On This Day

RichardTheBruce

June 28th

1961: Variety comments on Broccoli and Saltzman.

Variety declares:

"A.R. (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman have joined forces in a production setup. As a start, they have acquired screen rights to all the Ian Fleming yarns on James Bond, and plan to put the first into production in Britain this fall. Initial one will be ‘From Russia With Love.’”

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films a cheeky Tiffany Case.

1984: Hong Kong release of Never Say Never Again.

1986: Sotheby's Entertainment Memorabilia Auction sells an Aston Martin DB5 (BMT216A) from Goldfinger for $275,000.

2013: Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville returns to Stoke Park for its first James Bond Golf Day.

2015: BOND 24 films at the Millennium Bridge, Southbank, London.

RichardTheBruce

Regarding 18 June you must be right @Thunderfinger.

Apologies for delay in posting 29 June. Lost phone coverage in the Rocky Mtn Foothills.

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

Regarding 18 Juneyou must be right @Thunderfinger.

Apologies for delay in posting 29 June. List phone coverage in the Rocky Hill Mtn Foothills.

Nice! Spotted any birds? Or haven t you departed yet?

RichardTheBruce

(Wow, I really fat fingered that last post made in the bright sun when I got a signal
back).

Moved to second location further south, @Thunderfinger. So far I can report Turkey Vultures, Snow Buntings, Gray Jays. Canada geese. American Robin. Unidentified Hummingbirds. Also Vireos, Cormorants, Woodpeckers. No great shakes but I'm having a great time.

RichardTheBruce

June 29th

1943: Soon-Tek Oh is born--Mokpo, Republic of Korea. (He dies 4 April 2018 at age 85--Los Angeles, California.)

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/187375/summary

Short obit from a Korean source.

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3046619

Pioneering actor Oh Soon-tek is dead at 85
Apr 07,2018
이미지뷰

Actor Oh Soon-tek, one of the first Korean actors to be noticed in Hollywood, passed away due to a chronic disease at the age of 85 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Oh was an ambitious college student who, after graduating with a degree in political science at Yonsei University in 1959, flew to Los Angeles to study international relations. However, after arriving in California, he changed his studies to acting and playwriting at the University of California Los Angeles, and then went on to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York.

Oh made his acting debut in the Broadway play “Rashomon” in 1964, and got his big break in 1974 as the of role Lieutenant Hip in the film “The Man with the Golden Gun,” which was part of the James Bond movie series. Soon after, the actor appeared in numerous movies including well-known films “Good Guys Wear Black” (1978), “Beverly Hills Ninja” (1997) and the hit Walt Disney animation “Mulan” (1998).

In 2001, Oh came back to Korea to work as a professor at the Korea National University of Arts as well as a jury member for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

By Sung Ji-eun

1963: Terence Young films Rosa Klebb briefing Tatiana Romanova.
1964: Comic strip On Her Majesty's Secret Service debuts in The Daily Express. (Ends 15 May 1965. 1-274)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

http://rooschristoph.blogspot.com/2018/06/james-bond-comics.html



http://www.007magazine.co.uk/bloodysnow/snow03.htm


https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=870830



http://jamesbondcomicart.co.uk/james-bond-originals-for-sale/






1988 Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3?s=comics&id=02331



Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no33-1975/



Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no11-1967/

1979: Moonraker general release in the US.

1985: Taiwan release of A View to a Kill.
2012: BOND 23 confirms Daniel Kleinman as titles designer.

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

(Wow, I really fat fingered that last post made in the bright sum when I got a signal
back).

Moved to second location further south, @Thunderfinger. So far I can report Turkey Vultures, Snow Buntings, Gray Jays. Canada geese. American Robin. Unidentified Hummingbirds. Also Vireos, Cormorants, Woodpeckers. No great shakes but I'm having a great time.

Good going. A slight correction to the above: OHMSS is drawn by John Mc Lusky.You accidentally typed in Horak.

RichardTheBruce

That's actually an error I noticed was carried forward from a year ago but forgot to correct.

Thanks as always for keeping this information straight, @Thunderfinger. John McLusky has a distinct style, especially on some of these panels.

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

That's actually an error I noticed was carried forward from a year ago but forgot to correct.

Thanks as always for keeping this information straight, @Thunderfinger. John McLusky has a distinct style, especially on some of these panels.

Yes, Mc Lusky and Horak are both great artists.

RichardTheBruce

June 30th

1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary entry.

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

Wednesday 30 June, 1943

I. dined yesterday, well and in good spirits and questioning me about the office. [After the death of Russell’s husband, Gilbert, in 1942, Fleming got her a job in the Admiralty’s propaganda division.] He says: you mustn’t do too much – and pities and admonishes me. But I tell him not to pity me, that he has saved my life, or given me a new one, that I am engrossed in the work and as happy as I could be under the circumstances.

We talked a lot about the Admiralty. He has various very significant jobs and is an important person. The work is the work that would suit him. I knew him first when he was 23, a clerk at Reuters and starting out – or dashing out – into the world, a life. That is more than 11 years ago.

1978: Salainen agentti 007 Istanbulissa (Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul) re-released in Finland.
(Swedish title Den hemliga agenten 007 i Istanbul, or The Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul.)

Original 1963 poster.

1987: General release of The Living Daylights in the UK.

2016: Joe Powell dies at age 94--London England. (Born 21 March 1922--Shepherd's Bush, London, England.)

Joe Powell, stuntman – obituary
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/27/joe-powell-stuntman--obituary/


Joe Powell, doubling for Sean Connery on the set of The Man Who Would be King
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Joe Powell, who has died aged 94, was known as the “daddy of British stuntmen” for the gut-wrenchingly high-risk feats he performed in classic adventure films such as Where Eagles Dare and The Guns of Navarone.

For The Man Who Would Be King, John Huston’s adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story filmed in the Atlas mountains, Powell, “doubling” for Sean Connery, had to plunge 100 ft from a collapsed rope bridge into a perilous ravine: if he had missed the target area covered with boxes to cushion his fall, he would have plummeted a further 2,000 ft. The co-star Michael Caine walked away saying: “I’m not going to watch this one.” Huston was delighted, saying it was “the darnedest stunt I ever saw”.

Joe Powell falls through the air in The Man who Would be King
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

During the course of his career Powell suffered a few broken ribs, and a broken hip after a horse fell on him, but he did not allow himself to be unduly troubled by nerves. “The thing is,” he explained, “you don’t have time to be scared – if you stop to think about what you are doing you wouldn’t do it… I didn’t have any training so when I performed a stunt the audience were literally seeing someone fall off a cliff – it made it more realistic.”

Joe Powell in the 1950s
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Joseph Augustus Powell was born on March 21 1922 at the Shepherd and Flock public house, Shepherd’s Bush, where his father, Joseph, a former quartermaster sergeant in the Life Guards, was the landlord. Joe was brought up in Camden where his father had the tenancy of a pub called the Camden Head, then in Chelsea where, after the death of his father, his mother Ada (neé Blunt) ran the Prince of Wales in Dover Street.

Joe was one of five siblings; his only brother, Eddie, also became a stuntman. Whiling away his spare time while his parents were running the pub, he joined first the Cubs and then the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers Cadet Corps. He enjoyed soldiering, and soon after the outbreak of war, when he was still only 17, he joined the Grenadier Guards. To break the monotony of drill and PT he took up boxing with the regimental team, but as the war progressed he was selected for No 4 Special Service (Commando) unit, taking part in the 1942 raid on Dieppe, during which he was briefly knocked out, and in the D-Day invasion.

No 4 Commando: Joe Powell is on the far left Credit: Penelope Reiffer

With the war in Europe over, Powell was sent to Germany, where he learnt to ride. He had little idea of what he was going to do apart from vague thoughts of becoming a professional boxer. But in 1946 a chance meeting at a bus stop with the actor Dennis Price led to Powell visiting the studios where Price was filming a Napoleonic-era musical with Stewart Granger called The Magic Bow.

Powell was struck by how comically unrealistic Napoleon’s “crack soldiers” were and determined that here might be an opening. “I’m going into the film industry,” he told his friends, “to bring realism into action films.”

Demobbed in the rank of sergeant, he managed to get a job as an extra at Pinewood. He was sparring at the Polytechnic Boxing Club in Regent Street and through a friendship there he ended up as a founding partner in a stunt team set up by Captain Jock Easton MC, who was just out of the SAS.

For Powell’s first big stunt, in The Small Voice, filmed at Ealing Studios, he played a motorcycle policeman pursuing a criminal gang in a car. He had to simulate being shot at, swerving off the road at 40 mph and crashing into a tree. The stunt was so lifelike that the prop man assumed Powell really had been injured.

Joe Powell takes to the air in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Powell appeared in nearly 100 films, including Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), Moby Dick (1956), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). It was not unusual for him to be blown up, machine-gunned or otherwise “killed” multiple times in one picture, as when he played German soldiers in Where Eagles Dare (1968). He always insisted that he had not trained to be a stuntman, though one special skill he had was falling from heights.

As well as the rope bridge fall in The Man Who Would Be King, there was a dramatic plunge 90 ft down from the side of a sinking ship (Titanic) in A Night to Remember in 1958, filmed in Glasgow docks. Then in 1961 for The Guns of Navarone he took the role of a German shot by Gregory Peck and dropping 90 ft from a cave into the sea by the island of Rhodes. It went without a hitch, though he was heavily bruised.

Joe Powell during the filming of Zulu
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Living through a golden age of films with military themes, Powell applied his own Army experience to his projects. In 1964 he took on a rare acting role in one such film, as Sgt Windridge, in Cy Endfield’s Zulu. The film contained some unusual stunts; Powell also trained the Zulus and helped choreograph the battle scenes.

In 1962 he worked on The Longest Day, the film based on Cornelius Ryan’s book about D-Day, which depicted events in which he had been involved. Visiting the set one day with the producer Darryl Zanuck, Lord Lovat was heard to say: “There’s Powell, one of my sergeants.”

Powell appeared in three Bond films and the spoof Casino Royale. In 1969, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, he stood in for Telly Savalas as the criminal mastermind Blofeld in a terrifying bobsleigh chase.

Joe Powell playing chess with Anthony Quinn Credit: Penelope Reiffer

In retirement Powell kept up his keep-fit enthusiasm. Looking back on his career he was particularly proud of the fact that he had helped stunt performers to gain acceptance into Equity, the actors’ union. He had a lifelong love of the sea and was in the crew of the replica ship Mayflower II when it sailed to America in 1957.

He was twice married, first to Marguerite, known as “Clem”; she died of cancer. His second wife, Juliet, also died, and he is survived by four sons and a daughter; another daughter predeceased him.

Joe Powell, born March 21 1922, died June 30 2016

Filmography

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694170/
Stunts (60 credits)
1986 Half Moon Street (stunt arranger)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt arranger - uncredited)
1984 Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce (fight arranger)
1984 Top Secret! (stunt arranger)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1980 Flash Gordon (stunts - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)
1979 The Passage (stunt arranger)
1978 Caravans (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Death on the Nile (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Golden Rendezvous (stunt arranger)
1977 Van der Valk (TV Series) (stunt arranger - 2 episodes)
- In Hazard (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
- Man of Iron (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
1977 Valentino (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Squeeze (stunts - uncredited)
1976 At the Earth's Core (stunt arranger - uncredited)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1974 The Odessa File (stunts - uncredited)
1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunt adviser) / (stunt arranger)
1973 The MacKintosh Man (stunts - uncredited)
1973 A Warm December (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Fear Is the Key (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Young Winston (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War (stunts - uncredited)
1970 The Last Grenade (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Hell Boats (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: Blofeld - uncredited)
1969 Mosquito Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Great Catherine (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Attack on the Iron Coast (stunts - uncredited)
1967 The Dirty Dozen (stunts)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunt rigger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Africa: Texas Style (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Khartoum (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Cast a Giant Shadow (stunts - uncredited)
1965 The Heroes of Telemark (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (stunts - uncredited)
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited)
1965 Mister Moses (stunts - uncredited)
1964 633 Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Zulu (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1963 Cleopatra (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunts - uncredited)
1962 The Longest Day (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Billy Budd (stunts - uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
1957 The Steel Bayonet (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Tarzan and the Lost Safari (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1956 Zarak (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Moby Dick (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Alexander the Great (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)
1953 The Master of Ballantrae (stunts - uncredited)
1952 The Crimson Pirate (stunts - uncredited)
1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (stunts - uncredited)
1950 Waterfront Women (stunts - uncredited)
1949 The Spider and the Fly (stunt performer - uncredited)
1948 The Hideout (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (14 credits)
1977
Golden Rendezvous
Male Nurse
1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Taxi Passenger
1975
Oil Strike North (TV Series)
Mate
- The Floating Bomb (1975) ... Mate
1974
11 Harrowhouse
Hickey
1971
The Last Valley
Kaas (uncredited)
1967
The Avengers (TV Series)
Martin
- From Venus with Love (1967) ... Martin (uncredited)
1965
The Heroes of Telemark
Quisling (uncredited)
1965
The Brigand of Kandahar
Colour Sergeant
1964
Zulu
Sgt. Windridge
1963
Captain Sindbad
1962
The World's Greatest Sinner
Follower
1957
The Abominable Snowman
Yeti (uncredited)
1953
Laughing Anne
Pierre
1949
Cardboard Cavalier
Rider (uncredited)
Hide Hide

Casting department (4 credits)
1965
Genghis Khan (extras casting - uncredited)
1963
55 Days at Peking (extras casting - uncredited)
1960
The World of Suzie Wong (extras casting - uncredited)
1958
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (extras casting - uncredited)
Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
1984
Top Secret! (second unit director)
Hide Hide Self (2 credits)
2002
The Making of 'Zulu': Roll of Honour (Video documentary short)
Himself
2002
The Making of 'Zulu':...and Snappeth the Spear in Sunder (Video documentary short)
Himself

RichardTheBruce

July 1st

1920: Harold Sakata (Tosh Togo) is born--Holualoa, Hawaii. (He dies 29 July 1982 at age 62--Honolulu, Hawaii.)

Archives | 1982
HAROLD T. SAKATA
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/31/obituaries/harold-t-sakata.html
AP JULY 31, 1982

Harold T. Sakata, an actor best known for his sinister characterization of the killer bodyguard Oddjob in the James Bond movie ''Goldfinger,'' died Thursday. He was 62 years old.[/b]
Mr. Sakata, who won an Olympic silver medal in London in 1948 for weightlifting, was a top-card professional wrestler under the name Tosh Togo before achieving fame as an actor.

The eldest of 10 children born on Hawaii Island, Mr. Sakata worked in the plantation fields and as a stevedore when he was young. He never finished high school.

In the early 1960's, the producer Harry Saltzman and the director Guy Hamilton discovered Mr. Sakata when they saw him wrestling on television in London.

Mr. Sakata also appeared in a series of cold-remedy commercials for national television, in the television series ''Sarge,'' and as a guest on such shows as ''Hawaii Five-O'' and ''Police Woman.''

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757138/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (32 credits)

1982 Invaders of the Lost Gold
Tobachi
1982 Ninja Strikes Back
Sakata
1981 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (TV Series)
Ku Long
- The Roller Disco Karate Kaper (1981) ... Ku Long
1979 Highcliffe Manor (TV Series)
Cheng
- Stark Terror (1979) ... Cheng
- Sex & Violence (1979) ... Cheng
- The Blacke Death (1979) ... Cheng
1979 The Billion Dollar Threat (TV Movie)
Oriental Man
1978 Goin' Coconuts
Ito
1978 Death Dimension
The Pig (as Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata)
1978 The Amazing Spider-Man (TV Series)
Matsu
- Escort to Danger (1978) ... Matsu
1978 The Rockford Files (TV Series)
John Doe
- The Competitive Edge (1978) ... John Doe
1978 Police Woman (TV Series)
Lee's Killer
- The Human Rights of Tiki Kim (1978) ... Lee's Killer
1977 Quincy M.E. (TV Series)
Master Sensei Tobi
- Touch of Death (1977) ... Master Sensei Tobi
1977 Record City
Gucci
1977 The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
Wong (as Harold Odd Job Sakata)
1976 Broken House
1976 Mako: The Jaws of Death
Pete (as Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata)
1976 The Blue Knight (TV Series)
Car smasher
- Everybody Needs a Little Attention (1976) ... Car smasher
1974 The Wrestler
Odd Job
1974 Impulse
Karate Pete
1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)
Shibata Hood
- I'm a Family Crook - Don't Shoot! (1972) ... Shibata Hood
1971-1972 Sarge (TV Series)
Takichi / Kenji Takichi / Kenji
- Napoleon Never Wanted to Be a Cop (1972) ... Takichi
- A Company of Victims (1971) ... Takichi
- Quicksilver (1971) ... Takichi
- The Silent Target (1971) ... Takichi
- John Michael O'Flaherty Presents the Eleven O'Clock War (1971) ... Takichi
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1971 Jamison's Kids (TV Movie)
1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series)
Guest Performer
- Episode #5.4 (1971) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)
1970 The Phynx
Oddjob (as Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata)
1967 The Jerry Lewis Show (TV Series)
Assassin
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Assassin
1967 Gilligan's Island (TV Series)
Ramoo
- The Hunter (1967) ... Ramoo
1966 Dimension 5
Big Buddha
1966 Seventeenth Heaven (uncredited)
1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Martin
1966 Balearic Caper
Direttore del museo
1966 4 Schlüssel
Odd Job (uncredited)
1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series)
Ching
- Jungle of Fear (1965) ... Ching
1964 Goldfinger
Oddjob (as Harold Sakata {Tosh Togo})

Thanks (1 credit)

1978 Flying High (TV Series) (thanks - 1 episode)
- A Hairy Yak Plays Musical Chairs Eagerly (1978) ... (thanks)

Self (2 credits)

1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series)
Himself
- Episode #5.7 (1971) ... Himself (uncredited)
1969-1971 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Himself / Himself - Guest
- Episode dated 16 February 1971 (1971) ... Himself
- Episode dated 7 March 1969 (1969) ... Himself - Guest
Hide Hide Archive footage (21 credits)
2015 No Small Parts (TV Series documentary)
Himself
- James Bond Henchmen Part 1: Harold Sakata (2015) ... Himself
2015 Heineken's the Chase (Short)
Oddjob
2012 Top Gear (TV Series)
Odd Job
- 50 Years of Bond Cars (2012) ... Odd Job (uncredited)
2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary)
Odd Job (uncredited)
2006 Wetten, dass..? (TV Series)
Oddjob
- Wetten, dass..? aus Düsseldorf (2006) ... Oddjob
2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary)
Oddjob
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
2002 Bond Girls Are Forever (TV Movie documentary)
Oddjob (uncredited)
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short)
Himself
1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Movie documentary)
Himself
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary)
Oddjob (uncredited)
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short)
Himself / Oddjob
1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short)
Himself
1983 Bonds Are Forever (Video documentary)
Oddjob / Himself
1983 James Bond: The First 21 Years (TV Movie documentary)
Oddjob
1982 The 54th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Oddjob (For Your Eyes Only musical segment)
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie)
Oddjob
1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary)
Himself
- Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary)
Himself
1965 Take Thirty (TV Series)
Himself
- Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself
1964 Goldfinger Original Promotional Featurette (Video short)
Oddjob / Himself

Personal Details

Other Works: TV commercial for Vicks Formula 44 (1964)
Publicity Listings: 1 Portrayal | 4 Articles | See more »
Alternate Names: Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata | Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata | Harold Odd Job Sakata | Tosh Togo | Harold Sakata {Tosh Togo}
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Trivia (6)

Won a silver medal in light-heavyweight weight-lifting at the 1948 summer Olympics. He pursued a successful career as a professional wrestler before moving into acting.

Weighed 284 lbs at the time of Goldfinger (1964).

Sakata apparently liked his role in the movie Goldfinger (1964) so much that he took "Oddjob" as an informal middle name.

In the rehearsals at the Golf Club where he is to throw his hat at the statue, with the head subsequently falling off, after three attempts the special effects crew could not "arrange" the head to fall off correctly. On the fourth take he told the special effects team to just stand still - then he threw his iron-brimmed hat at the statues neck and successful severed the head at the neck on the "first" attempt - to the amazement of all!.

Father: Tamotsu Sakata.

As a professional wrestler. he was one of the great heels in the ring. On screen he is best remembered for playing "Oddjob" in "Goldfinger" (1964) which is regarded as one of the great villains of the movies. Out of the ring, or off camera, he is remembered as being charming and friendly.

1981: Marvel Comics publishes Super Special Issue 19 For Your Eyes Only. Later it's reissued as a two-part comic book. Howard Chaykin and Vince Colletta, artists. Larry Hama, writer.

1983: Octopussy opens in Hong Kong. And Ireland.
1985: Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonneis is born--Passy, Paris, France.
1992: Dark Horse Comics/acme release Serpent's Tooth #1. Paul Gulacy, artist. Doug Moench, writer.

https://www.gulacy.com/dark-horse/james-bond/james-bond-serpent-tooth01/james-bond-serpent-tooth01.htm

2014: The New York Times crossword puzzle. Crossword Clue: 48 across. Four letters. Movie that introduced the line "Bond, James Bond".

Solution:

https://nyxcrossword.com/2014/07/0701-14-new-york-times-crossword.html
48. Movie that introduced the line “Bond, James Bond” : DR NO

“Dr. No” may have been the first film in the wildly successful James Bond franchise, but it was the sixth novel in the series of books penned by Ian Fleming. Fleming was inspired to write the story after reading the Fu Manchu tales by Sax Rohmer. If you’ve read the Rohmer books or seen the films, you’ll recognize the similarities between the characters Dr. No and Fu Manchu.

RichardTheBruce

July 2nd

1967: Casino Royale released in Brazil.
1973: United Artists Label releases the Live and Let Die soundtrack.

1981: Alleen voor je ogen (Only For Your Eyes; also in French Rien que pour vos yeux, or Just For Your Eyes) released in Belgium.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in The Netherlands.
1983: Octopussy released in Japan.

RichardTheBruce

July 3rd

1958: Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson is born--Frome, Eastern Somerset, England.

1972: Jack Whittingham dies at age 61--Valletta, Malta.
(Born 2 August 1910--Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.)

Tuesday, July 01, 2008
The Name’s Whittingham, Jack Whittingham
http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2008/07/names-whittingham-jack-whittingham.html
EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE

With Sebastian Faulks’ Devil May Care sitting pretty atop British bestseller lists, espionage fiction seems to be all the rage. There is, however, another book, also featuring iconic British secret agent James Bond, that’s had an evolution almost as complex as one of Ian Fleming’s plots. That book is of course the revised second edition of Robert Sellers’ The Battle for Bond, a controversial work detailing the legal wrangling over the rights to Thunderball (1961).

The first edition, which contained a foreword by Raymond Benson (who was the last Bond writer prior to Faulks), was withdrawn from sale shortly after its 2007 release due to legal action from the Fleming family and estate. There a few copies of this collector’s item knocking around, but you’ll need a big checkbook to secure one. If you haven’t done so yet, though, I am pleased to report that Sellers and the independent publisher Tomahawk Press have finally released the second edition, sans the sections that caused the Fleming estate to complain. This revision features a foreword Len Deighton, who concentrates in his essay on long-ago charges of plagiarism leveled against author Fleming. This is a topic that should be familiar those of you who pay attention to the Rap Sheet, since we recalled the case in an obituary of Kevin McClory, the Thunderball collaborator who died in 2006. That case’s resolution included a provision stipulating that all future editions of the novel Thunderball include the writing credit “based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming.”

Very little has been written about the relatively enigmatic Whittingham. But earlier this week the London Times carried a longish report focusing on his daughter, Sylvan Whittingham Mason, who apparently provided much of the background mosaic for Seller’s book. As writer Giles Hattersley explains:

Like a latterday Ms. Moneypenny, she holds the secrets of James Bond. Her name is Whittingham. Sylvan Whittingham.

Is she Ian Fleming’s daughter? God, no. Fleming’s name is anathema here. Her father was Jack Whittingham, a celebrated screenwriter of the 1950s and 1960s. It was Jack, she claims, who gave us Bond as we know him.

In 1959, Whittingham’s father had been brought in by the film producer Kevin McClory to work on an original screenplay based on Fleming’s famous secret agent. (Fleming had had an earlier bash at writing his own, but forgot to put any action in it.)

The problem of how to film Bond had rumbled on for years. What passed for steely cool in the books would come off as charmless froideur on screen. But man-about-town Jack turned out to be the fire to Fleming’s ice. In a tobacco-stained study at his Surrey home, the dashing, hard-drinking ladies’ man produced a thrilling tale called Thunderball. And he injected Fleming’s uptight gentleman spy with quippy humour, arch sexuality and plenty of action. Rather like Jack, in fact.

“I always say that Daddy was an honourable man,” says Whittingham, now 64, in a voice that seems to come courtesy of Diana Rigg. “Except when it came to women, of course.” She smiles.

“But he was a marvellous writer and they’d had real trouble with Fleming’s novels. The violent, sadistic, colder, misogynistic Bond of the books didn’t work on the big screen. The audience, back then, didn’t want it. There was no humour, no charm. Daddy turned Bond into the suave hero they needed.”

This is a fascinating article, really, detailing the playboy similarities between Bond, Fleming, and Wittingham. In the Times, Mason quite clearly credits her father (who died in 1972) with molding 007 into the man who could support a successful long-running film franchise.

... Jack had been toughened by a Bond-like life of fast cars and faster women. Born the son of a Yorkshire wool merchant, he had oozed confidence as a young man and made a splash with the ladies when he went up to Oxford.

“He met Betty Offield there, heir to the Wrigley’s gum fortune,” says Sylvan. “They fell in love and she invited him over to America to stay. They used to go shark-fishing off her island in California. Later, he bought a solitaire diamond ring and went to Chicago to propose--but by the time he got there, she’d fallen for somebody else.

“In a bar, drowning his sorrows, he met a female gangster called Texas Guinan--a glamorous blonde--who took him on. She sent him all over town with deliveries for her, probably drugs. He became her pet for a while, before he sold the ring so he could afford to get home.”

After a stint in Iceland during the war--where he was permanently sloshed and would often fall down on parade--Jack returned to England and his wife, Margot, whom he had married in 1942. He was never faithful. “My mother was stunningly beautiful, with a frightened-rabbit look in her eyes, which were violet. She was a lost soul: mental problems, breakdowns, depression,” Sylvan says.

Posted by Ali Karim at 11:53 AM

1959: Andreas Wisniewski is born--West Berlin, West Germany.
1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Ireland.
1987: The Living Daylights released in Ireland.
1997: BOND 18 films the Eurocopter AS355 Ecureuil 2 pursuing the BMW R 1200 through the Vietnam marketplace.

http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Tomorrow_Never_Dies#Eurocopter_AS355_Ecureuil_2


https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=7390

2017: Joe Robinson dies at age 90--Brighton, East Sussex, England.
(Born 31 May 1927--Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.)

Joe Robinson (actor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Robinson_(actor)

Joe Robinson as Thor in Thor and the Amazon Women
Born Joseph Robinson, 31 May 1927, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Died 3 July 2017 (aged 90), Brighton, East Sussex, England
Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation Actor, stuntman
Years active 1952–1971

Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler, as were his father Joseph and his grandfather John. His brother, Doug Robinson, is also an actor and stuntman.

Career
Professional wrestling
Robinson initially embarked on a career in wrestling as 'Tiger Joe Robinson' and won the European Heavyweight Championship in 1952. At the same time, he was also interested in acting and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After injuring his back wrestling in Paris he decided to concentrate on acting. Joe Robinson's daughter Polly Robinson (Hardy-Stewart) has also continued the family's success in martial arts by winning the junior Judo championships in the 1980s.

Acting
Robinson's first role came in the keep-fit documentary Fit as a Fiddle and in the same year, 1952, he followed it up with a part as Harry 'Muscles' Green in the musical Wish You Were Here in the West End of London.

He made his film debut in 1955's A Kid for Two Farthings, in which he wrestled Primo Carnera. His film and television career really took off in the 1960s and in 1962 he appeared in British classic The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner alongside appearances in The Saint and The Avengers in 1963. With his younger brother Doug and Honor Blackman, he co-authored Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence in 1965 (Joe was also a judo champion and black belt at karate). The year after he appeared in an episode of the sitcom Pardon the Expression which referenced this book. During this time he was also a popular stunt-arranger, working on several James Bond films and in 1960 was invited to Rome where he appeared in five muscle-bound Italian epics, including Taur the Mighty (1963), Thor and the Amazon Women (1963) and Ursus and the Tartar Princess (1961). Other notable big-screen appearances include 1961's Carry On Regardless, of the British institution the Carry Ons. According to the book Tarzan of the Movies by Gabe Essoe, Robinson played the role of Tarzan in obscure Italian-made films (Taur, il re della forza bruta and Le gladiatrici); the use of the Tarzan character, however, was unauthorised and the character's name had to be changed to Thaur before the film was allowed for public release. His final big-screen appearance was in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he plays diamond smuggler Peter Franks. Robinson claimed that he was a contender for the Red Grant role in From Russia with Love. Though he did not get it, Connery recommended him for the role in Diamonds are Forever. Robinson also claimed he turned down the role of the Rank Organisation's Gongman.

Retirement
He retired from acting, and lived in Brighton where he opened a martial arts centre. He conducted classes in Wadō-ryū style karate and Judo. In 1998 he hit the headlines after fighting off a gang of eight muggers single-handed. The 70-year-old was alighting from a bus in Cape Town when the gang struck with baseball bats and knives. 6 ft 2 ins Joe overpowered two with flying kicks, karate-chopped another in the chest and broke the arm of a fourth - the rest fled.

Reminiscing about his career in the Daily Mail recently, Robinson spoke on the subject of Laurence Olivier's alleged homosexuality saying 'my kids used to play with his kids at school and I taught him judo ... I have no idea if he was a homosexual... but he did once tell me I had lovely shoulders'.

Death
Robinson died at the age of 90 on 3 July 2017, in Brighton, East Sussex.
Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1955 A Kid for Two Farthings Sam Heppner
1956 Die ganze Welt singt nur Amore Max, der Athlet
1956 Pasaporte al infierno Pete Archer
1957 Fighting Mad Muscles Tanner
1957 The Flesh Is Weak Lofty
1958 The Strange Awakening Sven
1958 Sea Fury Hendrik
1958 Murder Reported Jim
1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Corinthian Uncredited
1960 The Bulldog Breed Tall Sailor
1961 Carry On Regardless Dynamite Dan
1961 Erik the Conqueror Garian Uncredited
1961 Barabbas Bearded Gladiator
1961 Tartar Invasion Ursus
1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Roach
1963 Taur, il re della forza bruta Taur
1963 Doctor in Distress Sonja's Boyfriend
1963 Thor and the Amazon Women Thor
1971 Diamonds Are Forever Peter Franks (final film role)

Revelator

The idea that Jack Whittingham molded the screen Bond is an insult to Maibaum, Young, Connery, and all the people who actually did. Even Fleming himself wrote a lighter, more humorous version of Bond in his initial scripts and treatments for Thunderball. I realize that Sylvan Whittingham Mason wants to keep her beloved father's memory alive, but her assertions are nonsense. Without the Bond connection Whitingham would be a forgotten screenwriter. And had the film of Thunderball followed Whittingham's script instead of Fleming's novel, it would have been a basketcase, judging from the available synopses.

RichardTheBruce

I agree it's a silly suggestion, more comic relief to the audience here than a supported assertion to consider.

RichardTheBruce

July 4th

1963: Dr. No released in Australia.

1967: Filming of You Only Live Twice begins with Bond and Ling and the Murphy bed.
1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Japan.

1985: A View to a Kill released in Spain and The Netherlands.

2005: Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records release the the first single off Kanye West's second album Late Registration: "Diamonds from Sierra Leone". It heavily samples and mixes the song "Diamonds Are Forever". And wins a Grammy.

BT3366

I want to express appreciation for this thread to RichardTheBruce and whoever else contributes to it, particularly in regards to posters for films released in various countries.

I have at least 3 books covering Bond posters and yet I continually come here and make new discoveries all the time like the Australian Dr. No posters. I've never seen that line "He developed the technique of love to an art...the art of murder to a science!" included on it.

RichardTheBruce

Thanks, @BT3366, it's a pleasure to discover and share these images over time.

RichardTheBruce

July 5th

1942: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming attends a course on espionage at Camp X (Special Training School No. 103) near Whitby, Lake Ontario, Canada. Possibly staying for a time across the street from St. James-Bond United Church.
1973: Live and Let Die Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

1985: A View to a Kill released in Canada.
2009: The True Story Episode 2008 is "James Bond" and a look at Fleming's real world influences.

2015: BOND 24 closes 128 days of principal photography.
2017: The Omega Seamaster Diver 300 M Co-Axial 41mm Commander's watch is introduced via the Tate Britain Museum, London. Production limited to 7007. Plus 7 of a Gold edition.

https://omegawatches.com/news/the-commander-s-watch-is-launched-in-london

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 Black Box. Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

RichardTheBruce

July 6th

1971: Louis Armstrong dies at age 69--New York City, New York. (Born 4 August 1901--New Orleans, Louisiana.)

Louis Armstrong
Biography
https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/

Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. He was raised by his mother Mayann in a neighborhood so dangerous it was called “The Battlefield.” He only had a fifth-grade education, dropping out of school early to go to work. An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money to purchase his first cornet.

On New Year’s Eve 1912, he was arrested and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There, under the tutelage of Peter Davis, he learned how to properly play the cornet, eventually becoming the leader of the Waif’s Home Brass Band. Released from the Waif’s Home in 1914, Armstrong set his sights on becoming a professional musician. Mentored by the city’s top cornetist, Joe “King” Oliver, Armstrong soon became one of the most in-demand cornetists in town, eventually working steadily on Mississippi riverboats.

In 1922, King Oliver sent for Armstrong to join his band in Chicago. Armstrong and Oliver became the talk of the town with their intricate two-cornet breaks and started making records together in 1923. By that point, Armstrong began dating the pianist in the band, Lillian Hardin. In 1924, Armstrong married Hardin, who urged Armstrong to leave Oliver and try to make it on his own. A year in New York with Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra proved unsatisfying so Armstrong returned to Chicago in 1925 and began making records under his own name for the first time.

HOTTER THAN THAT

The records by Louis Armstrong and His Five–and later, Hot Seven–are the most influential in jazz. Armstrong’s improvised solos transformed jazz from an ensemble-based music into a soloist’s art, while his expressive vocals incorporated innovative bursts of scat singing and an underlying swing feel. By the end of the decade, the popularity of the Hot Fives and Sevens was enough to send Armstrong back to New York, where he appeared in the popular Broadway revue, “Hot Chocolates.” He soon began touring and never really stopped until his death in 1971.

The 1930s also found Armstrong achieving great popularity on radio, in films, and with his recordings. He performed in Europe for the first time in 1932 and returned in 1933, staying for over a year because of a damaged lip. Back in America in 1935, Armstrong hired Joe Glaser as his manager and began fronting a big band, recording pop songs for Decca, and appearing regularly in movies. He began touring the country in the 1940s.

"MY WHOLE
LIFE, MY
WHOLE SOUL,
MY WHOLE
SPIRIT IS TO
BLOW THAT
HORN."

In 1947, the waning popularity of the big bands forced Armstrong to begin fronting a small group, Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Personnel changed over the years but this remained Armstrong’s main performing vehicle for the rest of his career. He had a string of pop hits beginning in 1949 and started making regular overseas tours, where his popularity was so great, he was dubbed “Ambassador Satch.”

In America, Armstrong had been a great Civil Rights pioneer for his race, breaking down numerous barriers as a young man. In the 1950s, he was sometimes criticized for his onstage persona and called an “Uncle Tom” but he silenced critics by speaking out against the government’s handling of the “Little Rock Nine” high school integration crisis in 1957.

Armstrong continued touring the world and making records with songs like “Blueberry Hill” (1949), “Mack the Knife” (1955) and “Hello, Dolly! (1964),” the latter knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop charts at the height of Beatlemania.

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY

The many years of constant touring eventually wore down Armstrong, who had his first heart attack in 1959 and returned to intensive care at Beth Israel Hospital for heart and kidney trouble in 1968. Doctors advised him not to play but Armstrong continued to practice every day in his Corona, Queens home, where he had lived with his fourth wife, Lucille, since 1943. He returned to performing in 1970 but it was too much, too soon and he passed away in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a few months after his final engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (first recording for Louis Armstrong), Gennett Studios, Richmond, Indiana, 1923.

And his last. 1969.

1973: Live and Let Die general release in the US.

1979: Moonraker released in Ireland.
1980: Eva Green is born--Paris, France.
1980: Learning other actors were recently screen-tested, Roger Moore declares he's done with the Bond role.
1985: A View to a Kill released in Japan.

2012: Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style opens at the Barbican Centre, London, continues through 5 September. Following cities are Dubai, Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, Rotterdam, Moscow, Melbourne, Shanghai, Toronto.

RichardTheBruce

July 7th (Double-O7)

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

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Friday 7 July, 1944

Sorted out clothes of I.’s that need cleaning, carrying them away in my arms. I. is off abroad for a few days. New uniforms and equipment lying about. He has a private army of 300 men. When I came home from the Admiralty the evening was lovely so, tired though I was, I went to the park.

The grass smelt fresh, the trees were heavy with leaf and I walked to the bandstand and stood for a long time watching and listening. An alert was on as usual. Small clusters of people sat on iron chairs round the bandstand or outside the enclosure under the trees – people of all sorts and kinds, young and old, soldiers and civilians.

The scene was so strange, moving and so unreal – the white bandstand, the charming civilised elegant waltzes, the Americans lolling about, the uniforms, the drone of the pilotless plane, the beauty of the evening, war and peace all mixed up inextricably.

1958: The first James Bond comic strip Casino Royale begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 13 December 1958. 1-138 ) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

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

















Swedish Semic Comic 1972
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759


Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

1968: Test footage of Lazenby and Rigg prompts nervous United Artists executives to pursue a return of Connery.
1973: Fawcett Gold Medal publishes Roger Moore's James Bond Diary published in paperback.

1977: Roger Moore does a quick commercial for Nationwide Insurance.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1147445081407815681

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me Royal Premiere at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London.

1983: Octopussy released in The Netherlands.
1983: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Icebreaker. Cover by Bill Botten (in the style of Richard Chopping).

JAMES BOND, like Sherlock Holmes before
him, has become a myth of the twentieth
century. Predictably, when John
Gardner (under copyright licence) first
brought Bond into the 1980s with a new
consciousness of health and ecology, a
change of car and a passing nod at femin-
ism, his book, Licence Renewed, went straight
to No. 1 on the bestseller lists on both sides
of the Atlantic. Fleming himself 'would not
be displeased', the Daily Telegraph said. A
second updated Bond adventure, For Special
Services, enjoyed an even greater success,
remaining for months on end on bestseller
lists in America.

Now, indestructible as ever, Bond is back
in a third assignment from John Gardner --
a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort
with Bond's opposite numbers from the
United States, the Soviet Union and Israel
in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland.
Yet if resurgent fascism is the common
enemy, who is really to be feared? Can
SMERSH be trusted to resist the temptation
to seek revenge on Bond? Is it the breezy
American or the voluptuous Israeli who is
acting as double agent? Are the Finns
merely using Bond to break the K.G.B.'s
stranglehold on their tenuous national
autonomy?

Never has Bond encountered such an
unnervingly deceitful bunch of collabor-
ators or been subject to such a bewildering
series of potentially lethal shocks.


James Bond adventures
written under licence from Glidrose,
Ian Fleming's copyright holders, by
JOHN GARDNER.

Licence Renewed

Remarkably successful re-creation of
everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
Telegraph

'Gardner's James Bond captures that high
old tone and discreetly updates it.' The
Times

'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
of the 1980s is not much different from the
earlier Bond...his adventures are as capti-
vating as ever.' BIRMINGHAM Post

For Special Services

'John Gardner has got the OO7 formula
down pat. But not too pat...manages to
create suspense and spring a few surprises.'
Financial Times

'Much better nonsense that the previous
Gardner resurrection of James Bond.'
Sunday Times

'Almost as good as the bestselling first one.
Great fun.' Scotsman

1989: Licence to Kill released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/licence-to-kill-en/


http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-ad-sheet-1989/


http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-programme-1989/

1989: James Bond med rett til å drepe (James Bond with the Right to Kill) released in Norway.

1989: Tid för hämnd (Time for Revenge) released in Sweden.

https://www.tradera.com/item/341511/330224852/james-bond-tid-for-hamnd

Thunderfinger

Barbara Bach with a bow and arrow, never seen that before.

RichardTheBruce

Yes, it's frustrating that the Danes got more Barbara Bach photos about Barbara Bach in promotion of The Spy Who Loved Me. I definitely noticed that, @Thunderfinger.

RichardTheBruce

July 8th

1959: Fleming writes a letter to Ivar (Felix) Bryce offering the rights to produce the first Bond film. In return he asks for $50,000 worth of shares in the film company. Then he will also provide a treatment, plus his ongoing services if they are desired.
1963: Norman Felton writes Fleming a letter following the decision to leave the Solo television project.

Norman Felton letter dated 8 July 1963:

Dear Ian:

May I thank you for meeting with me when I was in England recently. It was deeply appreciated in view of all of the pressures on you at that time. I am hoping, incidentally, that your move to the country has worked out satisfactorily.

Your new book, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, is delightful. I am hoping that things will calm down for you in the months to come so that in due time you will be able to develop another novel to give further pleasure to your many readers throughout the world.

They tell me that there are some islands in the Pacific where one can get away from it all. They are slightly radioactive, but for anyone with the spirit of adventure, this should be no problem.

Warm regards,

Norman Felton.

1968: Roger Moore is presented with Spain's most prized Don Quixote Award, Spanish Embassy, London.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Bond's ordeal in a crematorium.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me UK general release. Plus Ireland.

2014: Browser-based adventure game released by Youniverse Digital Limited promotes the Young Bond book Shoot to Kill by Charlie Higson.

RichardTheBruce

Disclaimer: correction to a previous date re-posts Till Death Do Us Apart.
[Includes the lovely Barbara Bach all over again.]

RichardTheBruce

July 9th

1964: From Russia With Love released in The Netherlands.
1966: Bond's obituary date, as printed in the on-screen version of The Standard in You Only Live Twice.

1975: Jack White is born--Detroit, Michigan.
1975: Till Death Do Us Apart comic strip begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 14 October 1975. 2898-2983) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




http://www.impulsegamer.com/james-bond-omnibus-005-review/


Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3?s=comics&id=01952

Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no45-1978/

1987: The Living Daylights released in The Netherlands.
2002: BOND 20 principal photography is a wrap, filming today includes Madonna's role as Verity.

RichardTheBruce

July 10th

1958: BBC Home Service broadcasts Ian Fleming interviewing his friend Raymond Chandler.

1977: Cary Joji Fukunaga is born--Oakland, California.
1987: Iskallt uppdrag (Ice Cold Mission) released in Sweden.

https://jamesbond007.se/eng/event/james_bond_filmerna_visas_i_hd_pa_tv4

1989: US West Hollywood premiere of Licence to Kill.

2009: Zena Marshall dies at age 84--London, England. (Born 1 January 1925--Nairobi, Kenya.)

Zena Marshall
Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/obituary-zena-marshall
Gavin Gaughan | Sun 26 Jul 2009 14.31 EDT


Marshall with Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr No (1962)
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/UNITED ARTISTS

Zena Marshall, who has died aged 83, played a small but pivotal part in establishing the formula of the James Bond series. As the Eurasian secretary, Miss Taro, revealed to be working for the title character in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), while dallying with 007 (Sean Connery), she was the first of those unscrupulous, exotic beauties who, in the service of the villain, would try but fail to entrap Bond.

For more than a decade beforehand, she had lent a hint of the exotic to monochrome, domestic British cinema. With her dark hair and colouring, the Rank Organisation may have signed her due to a similarity to Ava Gardner.

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, she was raised in Leicestershire, and described her ancestry as "part French" (her mother), "part English and part Irish". She attended St Mary's school, Ascot, but had already undertaken theatre tours for the Entertainments National Service Association by the time she was in her late teens. Her first film was the misguided epic Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) as a lady in waiting; her fellow supe-numeraries included her friend Kay Kendall, and another Bond, Roger Moore.

By 1946, she was part of Rank's Company of Youth, often dubbed the Charm School, where fellow conscripts includ- ed Sir Christopher Lee, Diana Dors and the broadcaster Pete Murray. The studio, and affiliates such as Gainsborough, cast her in The End of the River (1947), produced by Powell and Pressburger, and as a passenger in the compact thriller Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948).

Good-Time Girl (1948), Snowbound (1948) and The Lost People (1949) all teamed her with Dennis Price, then a suave leading man. Unfortunately, both were also in the much-derided The Bad Lord Byron (1949); fortunately for her, Dr No's director, Terence Young, was among the screenwriters.

At London's New Torch Theatre, she was in the poorly received Snow (1953), by the novelist Diana Marr-Johnson, niece of Somerset Maugham. With John Ringham in late 1959, she toured Germany and Holland in The Late Edwina Black. She played a determined doctor in Men Against the Sun (1952), a Kenyan-British co-production starring the august John Bentley, in much the same mode as his later television series African Patrol (1958), in which she also appeared. August 1952 saw her small-screen debut in The Portugal Lady, a live BBC costume drama that was part of its Sunday Night Theatre series, as Charles II's bride Catherine of Braganza.

During ITV's opening weeks Marshall appeared in a shampoo commercial, assuring female viewers it was fine to use the product before going to a party. For the new channel, she did The Bob Hope Show (1956), pre-sold by Lew Grade to NBC, then played a scientist "from behind that Curtain" in The Invisible Man (1958), enduring a very silly ending in which she hugs and kisses the unseen hero goodbye.

Marshall appeared three times, between 1960 and 1964, in the series Danger Man, starring Patrick McGoohan, who had declined the Bond role: twice Marshall played fellow agents who needed to be rescued. She also guested in the now-forgotten shows Man of the World (1962), The Sentimental Agent (1963) and The Human Jungle (1963).

After several of the Edgar Wallace thrillers, she was glimpsed waving off Alberto Sordi in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Her last film was The Terrornauts (1967), with the unlikely presence of Charles Hawtrey.

Her marriage to the bandleader Paul Adam ended in divorce, as did a brief second marriage. In 1991, she married the producer Ivan Foxwell, whose credits included The Colditz Story. He predeceased her in 2002.

• Zena Marshall, actor, born 1 January 1926; died 10 July 2009

Zena Marshall
https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/zena-marshall/credits/179850/
Credits

Actor (36 Credits) Title Role Year

The Terrornauts (Movie) Sandy Lund 1967
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines;
Or How I Flew From London To Paris In 25 Hours
And 11 Minutes (Movie) Sophia Ponticelli 1965
The Verdict (Movie) Carola 1964
The Switch (Movie) Caroline Markham 1963
My Wife's Family (Movie) Hilda 1962
Dr. No (Movie) Miss Taro 1962
Backfire! (Movie) Pauline Logan 1961
Crosstrap (Movie) Rina 1961
A Story Of David (Movie) Naomi 1960
Let's Be Happy (Movie) Helene 1957
Footsteps In The Night (Movie) 1957
Bermuda Affair (Movie) Chris 1956
The Embezzler (Movie) Mrs. Forrest 1954
The Scarlet Web (Movie) Laura Vane 1954
Three Cases Of Murder (Movie) Beautiful Blonde 1954
Men Against The Sun (Movie) 1953
Deadly Nightshade (Movie) Ann Farrington 1953
Blind Man's Bluff (Movie) Christine Stevens 1952
The Caretaker's Daughter (Movie) Fritzi Villiers 1952
Operation Disaster (Movie) 1951
Soho Conspiracy (Movie) Dora 1951
Hell Is Sold Out (Movie) Honeychild 1951
Dark Interval (Movie) Sonia Jordan 1950
So Long At The Fair (Movie) Nina 1950
The Lost People (Movie) Anna 1949
Marry Me! (Movie) Marcelle 1949
Meet Simon Cherry (Movie) Lisa Colville 1949
Snowbound (Movie) Italian Girl 1949
Helter Skelter (Movie) Giselle 1949
The Bad Lord Byron (Movie) Italian 1948
Miranda (Movie) Secretary 1948
Sleeping Car To Trieste (Movie) Suzanne 1948
So Evil My Love (Movie) 1948
Good Time Girl (Movie) Red's Wife 1948
The End Of The River (Movie) Sante 1947
Caesar And Cleopatra (Movie) Ladies-in-Waiting 1945

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #11. Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244711011

Thunderfinger

Correct translation for Iskallt Uppdrag is Ice Cold Mission.

RichardTheBruce

Repeat post.

RichardTheBruce

Updated title, thanks @Thunderfinger. Also added Dynamite Entertainment's James Bond Origins #11 and Mr. Fukunaga's birth date.

RichardTheBruce

July 11th

1964: Goldfinger's nineteen-week production finishes after five final days in Andermatt, Switzerland.
1985: Agente 007 - Bersaglio mobile (Agent 007 - Moving target) released in Italy.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Taiwan.
2006: BOND 21 completes filming the falling house in Venice.