - Scrooge
- Jester Minute (1961)
- A Christmas Carol (1960) ... Scrooge
1961 Seven Keys - Norman's Thug (uncredited)
1960 The Bulldog Breed - Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
1960 Kipps (TV Mini-Series) - Chester Coote - 7 episodes

1959 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - Vincent Gough
- He Fell Among Thieves (1959) ... Vincent Gough
1958 Heart of a Child - 1st Soldier
1957 Aladdin (TV Movie) - The Slave of the Ring
1956 Operation Conspiracy - 1st Soldier
1955 The Wise Cat (TV Movie) - Pierre
1955 Benbow and the Angels (TV Series) - Garage proprietor
- St. Michael and All Angels (1955) ... Garage proprietor
1954 Earthquake in Macedonia (TV Movie) - Silas
1952 Jan at the Blue Fox (TV Series)
2nd Sailor
- The Day of the Wreck (1952) ... 2nd Sailor

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
- Says My Heart (1978) ... ("March Winds and April Showers", uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

1975 The 29th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) - Self - Nominee

Archive footage (6 credits)

2015 James Bond's Spectre with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
2008 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) - Bond (2008)
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Vargas

1989 MTV Movie Special: Licence to Kill (TV Special documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)

1965: Thunderball films OO7 and Domino on the beach and the end of Vargas.
1968: Celine Dion is born--Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada.

1982: At the 54th Academy Awards Albert "Cubby" Broccoli receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in Los Angeles, presented by Roger Moore. Nominated title song "For Your Eyes Only" performed by Sheena Easton with appearances by Harold Sakata and Richard Kiel.

Albert R. Broccoli receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award


Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only (Academy Awards '82)

1983: The choice of Rita Coolidge (a favorite of assistant director Barbara Broccoli) to sing the latest title song is confirmed. Father Cubby Broccoli hoped for popular singer Laura Branigan, with support from composer John Barry and lyricist Tim Rice.

1999: A court ruling confirms sole rights of the Bond franchise to MGM (and EON) over Sony (and McClory, who sought to produce rogue missions due to the original Thunderball complications).

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

...An eleventh-hour settlement was made on 29 March when Sony declared themselves out of the Bond business, compensating MGM with $5 million to settle outside of court. Additionally, MGM obtained the rights to CASINO ROYALE, owned by Sony's subsidiary Columbia pictures. This news left Kevin McClory out in the cold. He vowed to persue [sic] his claim that he was owed profits for creating the cinematic James Bond independently. Unwilling to accept defeat, McClory took out an advertisement in Variety a week later proclaiming his next production: Warhead 2001 was schedule to be produced in Australia. However, nothing came to fruition.

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2007: BBC News reports a Colt revolver once owned by Ian Fleming fetches £12,000 at auction.

Bond author's gun fetches £12,000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6505711.stm

Although a powerful weapon, Bond never used the Colt Magnum

A revolver owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming has been sold at auction in London for £12,000.

The engraved Colt Python .357 Magnum was specially made for the author and presented to him by the Colt Company.

It was accompanied by a letter from the firearms company and a copy of the 1959 Bond novel Goldfinger.

A Colt was used by villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, but 007 shunned the Colt in favour a gun which could be hidden under a dinner jacket.

The auctioned gun, which is still in working condition, is engraved with the words:

"Presented To Ian Fleming By Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co".

Fleming was a journalist and banker, before working in Naval Intelligence during World War II, where he rose to the rank of Commander and was right-hand man to spymaster Admiral John Godfrey.

After the war, he went to Jamaica for a naval conference and fell in love with the island, where he wrote the Bond novels at his home, Goldeneye.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14881/lot/61/

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic Hammerhead #6.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272206011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/29

It all comes down to this. With the Royal Navy facing off against the Hammerhead super-weapon, and Britain's nuclear arsenal in the hands of a war-mongering megalomaniac, 007 alone must infiltrate Kraken's fortified retreat. He has a license to kill, and he aims to use it...

2019: Shane Rimmer dies at age 89--Barnet Hospital, Barnet, England.
(Born 28 May 1929--Toronto, Canada.)

Shane Rimmer, voice of Thunderbirds'
Scott Tracy, dies aged 89

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

The Canadian actor had forged a lengthy career in cult TV shows
and films, appearing in three James Bond movies

Martin Belam | Fri 29 Mar 2019 10.49 EDT | Last modified on Fri 29 Mar 2019 14.15 EDT

Shane Rimmer, who has died aged 89, pictured here during a stint in ITV’s Coronation Street during the 1980s.
Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced the character of pilot Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, has died. The official Gerry Anderson website carried the news, saying that the death of the 89 year old had been confirmed by his widow Sheila Rimmer. Rimmer died at home in the early hours of 29 March. No cause of death has been given.

Rimmer, who was born in Toronto in 1929 and moved to the UK in the 1950s, played the leader of the Thunderbirds crew in 32 episodes produced between 1964 and 1966. The actor also contributed his voice to other Gerry Anderson projects including Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and appeared in person in the Anderson’s live action project UFO. Behind the scenes, Rimmer also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service and The Protectors.

Scott, Lady Penelope and Virgil in Thunderbirds
Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

As well as his work with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson he appeared in over 100 films including Dr Strangelove, Gandhi and Out of Africa. He played three different roles in three different James Bond movies, appearing in Diamonds Are Forever, You Only Live Twice, and The Spy Who Loved Me.

Shane Rimmer with James Bond actor Roger Moore on the set of 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Rimmer was also regularly cast in science fiction and fantasy projects, having appeared in William Hartnell era Doctor Who story The Gunfighters, as well as in Space: 1999, and having minor roles in Star Wars and Superman movies. He also played two different characters in British soap opera Coronation Street – in 1988 as shopkeeper Malcolm Reid, and between 1967 and 1970 as Joe Donnelli, an American GI who had murdered an army colleague and eventually shot himself.

Rimmer had continued to work in his later years, and as recently as 2017 was supplying a voiceover in cult kids’ TV show The Amazing World of Gumball.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

He told the Washington Times in 2017 that it was his Bond work he was most proud of. “That was crazy. I have no idea how it happened. I did Diamonds Are Forever first. It wasn’t much. I just came on and got into a bit of a slanging match with Sean Connery, who slangs very well. Then I did You Only Live Twice. They got rid of me up in space in that one. The third, The Spy Who Loved Me was a good one all around. It was Roger Moore’s favourite of all the ones he did. You just get a kind of intuitive thing about a movie. It worked very well.”

Shane Rimmer (1929–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727300/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (165 credits)

Firestorm (TV Movie) (post-production) - Tbc
1987-2017 Dick Spanner, P.I. (TV Series) - Dick Spanner - 24 episodes
2014-2017 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) - Louie - 4 episodes
2016 Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (Short) - Anderson
2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy
2012 Dark Shadows - Board Member 1
2010/II Half Moon (Short) - Maj Thomas Brennan
2010 Lovelorn - The Barman

2006 Alien Autopsy - Colonel
2005 Hiroshima (TV Movie documentary) - James F. Byrnes
2005 Mee-Shee: The Water Giant - Bob Anderson
2005 Batman Begins - Older Gotham Water Board Technician
2004 Caught in the Act (TV Movie) - Father
2003 Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (TV Series) - William Kingsley
- The Brooklyn Bridge (2003) ... William Kingsley
2003 The War of the Starfighters - Tantive Base Operative (voice)
2001 Spy Game - Estate Agent
2000 One of the Hollywood Ten - Parnell Thomas

1999 Dockers (TV Movie) - US Longshoreman
1998 I.K. - Ivar Kreuger (TV Mini-Series) - President Hoover
- Episode #1.3 (1998) ... President Hoover
1998 Only Love (TV Movie) - Warren Oliver
1996 Space Truckers - E. J. Saggs
1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court - Coach
1994 The Saint: The Software Murders (TV Movie) - Bob Harrison
1993 Piccolo grande amore - Mr. Hughes
1993 Lipstick on Your Collar (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Colonel Trekker / Lt. Col. Trekker
- Episode #1.6 (1993) ... Lt. Col. Trekker
- Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
1992 Double Vision (TV Movie) - Caroline & Lisa's Father
1992 Casualty (TV Series) - Ed Rhinehart
- Cry Wolf (1992) ... Ed Rhinehart
1992 Land of Hope and Gloria (TV Series) - Bob
- The Authentic Taste of England (1992) ... Bob
1992 Year of the Comet - T.T. Kelleher
1991 Stanley and the Women (TV Mini-Series) - Morton Fendig
- Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Morton Fendig
1991 Company Business - Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
1991 A Kiss Before Dying - Commissioner Malley
1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Lovell J Wallace
- A Sudden Silence (1991) ... Lovell J Wallace
1990 Enemy's Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Skip Harrier
- Del 4 (1990) ... Skip Harrier

1989 The Nightmare Years (TV Mini-Series) - Ambassador Dodd
- Episode #1.4 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Part 2 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Part 1 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
1989 Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) - General
1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Adm. Riley
1989 The Bretts (TV Series) - Ben Silverstein
- Home and Away: Part One (1989) ... Ben Silverstein
1989 Street Legal (TV Series) - Det. Barnes
- Basketball Story (1989) ... Det. Barnes
1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Biddle
- Don Danko (1988) ... Biddle
1988 The Fortunate Pilgrim (TV Mini-Series) - Reilly
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Reilly
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
1967-1988 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Joe Donnelli / Joe Donelli / Malcolm Reid - 25 episodes
1988 A Very British Coup (TV Mini-Series) - The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
1988 Crusoe - Mr. Mather
1988 The Bourne Identity (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. Conklin
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
1987 Roman Holiday (TV Movie) - Hogan
1987 Breakthrough at Reykjavik (TV Movie) - George Schultz
1987 Riviera (TV Movie) - Doc
1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (TV Mini-Series) - Doorman
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Doorman
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Doorman
1987 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Movie) - Stark
1986 Space Police (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Chuck Brogan
1986 Whoops Apocalypse - Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
1986 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series) - Harvey Coward
- Part II (1986) ... Harvey Coward
- Part I (1986) ... Harvey Coward
1986 Of Pure Blood (TV Movie) - The Colonel
1986 The Last Days of Patton (TV Movie) - Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
1985 Out of Africa - Belknap
1985 White Nights - Ambassador Smith
1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) - Brod Sarnton
1985 Dreamchild - Mr. Marl
1985 The Holcroft Covenant - Lt. Miles
1985 Reunion at Fairborough (TV Movie) - Joe Szyluk
1985 Space (TV Mini-Series) - Gen Quigley / U.S. General Quigley
- Part III (1985) ... Gen Quigley
- Part I (1985) ... U.S. General Quigley
1985 Morons from Outer Space - Redneck (Melvin)
1985 Gulag (TV Movie) - Jay
1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Detective Duffy
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Detective Duffy
1984 Nairobi Affair (TV Movie) - Mr. Gardner
1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) - Harry Klein
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Harry Klein
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Harry Klein
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Harry Klein
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Dr. Hersh
- Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Dr. Hersh
1984 Alas Smith & Jones (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1984)
- Episode #1.4 (1984)
- Episode #1.1 (1984)
1984 Lace (TV Mini-Series) - Press Agent
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Press Agent
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Press Agent
1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Carroll
1984 Partners in Crime (TV Mini-Series) - Hank Ryder
- The Crackler (1984) ... Hank Ryder
1983 The Lonely Lady - Adolph Fannon
1983 Superman III - State Policeman
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - Detective Murphy
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... Detective Murphy
1983 The Hunger - Arthur Jelinek
1982 Gandhi - Commentator
1980-1982 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - John Smith / Arthur Beauchamp
- A Man with a Fortune (1982) ... John Smith
- My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... Arthur Beauchamp
1982 Nanny (TV Series) - Dick Leonard
- Fathers (1982) ... Dick Leonard
1981 Reds - MacAlpine
1981 Priest of Love - Chief Immigration Officer
1981 The Rose Medallion (TV Series) - Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
1981 Bognor (TV Series) - Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 6 - Feeding Time (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 5 - Dummy Run (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 4 - I Am Yellow: Memoirs of a Danish Dog Lover (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 3 - Meet the Mole (1981) ... Horace Higgins
1980 The Dogs of War - Dr. Oaks
1980 Superman II - Controller #2
1980 Oppenheimer (TV Mini-Series) - Ed Condon
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Ed Condon
1980 Very Like a Whale (TV Movie) - Commuter

1979 A Man Called Intrepid (TV Mini-Series) - Willoughby
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Willoughby
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Willoughby
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Willoughby
1979 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Ambassador Bingham
- Speed King (1979) ... Ambassador Bingham
1979 Secret Army (TV Series) - Canadian Commandant
- The Execution (1979) ... Canadian Commandant
1979 A Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Braley
1979 Arabian Adventure - Abu
1979 Hanover Street - Col. Ronald Bart
1979 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Falco
- Dragonseed (1979) ... Falco
1978 Superman - Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
1978 The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (TV Movie) - US Colonel
1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Mr. Henning
- Five on Finniston Farm (1978) ... Mr. Henning
1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble (TV Movie) - Fred Levin
1978 The Standard (TV Series) - Jack Putnam
- Two Birds, One Stone (1978) ... Jack Putnam
1978 Warlords of the Deep - Captain Daniels
1977 Julia - Customs Officer (uncredited)
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Stone
- Professional Foul (1977) ... Stone
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cmdr. Carter
1977 The People That Time Forgot - Hogan
1977 Alternative 3 (TV Movie) - Bob Grodin
1977 Silver Bears - American Banker
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - InCom Engineer (uncredited)
1977 Nasty Habits - Officer I / C
1977 The Velvet Glove (TV Series) - Senator William Chandler
- Mother (1977) ... Senator William Chandler
1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming - Col. Alexander B. Franklin
1976 Alien Attack (TV Movie) - Eagle Pilot (voice, uncredited)
1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Eagle Pilot - 6 epsiodes
1976 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Fred Levin
- Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) ... Fred Levin
1976 Second Verdict (TV Series) - Harold Giles Hoffman
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping (1976) ... Harold Giles Hoffman
1976 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Pollack
- Divorce (1976) ... Pollack
1975 Quiller (TV Series) - Harry Brent
- Thundersky (1975) ... Harry Brent
1975 The 'Human' Factor - CIA Man
1975 Rollerball - Rusty, Team Executive
1975 You're on Your Own (TV Series) - Peter Kovacs
- Value for Money (1975) ... Peter Kovacs
1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Ronald Ziegler
- I Know What I Meant (1974) ... Ronald Ziegler
1974 S*P*Y*S - Hessler
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Reporter Outside Court
- Part Three (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Zeke / Vickers
- Zeke's Blues (1973) ... Zeke
- Vocal (1973) ... Vickers
1973 Take Me High (uncredited)
1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Warren
- In the Confessional (1973) ... Police Sergeant Warren
1973 Live and Let Die - Hamilton (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Investigator (Video) - John (voice)
1973 Scorpio - Cop in Hotel (uncredited)
1972 Baffled! (TV Movie) - Track Announcer
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Lomax
- Element of Risk (1971) ... Lomax
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Tom (uncredited)
1970 UFO (TV Series) - Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent / ...
- Computer Affair (1970) ... Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien (uncredited)
- Confetti Check A-O.K. (1970) ... CIA Agent
- Identified (1970) ... Seagull X-Ray Co-Pilot
1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Goldman
- The Pueblo Affair (1970) ... Goldman

1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) - Radio Control / Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver / ...
- Double Agent (1969) ... Radio Control (voice, uncredited)
- Business Holiday (1968) ... Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver (voice, uncredited)
- Big Fish (1968) ... Gardner (voice, uncredited)
- International Concerto (1968) ... Kelly / Clerk / Technician (voice, uncredited)
- Most Special Astronaut (1968) ... Kent (voice, uncredited)
1968 Thunderbird 6 - Scott Tracy (voice)
1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) - Sergeant / Pilot / Confused Partygoer / ...
- Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... Sergeant (voice, uncredited)
- Inferno (1968) ... Pilot (voice, uncredited)
- Model Spy (1967) ... Confused Partygoer (voice, uncredited)
- Special Assignment (1967) ... Mason (voice, uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice - Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
1966 Thunderbirds Are GO - Scott Tracy (voice)
1965-1966 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy (voice) - 32 episodes
1966 Orlando (TV Series) - Kahn - 6 episodes
1966 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Seth Harper
- Don't Shoot the Pianist (1966) ... Seth Harper
- A Holiday for the Doctor (1966) ... Seth Harper
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Marine Sergeant
- Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966) ... Marine Sergeant
1965-1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Ramsey / Morgan
- All Roads Lead to Callaghan (1966) ... Ramsey
- No Wreath for an Angel (1965) ... Morgan
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Bud Burdine
- The Flipside (1966) ... Bud Burdine
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Buchanan
- The Mercenaries (1965) ... Buchanan
1965 The Bedford Incident - Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
1964 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Corporal Girtin
- Parade's End #3: A Man Could Stand Up (1964) ... Corporal Girtin
1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Major Smith
- The Hi-Jackers (1964) ... Major Smith
1963-1964 Compact (TV Series) - Russell Corrigan - 30 episodes
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Doctor
- Seven Sisters of Wong (1964) ... Doctor
1964 Dr. Strangelove - Capt. 'Ace' Owens
1960 Chasing the Dragon (TV Movie) - Corporal Keegan
1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Tom Hopwood
- Day of Reckoning (1960) ... Tom Hopwood
1959-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - First generator operator / Campbell / Paul
- Come in Razor Red (1960) ... First generator operator
- Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing (1959) ... Campbell
- Star in the Summer Night (1959) ... Paul

1959 After Hours (TV Series)
- Episode #2.13 (1959)
- Episode #2.12 (1959)
- Episode #2.10 (1959)
- Episode #2.6 (1959)
1958 Cannonball (TV Series) - Tex
- Sights on Safety (1958) ... Tex
1958 The Day the Sky Exploded - John McLaren (English version, voice, uncredited)
1958 Flaming Frontier - Running Bear
1958 Come Fly with Me (TV Series) - Host
1957-1958 Encounter (TV Series) - Sharkey / Bill
- The Riggin' Slinger (1958)
- Baptism of Fire (1958) ... Sharkey
- One of Our Men Is Guilty (1957)
- 99 Times Around the Block (1957) ... Bill
1957 On Camera (TV Series) - Stanley
- The Egghead Approach (1957) ... Stanley
1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV Series) - Farber
- The Prisoner (1957) ... Farber
1957 A Dangerous Age - Nancy's Father
1957 Dorchester Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Rodney Lauder
- Two Sides to a Tortoise (1957) ... Rodney Lauder
1957 Folio (TV Series) - Byron Moon
- Ring Around the Square (1957) ... Byron Moon

Writer (5 credits)

1973-1974 The Protectors (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes)
- Blockbuster (1974) ... (written by)
- Zeke's Blues (1973) ... (written by)
1973 The Investigator (Video) (story by)

1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Hole in One (1969) ... (written by)
1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) (teleplay by - 6 episodes)
- Breakout (1969) ... (teleplay by)
- Relative Danger (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Big Fish (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Splashdown (1968) ... (teleplay by - uncredited)
- King for a Day (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- The Fortress (1968) ... (teleplay by)
1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (teleplay by - 3 episodes)
- Inferno (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Expo 2068 (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Avalanche (1967) ... (teleplay by)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

2016-2018 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
- The Ghouls (2018) ... (performer: "All Hail All Hallow's Eve!" - uncredited)
- The Father (2018) ... (performer: "The Vermin Man" - uncredited)
- The Compilation (2016) ... (performer: "Weird Like You And Me" - uncredited)

Self (15 credits)

Archive footage (3 credits)

2021: BBC Radio 4 airs The Food Programme with a focus on James Bond.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7k/2021/03/29

Available Now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tm9f

RichardTheBruce

March 30th

1924: Frank McCarthy is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 17 November 2002 at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.)

Frank C. McCarthy

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=frank-c-mccarthy&pid=640960

Frank C. McCarthy, the world of Western Art has lost a great talent and leader. Internationally known artist, Frank C. McCarthy passed away from lung cancer, Sunday, November 17, 2002 at his home of 30 years in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy was born in New York City in 1924. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City during the summers starting at the age of 14. He was a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Frank McCarthy began his art career as a commercial illustrator. He painted illustrations for most of the paperback book publishers, magazines, movie companies, and advertisements. He created works that became posters for such movies as the James Bond series.

Frank McCarthy's talents were highly sought after by art directors enabling him to work as a free lance illustrator for many years. His art career spanned over 50 years, beginning with a request for a western cover for a magazine by an art director. He left the world of commercial art in 1968, and began his fine art career after moving to Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy's dynamic paintings frequently featured the people of the west with a special emphasis on the Plains Indian, mountain men, and cavalry that made up the lore and lure of the old west. Appropriately entitled "the Dean of Western Action Painters", Frank McCarthy"s art was unsurpassed for its motion, drama, and absolute attention to accuracy and detail. Highly collected, and frequently imitated, Frank McCarthy's works were treasured throughout the world as classic examples of contemporary Western Art. Retrospective showings of Frank McCarthy's paintings have been held at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, La.; the Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Ok.; and in 1992, at the Cowboy Artist of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas. Frank McCarthy was invited to join the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America organizaton in 1975 and was an active member in the CAA group for 23 years.

He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1997. Five books of his paintings have been published-1 hardbound, 3 softbound, and 1 leather limited edition book. Over 100 limited edition art prints of his paintings have been published since 1974 by Greenwich Workshop, Shelton, Ct. Survivors include: children by his late wife Mary Farendorf - daughter Mary Jean McCarthy Tyll of Dallas, Texas and son Kevin C. McCarthy of Durango, Colorado; six grandchildren; brother Henry and sister Gertude Shevlin both of Florida; and wife Cynthia Bennett of Sedona, Arizona. Cremation has taken place and private services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the Frank and Cynthia McCarthy Scholarship fund at Little Big Horn College, P.O. Box 370, Crow Agency, Mt. 59022. For further information, please contact Big Horn Galleries, 1167 Sheridan Ave. Cody, Wy 82414 (307) 527-7587.

Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

Note: on some projects Frank McCarthy worked with Robert McGinnis.

Thunderball





You Only Live Twice




On Her Majesty's Secret Service


Colonel Sun paperback


Casino Royale


Dr. No


From Russia With Love


Goldfinger


Around the World Under the Sea


Where Eagles Dare


The Great Escape


The Dirty Dozen

1939: Detective Comics introduces The Bat-Man.

1950: Anthony Robert McMillan OBE (Robbie Coltrane) is born--Rutherglen, Scotland.
(He dies 14 October 2022 at age 72--Larbert, Scotland.)

Robbie Coltrane death: Harry Potter and James Bond star
dies aged 72

See the complete article here:

CultureFilmNews
Tom Murray | 14 October 2022

Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor best known for playing half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film franchise, has died aged 72.

His agent of 40 years, Belinda Wright, confirmed the news on Friday 14 October. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

Wright thanked the medical staff at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, near Falkirk in Scotland, for their “care and diplomacy”.

In a statement, she added: “Robbie was a unique talent, sharing the Guinness Book of Records’ Award for winning three consecutive Best Actor Baftas...

“For me personally, I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client as well as being a wonderful actor. He was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his Agent, I shall miss him.”

Aside from the towering, wizarding half-giant Hagrid, Coltrane also starred in two James Bond films as ex-KGB intelligence officer Valentin Zukovsky. The Russian mafia head was a recurring ally of Pierce Brosnan’s 007 in Goldeneye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999).

Coltrane as the imposing Rubeus Hagrid
(Warner Bros)

He will also be remembered for his breakout role as Dr Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald in Jimmy McGovern’s ITV series Cracker, which ran between 1993 and 2006.

The actor was born Anthony Robert McMillan on 30 March, 1950, in Glasgow, Scotland.

After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, Coltrane pursued a career in comic acting, beginning his career alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco in 1983.

Fry was among the first of a raft of actors to pay tribute to the late star.

“I first met Robbie Coltrane almost exactly 40 years ago,” Fry wrote on Twitter. “I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, ‘Alfresco’. Farewell, old fellow. You’ll be so dreadfully missed.”

In 2006, Coltrane was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama and in 2011, was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film.

The actor is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his children Spencer and Alice and their mother Rhona Gemmell.

1958: Raymond Chandler reviews Dr. No in The Sunday Times.

Originally posted on another forum by @Revelator.

THE TERRIBLE DR. NO

(March 30 1958) By RAYMOND CHANDLER

Ian Fleming first attracted me for three qualities which I thought—perhaps wrongly—almost unique in English writers. The first was escape from mandarin English, the forced pretentiousness, the preoccupation with the precise and beautiful phrase, which to me is seldom precise or beautiful, since our language contains an interior magic which belongs only to those who in a sense, care nothing about themselves.

The second was daring. He was not afraid to attempt any locale anywhere. He wrote expertly of
New York’s Harlem and Florida’s St. Petersburg, in both of which he didn’t miss a trick. He wrote of Las Vegas and did miss one small trick. He forgot the glass of ice water which is always the first thing a waitress or bus boy would place on your table.

What has happened to him in Dr. No is what happens to every real writer. He has found that a novel, a thriller, or what you choose to call it, is a world, that it has its own depth and subtleties, and that these can be expressed in an offhand way, without calling attention to themselves, and be very much alive.

The first chapter of Dr. No is masterly. The atmosphere and background of the elegant Richmond Road in Kingston, Jamaica, are established with clarity and charm. They had to be, or the ruthless violence which takes place there would be in a vacuum.

The third thing that attracted me in Ian Fleming’s writing was an acute sense at pace. How far to go, when to stop, when to destroy a mood and when to regain it, when to write a scene on a postcard and when to write richly and with leisure. Some of the most honoured novels lack this completely. You have to work at them. You don’t have to work at Fleming. He does the work for you.

The story concerns itself with a strange disappearance of two British agents in Jamaica, and why they disappeared, when no possible reason seemed clear. All was peace, so why suddenly in the night are they gone? James Bond is sent to find out—a trivial matter, a vacation in the sun. Yeah?

I have a few complaints. The beautiful girl does not appear until page 91, but in return for this she is allowed to live, and the last love scene is more gentle and compassionate than Ian Fleming usually permits. My second complaint is that the long sensational business which is the heart of the book not only borders on fantasy, it plunges into it with both feet. Ian Fleming’s impetuous imagination has no rules. I could wish he would write a book with all but one of his other qualities, yet with a plot which, at least to my world, seems part of what I know to be actual. The sequence is beautifully written, there are many very good things in it, especially detailed descriptions of the locale, the birds, the fishes—Fleming seems to be in love with rare fishes, and other dwellers in the water—some interiors, and a long torture scene which I thought a bit too sadistic, as though, he liked to write this sort of thing for its own sake.

The terrible Dr. No is a strange creature, but his motives become clear and his end very original. The beautiful girl this time is no sophisticated doll from the night clubs. The ending of the book is, as I said, written with an unusual tenderness—for Ian Fleming. I’m glad of that.

1959: Bond comic strip Moonraker begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 8 August 1959. 226-339) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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http://www.frederickmulder.com/john-mclusky



Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

Moonraker (Moonraker)

Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-7-1966/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 7: “Moonraker” (1966)

Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no31-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 31: “Moonraker” (1975)

1962: Ian Fleming collaborates with a TV producer leading to television's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1962: The Dr. No production completes 58 days of principal filming.
1966: Thunderball released in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

1979: Moonraker films Drax ejected into space.

1985: British Hovercraft Corporation/Vickers Supermarine's Princess Margaret SR.N4 Mk (as used in Diamonds Are Forever) is blown onto a Dover breakwater killing four.

https://impdb.fandom.com/wiki/Category:British_Hovercraft_Corporation_SR.N4

1999: The Kevin McClory Warhead 2000 AD project is terminated when MGM buys the Casino Royale film rights from Sony for $10 million as a court settlement.

2019: Tania Mallet dies at age 77--England.
(Born 19 May 1941--Blackpool, Lancashire, England.)

Tania Mallet, ‘Goldfinger’ Bond

Girl, Dies at 77
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/tania-mallet-dead-dies-goldfinger-james-bond-1203177293/
By Dave McNary

CREDIT: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

British actress and model Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson in the 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger, has died. She was 77.

The official James Bond Twitter account announced her death on Sunday. “We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in Goldfinger has passed away,” the tweet reads. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

Mallet was a first cousin to actress Helen Mirren. She was born in Blackpool, England, to British father Henry Mallet and Russian mother Olga Mironoff, a sibling of Mirren’s father.

Mallet was working as a model when she was cast as Masterson by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. She had previously auditioned for the role of Tatiana Romanova in 1963’s From Russia With Love, but lost the part to Daniela Bianchi.

In Goldfinger, Mallet’s character portrayed the sister of Shirley Eaton’s Jill Masterson, who betrays the villain Auric Goldfinger and is killed by him through “skin suffocation” after being completely painted in gold paint. Masterson, bent on avenging her sister’s death, is subsequently killed in the movie by Goldfinger’s servant, Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata), who throws a steel-rimmed hat at her.

Mallet told the James Bond fan site MI6 in 2003 that she had always been “more comfortable” in a small studio with “just a photographer and his assistant.”

“The restrictions placed on me for the duration of the filming grated, were dreadful, and I could not anticipate living my life like that,” she added.

Mirren said in her 2007 memoir, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, that Mallet was a “loyal and generous person” who helped pay for for her brothers’ education with her income as a model.

Tania Mallet (1941–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539965/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (2 credits)

1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Sara
- The Midas Touch (1976) ... Sara (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - Tilly Masterson

Self (10 credits)

2013 The Playboy Morning Show (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #2.99 (2013) ... Self
2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Self / Tilly Masterson
2012 This Morning (TV Series) - Self
- Episode dated 5 October 2012 (2012) ... Self
2012 007 Days of Bond: The Blu-Relay (Video documentary short) - Self - Actress

1972 What's It All About? (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #1.0 (1972) ... Self
1971 Glamour... (TV Series) - Self - Judge
- Episode #9.13 (1971) ... Self - Judge

1967 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #3.10 (1967) ... Self
1966 Late Show London (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #1.7 (1966) ... Self
1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Self
1961 Girls Girls Girls! (Documentary short) - Self

Archive footage (3 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Self
1995 A Day in the Life of GoldenEye (TV Special documentary short) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)

2022: Car & Driver reports Land Rover unveils Defender 90 as a Bond 60th Anniversary tribute.

Land Rover Defender 90 Dons James Bond Livery

See the complete article here:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39572189/land-rover-defender-james-bond-60th-anniversary/

The modified Defender 90 honors the Bond films' 60th anniversary with a black and gold color treatment.
By Eric Stafford | Mar 29, 2022

• The Land Rover Defender dons a black-and-gold livery to celebrate the 60th anniversary of James Bond films.
• Along with the commemorative design, this Defender 90 features a modified suspension and a fully integrated roll cage.
• This one-off Defender was driven by Mark Higgins–a stunt driver in four Bond films­–in the 2022 Bowler Defender Challenge rally race.

The automaker most often associated with James Bond is Aston Martin. However, Land Rovers have appeared in Bond films for almost 40 years, starting with Octopussy in 1983 and leading up to the most recent release of No Time to Die. To celebrate the film franchise's 60th birthday, Land Rover built a one-off Defender 90 with a black and gold livery.

Land Rover

Land Rover didn't only build a special version of the Defender so it could don 007 graphics overlaid with a giant 60 on its doors and roof; the company also modified it for rally racing. Enhancements include a unique suspension setup with different springs and modified subframes. The body was fitted with a new rear spoiler, and the 18-inch wheels were wrapped with all-terrain tires. Inside, the Defender was equipped with a fully integrated roll cage for added safety. Under the hood, its standard 296-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four was paired with a sport exhaust system. Its engine and transmission also benefited from upgraded cooling components.

Car and Driver

We’ve tested an unmodified Defender with the more powerful powertrain, the 395-hp turbo- and supercharged 3.0-liter inline-six, and the longer 110 wheelbase. It sprinted to 60 mph in 6.3 seconds and cleared the quarter-mile in 14.8 seconds at 94 mph.

Land Rover

Behind the wheel of this custom-built Land Rover Defender is Mark Higgins, who has also doubled as a stunt driver on the last four Bond films, including Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre. Higgins and his co-driver, Claire Williams, competed in the 2022 Bowler Defender Challenge rally race, which was held on March 26.

Land Rover

Land Rover Introduces Defender Rally Special - To Celebrate 60 Years Of James Bond

2025: 86 years of Batman. 85 years was 2024.

Fan creations
https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2022/06/catwoman-and-james-bond.html

https://www.deviantart.com/wv-films/art/James-Bond-and-Batman-689174489

RichardTheBruce

March 31st

1922: Bob Simmons is born--Fullham, London, England. (He dies 21 October 1987 at age 65.)

Bob Simmons (stunt man)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simmons_(stunt_man)

Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.

Biography
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.

Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.

Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Filmography

Ivanhoe (1952)
The Great Van Robbery (1957) - Peters
The Guns of Navarone (1961) - German Officer (uncredited)
Dr. No (1962) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
From Russia with Love (1963) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
The Long Ships (1964)
Goldfinger (1964) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
Thunderball (1965) - Colonel Jacque Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Shalako (1968)
The Adventurers (1969)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Next Man (1976) - London Assassin
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Ivan, KGB Thug (uncredited)
The Wild Geese (1978) - Pilot (uncredited)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)
A View to a Kill (1985)

Nobody Does It Better, Bob Simmons, 1987.

"When you double for James Bond you do it
for real. Stunts and all. You are plunged into
fantasy where life is lived in the fast lane."

Bob Simmons (I) (1922–1987)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799689/

Filmography

Stunts (49 credits)

1987 Going Bananas (stunt coordinator - as Robert Simmons)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt team supervisor)
1983 Octopussy (action sequences arranger)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1982 The Wall (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (action sequences arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts - uncredited)

1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) (action arranger)
1979 Moonraker (action sequence arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1979 Zulu Dawn (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Mister Deathman (stunt coordinator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (action arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones (fight instructor)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Happy Days Are Here Again (stunt coordinator)
1975 Paper Tiger (action arranger)
1975 The Wilby Conspiracy (stunts)
1974 Caravan to Vaccares (stunts: fight sequence)
1973 Live and Let Die (stunts co-ordinator)
1973 A Touch of Class (stunt and fight arranger)
1973 The Offence (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb (fight arranger)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Hopkins - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War (stunt arranger)
1970 The Adventurers (stunts - uncredited)

1968 Shalako (action sequences arranger)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunt double: Guy Doleman - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Genghis Khan (action sequences)
1964 Goldfinger (action sequences by) / (stunt double: Harold Sakata - uncredited) / (stunt double: Michael Mellinger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunt double - uncredited) / (train fight double: Sean Connery - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Night Creatures (fight sequence staged by)
1961 The Hellions (stunt double: Lionel Jeffries - uncredited)
1961 The Secret Ways (stunt supervisor)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Gregory Peck - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Scent of Mystery (stunt double: Denholm Elliott - uncredited)

1958 Tom Thumb (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited)
1957 Action of the Tiger (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Fire Down Below (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Zarak (stunts)
1954 The Black Knight (stunt double: Alan Ladd - uncredited)
1953 Paratrooper (stunts - uncredited)
1952 Ivanhoe (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Jamaica Inn (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (25 credits)

1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)

1978 The Wild Geese - Pilot (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - KGB Thug #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Next Man - London Assassin
1976 Montana Trap
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Jeep Driver / Card Player
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Jeep Driver (uncredited)
- To the Death, Baby (1971) ... Card Player (uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War - member of German sub crew (uncredited)

1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Fake Limo Driver
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Fake Limo Driver (uncredited)
1965 Thunderball - Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love- James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 Sparrows Can't Sing
Pub Patron (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Astronaut (uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone - German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Carlos, a pirate
1960 Exodus - Man of arms (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Perce's Opponent

1959 Great Van Robbery - Peters
1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Brading
- The Man Who Was Twice (1958) ... Brading
1958 Tank Force (aka No Time To Die) - Mustapha
1955 Tangier Assignment - Peter Valentine (as Robert Simmons)
1953 The Sword and the Rose - French Champion
1953 Bad Blonde - Booth Man (uncredited)

1939 Reform School - Johnny

Miscellaneous Crew (16 credits)

1982 The Final Option (action arranger)
1980 The Sea Wolves (action arranger)

1978 The Wild Geese (action arranger)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (master of horse)
1973 The Man Called Noon (action supervisor)
1971 Catlow (action sequence coordinator)
1970 The Adventurers (action sequences arranger: second unit)

1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (action arrangements)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences by)
1965 Thunderball (action sequences by)
1964 Goldfinger (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1964 The Long Ships (action sequences)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 The Pirates of Blood River (horse master) / (master at arms)
1961 The Naked Edge (fight arranger)

Camera and Electrical Department (2 credits)

George & Mildred (TV Series) (lighting director - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (lighting - 2 episodes, 1979)
- The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979) ... (lighting)
- A Military Pickle (1979) ... (lighting)
- I Believe in Yesterday (1978) ... (lighting director)
- The Right Way to Travel (1977) ... (lighting director)
- All Around the Clock (1977) ... (lighting director)
1977 The Upchat Line (TV Series) (lighting director - 1 episode)
- Accommodation Address (1977) ... (lighting director)

Art department (1 credit)

1987 Promised Land (storyboard artist)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (second unit director)

Producer (1 credit)

1973 The Man Called Noon (associate producer)

1935: Herb Alpert is born--Los Angeles, California. (He marries Lani Hall 1974.)

1943: Christopher Walken is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.

1958: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's sixth Bond novel Dr. No.

DR. NO

M hasn't forgiven Bond for the
negligence on his last assignment that
nearly cost Bond his life. Brusquely,
almost contemptuously, he tosses Bond
a time-wasting, shabby little case in the
Caribbean. It will really be a holiday
on an island in the sun -- convalescence.
Angrily, Bond accepts his orders. He
flies off to Jamaica. The sun shines,
the palm trees wave, the calypsos throb.
But on the horizon a cloud forms. It is
no bigger than a man's hand -- an arti-
culated steel hand -- the hand of Dr. No!

1960: In a letter to typist Jean Frampton, Ian Fleming credits her keen mind.

Fleming's 'Moneypenny' revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7314336.stm

May 2008 marks the centenary of
Ian Fleming's birth

Letters written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, due to be sold at auction next month, reveal a close relationship with his typist Jean Frampton.

In one letter, dated 31 March, 1960, he asks her to use her "keen mind" to help get his novel Thunderball "into shape".

"Anything your quick eye falls upon... would be endlessly welcome," he adds.

"You can look on Mrs Frampton as Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny," said Amy Brenan of Duke's auctioneers in Dorset, which is offering the letters for sale.

The auction will take place on 10 April to mark the centenary year of the writer's birth.

The entire collection, which includes four signed letters by Fleming, is expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000.

'Helpful'
Also included are letters written by Mrs Frampton and Fleming's secretaries, Una Trueblood and Beryl Griffie-Williams.

Hired to type the manuscripts of Fleming's books, Frampton found herself called upon to offer pointers on plot and literary style.

The collection is expected to fetch up to £3,000

"Your occasional comments on the work you have done for me have been so helpful," the author writes.

Frampton, who lived in the Dorset town of Christchurch, is believed never to have actually met Fleming.

Their correspondence, however, reveals a close relationship that extended to such Bond novels as You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun.

"The collection is interesting because it details how the James Bond books were put together in the early 1960s," said Ms Brenan.

1964: Agent 007 ... ser rött (Agent 007 ... Sees Red) released in Sweden.

Sean Connery in a new one...

1964: Goldfinger films OO7 and villain and the laser interrogation.

2016: Douglas Wilmer dies at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
(Born 8 January 1920--Brentford, London, England.)

Douglas Wilmer obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/05/douglas-wilmer-obituary-sherlock-holmes

Actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a steely antihero in the
1960s BBC TV adaptation of Conan Doyle’s stories

Douglas Wilmer, left, as Holmes, with Nigel Stock as Watson, in The Man with the Twisted Lip,
a 1965 episode of the BBC series Sherlock Holmes.
Photograph: BBC

Toby Hadoke | Tue 5 Apr 2016

Douglas Wilmer, who has died at the age of 96, was a wily, sardonic actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes on television. He was cast alongside Nigel Stock’s doughty Watson in a 1964 BBC adaptation of The Speckled Band, and then returned for a 12-episode series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories the following year. Wilmer gave his Holmes an arrogance that he found missing from his screen predecessors, and he felt that his steely antihero was closer to Conan Doyle’s intentions for the character.

He was frustrated by the process of making the series, frequently rewriting scripts, clashing with directors and ruing the short rehearsal time typical in television of that period. He did not return for the second series, where Stock was instead joined by Peter Cushing. Wilmer did revisit the role, though – on the big screen in the Gene Wilder film The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975).

Douglas Wilmer as Holmes in the 1975 Gene Wilder film
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

Son of Kate (nee Tavener) and Harry, Wilmer was born in London, but spent his childhood in Shanghai, where his father worked as an accountant. Douglas returned to the UK for education at King’s school, Canterbury, and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After a year there, he was called up for second world war service in the army and served as a troop commander in Nigeria and the Gambia, before being invalided out with tuberculosis.

After the war he secured leading roles in weekly repertory theatre in Rugby thanks to a recommendation from a fellow student from his Rada days, Elizabeth Melville, who was to become his first wife. He made his West End debut in Antony and Cleopatra at the Piccadilly theatre (1946), spent a season at the Shakespeare Memorial theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (1948) and joined the Old Vic company in 1951. Among his roles for them was the French king, Charles VI, in Henry V, for which he was singled out for praise by Kenneth Tynan.

Subsequent theatre roles for which he received strong notices included Warwick in St Joan opposite Siobhán McKenna (1954, Arts theatre, then St Martin’s theatre), Claudius to the Hamlet of Alan Bates (Nottingham Playhouse, then Cambridge theatre, 1970) and Patrick Delafield in David Hare’s Knuckle (Comedy theatre, 1974)

His television roles included Father Charles in It Is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer (1953, the earliest complete surviving TV play), the young hero in The Black Tulip (1956), Sir Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby (1957), King Charles II in The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1958), and parts in a number of ITV Plays of the Week, before he was cast as Holmes. After hanging up his deerstalker he largely took guest roles in popular series such as The Avengers (1966) and The Main Chance (1970), before adding an addendum to his connection with 221b Baker Street by playing Van Dusen in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971).

His film debut came as Dorset in Olivier’s Richard III (1955) and his other films included El Cid (1961), Cleopatra (1963, with Elizabeth Taylor), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967), as Nayland Smith, the dogged nemesis of Christopher Lee’s eponymous master villain, Patton (1970, with George C Scott), Antony and Cleopatra (1972, with his good friend Charlton Heston), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) and Octopussy (1983).

Growing disillusioned with the profession, he withdrew from acting to open a wine bar – inevitably called Sherlock’s – in Woodbridge, Suffolk. He was a self-taught painter, his work inspired by frequent visits to Malta, who exhibited his watercolours and was a member of the Ipswich Art Society. But there was no escaping his most famous role and he came to embrace the praise bestowed upon his performance by admirers such as the Sherlock Homes Society of London, which appointed him an honorary member.

Douglas Wilmer, right, with Charlton Heston in El Cid, 1961.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

He read a number of the Conan Doyle stories for Penguin audiobooks, took a cameo role as an irate customer at the Diogenes Club in an episode of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s TV series Sherlock (2012) and in 2014 contributed, with typical caustic humour, self-effacing wit and blunt candour, to the BFI’s DVD release of his Sherlock Holmes episodes. He published an autobiography, Stage Whispers, in 2009.

Wilmer’s first two marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife, Anne, and her daughter, Katherine.

• Douglas Wilmer, actor, born 8 January 1920; died 31 March 2016

Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932811/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2018: BBC's Radio 4 broadcasts its seventh Bond radio drama Moonraker.

Moonraker: The Radio Play

Original title: Moonraker
2018 } 1h 27m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12139140/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Moonraker (2018)
It's 1954 and Sir Hugo Drax has built an atomic rocket, Moonraker. But after a double-murder, James Bond goes undercover at Moonraker's secret base. He and agent Gala Brand discover possible treachery. Can they prevent a catastrophe?

Director Martin Jarvis
Writers
Ian Fleming (novel: original story); Archie Scottney (adaptation)

Cast (in credits order)
Toby Stephens ... James Bond (voice)
Samuel West ... Sir Hugo Drax (voice)
John Baddeley ... Sir Winston Churchill (voice)
Janie Dee ... Moneypenny (voice)
John Standing ... M (voice)
Julian Sands ... Q (voice)
Jared Harris ... Vallance (voice)
Patricia Hodge ... Professor Train (voice)
Katherine Kingsley ... Gala Brand (voice)
Nigel Anthony ... Basildon (voice)
Simon De Deney ... Meyer (voice)
Jon Glover ... Movietone (voice)
Ian Ogilvy ... Broadcaster (voice)
Matthew Wolf ... Brevett (voice)
Darren Richardson ... Countdown (voice)
Kenneth Danziger ... Captain (voice)
Martin Jarvis ... Ian Fleming (voice)

BBC Radio 4 - James Bond Radio Drama, Moonraker

2020: Original date for the No Time To Die World Premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London. Delayed to November and then some.

RichardTheBruce

April 1st

1931: George Baker is born--Varna, Bulgaria.
(He dies 7 October 2011 at age 80--West Lavington, Wiltshire, England.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Morris Baker, actor, writer and director: born Varna, Bulgaria 1 April 1931; MBE 2007; married 1950 Julia Squire (divorced 1974, died 1989; four daughters), 1974 Sally Home (died 1992; one daughter), 1993 Louie Ramsay (died 2011); died 7 October 2011.

George Baker (I) (1931–2011)

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Filmography

Actor (145 credits)

2007 New Tricks (TV Series) - Steve Palmer
- Ducking and Diving (2007) ... Steve Palmer
2007 Heartbeat (TV Series) - Maurice Dodson
- Vendetta (2007) ... Maurice Dodson
2005 Spooks (TV Series) - Hugo Ross
- The Russian (2005) ... Hugo Ross
2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
Charlie / Jack Magwood
- The House in the Woods (2005) ... Charlie / Jack Magwood
2003 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Cecil Newton - 6 episodes
2001 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series) - Berry Pomeroy
- O Happy Isle (2001) ... Berry Pomeroy
1987-2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Det. Chief Insp. Wexford - 50 episodes
2000 Back to the Secret Garden - Will Weatherstaff

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

1979 Empire Road (TV Series) - Mr. Butterworth
- Godfadder at Bay (1979) ... Mr. Butterworth
1968-1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Ballard / George King
- Print Out (1979) ... Robert Ballard
- The Bonegrinder (1968) ... George King
1978 Died in the Wool (TV Movie) - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
1978 The Thirty Nine Steps - Sir Walter Bullivant
1977 Colour Scheme (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Vintage Murder (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Opening Night (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Capt. Benson
1977 Three Piece Suite (TV Series) - Frank - This Situation / Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
- Come in, No.1/This Situation/All in the Mind (1977) ... Frank - This Situation
- Miss/Celluloid Dreams/Mea Culpa (1977) ... Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Tiberius - 10 episodes
1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Frank Chandler
- Baked Beans (1976) ... Frank Chandler
1976 Intimate Games - Professor Gottlieb
1976 Get Some In! (TV Series) - Wing-Commander Birch
- Flight (1976) ... Wing-Commander Birch
1976 The Twelve Tasks of Asterix - Prefect / Various (English version, voice)
1970-1976 Z Cars (TV Series) - Gerald / Calvin Flood / Gordon Glossop
- A Preacher in Passing (1976) ... Calvin Flood
- Friends (1974) ... Gordon Glossop
- A Big Shadow: Part 2 (1970) ... Gerald
- A Big Shadow: Part 1 (1970) ... Gerald
1975 Sea Area Forties (Short) - Commentator (voice)
1975 The Firefighters - Station Officer Harrison
1975 Three for All - Eddie Boyes
1975 Spy Trap (TV Series) - Colonel Jacoby
- April Sixty-Seven (1975) ... Colonel Jacoby
1975 Survivors (TV Series) - Arthur Wormley
- Genesis (1975) ... Arthur Wormley
1974 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Det. Inspector Martin
- The Final Chapter (1974) ... Det. Inspector Martin
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Martin Willis
- Murder on Demand (1974) ... Martin Willis
1974 Zodiac (TV Series) - Mark Braun
- The Cool Aquarian (1974) ... Mark Braun
1973 The Laughing Girl Murder (Short) - Chief Sopt Keegan
1973 Bowler (TV Series) - Stanley Bowler - 13 episodes
1973 Between the Wars (TV Series) - Walter Jeffries
- Voyage in the Dark (1973) ... Walter Jeffries
1973 A Warm December - Dr. Henry Barlow
1973 Because of the Cats - Boersma
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - George Dixon
- Your Witness (1973) ... George Dixon
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
- The Salesman's Job (1973) ... Mr. Lewis
1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Bowler
- Low Noon (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Left Hand Path (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- Smart Lad Wanted (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Great Frock Robbers (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series) - John Randall
- Two Into One Will Go (1972) ... John Randall
1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Philip Lockley
- Mandala (1972) ... Philip Lockley
1972 The Main Chance (TV Series - Major Donovan
- Love's Old Sweet Song (1972) ... Major Donovan
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Britten
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Britten
1971 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Morell
- Candida (1971) ... Morell
1970 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Bill Garland
- Golden Island (1970) ... Bill Garland
1970 The Goodies (TV Series) - Chief Beefeater
- Tower of London (1970) ... Chief Beefeater
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jamus Bondus
- Secret Agents Jamus Bondus (1970) ... Jamus Bondus
1970 The Executioner - Philip Crawford
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - John Mitchell
- Train and De-Train (1970) ... John Mitchell
1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Mark
- Games People Play (1970) ... Mark
1970 Kate (TV Series) - Tom Prentice
- One Good Turn (1970) ... Tom Prentice
-
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Sir Hilary Bray
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Lord Sutterwick
1969 Justine - British Ambassador David Mountolive
1968 The Sex Game (TV Series)
- Women Can Be Monsters (1968)
1968 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Wing Commander Stebbs
- Private Pimpernel (1968) ... Wing Commander Stebbs
1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
- Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
1957-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Kenny Baker / Theodore Quill / Mike / ...
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... Kenny Baker
- Love Life (1967) ... Theodore Quill
- The Paraffin Season (1965) ... Mike
- The Pillars of Midnight (1958) ... Dr. Stephen Monks
- The Constant Stranger (1957)
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Ernest Whipple
- Happiness Is E Shaped (1968) ... Ernest Whipple
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - The New Number Two
- Arrival (1967) ... The New Number Two
1967 You Only Live Twice - NASA Engineer (uncredited)
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Tim Johnson
- Myself, I have Nothing Against South Ken (1967) ... Tim Johnson
1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Martin
- Surface of Innocence (1967) ... Martin
1967 Mister Ten Per Cent - Lord Edward
1965-1967 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Jacques / Louie Summers / Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson / ...
- Days in the Trees (1967) ... Jacques
- The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966) ... Louie Summers
- Alice (1965) ... Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson
- The Navigators (1965) ... Vera
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Frank Ashton
- So Dark the Night (1966) ... Frank Ashton
1966 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Patrick
- Four Triumphant: St Patrick (1966) ... Patrick
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Matthew Hobhouse / Edward Jackson
- Up and Down (1966) ... Matthew Hobhouse
- The Queen and Jackson (1966) ... Edward Jackson
1966 The Master (TV Series short) - Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Death by Misadventure (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- World of Disbelief (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- The Squadron Leader (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Behind the Antlers (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Totty McTurk (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
1965 Londoners (TV Series) - Bruce
- Common Ground (1965) ... Bruce
1965 Undermind (TV Series) - Thallon
- End Signal (1965) ... Thallon
1965 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Peter Evett
- Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965) ... Peter Evett
1965 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Edward Drayton
- Insufficient Evidence (1965) ... Edward Drayton
1965 Curse of the Fly - Martin Delambre
1965 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bailey
- The Great Plane Robbery (1965) ... Bailey
1964 Curtain of Fear (TV Series) - Stewart Caxton - 6 episodes
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Geoffrey Harrison
- Any Other Business (1964) ... Geoffrey Harrison
1964 Rupert of Hentzau (TV Series) - Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V - 6 episodes
1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Lord Randolph (voice)
1964 The Full Man (TV Series documentary) - MacBeth
- Tragedy (1964) ... MacBeth
1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Gawaine
1963 It Happened Like This (TV Series) - Miles Standish
- The Hidden Witness (1963) ... Miles Standish
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Cargan
- Glidepath (1962) ... Cargan
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Dominic Père
- The Simple Case (1961) ... Dominic Père
1957-1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
Giorgio / Docker Starkie / Biff Loman / ...
- Faraway Music (1961) ... Giorgio
- The Square Ring (1959) ... Docker Starkie
- Death of a Salesman (1957) ... Biff Loman
- The Guinea Pig (1957) ... Nigel Lorraine
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Louis Cornudet
- Boule de Suif (1961) ... Louis Cornudet
1961 The Dickie Henderson Show (TV Series) - The Exchange Visit (1961)
1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Bill Walker
- Episode #2.31 (1961) ... Bill Walker
- Episode #2.30 (1961) ... Bill Walker
1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon - 9 episodes
1958 Tread Softly Stranger - Johnny Mansell
1958 The Moonraker - The Moonraker
1958 The Truth About Melandrinos (TV Series) - David Westbrook
1958 Doomsday for Dyson (TV Movie) - Goltsev
1957 No Time for Tears - Dr. Nigel Barnes
1957 Dangerous Youth - Padre
1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Percy French
- The Last Troubadour (1957) ... Percy French
1956 Hell in Korea - The National Servicemen: Lt. Butler / Lt Butler
1956 Adventure Theater (TV Series)
- The Wilful Widow (1956)
1956 The Extra Day - Steven Marlow
1956 The Gentle Touch - Jim
1955 The Woman for Joe - Joe Harrop
1955 The Dam Busters - Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955 PT Raiders - Bill Randall
1953 The Intruder - Adjutant

Writer (3 credits)

1991-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (adaptation - 5 episodes)
- Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... (adaptation)
- Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... (adaptation)
- The Strawberry Tree: Part 1 (1995) ... (adaptation)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (adaptation)
- From Doon with Death: Part One (1991) ... (adaptation)

1982 Imaginary Friends (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- Fatal Spring (1980) ... (screenplay)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

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

Soundtrack (1 credit)

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

Self (25 credits)

Archive footage (4 credits)

Up Pompei! Jamus Bondus

1944: Aliza Gur is born--Ramat Gan, Israel.

1957: The Daily Express serializes From Russia With Love.

1961: Goldfinger ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 3 October 1960. 698-849.)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 1) | Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 2)


Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk2-goldfinger-1965/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 2: “Contra Goldfinger” (Interpresse 1965)

1963: This month the London Magazine published the James Bond spoof story "Bond Strikes Camp" by Cyril Connolly.

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/connolly-cyril-bond-strikes-camp-london-the-5906696-details.aspx

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/bond-strikes-camp-156688.html

1963: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's tenth Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

ON HER MAJESTY'S
SECRET SERVICE

'It was one of those Septembers when
it seemed that the summer would never
end . . . '

But it did end and winter came in a
lethal welter of mystery. Bloodshed
and multiple death amid the snow.

This the eleventh chapter in the
biography of James Bond, is one of the
longest. It is also the most enthralling.

Really the most? Really the most.

1963: Principal filming of From Russia With Love begins at Pinewood Studios with Bond's arrival in M's office. Moneypenny. And Q.
1963: Agent 007 released in Norway.

1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's twelfth and final Bond novel The Man With the Golden Gun.

1965: 007 ゴールドフィンガー (007 Gōrudofingā) released in Japan.

1969: Gazino Royal 007 released in Turkey.

1981: Richard Marek publishes John Gardner's Licence Renewed in the US as License Renewed.

1990: Armchair Detective Library publishes John Gardner's Licence to Kill.

1992: VHS video releases of James Bond Jr in the United States.

James Bond Jr. 1 April 1992 The Beginning
James Bond Jr. 1 April 1992 A Chilling Affair
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 The Eiffel Missile
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 No Such Loch
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 A Race Against Disaster
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Dance of the Toreadors
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Red Star One
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Goldie's Gold Scam

1997: The Kanakee Illinois Daily Journal falsely proposes local filming for the next James Bond film "The Anastasia Answer" and invites auditions.

2012: Cinema Retro exposes an April Fool's joke involving James Bond and the Queen.

JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S
JOKE

See the complete article here:

https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6645-JAMES-BOND-TEAMS-WITH-THE-QUEEN-APRIL-FOOLS-JOKE.html

Cinema Retro
JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S JOKE

Here's an ambitious April Fool's joke.

The web sites for the London tabloids the Daily Express and The Sun report that Her Majesty The Queen will be teaming with Daniel Craig for a special James Bond promotional stunt for the opening of the London summer Olympics. According to the Sun, Her Majesty has granted access to Buckingham Palace to film a mini-movie that will air on opening night of the games, which will be followed by Daniel Craig parachuting into the Olympics opening ceremony. The Sun reports that Oscar winning director Danny Boyle will oversee directing the events. Before everyone gets excited, we do caution readers to remember this story has appeared on April Fool's Day. The Daily Express reports that Craig actually did film scenes at the palace in February, but they were for the new Bond film Skyfall and featured a look-a-like of Her Majesty. This is a story that contrasts substantially with the Sun's account.

If all this is still being reported as fact tomorrow, maybe we'll be convinced there might be a tiny grain of truth to the notion that perhaps something was filmed inside the Palace, but for now it appears to be an elaborate April Fool's joke, as there is NO WAY Daniel Craig is parachuting into the Olympics!

For the Daily Express report, click here.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/311833/On-Her-Majesty-s-Secret-Service

For The Sun's report click here.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4232299/James-Bond-news-Daniel-Craig-has-been-invited-by-The-Queen-to-open-the-2012-Olympic-games.html

UPDATE: Well. it's April 2 and the mainstream British press are still reporting this story as though it is true. Until Craig confirms it, we don't believe it. If this does turn out to be an April Fool's joke, there will be a lot of discredited newspapers. Let's see what develops...

Posted by Cinema Retro in James Bond 007 News on Sunday, April 1. 2012

2015: Skyfall filming in Mexico comes to a close.
2016: : The New York Post reports Ben Whishaw suggesting a Daniel Craig return in the next Bond film.

Ben Whishaw thinks Daniel Craig will
return as James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://nypost.com/2016/04/01/ben-whishaw-thinks-daniel-craig-will-return-as-james-bond/

By Barbara Hoffman | April 1, 2016
Ben Whishaw. Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

Somewhere under the massive beard he sports in “The Crucible” lies Ben Whishaw. The fine-boned British star of “London Spy” and the last two James Bond flicks hasn’t been this furry since voicing the bear in “Paddington.”

Indeed, “Crucible” director Ivo van Hove has populated Arthur Miller’s classic with an army of men in beards.

“I think everyone arrived with one,” muses Whishaw, 35, stroking his chin. “But Ivo works like that. He doesn’t say much, but everyone knows what they need to do . . . He sort of makes little corrections, and slowly, something emerges.”

One thing that emerged was a need to choreograph the brawl between Whishaw’s upright, married John Proctor and his fatal attraction, Saoirse Ronan’s Abigail.
Ben Whishaw in “The Crucible” on Broadway.Jan Versweyveld

“ ‘I think maybe you should push her to the ground, fumble around,’ ” Whishaw recalls the director saying. “So Saoirse and me do it in rehearsal, and it’s great. But then you do it eight times a week and you’re black and blue. Actually, she broke her finger!”

This isn’t Whishaw’s first Proctor: He starred in a school production of “The Crucible” at age 15. At 23, he landed the lead in “Hamlet” at London’s Old Vic and has worked steadily since.

He says the best parts of playing the nerdy gadget-master Q in “Skyfall” and “Spectre” were his scenes with Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Despite Craig’s “I’d rather slash my wrists than play James Bond again” remark, Whishaw suspects his co-star won’t hang up his Walther PPK any time soon.

“I feel sorry for Daniel because I think he spoke to a journalist the day after he finished what must have been an eight- or nine-month shoot,” Whishaw says. “The poor guy was on his knees with exhaustion and he said something flippant . . . All I saw, working with him, was someone incredibly committed.”

His own commitments have kept him away from the East London home he shares with his husband, composer Mark Bradshaw. So much for the actor’s life — though Whishaw wouldn’t have it any other way.

“My parents aren’t theater people, but they never said, ‘Well, you should have something to fall back on.’ They just said, ‘Go for it, son!’ ”

And from under his beard, you can see a smile.

RichardTheBruce

1998: Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine promises All Bonds Mode coming for GoldenEye 007.

https://goldeneye.fandom.com/wiki/4_Bonds_Hoax

2004: A James Bond-related website repeats unfounded rumors regarding Orson Welles and an attempt to film Moonraker in 1956.

https://spywhothrills.com/moonrakerfleming

2006: The Guardian proposes a Sid James connection to James Bond.

'The name's Bond. Sid James Bond'

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/apr/01/news.xanbrooks

Junked Bond ... Ian Fleming favourite Sid James (left) eventually made way
for Sean Connery (right) in the 007 role

Xan Brooks | @XanBrooks | Sat 1 Apr 2006
The list of the actors who have been considered for the role of James Bond is almost as long as the complete credits of a 007 production. Now an extra name can be set alongside the likes of David Niven, James Mason and Cary Grant - that of Carry On star Sid James.

A recently discovered screen test, filmed back in 1962, confirms a long-standing rumour that the bawdy comedian auditioned for the lead role in Dr No, the first film in the 007 series. James is believed to have been the favoured choice of Bond author Ian Fleming, but eventually rejected the role due to concerns that he might be typecast. The producers eventually offered the part to Scottish actor Sean Connery.

The screen test, included as an extra on the forthcoming DVD box-set of Bless This House, shows James brandishing a Walther PPK as he confronts the film's villain at the movie's climax. Apparently due to budgetary constraints, the other characters in the scene are played by James's regular Carry On co-stars. Barbara Windsor is Honey Ryder, a role that would eventually be taken by Ursula Andress. Kenneth Williams cameos as M, while Charles Hawtrey brings a silky menace to the character of Dr No.

"The story that Sid was offered the role of James Bond has been known within industry circles for years," explained Michael Sharona, author of the James biography, Carry On Sidney. "But it is wonderful to have it finally proved. Sid might seem like a surprising choice, but he is extremely good in the role. There is an elegance and a sense of mystery about him. It reveals a side of himself he did not often get the chance to show in his other films."

After turning down the Bond role, James went on to make a number of other successful Carry On comedies. At the time of his death, in 1976, he was reported to have signed to star in an unofficial sequel to Carry On Cabbie. According to sources, the film - entitled Taxi Driver and set in New York - would have revealed a darker side to the Sid James screen persona.
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2016: The Daily Mail prints an exclusive--Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman cast as first female James Bond.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518227/Now-S-real-Bond-girl-O-O-Olivia-Coleman-lined-play-007-Broadchurch-star-set-make-history-taking-Daniel-Craig-movie.html"

2018: A remake of Moonraker is announced.

https://theworldofjamesbond.blog/2017/04/01/bond-25-the-remake-of-moonraker/
https://www.deviantart.com/armalarm/art/Moonraker-Reboot-333482459

2019: MGM and Bond producers announce Season 2 for James Bond Jr.

Commander James Bond - CJB

EON annonce une saison 2 à la série James Bond Jr. !

http://www.commander007.net/2019/04/eon-annonce-saison-2-a-serie-james-bond-jr/
By Clément Feutry | - 21 heures ago | - in Actualités, Les Films 0

Original English version below.

Pinewood Studios (31 mars 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson et Barbara Broccoli, producteurs des films de James Bond, annoncent aujourd’hui une seconde saison à la série d’animation JAMES BOND JR. originellement diffusée en 1991. Dans celle-ci, le neveu de l’espion international James Bond, James Bond Jr., était déterminé à suivre les traces de son oncle. James Bond Jr. et ses amis I.Q. (le petit-fils de Q) et Gordo Leiter (fils de l’agent de la CIA, Felix) s’inscrivaient à Warfield, une école préparatoire au Royaume-Uni située sur le terrain d’une ancienne base de formation au contre-espionnage. Ensemble, les camarades de classe se battaient contre S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), un cartel international de terroristes et de scientifiques fous. Michael G. Wilson :

Quand on a créé James Bond Jr., on voulait raconter une histoire sous un angle nouveau qui parlerait aux enfants des deux cotés de l’Atlantique, tout en rendant hommage au personnage de James Bond avec lequel les plus « grands enfants » ont grandit et ont appris à aimé. Cela fait un moment déjà que nous cherchions à relancer la série mais avions peur de rester trop similaire à l’originale. Le monde ayant bien changé depuis les années ’90, notamment grâce aux nouvelles technologies informatiques, et avec le reboot de la saga avec CASINO ROYALE, nous pensions qu’il était temps de faire revenir la série en l’actualisant à notre époque.

Collaborant avec MGM et EON, l’équipe créative de Titmouse, Inc. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) sera en charge de l’animation et de la coécriture. Le Chief creative officer de Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina :

C’est un honneur de faire partie de la franchise Bond et de travailler avec les équipes prestigieuses de la MGM. Nous avons été impliqués dans le projet parce que nous avons toujours été fans de Bond, qu’étant une entreprise américaine nous pouvions plus facilement écrire pour le public américain, et surtout parce que nous avions la même idée pour relancer la série : la situer aujourd’hui. Notre série n’est pas la suite de l’originale [qui se finissait avec Bond Jr. récupérant le marteau de Thor] mais plutôt une remise à zéro, une sorte de reboot comme ils ont plus faire il y a quelques années avec les films. Les fans de la série originale ne serreront toutefois pas déçus dans la mesure où nous avons gardé le meilleur de celle-ci et la même structure. Nous avons cependant vraiment voulu nous servir de ce que Daniel Craig a apporté à la franchise en ancrant notre série dans son « ère » afin de la mettre au goût du jour.

Des changements ont ainsi été opérés pour que le jeune public puisse davantage s’identifier aux derniers films :

Notre James Bond Jr. sera blond et nous avons également penser à changer la couleur de peau de Gordo Leiter pour refléter la participation de Jeffrey Wright aux derniers films. Ce dernier personnage est très important pour nous car il s’agit de la connexion principale avec la culture et la mode américaine qui peut contraster avec celle britannique, donnant un peu de comique à l’ensemble. Dans la série originale Gordo est fan de surf mais ce sport faisant moins rêver les jeunes qu’il y a trente ans, nous avons décidé de lui donner un look « gansta » avec notamment une casquette rouge « make rap great again » afin de l’actualiser pour 2019. De même, Ben Whishaw faisant trop jeune pour être grand-père, nous avons fait de I.Q. le petit frère de Q au lieu de son petit-fils. Nous avons également supprimé le personnage de Tracy Milbanks au profit d’un nouveau : Madeleine Milbanks. Il était très important pour eux et pour nous que la série reflète les films, dit Tim Kalina.

L’une des grandes nouveautés de la série sera la présence de scènes d’action dans un univers de réalité virtuelle :

Les casques de réalité virtuelle ont envahi le marché ces dernières années et vu que notre I.Q. est une sorte de « geek » fan de jeux vidéo on s’est dit que ce serait amusant que Bond Jr. doive affronter S.C.U.M. dans des mondes virtuels crées par I.Q. et son alter ego « génie-informaticien » du camp des méchants, Boris (comme dans la série orignal nous faisons revenir des méchants emblématiques des films comme Boris ou encore Elvis). Ce qui est génial c’est que dans un monde en réalité virtuelle on peut tout faire : changer l’époque, introduire des éléments fantastiques et même abroger les lois de la physique lorsque l’on en a envie ; je pense que ça créer de superbes décors et des combats originaux jamais vus auparavant dans la saga.

Pour le producteur associé Gregg Wilson « la série s’annonce déjà encore meilleure que la précédente, j’ai récemment pu assister à une projection test avec des enfants d’un premier jet d’un épisode où le S.C.U.M. vole la Statue de la Liberté et la tour Eiffel pour demander une rançon ; les retours étaient merveilleux. Ils ne peuvent attendre que la série sorte et je pense que leurs parents aussi, qui n’auront d’ailleurs pas à s’inquiéter car la violence est très réduite et aucun personnage ne meurt à l’écran. On est partie sur un peu moins d’épisodes que la première saison, seulement une quarantaine [contre 65]. D’autant plus que cette fois il y aura un fil conducteur, cela concerne le père de Bond Jr. (le frère de James Bond), je ne peux rien dire de plus mais si vous avez vu SPECTRE, vous avez déjà une idée sur quoi vous attendre… ».

« Et puisque nous avons estimé que deux James Bond Jr. girls ne sont pas suffisantes, nous pouvons d’ores et déjà annoncer un partenariat avec Zodiak Media qui permettra à Bond Jr. de faire équipe avec les agentes secrètes des TOTALLY SPIES! au complet le temps d’un épisode. C’est l’une des nombreuses surprises qui attendent les fans de la nouvelle série ».

La saison 2 de James Bond Jr., produite par MGM et EON Production, réalisée par Titmouse, Inc., et distribuée par MGM sera diffusée début 2020 au Royaume-Uni sur BBC One et suivra peu après aux États-Unis sur NBC. Une gamme de jouets et de comics sera plus tard dévoilée dans le courant de l’année.

Source : 007.com.

Pour « fêter » ça, on se re-regardera bien le premier épisode de la série originale…


Et si l’anglais n’est pas votre tasse de thé, en VF ça donne :


La série originale avait également été adaptée en comics à l’époque…

English version :
Pinewood Studios (March 31, 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, announced today a second season for the animated series JAMES BOND JR. originally released in 1991. In the original, the international spy James Bond’s nephew, James Bond Jr., was determined to follow in his uncle’s footsteps. James Bond Jr. and his friends I.Q. (Q’s grandson) and Gordo Leiter (son of CIA agent Felix) enrolled in Warfield, a preparatory school located on the grounds of an old counter intelligence training base in the UK. Together, the schoolmates fought against S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), an international cartel of terrorists and mad scientists. Michael G. Wilson on the new series:

« When we created James Bond Jr., we wanted to tell a story from a new angle that would speak to children on both sides of the Atlantic, while paying tribute to the character of James Bond who the « older children » grew up with and have learned to love. It’s been a while since we thought about restarting the series but were afraid it’d too similar to the original. The world has changed a lot since the 90s, thanks to the computer technologies, and with the reboot of the film series, we thought it was time to bring back the series by updating it to our time.

Collaborating with MGM and EON Productions, the creative team of TITMOUSE, INC. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) will be in charge of animation and co-writing. Chief Creative Officer of Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina:

« It’s an honor to be part of the Bond franchise and to work with the prestigious MGM team. We were involved in the project because we were always fans of Bond, and being an American company we could write more easily for the American public, and especially because we had the same idea to relaunch the series: to update it for audiences of today. Our series is not a continuation of the original [which ended with Bond Jr. recovering Thor’s hammer] but rather a reboot, similar to the kind of reboot they did a few years ago for the movies. Fans of the original series will not be disappointed since we took the best of the original series and kept the same structure. However, we really want to use what Daniel Craig has brought to the franchise by anchoring our series in the current ‘era’ to bring it up to date ».

Changes have been made so that young audiences can identify more with the latest films:

« Our James Bond Jr. will be blond and we changed the skin color of Gordo Leiter to reflect Jeffrey Wright’s participation in the movies. This last character is very important to us because he is the main connection with America’s culture and fashion, which can contrast with the British one, giving a little comedic style to the whole series. In the original series Gordo is a fan of surfing, but this sport is less appealing for young people than it was thirty years ago, so we decided to give him a ‘gansta’ style, especially with a red cap with the inscription « Make Rap Great Again » in order to update him for 2019. Similarly, since Ben Whishaw is too young to be a grandfather, we changed I.Q. to Q’s little brother instead of his grandson. We also changed Tracy Milbanks to Madeleine Milbanks. It is very important for MGM, EON and for us that the series reflects the current movies », says Tim Kalina.

One of the big novelties of the series will be the presence of action scenes in a world of virtual reality:

« Virtual reality headsets have invaded the market in recent years and as our I.Q. is a kind of ‘geek’ video game fan we thought it would be fun for Bond Jr. to face S.C.U.M. in virtual worlds created by I.Q. and his alter-ego ‘genius-computer scientist’ baddie, Boris (as in the original series we’re bringing back emblematic villains of the films like Boris and Elvis). The great thing is that in a world of virtual reality you can do anything: change the era, introduce fantastic elements and even do away with the laws of physics when you want to; I think that it creates beautiful scenery and original fights like never seen before in the saga ».

For Associate Producer Gregg Wilson: « The show is already looking better than the previous one, I was recently able to see a test screening with kids of an episode where S.C.U.M. steals the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower and demand a ransom; the returns were wonderful. They can’t wait for the show to come out and I think their parents won’t either. They won’t worry because the violence is very light and no characters die on the screen. We went with fewer episodes than the first season, only forty. Especially since this time there will be a common thread, it concerns the father of Bond Jr. (the brother of James Bond), I can’t say anything more but if you saw SPECTRE, you already have an idea about what to expect… »

« Since we felt that two James Bond Jr. girls are not enough, we can already announce a partnership with ZODIAK MEDIA that will allow Bond Jr. to team up with the full team secret agents of the TOTALLY SPIES! for one episode. This is one of the many surprises that awaiting fans of the new series ».

Season 2 of James Bond Jr., produced by MGM and EON Productions, directed by Titmouse, Inc. and distributed by MGM will be broadcast in early 2020 in the UK on BBC One and will follow shortly after in the USA on NBC. A range of toys and comics will be unveiled later this year.

Source : 007.com.

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https://twitter.com/corgi/status/1509802853417820160

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2023: Jimmy Buffet's website reveals Eon's new direction for James Bond.

Jimmy Buffett Cast as Next James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://buffettworld.com/2023/04/01/jimmy-buffett-cast-as-next-james-bond/

April 1st, 2023

With Daniel Craig finishing his role as 007 in 2021’s No Time to Die, much speculation has been swirling as to who will portray the suave MI6 agent James Bond in future films.

The wait is over. Eon Productions announced this morning that singer Jimmy Buffett will take over the role beginning in 2025 with The Spy Who Got Drunk and Screwed Me.

The choice of Buffett is a dramatic departure for Eon and the James Bond Franchise, especially considering the fact that Buffett is an American, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Producer Barbara Broccoli said of the choice: “after the massive success of Daniel Craig as Bond, we felt that choosing another young, handsome Brit to play everyone’s favorite secret agent would be too cliche. Jimmy Buffett is the perfect choice to disrupt the James Bond universe.”

While known primarily for his 50+ year career as a singer, Buffett is no stranger to the screen. He’s made multiple appearances on the television show Hawaii Five-O as well as a recent guest slot on Blue Bloods. Cameo appearances were also made in the 1995 film Congo and in 2015’s Jurassic World where he’s seen saving margaritas in the midst of a dinosaur attack.

The 76-year-old singer is expected to do many of his own stunts, from piloting airplanes to surfing and snowboarding.

Not everyone is on board with choice of Buffett. One person confused by the selection is British actor Idris Elba, who was seen as a leading candidate to take over the role. When reached for comment, Elba said “really?”

Buffett is expected to portray Bond in at least three films. Titles being discussed include From Margaritaville with Love, Goldfins, The Fruitcake is Not Enough, License to Chill and Octogenarianpussy.

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https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/licence-revoked-for-tobacco-as-cigarettes-will-be-digitally-removed-from-james-bond-films-240401