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Thunderfinger

Interesting that it was called Moving Target in Italy, as it was called Living Target in Sweden.

RichardTheBruce

Sly dog, @Thunderfinger. You corrected in advance the Swedish title (I'm going with Living Target, over Live Target).

RichardTheBruce

July 12th

1961: Caroline Bliss is born--Hammersmith, London, England.
1966: Tony Mockler writes in The Guardian: "How long will the spies last? ...Is the spy bubble about to burst?"
1973: UK general release for Live and Let Die.

1979: Moonraker released in The Netherlands.
1981: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) dies at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.
(Born 19 June 1913-–London, England.)

Ann Fleming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Fleming
Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming died 1981.jpg

Fleming in 1957

Born Ann Charteris, 19 June 1913, Westminster, London, England
Died 12 July 1981 (aged 68), Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, England
Nationality British
Known for Hostess

Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris, 19 June 1913 – 12 July 1981), previously known as Lady O'Neill and Viscountess Rothermere, was a British socialite. She married firstly Lord O'Neill, secondly Lord Rothermere, and finally the writer Ian Fleming. She also had affairs with the Labour Party politicians Roy Jenkins and Hugh Gaitskell.

Life

Fleming was born to Frances Lucy Tennant (1887–1925) and Captain Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967) in Westminster, London on 19 June 1913. She was the eldest daughter and her grandfather was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. She learnt to value conversation and friendship from her grandmother, Mary Constance Charteris, Countess of Wemyss,[1] who had her own hedonistic past, having been one of The Souls.

She was educated by governesses after an unsuccessful term at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She had a good understanding of literature but her future was to be a debutante and she quickly married Lord O'Neill who was both an aristocrat and a financier in 1932. She had two children before beginning an affair with the influential Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1936.

Harmsworth was the heir to Lord Rothermere, who owned the Daily Mail. Her husband went to war and Ann appeared with Harmsworth as well as having an affair with Ian Fleming, then a stockbroker, who became an assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. In 1940, Harmsworth became Lord Rothermere. Her husband was killed in action in 1944 and she married Lord Rothermere in 1945.

The couple entertained and their social circle included the painter Lucian Freud (who painted her portrait), the choreographer Frederick Ashton and the artist Francis Bacon. Meanwhile, Ian Fleming left the navy and became a journalist with The Sunday Times. He had built Goldeneye on land in Jamaica and he had demanded three-month vacations from his employer to enjoy his holiday home. The two spent three months of every year together in Jamaica;[4] her new husband thought she was in Jamaica to visit Noël Coward.

In 1951 she was divorced by Lord Rothermere, and the following year she married Fleming. They had one child, Caspar. Ann was pregnant with her son when they married; he was born on 12 August 1952. Anxiety over his forthcoming marriage is said to be the reason that Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Ann had a £100,000 divorce settlement and Fleming sought additional sources of revenue to add to his salary from The Sunday Times. The book and its sequels were immediate successes.

The Flemings bought a house in London, where they entertained. They later rebuilt Warneford Place at Sevenhampton, near Swindon, renaming it Sevenhampton Place and moving there in 1963. Her husband was not keen on the socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell, and she had affairs with Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins.

Her son Caspar died in London in October 1975 from an overdose of narcotics. Ann Fleming died at Sevenhampton Place on 12 July 1981. Both were buried alongside Ian at the church of St James in Sevenhampton.

1985: Levande måltavla (Live Target; or Living Target) released in Sweden.

1989: Licence to Kill released in Austria, The Netherlands, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
2014: Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I, reported inspiration for Ian Fleming and Goldfinger, goes under the hammer.

Aston Martin that inspired 'Goldfinger' goes up for auction
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2014-07-11-aston-martin-that-inspired-goldfinger-goes-up-for-auction/
11 July 2014 - 12:08 By AFP Relaxnews

This 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I Vantage inspired Ian Fleming as he was writing the James Bond novel Goldfinger.
Image: AFP Relaxnews ©COYS

This Saturday, July 12, the 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/5 Mk I that inspired Ian Fleming when writing his James Bond novel Goldfinger will be auctioned by Coys of Kensington at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England.

The model going under the hammer belonged to a certain Lord Phillip Ingram Cunliffe-Lister, son of Lord Swinton, who once headed up the British Security Service (MI5) and was on close terms with Winston Churchill. The vehicle's owner, who was also Ian Fleming's boss, often visited Ian Fleming's next-door neighbors in Kent.

Coys notes that the car is equipped with reinforced steel bumpers, secret hiding places, an anti-interference ignition system and a two-way radio -- exactly like the model described in Goldfinger. Long abandoned, the Aston Martin in question has now been thoroughly restored. Somewhat surprisingly, the official catalog does not list the estimated value of this unique vehicle.

It is worth noting that the 1964 film adaptation of Goldfinger actually placed Sean Connery at the wheel of an Aston Martin DB5.

The model is one of over 90 collector cars going under the hammer this Saturday, including several Rolls-Royces, Ferraris, Mercedes, Jaguars and even a 1934 Bugatti Type 57 Series I Ventoux. The latter model is expected to fetch between £275,000 and £320,000 ($470,600-$547,500).

More information: www.coys.co.uk

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2015: Skyfall re-release in the UK.
2016: Sotheby's auctions an edited copy of You Only Live Twice .

Ian Fleming’s Last Notes on ‘You
Only Live Twice’ Before His Death
http://www.realclearlife.com/auctions/ian-flemings-james-bond-you-only-live-twice-last-notes/
Edited version of penultimate novel up for auction with Sotheby's on July 12


Author Ian Fleming, circa 1960 (Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

For James Bond fans, You Only Live Twice might be one of the best book-and-movie combinations in the series—and a piece of its history is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s London on July 12. The last novel Fleming published before his death, You Only Live Twice finds Bond a broken man after the death of his wife, Tracy. The spy ends up venturing to Japan for a final showdown with his arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Ironically, the book ends with an obituary of Bond written by his boss, M. With Fleming’s passing just months after the book’s publication, You Only Live Twice is a fitting tribute to the Bond creator.

Sotheby’s is offering a complete, corrected typescript of the book—with proof markings in purple from Fleming’s copyeditor and blue pen from the author himself. Fleming’s typist produced just eight copies of the script for his publisher. Pre-auction estimates put it at $30,000–$40,000.

For more on the Fleming typescript, click here.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.162.html

Take a look at the first edited page of Bond’s obituary below.

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

Sly dog, @Thunderfinger. You corrected in advance the Swedish title (I'm going with Living Target, over Live Target).

They would both be correct. Live Target is probably a better title, isn t it?

BT3366

Any link to that 1966 article on when the will the spy bubble burst? You don't get to see a lot of stories on that from back then. I always thought the premiere of the Batman TV series kind of took some of the attention away.

RichardTheBruce

So both are good.

I found the article referenced but couldn't find the piece itself, @BT3366. Maybe it will come available over time.

RichardTheBruce

July 13th

1945: 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/

Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

Friday 13 July, 1945

I. came to dinner. He is likely to be offered a new job he thinks he won’t be able to refuse. Goodbye then to Jamaica and the dreams that have sustained him during the hard work of these last years.

1965: Sean Connery and Claudine Auger appear on the cover of Look Magazine.

1977: During the blackout in New York City, Marvin Hamlisch seeks a cab. And candles.

The Music of James Bond, Jon Burlingame, 2012.

Hamlisch: "...running on the streets of New York with everybody, trying, number one, to get a cab, and number two, more important, getting votive candles from a store so that we can set Carly up on her home with candles because New York is pitch black. I'll never forget it. Everything about Bond is over the top."

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me in limited US release.

1985: Title song "A View to a Kill" released by EMI-Capitol tops the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1.

1989: Permis de tuer released in Belgium.

2010: Alan Hume dies at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.
(Born 16 October 1924--London, England.)

Alan Hume obituary
Cinematographer known for his work on the Carry On films
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/17/alan-hume-obituary
Ronald Bergan | Tue 17 Aug 2010 13.14 EDT

Alan Hume started as a camera operator on Carry On Sergeant in 1958.
Photograph: Bondstars.com

Despite, or because of, the ancient, dirty jokes, schoolboy humour, double entendres, and a string of hammy actors tele- graphing each jest with pursed lips, rolling eyes or a snigger, the Carry On films have an army of devotees. Among the most regular actors were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Sid James, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor, and behind the camera, on almost all of the 30 Carry On movies, was the cinematographer Alan Hume, who has died aged 85.

Hume started as camera operator on the very first, Carry On Sergeant (1958), soon becoming director of photography (DP) on Carry On Regardless (1961), and continuing as DP until Carry On Columbus (1992) ended the franchise. Though few would make any artistic claims for the films, they were competently shot, rapidly, on a shoestring. Because of the rapport Hume built up over a long period with the producer Peter Rogers and the director Gerald Thomas – he worked with them for years without a contract – he knew exactly what was required.

In the foreword to Hume's autobiography, A Life Through the Lens: Memoirs of a Film Cameraman (2004), Rogers explained: "I have known Alan Hume almost as long as I know myself. I've known him as a giggling camera operator and as one of the film industry's foremost lighting cameramen. I say giggling operator because when we were working on the early Carry On films, he giggled so much … that he had to leave the stage to recover. I've also known him as a non-giggling operator as, for instance, when he was shooting a scene … hanging out of a doorless helicopter and holding a handheld camera."

The latter referred to Hume's second-unit filming of the spectacular pre-credit sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), in which James Bond (the stuntman Rick Sylvester standing in for Roger Moore), chased by baddies on skis, leaps off a cliff and opens up a Union Jack parachute. It was shot high on a mountain on Baffin Island, north Canada, after weeks of waiting for the weather to clear, so it had to be done in one take. "After so many weeks of preparing and anticipating this jump, I suddenly felt the blood rush from my face," Hume wrote. "This was it, and it was a far cry from my working diet of comedy and modest-budget dramas back in London."

Hume went on to be the daring cinematographer on three more Bonds, all starring Moore and directed by John Glen: For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985), each offering the well-tried formula of gals, guns, villains and glossy locations.

Hume, who was born in London, started in films as a clapper boy at Denham Studios, his first job being on Leslie Howard's The First of the Few (1942). A few films later, he was promoted to first assistant camera operator before being called up to serve in the Royal Navy during the second world war. "I was in the photographic unit. I learned more about photography in the navy than anywhere else." Hume returned to Denham, then Pinewood, where he was assistant to the cinematographer Guy Green on David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). From 1953 to 1960, he was chief camera operator on dozens of British films, then DP mostly on the Carry Ons, with a couple of grisly horror films – Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and From Beyond the Grave (1973) – thrown in.

In 1983, Hume was given the job of DP on the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, although he fell out with the producers when he protested about what he felt was their mistreatment of the director Richard Marquand and was replaced by his assistant Alec Mills. It was one of his very few Hollywood movies.

Among Hume's best work was Andrei Konchalovsky's Runaway Train (1985), shot in freezing conditions in Canada and Iceland, on a real train. Also to be commended was his camerawork for two veteran directors of British cinema, Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, 1989; Stepping Out, 1991), and Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda, 1988).

Hume was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers in 1964, serving as president for three years. He is survived by his wife, Sheila, and three children. His eldest son, Lindsey, a film editor, died in 1967. His other sons, Martin and Simon, and a grandson, Lewis, are camera operators, while his daughter Pauline is a titles designer.

• George Alan Hume, cinematographer, born 16 October 1924; died 13 July 2010

2012: Chris Cornell performs "You Know My Name" the first day of Hard Rock Calling at Hyde Park, London.

2007 performance: Personal Festival Live, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

RichardTheBruce

July 14th

1918: Fred Haggerty is born--Budapest, Austria-Hungary. (He dies 2002 at age 83.)

Fred Haggerty
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353635/

Filmography

Actor (44 credits)

1990 Nuns on the Run
Gatekeeper
1988 London's Burning (TV Series)
Couple in Flat
- Ding Dong Merrily (1988) ... Couple in Flat
1987 Indelible Evidence (TV Series documentary)
Peter Davis
- Hate Campaign (1987) ... Peter Davis
1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series)
2nd Guard
- Freezeheat (1986) ... 2nd Guard
1984 The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Movie)
Guard 1
1980 Play for Today (TV Series)
PC Jarvis
- Murder Rap (1980) ... PC Jarvis
1979 Blake's 7 (TV Series)
Guard / Alta Guard
- Shadow (1979) ... Guard (uncredited)
- Redemption (1979) ... Alta Guard (uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther
Attendant (uncredited)
1978 Law & Order (TV Mini-Series)
D.C.I. Tony Simmons
- A Brief's Tale (1978) ... D.C.I. Tony Simmons
- A Villain's Tale (1978) ... D.C.I. Tony Simmons
- A Detective's Tale (1978) ... D.C.I. Tony Simmons
1977 Candleshoe
Hood (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
Stromberg Henchman (uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Munich Hotel Doorman
1975 Oil Strike North (TV Series)
Friend
- Shore Leave (1975) ... Friend
1974 The Bunny Caper
2nd Guardsman
1973 Men of Affairs (TV Series)
KGB man #2
- To Russia With... (1973) ... KGB man #2
1965-1969 The Avengers (TV Series)
Private / Agent / Driver
- The Morning After (1969) ... Private (uncredited)
- Super Secret Cypher Snatch (1968) ... Agent (uncredited)
- The Hour That Never Was (1965) ... Driver
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series)
2nd Guardian
- Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 2nd Guardian
1967 Quatermass and the Pit
Fleeing Man (uncredited)
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series)
Agent
- Man from the Dead (1967) ... Agent
1967 Casino Royale
Man in Casino (uncredited)
1967 Secret Agent (TV Series)
Guard
- Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
1965 Out of the Unknown (TV Series)
Crewman
- Sucker Bait (1965) ... Crewman
1965 The Mind of the Enemy (TV Mini-Series)
Taxi driver
- A Forcing Bid (1965) ... Taxi driver
1964 The Gorgon
Constable (uncredited)
1964 Carry On Spying
Dr. Crow's Assistant (uncredited)
1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series)
2nd Coolie
- A Bank Fraud (1964) ... 2nd Coolie
1964 Z Cars (TV Series)
2nd Wilson Brother
- The Whole Truth... (1964) ... 2nd Wilson Brother
1963 From Russia with Love
Krilencu
1963 The Crimson Blade
Soldier (uncredited)
1963 Captain Sindbad
1961 Gamble for a Throne (TV Series)
Roundhead Trooper
- Death of a Dictator (1961) ... Roundhead Trooper
- South for Slaughter (1961) ... Roundhead Trooper
1961 Operation Snafu
Airman (uncredited)
1961 A Coming-Out Party
German Guard (uncredited)
1960 Tunes of Glory
Sergeant (uncredited)
1960 There Was a Crooked Man
1960 Circus of Horrors
Second Roustabout (uncredited)
1959 The Mouse That Roared
Fenwickian (uncredited)
1957 Town on Trial
Man at Dance (uncredited)
1956 Up in the World
Footballer (uncredited)
1955 The Cockleshell Heroes
Marine (uncredited)
1955 Doctor at Sea
Released Prisoner (uncredited)
1953 The Titfield Thunderbolt
Townsman (uncredited)
1953 Raiders in the Sky
RAF Officer (uncredited)
1949 Passport to Pimlico
Man in Crowd (uncredited)

Stunts (15 credits)

1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (stunts)
1988 Willow (stunts)
1985 Lifeforce (stunts)
1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
1983 Krull (stunts - uncredited)
1983 Octopussy (additional stunts - uncredited)
1981 An American Werewolf in London (stunts)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)
1979 Blake's 7 (TV Series) (stunts - 2 episodes)
- Shadow (1979) ... (stunts - uncredited)
- Redemption (1979) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
1972-1973 The Protectors (TV Series) (stunt director - 3 episodes)
- Vocal (1973) ... (stunt director - as Fred Haggarty)
- It Was All Over in Leipzig (1972) ... (stunt director - as Fred Haggarty)
- Ceremony for the Dead (1972) ... (stunt director - as Fred Haggarty)
1965 The Avengers (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- The Master Minds (1965) ... (stunt double: Harvey Hall - uncredited)
1965 Doctor Who (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- The Meddling Monk (1965) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1963 A Place to Go (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Tunes of Glory (stunt coordinator - uncredited)

Archive footage (1 credit)

2005 From Russia with Love (Video Game)
Krilencu

1939: Sid Haig is born--Fresno, California.
1952: Ian Fleming creates the opening words for his novel Casino Royale.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino
are nauseating at three in the morning.

Fay Dalton, artwork.

1973: Live and Let Die released in Japan.

1989: Licence to Kill released in the UK. Ireland. US.

1989: Roger Ebert reviews Licence to Kill in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Licence to Kill

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/licence-to-kill-1989
| Roger Ebert | July 14, 1989 | 9

The James Bond movies have by now taken on the discipline of a sonnet or a kabuki drama: Every film follows the same story outline so rigidly that we can predict almost to the minute such obligatory developments as
(1) the introduction of the villain's specialized hit man;
(2) the long shot that establishes the villain's incredibly luxurious secret hideout;
(3) the villain's fatal invitation to Bond to spend the night;
(4) the moment when the villain's mistress falls for Bond;
(5) the series of explosions destroying the secret fortress, and
(6) the final spectacular stunt sequence.

Connoisseurs evaluate the elements in a Bond picture as if they were movements in a symphony, or courses in a meal. There are few surprises, and the changes are evolutionary, so that the latest Bond picture is recognizable as a successor to the first, "Dr. No," in 1962. Within this framework of tradition, "Licence to Kill" nevertheless manages to spring some interesting surprises. One is that the Bond character, as played now for the second time by Timothy Dalton, has become less of a British icon and more of an international action hero. The second is that the tempo has been picked up, possibly in response to the escalating pace of the Rambo and Indiana Jones movies. The third is that the villain has fairly modest aims, for a change; he doesn't want to rule the world, he only wants to be a cocaine billionaire.

I've grown uneasy lately about the fashion of portraying drug smugglers in glamorous lifestyles; they're viewed with some of the same glamor as gangsters were, in films of the 1930s. Sure, they die in the end, but they have a lot of fun in the meantime. In "Licence to Kill," however, the use of a drug kingpin named Sanchez (Robert Davi) and his henchmen (Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae) is apparently part of an attempt to update the whole series and make it feel more contemporary.

There are still, of course, the obligatory scenes. The film begins with a sensationally unbelievable stunt sequence (Bond and friend lasso a plane, then parachute to a wedding ceremony). But then the action switches to the recognizable modern world in and around Key West, Fla., where the British agent finds himself involved in an operation to capture Sanchez and cut his pipeline of cocaine.

Like all Bond villains, Sanchez has unlimited resources and a beautiful mistress. His operation uses an underwater shark-nabbing company as its cover, and keeps a few sharks on hand so they can dine on federal agents. After Bond's friend, Felix Leiter, is mistreated by the bad guys, 007 begins a savage vendetta against Sanchez, which involves elaborate and violent stunt sequences in the air, on land, and underwater.

He is aided in his campaign by the beautiful Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell, introduced as "Miss Kennedy, my executive secretary"), and saved more than once by Sanchez' beautiful mistress, Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto). Both women are as beautiful as the historical Bond standard, but more modern - more competent, intelligent and capable, and not simply sex objects. This is no doubt part of the plan, announced before Dalton's first Bond picture, to de-emphasize the character's promiscuous sex life. Compared to his previous films, 007 is practically chaste this time.

My favorite moments in all the Bond pictures involve The Fallacy of the Talking Killer, in which the villain has Bond clearly in his power, and then, instead of killing him instantly, makes the mistake of talking just long enough for Bond to make a plan. The fallacy saves Bond's life two or three times in this movie - especially once when all that Davi has to do is slice his neck.

"Licence to Kill" ends, as all the Bond films do, with an extended chase and stunt sequence. This one involves some truly amazing stunt work, as three giant gasoline trucks speed down a twisting mountain road, while a helicopter and a light aircraft also join in the chase. There were moments when I was straining to spot the trickery, as a big semi-rig spun along tilted to one side, to miss a missile aimed by the bad guys. But the stunts all look convincing, and the effect of the closing sequence is exhilarating.

On the basis of this second performance as Bond, Dalton can have the role as long as he enjoys it. He makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary. The major difference between Dalton and the earlier Bonds is that he seems to prefer action to sex. But then so do movie audiences, these days. "Licence to Kill" is one of the best of the recent Bonds.

2017: ChiDunnit in Canada publishes the paperback version of Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, editors David Nickle and Madeline Ashby. (Originally published 23 November 2015.)

2019: The second of two 30th Anniversary screenings of Licence to Kill at the Prince Charles Cinema, London. (Alan Church attended the earlier 14 June event.)

30th Anniversary
Screening of ‘Licence to
Kill’ at the Prince
Charles Cinema
https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/30th-anniversary-screening-of-licence-to-kill-at-the-prince-charles-cinema/
On 7 Mar, 2019 By Bond on the BoxIn Film Screenings

Licence To Kill
The Prince Charles Cinema will celebrate the
30th Anniversary of ‘Licence to Kill’ with a
special screening on Friday, 14 June, 2019.

Film: ‘Licence to Kill’ (1989)
Location: Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK

Date:
Friday, 14 June, 2019
Sunday, 14 July, 2019

Time:
6:10 – 8:33 PM || 9:00 – 11:23 PM (BST)
8:50 PM – 11:13 PM (BST)

Tickets: £7.50 – £10.00

Sunday 14 Jul 2019
8:50pm

LICENCE TO KILL
Directed by John Glen
Starring Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell
30th Anniversary
1989 | 133mins | UK | rated (15)

James Bond adventure in which 007 relinquishes his licence to
kill, disobeys his orders and goes on a mission of revenge when
his best friend's wife is killed by a drug baron. A beautiful CIA pilot
flies him to Sanchez's South American headquarters where,
disguised as a hit man, Bond is hired by the villainous drug dealer.

We're pleased to announce that on Friday 14th June, Alan
Church will be introducing both the 18:10 and 21:00
performances.
Earlier:
Alan Church was Maurice Binders (Titles designer) assistant,
optical/Titles cameraman for Licence To Kill. He was involved in
the shooting of the titles and gun barrel sequence He was also
involved on 5 other Bond films in the 80's and 90's. Prior to the
screening Alan will be talking about his experience of shooting of
the last traditional titles/gun barrel of the entire Bond series

Revelator

Licence To Kill has the absolute worst posters of any film in the Bond series. There isn't a single person on this board who couldn't do a better job with Photopshop or even Microsoft Paint.

RichardTheBruce

July 15th

1963: From Russia With Love films the final scene on location in Venice.
1975: Bond comic The Black Ruby Caper finishes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 19 February 1975. 2781–2897) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




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




Swedish Semic Press 1976 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835


Tamil Star comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/


Danish 1977 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no41-1977/

1983: Comic strip Polestar ends its run in The Daily Express, mid-way through the story. (Began 23 May 1983. 625-719) Complete versions eventually published in non-UK media. John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://deskgram.net/p/1955061681084564277_2057419686




Swedish Press 1984 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

1986: The National Broadcasting Network exercises the sixty-day option on Pierce Brosnan's contract to add another season to its (previously cancelled) television show Remington Steele.
1993: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers, misspelling a main character's name on the dustjacket.

NEVER SEND
FLOWERS

When Laura March, an officer
of the British Security Service,
is murdered in Switzerland,
James Bond is sent to liaise with
the local authorities. He teams
up with the local authorities. He teams
up with the lovely and lively
Flicka von Grősse, a member
of Swiss Intelligence, and
together they discover some
curious information about
Laura's past.

In turn, they become conscious
of a link between the March
murder and four recent,
high-profile assassinations,
in Rome, London, Paris and
Washington. They also discover
a further connection between
the assassinations and the
internationally famous actor,
David Dragonpol, who has
retired early from a spectacular
career and now lives in a castle
on the Rhine, in which every
room becomes a bizarre step
into the past.

But the past is dangerous, to
Dragonpol, Bond and Flicka,
and it leads them to a deadly
game of hide and seek, following
a sinister shadow across the
world, from Athens to Milan,
to Singapore, the United States
and back to Europe for a
denouement in the most
unlikely setting of EuroDisney
outside Paris.

JOHN GARDNER was educated
in Berkshire and at St John'ss
College, Cambridge. He has had
many fascinating occupations
and was, variously, a Royal
Marine officer, a stage magician,
theater critic, reviewer and
journalist.

As well as his James Bond novels,
most recently The Man from
Barbarossa and Death is Forever,
Gardner's other fiction includes
the acclaimed Herbie Kruger
trilogy and, more recently, The
Secret Generations, The Secret
Houses and The Secret Families.

RichardTheBruce

July 16th

1963: Ian Fleming responds to Norman Felton's letter of 8 July, in part on the Solo project.

July 16, 1963

My near Norman,

Very many thanks for your letter and it was
very pleasant to see you over here although briefly
and so frustratingly for you.

Your Pacific islands sound very enticing, it would
certainly be nice to see some sun as ever since you
charming Americans started your long range weather
forecasting we have had nothing but rain. You might
ask them to lay off.

With best regards and I do hope Solo gets off the
pad in due course.

Yours ever,

Ian

1987: The Living Daylights released in Hong Kong.

2010: Activision press release announces James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2010/07/16/james-bond-007-blood-stone-announced/

RichardTheBruce

July 17th

1922: Tetsurô Tamba is born--Tokyo, Japan. (He dies 24 September 2006 at age 84--Tokyo, Japan.)

Tetsuro Tamba
Japanese actor whose life was a journey from kitsch to cult
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/06/guardianobituaries.japan
Ronald Bergan | Wed 6 Dec 2006 04.17 EST

The Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba, who has died aged 84, was a recognisable face to that large group of film fans from the west who are followers of Asian genre movies. He was seen in every conceivable kind of film - disaster, gangster, samurai, war and horror, as well as a number of art films.

In an acting career that began in 1954, Tamba made more than 200 films; he admitted that he never refused a role, never memorised a script - and never sat through an entire film that he appeared in. One of his most well-known roles internationally was in Lewis Gilbert's You Only Live Twice (1967), the fifth blockbusting James Bond movie starring Sean Connery. Tamba played Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese secret service, who helps Bond save the world from destruction. The character is the mirror of Bond-san: he has a witty and sarcastic sense of humour, dresses smartly, is in perfect physical condition and has a taste for beautiful women. When Bond makes contact with him, he uses the password, "I love you."

One of the best exchanges between them is when they are being bathed by Tanaka's women. Tanaka: "You know what it is about you that fascinates them, don't you? It's the hair on your chest. All Japanese men have beautiful bare skin." Bond: "Japanese proverb say 'Bird never make nest in bare tree.'"

Gilbert also directed Tamba in The Seventh Dawn (1964). In the Malaya of 1945, he and William Holden are two pals who fought the Japanese together during the war but are now on opposing sides - Holden, an imperialist rubber plantation owner, and Tamba a communist guerilla. In another English-language film, Tamba played an ideological baddie in Bridge to the Sun (1961), as a militaristic diplomat at odds with a friend who married an American girl (Carroll Baker) before Pearl Harbor.

He was born Shozaburo Tanba (he is sometimes credited as Tetsuro Tanba) in Tokyo, the son of the emperor's personal doctor. After some years under contract to Shintoho studios, he went freelance in 1959 and began starring in films, mostly yakusa, jidai-geki (period) movies and gore spectacles. For example, he was the unheeded professor who predicts The Last Days of Planet Earth (1974). But he also worked with some of Japan's best directors, including Shohei Imamura - Pigs and Battleships (1961), 11'09.01-September 11 (2002), Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri, 1962), Kwaidan (1964), Kinji Fukasaku (Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, 1972) and Juzo Itami (A Taxing Woman Returns, 1988).

Towards the end of his life, Tamba made a few films for Takashi Miike: The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), and Gozu, 2003, in the former as a stern grandfather. He also had a cameo role as a harsh art critic in Teruo Ishii's Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001). In the 1980s, while appearing in around seven films a year, Tamba became leader of Dai Reien Kai (Great Spirit World), a spiritual cult movement, for which he made several propaganda videos based upon his theories of the afterlife. He is survived by his son, the actor Yoshitaka Tanba.

· Tetsuro Tamba (Shozaburo Tanba), actor, born July 17 1922; died September 25 2006

Tetsuro Tamba
https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tetsuro-tamba/credits/176543/

Actor (24 Credits)

Title Role Year
The Twilight Samurai (Movie) Tozaemon Iguchi 2003
11'09"01: September 11 (Movie) Bonze 2002
The Happiness Of The Katakuris (Movie) Jinpei Katakuri 2001
Tokyo Pop (Movie) Dota 1988
Onimasa (Movie) The Big Boss 1982
The Bushido Blade (Movie) Lord Yamato 1982
Hunter In The Dark (Movie) Okitsugu Tanuma 1979
Message From Space (Movie) Noguchi 1978
Karate Bearfighter (Movie) 1977
Tidal Wave (Movie) Prime Minister Yamato 1975
Prophecies Of Nostradamus (Movie) 1974
Under The Fluttering Military Flag (Movie) 1972
The Five Man Army (Movie) Samurai 1970
The Scandalous Adventures Of Buraikan (Movie) Soshun 1970
Goyokin (Movie) Rokugo Tatewaki 1969
Black Lizard (Movie) Show Dancer 1968
Portrait Of Chieko (Movie) Kotaro Takamura 1967
You Only Live Twice (Movie) Tiger Tanaka 1967
Kwaidan (Movie) 1964
Samurai From Nowhere (Movie) Gunjuro Ohba 1964
The Seventh Dawn (Movie) Ng 1964
Harakiri (Movie) Hikokuro Omodaka 1962
The Diplomat's Mansion (Movie) 1961
Bridge To The Sun (Movie) Jiro 1961

1944: Catherine Schell is born--Budapest, Hungary.
1963: From Russia With Love films the helicopter assault on Bond and Tatiana.
1963: Jonathan Cape's Michael Howard writes Richard Chopping regarding Fleming's opinion for elements of the eventual You Only Live Twice dust cover.

Michael Howard to Richard Chopping:

I have had a talk with Ian about the ideas for the ingredients
of this design. He is very much in favour of the toad ...
but with a suitable array of oriental embellishrangment,
i.e. toad plus Japanese flower arrangements, which he thinks
should be sitting in a suitable piece of Japanese pottery, perhaps
ornamented with a dragon motif. If you could manage a
pink dragonfly sitting on the flowers, and perhaps just one
epicanthic eye peering through them he thinks that
will be just splendid!

1965: The cover of The Saturday Evening Post features Sean Connery and The James Bond Cult.

1968: Roger Moore is photographed drinking a martini.

1977: BBC2 for the Open University airs its documentary Mass Communication and Society, an in-depth record of The Spy Who Loved Me film production. Eight parts.

007magazine.co.uk/news_tswlm40-2.htm

1990: Putnam publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Brokenclaw in the US. Hyphenated.

2006: James Bond 'Ultimate Edition' DVD Boxed Set Releases.

2018: Final day to object to the settlement of a class action suit on labeling of James Bond DVD and Blu-ray box sets.

bonddvdsettlement.com/

RichardTheBruce

July 18th

1913: Eric Pohlmann is born--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
(He dies 25 July 1979 at age 66--Bad Reichenall, Bavaria, Germany.)

Eric Pohlmann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pohlmann


Born Erich Pollak, 18 July 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died 25 July 1979 (aged 66), Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Years active 1948–1979
Spouse(s) Liselotte Goettinger (1939–1968; her death; 2 children)

Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain.

Early life

Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.

In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, Odette and Carve Her Name With Pride), into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he was now known, as butler.

Career

After the war, he began a career on the London stage. Among other roles he played "Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s, Pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. He was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Orientals; he also played King George I, King George II in Disney's Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and King George III twice.

One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reed's classic The Third Man (1949). He also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare (1954), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Expresso Bongo (1960). He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge (1952), Mogambo (1953), Lust For Life (1956) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor - The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) and The House of the Seven Hawks (1959).

He displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying (1964) and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975).

Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann regularly returned to his homeland to play numerous character roles in German and Austrian film and television productions. He had guest roles in the popular crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick, and also appeared in television plays for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, often under the direction of Franz Josef Wild [de]. In addition to The Defence Counsel (1961) with Barbara Rütting and Carl Heinz Schroth, he appeared in Der Kleine Lord (1962) with Albrecht Schoenhals and Michael Ande, as well as The Dreyfus Affair (1968) with Karl Michael Vogler and Bernhard Wicki. In 1962, Pohlmann also appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel.

Pohlmann's greatest success in German TV drama came in 1970 with an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman In White, one of the most successful television productions of the year which gained over 9 million viewers. Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun and Helmut Käutner. The mini-series has a cult following to this day.

Pohlmann was a regular on British television, taking the role of "Inspector Goron" in the 1952-1954 TV series Colonel March of Scotland Yard with Boris Karloff, and appearing as a guest star in such series as The Saint, The Champions, The Avengers, Danger Man, Department S, Jason King and Paul Temple.

In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváth's play Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods). The film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall. He was 66.

In 2006, the Turner Classic Movies "31 Days of Oscar" festival was based on the theme of "360 Degrees of Oscar" (based on the game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon") in which TCM chooses an actor who has played a significant role in Oscar history, and builds its entire schedule around him. They chose Eric Pohlmann.

He also appeared on stage (Henry Cecil's Settled Out Of Court is a production this editor remembers seeing him in).

Filmography

List of acting performances in film, theatre, and television
Year Title Role Notes

1949 Portrait from Life - Search group leader
1949 Marry Me! - Mr. Cinelli Uncredited
1949 The Third Man - Waiter at Smolka's Uncredited
1949 Children of Chance - Sergeant

1950 Chance of a Lifetime - Xenobian
1950 Cairo Road - Ship's Captain
1950 State Secret - Cable Car conductor
1950 Blackout - Otto Ford
1950 The Clouded Yellow - Greek taxidermist
1950 Highly Dangerous - Joe - the bartender
1950 Traveller's Joy - Gustafsen
1951 The Long Dark Hall - Mr. Polaris (the mystery witness)
1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Louis, the proprietor
1951 There Is Another Sun - Markie
1952 His Excellency - Dobrieda
1952 The Woman's Angle - Steffano
1952 Emergency Call - Flash Harry
1952 Penny Princess - Monsieur Paul Uncredited
1952 Venetian Bird - Gostini
1952 Monsoon - Molac
1952 The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Goin
1952 Moulin Rouge - Picard Uncredited
1952 The Gambler and the Lady - Arturo Colonna
1953 The Beggar's Opera - Inn Keeper
1953 Mogambo - Leon Boltchak
1953 Blood Orange - Mr. Mercedes
1953 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue - King George I
1953 36 Hours - Slossen, the smuggler
1954 They Who Dare - Captain Papadapoulos
1954 Knave of Hearts - Boarding House Proprietor Uncredited
1954 Flame and the Flesh - Marina Proprietor
1954 Forbidden Cargo - Steven Lasovich
1954 The Belles of St Trinian's - The Sultan of Makyad
1955 The Glass Cage - Henri Sapolio
1955 A Prize of Gold - Fischer
1955 Break in the Circle - Emile
1955 The Constant Husband - Papa Sopranelli
1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - M. Ballard
1955 The Adventures of Quentin Durward - Gluckmeister
1956 The Gelignite Gang - Mr. Popoulos ("Populace")
1956 Reach for the Sky - Adjutant of Prison Camp
1956 Lust for Life - Colbert
1956 High Terrace - Otto Kellner
1956 House of Secrets - Gratz
1956 Zarak - Tobacco seller Uncredited
1956 Anastasia - Von Drivnitz Uncredited
1957 The Counterfeit Plan - Frank Wandelman
1957 Interpol - Etienne Fayala
1957 Let's Be Happy - Customs Official
1957 Fire Down Below - Hotel Owner
1957 Across the Bridge - Police Sergeant
1957 Not Wanted on Voyage - Pedro
1957 Barnacle Bill - Liberamanian Consul
1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Sawyer
1958 I Accuse! - Bertillon
1958 The Duke Wore Jeans - Bastini - Prime Minister
1958 Nor the Moon by Night - Anton Boryslawski
1958 The Man Inside - Tristao
1958 Further Up the Creek - President
1958 Mark of the Phoenix - Duser
1959 Three Crooked Men - Masters
1959 John Paul Jones - King George III
1959 Alive and Kicking - Captain
1959 The House of the Seven Hawks - Captain Rohner
1959 Upstairs and Downstairs - Mario
1959 Expresso Bongo - Leon

1960 Life Is a Circus - Rickenbeck
1960 Sands of the Desert - Scrobin
1960 Surprise Package - Chief of Police Stefan Miralis
1960 Man Who Couldn't Walk - The Consul General
1960 No Kidding - King
1960 Passport to China - Ivono Kong
1960 Snowball - Editor
1961 The Singer Not the Song - Presidente
1961 Carry On Regardless - Sinister Man
1961 The Kitchen - Mr. Marango
1962 The Puzzle of the Red Orchid - Kerkie Minelli
1962 Village of Daughters - Marcio (A Father)
1962 Mrs. Gibbons' Boys - Morelli
1962 The Devil's Agent - Bloch
1963 Cairo - Nicodemos
1963 Follow the Boys - Italian Farmer
1963 55 Days at Peking - Baron von Meck
1963 Shadow of Fear - Henry Spiroulos
1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1963 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - King George III
1963 The Sicilians - Inspector Bressin
1964 Hot Enough for June - Galushka
1964 Carry On Spying - The Fat Man
1964 Night Train to Paris - Krogh
1965 Joey Boy - Antonio (Italian farmer)
1965 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - Italian Mayor
1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1966 Where the Spies Are - Farouk
1967 Heißes Pflaster Köln - Benno Trooger
1967 The Mini-Affair - World Banker
1968 Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt [de] - Alter General
1968 Inspector Clouseau - Bergesch

1970 Foreign Exchange - Borensko TV film
1971 The Woman in White [de] - Count Fosco TV miniseries
1971 The Horsemen - Merchant in Kandahar
1973 Tiffany Jones - Jabal
1975 The Return of the Pink Panther - Fat Man
1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Iwan Pederenko
1976 Duett zu dritt
1979 Ashanti - Zeda El-Kabir
1979 Tales from the Vienna Woods - Mister

1980 Maria - Nur die Nacht war ihr Zeuge

1930: Burt Kwouk is born--Warrington, Cheshire, England.
(He dies 24 May 2016 at age 85--Hampstead, London, England.)

Burt Kwouk obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/24/burt-kwouk-obituary
Actor best known for his roles in the Pink Panther films and the
BBC’s Last of the Summer Wine
Ronald Bergan | Tue 24 May 2016 12.24 EDT

Burt Kwouk, right, was a regular co-star with Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films, including Return of the Pink Panther, 1975. Photograph: SNAP/Rex/Shutterstock

Anna May Wong, the first of the few Chinese actors to gain Hollywood stardom, explained why she retired from the screen: “I was so tired of the parts I had to play. Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain? And so crude a villain – murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass. We are not like that. How should we be, with a civilisation that is so many times older than that of the west?” Burt Kwouk, who has died aged 85, felt the same way but, as he remarked: “I look at it this way – if I don’t do it, someone else will. So why don’t I go in, get some money and try to elevate it a bit, if I can?”

Kwouk, mostly seen in British films and TV, did manage to elevate many of his roles, finally transcending stereotypes such as his celebrated Cato, the foil to Peter Sellers’ bungling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies, to become a national treasure, this status being consecrated in 2002 by his joining the cast of the BBC’s longest running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.

Kwouk was born in Warrington, Lancashire, “because my mother happened to be there at the time,” but at 10 months old was taken back to the family home in Shanghai. There he remained until he was 17, when his well-off parents sent him to the US to study politics and economics. However, before he was able to graduate his parents lost all their money in the 1949 revolution, and he returned to Shanghai. A few years later, Kwouk took advantage of his dual nationality and returned to Britain, where he took various menial jobs before his girlfriend “nagged me into acting”. Capitalising on his oriental looks, he started getting roles mostly as villainous or comic Chinese or Japanese characters.

One of his first TV appearances was a comic one, in a Hancock’s Half Hour (1957), as a Japanese man presenting two bowls of rice to Tony Hancock, who has won a lifetime’s supply in a newspaper competition. A year later, Kwouk was fortunate, so early in his career, to have one of his better film roles in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, set in China but shot in Wales. Kwouk, one of the few genuine Chinese people in the cast, played Li, who helps Ingrid Bergman, as the English Christian missionary Gladys Aylward, escape from the Japanese with 100 children. After a long and arduous journey, he is shot and killed by Japanese soldiers when he tries to distract them from the children.

He was soon cast in a couple of Hammer Horror films, The Terror of the Tongs, as one of evil Christopher Lee’s hatchet men, and Visa to Canton (both 1961). Kwouk was subsequently to play the sidekick of Lee’s Fu Manchu in The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) and The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969). But in The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu (1980), Sax Rohmer’s master criminal was played by Sellers, with Kwouk as his manservant. It was a best-forgotten, dismal ending to Sellers’ career, but it did give him and Kwouk a last chance to work together.

Their first chance had come 16 years before in A Shot in the Dark (1964), the second of Blake Edwards’s slapstick comedies featuring Sellers as the extraordinarily maladroit Inspector Clouseau, who seemed unable to cross a room without breaking something. Kwouk played Clouseau’s Chinese “houseboy”, whose sole function was to ambush his master with kung fu attacks at the most unexpected moments from the most unsuspected places. These brilliantly choreographed running and jumping gags, which always resulted in the destruction of Clouseau’s apartment and Cato coming off worst, were the highlights of all the Pink Panther films, which included The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).

“Peter and I fell about laughing so much that very often we were unable to complete the day’s work as scheduled, which the producers hated,” Kwouk recalled. “Cato and I are very different. He never stands still. I only move when I have to.” The death of Sellers in 1980 didn’t prevent Edwards from making The Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) by piecing together out-takes and clips from the previous films in the series. Kwouk was seen as Cato, bravely being interviewed about his boss, and again in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), this time as proprietor of the Clouseau museum. Kwouk’s protracted association with the Pink Panther series ended with Son of the Pink Panther (1993), in which, in various disguises, he attacks villains on behalf of Roberto Benigni in the title role.

Kwouk also appeared in three James Bond movies: Goldfinger (1964), as a nuclear scientist sent to oversee the bomb that China has given to Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) to blow up Fort Knox, but who is later double-crossed and shot; Casino Royale (1967), as a Chinese general; and You Only Live Twice (1967), as one of Blofeld’s gang of Spectre henchmen.

His other roles varied from Chairman Peng of the People’s Republic in Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) to a corrupt Laotian general who’s hoping to save up enough money to buy a Holiday Inn in the US in Air America (1990), to the trustworthy contact in Paris of Jet Li’s Chinese cop in the formulaic martial arts thriller Kiss of the Dragon (2001).

Parallel to his film career, Kwouk made a niche for himself on British television in series including The Saint (1965-68), It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1977-78), Doctor Who (1982), and as himself in The Kenny Everett Show (1983-84) and The Harry Hill Show (1997-2000). But the role that revealed his underused talents as a dramatic actor was Major Yamauchi, the strict but honourable commandant of a women’s POW camp in Tenko (1981-84).

In contrast was his Mr Entwistle, a philosophical electrical handyman from Hull in Last of the Summer Wine, a part specially written for him by Roy Clarke. “It is a very pleasant and easygoing programme, a lovely gentle comic show,” Kwouk remarked. “There is no one charging around, and even the slapstick is quite gentle – certainly more gentle than I am used to.”

Kwouk’s voice was almost as famous as his face. It can be heard in the video game Fire Warrior, narrating the English version of the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (1976-78), the bizarre “interactive” gambling show Banzai! (2001-04) and in many TV commercials.

Kwouk was appointed OBE in 2011 for services to drama.

He is survived by Caroline Tebbs, whom he married in 1961, and their son Christopher.

• Burt Kwouk, actor, born 18 July 1930; died 24 May 2016

https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/person/223941

Films | Year | Film | Role

1958
Windom's Way
Cast (villager)

1959
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Cast (Li)

1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
Cast (Chinese restaurant proprietor)

1960
Expresso Bongo
Cast ([Soho youth])

1960
The Terror of the Tongs
Cast (Ming)

1960
Visa to Canton
Cast (Jimmy)

1962
Satan Never Sleeps
Cast (Ah Wong)

1962
The Sinister Man
Cast (Captain Feng)

1963
The Cool Mikado
Cast ([art teacher])

1964
Goldfinger
Cast (Mr Ling)

1965
A Shot in the Dark
Cast (Kato)

1965
Curse of the Fly
Cast (Tai)

1966
Our Man in Marrakesh
Cast (export analysis manager)

1966
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Cast (Feng)

1966
The Sandwich Man
Cast (ice cream salesman)

1967
Casino Royale
Cast ([Chinese Army officer at auction])

1967
You Only Live Twice
Cast (SPECTRE No 3)

1968
Nobody Runs Forever
Cast (Pham Chinh)

1969
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Cast (Chang Shou)

1970
Deep End
Cast (hot dog stand man)

1972
Die Folterkammer des Doktor Fu Manchu
Cast (henchman)

1975
Girls Come First
Cast (Sashimi)

1976
Return of the Pink Panther
Cast (Cato)

1977
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Cast (Cato)

1977
The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It
Cast (Chinese delegate)

1978
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Cast (Cato)

1982
Trail of the Pink Panther
Cast (Cato)

1983
Curse of the Pink Panther
Cast (Cato)

1990
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
Cast (Fu King owner)

1992
Carry On Columbus
Cast (Wang)

1993
Leon the Pig Farmer
Cast (art collector)

2004
Fat Slags
Cast (Dalai Lama)

1963: El satánico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Argentina.

1979: Moonraker released in South Africa.
1983: People Weekly celebrates Bond's Babes.

1988: Licence to Kill filming begins at Churubusco Studios, Mexico City.
2015: Glu Mobile releases menu-based role-playing game James Bond: World of Espionage as a free app for the Android and iOS platforms.

2019: Albert David Hedison Jr. dies at age 92--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 20 May 1927--Providence, Rhode Island.)

David Hedison, Actor in
'Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea’ and ‘The Fly’, Dies at 92
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/david-hedison-dead-dies-the-fly-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-1203275257/
Mackenzie Nichols, Staff Writer


David Hedison, a film, television, and theater actor known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the sci-fi adventure television series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” and as the crazed scientist turned human insect in the first iteration of the film “The Fly,” died on July 18. He was 92, and the family said in a statement that he “died peacefully” with his daughters at his side.

“Even in our deep sadness, we are comforted by the memory of our wonderful father. He loved us all dearly and expressed that love every day. He was adored by so many, all of whom benefited from his warm and generous heart. Our dad brought joy and humor wherever he went and did so with great style,” said the family in a statement.

David Hedison, born Al Hedison, was from Providence, R.I. and studied at Brown University where he grew fond of the theater, becoming a part of the university’s theater production group “Sock and Buskin Players.” He then moved to New York, studying with Sanford Meisner at “The Neighborhood Playhouse” as well as Lee Strasberg of “The Actor’s Studio.” In the 1950s, he appeared in “Much Ado About Nothing” and “A Month in the Country,” working with Uta Hagen and Michael Redgrave on productions by Clifford Odets and Christopher Fry, among others.

Shortly after “A Month in the Country,” Hedison first hit the big screen with his role in the 1957 film “The Enemy Below” and in the 1958 film “Son of Robin Hood.” He also played André Delambre in “The Fly,” (1958) which became a cult phenomenon and sparked a remake in 1986 with Jeff Goldblum reprising the role. Hedison then signed with Twentieth Century Fox in 1959 and changed his first name to David, his given middle name. In 1964, he hit his big television break as Captain Lee Crane in producer Irwin Allen’s “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” which ran until 1968.

He also joined Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die” as well as Timothy Dalton in 1989 with “License to Kill,” becoming the first actor to play CIA agent Felix Leiter twice. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on shows such as “Another World,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat,” “Who’s the Boss” and “The Colbys.”

According to family members, Hedison joked during his final days that “instead of RIP he preferred SRO ‘Standing Room Only.'” They said that he was “tall and strikingly handsome,” and “a true actor through and through.”

Hedison’s wife, Bridget, a production associate on “Dynasty” and an assistant to producer on “The Colbys,” died in 2016. He is survived by two daughters; Serena and Alexandra, an actress and director who is married to Jodie Foster.

Donations may be made to the Actor’s Fund.

http://david-hedison.com/wp/filmography/
Filmography

Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (2017) Interviewee #2
Superman and the Secret Planet (Video) (2013) ….. Jor El
The Reality Trap (2005) …. Morgan Jameson
“The Young and the Restless” …. Arthur Hendricks / … (50 episodes, 2004)
… aka “Y&R” – USA (promotional abbreviation)
– Episode #1.8018 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8017 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8015 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8014 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8012 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
(45 more)
Spectres (2004) …. William
… aka “Soul Survivor” – USA (cable TV title)
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001) …. Daniel Alexander
… aka “Megiddo” – USA (short title)
Mach 2 (2001) …. Senator Stuart Davis

Fugitive Mind (1999) (V) …. Senator Davis
“Another World” (1964) TV series …. Spencer Harrison (1991-1996, 1999) (unknown episodes)
Sheng zhan feng yun (1990) …. US Ambassador
… aka “Undeclared War” – Hong Kong (English title)


Licence to Kill (1989) …. Felix Leiter
“Murder, She Wrote” …. Mitch Payne / … (3 episodes, 1986-1989)
– Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 2 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Casper
– Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 1 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Caspar
– The Perfect Foil (1986) TV episode …. Mitch Payne
“The Law and Harry McGraw” …. Blake Devaroe (1 episode, 1987)
– Mr. Chapman, I Presume? (1987) TV episode …. Blake Devaroe
“Who’s the Boss?” …. Jim Ratcliff (1 episode, 1987)
– Mona (1987) TV episode …. Jim Ratcliff
“The Colbys” …. Lord Roger Langdon / … (9 episodes, 1985-1987)
– Devil’s Advocate (1987) TV episode …. Roger Langdon
– The Honeymoon (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
– My Father’s House (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
– Burden of Proof (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
– The Trial (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
(4 more)
“Hotel” …. Dr. Howard Bentley / … (2 episodes, 1985-1987)
– Pitfalls (1987) TV episode …. Dr. Howard Bentley
– Distortions (1985) TV episode …. Jack Fitzpatrick
Smart Alec (1986) …. Frank Wheeler
… aka “Hollywood Dreaming” – USA (alternative title)
“Trapper John, M.D.” …. Miles Warner (1 episode, 1985)
– The Second Best Man (1985) TV episode …. Miles Warner
“The A-Team” …. David Vaun (1 episode, 1985)
– Mind Games (1985) TV episode …. David Vaun
“Crazy Like a Fox” …. Ed Galvin (1 episode, 1985)
– Eye in the Sky (1985) TV episode …. Ed Galvin
“A.D.” …. Porcius Festus (5 episodes, 1985)
– Part 5 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 4 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 3 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 2 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 1 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
“Knight Rider” …. Theodore Cooper (1 episode, 1985)
– Knight in Retreat (1985) TV episode …. Theodore Cooper
“Double Trouble” …. David Burke (2 episodes, 1985)
– The Day of the Rose (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
– September Song (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
“Finder of Lost Loves” …. Neil Palmer (1 episode, 1985)
– Haunted Memories (1985) TV episode …. Neil Palmer
“Simon & Simon” …. Austin Tyler (2 episodes, 1985)
– Simon Without Simon: Part 2 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
– Simon Without Simon: Part 1 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
“The Love Boat” …. Cliff Jacobs / … (7 episodes, 1977-1985)
– Love on the Line/Don’t Call Me Gopher/Her Honor, the Mayor (1985) TV episode …. Barry Singer
– Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 1 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
– Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 2 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
– April in Boston/Saving Grace/Breaks of Life (1982) TV episode …. Bradford York
– Lady from Sunshine Gardens/Eye of the Beholder/Bugged (1981) TV episode …. Allan Christensen
(2 more)
“The Fall Guy” …. Jordan Stevens / … (3 episodes, 1982-1985)
– Her Bodyguard (1985) TV episode …. Monte Sorrenson
– Undersea Odyssey (1984) TV episode …. Milo
– The Snow Job (1982) TV episode …. Jordan Stevens
“Partners in Crime” …. Davidson (1 episode, 1984)
– Fantasyland (1984) TV episode …. Davidson
The Naked Face (1984) …. Dr. Peter Hadley
“Fantasy Island” …. Captain John Day / … (6 episodes, 1978-1984)
– Don Juan’s Last Affair/Final Adieu (1984) TV episode …. Daniel Garman
– Everybody Goes to Gilley’s/Face of Fire (1982) TV episode …. Phillip Camden
– Show Me a Hero/Slam Dunk (1981) TV episode …. Captain John Day
– Man-Beast/Ole Island Oprey (1981) TV episode …. David Tabori
– The Chateau/White Lightning (1981) TV episode …. Karl Dixon/Claude Duncan
(1 more)
Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983) (TV) …. Carson
“Dynasty” …. Sam Dexter (2 episodes, 1983)
– The Vote (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
– The Downstairs Bride (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
“Amanda’s” …. David (1 episode, 1983)
… aka “Amanda’s by the Sea” – USA (alternative title)
– All in a Day’s Work (1983) TV episode …. David
“Matt Houston” …. Pierre Cerdan (1 episode, 1982)
– Recipe for Murder (1982) TV episode …. Pierre Cerdan
“T.J. Hooker” …. Saxon (1 episode, 1982)
– The Protectors (1982) TV episode …. Saxon
“Hart to Hart” …. Miles Wiatt (1 episode, 1982)
– Hart of Diamonds (1982) TV episode …. Miles Wiatt
The Awakening of Cassie (1982)
“Nero Wolfe” …. Phillip Corrigan (1 episode, 1981)
– Murder by the Book (1981) TV episode …. Phillip Corrigan
“Charlie’s Angels” …. Carter Gillis / … (2 episodes, 1978-1981)
– He Married an Angel (1981) TV episode …. John Thornwood

– Angels in the Stretch (1978) TV episode …. Carter Gillis
“Benson” …. John Taylor (1 episode, 1979)
– Pilot (1979) TV episode …. John Taylor
The Power Within (1979) (TV) …. Danton
“Greatest Heroes of the Bible” …. Ashpenaz (1 episode, 1979)
– Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar (1979) TV episode …. Ashpenaz
ffolkes (1979) …. King
… aka “North Sea Hijack” – UK (original title)
… aka “Assault Force” – USA (TV title)
“Flying High” (1 episode, 1978)
– High Rollers (1978) TV episode
Colorado C.I. (1978) (TV) …. David Royce
“Project U.F.O.” …. Frederick Flanagan (1 episode, 1978)
… aka “Project Blue Book” – USA (alternative title)
– Sighting 4011: The Dollhouse Incident (1978) TV episode …. Frederick Flanagan
“The Bob Newhart Show” …. Steve Darnell (1 episode, 1978)
– It Didn’t Happen One Night (1978) TV episode …. Steve Darnell
“The New Adventures of Wonder Woman” …. Evan Robley (1 episode, 1977)
… aka “Wonder Woman” – USA (original title)
… aka “The New Original Wonder Woman” – USA (first episodes title)
– The Queen and the Thief (1977) TV episode …. Evan Robley
Murder in Peyton Place (1977) (TV) …. Steven Cord
“Barnaby Jones” …. Paul Nugent (1 episode, 1977)
– The Deadly Charade (1977) TV episode …. Paul Nugent
“Gibbsville” (1 episode, 1977)
– The Grand Gesture (1977) TV episode
“Family” …. Peter Towne (2 episodes, 1976)
– Coming of Age (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
– Coming Apart (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
“Ellery Queen” …. Roger Woods (1 episode, 1976)
– The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer (1976) TV episode …. Roger Woods
“Bronk” …. Lyle Brewster (1 episode, 1975)
– Betrayal (1975) TV episode …. Lyle Brewster
“Cannon” …. Bell / … (3 episodes, 1973-1975)
– The Star (1975) TV episode …. David Farnum
– Night Flight to Murder (1973) TV episode …. John Sandler
– The Dead Samaritan (1973) TV episode …. Bell
The Art of Crime (1975) (TV) …. Parker Sharon
The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) (TV) …. Dr. Wes Dolan
Adventures of the Queen (1975) (TV) …. Doctor Peter Brooks
For the Use of the Hall (1975) (TV) …. Allen
“The ABC Afternoon Playbreak” …. Clay (1 episode, 1974)
… aka “ABC Matinee Today” – USA (alternative title)
– Can I Save My Children? (1974) TV episode …. Clay
“The Manhunter” …. Jeffrey Donnenfield (1 episode, 1974)
– The Man Who Thought He Was Dillinger (1974) TV episode …. Jeffrey Donnenfield
The Compliment (1974) (TV) …. Steve Barker
“Wide World Mystery” …. Herbert Kasson (1 episode, 1974)
– Murder Impossible (1974) TV episode …. Herbert Kasson
“Medical Center” …. Dave (1 episode, 1974)
– Dark Warning (1974) TV episode …. Dave
“Shaft” …. Gil Kirkwood (1 episode, 1974)
– The Capricorn Murders (1974) TV episode …. Gil Kirkwood
“The New Perry Mason” …. Calvin (1 episode, 1973)
– The Case of the Frenzied Feminist (1973) TV episode …. Calvin
The Cat Creature (1973) (TV) …. Prof. Roger Edmonds
Live and Let Die (1973) …. Felix Leiter
… aka “Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
Crime Club (1973) (TV) …. Nick Kelton
“The F.B.I.” …. Lou Forrester (2 episodes, 1972-1973)
– A Gathering of Sharks (1973) TV episode
– The Buyer (1972) TV episode …. Lou Forrester
The Man in the Wood (1973) (TV) …. Edmund hardy
“BBC Play of the Month” …. John Buchanan (1 episode, 1972)
– Summer and Smoke (1972) TV episode …. John Buchanan
“ITV Saturday Night Theatre” …. Bill Kromin (1 episode, 1972)
– A Man About a Dog (1972) TV episode …. Bill Kromin
A Man About a Dog (1972) (TV) …. Bill Kronin
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971) (TV) …. Kit Shaeffer
Kemek (1970) …. Nick

“Love, American Style” …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”) (1 episode, 1969)
– Love and the Bachelor/Love and the Other Love/Love and the Positive Man (1969) TV episode …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”)
“Journey to the Unknown” …. William Searle (1 episode, 1968)
– Somewhere in a Crowd (1968) TV episode …. William Searle
“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” …. Captain Crane / … (110 episodes, 1964-1968)
– No Way Back (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– The Death Clock (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– The Edge of Doom (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– Attack! (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– Flaming Ice (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
(105 more)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) …. Philip
… aka “George Stevens Presents The Greatest Story Ever Told” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
“The Farmer’s Daughter” …. Richard Barden (1 episode, 1964)
– The Mink Machine (1964) TV episode …. Richard Barden
“The Saint” …. Bill Harvey (1 episode, 1964)
– Luella (1964) TV episode …. Bill Harvey
“Perry Mason” …. Damion White (1 episode, 1962)
– The Case of the Dodging Domino (1962) TV episode …. Damion White
“Bus Stop” …. Max Hendricks (1 episode, 1961)
– Call Back Yesterday (1961) TV episode …. Max Hendricks
Marines, Let’s Go (1961) …. Pfc. Dave Chatfield
“Hong Kong” …. Roger Ames (1 episode, 1961)
– Lesson in Fear (1961) TV episode …. Roger Ames
The Lost World (1960) …. Ed Malone
… aka “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World” – USA (complete title)

“Five Fingers” …. Victor Sebastian (5 episodes, 1959)
– Final Dream (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– The Temple of the Swinging Doll (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– The Emerald Curtain (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– The Men with Triangle Heads (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– Station Break (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) (uncredited) …. Narrator
… aka “Leo McCarey’s Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!” – USA (complete title)
The Son of Robin Hood (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Jamie
The Fly (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Andre Delambre
The Enemy Below (1957) (as Al Hedison) …. Lt. Ware (Executive Officer [XO])
“Star Tonight” (1 episode, 1956)
– The Mirthmaker (1956) TV episode (as Al Hedison)
“Kraft Theatre” (1 episode, 1955)
… aka “Kraft Television Theatre” – USA (original title)
… aka “Kraft Mystery Theatre” – USA (new title)
– Eleven O’Clock Flight (1955) TV episode (as Al Hedison)

As Himself

Atomic Recall (2007) (V) (special thanks)
On the Set with John Glen (2006) (V) …. Himself
“SoapTalk” …. Himself (2 episodes, 2004)
– Episode dated 23 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 18 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood’s Scariest Insect (2000) (TV) …. Himself
Inside ‘Licence to Kill’ (1999) (V) …. Himself
To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill (1997) (TV) …. Himself
… aka “Hollywood Aliens & Monsters” – USA (original title)
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) (TV) …. Himself
ABC’s Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978) (TV) …. Himself
“The Hollywood Palace” …. Himself (1 episode, 1967)
– Episode #5.3 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
“Dream Girl of ’67” …. Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
– Episode dated 7 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 6 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 5 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 4 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 3 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
“The Hollywood Squares” …. Guest Appearance (5 episodes, 1967)
– Episode #1.93 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.92 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.91 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.90 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.89 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance

Archive Footage

The 16th Annual Soap Opera Awards (2000) (TV) …. Spencer Harrison
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
The Horror Show (1979)

RichardTheBruce

July 19th

1966: Lucrezia Lante della Rovere is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
1988: Licence to Kill films Felix Leiter disagreeing with something that eats him.
1989: Licencia para matar (Catalan tite, Llicència per matar) released in Spain.

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Not to be confused with this 1975 film. Or 1965 film.

2016: Dynamite Comics announces Hammerhead to be released in October.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

2017: Dynamite Comics James Bond: Kill Chain #1 released.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

RichardTheBruce

July 20th

1938: Diana Rigg is born--Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.
1964: Chris Cornell is born--Seattle, Washington. (He dies 18 May 2017 at age 52--Detroit, Michigan.)

Chris Cornell obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/18/chris-cornell-obituary
Lead singer of rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, and one of
the trailblazers of Seattle’s grunge scene
Adam Sweeting | Thu 18 May 2017 13.29 EDT

Chris Cornell on stage just hours before his death - video report

As the lead singer of the Seattle-based band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, who has been found dead at the age of 52, had been one of the trailblazers of the city’s grunge movement in the late 1980s and 90s. Having achieved stardom with that band, he went on to further great success with Audioslave in the new millennium, while also developing a flourishing solo career. At the time of his death, Cornell was in the middle of a tour with Soundgarden, who had re-formed in 2010 after a 13-year hiatus, and had just performed at the Fox theatre in Detroit.

Chris Cornell:
rock star who
kicked down the
boundaries of sound
Alexis Petridis

The group was started in 1984 by Cornell, along with guitarist Kim Thayil and bass player Hiro Yamamoto, with Matt Cameron becoming their full-time drummer in 1986. After releasing a single, Hunted Down (1987) on the Seattle-based Sub Pop label, and a debut album, Ultramega OK (1988), for the independent SST, Yamamoto left the band, and was briefly replaced by Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, before Ben Shepherd joined on bass. Soundgarden signed to A&M records, and their second release for that label, Badmotorfinger (1991), became a multi-platinum seller in the US, also reaching the Top 40 in the UK. The singles from that album, Outshined and Rusty Cage, received heavy play on alternative radio stations and MTV, and Badmotorfinger earned a Grammy nomination in 1992.

An invitation to open for Guns N’ Roses on their Use Your Illusion tour (1991-93) introduced Soundgarden to huge new audiences in both the US and Europe, as did an opening slot with the heavy metal band Skid Row in 1992. “Our big moment of truth was when we were offered a slot opening up for Skid Row and we didn’t know what to do with that,” Cornell told the music journalist Pete Makowski in 2011. “Was that good or bad? And what happened was we toured with them and their audience all bought Soundgarden records.”

A berth on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour alongside Ministry, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and fellow Seattleites Pearl Jam framed Soundgarden as one of the rising names in American alternative rock. (In 1990 Cornell had joined with members of Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, in tribute to the late Andy Wood of another Seattle band, Mother Love Bone. They released an eponymous album in 1991, and last year reunited for a 25th-anniversary tour.) Cornell also had a solo cameo performance in Cameron Crowe’s 1992 Seattle-based romcom Singles, with his gentle acoustic track Seasons.

Soundgarden’s next album, Superunknown (1994), duly topped the US chart (and reached No 4 in the UK), and went on to sell 5m copies in the States alone. After extensive international touring, Soundgarden started work on their fifth album, Down on the Upside, though Cornell’s desire to lighten the group’s dark, metallic sound with acoustic instruments triggered arguments with his bandmates. When it was released in 1996, it was acclaimed by reviewers but sales fell far short of its predecessor’s. After a further marathon bout of touring, the group announced they were splitting in April 1997.

Cornell released his first solo album, Euphoria Morning, in 1999. This found him exploring a mix of rock, pop and psychedelia, allowing him to use different facets of his impressive vocal range beyond a heavy-rock roar, though again critical enthusiasm did not translate into huge sales. But his solo career was put on hold when he formed Audioslave in 2001, with former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford, who had been recommended Cornell by the producer Rick Rubin.

Over the next five years they recorded three albums, Audioslave (2002), Out of Exile (2005) and Revelations (2006). The first of these was by far the most successful, selling 3m albums in the States and spinning off five hit singles including Cochise, Like a Stone and I Am the Highway. The release of Revelations (which reached No 2 on the US charts and 12 in Britain) was preceded by the appearance of two of its tracks, Wide Awake and Shape of Things to Come, in Michael Mann’s film Miami Vice (2006).

Cornell quit Audioslave in early 2007. This was a significant period in his career, since he had been suffering from problems with drug and alcohol abuse during his later years with Soundgarden, and had made a strenuous effort to overcome them. “It was really hard to recover from, just mentally,” he recalled. “I think Audioslave suffered from that because my feet hadn’t hit the ground yet. I was sober but I don’t think my brain was clear … It took me five years of sobriety to even get certain memories back.”

Born Christopher Boyle in Seattle, to Ed Boyle, a pharmacist, and Karen (nee Cornell), an accountant, Chris had three younger sisters and two older brothers. After his parents’ divorce, when Chris was a teenager, he and his siblings took their mother’s maiden name. He attended a Catholic elementary school, Christ the King, then Shorewood high school, but left education at 16, and worked various jobs (including sous-chef at Ray’s Boathouse restaurant).

In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview he said: “I went from being a daily drug user at 13 to having bad drug experiences and quitting drugs by the time I was 14 and then not having any friends until the time I was 16.” He eventually found his feet as a musician, and it was while performing with the Shemps, a covers band, that he met Thayil and Yamamoto, with whom he subsequently formed Soundgarden.

In 2006, Cornell composed and recorded "You Know My Name", the theme song for the James Bond movie Casino Royale. He put out his second solo effort, Carry On, in 2007, and promoted it with a campaign of touring, both in his own right and as a support act to Aerosmith.

In 2009 he released his next album, Scream, on which he collaborated with the producer Timbaland. It reached No 10 on the US album chart, Cornell’s highest solo chart placing. In 2011 he released the live album Songbook, a document of his solo acoustic Songbook tour on which he played songs from all phases of his career as well as versions of Led Zeppelin’s Thank You and John Lennon’s Imagine. “I felt like I can’t really call myself a musician or entertainer if I can’t pick up a guitar by myself and hold someone’s attention,” he explained of his decision to perform solo.

By now he was working with the reformed Soundgarden, who released the compilation Telephantasm: A Retrospective (2010). Their first new song to go public was Live to Rise, which featured in the 2012 movie The Avengers, and later that year they followed up with an album of new material, King Animal (it reached No 5 in the US and 21 in Britain). Cornell’s most recent solo album was Higher Truth (2015), a mellow, melodic work, which entered the US Top 20.

He is survived by his wife, Vicky Karayiannis, whom he married in 2004, their son, Christopher Nicholas, their daughter, Toni, and by a daughter, Lillian, from his first marriage, to Susan Silver, which ended in divorce.

• Chris Cornell (Christopher John Boyle), singer, songwriter and musician, born 20 July 1964; died 17 May 2017

Note: most sources confirm his death as on 18 May 2017.

1965: 007 contra Goldfinger released in Colombia.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 stealing a moon buggy.

1985: A View to a Kill released in Davao, the Philippines.
2006: Principal photography is a wrap for Casino Royale.
2006: Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reports Chris Cornell is working on the Bond title song.

RichardTheBruce

July 21st

1975: Goldfinger re-released in Spain.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Hong Kong.
1978: Lewis Glbert in The San Bernardino Sun says the next Bond film will have Bond and Drax from little else from Moonraker.

THE SUN-TELEGRAM
Can James Bond beat the Brazilian
bureaucracy ?
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780721.1.51&e=
Fri., July 21, 1978
By EDGAR MILLER Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil

Much of James Bond's next muItimillion dollar spy movie will take place in Brazil if nature and the Brazilian government decide to cooperate. One of the main scenes in Brazil, says English director Lewis Gilbert, would be at Iguazu Falls on the Brazil-Paraguay border. But a severe drought in southern Brazil has left the normally spectacular falls a barren cliff with only a tiny stream of water. Gilbert, whose last James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me," grossed, he claims, more than $100 million, says filming of the Brazilian part of "Moonraker" will begin In January and that by that time, he hopes summer rains will have filled the Parana River with water again. The other problem the production company is facing is Brazilian bureaucracy. The scripts of all movies filmed in Brazil must be approved in advance by the government. So far, the "Moonraker" script is languishing on some bureaucrat's desk in Brasilia. "I don't think we'll have any real problem with the Brazilians," Gilbert says. '"This is the most fantastic advertising that Brazil could have." He said that Brazilian authorities apparently are concerned that foreign movie producers might show the seamier side of Brazilian life. "But they don't have to worry because we only show the beautiful part," Gilbert says. "James Bond is a creature of luxury and he doesn't hang around in favelas." Favelas are Brazilian slums.

Gilbert says tourism in Egypt jumped tremendously after "The Spy Who Loved Me," much of which was filmed there. Other scenes from "Moonraker" will be filmed in Paris, Venice, San Francisco and Guatemala. The movie will have little in common with the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, Gilbert says, except for Bond, to be played by Roger Moore, beautiful girls and the villain, Hugo Drax. As for plot, Gilbert would only say it will deal with space, noting the whole concept of space has changed since Fleming wrote the book. Carnival scenes from Rio's famous pre-Lenten celebration were filmed earlier this year. "We'll use them for backdrops and re-create our own carnival for Bond," Gilbert says. The famous Bond escapades are a "top secret" but Gilbert promises they will "top anything up to now." Cost of the production will be considerably more than the $15 million the previous Bond movie cost, Gilbert says. It will be Gilbert's third Bond movie and his 31st film.

1988: Licence to Kill films OO7 attacking Q.
1989: 007 ja lupa tappaa (007 and Permission to Kill; or Swedish: 007 och rätten att döda, 007 and the Right to Kill) released in Finland.

https://007travelers.blogspot.com/2016/09/007-item-james-bond-007-007-ja-lupa.html

2012: BBC Radio 4 airs its third Bond radio drama: From Russia with Love. Toby Stephens returns.

2018: Artist Macario “Mac” Gómez dies at age 92.

https://www.cinematerial.com/artists/mac-macario-gomez-quibus-i565

RichardTheBruce

July 22nd

1940: The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) begins work that lasts until 15 January 1946, preceding MI6.

The real "James Bond Girls"
https://findery.com/Chung123/notes/the-real-james-bond-girls

Before MI6 replaced it after WW II, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) operated 22 July 1940 – 15 January 1946 at 64 Baker.

Vera Atkins was the French Section head 1941-45 in charge of sending secret agents to the French Resistance.

37 of her agents were women. 14 died while in captivity. Several moms who were secret agent women were captured from betrayal and tortured.

The military status of women in WW II was never immediately recognized and Vera fought hard to ensure those executed at concentration camps were given Killed In Action status and memorialized. Three women would receive the George Cross: Odette Sansom, Violette Szabo, and Noor Inayat Khan. The latter two were executed.

Secret agent women often were wireless operators transmitting messages back to London from various underground networks in France. Some saw gun battles and hand-to-hand combat. Most parachuted into France. Some boated. A few had landing fields.

They all were trained in weaponry and spy gadgetry. Below is a mini-camera spies often carried.

They also had silencers, a pen that could shoot one bullet, coins with daggers, pencils with spikes, fake train fog alert devices with explosives, silk maps with escape routes, compass maps, kid-sized portable motorcycles, piano wire garrote and other accessories along with their radio.

They had to move often to maintain secrecy from safe house to safe house.

SOE inspired M in James Bond films. French Section head Vera Atkins is widely believed to be Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond books. She managed 400 secret agents.

But "James Bond girls" are a far cry from the real thing.

Many of Vera Atkins' secret agent women maintained their secrecy while enduring torture for weeks and months, and 12 were executed at concentration camps.

Two women Noor Inayat Khan and Odette Sansom were the Gestapo's most wanted. They had leading roles like James Bond. Secret agent women included moms who had kids. Survival rates were barely 1 in 2.

Now THAT would make an interesting James Bond film.

Vera May Atkins, CBE

1989: Licence to Kill released in Taiwan.
2015: A new Spectre trailer comes available.

SPECTRE THE BEST JAMES BOND
TRAILER EVER
http://www.movieviral.com/2015/07/22/spectre-the-best-james-bond-trailer-ever/
by James Murphy | 22 July 2015

SPECTRE TRAILER ANALYSIS

Well, it’s here. ‘Finally’ as Christoph (‘honestly not Blofeld at all’) Waltz’s baddie might say. The trailer for SPECTRE.

The film is released in October. It is Produced by EON PRODUCTIONS; Distributed by SONY PICTURES /MGM and is Directed by Academy Award winner SAM MENDES. It stars DANIEL CRAIG as JAMES BOND. Recently wrapped on principal photography; the film is now in the post-production /editing stages.

MEANTIME: WATCH THE TRAILER. IT IS AMAZING!

The piece speaks for itself. So sit back, relax, sip that Martini and BEHOLD the BRILLIANT trailer
for SPECTRE!


But we cannot resist a few leading comments. In depth ANALYSIS. For Screen and Country, you understand.

This is CLASSIC Bond

Instantly. ALL the aesthetics of a Sean Connery/Roger Moore era feast, fused with the fidelity to the Ian Fleming novels and emotional maturity of the Timothy Dalton films. All built directly, it seems, on the continuity within the last three films, via neat dash of ret-con: rewarding fans whilst keeping things relatively self-contained.

There’s EVEN a HINT of the theme to ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE. Now, that COULD just be trailer score. But I’ll bet Thomas Newman will FINALLY be the Bond composer to re-work THAT tune in a film, alongside the traditional Bond theme.

DANIEL CRAIG looks perfect: calculating, cool, commanding. Decent haircut. Worked out but not hulking. Brooding still but newly buoyant, smiling stride in step. He helps set a timeless tone whilst avoiding pastiche.

The WOMEN

Strong. Beautiful. Complex. Everything they should be in the modern Bond film, whilst retaining a glamour and femininity that ensures 007 never feels redundant. There is a real spark between Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci. Lea Seydoux is divine.

GADGETS

The car is a proper Aston Martin, with ACTUAL defence measures. That’s right. No more nods and winks with tagged on machine guns in a vintage model or mere glove compartments containing medical devices. This is a proper James Bond car that can do impossible things whilst keeping one wheel in reality (they stop short of invisibility). Notice also: a Q BRANCH scene! IE gadgets being built in the background!


STUNTS /ACTION

Truly SPECT(RE)ACULAR. The rooftop action across Mexico City feels exotic and urgent. Snow-based scenes in Austria have adventurous, atmospherics. Killings look brutal yet quick, thereby retaining the punchy realism, whilst keeping it all 12A/ PG-13.

LOCATIONS

London is prominent. Cf: IAN FLEMING’S MOONRAKER. It IS an exotic location: if in doubt, just VISIT the place! We also get: Austrian snow; Mexican sun; remarkable Rome and a romantic train ride. Short of going underwater or into space (again), it’s difficult to think of anywhere else this movie could possibly take you.


VILLAINS

There is a pervasive sense of menace. You FEEL Bond is hopelessly outnumbered. The organisation: SPECTRE, of the title, is the main nemesis here. But also a shadowy figurehead, played by Christoph Waltz.

Waltz is BORN to play this part. The official character name is Oberhauser. HE IS NOT BLOFELD. But LOOK at his SUIT! THEN tell yourself it’s not Blofeld, Bond’s arch-nemesis. Yep. Told you so.

Like all good villains, this ‘not Blofeld’ has an imposing henchman (Mr. Hinx, played by Dave Bautista, who impressed us all in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY). Also featuring: Jasper Christensen’s Mr. White; previously a ‘big bad’ himself in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE).


PLOT /TONE/PREDICTIONS/LAST WORDS

A BRILLIANT trailer: shows glimpses of everything yet gives away ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! One is left satisfied and oddly NOT seeking any further information until the release in October. Yet still very curious and hyped.

What little DO we know in terms of substantial plot points? This time it’s personal. AGAIN. Bond is clearly in trouble at Mi6. AGAIN. And his past is under scrutiny. AGAIN. That’s not a complaint: those beats simply ‘work’ in the Craig era and it seems they are being brought full circle into the bigger picture of traditional Bond fantasy.

We don’t know what the ‘macguffin’ is here (in SKYFALL it was a missing list of agents and then the life of Judi Dench’s M). But it seems that Lea Seydoux’s Madeline Swann holds the key to the plot that Bond must decode. He must locate and protect her in order to take down the evil organisation known as SPECTRE. So begins a personal and dangerous quest, linked to Bond’s previous ‘pain’.


Quibbles? THAT WHITE TUXEDO! Fix it in post-production. NOW! Looks awful on Craig and if they needed a nod to old school Bond costumes: why not put him in his Royal Navy Commander’s uniform?

But on the whole: PERFECT. Ms. Broccoli and Mr. Mendes appear to have topped SKYFALL. A BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANT, BLOCKBUSTING BOND. And that’s just the TRAILER!

2017: Funko announces its licence for James Bond.

RichardTheBruce

July 18th updated for Mr. Hedison.

RichardTheBruce

July 23rd

1921: Robert James Brown is born--Swanage, Dorset, England.
(He dies 11 November 2003 at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England.)

Robert Brown (British actor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brown_(British_actor)

Born Robert James Brown, 23 July 1921, Swanage, Dorset, England
Died 11 November 2003 (aged 82), Swanage, Dorset, England
Years active 1949–1991
Spouse(s) Rita Becker (m. 1955–2003; his death)
Children 2

Robert James Brown (23 July 1921 – 11 November 2003) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of M in the James Bond films from 1983 to 1989, succeeding Bernard Lee, who died in 1981.

Brown made his first appearance as M in Octopussy in 1983.

Brown was born and died in Swanage, Dorset. Before appearing in the Bond films, he had a long career as a bit-part actor in films and television. He had a starring role in the 1950s television series Ivanhoe where he played Gurth, the faithful companion of Ivanhoe, played by Roger Moore. He had previously made an uncredited appearance as a castle guard in the unrelated 1952 film Ivanhoe. He had an uncredited appearance as the galley-master in Ben-Hur (1959) and as factory worker Bert Harker in the BBC's 1960s soap opera The Newcomers. In One Million Years B.C. (1966), he played grunting caveman Akhoba, brutal head of the barbaric "Rock tribe".

Brown first started in the James Bond franchise in the film The Spy Who Loved Me as Admiral Hargreaves, appearing alongside Lee. After Lee's sudden death in January 1981, Broccoli and the other producers, decided to leave M out of For Your Eyes Only out of respect for Lee and assigned his lines to M's Chief of Staff Bill Tanner. In 1983, Brown was hired to portray M on the recommendation of Bond actor Roger Moore, his Ivanhoe co-star and the father of Brown's goddaughter Deborah. It is unclear if Brown was the same M as Lee's character, or a different M, perhaps a promoted Hargreaves. Brown was succeeded in 1995 by Judi Dench in GoldenEye.

Filmography

Altogether, Robert Brown starred in five James Bond films.

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) – Admiral Hargreaves (possibly the same character as M he played in subsequent films)
Octopussy (1983) – M
A View to a Kill (1985) – M
The Living Daylights (1987) – M
Licence to Kill (1989) – M

Other films:

The Third Man (1949) – Policeman in sewer (coincidentally Bernard Lee is also in this film) (uncredited)

Out of True (1951) – Dr. Dale
The Dark Man (1951) – Policeman at Hospital (uncredited)
Cloudburst (1951) – Carter
Death of an Angel (1952) – Jim Pollard (uncredited)
Derby Day (1952) – Foster – Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
Ivanhoe (1952) – Castle Guard (uncredited)
Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952) – Bill Jordan
The Gambler and the Lady (1952) – John – Waiter at Max's Dive (uncredited)
Noose for a Lady (1953) – Jonas Rigg
The Large Rope (1954) – Mick Jordan
Passage Home (1955) – Shane
The Dark Avenger (1955) – First French Knight
Helen of Troy (1956) – Polydorus
Lost (1956) – Farmer with Shotgun (uncredited)
The Man Who Never Was (1956) – French (uncredited)
A Hill in Korea (1956) – Private O'Brien
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) – Steve Ryan
The Steel Bayonet (1957) – Company Sergeant Major Gill
The Abominable Snowman (1957) – Ed Shelley
Campbell's Kingdom (1957) – Ben Creasy
Passport to Shame (1958) – Mike
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) – First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
Ben-Hur (1959) – Rowing Overseer (uncredited)

Sink the Bismarck! (1960) – unnamed officer aboard HMS King George V (uncredited)
The Challenge (1960) – Bob Crowther
Sands of the Desert (1960) – 1st Tourist
A Story of David (1961) – Jashobeam
The 300 Spartans (1962) – Pentheus
Live Now, Pay Later (1962) – (unconfirmed)
Billy Budd (1962) – Arnold Talbot
Mystery Submarine (1963) – Coxswain Drage
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) – Sam Farley
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) – Guard
Clash by Night (1963) – Mawsley
Operation Crossbow (1965) – Air Commodore
One Million Years B.C. (1966) – Akhoba
Un hombre solo (1969)
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969) – Tarragon (English version, voice, uncredited)

Private Road (1971) – Mr Halpern
Fun and Games (1971) – Ralph
Wreck Raisers (1972) – Cox'n
Demons of the Mind (1972) – Fischinger
Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) – Otba
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) – Pharisee
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) – Briggs
The Passage (1979) – Major

Lion of the Desert (1981) – Al Fadeel
Jugando con la muerte (1982) – 2nd bodyguard

1963: Lotte Lenya finishes filming with the scene riding in a taxi next to Red Grant.

1977: Title song "Nobody Does It Better" charts in the US, eventually reaches #2.

1980: Roger Moore signs a one-picture contract to do For Your Eyes Only.
1983: Octopussy released in Sweden.

1987: New York Museum of Modern Art holds a 007 exhibition and screens the 14 Bond films to date. This after producer Broccoli presents 35mm prints of each with a promise of future films.
1987: The Living Daylights released in Colombia.
1987: New York Museum of Modern Art end its 007 exhibition (started 5 June) and a total fourteen screenings of Bond films. Producer Broccoli previously presented 35mm prints of each with the promise of future films.
2015: With IMDB, Dave Bautista answers questions received via Twitter.

jamesbondradio.com/this-week-in-james-bond-27-07-2015/
Dave Bautista’s Twitter Q&A

In other SPECTRE news, Dave Bautista (who will be portraying henchman Mr Hinx in the film) sat down with the folks at IMDb on 23 July to answer some questions about the film from Twitter users around the world. Not one to be left out of the loop, JBR was also around to submit a few questions...

Some highlights:

Bautista found the role of Hinx less demanding than his role as Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy last year, mainly due to the makeup process required for the latter
His favourite Bond film is either Goldfinger or Skyfall
His favourite Bond villain is Oddjob
His favourite Bond girl is Pussy Galore
Jokingly, Bautista claimed that the next film franchise (now that he has the Marvel Cinematic Universe and 007 as notches on his belt) he wants to be a part of is Star Wars

RichardTheBruce

July 24th

1980: Peter Sellers dies at age 54--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
(Born: 8 September 1925--Portsmouth, England.)

Peter Sellers Dies at 54
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/peter-sellers-dies-at-54
by Roger Ebert | July 24, 1980

Peter Sellers is dead at 54, a victim of the heart disease that first struck him in 1964 and continued to haunt him during his most productive years as an international star.

His death in London at 6:28 p.m. Chicago time Wednesday came after a massive heart attack. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland, and their daughter Victoria, who is 15. But Mr. Sellers never regained consciousness after the attack that struck him Tuesday in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel.

"Mr. Sellers' death was entirely due to natural causes," a spokesman for Middlesex Hospital said. "His heart just faded away. His condition deteriorated very rapidly."

An emergency team of 10 specialists was at his bedside when he died, but they were helpless.

Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of "Romance of the Pink Panther," which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's "Being There," which won him an Academy Award nomination.

His latest film, "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu," opens in Chicago on Aug. 8. In it, as in so many of his films, Mr. Sellers plays six different roles. That was one of his trademarks after such early successes as "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), in which he played the entire population of the mythical Duchy of Grand Fenwick, and "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), in which he played three roles.

His multiple roles were masks, Mr. Sellers liked to claim, describing himself as basically a character actor: "As far as I'm aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever. I have no character to offer the public. When I look at myself I just see a person who strangely lacks what I consider to be the ingredients for a personality. If you asked me to play myself, I wouldn't know what to do." But as the characters he played in more than 50 major movies, Mr. Sellers became one of the busiest and most popular movie stars of the 1960s and '70s. His widest audiences came for the Inspector Clouseau pictures, which began with "The Pink Panther" in 1963 and continued through "Revenge of the Pink Panther" in 1978.

His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959), "Lolita" (1962), "Waltz of the Toreadors" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Party" (1968) and "Being There."

I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of "Revenge of the Pink Panther." Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original "Pink Panther," but came later: "I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant concierge in a hotel I used to stay at in Paris. He was a master of dealing with American tourists. He'd talk to them in a strange accent that wasn't French but sounded French to an English-speaker."

In Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Mr. Sellers said, he created Strangelove's most famous characteristic - a mechanical hand with an automatic Nazi salute - during the process of filming.

"The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand," he said. "Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the actors breaking up the first time my hand goes out of control . . ." If Mr. Sellers was correct in saying that he had no personality of his own to portray, then perhaps his performance in "Being There" was his most autobiographical. He played Chauncey, a strange, middle-aged man raised entirely in isolation, with television as his only source of information on how to behave. The character's utter simplicity and transparency led statesmen to imagine they had discovered great depths in him. It was a virtuoso performance, made all the more difficult because Mr. Sellers had to sustain a single note throughout the movie.

Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio "Goon Show," memories of which were recreated in Richard Lester's famous 1960 short subject, "The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film."

He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a "hopeless romantic" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in love with Sophia Loren while they were filming "The Millionairess" together. Loren turned down his proposal of marriage.

In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria.

In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were divorced in 1974. He and Liza Minnelli announced they would be married, but the romance cooled and he married actress Lynne Frederick in 1977. Mr. Sellers had his second major heart attack, and was fitted with a pacemaker in 1977. In May of this year, he collapsed in Dublin while making a commercial, but recovered to visit the Cannes Film Festival, where he looked unwell.

Filmmaker Blake Edwards, who directed the Clouseau movies, said Wednesday, "One lived with the realization that Peter could go at any time. But he was a very courageous man who refused to let his heart problems interfere with his personal life."

Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 "Pink Panther" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.

"Of course not," Mr. Sellers said.

"I understand you've had some heart attacks . . ." the reporter began, before Mr. Sellers interrupted him with gallows humor: "Yes, but I plan to give them up. I'm down to two a day."

PETER SELLERS
The Official Website of Peter Sellers
https://www.petersellers.com/about/filmography/

Filmography

1982
– Trail of the Pink Panther

1980
-The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1979
-Being There
-The Prisoner of Zenda

1978
–Revenge of the Pink Panther

1978
-Kingdom of Gifts (voice)

1977
-Best of British Film Comedy
-To See Such Fun

1976
-Best of the Muppet Show
-Murder by Death
-The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1974
-The Great McGonagall
-Soft Beds, Hard Battles
-The Return of the Pink Panther

1973
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
– The Blockhouse
– Ghost in the Noonday Sun
– The Optimists
– Undercovers Hero

1972
-Does It Hurt?
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

1970
-There’s a Girl in My Soup
– A Day at the Beach
– Hoffman
– Simon Simon

1969
-The Magic Christian

1968
– I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
– The Party

1967
– The Bobo
– Woman Times Seven
– Casino Royale
– Alice in Wonderland
– With Love, Sophia

1966
– After the Fox
– Caccia alla volpe
– The Wrong Box

1965
– What’s New, Pussycat

1964
– Dr. Strangelove
-The World of Henry Orient
– Carol for Another Christmas
– The Pink Panther
– A Shot in the Dark

1981: A three-day James Bond Weekend begins in Century City, California.
George Lazenby and Hervé Villechaize in attendance.
1986: The New York Times prints Stephen Farber's piece, " 'Remington Steele' Gets Reprieve".

'REMINGTON STEELE' GETS REPRIEVE
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/24/arts/remington-steele-gets-reprieve.html
By STEPHEN FARBER and SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMESJULY 24, 1986
July 24, 1986, Page 00024

NBC has reinstated its romantic detective series ''Remington Steele'' just two months after canceling it.

''Usually a cancellation is the final word,'' said Michael Gleason, the executive producer and co-creator of the series. ''It is tough to make a network change its mind.''

There was, however, a precedent to cite. Two years ago, CBS, responding to viewer protests, revived the defunct ''Cagney and Lacey,'' and the revamped series scored a resounding success. The producers of ''Remington Steele'' argued that their show also deserved another chance.

NBC said it was swayed by the number of protests from fans of the series, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist as a pair of elegant, bantering sleuths. ''We got over 10,000 angry letters and phone calls since the cancellation,'' said Warren Littlefield, NBC's senior vice president in charge of series. ''There were even pickets outside our building. We're still getting 200 to 300 letters a day, and that's a very strong response. We rarely have that kind of interaction with the audience.''

In addition, the show's ratings improved in summer reruns; the series had moved from the mid-40's during the main season to the top 20 in the last month. ''I attribute that rise to the fact that the loyal audience for the show had simply not had enough time to discover it in its new time period on Saturday night,'' said Tom Palmieri, vice president of operations at MTM Enterprises, the company that produces the show for NBC. Midseason

''Remington Steele'' had never been a smash in the ratings, but it had performed respectably during its first three seasons and, as in the case of another MTM series with mediocre ratings, ''St. Elsewhere,'' demographic surveys showed that it was watched by the 18- to 49-year-old audience that appeals to advertisers. But last season the show's ratings began to plummet.

Mr. Littlefield attributed the decline to competition from ABC's successful new series ''Moonlighting,'' which also featured a pair of sophisticated, sparring detectives. Although ''Moonlighting'' was shown at 9 P.M. and ''Remington Steele'' at 10, he said, he felt the popularity of ''Moonlighting'' cut the number of viewers watching NBC on Tuesday nights. Earlier this year, the network moved ''Remington Steele'' from Tuesday to Saturday night, but its ratings did not improve. In May, NBC scuttled the series.

''Remington Steele'' has now been ordered as a midseason replacement series for next season. Six episodes will be shot and the network will then evaluate the ratings before deciding whether to order more.

One last complication remains to be resolved. Exactly when the show goes on the air depends on whether Mr. Brosnan also stars in the next James Bond movie, ''The Living Daylights.'' He has been mentioned as the most likely successor to Roger Moore in the popular series, but United Artists has not yet named a new Bond. A studio spokesman said a casting announcement would be made shortly.

Mr. Brosnan's contract with MTM runs two more years, but MTM and NBC have told the actor they will delay production to allow him to play Bond.

Mr. Gleason pointed out that this would benefit the series as well as Mr. Brosnan. ''Obviously, it would enhance the show if we could promote it by saying we have James Bond as Remington Steele,'' Mr. Gleason said. ''Now we're waiting for UA to make their decision. They keep telling us they'll let us know tomorrow. This is like sweating out the renewals for the fall series all over again.''

1989: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Win, Lose or Die.

WIN, LOSE
OR DIE

JOHN GARDNER'S eighth novel
featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.

The London Gazette announcement was
brief:

'BOND, JAMES,
Commander RNVR,
Relieved of current liaison
duties at the Foreign Office.
Promoted to the substantive
rank of Captain and returned
to active service forthwith.'

The return of James Bond to the Royal
Navy marks the intriguing backdrop to
John Gardner's thrilling new adventure
featuring Ian Fleming's celebrated hero.

Bond takes a refresher course and keeps
up his flying hours by doing a conversion
course on Sea Harriers. And eventually he
learns that his mission is to serve in the
Royal Navy's major aircraft carrier, HMS
Invincible as minder to a phalanx of top
brass British, American and -- in this era of
glasnost -- Russian admirals, who are on
board for a NATO exercise.

But why? Can a thrilling hi-jack by
airborne troops (using hang-gliders) on a
Japanese tanker, some time before, be
connected?

As ever, John Gardner is adept at piling
on the tension. Bond is never far from the
action or from the beautiful Russian naval
attaché with whom he joins forces. WIN,
LOSE OR DIE shows James Bond -- and
John Gardner -- on top form.


JOHN GARDNER'S last book was a
novelisation of the new James Bond film,
Licence to Kill (Coronet 1989). His
previous James Bond novel, Scorpius. was
published by Hodder & Stoughton in
1988.

2009: Titan Books re-releases James Bond comic strip The Girl Machine.
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

2010: James Bond 007: Blood Stone intro reveals the Joss Stone song "I'll Take It All".

2017: Official announcement confirms details for BOND 25 and a US release date of 8 November 2019.

RichardTheBruce

July 25th

1979: Eric Pohlmann dies at age 65--Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany.
(Born 18 July 1913--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.)

Eric Pohlmann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pohlmann


Born Erich Pollak, 18 July 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died 25 July 1979 (aged 66), Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Years active 1948–1979
Spouse(s) Liselotte Goettinger (1939–1968; her death; 2 children)

Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain.

Early life

Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.

In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, Odette and Carve Her Name With Pride), into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he was now known, as butler.

Career

After the war, he began a career on the London stage. Among other roles he played "Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s, Pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. He was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Orientals; he also played King George I, King George II in Disney's Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and King George III twice.

One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reed's classic The Third Man (1949). He also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare (1954), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Expresso Bongo (1960). He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge (1952), Mogambo (1953), Lust For Life (1956) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor - The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) and The House of the Seven Hawks (1959).

He displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying (1964) and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975).

Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann regularly returned to his homeland to play numerous character roles in German and Austrian film and television productions. He had guest roles in the popular crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick, and also appeared in television plays for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, often under the direction of Franz Josef Wild [de]. In addition to The Defence Counsel (1961) with Barbara Rütting and Carl Heinz Schroth, he appeared in Der Kleine Lord (1962) with Albrecht Schoenhals and Michael Ande, as well as The Dreyfus Affair (1968) with Karl Michael Vogler and Bernhard Wicki. In 1962, Pohlmann also appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel.

Pohlmann's greatest success in German TV drama came in 1970 with an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman In White, one of the most successful television productions of the year which gained over 9 million viewers. Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun and Helmut Käutner. The mini-series has a cult following to this day.

Pohlmann was a regular on British television, taking the role of "Inspector Goron" in the 1952-1954 TV series Colonel March of Scotland Yard with Boris Karloff, and appearing as a guest star in such series as The Saint, The Champions, The Avengers, Danger Man, Department S, Jason King and Paul Temple.

In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváth's play Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods). The film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall. He was 66.

In 2006, the Turner Classic Movies "31 Days of Oscar" festival was based on the theme of "360 Degrees of Oscar" (based on the game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon") in which TCM chooses an actor who has played a significant role in Oscar history, and builds its entire schedule around him. They chose Eric Pohlmann.

He also appeared on stage (Henry Cecil's Settled Out Of Court is a production this editor remembers seeing him in).

Filmography

List of acting performances in film, theatre, and television
Year Title Role Notes

1949 Portrait from Life - Search group leader
1949 Marry Me! - Mr. Cinelli Uncredited
1949 The Third Man - Waiter at Smolka's Uncredited
1949 Children of Chance - Sergeant

1950 Chance of a Lifetime - Xenobian
1950 Cairo Road - Ship's Captain
1950 State Secret - Cable Car conductor
1950 Blackout - Otto Ford
1950 The Clouded Yellow - Greek taxidermist
1950 Highly Dangerous - Joe - the bartender
1950 Traveller's Joy - Gustafsen
1951 The Long Dark Hall - Mr. Polaris (the mystery witness)
1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Louis, the proprietor
1951 There Is Another Sun - Markie
1952 His Excellency - Dobrieda
1952 The Woman's Angle - Steffano
1952 Emergency Call - Flash Harry
1952 Penny Princess - Monsieur Paul Uncredited
1952 Venetian Bird - Gostini
1952 Monsoon - Molac
1952 The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Goin
1952 Moulin Rouge - Picard Uncredited
1952 The Gambler and the Lady - Arturo Colonna
1953 The Beggar's Opera - Inn Keeper
1953 Mogambo - Leon Boltchak
1953 Blood Orange - Mr. Mercedes
1953 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue - King George I
1953 36 Hours - Slossen, the smuggler
1954 They Who Dare - Captain Papadapoulos
1954 Knave of Hearts - Boarding House Proprietor Uncredited
1954 Flame and the Flesh - Marina Proprietor
1954 Forbidden Cargo - Steven Lasovich
1954 The Belles of St Trinian's - The Sultan of Makyad
1955 The Glass Cage - Henri Sapolio
1955 A Prize of Gold - Fischer
1955 Break in the Circle - Emile
1955 The Constant Husband - Papa Sopranelli
1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - M. Ballard
1955 The Adventures of Quentin Durward - Gluckmeister
1956 The Gelignite Gang - Mr. Popoulos ("Populace")
1956 Reach for the Sky - Adjutant of Prison Camp
1956 Lust for Life - Colbert
1956 High Terrace - Otto Kellner
1956 House of Secrets - Gratz
1956 Zarak - Tobacco seller Uncredited
1956 Anastasia - Von Drivnitz Uncredited
1957 The Counterfeit Plan - Frank Wandelman
1957 Interpol - Etienne Fayala
1957 Let's Be Happy - Customs Official
1957 Fire Down Below - Hotel Owner
1957 Across the Bridge - Police Sergeant
1957 Not Wanted on Voyage - Pedro
1957 Barnacle Bill - Liberamanian Consul
1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Sawyer
1958 I Accuse! - Bertillon
1958 The Duke Wore Jeans - Bastini - Prime Minister
1958 Nor the Moon by Night - Anton Boryslawski
1958 The Man Inside - Tristao
1958 Further Up the Creek - President
1958 Mark of the Phoenix - Duser
1959 Three Crooked Men - Masters
1959 John Paul Jones - King George III
1959 Alive and Kicking - Captain
1959 The House of the Seven Hawks - Captain Rohner
1959 Upstairs and Downstairs - Mario
1959 Expresso Bongo - Leon

1960 Life Is a Circus - Rickenbeck
1960 Sands of the Desert - Scrobin
1960 Surprise Package - Chief of Police Stefan Miralis
1960 Man Who Couldn't Walk - The Consul General
1960 No Kidding - King
1960 Passport to China - Ivono Kong
1960 Snowball - Editor
1961 The Singer Not the Song - Presidente
1961 Carry On Regardless - Sinister Man
1961 The Kitchen - Mr. Marango
1962 The Puzzle of the Red Orchid - Kerkie Minelli
1962 Village of Daughters - Marcio (A Father)
1962 Mrs. Gibbons' Boys - Morelli
1962 The Devil's Agent - Bloch
1963 Cairo - Nicodemos
1963 Follow the Boys - Italian Farmer
1963 55 Days at Peking - Baron von Meck
1963 Shadow of Fear - Henry Spiroulos
1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1963 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - King George III
1963 The Sicilians - Inspector Bressin
1964 Hot Enough for June - Galushka
1964 Carry On Spying - The Fat Man
1964 Night Train to Paris - Krogh
1965 Joey Boy - Antonio (Italian farmer)
1965 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - Italian Mayor
1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1966 Where the Spies Are - Farouk
1967 Heißes Pflaster Köln - Benno Trooger
1967 The Mini-Affair - World Banker
1968 Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt [de] - Alter General
1968 Inspector Clouseau - Bergesch

1970 Foreign Exchange - Borensko TV film
1971 The Woman in White [de] - Count Fosco TV miniseries
1971 The Horsemen - Merchant in Kandahar
1973 Tiffany Jones - Jabal
1975 The Return of the Pink Panther - Fat Man
1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Iwan Pederenko
1976 Duett zu dritt
1979 Ashanti - Zeda El-Kabir
1979 Tales from the Vienna Woods - Mister

1980 Maria - Nur die Nacht war ihr Zeuge

2011: Linda Christian dies at age 87--Palm Desert, California.
(Born 13 November 1923--Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.)

Linda Christian obituary
B-movie actor who could lay claim to having been the first Bond
girl
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/26/linda-christian-obituary

Linda Christian’s first ambition was to become a doctor,
but her outstanding beauty led her into the movies.
Photograph: Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures

The phrase "famous for being famous" could have been invented for Linda Christian, who has died aged 87. Her celebrity came from her marriages to the handsome film stars Tyrone Power and Edmund Purdom, and her liaisons with various wealthy playboys and bullfighters, rather than her somewhat limited acting ability.

Christian's extravagant, cosmopolitan lifestyle derived from her stunning beauty – she was dubbed "The Anatomic Bomb" by Life magazine – and her ability to speak fluent French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English. She was born Blanca Rosa Welter in Tampico, Mexico, the daughter of a Dutch executive at Shell, and his Mexican-born wife of Spanish, German and French descent. As the family moved around a great deal, living in South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, she gained a taste for globetrotting.

Christian's early ambition was to become a doctor, but after winning a beauty contest and meeting Errol Flynn in Acapulco, she was persuaded to try her luck in films in the US. She was soon cast as a Goldwyn Girl in the actor Danny Kaye's first feature film, Up in Arms (1944), and as a cigarette girl in Club Havana (1945), directed by Edgar G Ulmer. Then, with her name changed to Linda Christian, she signed a contract with MGM, which gave her a small decorative role in the musical Holiday in Mexico (1946), shot in Hollywood, and an exotic one in Green Dolphin Street (1947), as Lana Turner's Maori maid.

At the time, Turner was having an affair with Power. Rumour has it that Christian overheard Turner say when Power was going to be in Rome. Christian decided to fly to Rome, stay at the same hotel and wangle a meeting with the dashing star. A romance led to Christian and Power getting married in January 1949 at a church in Rome while an estimated 8,000 screaming fans lined the street outside.

Prior to the marriage, the only substantial role MGM had given Christian was as an island girl rescued by Tarzan from the clutches of an evil high priest in Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948), the 12th and final time Johnny Weissmuller played the Ape Man. Christian, wearing a skimpy two-piece costume, is referred to as a mermaid because she swims a lot.

After marrying Power, Christian started to get a few leading roles in B-pictures such as Slaves of Babylon (1953), co-starring Richard Conte. More gratifying was her sitting for a portrait by the great Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The painting, reproduced on the cover of her autobiography, Linda (1962), and for which she was once offered $2m, is now in a private collection.

In 1954, Christian played Valerie Mathis, James Bond's former lover now working for the French secret service, in a CBS television version of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, therefore allowing her to lay claim to being the first Bond girl. At this time, the movie fan magazines were full of photos of Power and Christian as a blissfully married couple with two daughters, while the gossip columns intimated that both husband and wife had strayed. In 1954, Christian played Purdom's snooty fiancee in the MGM musical Athena. Christian had been at the same school as Purdom's wife, the former ballerina Anita Phillips, and the Powers and the Purdoms became good friends, even going on holidays together. But soon sexual jealousy broke up the once cosy foursome. In 1956, Christian divorced Power, charging mental cruelty.

After the divorce, there was no shortage of millionaires to help keep Christian in the manner to which she was accustomed. Once she was called to testify at a Los Angeles court because she refused to return jewels given to her by the socialite Robert H Schlesinger, whose cheque for $100,000, as partial payment for the jewels, had bounced. Christian was also involved with the racing driver Alfonso de Portago, with whom she was photographed a short while before he died in a crash at the 1957 Mille Miglia car race, in which several spectators were also killed. That year, she and the Brazilian mining millionaire Francisco "Baby" Pignatari went on an around-the-world tour together. In 1962 she married Purdom. They divorced the following year.

Christian continued to appear in routine films such as The Devil's Hand (1962), as a seductive high priestess of voodoo, opposite her real-life sister Ariadna Welter. In Francesco Rosi's semi-documentary The Moment of Truth (1965), she played herself as an American in Barcelona who attracts a matador (the bullfighter Miguel Mateo Miguelín). During the filming, she fell for the bullfighter Luis Dominguín, the former lover of Ava Gardner.

In 1968, Christian retired to Rome. She returned to cinema almost 20 years later, at the age of 64, in a couple of dreadful Italian thrillers.

She is survived by her daughters, Taryn and Romina Power.

• Linda Christian (Blanca Rosa Welter), actor, born 13 November 1923; died 22 July 2011

Filmography
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160046/

1988
Cambiamento d'aria (TV Movie)
Linda Christian

1987
Amore inquieto di Maria
Helen

1987
Delitti
The Narrator

1968 L'oro del mondo
Mother of Lorena

1967 The World's Gold
Laura - mother of Lorena

1966 How to Seduce a Playboy
Lucy's Mother

1966 Murder in Amsterdam
Ellen Martens

1965 The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Madre de Martha

1965 The Moment of Truth
Linda, American woman

1964 Contest Girl
Rose of England Judge (uncredited)

1964 Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Minelli

1963 The V.I.P.s
Miriam Marshall

1963 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series)
Susan Lane
- Last of the Private Eyes (1963) ... Susan Lane

1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show (TV Series)
Taina Haagen
- The Waltz of the Two Commuters (1963) ... Taina Haagen

1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series)
Eva Ashley
- An Out for Oscar (1963) ... Eva Ashley

1962 Passport for a Corpse
Eva

1961 The Devil's Hand
Bianca Milan

1960 Das große Wunschkonzert
Vilma Cortini

1960 Appuntamento a Ischia
Mercedes Barock

1959 Meet Peter Voss
Grace McNaughty

1959 Rebel Flight to Cuba
Gräfin Colmar

1959 The House of the Seven Hawks
Elsa

1956 Thunderstorm
Maria Ramon

1954 Athena
Beth Hallson

1954 Climax! (TV Series)
Valerie Mathis
- Casino Royale (1954) ... Valerie Mathis

1953 Slaves of Babylon
Princess Panthea

1952 The Happy Time
Mignonette Chappuis

1952 Battle Zone
Jeanne

1951 Show Boat
Chorus Girl (uncredited)

1948 Tarzan and the Mermaids
Mara

1947 Green Dolphin Street
Hine-Moa

1946 Holiday in Mexico
Angel (uncredited)

1945 Club Havana
Cigarette Girl (uncredited)

1944 Up in Arms
Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)

1943 The Rock of Souls (as Linda Welter)
Show Show Thanks (1 credit)
Hide Hide Self (17 credits)

2008 The Road to Casino Royale (Video documentary short)
Herself (as Linda Christian Power)

2004 The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan (TV Movie documentary)
Herself

2000-2001 E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV Series documentary)

Herself

- Maria Montez (2001) ... Herself
- Bette Davis (2000) ... Herself
- Tyrone Power (2000) ... Herself
1996 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Herself - Former Wife
- Tyrone Power: The Last Idol (1996) ... Herself - Former Wife
1993 Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood (TV Series documentary)
Herself
- Linda Christian (1993) ... Herself
1968 Sommer in Israel - Musik zwischen Orangenhainen und Wüste (TV Movie)
Herself
1965 The Eamonn Andrews Show (TV Series)
Herself
- Episode #1.23 (1965) ... Herself
1963 Juke Box Jury (TV Series)
Herself - Panellist
- Episode #1.224 (1963) ... Herself - Panellist
1963 The Linkletter Show (TV Series)
Herself
- Episode dated 14 January 1963 (1963) ... Herself
1962 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Herself
- Episode #1.17 (1962) ... Herself
1960 Person to Person (TV Series documentary)
Herself
- Episode #8.10 (1960) ... Herself
1954 The 26th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Herself - Audience Member
1952 Omnibus (TV Series)
Herself - Actress (segment "Photography")
- The Twelve Pound Look (1952) ... Herself - Actress (segment "Photography")
1952 I've Got a Secret (TV Series)
Herself - Guest
- Linda Christian (1952) ... Herself - Guest
1951 The Ken Murray Show (TV Series)
Herself
- Burt Lancaster/Lola Albright/Linda Christian/John Loder/Freddie Martin Orchestra (1951) ... Herself
1951 The Carmel Myers Show (TV Series)
Herself
- Episode #1.21 (1951) ... Herself
1949 We, the People (TV Series)
Herself - Actress
- Linda Christian, Elaine Carrington, Marion Barney, Mary Jane Higby, Roland Young, Jane Pickens (1949) ... Herself - Actress

Diego Rivera painting.

2015: BBC Radio 4 airs its fifth James Bond radio drama: Diamonds Are Forever. Toby Stephens.

jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Diamonds_are_Forever_(radio_drama)

RichardTheBruce

July 26th

1939: The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve appoints Ian Fleming as Lieutenant. Special Branch.

1967: Casino Royale released in Mexico.
1971: Diamonds Are Forever films the lift fight between Bond and Peter Franks.
1979: Moonraker released in Australia.

2006: Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announce Chris Cornell to perform the title song "You Know My Name", written by Cornell and David Arnold.
2012: Madonna performs her "Die Another Day"/"Beautiful Killer" mashup during the MDNA Tour, Paris, France.

RichardTheBruce

July 27th

1922: Adolfo Celi is born--Messina, Sicily, Italy. (He dies 19 February 1986 at age 63--Siena, Tuscany, Italy.)

Obituaries
[b]Adolfo Celi Dies at 64; An Actor and Director[/b]
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/20/obituaries/adolfo-celi-dies-at-64-an-actor-and-director.html
AP FEB. 20, 1986

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

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

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

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

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

Adolfo Celi

Filmography

A Yank in Rome (Un americano in vacanza, 1946) as Tom
Christmas at Camp 119 (Natale al campo 119, 1947) as John, il sergent americano
Hey Boy (Proibito rubare, 1948)
Immigrants (Emigrantes, 1948) as Il professore

Caiçara (1950) as Genovés
Tico-Tico no Fubá (1952) (uncredited)

Sandokan the Great (Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem, 1963)
That Man from Rio (L'homme de Rio, 1964) as Mário de Castro
Three Nights of Love (Tre notti d'amore, 1964)
Male Companion (Un monsieur de compagnie, 1964) as Benvenuto
Beautiful Families (1964) (segment "Amare è un po' morire") as Professore Della Porta
Crime on a Summer Morning (Par un beau matin d'été, 1965) as Van Willie
Von Ryan's Express (1965) as Major Battaglia
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) as Giovanni de' Medici
Slalom (1965) as Riccardo
A Man Named John (E venne un uomo, 1965) as Msgr. Radini Tedeschi
Thunderball (1965) as Emilio Largo
El Greco (1966) as Don Miguel de Las Cuervas
Yankee (1966) as Grande Concho
Target for Killing (Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche, 1966) as Henry Perkins
Pleasant Nights (Le piacevoli notti, 1966) as Bernadozzo
Grand Prix (1966) as Agostini Manetta
King of Hearts (Le roi de coeur, 1966) as Colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook
Dirty Heroes (Dalle Ardenne all'inferno, 1967) as Luc Rollman
Master Stroke (Colpo maestro al servizio di Sua Maestà britannica, 1967) as Mr. Bernard
The Honey Pot (1967) as Inspector Rizzi
OK Connery (1967) as Mr. Thai - 'Beta'
The Bobo (1967) as Francisco Carbonell
Grand Slam (Ad ogni costo, 1967)[5] as Mark Milfford
Fantabulous Inc. (La Donna, il sesso e il superuomo, 1967) as Karl Maria van Beethoven
Death Sentence (Sentenza di morte, 1968) as Friar Baldwin
Seven Times Seven (Sette volte sette, 1968) as Warden
Diabolik (1968) as Ralph Valmount
It's Your Move (Uno scacco tutto matto, 1969) as Bayon / Guinet
Alibi (L'alibi, 1969) as Adolfo
Midas Run (1969) as General Ferranti
Detective Belli (Un Detective, 1969) as Avvocato Fontana
A Man for Emmanuelle (Io, Emmanuelle, 1969) as Sandri
The Archangel (L'arcangelo, 1969) as Marco Tarrochi Roda
In Search of Gregory (1969) as Max
Death Knocks Twice (Blonde Köder für den Mörder, 1969) as Professor Max Spigler

Rendezvous with Dishonour (Appuntamento col disonore, 1970) as Hermes
Fragment of Fear (1970) as Signor Bardoni
The Cop (Un condé, 1970) as Le Commissaire principal / Chief of police
Brancaleone at the Crusades (Brancaleone alle crociate, 1970) as Re Boemondo
Finale di partita (Alla ricerca di Gregory, 1970)
They Have Changed Their Face (Hanno cambiato faccia, 1971) as Giovanni Nosferatu
Una chica casi decente (1971) as César Martín de Valdés 'Duque'
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) as Inspector Vidocq
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York (Piazza pulitav, 1972) as The Pole
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Fratello sole, sorella luna, 1972) as Consul
Eye in the Labyrinth (L'occhio nel labirinto, 1972) as Frank
Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? (Terza ipotesi su un caso di perfetta strategia criminale, 1972) as Inspector Vezzi
Who Saw Her Die? (Chi l'ha vista morire?, 1972) as Serafian
Naked Girl Killed in the Park (Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco, 1972) as Inspector Huber
Long Arm of the Godfather (La mano lunga del padrino, 1972) as Don Carmelo
Hired to Kill (La mala ordina, 1972) as Vito
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) as Gen. Krebs
Le Mataf (Tre per una grande rapina, 1973) as Me Desbordes
Black Holiday (La villeggiatura, 1973) as Commissioner Rizzuto
The Devil Is a Woman (Il sorriso del grande tentatore, 1974) as Father Borrelli
The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974) as Le docteur de Legendre / Doctor Pasolini
And Then There Were None (Ein unbekannter rechnet ab, 1974) as Gen. André Salvé
The Balloon Vendor (Il venditore di palloncini, 1974) as Dr. Monforte
Libera, My Love (Libera, amore mio..., 1975) as Felice Valente – Libera's father
My Friends (Amici miei, 1975) as Professor Sassaroli
L'amaro caso della baronessa di Carini (1975) as Don Mariano D'Agrò
Sandokan (1976) as James Brooke
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore, 1976) as Captain
Pure as a Lily (Come una rosa al naso, 1976) as L'onorevole
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (La moglie di mio padre, 1976) as Antonio Lenzini
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (Signore e signori, buonanotte, 1976) as Vladimiro Palese
The Next Man (1976) as Al Sharif
The Big Operator (Le Grand escogriffe, 1976) as Rifai
Merciless Man (Genova a mano armata, 1976) as Commissario Lo Gallo
Febbre da cavallo (1976) as Judge
Che notte quella notte! (1977)
The Passengers (Les Passagers, 1977) as Boetani
Pane, burro e marmellata (1977) as Aristide Bertelli
Holocaust 2000 (1977) as Dr. Kerouac
La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa! (1977) as James Brooke
Man of Corleone (L'uomo di Corleone, 1977)
The Perfect Crime (Indagine su un delitto perfetto, 1978) as Sir Harold Boyd
Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania (1978) as Carcamano
Le braghe del padrone (1978) as Euginio – the president
L'affittacamere (1979)

Café Express (1980) as Ispettore capo Ministero
Car-napping (1980) as Head of police in Palermo
Madly in Love (Innamorato pazzo, 1981) as Gustavo VI di San Tulipe
Perdóname, amor (1982) as Ruggero Rivelli
Monsignor (1982) as Cardinal Vinci
All My Friends Part 2 (Amici miei atto II, 1982) as Professor Sassaroli
Cenerentola '80 (1984) as Principe Goncalvo Gherardeschi
Passaporto segnalato (1985) as Avvocato Santi
All My Friends Part 3 (Amici miei atto III, 1985) as Professor Sassaroli
Il giocatore invisibile (1985)
Due assi per un turbo (1987) as Il Caposcalo

1966: At a press conference in Japan Sean Connery comments--"Japanese women are just not sexy."
1968: Maria Grazia Cucinotta is born--Messina, Sicily, Italy.
1988: LIcence to Kill shoots a barroom brawl at the Barrelhead Bar in Key West, Florida.
2012: BBC's short film Happy & Glorious, directed by Danny Boyle, showcases Craig as Bond with the Queen. It's used to open the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

RichardTheBruce

July 28th

1978: 007 ja Kultasormi (007 and Goldfinger; or Swedish 007 och Guldfinger) re-released in Finland.

Swedish

2019: Bond in Motion's final date for Hockenheim, Germany.

Bond In Motion Goes On Tour
With Formula 1
https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/bond-in-motion-goes-on-tour-with-formula-1.htm
June 26, 2019 by David Leigh
Bond cars to appear at six of the remaining F1 Grand
Prix races in Europe.

An exclusive touring version of the Bond In Motion exhibition will visit six selected European Formula 1 Grand Prix this year starting in Austria and culminating in Italy for the final race of the season. The exhibition will showcase 12 cars which span the six decades of Bond history from Goldfinger’s 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III to SPECTRE’s Aston Martin DB10.

Starting on 28 June at the Formula 1 MyWorld Grosser Preis Von Österreich 2019 Grand Prix the exhibition will also visit Silverstone (UK, 12-14 July), Hockenheim (Germany, 26-28 July), Budapest (Hungary, 2-4 August), Spa (Belgium, 30 August – 1 September) and Monza (Italy, 6-8 September).

F1 ticket holders will gain exclusive free entry to the exhibition when they pre book via EventWorld www.eventworld.com/en/

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

July 28th

1978: 007 ja Kultasormi (007 and Goldfinger; or Swedish 007 och Guldfinger) re-released in Finland.

Swedish

2019: Bond in Motion's final date for Hockenheim, Germany.

Bond In Motion Goes On Tour
With Formula 1
https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/bond-in-motion-goes-on-tour-with-formula-1.htm
June 26, 2019 by David Leigh
Bond cars to appear at six of the remaining F1 Grand
Prix races in Europe.

An exclusive touring version of the Bond In Motion exhibition will visit six selected European Formula 1 Grand Prix this year starting in Austria and culminating in Italy for the final race of the season. The exhibition will showcase 12 cars which span the six decades of Bond history from Goldfinger’s 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III to SPECTRE’s Aston Martin DB10.

Starting on 28 June at the Formula 1 MyWorld Grosser Preis Von Österreich 2019 Grand Prix the exhibition will also visit Silverstone (UK, 12-14 July), Hockenheim (Germany, 26-28 July), Budapest (Hungary, 2-4 August), Spa (Belgium, 30 August – 1 September) and Monza (Italy, 6-8 September).

F1 ticket holders will gain exclusive free entry to the exhibition when they pre book via EventWorld www.eventworld.com/en/

Kultasormi? Interesting name.

RichardTheBruce

Regarding the YouTube clip. Liver casserole?

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

Liver casserole (Finnish: maksalaatikko) is a Finnish food that is traditionally eaten at Christmas. The casserole is made of rice, ground liver, butter or margarine, syrup, eggs, onion, and raisins. It is usually served with lingonberry jam.

It is also sold ready-to-eat and eaten as an everyday food, and appears commonly in school lunches. In 2011, a Gallup poll of 299 schoolchildren found that liver casserole was the least liked dish in the school menus.

RichardTheBruce

July 29th

1953: Ian Fleming responds by letter to publisher Jonathan Cape's comments on business with American publisher Macmillan.

'Yes, the royalties accepted from Macmillans were very modest
but then they have given me a present of $750 which is
rather more, I guess, than I shall recoup on the English
edition. If it is a success in America you will be surprised
how tough I shall be over "Live and Let Die"!'

1965: From Russia With Love released in Mexico.

1967: Official statement says Sean Connery is leaving the OO7 role.
1982: Harold Sakata (Tosh Togo) dies at age 62--Honolulu, Hawaii. (Born 1 July 1920--Holualoa, 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
Show all 9 episodes
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
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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)
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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.

1983: David Niven dies at age 73--Château-d'Œx, Switzerland. (Born 1 March 1910--Belgravia, London, England.)

Obituaries
DAVID NIVEN DEAD AT 73; WITTY ACTOR WON OSCAR
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/30/obituaries/david-niven-dead-at-73-witty-actor-won-oscar.html
By ERIC PACEJULY 30, 1983

David Niven, the former British Army lieutenant whose debonair charm conquered Hollywood and helped make him an Academy Award winning star and a perennially popular character actor, died yesterday, a nephew reported. Mr. Niven was 73 years old.

The cause of his death was not immediately disclosed, but he had been suffering from a debilitating neuro-muscular disorder, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

''My uncle died peacefully and without pain,'' Michael Wrangdah said in Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland, where Mr. Niven died in his Alpine chalet. ''His last gesture a few minutes before he died had been to give the thumbs-up sign.''

Slim, witty and lighthearted, Mr. Niven crowned two urbane decades before the film cameras with his Academy Award as the best actor of 1958, which came for his performance as a fraudulent British major in the drama ''Separate Tables.''

Appeared in 'Wuthering Heights'

He had important roles in many other films, including Samuel Goldwyn's ''Wuthering Heights'' (1939), in which he played the gentle husband of a restless Merle Oberon. And he starred as the adventurous Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's ''Around the World in 80 Days'' (1956).

Mr. Niven's other major films included ''Dawn Patrol'' (1938), ''Stairway to Heaven'' (1946), ''The Bishop's Wife'' (1947), ''Enchantment'' (1948), ''Court Martial'' (1955) and ''Where the Spies Are'' (1966).

Mr. Niven's film career began in the 1930's with work as an extra and in bit parts. It then ripened into solid featured roles in more than a score of pictures, including a part as a flirtatious major in ''Dodsworth'' (1936). But it was not until after service as a British Army officer during World War II, that Mr. Niven attained full stardom.

Late in his career, Mr. Niven also gained success as an author. His best-selling volume of memoirs, The Moon's a Balloon, was praised in 1972 by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times for its ''racy wit and fine sense of the absurd.'' His 1975 nonfiction work, Bring on the Empty Horses, was praised by William F. Buckley Jr. in The Times as ''a book about Hollywood and incidentally a masterful self-portrait.''

And his best-selling 1981 novel of Hollywood and wartime London, Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly, was praised in The Chicago Tribune for its ''wonderful anecdotes and escapades.''

Upper-Crust Background

In an industry not known for traditional politesse, he sometimes astounded film critics by writing them thank-you notes after they had praised his work.

Such mannerly flourishes sprang naturally from Mr. Niven's uppercrust background. He was born James David Graham Niven on March 1, 1910, in Kirriemuir, a market and linen-mill center in the Scottish Highlands.

His father, William Edward Graham Niven, was a British officer who died in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. His French mother, the former Henrietta Etta Degacher, later married Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, a Conservative Party figure.

The future movie star attended the Stowe School in Buckinghamshire and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Commissioned a lieutenant in the British Army, he saw service on Malta before resigning from the Army in 1932 to seek his fortune across the Atlantic.

First Film in 1935

His first film appearance of any consequence was in a minor part in the 1935 Samuel Goldwyn drama ''Splendor,'' starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. He then had a minor part in ''Rose Marie'' (1936), which starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

In 1938, came what some film historians consider to be one of Mr. Niven's best earlier roles, an irrepressible but authentic-seeming airman in ''Dawn Patrol,'' which was a remake of an earlier World War I aviator movie.

The following year, in ''Wuthering Heights,'' Mr. Niven won the praise of Frank S. Nugent, then film critic of The New York Times, for his ''dignified and poignant'' role as Merle Oberon's husband. Later that year, in the little remembered comedy, ''Bachelor Mother,'' he co-starred with Ginger Rogers and Charles Coburn.

Back to the Army

Before 1939 was out, Mr. Niven returned to Britain and rejoined the British Army as a lieutenant. He served until 1945, seeing combat and rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel - with time out to appear in the war film ''The Way Ahead.'' For his war service, he was awarded the United States Legion of Merit.

Back in civilian life, Mr. Niven starred as a pilot in the British romantic fantasy film, ''Stairway to Heaven'' (1946), made by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Bosley Crowther of The Times called his acting ''sensitive and real.''

In the comedy ''The Bishop's Wife'' (1947), Mr. Niven was overshadowed by Cary Grant, but he drew excellent notices, as he did also for his acting in the 1948 love story ''Enchantment.'' During this phase of his career, much of his work was in film comedies, including ''Happy Go Lovely'' (1951), ''The Lady Says No'' (1952), ''Island Rescue'' (1952) and ''The Moon is Blue'' (1953). Appeared on Broadway

In 1951, Mr. Niven made a brief detour to Broadway, starring in the farce ''Nina,'' which had 45 performances. Returning to the movies, he gave what some film historians call one of his finest performances, in ''Court Martial,'' a British drama that drew some enthusiastic reviews when it appeared in 1955 but has since been largely forgotten.

The next year, in the box-office hit ''Around the World in 80 Days,'' Mr. Niven's acting attracted less attention than it otherwise might have, because the cast included many other stars in cameo appearances.

Reviewing ''Separate Tables,'' the 1958 screen adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play, Bosley Crowther said that, as the fraudulent major ''who turns out to be a particularly sad sort of person, David Niven starts weakly and gains strength, so that his final scene of gathering valor is one of the best in the film.''

In later years, Mr. Niven appeared in such comedies as the entertaining ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' (1960) and ''The Pink Panther'' (1964), which was the first of the Panther series.

More Recent Films

And he won warm praise from critics for his starring role in the 1966 espionage movie ''Where the Spies Are.'' Howard Thompson of The Times said that Mr. Niven gave his ''most appealing performance in several seasons'' and was ''entirely persuasive and convincing as a confused, aging but spunky novice in the cutthroat business of espionage.''

His more recent movies included ''A Man Called Intrepid'' and ''Rough Cut'' in 1979 and ''The Sea Wolves'' in 1980. Mr. Niven also worked in television, serving as host of ''The David Niven Show'' from 1959 to 1964 and starring in ''The Rogues'' in 1964 and 1965, among other activities.

In February, Mr. Niven went to London for treatment of his illness, and his wife, Hjordis, reported that he was very weak and tired. But after nine days in a London hospital, he flew to Switzerland.

His literary agent, George Greenfield of John Farquharson Ltd., said in London Thursday that in the last weeks of his life Mr. Niven had continued working on a romantic-adventure novel titled From Dawn Until Dusk. Mr. Greenfield said that Mr. Niven had finished three-quarters of the book, which was to be brought out by Doubleday in the United States and Hamish Hamilton in Britain. The agent did not say whether it would be completed, but he reported that in a recent note Mr. Niven had said he was trying to finish it by Thanksgiving ''- whenever that may be!''

In Britain in 1940, Mr. Niven met and married Primula Rollo, then an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. She died in 1946 after an accidental fall during a game of hide-and-seek at the Hollywood home of Tyrone Power.

In 1948, Mr. Niven married Hjordis Tersmeden, a Swedish model, and they had a house in Cap Ferrat, in Southern France, in addition to the chalet in Chateau-d'Oex, a resort in western Switzerland.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Niven is survived by two sons from his first marriage, David Jr., of London, and James, of New York, and two daughters adopted during his second marriage, Kristina and Fiona.

David Niven
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1269032|36690/David-Niven/filmography.html
COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY

Cast (feature film)
1. Better Late Than Never (1983) as Nick Cartland.
2. Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
3. Sea Wolves, The (1980)
4. Rough Cut (1980)

5. Escape to Athena (1979)
6. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A (1979)
7. Death on the Nile (1978) as Colonel Race.
8. Candleshoe (1977)
9. Murder By Death (1976)
10. No Deposit, No Return (1976)
11. Paper Tiger (1975) as Walter Bradbury.
12. Old Dracula (1975)
13. King, Queen, Knave (1972) as Charles.
14. The Statue (1971) as Alex Bolt .

15. Before Winter Comes (1969) as Major Burnside .
16. The Brain (1969) as The Brain .
17. The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) as Lieutenant Commander Finchhaven .
18. Prudence and the Pill (1968) as Gerald Hardcastle .
19. The Impossible Years (1968) as Jonathan Kingsley .
20. Casino Royale (1967) as Sir James Bond .
21. Eye of the Devil (1967) as Philippe de Montfaucon .
22. Where the Spies Are (1966) as Dr. Jason Love .
23. Lady L (1966) as Lord Lendale .
24. Conquered City (1965) as Maj. Peter Whitfield .
25. Bedtime Story (1964) as Lawrence Jamison .
26. The Pink Panther (1964) as Sir Charles Lytton .
27. 55 Days at Peking (1963) as Sir Arthur Robertson .
28. The Best of Enemies (1962) as Major Richardson .
29. The Road to Hong Kong (1962) as .
30. Guns of Darkness (1962) as Tom Jordan .
31. The Guns of Navarone (1961) as Miller .
32. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) as Lawrence Mackay .

33. Ask Any Girl (1959) as Miles Doughton .
34. Happy Anniversary (1959) as Chris Walters .
35. Silken Affair, The (1958)
36. Bonjour Tristesse (1958) as Raymond .
37. Separate Tables (1958) as Major David Angus Pollock .
38. Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) as Dr. Alan Coles .
39. The Little Hut (1957) as Henry Brittingham-Brett .
40. My Man Godfrey (1957) as Godfrey .
41. Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Phileas Fogg .
42. The Birds and the Bees (1956) as Patrick Henry "Handsome Harry" Harris, as known as Count Pierre .
43. The King's Thief (1955) as [James] Duke of Brampton .
44. Tonight's the Night (1954) as Jasper O'Leary .
45. Carrington V.C. (1954)
46. The Fighting Pimpernel (1954) as Sir Percy Blakeney [also known as The Scarlet Pimpernel] by arrangement with Samuel Goldwyn.
47. Love Lottery, The (1953)
48. The Moon Is Blue (1953) as David Slater .
49. The Lady Says No (1952) as Bill Shelby .
50. Soldiers Three (1951) as Captain Pindenny .
51. Happy Go Lovely (1951) as B. G. Bruno .
52. The Toast of New Orleans (1950) as Jacques Riboudeaux .

53. A Kiss in the Dark (1949) as Eric Phillips .
54. Enchantment (1949) as General Sir Roland Dane .
55. A Kiss for Corliss (1949) as [Kenneth] Marquis .
56. Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
57. The Bishop's Wife (1948) as Henry Brougham .
58. A Matter of Life and Death (1947) as Peter D. Carter.
59. The Perfect Marriage (1947) as Dale Williams .
60. The Other Love (1947) as Dr. Antony Stanton .
61. Magnificent Doll (1946) as Aaron Burr .
62. Immortal Battalion (1944) as Lieutenant Jim Perry.
63. The First of the Few (1942)

64. Bachelor Mother (1939) as David Merlin .
65. Eternally Yours (1939) as Tony [Halstead, also known as the Great Arturo] .
66. Raffles (1939) as [A. J.] Raffles .
67. The Real Glory (1939) as Lieut. [Terrence] McCool .
68. Wuthering Heights (1939) as Edgar [Linton] .
69. Three Blind Mice (1938) as Steve Harrington .
70. Four Men and a Prayer (1938) as Chris [Leigh] .
71. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) as Albert De Regnier .
72. The Dawn Patrol (1938) as [Lieutenant] Scott .
73. Dinner at the Ritz (1937) as [Carl-]Paul de Brack .
74. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) as Fritz von Tarlenheim .
75. We Have Our Moments (1937) as Joe Gilling .
76. Palm Springs (1936) as George Brittel .
77. Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) as Bertie Wooster .
78. Dodsworth (1936) as Capt. Locket .
79. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) as Captain Randall .
80. Rose-Marie (1936) as Teddy .
81. Beloved Enemy (1936) as Gerald Preston .
82. Without Regret (1935) as Bill Gage .
83. Splendor (1935) as Clancey Lorrimore .
84. Barbary Coast (1935) as Cockney sailor .
85. A Feather in Her Hat (1935) as Leo Cartwright .
86. Eyes of Fate (1933) as Man.

Cast (special)

87. Forbidden Desert of the Danakil, The (1988)
88. Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler (1987)
89. American Film Institute Salute to Fred Astaire, The (1981)
90. Balloon Safari (1976)

Cast (special)

91. Man Called Intrepid, A (1979)
Cast (short)
92. ALL EYES ON SHARON TATE (1966)

1984: 007 옥터퍼시 released in the Republic of Korea.

Later VHS.

1987: Dah Smrti (Breath of Death) released in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

NEW JAMES BOND -- MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER!

2008: Announcement reveals Jack White & Alicia Keys to collaborate on title song "Another Way to Die"--a duet.
2011: Daniel Craig confirms a plan to use India locations for BOND 23 and pre-titles train action.

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

Regarding the YouTube clip. Liver casserole?

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

Liver casserole (Finnish: maksalaatikko) is a Finnish food that is traditionally eaten at Christmas. The casserole is made of rice, ground liver, butter or margarine, syrup, eggs, onion, and raisins. It is usually served with lingonberry jam.

It is also sold ready-to-eat and eaten as an everyday food, and appears commonly in school lunches. In 2011, a Gallup poll of 299 schoolchildren found that liver casserole was the least liked dish in the school menus.

Of course! What else?

RichardTheBruce

July 30th

1945: 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/

Monday 30 July, 1945

I. has refused the new job. He feels he must break away.
So Jamaica is on again. I am sure he is right not to let himself
grow old, unhealthy and apoplectic sitting for ever in London
on mysterious committees and having no leisure, no freedom,
no unbuttoning.

1964: Bons baisers de Russie (Good Kisses From Russia) released in France.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Luxembourg.
1989: 007 Vendetta privata (007 Private Vendetta) released in Italy.

1997: BOND 17 films Wai Lin's capture by Carver’s men.
2006: Another fire at Pinewood Studios.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5229624.stm

2014: Guernsey Post releases a set of stamps and other limited edition items that celebrate Ian Fleming.

More at: https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/guernsey-post-celebrates-ian-flemings-life-stamps

RichardTheBruce

July 31st

1944: 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/

Monday 31 July, 1944

I. dined and talked to me about the German new ‘secret’ weapon:
the rocket. Said he thought it wasn’t ready and might never be
ready in time but one couldn’t know and if it started I was to
get out at once. I was to keep a bag packed and leave London
immediately without warning the Admiralty or anyone. I said,
‘What about you?’ He said Winston had decided the govt and
the ministers weren’t to be evacuated. It would look too bad
vis-à-vis the people.

1960: Ian Fleming begins a second series of articles in The Sunday Times, the first on Hamburg, later to become part of Thrilling Cities published by Jonathan Cape.
1971: Sean Connery and cast film in Amsterdam.

1985: A View to a Kill released in Colombia.
1987: The Living Daylights released in the US.

1987: 007 vaaran vyöhykkeellä (Danger Zone) released in Finland.

2007: Goldfinger re-released in the UK.
2010: Tom Mankiewicz dies at age 68--Los Angeles, California. (Born 1 June 1942--Los Angeles, California.)

Tom Mankiewicz obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/04/tom-mankiewicz-obituary
Screenwriter from a Hollywood dynasty best known for his work
on James Bond
Ronald Bergan | Wed 4 Aug 2010 13.43 EDT

Roger Moore with Jane Seymour as Solitaire in Live and Let Die (1973), Moore’s first appearance as 007, with screenwriting by Mankiewicz, below
Photograph: Allstar; Al Seib/Photoshot

For most film buffs, the name Mankiewicz immediately recalls Joseph L, the director and screenwriter of All About Eve (1950). For others, it evokes that of his older brother, Herman J, most celebrated as the writer of the screenplay of Citizen Kane. However, Joseph L's son, Tom Mankiewicz, who has died of cancer aged 68, is cherished by James Bond fans as the screenwriter of Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), as well as having worked on rewrites of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

Tom Mankiewicz

At the beginning of his career, Mankiewicz admitted that he probably got work because of his father. "You suddenly started to realise that people were asking you because it was you," he explained. Unlike his father's best films – literate, dialogue-based vehicles – when a director called "action" on a Tom Mankiewicz-scripted movie, he really meant it.

He was born in Los Angeles, where his father was an MGM producer before becoming the Oscar-winning director of Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve. (His mother, the Austrian-born actor Rose Stradner, killed herself when Tom was 16.) It seemed natural that the boy should follow the family tradition, so he majored in drama at Yale University. Before graduation, aged 18, he worked as production assistant on The Comancheros (1961), a western starring John Wayne. In 1964 he was credited as production associate on The Best Man, Gore Vidal's sharp look at morality in politics.

His first screen credit as a writer was on The Sweet Ride (1968), a pseudo-philosophical movie about three beach bums. It was not a success, nor was the Broadway musical Georgy (1970), for which Mankiewicz's book was based on the 1966 British film Georgy Girl. Nevertheless, the producers Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman hired him for two weeks to doctor the Richard Maibaum script of Diamonds Are Forever. He stayed for six months, receiving a co-screenplay credit.

Differing greatly from the Ian Fleming book of the same name, the script had 007 (Sean Connery) bounding from London to Amsterdam, LA to Las Vegas, on the trail of a huge diamond-smuggling operation, behind which lurks his arch-enemy, Blofeld (not in the novel). Bond has a good fight in an elevator, is pestered by two vicious gay men, and attracted by two beauties named Tiffany Case and Plenty O'Toole.

Connery, who had been enticed back to the role after four years away by a $1m fee, plus a weekly salary of $10,000, had not altered his droll style and sexual allure, although there was some change in his girth. When Roger Moore followed him in the part, Mankiewicz was entrusted to write the screenplay for Moore's first 007, Live and Let Die.

The film, which did well at the box office, proved that Connery was not irreplaceable as Bond. While Mankiewicz stuck to the winning formula – the film had spectacular set pieces, particularly an incredible speedboat chase through the Louisiana bayous – it leaned rather more on the humorous side, honed to Moore's more lightweight personality.

According to Mankiewicz, "the difference between Sean and Roger was that Sean looked dangerous. Sean could sit at a table with a girl at a nightclub and either lean across and kiss her or stick a knife in her under the table and then say, 'Excuse me waiter, I have nothing to cut my meat with.' Whereas Roger could kiss the girl, if he stuck a knife in her it would look nasty because Roger looks like a nice guy."

Although The Man With the Golden Gun, which Mankiewicz and Maibaum adapted from Fleming's last novel, had the usual stunts, exotic locales, a master criminal and sexy women popping up from time to time, it sometimes verged on self-parody. In fact, there is a tongue-in-cheek seam running through most of Mankiewicz's work.

In 1976 three films with Mankiewicz as writer were released: Mother, Jugs & Speed, starring Bill Cosby as a stoned ambulance driver; The Cassandra Crossing, a disaster movie with an all-star cast; and The Eagle Has Landed (based on the Jack Higgins novel), an entertaining but far-fetched thriller with Michael Caine as a German colonel infiltrating an English village in 1943 with the aim of kidnapping Winston Churchill.

In 1977 the director Richard Donner recruited Mankiewicz to work on the script of Superman, for which he received the credit of creative consultant, a fancy name for script doctor. He got the same credit for Superman II (1980), directed by Richard Lester, who added rather too much camp humour to footage that Donner had shot. Mankiewicz claimed to have written most of both pictures. He later helped Donner reconstruct Superman II, restoring all of the original footage that had been altered by the producers.

In between fixing other people's films, he co-wrote the screenplay for Donner's Ladyhawke (1985), a handsome-looking medieval fable of cursed lovers turning into animals. After directing 13 episodes of the TV adventure series Hart to Hart (1979-82), starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers, he directed two movies, Dragnet (1987) and Delirious (1991) – the former being a mildly amusing spoof of Jack Webb's 50s TV series; the latter about a writer (John Candy) trapped in his own soap opera.

Mankiewicz is survived by his brother, Christopher, a producer and actor, and his sister, Alexandra.

• Thomas Francis Mankiewicz, screen-writer and director, born 1 June 1942; died 31 July 2010

2012: Skyfall full trailer seen in theaters plus online.

2019: Last day to view the Thunderball-used Aston Martin at Sotheby's.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/james-bonds-1965-aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-rm-monterey-auction

Automobiles | RM Sotheby's | Jun 12, 2019
Calling All Secret Agents: James Bond’s 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Is Up
for Auction
By Sotheby's

RM Sotheby’s, the official auction house of Aston Martin, is offering perhaps the most iconic Aston Martin of all time to lead ‘An Evening with Aston Martin,’ a special single-marque sale session at the 2019 Monterey auction on 15 August. Featuring thirteen functioning Bond modifications, the James Bond 007 Aston Martin DB5 is one of just three surviving examples commissioned in period by Eon Productions and fitted with MI6 Q Branch specifications as pictured in Goldfinger.

Upcoming Auction
RM Sotheby's: Monterey
15–17 August 2019 | Monterey

No one could have predicted the fabulously successful multi-decade synergy that would develop when production designer Ken Adam and special effects man John Stears visited Aston Martin’s Newport-Pagnell plant in late 1963. The two men were on a mission to source a pair of the latest Aston Martin models for use in Eon Productions’ third adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, again about the MI6 superspy with a license to kill, James Bond. The film was called Goldfinger.

Monterey 2019: The Most Famous Car in the World

Two near-identical cars were built and loaned to Eon Productions for filming, with each fulfilling various roles; one for stunt driving and chase sequences and therefore needing to be lightweight and fast, and the other for interior shots and close-ups, to be equipped with functional modifications created by Stears. As Desmond Llewelyn’s legendary weapons-master Q would go on to explain to Sean Connery’s 007, the Snow Shadow Gray-painted DB5 was equipped with front and rear hydraulic over-rider rams on the bumpers, a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, a raising rear bullet-proof screen, an in-dash radar tracking scope, oil, caltrop and smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates, and a passenger-seat ejection system. Although never used during the film, the car was also equipped with a telephone in the driver’s door to communicate with MI6 headquarters and a hidden compartment under the driver’s seat containing several weapons.


The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Bond Car to be offered at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale.
Estimate $4,000,000–6,000,000. (Simon Clay 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)

The smash success of Goldfinger was also a success for Aston Martin, which saw DB5 sales surge to fuel an unprecedented level of production. The producers at Eon also took notice of the enormous appeal and potential marketing opportunities. In preparation for Thunderball’s release, the company ordered two more DB5 saloons, receiving chassis nos. DB5/2008/R, the example on offer at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale, and DB5/2017/R. The two cars were fitted with all of Stears’ Goldfinger modifications and were shipped to the United States for promotional duties for Thunderball.


A look at the interior gadgets in the Bond DB5 (Simon Clay 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)

Following the tour, the two cars were no longer required as the next two Bond films debuted with different, more current automobiles in the hero roles and, accordingly, they were quietly offered for sale in 1969. The cars were soon purchased as a pair by well-known collector Anthony (now Lord) Bamford, whose British registration for chassis no. 2008/R remains on file. The Aston Martin build record lists Eon Productions as the original purchaser, with the important designation of being a “(Bond Car)” noted. Bamford then sold DB5/2008/R to B.H. Atchley, the owner of the Smokey Mountain Car Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The Aston Martin was featured as the museum’s centerpiece, remaining in a pristine state of display for 35 years, receiving regular start-ups for exercise. In 2006, RM Sotheby’s (previously RM Auctions) was privileged to offer this very Bond DB5 for public sale, in a largely unrestored state.


The smoke screen dispenser on the DB5 is engaged (Simon Clay 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)

Since that time, a well-documented, no-expense spared restoration by Switzerland’s esteemed Roos Engineering was completed. Roos Engineering is one of 13 specialist facilities whom Aston Martin have appointed as official Heritage Specialists. Not only were the chassis and body completely refinished to proper standards, but all thirteen of the John Stears-designed Bond modifications were properly refurbished to function as originally built.

The Bond DB5 will be on view at Sotheby's New York from 28 June through 31 July.