On This Day

RichardTheBruce

September 18th

1959: Kevin McClory's partner Ivar Bryce writes a letter to Ian Fleming about his experience on the Queen Mary. Specifically, a screening of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest.

18 September 1959

It’s the most terrific Bond-style thriller - almost plagiarising – and superb.
You must manage to see it somehow. It is exactly the picture we are
trying to make...

Hitchcock would be worth it, if we could get him."

1965: MacLean's Reviews prints "Secret Letters of the Man Who Invented OO7" by Gene Telpner.

MACLEAN’S REVIEWS
SECRET LETTERS OF THE
MAN WHO INVENTED 007
http://archive.macleans.ca/article/1965/9/18/secret-letters-of-the-man-who-invented-007
GENE TELPNER September 18 1965

SECRET LETTERS OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED 007

MACLEAN’S REVIEWS

WITH THE JAMES BOND CULT flourishing so lustily throughout North America and most other parts of the semicivilized world, it’s hard to believe there might yet be any fascinating facts still unrevealed about Bond or his creator, the late Ian Fleming.

But a previously unpublicized side of Fleming has just come to light in, of all places, Winnipeg. There, one man's collection of personal letters from Fleming reveal the famous, bestselling British spy novelist as a person who was as modest, self-effacing and cautious as Secret Agent 007 is brash and bold.

The owner of the letters is a publicity-shy businessman named Albert D. Cohen, who is, among other things, board chairman of the Metropolitan Stores of Canada five - and - dime chain. Cohen, whose corporate duties often carry him abroad, first met Fleming in London in 1960, through a mutual friend. To Cohen, their first meeting seemed like a casual social encounter that showed no promise of developing further. However, Cohen returned to London the next year, this time with his wife and their son Anthony. and the whole family became acquainted with Fleming. Inevitably, talk between the two men turned to business. Back home, in September 1961, Cohen got his first letter from Fleming. “I was much interested in hearing your tale of Metropolitan Stores,” said Fleming, in a letter he pecked out himself on his typewriter. “It looks like an immensely exciting affair, and with you as chairman 1 am sure it will be a most profitable venture. Please let me know if you advise me to make a modest investment in shares.”

That may sound like asking a football coach if he expects his team to win tomorrow, but Cohen's reply was evidently free of any false optimism. For Fleming wrote again on October 11, this time revealing a cautious nature that 007 would have scorned. “With the rather difficult market conditions ruling at present it doesn’t seem that I need be in any hurry to purchase shares,” he wrote. “But when conditions look a bit better perhaps I may write to you again.”

A full year was to pass before Fleming—already a wealthy author growing wealthier every day—would plunge in to become a Metropolitan shareholder.

Meanw'hile he continued to write to Cohen about other things, including the magazine pieces that were making him a celebrity on both continents.

“You will see a really terrifying photograph of me in the December issue of Esquire,” he warned on November 29, 1961, “and in one of the January issues of Sports Illustrated you will find an article on the guns of James Bond which I hope will entertain you. Otherwise, life goes on much as usual . . .”

Subconsciously or otherwise, Fleming was starting to think Canadian, for his next book, The Spy Who Loved Me featured a heroine from Canada.

When this book appeared. Fleming expressed an acute—though perhaps bemused—interest in its acceptance in Canada: “I think Canadian book shops have been a bit leery of it as I have some rather spikey things to say about Quebec!”

But he was managing to live with these notions of ill fame: “Thanks to plenty of nicotine and alcohol I am keeping fit enough and just finished an immensely long James Bond story for next year.”

In the same letter, he announced he was about to invest in Metropolitan stock. Cohen responded by sending corporate information, including photographs of some stores. Fleming replied tongue in cheek: “There seems to be a whole lot of goods on the shelves but nobody actually buying them. Perhaps you have managed to tempt some customers in by now!”

And in the same letter—from the man whose books were among the hottest literary properties in years: “I have absolutely no news for you as my life has been totally uneventful. But I hope you were amused by the profile of me in Life Magazine of August 8.”

In October 1963, Cohen and Fleming exchanged regrets over invitations they had extended to each other— Cohen was opening a new' store, and From Russia With Love was opening in London. Fleming commented: “It is indeed extraordinary the amount of publicity this fellow James Bond and I are getting all over the place. Although it’s good for business, to tell you the truth I would be very glad to pass some of it on to the Metropolitan Stores!”

Then he added: “I see your shares are on the move. Good show'!”

The two men managed to meet again more than once—though not as often as both wished—and Fleming once broke a luncheon date with Allen Dulles, then head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, in order to see Cohen.

Fleming wrote his last letter to Cohen not long before he died, once again revealing himself as a romantic almost childishly fascinated by the activities of other men but easily bored by the humdrum life of a fiction writer.

From his vantage point, it was Cohen who was the exciting personality, living an adventurous life that made him a sort of businessman equivalent of James Bond himself. For in the flyleaf of a book he gave to his friend the board chairman, 007’s creator wrote, with apparent sincerity:

“To Albert D. Cohen—Man of Action. From lan Fleming.”

GENE TELPNER

1967: James Bond i Japan released in Norway.

"You Only Live Twice", Coldplay, 2009. (Recorded live in Norway.)

1981: 007 - Somente Para Seus Olhos released in Brazil.

2006: Construction of a new stage at Pinewood begins, to replace the structures damaged in a July fire.
2007: Adobe Flash releases browser game Avenue of Death developed by TAMBA Internet and based on a chapter of Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Hurricane Gold .

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/forum/16885
Submitted by willcheng on Tue, 2007-09-18 11:21

TAMBA & Fleming Media are proud to present Avenue of Death, a viral game to promote the launch of the fourth Young Bond book, Hurricane Gold.

http://www.avenueofdeath.com

Many have failed in their quest to survive the tricks and traps along the Avenue of Death.

Use the keyboard arrow keys to control James and space bar to jump.

You must collect coins and more importantly matches in order to escape the Avenue of Death.

Watch out for sinister creatures who will try and thwart your attempts at survival.
No one will be happier to see you dead than El Huracan. Don't let him have the pleasure and complete the challenge.

Any input would be great.

Thanks

Young Bond: Avenue of Death

2008: "Another Way to Die" premieres on The Jo Whiley Show, BBC Radio 1.
2019: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond 007 #11 continuing Goldfinger.

Cover A: Dave Johnson

Cover B: Khoi Pham

Cover C: Gleb Melnikov

Cover D: Robert Carey

Thunderfinger

That letter from Bryce-nice find!

RichardTheBruce

September 19th

1963: Honor Blackman gives notice she will leave The Avengers, a secret kept until February 1964. Her final episode "Lobster Quadrille" presents a nod to the upcoming Bond role.

1965: Goldie is born--Walsall, Staffordshire, England.
1984: A View to a Kill films that bedroom scene with OO7 and May Day.
1987: 007 - Zona pericolo released in Italy.

1998: Robbie Williams scores a #1 hit in the UK with "Millennium".

2012: The James Bond 007 fragrance becomes available in the United Kingdom.

James Bond
For your nose only: James Bond gets
his first fragrance
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/james-bond-007-official-fragrance

By Oliver Franklin-Wallis
27 July 2012

Whether in Ian Fleming's novels or the film outings, 007 has never been subtle about his preference for particular brands of car, drink or tailor - but Bond was never particularly forthcoming about his choice of cologne. (The closest we get is Fleming's own preference for Floris No.89.) That's all set to change with the unveiling of the first official James Bond fragrance, arriving in September from P&G to mark the franchise's 50th anniversary. Thankfully, the scent eschews hints of Aston Martin leather and martini top notes for a modern take on classic Sixties fragrances, with hints of fresh apple, cardamom, sandalwood and vetiver. Because given what we've seen of Daniel Craig's motorcycle-riding, Bérénice-seducing, Heineken-swigging hero in Skyfall, he's going to need to freshen up...

£25 for 50ml. Available exclusively at Harrods from 15 August
15. Available nationwide from 19 September. 007.com

2015: Audio book for Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mortis is released, read by David Oyelowo.

2017: Bernie Casey dies at age 78--Los Angeles, California. (Born 8 June 1939--Wyco, West Virginia.)

Bernie Casey, Football Star
Turned Actor, Poet and
Painter, Dies at 78
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernie-casey-dead-actor-nfl-910749
4:38 PM PDT 9/20/2017 by Mike Barnes

Bernie Casey

His film résumé includes
'Boxcar Bertha,' 'Never Say
Never Again,' 'Brothers,'
'Revenge of the Nerds' and
'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.'

Actor Bernie Casey, who appeared in such films as Boxcar Bertha, Never Say Never Again and Revenge of the Nerds after a career as a standout NFL wide receiver, has died. He was 78.

Casey, who also starred in Cleopatra Jones and several other blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, died Tuesday after a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.

In the Warner Bros. drama Brothers (1977), Casey distinguished himself by portraying a thinly veiled version of George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party who was killed in what officials described as an escape attempt from San Quentin in 1971. His writings had inspired oppressed people around the world, and Bob Dylan recorded a song as a tribute to Jackson in 1971.

Casey also wrote, directed, starred in and produced The Dinner (1997), centering on three black men who discuss slavery, black self-loathing, homophobia, etc. while sitting around the dinner table.

Casey played a heroic former slave and train robber in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972), was CIA agent Felix Leiter (a recurring character in Bond films) in Never Say Never Again (1983) and portrayed U.N. Jefferson, the president of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity, in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and two follow-up telefilms.

In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Casey played schoolteacher Mr. Ryan ("Who was Joan of Arc?" he asks, and Keanu Reeves' Ted guesses, "Noah's wife?"), portrayed a detective opposite Burt Reynolds in Sharky's Machine (1981) and stood out as the prisoner who protects Eddie Murphy in jail in the sequel Another 48 Hrs. (1990).

And not long after he unexpectedly retired from the Los Angeles Rams, Casey portrayed Chicago Bears player J.C. Caroline in the 1971 ABC telefilm Brian's Song, the heart-wrenching tale about the friendship between Brian Piccolo (James Caan) and Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams).

A true Renaissance man, Casey also was a published poet as well as a painter whose work was exhibited in galleries around the world.

Bernard Casey was born on June 8, 1939, in Wyco, West Virginia. He was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Bowling Green on a football scholarship (he returned to the school years later to earn a master's in fine arts).

An elegant 6-foot-4 halfback and flanker, Casey led the Falcons to the national "small college" championship in 1959 and was named to the Little All-American team. He also excelled in the high hurdles for the track team and competed in the 1960 U.S. Olympic trials.

The San Francisco 49ers made Casey the ninth overall pick in the NFL Draft, and he spent six seasons with the team (1961-66) as quarterback John Brodie's favorite receiver. In one game in his final year with the team, he caught 12 passes for 225 yards.

Casey then spent two solid years with the Rams but shockingly retired in his athletic prime before the 1969 season, finishing his pro career with 359 catches for 5,444 yards and 40 touchdowns. Just 30, he wanted to concentrate on acting, painting and poetry.

"When that sojourn is over and you're 32 or something, when most people are just beginning to understand who they are, what they can do and what life is all about, you have been considered in the world of sports a dinosaur," he once said in a piece for NFL Films. "From that point on, it's a downward spiral into the abyss of non-consideration and obscurity and a lot of other things that they never recover from. I want to think in my instance, it's the beginning. There's a lot of life left after 32."

Casey made his movie debut in the sequel Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and then starred opposite Jim Brown, another recently retired NFL star, in ...tick... tick... tick... (1970).

Casey received top billing in Hit Man (1972) as the title character, a no-nonsense guy who investigates his brother's death at the hands of mobsters, and then played Reuben Masters, Tamara Dobson's lover, in Cleopatra Jones (1973).

His other blaxploitation work included Black Chariot (1971), Black Gunn (1972) and Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976), and years later, he appeared in the genre parody I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.

Casey portrayed basketball star Maurice Stokes, who spent the last 10 years of his life paralyzed, in Maurie (1973), was a cop in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) and played Col. Rhumbus in Spies Like Us (1985). He also appeared in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Glass Shield (1994) and Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored (1995).

On television, Casey played a minor-league baseball coach who could still hit on the short-lived Steven Bochco drama Bay City Blues and was in Roots: The Next Generations and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Casey received an honorary doctorate degree from The Savannah (Georgia) College of Art and Design, where he served for years as chairman of the board and advocated for arts education.

He had many fans of his paintings.

"I cannot see what Bernie Casey sees," Maya Angelou said in 2003 to promote an exhibit of his work. "Casey has the heart and the art to put his insight on canvas, and I am heartened by his action. For then I can comprehend his vision and some of my own. His art makes my road less rocky, and my path less crooked."

Duane Byrge contributed to this report.

Bernie Casey (1939–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143378/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

2007 Vegas Vampires - Bloodhound Bill
2006 When I Find the Ocean - Amos Jackson
2005 Girlfriends (TV Series) - Judge Edward Dent
- Judging Edward (2005) ... Judge Edward Dent
2002 On the Edge - Rex Stevens
2001 The Last Brickmaker in America (TV Movie) - Lewis
2001 Tomcats - Officer Hurley
2000 Just Shoot Me! (TV Series) - Bernie Casey
- A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn (2000) ... Bernie Casey
2000 For Your Love (TV Series) - James, Mel and Reggie's Father
- Father Fixture (2000) ... James, Mel and Reggie's Father

1999 Batman Beyond (TV Series) - Tyrus Block
- Once Burned (1999) ... Tyrus Block (voice)
1999 The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (TV Movie) - Silas
1997 The Dinner - Good Brother
1995 Babylon 5 (TV Series) - Derek Cranston
- Matters of Honor (1995) ... Derek Cranston (uncredited)
- Hunter, Prey (1995) ... Derek Cranston
1995 SeaQuest 2032 (TV Series) - Admiral Vanalden
- Chains of Command (1995) ... Admiral Vanalden
1995 Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored - Mr. Walter
1994 In the Mouth of Madness - Robinson
1994 The Glass Shield - James Locket
1994 Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (TV Movie) - U. N. Jefferson
1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Calvin Hudson / Commander Calvin Hudson
- The Maquis: Part II (1994) ... Calvin Hudson
- The Maquis: Part I (1994) ... Commander Calvin Hudson
1993 Street Knight - Raymond
1993 Time Trax (TV Series) - Ernest Cooper
- The Contender (1993) ... Ernest Cooper
1993 The Cemetery Club - John
1992 Evening Shade (TV Series) - Director
- The NFL on CBS (1992) ... Director
1992 CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV Series) - Edwin Gaines
- Sexual Considerations (1992) ... Edwin Gaines
1992 Under Siege - Commander Harris
1992 Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (TV Movie) - U.N. Jefferson
1990 Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (TV Movie) - John Slade
1990 Chains of Gold - Sergeant Falco
1990 Another 48 Hrs. - Kirkland Smith

1989 Hunter (TV Series) - Sgt. Del Weber
- Investment in Death (1989) ... Sgt. Del Weber
1989 Mother's Day (TV Movie) - Cale Sturgis
1989 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Doc Evans
- Three Strikes, You're Out (1989) ... Doc Evans
1989 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Mr. Ryan
1989 Boogie Down Productions: Jack of Spades (Video short) - John Slade
1989 L.A. Law (TV Series) - Lieutenant Jack Dolan
- To Live and Diet in L.A. (1989) ... Lieutenant Jack Dolan
1988 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka - John Slade
1987 Rent-a-Cop - Lemar
1987 Amazon Women on the Moon - Maj. Gen. Hadley
(segment "The Unknown Soldier" [TV cut & DVD only]) (uncredited)
1987 First Offender (TV Movie) - Charlie
1987 Backfire - Clinton James
1987 Steele Justice - Det. Tom Reese
1986 Pros & Cons (TV Movie) - Lt. Bernie Rollins
1985 Spies Like Us - Colonel Rhombus
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Bernie
- Method Actor (1985) ... Bernie
1984 Revenge of the Nerds - U.N. Jefferson
1983-1984 Bay City Blues (TV Series) - Ozzie Peoples
- Rocky IV-Eyes (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- Play It Again, Milt (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- Look Homeward, Hayward (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- Going, Going, Gone (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
- I Never Swung with My Father (1983) ... Ozzie Peoples
1984 The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (TV Movie) - J.T. Collins
1983 Never Say Never Again - Leiter
1982 Hear No Evil (TV Movie) - Monday
1982 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) - Thornie Thornberry
- Love and Marriage (1982) ... Thornie Thornberry
1982 A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (TV Movie)
1981 Sharky's Machine - Arch
1981 The Sophisticated Gents (TV Series) - Shurley Walker
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) - Major Jeff Spender
- The Martians (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender (credit only)
- The Settlers (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender (credit only)
- The Expeditions (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender

1979 Harris and Company (TV Series) - Mike Harris
- That's What I Owe You (1979) ... Mike Harris
- The Loneliest Night of the Week (1979) ... Mike Harris
- A Very Special Person (1979) ... Mike Harris
- Choices (1979) ... Mike Harris
1979 Roots: The Next Generations (TV Mini-Series) - Bubba Haywood
- Part IV (1917-1921) (1979) ... Bubba Haywood
1978 Love Is Not Enough (TV Movie) - Mike Harris
1978 Ring of Passion (TV Movie) - Joe Louis
1977 Ants! (TV Movie) - Vince
1977 Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (TV Movie) - Dave Williams
1977 Brothers - David Thomas
1975-1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Hamilton Ward / Duke Windsor
- The Six Foot Stretch (1977) ... Hamilton Ward
- Company Man (1975) ... Duke Windsor
1977 Police Woman (TV Series) - P.J. Johnson
- Once a Snitch (1977) ... P.J. Johnson
1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth - Peters
1976 Joe Forrester (TV Series) - Cleveland
- The Answer (1976) ... Cleveland
1976 Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde - Dr. Henry Pride
1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me - Officer Larry Atkins
1974 Panic on the 5:22 (TV Movie) - Wendell Weaver
1974 The Snoop Sisters (TV Series) - Willie Bates
- Fear Is a Free-Throw (1974) ... Willie Bates
1973 Maurie - Maurice Stokes
1973 Cleopatra Jones - Reuben
1972 Black Gunn - Seth
1972 Hit Man - Tyrone Tackett
1972 Gargoyles (TV Movie) - The Gargoyle
1972 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) - Richard
- Timelock (1972) ... Richard
1972 Boxcar Bertha - Von Morton
1972 Longstreet (TV Series) - Ray Eller
- Field of Honor (1972) ... Ray Eller
1972 Cade's County (TV Series) - Patrick
- Slay Ride: Part 2 (1972) ... Patrick
- Slay Ride: Part 1 (1972) ... Patrick
1971 Brian's Song (TV Movie) - J.C. Caroline
1971 Black Chariot
1970 ...tick... tick... tick... - George Harley

1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven - Cassie

Director (1 credit)

1997 The Dinner

Thanks (1 credit)

2018 The Oscars (TV Special) (in memoriam)

Music and Fruit (Songs in Eden)

In a Dark Time of Two Moons, 1966

Rhea's Ray, 1968

2019: Aston Martin DBS Superleggera spotted for the first time in Tokyo, Japan.

Aston Martin DBS Superleggera
Spotted for the first time in Tokyo
https://www.autogespot.com/aston-martin-dbs-superleggera/2019/09/19

Spot Details
Spotter cologne-cars
cologne_cars_photography
Spotted in Tokyo, Japan
Date 2019-09-19 00:02

Auto details
Top speed 340 km/u
Acceleration 0-100 km/u 3.40 s
Power 715 pk
Torque 900 Nm @ 1800 tpm
Weight 1845 kg

RichardTheBruce

September 20th

1942: Teenager Kevin McClory, British Merchant Navy radio officer on the Mathilda, endures German U-boats attacks.
1955: Macmillan publishes Ian Fleming's Moonraker in the US.

1964: Goldfinger general release in the UK.

1967: On ne vit que deux fois released in France.

1967: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζεις μονάχα δυο φορές released in Greece.

https://dpikeas.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/james-bond-you-only-live-twice/

1984: A View to a Kill films a garden party.
2006: "You Know My Name" is leaked on the internet.
2012: Heineken's Crack the Case ad promotes Skyfall starting today, Global Duty Free Day.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 Kill Chain #3.

https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017803011

2018: News reports say Cary Joji Fukunaga will direct BOND 25 for a Valentines Day 2020 release. Delayed from the October 2019 plan.

James Bond producers reveal
unexpected director pick
https://news.sky.com/story/james-bond-producers-reveal-unexpected-director-pick-11502942
American Cary Joji Fukunaga has previously directed True Detective and the
Idris Elba film Beasts Of No Nation.
Thursday 20 September 2018 15:16, UK

Image: Daniel Craig will make his fifth appearance as Bond

The new director for the next James Bond film has been announced,
with shooting due to begin in March next year.

Cary Fukunaga has replaced Danny Boyle, who left Bond 25 last month.
Sponsored link

The announcement was made on the @007 Twitter account, which also revealed that the film will be released on Valentine's Day in 2020.

The unnamed film had been due to premiere in October 2019 but was delayed after British director Boyle left due to "creative differences".

Image: Fukunaga directed Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in True Detective

Who is Fukunaga?

The American's first feature film was Sin Nombre won the directing award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.

In 2010 he made Jane Eyre with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender which was nominated for an Oscar for costume design.

He won an Emmy and Bafta award for directing the critically acclaimed first series of Sky Atlantic show True Detective which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

Fukunaga won more praise for his war drama Beasts Of No Nation which starred Idris Elba and was released in 2015.

His new TV mini-series Maniac, with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, is released on Netflix on 21 September.

The 41-year-old will be the first ever American director to helm a Bond film.

Bond 25 will see Daniel Craig reprise the role of author Ian Fleming's 007 for a fifth, and most likely, final time.

"We are delighted to be working with Cary. His versatility and innovation make him an excellent choice for our next James Bond adventure," said Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli in a tweet.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1042688562335047681

Boyle's wish to cast Polish actor Tomasz Kot, 41, as the film's main Russian villain may have been one of the creative differences, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Rumours were rife about Craig and Boyle clashing over other casting issues - with the actor said to have agreed all major new signings since he began his tenure as Bond.

Female director SJ Clarkson, who has been signed up for the next Star Trek sequel, had joined Bart Layton and Yann Demange on a list of contenders for the job after Boyle quit.

Last month Elba denied he was in the running to replace Craig as the MI6 agent when he leaves the franchise.

Craig previously stated that he would rather "slash my wrists" than return to the role, but later said that he made the remarks two days after he had finished shooting Spectre, and was exhausted.

Filming will begin at Pinewood Studios on 4 March next year.

Thunderfinger

One of those YOLT posters is obviously Belgian.

RichardTheBruce

A welcome correction, @Thunderfinger. So the French language but oh so Belgian On ne vit que deux fois poster [also Men leeft slechts tweemaal] gets moved to October 26-27 for that premiere.

RichardTheBruce

September 21st

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

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's 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

Tuesday 21 September, 1943

I. came to dinner, worried and rather unhappy about his job,
the slowness and unimaginativeness of most people he has to
deal with, the caution and avoidance of responsibility. His
old boss suited him admirably. This one doesn’t at all. He is
conventional and hasn’t an idea. And he doesn’t like
fighting battles. Poor I. He was dismayed and talked
about Hawaii and leaving the Admiralty as soon as
the war is over.

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

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress

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

Thursday 21 September, 1944

Ian came to dinner on Sunday, leaving for France
the next day. He is a lonely man. I am always afraid
that when he is attracted by some girl he looks for
not only youth and attractiveness but many of
my virtues, vices and oddnesses and these he can
never hope to find in anyone young, and quite likely
in no one else but me.

1959: The Daily Express publishes their serialisation of "Murder Before Breakfast ("From a View to a Kill") today and 21 September. Marketed as “the fastest thing in thrillers” and “tailor-made for the Express”.
1961: Serena Scott Thomas is born--Nether Compton, Dorset, England.
1974: James Bond comic The Nevsky Nude ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 13 May 1974. 2542–2655) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://popoptiq.com/the-nevsky-nude/






Swedish Semic Comic 1982 Fallen Från Skyarna ("Fall From Sky" - The Nevsky Nude)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218


Danish 1976 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no38-1976/

1988: Licence to Kill films casino scenes for the fictional Isthmus City, Mexico.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #10 EIDOLON, Chapter 4.

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181810011
Cover: Dom Reardon

2018: The producers announce American director Cary Joji Fukunaga is on board for BOND 25. Plus a new worldwide release date of 14 February 2020.
2019: Sid Haig dies at age 80--Los Angeles, California. (Born 14 July 1939--Fresno, California.)

Sid Haig, Horror Actor
and Cult Figure, Dies at 80
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/movies/sid-haig-dead-captain-spaulding.html
Mr. Haig was a character actor with roles in more than 70
movies, including the murderous clown Captain Spaulding in
Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses.”

Sid Haig with the actors Devanny Pinn, left, and Alexis Iacono in 2013.
Credit Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

By Laura M. Holson
Sept. 23, 2019

Sid Haig, a Hollywood character actor who for more than 50 years played thugs, villains and, most famously, a psychotic clown named Captain Spaulding, died on Saturday. He was 80.

His wife, Susan L. Oberg, announced his death on the actor’s Instagram account on Monday, writing, “He adored his family, his friends and his fans. This came as a shock to all of us.” No other details were given.

Mr. Haig, who lived in Los Angeles, played bit parts in more than 350 television shows and 70 movies, notably “Jackie Brown” and the James Bond thriller “Diamonds Are Forever.” He had become a cult figure among horror fans, who reveled in his portrayal of the murderous clown who terrorized people in the 2003 Rob Zombie film “House of 1000 Corpses.” He would go on to play Captain Spaulding in two other films from the director.

Rob Zombie, a musician turned filmmaker, wrote on his Instagram account Monday of Mr. Haig’s death, “Horray for Captain Spaulding. Gone but not forgotten.” Fans, too, expressed their grief on Twitter. Mr. Haig was the recipient of numerous awards for his acting in horror movies. In August, he was awarded the Vincent Price Award for excellence in the horror genre.

“I had the greatest night of my career,” he wrote on Instagram then.

https://twitter.com/TheRealElvira/status/1176202367668088837

Mr. Haig was a hulk of a figure whose lanky, long body towered over fellow actors. He was born Sidney Eddie Mosesian on July 14, 1939, in Fresno, Calif., according to his official website. His parents were Armenian, and his father was an electrician. He took dancing lessons and acted in high school. And he loved music. In 1958, according to the website, he played drums on the song “Full House” by the T-Birds.

Soon after, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater with a school for theater arts that trained actors including Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. In his early roles in film and on television, Mr. Haig played thugs and heavies mostly. In the 1968 cult classic “Spider Baby” he played a brother who cooks a cat; he was in the 1974 blaxploitation film “Foxy Brown” with Pam Grier; and he had a small role in “Diamonds Are Forever” in 1971.

Moviemakers delighted in his characters. Quentin Tarantino cast Mr. Haig in the 1997 movie “Jackie Brown,” a homage to the actor’s appearance in “Foxy Brown.” (Ms. Grier, too, starred in “Jackie Brown.”)


From left: Bill Moseley as Otis Driftwood, Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding and Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby in “Devil’s Rejects,” directed by Rob Zombie.
Credit Gene Page/Lions Gate Films

But it was as Captain Spaulding, the psychotic clown featured in “House of 1000 Corpses,” that Mr. Haig became a cult figure among horror fans. Mr. Haig said in a 2015 interview with CryticRock.com: “When I first read the script, I knew that it had the potential to do something. I did not know that it was going to be as well accepted as it was. But I did know that it had something going for it.”

In “House of 1000 Corpses,” Captain Spaulding runs the Museum of Monsters and Madmen housed in a run-down gas station on a barren stretch of Texas. There, the clown shoots a man after being attacked. Mr. Haig reprised the role two years later in “The Devil’s Rejects.” He also acted in a number of other horror films directed by Rob Zombie, including the 2007 remake of “Halloween.”

He was back as Captain Spaulding in “3 From Hell,” a sequel to “The Devil’s Rejects,” which was released this month. “He was very cool,” Mr. Haig said of working with Rob Zombie in his interview with CrypticRock.com. “He was really laid back. He would just tell you what he was looking for and then leave you alone and let you do your job. Which is what most directors should do.”

Cassandra Peterson, known by her stage name, Elvira, said she met Mr. Haig at Rob Zombie’s wedding in 2002. But it was on the road at horror fan conventions where they forged a friendship. “He played this horrible character in Rob’s movies, and it took fans by surprise when he was sweet and took time with them,” she said. “He may not have been a big star. But in our world, he was an icon.”

Indeed Mr. Haig was a fan favorite. He made regular appearances at festivals to sign autographs or appear as Captain Spaulding, who became a recognizable villain among mainstream audiences. In June, he attended the Mad Monster Party in Phoenix where he signed autographs for fans. Earlier that month he was in Las Vegas for the Days of the Dead horror convention.

Fans often dressed up like Captain Spaulding at conventions or had tattoos inked in homage to his famous character. The adulation surprised Mr. Haig. He said on Instagram in February, “The level of commitment to put my mug into your skin for life just blows me away.”

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Laura M. Holson is an award-winning feature writer from New York. She joined The Times in 1998 and has written about Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. A movie producer once held a butter knife to her neck. @lauramholson

Sid Haig (I) (1939–2019)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354085/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (149 credits)

2020 Junction Murders (pre-production) - Bobby
2019 Tabbott's Traveling Carnivale of Terrors (pre-production) - Zeek
Abruptio (filming) - Sal
2020 Hanukkah (completed) - Judah Lazarus
2019 3 from Hell - Captain Spaulding
2019 High on the Hog - Big Daddy
2018 Cynthia - Detective Edwards
2018 Tigtone (TV Series) - Lord Festus
- Tigtone and the Pilot (2018) ... Lord Festus (voice)
2018 Suicide for Beginners - Barry
2017/II Razor - Bartender Sam
2017 Death House - Icicle Killer
2016 Don't Do It! (Short) - Robert
2015 Bone Tomahawk - Buddy
2014 Twiztid: Sick Man (Video short) - The Overseer
2013 Zombex - The Commander
2013 The Penny Dreadful Picture Show - Shopkeeper
2013 Devil in My Ride - Iggy
2013 Holliston (TV Series) - Sid Haig
- Farm Festival (2013) ... Sid Haig
2013 Hatchet III - Abbott MacMullen
2012 The Sacred - The Stranger
2012 The Lords of Salem - Dean Magnus
2012 The Inflicted - Dr. Gardner
2011 Mimesis - Alfonso Betz
2011 Creature - Chopper
2010 Chadam (TV Series) - Simkin

2009 Dark Moon Rising - Crazy Louis
2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Video) - Captain Spaulding (voice)
2009 Thirsty (Short) - Radio Evangelist (voice)
2007 Brotherhood of Blood - Pashek
2007 Halloween - Chester Chesterfield
2007 The Haunted Casino - Roy 'The Word' Donahue
2006 A Dead Calling (Video) - George
2006 Little Big Top - Seymour
2006 Night of the Living Dead 3D - Gerald Tovar, Jr.
2005 House of the Dead 2 (TV Movie) - Professor Curien
2005 The Devil's Rejects - Captain Spaulding
2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Jay
2003 House of 1000 Corpses - Captain Spaulding
2001 Rob Zombie: Feel So Numb (Video short) - Pirate

1997 Jackie Brown - Judge
1992 Boris and Natasha (TV Movie) - Colonel Gorda
1990 Genuine Risk - Curly
1990 The Forbidden Dance - Joa

1989-1990 Just the Ten of Us (TV Series) - Bob
- Comedy Tonight (1990) ... Bob
- St. Augie's Blues: Part 2 (1989) ... Bob
- St. Augie's Blues: Part 1 (1989) ... Bob
1989 The People Next Door (TV Series) - The Taskmaster
- Dream Date (1989) ... The Taskmaster
1989 Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II - Donar
1988 Warlords - The Warlord
1988 Goddess of Love (TV Movie) - Hephaestus
1988 Werewolf (TV Series) - Bud Topolski
- King of the Road (1988) ... Bud Topolski
1987 Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) - General Skull Fracture
- Hammeroid (1987) ... General Skull Fracture
1987 Ohara (TV Series) - Turk
- Take the Money and Run (1987) ... Turk
1987 Commando Squad - Iggy
1985-1986 MacGyver (TV Series) - Khalil / Khan
- To Be a Man (1986) ... Khalil
- Thief of Budapest (1985) ... Khan
1985 Amazing Stories (TV Series) - Thug
- Remote Control Man (1985) ... Thug
1985 Misfits of Science (TV Series) - Swarthy Man
- Fumble on the One (1985) ... Swarthy Man
1985 Hill Street Blues (TV Series) - Heath
- An Oy for an Oy (1985) ... Heath
1985 Wildside (TV Series) - Burnett
- Don't Keep the Home Fires Burning (1985) ... Burnett
1981-1985 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Yusef / Arnie / Mr. Fick / ...
- Reel Trouble (1985) ... Yusef
- Undersea Odyssey (1984) ... Arnie
- Bail and Bond (1982) ... Mr. Fick
- Colt's Angels (1981) ... Biker
1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Gretz
- Ship of Spies (1985) ... Gretz
1983 Automan (TV Series) - 1st Gang Member
- Automan (1983) ... 1st Gang Member
1983 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sonny Jenko
- Black Day at Bad Rock (1983) ... Sonny Jenko
1978-1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Otto / Harlen / Hakeem
- The Tallowed Image/Room and Bard (1983) ... Otto
- My Late Lover/Sanctuary (1981) ... Harlen
- Homecoming/The Sheikh (1978) ... Hakeem
1982 Forty Days of Musa Dagh - General Hekemet
1982 The Aftermath - Cutter
1982 Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series) - Tagan
- Wilmer Bass and the Serengeti Kid (1982) ... Tagan
1982 Two Guys from Muck (TV Movie) - Thug
1982 T.J. Hooker (TV Series) - Gang Leader
- Hooker's War (1982) ... Gang Leader
1982 Bret Maverick (TV Series) - The Mighty Sampson
- The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur (1982) ... The Mighty Sampson
1982 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Slocum
- Miz Tisdale on the Lam (1982) ... Slocum
1981 Galaxy of Terror - Quuhod
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash - Vince
1981 Underground Aces - Faoud
1980-1981 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Pratt / Spirot
- Time of the Hawk (1981) ... Pratt
- Flight of the War Witch (1980) ... Spirot
1981 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Hatch
- Stain of Guilt (1981) ... Hatch
1980 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Gunther Maddox
- Murder, Murder on the Wall (1980) ... Gunther Maddox

1978-1979 Jason of Star Command (TV Series) - Dragos
- Battle for Freedom (1979) ... Dragos
- Mimi's Secret (1979) ... Dragos
- Little Girl Lost (1979) ... Dragos
- Phantom Force (1979) ... Dragos
- Face to Face (1979) ... Dragos
1979 Death Car on the Freeway (TV Movie) - Maurie
1978 Tarzan and the Super 7 (TV Series) - Dragos
1978 Coming Attractions - Lone Stranger
1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Asted
- Part II (1978) ... Asted
- Part I (1978) ... Asted
1976-1978 Switch (TV Series) - Farmer / Mahmud
- Photo Finish (1978) ... Farmer
- Round Up the Usual Suspects (1976) ... Mahmud
1978 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) - Reza
- Diamond in the Rough (1978) ... Reza
1978 Police Woman (TV Series) - - Blind Terror (1978)
1977/I McNamara's Band (TV Movie) - Zoltan
1976-1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) - Texas
- Episode #2.160 (1977) ... Texas (credit only)
- Episode #2.159 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.157 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.156 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.155 (1977) ... Texas
1974-1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Reid / Dell
- Spitfire (1977) ... Reid
- Cop in the Middle (1974) ... Dell
1976 Spencer's Pilots (TV Series) - Ron Sears
- The Sailplane (1976) ... Ron Sears
1976 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (TV Series) - The Genie
- Ali Baba: Part 2 (1976) ... The Genie
- Ali Baba: Part 1 (1976) ... The Genie
1976 Monster Squad (TV Series) - Chief Running Nose
- No Face (1976) ... Chief Running Nose
1976 Delvecchio (TV Series) - George Borshak / Drug Addict
- Contract for Harry (1976) ... George Borshak
- The Avenger (1976) ... Drug Addict (uncredited)
1976 Wonderbug (TV Series) - Fur Smuggler
- Keep on Schleppin (1976) ... Fur Smuggler
1976 Swashbuckler - Bald Pirate
1976 The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (TV Movie) - Vince Cooley
1975 Run, Joe, Run (TV Series) - Tolbert
- The Htchhiker (1975) ... Tolbert
1975 Who Is the Black Dahlia? (TV Movie) - Tattoo Artist
1975 Emergency! (TV Series) - Spike
- Smoke Eater (1975) ... Spike
1974 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - B.J.
- Caledonia - It's Worth a Fortune! (1974) ... B.J.
1974 Get Christie Love! (TV Series) - Nick Varga
- Pawn Ticket for Murder (1974) ... Nick Varga
1974 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - 3rd Passenger
- Nuclear Alert (1974) ... 3rd Passenger
1974 Savage Sisters - Malavasi
1974 Foxy Brown - Hays
1974 Busting - Rizzo's Bouncer
1974 Shaft (TV Series) - Higget's Bodyguard
- The Murder Machine (1974) ... Higget's Bodyguard (uncredited)
1973 The Don Is Dead - The Arab
1973 Beyond Atlantis - East Eddie
1973 Coffy - Omar
1973 Emperor of the North - Grease Tail
1973 Wonder Women - Gregorious
1973 The No Mercy Man - Pill Box
1973 Black Mama White Mama - Ruben
1972 The Woman Hunt - Silas
1972 McMillan & Wife (TV Series) - Traylor
- Terror Times Two (1972) ... Traylor (uncredited)
1972 The Big Bird Cage - Django
1972 Beware! The Blob - Zed (uncredited)
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Ward
- Operation: XW-1 (1972) ... Ward
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Charlie
- New Faces (1971) ... Charlie
1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Griffin / Merkle / Outlaw
- The Day They Hanged Kid Curry (1971) ... Griffin
- Return to Devil's Hole (1971) ... Merkle
- Alias Smith and Jones (1971) ... Outlaw
1971 The Big Doll House - Harry
1971 Hitched (TV Movie) - Comstock
1971 THX 1138 - NCH
1970 Mannix (TV Series) - Harry Kellaway
- Deja Vu (1970) ... Harry Kellaway
1966-1970 Mission: Impossible (TV Series) - Musha / Agent #1 / Goujon / ...
- Decoy (1970) ... Agent #1
- The Choice (1970) ... Goujon
- Commandante (1969) ... Major Carlos Martillo
- Doomsday (1969) ... Marko
- The Diplomat (1968) ... Grigor
1970 C.C. & Company - Crow
1970 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Peter Savage
- Break the Bank of Tacoma (1970) ... Peter Savage

1967-1970 Get Smart (TV Series) - Guard / Bruce / Turk
- Moonlighting Becomes You (1970) ... Guard
- Shock It to Me (1969) ... Bruce
- That Old Gang of Mine (1967) ... Turk
1966-1969 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Eli Crawford / Buffalo Hunter / Cawkins / ...
- MacGraw (1969) ... Eli Crawford
- A Man Called 'Smith' (1969) ... Buffalo Hunter
- Time of the Jackals (1969) ... Cawkins
- Stage Stop (1966) ... Wade Hansen
1969 Che! - Antonio
1969 Pit Stop - Hawk Sidney
1969 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Kurt
- Lucy and the Great Airport Chase (1969) ... Kurt
1968 The Flying Nun (TV Series) - Señor Quesada
- The Return of Father Lundigan (1968) ... Señor Quesada
1968 The Hell with Heroes - Crespin
1968 Death Valley Days (TV Series) - Thief / Farber
- The Indiana Girl (1968) ... Thief
- The Saga of Sadie Orchard (1968) ... Farber
1968 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Typhoon
- The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart (1968) ... Typhoon
1967 Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told - Ralph
1967 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV Series) - Hood
- The Royal Follies of 1933 (1967) ... Hood
1966-1967 Iron Horse (TV Series) - Rias / Vega
- The Return of Hode Avery (1967) ... Rias
- Town Full of Fear (1966) ... Vega
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Alex / Vito
- The Prince of Darkness Affair: Part I (1967) ... Alex
- The When in Roma Affair (1967) ... Vito
1967 Point Blank - 1st Penthouse Lobby Guard
1967 It's a Bikini World - Daddy
1967 Star Trek (TV Series) - First Lawgiver
- The Return of the Archons (1967) ... First Lawgiver
1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Brunning
- The Last of the Caesars: Absolutely (1966) ... Brunning
1966 Batman (TV Series) - Royal Apothecary
- Tut's Case Is Shut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
- The Spell of Tut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
1966 Blood Bath - Abdul the Arab
1965 Beach Ball - Drummer for Righteous Brothers (uncredited)
1965 The Lucy Show (TV Series) - The Mummy
- Lucy and the Monsters (1965) ... The Mummy
1962 The Firebrand - Diego
1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Augie the Hood
- The Case Against Eliot Ness (1962) ... Augie the Hood
1960 The Host (Short) - The Fugitive

Producer (3 credits)

2020 Hanukkah (associate producer) (completed)
2019 High on the Hog (producer)
2009 Dark Moon Rising (co-producer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1988 Warlords (second unit director)
1972 The Big Bird Cage (second unit director)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

2009 Dark Moon Rising (performer: "Trouble (Is Back in Town)")

RichardTheBruce

September 22nd

1964: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) US premiere on NBC-TV.

Its two agents Napoleon Solo (named by Ian Fleming, who suggested some material then exited the project) and Illya Kuryakin battle T.H.R.U.S.H. (The Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity). [Original title: Ian Fleming's Solo.]

1966: You Only Live Twice films Tanaka’s underground train.
1974: US network premiere of Thunderball on ABC-TV.

Thunderball, 9:14

2014: The Limited Edition gold Steelbook Blu-Ray honors the 50th Anniversary of Goldfinger. £24.99.

https://www.007.com/limited-edition-goldfinger-steelbook/

2015: Orion publishes Anthony Horowitz's Bond novel Trigger Mortis in the US.

JAMES BOND, THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS
SPY, RETURNS TO HIS 1950S HEYDAY IN THIS
THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING
AUTHOR ANTHONY HOROWITZ, INCORPORATING
NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL
FROM 007'S CREATOR, IAN FLEMING.

James Bond won his battle with criminal
mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole
new war is about to begin. With glamorous Pussy
Galore by his side -- and in his bed -- Bond arrives
home from America to the news that SMERSH,
the deadly Soviet counterintelligence agency,
plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix.
He must play a high-speed game of cat and
mouse on the track to stop them, but a chance
encounter with a mysterious Korean millionaire,
Jason Sin, warns him that the scheme is only
the Soviets' opening move.

This dashing and seductive narrative of
fast cars, beautiful women, and ruthless villains
has all the hallmarks of an Ian Fleming original,
including the familiar faces, such as M and Miss
Moneypenny. Trigger Mortis pits Bond and
American adventurer Jeopardy Lane against
a cold-blooded tycoon determined to bring
America to its knees -- with the help of
SMERSH, who will pay any price to secure
Soviet victory in the space race now at the
hear of the Cold War. The clock is ticking as
the scheme unfolds, culminating in a heart-
stopping New York City showdown that will
determine the fate of the West.

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the
New York Times bestseller Moriarty and the inter-
nationally bestselling The House of Silk, as well
as the New York Times bestselling Alex Rider
series for young adults. As a television screen-
writer, he created Midsomer Murders and the
BAFTA-winning Foyle's War, both of which were
featured on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery. He
regularly contributes to a wide variety of
national newspapers and magazines, and in
January 2014 was appointed an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire for his services
to literature. He lives in London.

RichardTheBruce

September 23rd

1959: Ian Fleming responds by letter to Ivar Bryce on the possibility of doing business with Alfred Hitchcock.

The Battle For Bond, Robert Seller, 2007.

‘Personally I feel this would be by far the best solution for all of us.’ He wrote Bryce 23 September. ‘I know Hitchcock slightly and he has always been interested in the Bond saga.’ Fleming decided to send a cable to the director through a mutual friend, the acclaimed crime novelist Eric Ambler. It read: ‘Have written Bond movie treatment featuring Mafia stolen atomic bomber blackmail of England culminating Nassau with extensive underwater dramatics. This for my friend Ivar Bryce’s Xanadu films. Would Hitchcock be interested in directing this first Bond film in association with Xanadu? Plentiful finance available. Think we might all have a winner particularly if you were conceivably interested in scripting. Regards Ian Fleming.’

1961: Ian Fleming suggests to editor Denis Hamilton how the short story "The Living Daylights" should be illustrated.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 20xx.
Chapter 13 - Heart problems 1960-1962

Ian's other main writing task was to produce a short story for the first
issue of the Sunday Times colour magazine, scheduled for early 1962. His
behind-the-scenes lobbying for changes at the paper had brought results.
Shortly after communicating with Ian the previous May, Harry Hodson
had embarked on a long-awaited round-the-world trip with his wife, thus
giving Roy Thompson the opportunity to promote Denis Hamilton to the
top job. As the new editor -- the formal appointment came in October
1961 -- Hamilton advanced plans to publish an American-style colour or
photogravure section and engaged Ian, still the paper's most bankable
asset, to write a major piece for one of the first issues. Initially Ian submitted
a Boothroyd-inspired overview of 007's weaponry called 'The Guns of
James Bond'. But after Hamilton deemed this too long for a general
audience, they agreed that the magazine would publish a new short story,
'The Living Daylights', about Bond visiting Berlin to cover the defection
of a British agent who was being hunted by a Russian assassin. On 23
September, following his return from Provence, Ian suggested that the
piece should be illustrated with an original Graham Sutherland design -- a
pink heart with a black arrow through it -- which he had commissioned
for a "nominal" one hundred guineas.

Ian's file on 'The Living Daylights' -- 'Trigger Finger', in and early draft --
revealed the speed with which he went about such a project. He acquired
a map of Berlin and an October 1961 catalogue of new records sold by
Harrods. He contacted the National Rifle Association for information
about the Bisley range where his story opened. By 10 November, Captain
E. K. Le Mesurier, secretary of the NRA, had not only fielded Ian's original
request but read and returned corrections to the manuscript. On the first
page, for example, Ian had written "He gave half a a turn to a screw on the
fixed stand on which his rifle rested. He watched the crossed lines on the
Sniperscope move minutely to the right of the bull, to its right-handed
bottom corner." Le Mesurier suggested this should read, "He set two clicks
more right on the wind gauge and traversed the crossed wires back on to
the point of the aim." He explained that, in Ian's description, the sighting
arrangement were not right for a sniper's rifle. For really accurate shoot-
ing, one needed a sight which could be set off from the line of the barrel
to allow for wind.

1968: David Picker of United Artist flies to London but fails to green light Connery's return as Bond.
1971: Dr. No re-released in Argentina.
1974: Bond comic strip The Phoenix Project begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 18 February 1975. 2656–2780) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




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




Swedish Semic Comic 1976 Bond Blir Indragen I Projekt Fenix! ("Bond Gets In To Line On..." The Phoenix Project)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835


Danish 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/strip_images/tpp.jpg

1977: 007 rakastettuni (007 My Beloved, also Swedish 007 - älskade spion, 007 - Beloved Spy) released in Finland.

1977: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Η κατάσκοπος που με αγάπησε (James Bond, Agent 007: The Spy Who Loved Me) released in Greece.

1982: Octopussy films Magda stealing the Fabergé egg from OO7.
1999: Dr. No and Goldfinger re-released in Canada at the Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival.
1999: Two-day filming of the music video for The World Is Not Enough by Philipp Stölzl, Oil Factory Films, starts on a London sound stage. Day one: android shots in the laboratory, kissing, driving. Day two: pyrotechnics.

https://www.blackgate.com/2018/08/15/shirley-manson-killer-android/

2012: Bollinger releases a promotional item celebrating 50 Years of James Bond.

Bollinger gets pistol-shaped packaging in time for Bond
movie
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2012/09/bollinger-gets-pistol-shaped-packaging-in-time-for-bond-movie/
3rd September, 2012 by Patrick Schmitt

Bollinger has unveiled its latest James Bond special edition ahead of the next 007 film, Skyfall, due to screen in UK cinemas on 26 October.

30,000 bottles of Bollinger’s 002 for 007 have been produced

The product, called 002 for 007, comprises a bottle of La Grande Année 2002 housed in a gun silencer shaped gift box with a combination lock – opened using the code: 007.

The bottle carries a unique “50 years of Bond” logo on the neck label, textured to mimic the grip on a handgun, and will be available exclusively in Harrods from 23 September and nationwide from 1 October.

With an RRP of £125-150, the special edition is approximately double the price of the standard La Grande Année 2002, which retails for around £70.

30,000 packages have been produced for sale worldwide, and the UK has no set allocation.

2012 marks 39 years since Bollinger developed an on-screen relationship with the fictional character created by Ian Fleming, and James Bond has been seen drinking Bollinger in 12 films of the 23 made in total.

As previously reported by the drinks business, Bollinger’s connection to the Bond films is helping boost sales of the brand in Asia in particular.

“They go crazy for Bond in Asia, which is really helping with brand recognition and giving our sales a boost,” said Bollinger president Jérôme Philipon, when speaking to db back in March.

The Champagne brand produced a special piece of packaging in September 2008 for the last Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

The rather more flamboyant limited edition cost over £2,500 and comprised La Grande Année 1999 in a bullet-shaped case made from polished tin (pictured below), with just 207 were produced.


Bollinger’s special edition for the Quantum of Solace

RichardTheBruce

September 24th

1931: Anthony Newley is born--Hackney, London, England.
(He dies 14 April 1999 at age 67--Jensen Beach, Florida.)

Obituary: Anthony Newley
https://sites.google.com/site/herramientastigrupo223/_/rsrc/1438960129460/indice/5--herramientas-de-comunicacion-en-internet/WIKI.png
Tom Vallance | Friday 16 April 1999 00:02

ONE OF Britain's most distinctive talents, Anthony Newley was an actor, singer, composer and writer who had his first starring role in films at the age of 16, composed hit musicals and songs, topped the hit parade himself as a pop star, played everything from romantic leads to quirky character roles in movies, starred on both the West End and Broadway stages, and became a favourite of cabaret audiences from New York to Las Vegas.

His elongated Cockney vowel sounds made his voice an unmistakable one which people either loved or hated. It served him well on novelty songs such as "Pop Goes the Weasel", but he was also a fine ballad singer. "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Who Can I Turn To" and "Candy Man" were just three of the hit songs he co-wrote. "I'm not a trained musician or singer," he once said, "but I can turn out a song."

Born in Hackney, east London, in 1931, he left school at the age of 14. "The saddest thing about myself," he later said, "is that I never read a book. I never got the habit." He was working as an office boy for an insurance company when he spotted a newspaper advertisement reading "Boy Actors Urgently Wanted". Said Newley later, "Suddenly the bell rang! I applied to the advertisers, the Italia Conti Stage School, only to discover the fees were too high." The school agreed to let him audition, however ("I had to read poems to two sweet old ladies who were charmed with my cockney accent"), and were impressed enough to offer him free tuition and a salary of 30 shillings a week as an office boy. The producer Geoffrey de Barkus spotted Newley at the school and gave him the leading role in a children's film serial, The Adventures of Dusty Bates (1947).

Newley was already displaying a distinctly individual style of agreeably knowing confidence, and after another children's film, The Little Ballerina (1947), he was given the plum role of a boy who magically changes places with his own father in Vice Versa (1947), directed by Peter Ustinov. Ustinov recently said, "I was amazed at how convincing Anthony Newley was as someone with an old mind inside him." One of the stars of the film was Kay Walsh, whose ex-husband David Lean was about to direct a screen version of Oliver Twist. Walsh rang Lean and told him, "I've found your Artful Dodger", and Newley's superbly insolent and cheeky performance became one of the many reasons that the 1948 film became a classic.

Given a contract by the Rank Organisation, the actor then settled into a comfortable niche as a character player, often as cocky cockneys, in such films as Here Come the Huggetts (1948, during the filming of which the actor later claimed to have lost his virginity to Diana Dors), The Guinea Pig (1948) and A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949), but when Rank dropped him after a year his film career faltered and he spent some time in repertory. Later he played chirpy enlisted men in war films including Above Us the Waves (1955), The Battle of the River Plate (1955) and Cockleshell Heroes (1955).

It was in 1955 that he was able to display just how versatile he was when he starred with Annie Ross in the musical revue Cranks at the small club theatre the New Watergate. This off-beat, almost surreal show proved a hit and transferred to the West End, to St Martin's Theatre, in March 1956, where it had a successful run before going to Broadway, where it fared less well. Newley's engaging rendition of such numbers as "I'm the Boy (You Should Say Yes To)" contributed greatly to the show's charm, and in 1956 he toured England with his own variety show.

A turning point came with a literally star-making role in the low-budget musical film Idle on Parade (1959) in which Newley played a rock 'n' roll star inducted into the Army (in America the film was called Idol on Parade). One of his numbers in the film, "I've Waited So Long" (composed by Jerry Lordan) became a pop sensation and overnight Newley found himself a teenage heart-throb. In 1960 he had seven records in the charts, including Lloyd Price and Harold Logan's "Personality" and two No 1 hits, the wistful "Why", by Robert Marcucci, and Peter de Angelis and Lionel Bart's "Do You Mind".

Newley surprised his public again when in 1960 he made his first record album, Love Is a Now and Then Thing, a beautiful set of ballads such as "This Time the Dream's on Me" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" which he handled with appealing sensitivity.

Never one to embrace the conventional, Newley next starred in a television series which, though short-lived, is remembered as one of the most avant- garde in television history. The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960) was a bizarre show in which the central character (named by Newley after the Somerset village of the same name) talked to animals and inanimate objects, heard what people were thinking, had conversations with people who could not see him, and moved in and out of reality. Though written by Sid Green and Dick Hills, its concept was doubtless embraced and heavily influenced by the star.

Newley next fulfilled a long- standing ambition to star in his own stage musical, and fortuitously began a partnership with the composer and author Leslie Bricusse. Newley was later to tell an American columnist, "I'm the laziest son-of-a-bitch who ever drew a breath. I sleep till one and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, `You're a genius, Mr Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realised his potential, did the things he should have done. That's why I need Leslie Bricusse - he has plenty of ambition."

With Bricusse, Newley wrote the book and score of Stop the World I Want To Get Off, in which Newley starred as Littlechap, an Everyman figure whose whole life is depicted in the show. Newley said, "The role of Littlechap, surrounded by the type of chorus once used in Greek drama, has presented us with a challenge which any cast would surely enjoy tackling." Directed by Newley, the show opened at the Queen's Theatre in July 1961 and was a smash hit, its songs including "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Gonna Build a Mountain" (a hit record for Matt Monro) and "Once in a Lifetime". Sammy Davis was one of many who recorded the songs - he became a close friend of Newley and a great champion of the Newley-Bricusse catalogue.

When Newley was asked why most of his songs became hit records for other singers, he replied, "Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett . . . their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist there's a tidy bit to be made that way too, so I don't really mind." "What Kind of Fool Am I" won the 1962 Grammy Award as song of the year and has been recorded by over 70 vocalists, though Newley's own recording ran into trouble because he sang the word "damn" - he later made another recording which could be played on sensitive radio stations.

In 1962 Stop the World moved to Broadway where, produced by David Merrick who had bought the American rights while it had been trying out in Nottingham ("I felt no need to wait and see if it would be a hit in London - I had been thoroughly entertained and absorbed by the freshness of conception shown by its authors"), it ran for over 500 performances. Both the London and New York productions were directed by Newley, of whom Merrick was to write, "I have no doubts at all that Mr Newley is going to enjoy widespread and durable success in America. The man does everything - he acts well; he sings with individuality and verve; and most importantly, he is an exceptionally attractive performer. His personality is dynamic and he projects a brilliance of spirit."

During the show's run in 1963 Newley, who had previously been wed to Tiller Girl-turned-actress Ann Lynn, married Joan Collins. "Like most men of my generation," he said, "I had drooled over pictures of Joan. And there she was, backstage at Stop the World and I could not believe it. Did I ask her for a date? Yes I did." Collins described Newley at the time as "a half- Jewish Cockney git" and herself as "a half-Jewish princess from Bayswater via Sunset Boulevard".

The following year the Bricusse-Newley team had a big hit with their lyrics to John Barry's music for Goldfinger, sung over the titles of the James Bond film by Shirley Bassey. The next Newley-Bricusse musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd, "a comic allegory about the class system in contemporary Britain", had a better score than its predecessor but its 1964 tryout in Nottingham, starring Norman Wisdom and directed by Newley, did not prove satisfactory and it failed to reach London. David Merrick was again impressed, and offered to take it to Broadway if Newley would assume the leading role.

Co-starring Cyril Ritchard (representing the "haves" to Newley's down- trodden "have-not"), the show received mixed reviews for it's libretto's pretensions ("third-rate commerce masquerading as art," said Walter Kerr of the Herald-Tribune), but unanimous praise for the songs and performances. Whitney Bolton wrote in the Morning Telegraph: "Mr Newley uses his own inventions, plus deliberate and useful, justifiably purloined gestures common to Charlie Chaplin, Lupino Lane, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel and others, as though giving us a portrait gallery of great comics who have made their fames as Little Men against the harsh world."

The score ("bursting with songs, all good and several of hit quality," wrote Variety) was exceptional, its hits including "Who Can I Turn To" (already a hit record by Tony Bennett when the show opened), "A Wonderful Day Like Today", "The Joker", "Nothing Can Stop Me Now", "Look at That Face" and "Sweet Beginning". The original cast album sold over 100,000 copies, and the show ran for over eight months. Newley and Bricusse were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Score, and Newley was nominated for Best Director, but this was the year that Fiddler on the Roof took most of the major musical awards. Asked about his predilection for writing about the problems of the "Little Man", Newley replied, "I don't hate anybody or anything. But I do expect to make statements about the problems of being a human being."

Newley made his American film debut with a leading role in the film Doctor Dolittle (1967), with Bricusse alone providing the songs, though Newley made a fine solo album of the score. The actor then starred with Sandy Dennis in Sweet November (1968), a sentimental but rarely mawkish tale of a dying girl who takes a different sweetheart every month.

Newley's own marriage was under pressure and in 1969 he produced, directed and co-wrote Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humpe and Find True Happiness?, co-starring Collins and with plainly autobiographical overtones. "A zany erotobiography that looks like a Marx Brothers' movie shot in a nudist camp," was Playboy's description of the film, which was not a success. For the score, Newley collaborated with Herbert Kretzmer, who became a lifelong friend.

"Although I was the lyricist, the film's concept and the ideas for the songs were Newley's - he was the architect and I the builder," said Kretzmer. One of the songs they wrote, "When You Gotta Go", was for a time a staple of Barbra Streisand's stage act. Newley and Collins were divorced in 1970, and Newley's third marriage, to an air hostess, Dareth Rich, also ended in divorce. "My only regret is that in a show-business career you can have no private life," said Newley.

He and Bricusse wrote the songs for the 1971 film fantasy Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, including the hit "Candy Man". In 1972 he returned to the West End stage with The Good Old Bad Old Days, which had book, music and lyrics by Newley and Bricusse and direction by Newley. Despite a tuneful score and a personal success, the show had only a moderate run and Newley began to spend more time in the United States, where he had bought a house and had developed a large following. In 1974 he starred with Henry Mancini in a musical revue on Broadway, and he became a top night-club entertainer, with sell-out appearances in Las Vegas. His last major film was Mister Quilp (1976), for which he wrote both music and lyrics, though he made several television movies.

In 1985 he was diagnosed with cancer and had one kidney removed. Returning to England, he moved in with his mother Gracie in Esher, Surrey. With his illness arrested, he continued to work, appearing in television shows, touring in a stage production of Leslie Bricusse's musical Scrooge, and last year playing a successful London cabaret engagement. On television he played an amorous used-car dealer in several episodes of EastEnders.

For the last seven years his partner was Gina Fratini, but he was a valued friend to all those close to him and he had remained on good terms with both Joan Collins and Dareth Rich - Collins would be seen at all of Newley's London openings. Herbert Kretzmer said of Newley, "It's a hackneyed phrase I know, but Newley was truly a `one-off', a totally unique and original talent." Leslie Bricusse echoed these sentiments when he wrote, "Never once have I known Tony to falter for one moment in his perpetual quest for something original - to say things and do things in a new way - to find fresh excitement, even in old themes. He takes infinite pains to bring style and originality to everything he touches."

"He was a true original," said Kretzmer, "driven by the need to innovate and contemptuous of repetition or the following of fashion. His wish was always to break boundaries and push frontiers back."

George Anthony Newley, actor, singer, composer and writer: born London 24 September 1931; married 1956 Ann Lynn (marriage dissolved), 1963 Joan Collins (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1970), thirdly Dareth Rich (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved); died Jensen Beach, Florida 14 April 1999.

"Goldfinger"

"What Kind of Fool Am I"


"Once In a Lifetime"

1941: Linda Louise Eastman (the future Lady Linda McCartney) is born--Scarsdale, New York.
(She dies 17 April 1998 at age 56--Tucson, Arizona.)

Photography

Paul McCartney on Linda’s best
photos: ‘Seeing the joy between me
and John really helped me’

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/26/paul-mccartney-on-lindas-best-photos-seeing-the-joy-between-me-and-john-really-helped-me

Linda Eastman was the award-winning photographer who
captured a generation of rock stars before marrying a Beatle. He
discusses how her work changed his life

John Lennon and Paul McCartney by Linda McCartney
‘This picture is a blessing for me.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

‘I always used to joke that I ruined Linda’s career,” says Paul McCartney, sitting on a sofa in his office in Soho, London, with a selection of his late wife’s photographs spread on the table before him. “She became known as ‘Paul’s wife’, instead of the focus being on her photography. But, as time went on, people started to realise that she was the real thing. So, yeah, she eventually did get the correct reputation, but at first it was just blown out of the water by the headline-grabbing marriage.”

Photograph: Linda McCartney/PA

He has a point. Before she met and married him, in March 1969, Linda Eastman was an award-winning photographer. Born in 1941 and raised in a suburb of New York, she had studied under Hazel Archer – who taught the artist Robert Rauschenberg, among others – and was the first woman to shoot a Rolling Stone cover, featuring Eric Clapton. Her speciality was capturing pop stars in unguarded moments: a tearful Aretha Franklin; Jimi Hendrix mid-yawn; Janis Joplin backstage, her bottle of Southern Comfort already drained. But marriage to a Beatle tended to overshadow your own work and reputation, as Yoko Ono discovered.

It wasn’t until years later that her talent was reappraised: 1976’s unassumingly titled book Linda’s Pictures was the first in a series of collections of her work. If anything, her reputation has grown since her death in 1998 – The Linda McCartney Retrospective, at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, is just the latest global exhibition of her work. It was curated by McCartney, along with their daughters, Mary and Stella; here, he picks six of his favourite photographs. “As you can probably tell,” he says, after an exhaustive account of one of the McCartneys’ family holidays in Orkney in the early 70s, “I like talking about this stuff.”

BB King, 1968

‘She was a great believer in the happy accident.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This was taken before I got to know her. Linda was the resident photographer at the [music venue] Fillmore East in New York. She would go to the Fillmore, or other events, and there would be other photographers there, who would say to her: ‘Who’s this? Who’s this guy playing?’ and she would know. She loved the music so much, she listened to it all the time, so she just knew: this is the Grateful Dead, this is BB King, this is Buddy Guy, this is Janis Joplin, you know? That always comes to mind when I see this picture; I imagine her crouched down, by the stage, taking photos of BB King.

“She was a great believer in the happy accident. Where other people might have said: ‘Well, this is blurred, we can’t use this one, we’ll go and look for the sharper photographs,’ she went with it. I love this picture – his guitar looks like an instrument from the future, a space-age thing. It just looks to me like his music sounds: exciting blues. A friend of ours, Brian Clarke, made a stained-glass window of this image, which is fabulous: I’ve got it in my studio.”

The Beatles, 1967

‘Linda could instinctively feel a moment happening.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This is the press launch for Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, at Brian Epstein’s house in Belgravia – 24 Chapel Street [in London]. We were lining up for various photographers and Linda was one of them. I think it was the second time I’d met her. She’d come to England to do the photos for a book, Rock And Other Four-Letter Words, by a writer called J Marks. She photographed the Animals, the Yardbirds, a lot of British acts for the book, and she was invited along to this.

“One of the great things about Linda was she knew when to click. The photographers she admired were people who got those off-the-cuff moments – Walker Evans, [Henri] Cartier-Bresson, [Jacques Henri] Lartigue – where what they’re doing is a form of reportage that actually moved into art. If you think about the famous Cartier-Bresson photo of the guy jumping over a puddle [Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932] – it’s all about capturing that split-second. Linda could instinctively feel a moment happening. That’s what’s happened here. John and I have gone [posh voice]: ‘Hello, old chap, how are you?’ ‘Nice to meet you, jolly good!’ You’ve got John being funny, me in stitches at him and George and Ringo both loving it. It shows the relationship between us all.

“Linda put you at your ease. Some photographers, you’re very aware that you’re having a picture taken. But she had such a relaxed attitude that she’d get a picture of Jimi Hendrix, but he’d be yawning in it. He felt comfortable enough to yawn, she felt confident enough to take a picture of him yawning, knowing he wouldn’t mind.”

John and Paul, 1968

‘It reminds me that the idea we weren’t friends is rubbish.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This is me and John, in Abbey Road. It wasn’t too long before the breakup of the Beatles; this would be the end of our relationship and, at the end, when the breakup happened, it was kind of sour – very difficult to deal with. The rumour started going around that John and I didn’t get on well, we were arch-rivals, that it was very heavy and ugly. The strange thing is you sometimes get to believe something, if it’s said enough times. So I used to think: ‘Yeah, it’s a pity, you know, we didn’t get on that well.’

“So this picture is a blessing for me. It’s like, this is how we were: this is why we related, or else we couldn’t have collaborated for all that time. It sums up what our relationship was like the minute we were actually working on a song, and most of the time we were together, really. I’m just writing something out – possibly it’s a medley or something; it might be for Abbey Road – and it’s lovely, because John is very happily in on the process, and agreeing with me, and we’re laughing about something. Just seeing the joy between us here really helped me, because it reminds me that the idea we weren’t friends is rubbish. We were lifelong friends, our relationship was super-special.

“That applied to all the Beatles, even when we were pissed off with each other from time to time. People used to remind me: that’s families, that happens. Mates disagree. As soon as we started working on music, we gelled, we just enjoyed the noise we made together, we enjoyed playing with each other. We’d worked together for over 10,000 hours over the years, and that old spirit automatically kicked in. Any disputes were got over very quickly.”

My Love, 1978

‘Until I met Linda, I panicked when I got lost.’
Photograph: Linda McCartney/© Paul McCartney

“This was taken in London in 1978. I love it because it’s a historic piece, because the cars and everything date it, but it’s also a really good portrait of me.

“Technically, I still don’t get this one, because there’s me in the rear-view mirror and I’m in focus, but the houses are in focus and the bus is in focus as well. So I don’t get how that worked. It’s not a montage, it’s a straight photo. And the other thing is that I’m driving, and I think Linda is taking the picture with one of our babies on her lap – if you look, there’s a very faint reflection in the windscreen. Talk about multi-tasking.

“One of the things about Linda, when you talk about how people seem at ease in her photos, is that it was her lifestyle. We’d say: ‘Let’s go out of London,’ so I’d just drive, we’d get out of London and I’d say: ‘Where do you want to go?’ She’d say: ‘Just anywhere.’ After a while, you’d end up in areas you didn’t know, going: ‘Ooh, I’m getting a bit lost here,’ and she’d say: ‘Great.’ You were in places you’d never been, you were seeing things you hadn’t intended to see, all of which was rich stuff for her photography. I remember I wrote the song Two of Us about that – ‘Two of us riding nowhere / Spending someone’s hard-earned pay.’ That was one of those excursions, when we were first going out together, this great idea of getting lost. Until I met Linda, I panicked when I got lost, you know?”

Mother and child, 1969


“Linda took a lot of pictures of ordinary people that to her seemed extraordinary. This was when we were in Greece on holiday. We wouldn’t go to the big places; we’d just go to a little beach. That was very much my relationship with Linda. She’d had a reasonably strict upbringing, what with her father being a lawyer, but then she’d started to smell freedom when she went to university in Arizona. She loved riding, she had a horse out there that her friend’s parents let her ride … it was the dangerous seeds of freedom. And when she met me, I’d been like a robot, having to go on tour, make a record, go on tour, do this – and I’d had it up to here. So we started to have a life where we didn’t have any plans. We’d go to Greece, book a hotel and just bum around. That feeling, that sniffing freedom, it went all the way through her photography and my music [on 1970’s McCartney and 1971’s Ram].

“One day, we were just on the beach, having a swim, but she’s seen this mother and child, and it’s an interesting moment, so she’s just grabbed her camera and snapped it. She wouldn’t have used a whole reel on it; it could even be the only shot. Because she’d had to do things quickly, she’d just worked on the hoof, without an assistant. She didn’t use light meters often – she guessed – so she just went out with a pocket stuffed with film, camera around her neck and that would be it. There’s something fascinating about this moment she’s caught, the way the kid is looking into the camera eerily, the mum with this incredible bathing hat on. I could look at it for hours.”

Paul, 1968


“This was at the airport in Los Angeles. I had to do something record-related – I think it was a convention that Capitol, our American record label, were having – and she happened to be in LA, so she could hang out with me. She’d turn up at the hotel and we’d say: ‘Oh, what are we going to do today? Shall we do something? Well, let’s just stay in,’ and we’d just do nothing, basically. We loved that freedom. It was an important thing in a relationship, that neither of us minded doing nothing much.

“So this is us parting after our little trip. I was going back to England and she was catching another flight, going back to New York: I think I was there with a guy called Magic Alex [Mardas, the Beatles’ notorious “electronics wizard”, whose various schemes reputedly cost the band about £5m in today’s money without yielding any results]. While we were waiting, she would just have her camera there, lift it up, click, get the shot, put it down again. So I’m goofing; I’ve pulled my jacket up and sort of masked my face. I’m going back to England, back to the Beatles, and I’m hiding: ‘No photos please!’ It was just a joyous little moment before we went our separate ways. But, you know, luckily, we hooked up again and, er … made a go of it!”

The Linda McCartney Retrospective is at Kelvingrove Art Gallery,
Glasgow, from 5 July to 12 January 2020

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/

Sunday 24 September, 1944

Yesterday I. came to lunch. The flat is a sort of home or refuge from
the war for him. He urges me to make plans for myself for after the
war but I can’t and don’t want to. Any thought of my future makes
me very unhappy.

1950: Kristina Wayborn is born--Nybro, Kalmar län, Sweden.
1961: John Logan is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1981: 007 - Missão Ultra-Secreta (007 - Ultra Secret Mission) released in Portugal.
2006: Tetsurô Tanba dies at age 84--Tokyo, Japan. (Born 17 July 1922--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)

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

Tetsurô Tanba (1922–2006)

Actor (334 Credits)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848533/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

2012: Raritania publishes Simon Winder's The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into the Disturbing World of James Bond.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/media/other/Man Who Saved Britain - Introduction.pdf

Thunderfinger

Linda McCartney was also born on this day in 1941. (d.1998)

RichardTheBruce

Fair enough, @Thunderfinger. The 24th is updated for Lady McCartney, plus the 21st for Mr. Haig.

RichardTheBruce

September 25th

1957: Michael Madsen is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1959: Ian Fleming's short story "James Bond and the Murder Before Breakfast" ("From a View to a Kill") finishes a five-day serialization in The Daily Express.
1964: Goldfinger released in Ireland.
2011: Plans for filming in India drop off the table, leading to speculation for South Africa locations.
2013: William Boyd signs seven copies of Solo at the Dorchester Hotel, to be dispersed by seven Jensen Interceptors to British Airways to seven locations: Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Zurich, Los Angeles, Delhi, Cape Town, Sydney.

New James Bond book is
peppered with bullet-holes

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/july-2013/new-james-bond-book-is-peppered-with-bullet-holes/

The cover for new James Bond book Solo features a dust-jacket
riddled with die-cut bullet-holes.

By Angus Montgomery August 1, 2013 10:58 am

Solo’s dust-jacket is peppered with die-cut bullet-holes


While the binding underneath features burn marks from the bullets

The cover for Solo, which is written by William Boyd, has been designed by Random House creative director Suzanne Dean. The new book will be published on 26 September.

The dust-jacket is punctured with die-cut bullet-holes, and when the jacket is removed, the binding underneath features burn-holes from the bullets, as well as a gecko – a reference to Bond’s African mission in the book.

Solo is set in 1969, and Dean says she took inspiration from the 1960s work of Saul Bass, Paul Rand and Alvin Lustig. She says, ‘I didn’t want just to depict a cinematic image, but rather to try to reflect the essence of Ian Fleming’s original novels as well as Boyd’s own take on James Bond.’

In the book, James Bond goes on an unauthorised solo mission, motivated by revenge. Dean says, ‘I had always been keen, since finding out the title, that there might be a way of using the two “O”s within Solo and link it to the 0s in 007.’

Dean says she selected sans-serif typeface Folio for the cover, in part due to its ‘strong, circular’ O.

She says, ‘The shadows thrown by the overlaying letters suggest hidden danger and tension, while the final “O” in Solo suggests a door, or an escape route.’

2015: Capital releases the single "Writing's on the Wall" written by Sam Smith and Jimmy Naples, sung by Smith.

RichardTheBruce

September 26th

1895: George Raft is born--Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York City.
(He dies at age 85--24 November 1980, Los Angeles, California.)

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George Raft: Hollywood's Forgotten Star
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George Raft was better known for making other actors’ careers a success. Yet the fact he had a Hollywood life at all was, in Raft’s eyes, a tale of triumph over circumstance…

by Josh Sims

Raft walking from Vendome Cafe in Hollywood, 1933. Photograph by Getty Images.

George Raft didn’t want to give the name. Interviewed in 1980, his final television appearance, the then 85-year-old actor, dressed stylishly in a charcoal peak-lapel suit over a black polo neck, was asked about his habit of giving money to those struggling to break into his fickle industry. The interviewer pushes him and he declines. He pushes again; again, Raft declines. The interviewer jokingly lets slip that the recipient in question went on to become the biggest name in television. Raft smiles. Still he won’t name her. Raft is, the interviewer says, too much of a gentleman. The interviewer takes another approach. How about all the famous women he’d dated? Would he name them? Raft smiles. “You can name them,” he says.

Other men of his era — James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper — entered the annals of cool. But the much-less-famous Raft embodied it. They played tough; he was tough. They played gentlemen; Raft was one. “I respect women,” Raft once noted in another interview. “In one movie I was asked to hit Marlene Dietrich. I said I didn’t want to. That’s not something I would ever do in real life. And, of course, they said, ‘Well, you must’. Marlene said, ‘You have to hit me’. And I said no. So [filming was held up] for a couple of days. And I finally did hit her.” Years after the event, Raft was still not happy with it.

He had separated from his first wife a few years into their marriage, but supported her until her death some 50 years later. It was worth noting that he was the only man on the chat show who stood up when a woman came onto the stage. Yet gentlemanliness, apparently, got you only so far. Why, compared to his peers, is Raft so little known? “Well, I was a pretty quick study — but then I didn’t have too many lines,” he said. Raft made self-effacement an art form: he never saw himself on screen and, he claimed, never had any desire to. “I always played the guy with the gun, or something like that. I did 105 pictures and I was killed 85 times. How unlucky can you go, right? I did pretty well with the girls. But in the pictures, always got killed. I worked with so many Academy Award winners. They always won the award, not me. I was nominated once. I ran fourth.”

Raft, it sometimes seemed, made other men’s careers. Poor professional choices — at least in hindsight — were an issue: mistrust of novice directors, a belief in his own agent’s press releases and a reluctance to play un-redeeming anti-heroes all influenced his decisions. He turned down the lead in High Sierra, creating an opening that would help Bogart start his climb out of the doldrums. He turned down the lead in The Maltese Falcon for good reasons, but all the same he passed on what is widely considered the best detective movie of all time. Bogart took that part, too.

George Raft outside the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, circa 1940. Photograph by Getty Images.

Raft and his wife, Grace Mulrooney, at the opening of the Moulin Rouge in Los Angeles, 1957. Photograph by Getty Images.

Chatting with actresses Zoe Gail and Zsa Zsa Gabor at a farewell party he hosted before leaving England for Italy and the U.S., 1952. Photograph by Getty Images.

Studio head Jack Warner even considered Raft for the lead in Casablanca. The part went to Bogart, making him a legend. Warner soon after annulled Raft’s contract. Raft’s last movie, released in 1980? The Man with Bogart’s Face. Raft, by the by, had once saved Bogart’s life, when he managed to bring to a stop a runaway truck they were both in for a scene.

Of course, for all that Raft was the outsider, uneasy about his abilities, he did O.K. He was still appreciated as a dapper man around town: he popularised what became a signature, the wearing of a white tie with a black shirt, as well as several other trends of the era, like black pinstripe suits and long roll-collars. He also made a number of what are considered to be authentic, seminal movies: Scarface (1932); Each Dawn I Die (1939); They Drive By Night (1940); Nocturne (1946); and, as a supporting actor, Some Like It Hot (1959). Most of his movies were box office successes. In 1933 he was reported to be Hollywood’s highest paid star. He got his hands wet in cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre as early as 1940.

But by the post-war years his fledgling super-stardom was all but sidelined, with Raft reduced to working as a goodwill ambassador to a Las Vegas hotel, lending his name to a discount chain that went bust, running a casino in Havana until Castro took power, or riffing on his screen persona by playing a prison inmate in Alka-Seltzer commercials. “I turn up, deliver a line, and it’s a big hit,” he once said. “I think the one-liner [commercials] are great because you’re in and out. I have no idea what the commercial is about.”

Still, Raft often expressed his amazement that he had made any kind of life in Hollywood. His was the rollercoaster experience, enough to warrant a 1961 biopic. Born into poverty in New York in 1895, and said to be nearly illiterate for much of his adult life, making him “for years the loneliest man in Hollywood”, as he put it, Raft did whatever he could to get by. “What can a guy do with no education?” he asked. "How I got into the pictures, I just don’t know. They just picked me up. I was sitting in the Brown Derby on Vine St. [in Los Angeles] and this director walked up to me and said he’d like to put me in a movie."

The work was satisfactory — by Raft’s own assessment, he was never an incredible actor. Indeed, in pursuing the movies he left behind a life as a successful vaudevillian, a self-described “song and dance man”. It’s a fact that makes for an uneasy chapter of his legacy. Ever the menacing tough guy on screen — “the only way the public would accept me”, he claimed — Raft’s believability was underscored by supposed connections to the criminal underworld and his love of low-life lingo (when once accused of winning $18,500 in a crooked dice game, Raft complained that he’d “never played with loaded ivories in my life”).

With Sophia Loren, circa 1960s. Photograph by Rex Features.

Showing off his dancing with actor Ray Danton, who portrayed Raft in The George Raft Story, 1961. Photograph by Alamy.

All the same, he got caught up in tax evasion, was questioned about the gangland hit that killed his childhood friend ‘Bugsy’ Siegel in 1947, testified in 1966 before a federal grand jury investigating Mafia financial transactions — he never commented on his testimony — and the following year was banned from England as an ‘undesirable’ for his supposed unsavoury connections.

Sometimes Raft’s knowledge of the underworld just slipped out. He once told the director Frank Tuttle that he couldn’t shoot a scene in which his character held up a post office. “Why not?” Tuttle asked. Raft went on to explain that that was “a federal rap” and that “no gunman in his right mind fools around with Uncle Sam”. The scene was re-written to take place in a tourist bureau.

Yet contrary to the machismo, real or imagined, Raft really could dance, a product of one of his more successful employments, as a nightclub dancer (often in Mafia-owned joints). He moved fluidly, effortlessly — Cagney compared him with Fred Astaire on this score — even if, of course, Raft always claimed he was “never a good dancer. I was more of a stylist”. Just check out scenes in Take a Look at Her Now (1929) or Bolero (1934) or Broadway (1942). It’s hard not to conclude that his career took a wrong turn down a figurative and — given his C.V.’s preponderance towards gangster flicks — literal dark alley.

That romantic-hero typecasting never happened, of course; at least not on screen. If Raft’s movie choices were sometimes poor, his taste in women was excellent. Married only once, Raft’s affairs included those with Dietrich, Betty Grable, Virginia Pine, Carole Lombard, Norma Shearer and Mae West. Indeed, it was said that he ended up in Hollywood because he was on the run from a “crazy man who wanted me to marry his wife”. Inevitably, his name would be cited as a correspondent in divorce suits by countless angry husbands.

But this was all part of the performance of Raft’s life story. His work, and a lack of commitments, gave him decades of high living and handouts for strangers, such that when Raft died, of emphysema, there was next to nothing of his $10 million earnings left. “I wish I knew where it went,” he said. Most likely, he knew very well where his money went. Pre-figuring footballer George Best’s famous line, on another occasion Raft made the hedonistic calculation: “Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women,” he said. “The rest I spent foolishly.”

George Raft

Filmography

Actor (86 credits)

1980 The Man with Bogart's Face - Petey Cane

1977 Sextette - George Raft
1972 Hammersmith Is Out - Guido Scartucci
1972 Deadhead Miles - George Raft
1971 The Chicago Teddy Bears (TV Series) - The Rivalry (1971)
1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #4.26 (1971) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)

1968 Skidoo - The Skipper
1967 Five Golden Dragons - Dragon #2
1967 Casino Royale - George Raft
1967 Batman (TV Series) - Citizen in Bank
- Black Widow Strikes Again (1967) ... Citizen in Bank (uncredited)
1966 The Upper Hand - Charles Binnaggio
1964 The Patsy - George Raft
1964 For Those Who Think Young - Detective (uncredited)
1964 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Tango Dancer
- Episode #17.22 (1964) ... Tango Dancer
1962 Two Guys Abroad - Nightclub co-owner
1961 The Ladies Man - George Raft
1960 Ocean's 11 - Jack Strager

1955-1960 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Mike McCluskey / Ace Williams - Gangster / Big Jack - Speakeasy Operator / ...
- Cauliflower and the Syndicate (1960) ... Mike McCluskey
- Reporter Clem (1957) ... Ace Williams - Gangster
- Episode #5.4 (1955) ... Big Jack - Speakeasy Operator
- The Smog Czar (1955) ... Muggsy Lasagna - Gangster
1959 Jet Over the Atlantic - Stafford
1959 Some Like It Hot - Spats Colombo
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Barbary Coast Saloon Bouncer
1955 A Bullet for Joey - Joe Victor aka Steiner
1954 Black Widow - Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce
1954 Rogue Cop - Dan Beaumonte
1953 I'm the Law (TV Series) - Police Lt. George Kirby
- The Waterfront Story (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- Train to Auburn (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- The Button Story (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- Falling Star (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
- Sob Sister (1953) ... Police Lt. George Kirby
1953 The Man from Cairo - Mike Canelli
1952 I'll Get You - Steve Rossi
1952 Loan Shark - Joe Gargen
1951 Lucky Nick Cain - Nick Cain
1950 We Will All Go to Paris -George Raft

1949 A Dangerous Profession - Vince Kane
1949 Red Light - John Torno
1949 Johnny Allegro - Johnny Allegro
1949 Outpost in Morocco - Capt. Paul Gerard
1948 Race Street - Daniel J. 'Dan' Gannin
1947 Christmas Eve - Mario Torio
1947 Intrigue - Brad Dunham
1946 Nocturne - Police Lt. Joe Warne
1946 Mr. Ace - Eddie Ace
1946 Whistle Stop - Kenny Veech
1945 Johnny Angel - Johnny Angel
1945 Nob Hill - Tony Angelo
1944 Follow the Boys - Tony West
1943 Background to Danger - Joe Barton
1943 Stage Door Canteen - George Raft
1942 Broadway - George Raft
1941 Manpower - Johnny Marshall
1940 They Drive by Night - Joe Fabrini
1940 The House Across the Bay - Steve Larwitt

1939 Invisible Stripes - Cliff Taylor
1939 I Stole a Million - Joe Lourik
1939 Each Dawn I Die - 'Hood' Stacey
1939 The Lady's from Kentucky - Marty Black
1938 Spawn of the North - Tyler Dawson
1938 You and Me - Joe Dennis
1937 Souls at Sea - Powdah
1936 Yours for the Asking - Johnny Lamb
1936 It Had to Happen - Enrico Scaffa
1935 She Couldn't Take It - Joseph 'Spot' Ricardi
1935 Every Night at Eight - 'Tops' Cardona
1935 The Glass Key - Ed Beaumont
1935 Stolen Harmony - Ray Angelo, alias Ray Ferraro
1935 Rumba - Joe Martin
1934 Limehouse Blues - Harry Young
1934 The Trumpet Blows - Manuel Montes
1934 Bolero - Raoul De Baere
1934 All of Me - Honey Rogers
1933 The Bowery - Steve Brodie
1933 Midnight Club - Nick Mason
1933 Pick-up - Harry Glynn
1932 Under-Cover Man - Nick Darrow
1932 If I Had a Million - Eddie Jackson
1932 Night After Night - Joe Anton
1932 Madame Racketeer - Jack Houston
1932 Love Is a Racket - Sneaky (scenes deleted)
1932 Night World - Ed Powell
1932 Scarface - Guino Rinaldo
1932 Dancers in the Dark - Louie Brooks
1932 Taxi - William Kenny - Dance Contestant (uncredited)
1931 Palmy Days - Joe - Yolando's Henchman
1931 Hush Money - Maxie
1931 Goldie - Pickpocket (uncredited)
1931 Quick Millions - Jimmy Kirk

1929 Side Street - Georgie Ames - the Dancer (uncredited)
1929 Gold Diggers of Broadway - Dancer (uncredited)
1929 Queen of the Night Clubs - Gigola

1941: Martine Beswick is born--Port Antonio, Jamaica.
1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and and Pola Ivanova in that hot tub.
2008: Smirnoff readies product tie-ins with the new Bond film.

Smirnoff shaken not stirred by new James Bond film
– https://www.moodiedavittreport.com/smirnoff-shaken-not-stirred-by-new-james-bond-film-260908/26/09/08
by Mary Jane Pittilla
Source: ©The Moodie Report 26 September 2008

“This powerful campaign emphasises
the premiumisation potential across
our vodka portfolio in the year ahead,”
says Diageo GTME Marketing
Director Nick Robinson

UK. Diageo-owned Smirnoff Vodka has announced its official partnership with the world’s most famous secret agent in the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, which is set for global release in November. The partnership will see James Bond-inspired initiatives from Smirnoff in markets worldwide.

The promotional campaign begins in October with the Travel Retail Smirnoff Black limited-edition cocktail shaker at the heart of the campaign. The stainless steel cocktail shaker encases a 70cl bottle of Smirnoff Black vodka.

Diageo GTME Marketing Director Nick Robinson said the campaign would provide “exceptional support” to the Smirnoff brand and enhance the in-store experience: “James Bond and Quantum of Solace provide the ideal opportunity to reach our key target market and enhance perceptions of the brand. This powerful campaign emphasises the premiumisation potential across our vodka portfolio in the year ahead.”

The global marketing campaign will include a broadcast advertising campaign, on- and off-premise promotions, a public relations campaign and digital campaign linked to the Smirnoff website (www.smirnoff.com).

“Almost half a century since the debut of the “˜shaken not stirred’ vodka martini, Smirnoff and James Bond are still the perfect match: two bold, iconic brands that epitomise originality and authenticity,” said Diageo Global Senior Vice-President Philip Gladman. “This renewed partnership gives vodka drinkers around the world a taste of the Bond lifestyle, from cocktails to prestigious VIP premieres.”

Produced by Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for EON Productions and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Quantum of Solace follows the last Bond film, Casino Royale, in which Smirnoff was also an official partner. The partnership marks almost 50 years of collaboration between the Smirnoff brand and the 007 franchise.

The brand made its original appearance alongside Bond in Dr No, the first James Bond movie, which premiered in 1962. Sean Connery’s request for a “martini, shaken not stirred” made with Smirnoff vodka helped change how people made 007’s favourite cocktail-from using traditional gin to making it vodka-based.

Inspired by Quantum of Solace, The Quantum of Solace and The Black Martini are the newest Smirnoff cocktails.

Smirnoff Black recipes –
007 Black Martini

https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/content/drink/smirnoff-black-recipes-007-black-martini.htm

Smirnoff Black recipes –
Quantum of Solace

https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/content/drink/smirnoff-black-recipes-quantum-of-solace.htm

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x79fpw

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7urb8

2013: Jonathan Cape publishes William Boyd's Bond novel Solo.

IT'S 1969, AND, HAVING JUST
celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James
Bond -- British special agent 007 -- is sum-
moned to headquarters to receive an un-
usual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West
African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter
civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the
rebels threatening the established regime.

Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start
of a feverish mission to discover the forces
behind this brutal war -- and he soon realizes
the situation is far from straightforward.
Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause
of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a
twisting conspiracy that extends further
than he ever imagined.

Moving from rebel battlefields in West
Africa to the closed doors of intelligence
office in London and Washington, this novel
is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted
story full of memorable characters and
breathtaking twists, and a masterful study
of power and how it is wielded -- a brilliant
addition to the James Bond canon.

WILLIAM BOYD
is also the author of A Good Man in Africa,
winner of the Whitbread Award and the
Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream
War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys
Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize;
Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the
Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunder-
storms; and Waiting for Sunrise; among other
books. He lives in London.

WWW.IANFLEMING.COM

2016: Artist Robert Hack's cover for Dynamite Comics Hammerhead #1, exclusive to CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund) Retailer Membership, revealed. One per store distribution, instantly rare.

RichardTheBruce

September 27

1903: Leonard Barra is born--West Virginia. (He dies 22 November 1980 at age 77--West Hollywood, California.)

Leonard Barr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Barr

Barr in Diamonds Are Forever, 1971
Birth name Leonard Barra
Born September 27, 1903, West Virginia, U.S.
Died November 22, 1980 (aged 77), Burbank, California, U.S.
Medium Stand-up, television, film
Years active 1970–1980
Genres One-liners
Relative(s) Dean Martin (nephew)
Notable works and roles Diamonds Are Forever

Leonard Barr (born Leonard Barra; September 27, 1903 – November 22, 1980) was an American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer.

Barr appeared several times with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis when they hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour. He had a brief role in The Sting, appropriately as a burlesque comic. That is also the way his character is listed in the credits—as an anonymous comedian. However, in the wings of the stage just before the comic's entrance, he has a brief conversation with Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford), who addresses him as "Leonard".

He is perhaps best remembered internationally for his appearance in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he played Shady Tree, a stand-up comedian and smuggler in Las Vegas who was assassinated by henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. He also appeared in The Odd Couple usually in the non-dialogue New York street scenes in the first season or 5 episodes later in 1975 with dialogue and, albeit unnamed, on an episode of M*A*S*H as a USO comedian. He also made numerous guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Cameron Crowe briefly depicted Barr as a foul-mouthed real-life character in Almost Famous, his semi-autobiographical film of 2000.

Personal life

He was the uncle of Dean Martin (being the brother of Dean Martin's mother Angela).

Death

The 77-year-old Leonard Barr suffered a stroke on October 28, 1980, in his hotel room in West Hollywood and died on November 22, 1980, in a hospital in Burbank, California.

Leonard Barr (1903–1980)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056536/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

Filmography

Actor (14 credits)

1981 Under the Rainbow - Pops
1980 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series) - Comic
- Pilot: Part 1 (1980) ... Comic

1979 Skatetown, U.S.A. - 1977-1978 Szysznyk (TV Series)
Leonard Kriegler
- Youth of the Year (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- Norton's Head Trip (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- Hell on Wheels (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- A Star Is Burned (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- You Stomped on My Heart (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
1978 Battered (TV Movie) - Prof. Jeremiah Hayden
1977 Record City - Sickly Man
1977 Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (TV Movie) - Hospital Roommate
1976 The Tony Randall Show (TV Series) - Bellhop
- Case: His Honor vs. Her Honor (1976) ... Bellhop
1975 Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) - Proprietor
- To See the World (1975) ... Proprietor
1970-1975 The Odd Couple (TV Series) - Walter / Stickman / Mayor / ...
- Old Flames Never Die (1975) ... Walter
- The Hollywood Story (1974) ... Stickman / Mayor
- To Bowl or Not to Bowl (1974) ... Arnold
- Lovers Don't Make House Calls (1971) ... Panhandler (uncredited)
- Oscar's Ulcer (1970) ... Old Playful Boxer on the Street (uncredited)
1973 The Sting - Burlesque House Comedian
1972 Evil Roy Slade (TV Movie) - Crippled Man
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Shady Tree
1970 Love, American Style (TV Series) - Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")
- Love and the Big Date/Love and the Longest Night (1970) ... Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1967 The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.25 (1967) ... (performer: "Crazy Rhythm" - uncredited)
1959 Gangster Story (music: "The Itch for Scratch")

1979: Agente 007, Moonraker: operazione spazio (Agent 007, Moonraker: Operation Space) released in Italy.

1982: Never Say Never Again filming begins on the French Riviera.
1985: 007 – Alvo em Movimento (007 - Moving Target) released in Portugal.
2017: Hugh Hefner dies at age 91--Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. (Born 9 April 1926--Chicago, Illinois.)

Review of The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian
Fleming and Playboy Magazine (2018), by Claire
Hines

https://jamesbondstudies.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.24877/jbs.48/
Author: Kevin McCarron

Abstract
A Review of The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine (2018), by Claire Hines.

McCarron, K. (2019). Review of The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming and Playboy Magazine (2018), by Claire Hines. International Journal of James Bond Studies, 2(1). DOI: http://doi.org/10.24877/jbs.48
PDF https://jamesbondstudies.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/jbs.48/galley/31/download/

The Playboy and James Bond:
007, Ian Fleming and Playboy
Magazine, by Claire Hines
(Manchester University Press, 2018, pp. 209)

Toward the end of her book, Claire Hines quotes from Playboy magazine upon the release of Skyfall in 2012: “Fifty years of Bond films forever changed the definition of the modern man, and Playboy has been with 007 every step of the way – publishing Ian Fleming, photographing the Bond girls and celebrating the lavish lifestyle” (193-194). Hines does an impressive, very meticulous job of tracing these steps: from 1953 to 2017. Like other commentators on Bond she notes that Casino Royale was published in 1953, the same year that Hugh Hefner launched Playboy. Hines is more interested in the films than in the novels, but she writes well on generic precedent in Fleming’s novels and suggests Bond is a less clubbable and far less amiable character than those of Dornford Yates and “Sapper”, in particular. She also notes that Playboy had its roots in Esquire magazine but took advantage of (and, indeed, helped to create) a more complicit zeitgeist in order to emphasise female sexuality far more than its predecessor had been able, or willing, to do. Playboy also benefited from an America affluent as never before and in need of sophisticated guidance in how to spend that money. Hines writes detailed and illuminating chapters on such issues as “the literary Bond”, “the consumer Bond”, and “Bond women” and is always tightly focused on the relationship between the Bond novels and films and the ideology and the marketing strategies of Playboy. She is, on the whole, more interested in economics than in politics, but then so are Bond and Playboy.

The magazine devoted a lot of time to Bond, in all his manifestations, and was the first American publication to print one of Fleming’s stories, “The Hildebrand Rarity”, in March 1960. The book is full of interesting insights into just how the Bond phenomenon and Playboy are connected; although it was only really ever on the surface and almost entirely in terms of male consumerism. Although Playboy was never quite as superficial and shallow as its numerous detractors have claimed over the decades (Hines notes the numerous, celebrated literary figures who published work and submitted to interviews in the magazine), Playboy did use Bond to sell: luggage, vodka, watches, gadgets, male grooming, especially razors and after shave, clothes, even leisure and holidays; although Bond himself in the novels or in the films is rarely described as being on holiday or even enjoying a weekend break, and never an uninterrupted one. Playboy was particularly interested in using Bond to promote the luxury car market. The value of Bond is summed up very well in a comment made by an Aston Martin executive in 1965, following the release of Goldfinger: “the publicity value of the Bond DB5 has been greater than the amassed value of all the racing the company has done from the beginning” (90). Playboy sold to men who could afford expensive cars and watches and clothes (or certainly aspired to) because they had no domestic responsibilities. Playboy was, overall, hostile to marriage and Bond’s bachelor status was inseparable from his appeal for such readers; he satisfied the perennial male desire to enjoy sexual pleasure without any emotional entanglement. The inseparable commodifcation of women suited the ethos of the magazine and there is an interesting intertextual photograph of George Lazenby holding up the February 1969 Playboy centrefold from the film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). There is considerable irony in the image as in this film, of course, the committed bachelor does actually marry, albeit only for a few idyllic hours.

Hines quotes effectively throughout from established Bond scholars such as James Chapman and Jeremy Black, Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum, and from a range of cultural commentators such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Umberto Eco, as well as from Playboy historian Bill Osgerby. There are, of course, differences between Bond and the implied reader of Playboy. Although cartoons were a vert important part of the magazine’s appeal Hines has little to say about them; sensibly, as Bond is virtually devoid of humour. Playboy actively encouraged men to cook, if only on the grounds that it made seducing women easier, but Bond has very little interest in actually cooking; he is almost entirely a consumer of excellent food and wine. Hines notes that while Playboy was initially sympathetic to the hippie movement of the late 1960s, endorsing its rejection of bourgeois morality, it eventually joined Bond in its dismissal, even contempt, for long-haired radicals. The perceived dirtiness of the hippies and, just as importantly, their aversion to work rendered them unacceptable to the dedicated, well groomed, always-showering Bond, as well as to the clean, solvent, hard-working Playboy reader.

What Hines cannot reconcile (and nobody could) is the unbridgeable distance between the pleasure-loving, aspirational readers of Playboy and Bond’s ruthlessness and occasional cruelty. The “lavish lifestyle” that Playboy admires so much in Bond’s life, and sells to its readers, is predicated on an ideological position unimaginable to the readers of the magazine. Bond’s occasional hedonism is that of a man who can expect to be killed any day in the service of his country. Carpe diem is an acceptable motto for Bond; less so for aspirational consumers in the most affluent nation on earth. Not only is Bond a killer, but he always works tirelessly, skillfully, and resourcefully for something far greater than himself. His relationship with M and with England is impressively uncomplicated; Bond is a patriot and a puritan. Ultimately, though, both Bond and Playboy’s readers do share a respect for hard work and, crucially, for enjoying the fruits of that labour. In this sense, Bond has a great deal more in common with Americans than he does with the British, and his enormous appeal there has as much to do with this mutual work ethic as it does with the girls, the gadgets, and the guns.

James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch
https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch

Dec 5, 2018

It's the British operative as
you've never seen him in this
exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007
adventure

Written by Jeff Parker, Illustrations Bob Q

James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.

Thunderfinger

Leonard Barr was Dean Martin s uncle? That was news to me.

RichardTheBruce

September 28th

1961: A second draft of the Dr. No screenplay loses the monkey.
1964: Desde Rusia con amor released in Spain. (Catalan title Des de Russia amb Amor.)

1994: Harry Saltzman dies at age 78--Paris, France.
(Born 27 October 1915--Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.)

Obituaries
Harry Saltzman, 78, Bond-Film Producer

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html
SEPT. 29, 1994

Harry Saltzman, who with Albert R. Broccoli produced early James Bond films like "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger," died yesterday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a Paris suburb. He was 78 and lived in a village near Versailles.

The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Adriana.

He was born on Oct. 27, 1915, in New Brunswick, Canada, and was brought to the United States as an infant. He entered the film business in the mid-1940's and made his name in Britain with hard-hitting social dramas, including "Look Back in Anger" in 1958 and "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in 1960.

Mr. Saltzman and Mr. Broccoli rounded up the screen rights to practically all of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and began the film series in the early 1960's. The two struck it rich with the highly profitable movies, most of which starred Sean Connery as Agent 007. Their Bond films included "From Russia With Love," "Thunderball," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "The Man With the Golden Gun." The partnership ended in the mid-1970's.

Among Mr. Saltzman's other productions were "The Entertainer," "The Ipcress File," "Funeral in Berlin" and "The Battle of Britain."

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Steven, of Paris; two daughters, Hilary, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Merry, of Marina del Rey, Calif., and a sister, Mina Reizes of Reseda, Calif.

September 29, 1994, Page 00012 The New York Times Archives

Harry Saltzman (1915–1994)

Filmography

Producer (28 credits)

1988 Time of the Gypsies (co-producer)
1980 Nijinsky (executive producer)

1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (producer)
1973 Live and Let Die (producer)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (producer)
1970 Nijinsky: Unfinished Project (producer)
1970 Toomorrow (producer)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (producer)
1969 Battle of Britain (producer)
1969 Play Dirty (producer)
1967 Billion Dollar Brain (producer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (producer)
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1967 Shock Troops (presents)
1966 Funeral in Berlin (executive producer)
1965 Chimes at Midnight (producer)
1965 Thunderball (executive producer - uncredited)
1965 A Man Named John (producer)
1965 The Ipcress File (producer)
1964 Goldfinger (producer)
1963 From Russia with Love (producer)
1963 Call Me Bwana (executive producer)
1962 Dr. No (producer)
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (executive producer)
1960 The Entertainer (producer)
1959 Look Back in Anger (producer)
1956 The Iron Petticoat (produced in association with)
1955 Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (TV Series) (producer)

Production manager (1 credit)

1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) (production supervisor - 9 episodes)
- The Citadel (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Champion (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Rebecca (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Pitfall (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Phantom Lady (1950) ... (production supervisor)

Writer (1 credit)

1956 The Iron Petticoat (story - uncredited)

2008: "Another Way to Die" enters the UK Singles Chart at twenty-six, later peaking at number nine.
2012: Promotional materials for the documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 become available, anticipating its 5 October premiere on EPIX.

2018: Daily Celebrity Crossword. James Bond enemy who has metal hands. Two words.

James Bond enemy who has metal hands: 2 wds.
https://dailycelebritycrossword.com/james-bond-enemy-who-has-metal-hands-2-wds.html/

ANSWER:

DRNO

2019: Omega plans a wristwatch tie-in to No Time to Die. Production: 7007.

Omega's latest $6,500 Bond tribute watch is full of
surprises
https://www.esquireme.com/content/39391-omegas-latest-6500-bond-tribute-watch-is-full-of-surprises
Celebrating the 50th birthday of one of the classic 007 films

26 September 2019
Josh Corder

With the release of ‘No Time to Die’ looming, Omega and 007 have once again come together to bring Bond fans a collectable timepiece.

Perhaps to the dismay of Ian Flemming, the creator of James Bond who always had the spy wear a Rolex, 007 and Omega have been best buds for almost 25 years now. Starting with GoldenEye in 1995, Bond has since used an Omega to stay sharp, tell time, and occasionally get himself out of torture situations. While the newest watch may not be able to help with that last one, it will certainly have you looking sharp.

1969 is a year Omega will bring up at dinner parties (and press releases) till the end of time. It’s the year that its Speedmaster became the first watch on the moon, and since this year is the 50th anniversary of that achievement, Omega has been celebrating in a big way with numerous special editions.

If however the Speedmaster isn’t your thing, or just you want to add another collection to your watch winder, turn your attention to the Seamaster collection. Namely, the new Bond-ified Seamaster Diver 300m. Similarly, this watch is also celebrating a 50th birthday, this time with the 1969 007 film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’.

The 42mm steel diver features a black ceramic dial and bezel, the dial itself uses the iconic spiral-brushed gun barrel design and 9mm bullet head at the centre, as seen in the intro of Bond films. This is far from the only Bond tribute however.

The indexes and hands are made from yellow gold, with the 12 o’clock index sporting the Bond family coat-of-arms. Turn your attention to the 6 o’clock, the integrated date window hides a surprise. On the seventh of every month, the font of the date window swaps to the same as used in 007. The side of the case has a small engraved plate showing which watch in the limited series you’ve got your hands on. The watch has been limited to 7,007 pieces.

Switch the lights off and the Superluminova on the dial reveals one final surprise; the 10 o’clock index has a hidden ‘50’ within it in reference to 50 years since the cinematic debut of ‘On Her Majesty’s Service’.

Beyond its romantic tributes, the Seamaster is a no-nonsense diver, it has 300m of water resistance, a uni-direction bezel and Omega’s co-axial escapement movement, reducing friction and increasing accuracy of the watch’s inner workings.

President and CEO of Omega, Raynald Aeschlimann, described the new Seamaster as: “A fitting tribute to a classic Bond film and one of cinema’s most iconic characters. This extraordinary watch is elegant, full of surprises and sure to be extremely popular with collectors and fans of the character, due to its many Bond-related features.”

Faithful to its purpose as a divers’ watch, the piece comes on a rubber strap or adjustable metal strap. For US $6,500, the timepiece comes in a black box with gun barrel patterns and bullet head buttons.

RichardTheBruce

September 29th

1933: James Michael Hyde Villiers is born--London, England.
(He dies 18 January 1998 at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England.)

Obituary: James Villiers

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-james-villiers-1139946.html
Tom Vallance | Wednesday 21 January 1998 01:02

James Michael Hyde Villiers, actor: born London 29 September 1933; married 1966 Patricia Donovan (marriage dissolved 1984), 1994 Lucy Jex; died Arundel, West Sussex 18 January 1998.

One of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains, James Villiers was often cast in such roles in his early years. He was also the most English of actors, and not surprisingly his career was liberally sprinkled with the works of Shaw, Coward, Wilde and dramatists of the Restoration.

His film career flourished in the Sixties when he was a particular favourite of the director Joseph Losey, while his work in the theatre spans over 40 years. On television he achieved particular success and recognition with his portrayal of Charles II (to whom he bore a strong resemblance) in the series The First Churchills.

Born in London in 1933, Villiers (pronounced Villers) was proud of his aristocratic lineage (his family tree goes back to the Duke of Rockingham). He was brought up in Shropshire and later at Ormeley Lodge in Richmond, more recently the home of James Goldsmith, and educated at Wellington College. He had, however, become stage-struck as a child (his brother John recalls Villiers as a boy begging Colchester Repertory to take him on in any capacity whatever and being heartbroken when they refused) and at prep school he gained a reputation as their best actor.

After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he formed lifelong friendships with fellow students and cricket enthusiasts Peter O'Toole and Ronald Fraser, he made his stage debut at the Summer Theatre in Frinton as William Blore in Agatha Christie's thriller Ten Little Niggers (1953), and the following year made his first West End appearance with the Shakespeare Memorial Company in Toad of Toad Hall.

In 1955 he started a two-year period with the Old Vic Company, his roles including Trebonius in Julius Caesar and Bushy in Richard II. He made his Broadway debut in the latter role in 1956 during the Old Vic tour of the United States and Canada, then spent a year with the English Stage Company. In 1960 he made his film debut in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (which also marked the screen debuts of Alan Bates and Albert Finney), and the following year made his first thriller (in a rare heroic role), The Clue of the New Pin (1961).

He first worked with Losey on The Damned (1961), and for the same director played in Eve (1962) and as an officer in the finely acted pacifist piece King and Country (1964). In Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) he was the friend who ambiguously gives John Fraser a kiss, in Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) Villiers and Wendy Craig were the parents of a disturbed child left in the care of Bette Davis at her most neurotic, and in George Sidney's Half a Sixpence (1968) he was the snobbish father of the society girl Kipps (Tommy Steele) hopes to marry.

Other films included Nothing But the Best (1963), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Let Him Have It (1991). His many television appearances included Pygmalion (as Professor Higgins), Lady Windermere's Fan, Fortunes of War and most recently Dance to the Music of Time. Stage successes include the thriller Write Me a Murder (1962), a superbly droll and highly acclaimed performance as Victor Prynne in John Gielgud's 1972 revival of Coward's Private Lives, starring Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, a forceful Earl of Warwick in John Clements's 1974 production of Saint Joan, and prominent roles in such classics as Pirandello's Henry IV (with Rex Harrison), The Way of the World and The Last of Mrs Cheyney.

A few years ago he created the role of Lord Thurlow in Nicholas Hytner's staging for the National Theatre of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, and most recently was featured as Mr Brownlow in the hit revival of Oliver! at the London Palladium.

James Villiers (1933–1998)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898376/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (128 credits)

2005 The Kingdom of Shadows (Short) - The Man At The Lake

1998 The Tichborne Claimant - Uncle Henry
1997 A Dance to the Music of Time (TV Mini-Series) - Buster Foxe
- The Thirties (1997) ... Buster Foxe
1996 The Willows in Winter (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
1996 E=mc2 - Dr. James Mallinson
1995 The Wind in the Willows (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
1994 Uncovered - Montegrifo
1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Cantlemere
- The Mazarin Stone (1994) ... Lord Cantlemere
1992 Lovejoy (TV Series) - Lionel Beckwith
- Out to Lunch (1992) ... Lionel Beckwith
1991 The Gravy Train Goes East (TV Mini-Series) - Penhurst
- Episode #1.4 (1991) ... Penhurst
- Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Penhurst
- Episode #1.2 (1991) ... Penhurst
- Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Penhurst
1991 Let Him Have It - Cassels
1991 A Perfect Hero (TV Mini-Series) - Air Commodore
- Episode #1.6 (1991) ... Air Commodore
1991 King Ralph - Hale
1990 House of Cards (TV Mini-Series) - Charles Collingridge
- Episode #1.3 (1990) ... Charles Collingridge
- Episode #1.2 (1990) ... Charles Collingridge
- Episode #1.1 (1990) ... Charles Collingridge
1990 Mountains of the Moon - Lord Oliphant

1989 Anything More Would Be Greedy (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Fyson
- Georgian Silver (1989) ... Lord Fyson
- Second Term (1989) ... Lord Fyson
- Trading Favours (1989) ... Lord Fyson
- Enigma Variations (1989) ... Lord Fyson
1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Ronnie Esholt
- A Real House (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- Taking Your Profits (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- Shopping Around (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- A Wonderfully Wrong Thing (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
- Coming Home (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
1989 Scandal - Conservative M.P.
1988 Hemingway (TV Mini-Series) - Perceval
- The Old Man and the Sea (1988) ... Perceval
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1988) ... Perceval
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1988) ... Perceval
- Discovery of Europe (1988) ... Perceval
1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Lord Welbourne
- Heavy Duty (1988) ... Lord Welbourne (as Jimmie Villiers)
1988 Blind Justice (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Steinsson
- The One About the Irishman (1988) ... Peter Steinsson
1988 A Gentlemen's Club (TV Series) - Fabian
- The New Boy (1988) ... Fabian
1988 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
- The Hostage (1988) ... Director General
1987 Fortunes of War (TV Mini-Series) - Inchcape
- Romania: June 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
- Romania: January 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
- The Balkans: September 1939 (1987) ... Inchcape
1987 Running Out of Luck
1986 If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour (Video short)
1986 Call Me Mister (TV Series) - Sir Edward
- Humpty Dumpty (1986) ... Sir Edward
1986 The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams (TV Movie) - Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller
1985 Honour, Profit & Pleasure (TV Movie) - Addison
1984 The Irish R.M. (TV Series) - General Portius
- A Horse! A Horse! (1984) ... General Portius
1984 Under the Volcano - Brit
1983 ABC Mantrap - Tony Walmsley
1983 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) - Sir Arthur Remnant
- Rumpole and the Golden Thread (1983) ... Sir Arthur Remnant
1983 All for Love (TV Series) - Mr. Lyng
- Mrs. Silly (1983) ... Mr. Lyng
1983 Jack of Diamonds (TV Series) - George Billyard
- The Fun of the Fair (1983) ... George Billyard
- Herr of the Dog (1983) ... George Billyard
- Going Dutch (1983) ... George Billyard
- A Drip in the Ocean (1983) ... George Billyard
1982 The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Movie) - Baron de Batz
1982 Spooner's Patch (TV Series) - Film Producer
- The Sting (1982) ... Film Producer
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Tanner
1980-1981 The Other 'Arf (TV Series) - Freddy Apthorpe
- After the Ball (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
- The Big 'E' (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
- Holding the Baby (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
- Moving Away (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
- Separate Ways (1980) ... Freddy Apthorpe
1981 Brendon Chase (TV Series) - Colonel Hensman
- Run to Earth (1981) ... Colonel Hensman
1981 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Hilary Martin
- Unity (1981) ... Hilary Martin
1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) - Esteban (the Duke)
1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Fordingham
- The Thief-Taker (1980) ... Lord Fordingham

1979 The Music Machine - Hector Woodville (uncredited)
1979 Saint Jack - Frogget
1978-1979 Crown Court (TV Series) - Richard Ireland QC
- Boys Will Be Boys: Part 1 (1979) ... Richard Ireland QC
- Meeting Place: Part 1 (1978) ... Richard Ireland QC
1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Johnson
- Five Go to Kirren Island: Episode Two (1978) ... Johnson
- Five Go to Kirren Island: Episode One (1978) ... Johnson
1978 Two's Company (TV Series) - Peter Boatwright
- The Politicians (1978) ... Peter Boatwright
1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Roper
- Flower Power (1978) ... Roper
1977 Spectre (TV Movie) - Sir Geoffrey Cyon
1977 Joseph Andrews - Mr. Booby
1976 Seven Nights in Japan - Finn
1975 Making Faces (TV Series) - Peter de Witt
- December 1974: Waiting for the Monsoon (1975) ... Peter de Witt
- April 1968: Late Sitting, Finance Bill (1975) ... Peter de Witt
- Summer 1966: In Funland (1975) ... Peter de Witt
1975 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - John Harley
- Beware, Wet Paint (1975) ... John Harley
1975 Thriller (TV Series) - Paul
- The Double Kill (1975) ... Paul
1974 Marty Back Together Again (TV Series) - Various Characters
- Episode #1.4 (1974) ... Various Characters
- Episode #1.3 (1974) ... Various Characters
- Episode #1.2 (1974) ... Various Characters
- Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Various Characters
1973 Ghost in the Noonday Sun - Parsley-Freck
1972-1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Henry Higgins / Alastair Fitzfassenden / Cecil Graham
- Pygmalion (1973) ... Professor Henry Higgins
- The Millionairess (1972) ... Alastair Fitzfassenden
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1972) ... Cecil Graham
1972 E. Nesbit (TV Movie) - 1972 The Edwardians (TV Mini-Series) - Hubert Bland
- E. Nesbit (1972) ... Hubert Bland
1972 The Amazing Mr. Blunden - Uncle Bertie
1972 The Public Eye - Dinner Guest (uncredited)
1972/I Asylum - George (segment "Lucy Comes to Stay")
1972 The Ruling Class - Dinsdale Gurney
1972 Mogul (TV Series) - Lord Hawdcombe
- Whatever Became of the Year 2000? (1972) ... Lord Hawdcombe
1971 Shirley's World (TV Series) - Morgan
- Knightmare (1971) ... Morgan
1971 Now Look Here (TV Series) - Jeremy
- Episode #1.4 (1971) ... Jeremy
1963-1971 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Billy / Derek / Robin Fiske / ...
- Father's Help (1971) ... Billy
- The Story-teller (1969) ... Derek
- Unscheduled Stop (1968) ... Robin Fiske
- The Living Image (1963) ... Blackie
- Blue and White (1963)
1971 Blood from the Mummy's Tomb - Corbeck
1971 Masterpiece Classic (TV Series) - Charles II
- The First Churchills: The Lion and the Unicorn (1971) ... Charles II
- The First Churchills: Plot Counter-Plot (1971) ... Charles II
- The First Churchills: Bridals (1971) ... Charles II
- The First Churchills: The Chaste Nymph (1971) ... Charles II
1970 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philipott
- Married Alive (1970) ... Philipott

1969 A Nice Girl Like Me - Freddie
1969 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Oscar
- Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature (1969) ... Oscar
1969 The First Churchills (TV Mini-Series) - Charles II
- Rebellion (1969) ... Charles II
- The Lion and the Unicorn (1969) ... Charles II
- Plot, Counter-Plot (1969) ... Charles II
- Bridals (1969) ... Charles II
- The Chaste Nymph (1969) ... Charles II
1969 Counterstrike (TV Series) - Wyatt
- The Lemming Syndrome (1969) ... Wyatt
1969 Otley - Hendrickson
1969 Some Girls Do - Carl Petersen
1969 Absolute Aggers and Torters (TV Short)
1968 The Touchables - Twyning
1967 Half a Sixpence - Hubert
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Peters
- Dead Man's Shoes (1967) ... Peters
1967 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Lord Darlington
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1967) ... Lord Darlington
1965-1967 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Ian Kilbannock / John Styles / Lord Strange / ...
- The Fantasist (1967) ... John Styles
- Sword of Honour #3: Unconditional Surrender (1967) ... Ian Kilbannock
- Sword of Honour #2: Officers and Gentlemen (1967) ... Ian Kilbannock
- Sword of Honour #1: Men at Arms (1967) ... Ian Kilbannock
- The Siege of Manchester (1965) ... Lord Strange
1967 Stiff Upper Lip (TV Movie) - Antrobus
1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
- A Piece of Resistance (1966) ... Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
1966 The Wrong Box - Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Roddy Harrington
- The Persuaders (1966) ... Roddy Harrington
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Simon Trent
- Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Simon Trent
1965 The Alphabet Murders - Franklin
1965 The Nanny - Bill Fane
1965 You Must Be Joking! - Bill Simpson
1965 A World of Comedy (TV Mini-Series) - Voice only - role unknown
- The Enormous Ear (1965) ... Voice only - role unknown
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Yamamoto (voice, uncredited)
1965 Repulsion - John
1964 Daylight Robbery
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Clive Rodingham
- Write Me a Murder (1964) ... Clive Rodingham
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Paul
- Solo Performance (1964) ... Paul
1964 King & Country - Captain Midgley
1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Wander
- A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Wander
1964 Nothing But the Best - Hugh
1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Inspector Pryor
- The High Fence (1964) ... Inspector Pryor
1964 Father Came Too! - Benzil Bulstrode
1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
- The Smiler (1964) ... Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
1963 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Jeremy Trout
- Nicked at the Bottle (1963) ... Jeremy Trout
1963 The Model Murder Case - David Dane
1963 Festival (TV Series) - Willy
- Fallen Angels (1963) ... Willy
1963 Bomb in the High Street - Stevens
1963 Love Story (TV Series) - Gregory
- Snakes and Ladders (1963) ... Gregory
1963 Murder at the Gallop - Michael Shane
1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Capt. Hamilton
- Beachhead (1963) ... Capt. Hamilton
1963 Hancock (TV Series)
- The Man on the Corner (1963)
1963 Zero One (TV Series) - The sheikh
- The Man Who Waited (1963) ... The sheikh
1962 These Are the Damned - Captain Gregory
1962 Eva - Alan McCormick - a screenwriter
1962 Operation Snatch - Lt. Keen
1962 Thirty Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mathias
- Dare to Be a Daniel (1962) ... Mathias
1961 Petticoat Pirates - English Lieutenant
1961 The Final Test (TV Movie) - Alexander Whitehead
1961 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Lucien Harper
- Episode #1.2 (1961) ... Lucien Harper
1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Andrew Thurbank
- A Girl Like Xanthe (1961) ... Andrew Thurbank
1961 Clue of the New Pin - Tab Holland
1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Miller
- The Wrong Side of the Park (1961) ... Miller
1961 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Tab Holland
- Clue of the New Pin (1961) ... Tab Holland
1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Mini-Series) - Studio Representative
- Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Studio Representative
1960 No Wreath for the General (TV Series) - Peake-Harmon
- Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon
- Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon
- Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon
- Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon

1958 Carry On Sergeant - Seventh Recruit
1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series)
- Murder at the Inn (1958)
1954 Late Night Final (Short) - Lab Assistant (uncredited)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1972 The Ruling Class (performer: "Dry Bones" - uncredited)

1939: British Director of Naval Intelligence Admiral John Godfrey issues a document, later credited to his assistant Ian Fleming, that compares deception in war to the sport of fishing.

James Bond came from the author's
real-world experiences in WWII

https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/james-bond-came-from-the-authors-real-world-experiences-in-wwii
James Elphick | Jun. 03, 2016 12:44PM EST

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, served with British Naval Intelligence during World War II, and his service influenced the character and his stories.

Fleming was recruited into the Royal Navy in 1939 by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Head of Naval Intelligence. Fleming entered as a lieutenant and quickly promoted to lieutenant commander. Although initially tasked as Admiral Godfrey's assistant, Commander Fleming had greater ambitions. He is widely believed to be the author of the "Trout Memo" circulated by Godfrey that compared intelligence gathering to a fisherman casting for trout. In the memo, he independently came up the plan to use a corpse with false documents to deceive the Germans, originally conceived by another agent and later used in Operation Mincemeat.

"Oh, no. We dropped our secret plans."

Fleming was obsessed with collecting intelligence and came up with numerous ways to do so, some seemingly right out of spy novels. One such mission, Operation Ruthless, called for acquiring a German bomber, crashing it into the English Channel, and then having the crew attack and subdue the German ship that would come to rescue them. Mercifully, it was called off. Fleming was also the mastermind of an intelligence gathering unit known as (No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit, 30 AU). Instead of traditional combat skills, members of 30 AU were trained in safe-cracking, lock-picking, and other spycraft and moved with advancing units to gain intelligence before it could be lost or destroyed.

Fleming was in charge of Operation Goldeneye and involved with the T-Force. These would also influence his work. Operation Goldeneye was a scheme to monitor Spain in the event of an alliance with Germany and to conduct sabotage operations should such an agreement take place. Fleming would later name his Jamaican home where he wrote the James Bond novels "Goldeneye." It would also be the title of seventeenth James Bond movie. As for the T-Force, or Target Force, Fleming sat on the committee that selected targets, specifically German scientific and technological advancements before retreating troops destroyed them. The seizure by the T-Force of a German research center at Kiel which housed advanced rocket motors and jet engines was featured prominently in the James Bond novel Moonraker.

The movie was much less grounded in reality.

In the actual creation of the character James Bond, Fleming drew inspiration from himself and those around him. Fleming said the character of James Bond was an amalgamation of all the secret agent and commando types he met during the war. In particular, Bond was modeled after Fleming's brother Peter, who conducted work behind enemy lines, Patrick Dalzel-Job, who served in the 30 Assault Unit Fleming created, and Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale, who was the Paris station chief for MI6 and was known for his fancy suits and affinity for expensive cars. Fleming used his habits for many of Bond's. He was known to be a heavy drinker and smoker. Bond purchased the same specialty cigarettes Fleming smoked and even added three gold rings to the filter to denote his rank as a Commander in the Royal Navy, something Fleming also did.

Bond's code number, 007, comes from a means of classifying highly secretive documents starting with the number 00. The number 007 comes from the British decryption of the Zimmerman Note, labeled 0075, that brought America into World War I. Bond received his name from a rather innocuous source, however, an ornithologist. Bond's looks are not Fleming's but rather were inspired by the actor/singer Hoagy Carmichael, with only a dash of Fleming's for good measure.

Hoagy Carmichael

Fleming did draw on those around him for other characters in the James Bond novels. Villains had a tendency to share a name with people Fleming disliked while other characters got their names from his friendly acquaintances. The character of M, James Bond's boss, was based on Fleming's boss Rear Admiral Godfrey. The inspiration for the single-letter moniker came from Maxwell Knight, the head of MI5, who was known to sign his memos with only his first initial, M. Also, the fictional antagonistic organization SMERSH, takes its name from a real Russian organization called SMERSH that was active from 1943-1946. In the fictional version, SMERSH was an acronym of Russian words meaning "Special Methods of Spy Detection" and was modeled after the KGB; the real SMERSH was a portmanteau in Russian meaning "Death to Spies" and was a counterintelligence organization on the Eastern Front during WWII.

Cover of a 1943 SMERSH Manual Cover of a 1943 SMERSH Manual

Finally, the plots for many of the Bond novels came from real-world missions carried out by the Allies. Moonraker is based on the exploits of the 30 AU in Kiel, Germany, while Thunderball has loose connections to Fleming's canceled Operation Ruthless. Fleming also ties in his fictional world to the historical one after the war and during the Cold War.

Fleming's novels became very popular during his life and have remained so long after his death in 1964. His work spawned one of the most successful movie franchises in history.

1986: Principal photography begins at Pinewood Studios for The Living Daylights.
1990: Molly Peters and Desmond Llewelyn appear for the first James Bond 007 Fan Convention, Pinewood.
2007: Lois Maxwell dies at age 80--Fremantle, Australia. (Born 14 February 1927--Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564693/Lois-Maxwell.html

Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years

Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M's spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007.

She was 33 when she screen-tested for Dr No (1962), the first Bond film, and was originally offered the part eventually played by Eunice Grayson, one of Bond's conquests, seen putting golf balls down the hall of his flat dressed only in his pyjama top.

But Lois Maxwell did not regard her legs as her strongest point, and while Bond's creator Ian Fleming told her she had the most kissable lips in the world, one film director took a different view: "Lois, you don't smell of sin. You look as though you smell of soap."

Accordingly - in crisp blouse and skirt - she landed the Moneypenny role, cast originally against Sean Connery in Dr No. Lois Maxwell later mused on the on-screen chemistry between the chaste Miss Moneypenny and the swashbuckling agent, licensed to kill: "Say there'd been an affair a long time before, only she knew he would have broken her heart, just as he knew it would have ruined his career in the Secret Service. So they were doomed to appreciate each other's qualities."

Although she played the part for 23 years, she was on screen for less for an hour and spoke fewer than 200 words in all 14 films, her lines running an emotional gamut from "James, you're late" to "When are we going to have that dinner?" Her last Moneypenny appearance was opposite Roger Moore as Bond in A View To A Kill (1985).

Never paid more than £100 a day, her first appearance in Dr No took only two days to shoot, and those in her 13 subsequent Bond films were just as modest in scale. For her first five films, Lois Maxwell wore her own clothes.

"Always the same role, the smallest," she remarked ruefully in an interview for the Telegraph Magazine in 1997. The camera would find her sitting at a desk in the corner of a nondescript office, on the telephone or riffling papers. But when Bond enters, she greets him with a grin of pure joy.

"It is not a beautiful face," observed Byron Rogers, who interviewed her for the Telegraph 10 years ago, "it is a wonderful face, long and funny and older than all the others… The other women in Bond films are two-dimensional, who only ever want to go to bed with him or stab him, but there is one who loves him, though she knows nothing will ever come of this.

"That is the way Lois Maxwell played Moneypenny, making her the one grown-up among sexpots and psychopaths."

Not everyone realised that she was Canadian. "Moneypenny," exclaimed the Prince of Wales on meeting her. "I would never have believed you're not English. I must tell the family."

Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14 1927 at Kitchener, Ontario, one of four children, her early career as a child radio performer was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War when her father, a teacher, enlisted and sailed for England. At the age of 16 she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army Show, but failed to tell the authorities about her age, and after touring England in the back of a truck was eventually dishonourably dismissed. Just before she was due to be shipped home, she went AWOL in London.

While living in a garret in Paddington, Lois won a Lady Louis Mountbatten scholarship to Rada, where she first met Roger Moore, then 17 and later to star in seven Bond films, and - crowned in a red wig - played his uncle in a student production of Henry V.

At 20 she was working in the professional theatre when a talent scout spotted her and took her to Hollywood. At Warner Brothers, Lois found herself in the same intake as another promising actress named Norma Jeane Baker, with whom she was photographed for Life magazine. Both changed their name, Norma Jeane becoming Marilyn Monroe and Lois Hooker, advised that this was an infelicitous name for an starlet, changing to Lois Maxwell, a name borrowed from a gay ballet dancer friend and which was adopted by the rest of her family too.

She won a Golden Globe award as best newcomer for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl (1947).

Playing opposite Ronald Reagan in Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) she found the future president handsome and attractive, but became less enamoured of the studio system, and moved to Rome for five years, becoming an amateur racing driver. After a broken love affair with the brother of an Italian prince, she married a British television executive called Peter Marriott, a former commander of the Viceroy of India's household troops who, by coincidence, was screen-tested as a possible James Bond by the producer Cubby Broccoli.

In addition to her career in the Bond films Lois Maxwell was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of UFO, The Persuaders, The Baron, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). She also provided the voice for Troy Tempest's love interest, Atlanta Shore, in Gerry Anderson's puppet series Stingray.

In the late 1960s she starred in Adventures In Rainbow Country, a popular Canadian television series, and in 1967 appeared as Moneypenny in a television special Welcome To Japan, Mr Bond. More recently, she became a regular fixture at Bond film festivals.

Her last feature film was The Fourth Angel (2001) starring Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker.

Widowed at 46 when her husband died of a heart attack in 1973, Lois Maxwell returned to her native Canada, bought a farm and worked for a business importing crowd-control barriers. She later wrote a column for the Toronto Sun which she signed "Moneypenny" and in which, for 14 years, she expounded trenchant Right-wing opinions.

Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot's licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.

In the 1980s she settled at Frome in Somerset, and after a successful cancer operation went to recuperate at her son's home at Freemantle, near Perth, western Australia. At the time of her death, she was working on her autobiography, to be called Born A Hooker.

Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son.

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Filmography

Actress (88 credits)

2001 The Fourth Angel - Olivia

1998 Hard to Forget (TV Movie) - Helen Applewhite

1989 Lady in the Corner (TV Movie) - Mary Smith
1988 Martha, Ruth & Edie - Edie Carmichael
1988 Rescue Me (TV Movie) - Phyllis
1987 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Ms. Golden
- If the Shoe Fits (1987) ... Ms. Golden
1985 Eternal Evil - Monica Duval
1985 A View to a Kill - Miss Moneypenny
1985 The Edison Twins (TV Series) - Charlotte Gateau
- Let Them Eat Cake (1985) ... Charlotte Gateau
1984 Peep (TV Movie) - Mrs. Powell
1983 Octopussy - Miss Moneypenny
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Miss Moneypenny
1980 Mr. Patman - Director

1979 Lost and Found - English Woman
1979 Moonraker - Miss Moneypenny
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Miss Moneypenny
1977 Age of Innocence - Mrs. Hogarth
1975 From Hong Kong with Love - Miss Moneypenny
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Moneypenny
1973 Live and Let Die - Moneypenny
1972/I Endless Night - Cora
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Louise Cornell
- Someone Waiting (1971) ... Louise Cornell
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Moneypenny
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Miss Holland
- The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Miss Holland
- The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Miss Holland
1969-1970 Adventures in Rainbow Country (TV Series) - Nancy Williams
- The Tower (1970) ... Nancy Williams
- The Skydiver (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- The Return of Eli Rocque (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- Night Caller (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- The Muskies Are Losing Their Teeth (1969) ... Nancy Williams
1970 The Adventurers - Woman at Fashion Show (uncredited)
1970 Department S (TV Series) - Mary Burnham
- The Ghost of Mary Burnham (1970) ... Mary Burnham

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Moneypenny
1969 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Kim Wentworth
- For the Girl Who Has Everything (1969) ... Kim Wentworth
1967 You Only Live Twice - Miss Moneypenny
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Miss Moneypenny
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Max
1966-1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Beth Parish / Helen
- Simon and Delilah (1967) ... Beth Parish
- Interlude in Venice (1966) ... Helen
1966 Rome, Sweet Home (TV Movie)
1966 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Felisa Henderson
- The Millionaire's Daughter (1966) ... Felisa Henderson
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Charlotte Russell
- Something for a Rainy Day (1966) ... Charlotte Russell
1965 Thunderball - Moneypenny
1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) - Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson / Marinville Tracking Station / ...
- Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- Marineville Traitor (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson (voice)
- The Golden Sea (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- The Master Plan (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
1965 The Ambassadors (TV Movie) - Sarah Pocock
1964 Goldfinger - Moneypenny
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Elizabeth Creasey
- Party for Murder (1964) ... Elizabeth Creasey
1964 The Avengers (TV Series) - Sister Johnson
- The Little Wonders (1964) ... Sister Johnson
1963 From Russia with Love - Miss Moneypenny
1963 The Haunting - Grace Markway
1957-1963 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Helen Hunter / Genevieve Lang / Miss Baumer
- The Touch of a Dead Hand (1963) ... Helen Hunter
- Skyline for Two (1959) ... Genevieve Lang
- Heaven and Earth (1957) ... Miss Baumer
1963 Come Fly with Me - Gwen Sandley
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Miss. Smith
- The Marriage Broker (1962) ... Miss. Smith
1962 Dr. No - Miss Moneypenny
1962 Lolita - Nurse Mary Lore
1961 The Unstoppable Man - Helen Kennedy
1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Margot
- Nina and the Night People (1961) ... Margot
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series)- Esther Hollis
- The Room Upstairs (1961) ... Esther Hollis
1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Sandi Lewis
- Position of Trust (1960) ... Sandi Lewis
1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mother
- The Dodo (1960) ... Mother

1959 Face of Fire - Ethel Winter
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Ruth Ann Wicker
- The Transmogrification of Chester Brown (1958) ... Ruth Ann Wicker
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Virginia
- Operation Orange Blossom (1957) ... Virginia
1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Judith
- Port Jeopardy (1957) ... Judith
1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Jill Brook
1957 Time Without Pity - Vickie Harker
1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Cass Edgerton
- The Reclining Figure (1956) ... Cass Edgerton
1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Tracy Carmichael / Ann / Cynthia
- One Can't Help Feeling Sorry (1956) ... Tracy Carmichael
- Someone Outside (1956) ... Ann
- A Fast Buck (1956) ... Cynthia
1956 High Terrace - Stephanie Blake
1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Barbara
- Monk's Prior (1956) ... Barbara
1956 Satellite in the Sky - Kim Hamilton
1956 The Petrified Forest (TV Movie) - Gabby Maple
1956 Passport to Treason - Diane Boyd
1955 Torpedo Zone - Lt. Lily Donald
1953 Aida - Amneris
1953 Man in Hiding - Thelma Speight / Tasman
1952 Orient Express (TV Series) - Lynn Walker
- Blue Camellia (1952) ... Lynn Walker
1952 Twilight Women - Christine
1952 Scotland Yard Inspector - Margaret 'Peggy' Maybrick
1952 Ha da venì... don Calogero - Maestrina
1952 The Woman's Angle - Enid Mansell
1952 Love and Poison - Queen Christina
1952 Viva il cinema!
1951 Lebbra bianca - Erika
1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late - Signorina Anna, teacher

1949 Kazan - Louise Maitlin
1949 The Crime Doctor's Diary - Jane Darrin
1948 The Decision of Christopher Blake - Miss McIntyre (uncredited)
1948 The Dark Past - Ruth Collins
1948 The Big Punch - Karen Long
1948 Corridor of Mirrors - Lois
1947 That Hagen Girl - Julia Kane
1946 Springtime - Penelope Cobb (uncredited)
1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Actress (uncredited)

Lois Hooker in the Life Magazine photo, upper left. Norma Jean, front and center.

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September 30th

1952: Dennis Muldowney is executed for the murder of Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville. She was active in espionage during World War II, an acquaintance of Ian Fleming, and possibly the model for his character Vesper Lynd.

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30 September 1952 – Dennis Muldowney

James Bond creator, Ian Fleming was inspired by the exotic Polish victim slain by today’s deadly desperado’s date with death.

Dennis Muldowney was executed on this day in 1952 for the murder of a Cold-War countess.

Marine steward, Muldowney was jailed and sentenced to death for killing Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, who was known for her forays into espionage.

The infamous World War II spy was a key player, passing secrets to the Brits while serving in Germany, Hungary and France. After the war, she came across Ian Fleming and they embarked on a year-long affair.

That’s why she is said to have been the basis for Fleming’s character Vesper Lynd in his first James Bond novel, ‘Casino Royale’, written in 1953 and played by Eva Green in the consequent Bond movie of the same name, as well as Ursula Andress in the spoof version of 1967.

Muldowney was similarly drawn to her and eventually became obsessed, which drove him to stab the 44-year-old to death on 15 June 1952.

He was hanged for his crime at Pentonville prison, aged 41.

1963: Arms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd writes his last letter to Ian Fleming. (The first was 31 May 1956.)
1964: Monica Bellucci is born--Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy .
1976: Paul Dehn dies at age 63. (Born 5 November 1912--Manchester, England.)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Schreiber
The Unsung Achievement of Screenwriter Paul Dehn
By David Kipen

ISSUE: Winter 2013

There are too many clues …
—Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express, screenplay by Paul Dehn

Born a hundred years ago this past November 5, the late poet and critic Paul Dehn won an Oscar, served as a spy in World War II and, notwithstanding his long and loving cohabitation with another man, helped create the epitome of twentieth-century hetero-sexual virility—yet today, even Google all but asks, “Paul who?”

How could this be? What tastemakers did he offend? Did he throw a drink in Edmund Wilson’s face? Make a pass at Susan Sontag? Hardly. His only crime was to excel at the art that dare not speak its name: Paul Dehn was a screenwriter.

In addition to the definitive James Bond picture (Goldfinger), Dehn adapted the works of John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair), Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express), and Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew). He had a hand in the scripts of all four initial Planet of the Apes sequels and won the Oscar for his very first screenplay, the widely influential Cold War suspense film Seven Days to Noon.

Dehn (pronounced “Dane”) resurrected or reinvented at least three genres given up for dead at the time: the British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film. He understood a thing or two about espionage, having taught and then practiced it with distinction during World War II. Yet the hundredth anniversary of Dehn’s birth has passed without the merest hiccup of notice.

I mean to lay out some of the reasons that make Paul Dehn worth remembering not just on his centenary by film critics, but by anybody fascinated with who’s responsible for their favorite movies. Dehn’s scripts suggest an intelligent, witty, morally engaged, cohesive sensibility. Even in his adaptations, he gravitated toward thematically idiosyncratic material. For example, his pictures often begin with the arrival of a threatening letter and fear of exposure (Seven Days to Noon, Murder on the Orient Express, The Deadly Affair)—surely fraught territory for a man acquainted with both deep-cover operations and the menace of British anti-sodomy laws.

Dehn wasn’t the best screenwriter who ever lived. He wrote too few originals, and too often in collaboration, to claim anything of the kind. Nor was he the best author ever to approach film as an art form. That would be Graham Greene, or perhaps Harold Pinter, the only screenwriter ever to win the Nobel Prize. (Pinter wrote as many film and television scripts as he did stage plays.) No, Dehn was merely a very good screenwriter. His work carried a creative signature that withstood even the most overbearing director’s attempts to flatten it.

Our Man in Hollywood

Only one peacetime photograph of Paul Dehn survives. It shows him reclining in a dark leather chair with a book open on his lap. Behind him, level with his balding head, a rank of mostly hardcover books stands mustered for inspection. A writer works here. Close to Dehn’s left hand, atop the desk back of him, sits his only visible concession to modernity: a small British portable tv circa 1970, maybe six inches across, its screen convex with latent entertainment. Legs casually crossed and bent, Dehn looks up from his book and over at us. We’ve surprised him with our camera, but not unpleasantly so. He looks to be in his fifties, his eyeglasses seemingly borrowed from David Hockney, with round lenses and dark frames. His ears must have been prominent even before the hair started to go.

What gets you is the smile. It’s not broad. Every third or fourth glance at him, it’s not there at all. Even when you see it, the smile has more curves than it should, like a sine wave. Dehn essentially resembles a taller, leaner Charlie Brown—already middle-aged and made good, but still a bit nervous.

Military historian Raleigh Trevelyan’s brief but warm evocation of Dehn for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography helps capture something of the spirit of the man: “He delighted everyone with his entertaining manner and piano playing, and could put on a ‘good nightclub act’. He is also recorded as having been a ‘serious thinker’, with a warm and romantic nature, not to mention an outstanding instructor. In America it was said that listening to him was more exciting than reading a spy novel.”

Harold Pinter once described his own screenplay for a half-decent spy film, The Quiller Memorandum, as “between two stools: One, the Bond films and the other, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” In the photograph, Dehn inclines decidedly toward the Smiley end of the spectrum, yet the scripts written at this desk put both George Smiley and James Bond on the screen.

The excellence of Dehn’s spy films derives partly from his wartime experiences as both a desk jockey, like George Smiley, and a field agent, like Bond. Or not like Bond—since how often does Bond do any actual spying?—but at least in the same line. Dehn spent the majority of his war service at the improbable Camp X, a disused estate in Canada commandeered for the training of British spies in what was then called “black warfare,” now “black ops.”

Many walks of life are known for the exhaustiveness of their archival documentation: statesmen, for example, or Nazis. But Englishmen and screenwriters, especially at midcentury, each tended toward self-effacement. Spies and homosexuals were, by definition, outlaws, and likely even less inclined to careless diary-keeping. So the trail for Dehn—and a generation of other gifted screenwriters—is cold and getting colder.

Researching the lives and careers of directors is much easier. Directors get interviewed vastly more often than screenwriters do. They also appear to live considerably longer. It’s uncanny just how many of Dehn’s variously talented directors are still alive, forty or fifty years after their work together. The men who shot Goldfinger (1964), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Fragment of Fear (1970),and The Taming of the Shrew (1967)—Guy Hamilton, Ted Post, Richard Sarafian, and Franco Zeffirelli—may well live to attend their own centennial retrospectives.

Dehn, meanwhile, and all the writers ever credited alongside him, are dead. An actuary and a screenwriter’s analyst might have an interesting conversation about that.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Screenwriter

Goldfinger: I prefer to call it an atomic device. It’s small, but particularly dirty.
—Goldfinger, screenplay by Paul Dehn and Richard Maibaum

Death and radioactivity are abstractions. Corpses and running sores are not.
—Paul Dehn, film review

How did Paul Dehn become the preeminent screenwriter of the Cold War? Like most information about screenwriters, the answer might as well be top secret. There exists no biographical dictionary of screenwriters. The number of good biographies of screenwriters can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. The late Bruce Cook’s dramatic three-act life of Dalton Trumbo, written with his subject’s dying cooperation, stands apart for its quality. A couple of volumes of different scriptwriters’ letters have survived into print as well, with Trumbo’s Additional Dialogue among the best correspondence ever written by an American.

Screenwriter memoirs are just as scarce. Dehn’s fellow Bond scripter Tom Mankiewicz’s recent, addictive My Life as a Mankiewicz (2012) is an object lesson in the thoroughly untapped potential of the genre. After all, successful screenwriters can actually write. They also tend to meet interesting people, and travel in circles that many readers actively wonder about. Their careers split the difference between Horatio Alger and Dr. Faustus. What film buff wouldn’t want to read about that?

If there were a biographical dictionary of screenwriters, Paul Dehn’s entry might begin like this:

1912–1939: Born Manchester, of German Jewish descent, Nov. 5, 1912. Educated at Oxford. Fond of men. Contemporary of notorious Russian moles Philby, Burgess, Maclean. Upon graduation, down to London. Encouraged by godfather, drama critic James Agate, contributes numerous humorous film reviews to newspapers up one side of Fleet Street and down the other. Also writes poetry, lyrics, and libretti.

So far, unspectacular. Dehn’s reviews amuse, but his proficient, highly formal poetry canters confidently toward critical oblivion. Had he kept on in this vein, he might have become a kind of road-show Ivor Novello, forever marooned in the 1930s as the world grew past him.

Then came the war. Redacted for national security—and by the strictest of all censors, an ungrateful posterity—his sketchy wartime biographical listing might continue as follows:

1939–1945: Joins Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) early in the war. Stationed in Canada alongside Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee. Learns tradecraft, drills spies in same. Cowrites S.O.E. spy training manual. Dispatched on missions in continental Europe and Scandinavia. In 1944 meets composer James Bernard, begins lifelong domestic and creative partnership.

Without at least a research trip to the Imperial War Museum in London, we’ll have to content ourselves with Dehn’s slender, self-deprecating version of his wartime experiences: “I was an instructor to a band of thugs called the S.O.E.,” he recalled to Chris Knight and Peter Nicholson in what may be his only surviving interview, “and I instructed them in various things on darkened estates, so I got a pretty good view of what counterespionage was like.” Dehn then nudges the conversation on to the next question. As with World War I, not the least of its sequel’s aftereffects was a reticence bordering on aphasia.

But, as we learn from an interview with John le Carré that accompanies the 2008 DVD reissue of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, there is more to be said on the subject of Dehn’s wartime service. “Paul actually had been in our Special Operations Executive during the war, and he had been, among other things, a professional assassin,” le Carré remembers. “It was a gruesome fact. Paul was a very gentle guy, lovely to work with.” He adds, “Great credit to Paul Dehn, the screenwriter, who, as I mentioned, had had pretty startling experience of the spook world.” This information speaks to the discernible—even preeminent—signature of the screenwriter. Quite literally, you can read him like a book.

1946–1950: Demobbed, returns to London, resumes versatile writing career, begins moonlighting as screenwriter.

Like Truffaut or Goddard in their magazine days, exalting the role of the director shortly before assuming it, Dehn’s film reviews from this era display a rare sensitivity to the contributions of the screenwriter. “One has waited with impatience for a script-writer of discernment,” he characteristically wrote, “to adapt James Thurber’s piteously funny parable about the fantasies of Walter Mitty.” For Dehn as well, the piteously funny was something of a critical stock in trade. Of Esther Williams, he cracked, “Only on dry land is she truly out of her depth.”

Dehn had written amateur theatricals as a student and film reviews ever since, but never a movie. If his prior interview is to be believed, he got into screenwriting for a reason as unusual as it is laudable: Dehn hoped it might make him a better critic. “I started writing manuscripts,” he told his interlocutors in 1972, “because I found it so hard to allocate praise and blame justly in a composite work of art like a film.” Imagine the decades of damage undone, in other arts as well as film, if defections like Dehn’s over the firewall between critics and practitioners were not so rare, and usually so irreversible.

So here begins one of the great runs in the annals of Anglo-American popular filmmaking. Dehn’s first script was not a spy story, but only a spy could have done it justice. No manuscript survives of Dehn and his partner Bernard’s screen treatment for Seven Days to Noon, the placidly terrifying Cold War thriller that won the 1952 Academy Award for best story. Absent any records, we can only speculate that more of the work fell to Dehn, who made his living at his typewriter, than to Bernard, who never received another writing credit—though the latter did go on to score almost all the Hammer horror films. The barest outline of Seven Days to Noon itself would read as follows:

Principled government scientist Willingdon absconds from secret facility carrying suitcase-sized nuclear explosive. Writes to Prime Minister threatening to detonate bomb in London unless nuclear weapons research suspended. Londoners evacuated to countryside. Sappers sweep deserted city for Willingdon, confront him in ruined church as bomb timer ticks down to final seconds.

What this précis leaves out are Dehn’s grace notes: a lapdog nosing around a satchel containing enough potential blast force to obliterate London, the paranoia of a fugitive whose face suddenly stares back at him from every hoarding and newsagent he sees. Already present in embryo are the signature Dehn themes: the plot set in motion by a letter, the overhanging shadow of nuclear annihilation, and the moral complexity of even the noblest motives.

Dehn had trained men to lie and kill and, if necessary, die for queen and country. Impatient with teaching, he went on missions himself, took lives according to le Carré, and risked his own. Finally, with England all but free, he’d seen her allies slaughter one-fifth of a million people over four days in August of 1945. Is it any wonder that Seven Days to Noon and several of Dehn’s later films end with a lone man crouched over an atom bomb and time running out? Alone or with colleagues, from source material or from scratch, Dehn would write several of the most sophisticated, intelligent entertainments about the Cold War and its arsenal ever made. Perhaps 1952 struck some as a touch on the early side to be writing antinuclear films, but his style and polish conspired to help the strong medicine go down.

If Seven Days to Noon and later Goldfinger hardly resulted in immediate nuclear disarmament, they nevertheless gave a shape to our nightmares. Dehn did not have it in him to do more than that. He was no diplomat. He’d seen enough of that breed at university, and too many would soon betray either their ideals or their country. Instead, Dehn did what he could with what he had. He did his bit.

1951–1958: Fresh off his Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, newly sensitized to the screenwriter’s role, Dehn takes up reviewing again. Also writes well-received short films, including one about the Glyndebourne Opera. Returns to features in 1958 with script for Orders to Kill, French Resistance-set suspense film about American pilot recruited by British to kill possible Parisian double agent. Target appears kindly, gentle, harmless. Friendship develops between oblivious victim and his conflicted assassin.

If a little centenary attention to Paul Dehn accomplishes nothing else, may it at least rescue Orders to Kill—which deservingly won the 1958 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for best screenplay—from the memory hole that’s swallowed altogether too many fine midcentury British genre pictures. Sending filmgoers back to familiar movies with fresh eyes is a mitzvah, of course. Even more satisfying is to spotlight rarities like this that no one has looked at carefully in years. So it is with this slow-starting, screw-turning, ultimately quite moving thriller, directed by Anthony Asquith, the man to whom Dehn’s 1956 oddments collection For Love and Money is dedicated.

Aside from the sheer excellence of its craftsmanship, Orders to Kill rehearses themes that haunted Dehn his entire career. In Seven Days to Noon, he’s already introduced one idea that will preoccupy him from first film to last: the slaughter of innocents. In that film, Willingdon threatens to incinerate all of London, young and old, the blameless with the guilty. By the end, the potential toll of the suitcase bomb has shrunk to a few military men—and Willingdon himself. For Willingdon is the last innocent—a meek, mild man constitutionally unable to hear out the violent bluster of a stranger in a pub, yet prepared to destroy an entire city to save the world from science gone mad. His ambivalence becomes our own: We want London saved, but do we want him dead? We sympathize with his mission even as we deplore his methods. When the bomb is ultimately defused, we share his disappointment as much as his pursuers’ relief. A moment later, Willingdon’s death outside the church comes as a martyrdom.

Similarly, the suspected double agent in Orders to Kill earns our sympathy long before his innocence is finally proven. Like Willingdon, he’s a milquetoast, an easy mark for stray kittens and lost souls—even the one who will ultimately kill him. His cat, and the floozy’s dog in Seven Days to Noon who sniffs at Willingdon’s mysterious parcel, echo and reinforce their masters’ guilelessness. War kills the complicit and the pure alike, as Dehn must have learned in his war work. To judge by his later scripts, no amount of writing about it would ever put this guilt fully to bed.

1959–1964: Maintains steady work as film critic. Writes Quake, Quake, Quake in 1961, a miscellany of familiar comic verse, all rewritten to incorporate Sputnik-era subject matter and antinuclear politics. Sample stanza: “Hey diddle diddle, / The physicists fiddle, / The Bleep jumped over the moon. / The little dog laughed to see such fun / And died the following June.” Gives up reviewing in 1963 to become full-time screenwriter. Adapts Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Goldfinger in 1964. Story concerns master criminal’s plot to irradiate America’s gold supply and increase value of own holdings. Goldfinger thwarted when Bond penetrates Fort Knox depository and helps defuse warhead with seconds remaining.

Goldfinger is the most famous script Dehn ever worked on, and success never wants for paternity claims. His cowriter Richard Maibaum, who later became for James Bond what Dehn would become for the Apes films—the go-to writer and sheepish keeper of the franchise flame—claimed authorship of Goldfinger’s first and last drafts, with Dehn coming on in between. Film is “a composite work of art,” as Dehn the critic knew long before he ever set his tab stops at screenplay width. If we risk praising Dehn for any of Maibaum’s work, it’s no greater risk than too many film critics court every day by crediting a director with just about everything.

The scene in Goldfinger we can most confidently ascribe to Dehn is, of course, the climax he pioneered a decade earlier in Seven Days to Noon. Even if Maibaum had written it, consciously or not he pinched the idea from Dehn. It may be hard nowadays to conceive of the climactic bomb-defusal countdown as one man’s invention, rather than part of our archetypal collective unconscious. But Dehn got there first in Seven Days to Noon, when the Cold War was young, and in Goldfinger he may just have done it best.

At least two moments distinguish the Goldfinger countdown from all the rest. First, it may be the first scene in the Bond series in which 007 is overmatched. He’s arm-deep in the bomb’s guts—and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Whether contemporary audiences realized it or not, the subtext here is most assuredly the fear of firepower that even 007 can’t save us from. As Connery plays it, Bond is on the verge of yanking a wire at random and hoping for the best—when a trusty nuclear scientist mercifully intervenes and neutralizes the bomb in seconds. “What kept you?” Bond asks. Even today, after half a century of hollow promises and unsecured plutonium, what’s keeping our deliverer now?

1965–1969: Dehn adapts The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair (AKA Call for the Dead), from novels by John le Carré. Also two agreeably overproduced international coproductions, The Taming of the Shrew and The Night of the Generals.

After Goldfinger, it took Dehn’s two le Carré adaptations to make the screen safe for espionage without lasers or martinis. As Dehn admits, “I am one of those writers who like darting about from one type of film to another. And when I’d collaborated on Goldfinger, I wanted to do a truthful spy story instead of a fantastic one, which is why I did The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Deadly Affair.”

Le Carré himself deserves the laurels for Richard Burton’s great self-loathing monologues against idealism—Marxist and otherwise—in The Spy Who Came in from The Cold. But Dehn’s deft streamlining and word-pictures, filtered through Oswald Morris’s cinematography and Martin Ritt’s direction, help make those speeches play.

There’s more to a script than dialogue, or Dehn’s later script for The Taming of the Shrew wouldn’t have required even a bad writer’s screenwriting services, let alone a great one’s. As Dehn himself said, “It isn’t just a question, as so many people think it is, of writing the dialogue. Some writers, myself included, go into great detail, and they have a strange physical sense, and they see that film on the wall and write down what they see.”

Dehn also warrants credit for a mental image that sticks with a viewer, long after those soliloquies have left behind no residue but a willingness to hear Burton speak them again and again. I’m referring to all those small mounted animal heads in the courtroom at the final East German show trial, peering down at defense and prosecution alike. The long tribunal twists to its surprising end, unforgettably, under the specter of this profligate sacrifice of life.

Animals meant the world to Dehn. He kept cats and watched birds, and composed the rhyming text for Cat’s Whiskers, an entire book of feline photography. As he once wrote, “My hobby is birdwatching: partly because sunlight and fresh air are more than normally vital to a film-critic who spends three weeks of the year’s daylight in the almost total darkness of a cinema.”

If only film retrospectives would recapitulate a writer’s career every so often, recurrent Dehn subthemes—like this identification of animals with vulnerability—would unfailingly shine out. One can’t look back over Dehn’s career without noting a virtual arkful of innocuous fauna. The inquisitive dog in Seven Days to Noon, the contraband cat in Orders to Kill, Goldfinger’s stud horse—“Certainly better bred than the owner,” Bond muses—all testify to his benign preference for animal company over the human kind. Dehn later breathed fresh life into the Planet of the Apes films by focusing not on the humans, but on the chimpanzees.

1970–1973: Writes or cowrites four Apes sequels in as many years. A true rarity: the non-horror studio film series in which every picture’s ending is bleak.

The Apes sequels differ from their precursors in Dehn’s filmography chiefly by not being very good. Centenary or no centenary, nobody gets away with a speech like “You’re the beast in us that we have to whip into submission. You’re the savage that we need to shackle in chains.” That’s from his script for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. If screenwriters are the true authors of their films (a case I tried to make in The Schreiber Theory [2006]), then they write the bad ones along with the good.

Yet even a good screenwriter’s creatively unsuccessful films are interesting in the context of a career, and Dehn’s Apes scripts are nothing if not interesting. Beneath the Planet of the Apes may be a meddled-with, muddled, mediocre movie, but it’s saved by one great visual idea—a realistic portrait of New York as a sunless, corroded, post-apocalyptic hell, overrun by mutants—and a wryly remorseless ending. For the classic Dehn threat of wholesale slaughter, it’s hard to top Beneath the Planet of the Apes, in which a “cobalt bomb” carries off the entire world. The final title card breaks the news to us with sadistic understatement, especially for any viewers unlucky enough to be impressionable children at the time: “In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.”

Dehn originally fought this finale, which Charlton Heston pumped for in order to kill off the series for good, but ultimately Dehn submitted to it in high style. He was rightly anticipating the quandary he would face if Twentieth Century Fox commissioned another sequel after all—a dilemma he wound up solving, in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, through a characteristically ingenious time-travel kludge.

1974: Adapts Agatha’s Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, to great acclaim. Story finds detective Hercule Poirot aboard snowbound train, with sleeping car full of likely suspects in murder of industrialist implicated in Lindbergh-like kidnapping. Christie pronounces it best film from her work to date.

Dehn began his career with the Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, and rounded it off with a nomination for Murder on the Orient Express. (Already ill with cancer, he lost to The Godfather, Part II.) Murder stands among his best work, not least for its use of humor and dramatic tension to distract from the original’s simultaneous predictability and outlandishness. How Dehn keeps viewers guessing as to which of the twelve other passengers has given the murder victim twelve stab wounds—why, whatever could that mean?—is itself a mystery.

Save The Taming of the Shrew, Dehn never wrote a script that did not begin or end in death. His own came at sixty-three, likely the result of a lifelong cigarette habit. In the work of a writer as war-scarred as Dehn, death is rarely solitary. In Seven Days to Noon, he imperiled an entire city; in Goldfinger, half of Kentucky. In The Night of the Generals, Peter O’Toole orders the massacre of the surviving population of the Warsaw Ghetto. The “holy fallout” in Beneath the Planet of the Apes takes the whole planet with it. Meanwhile, Dehn’s own death, in 1976, met with scarcely more commemoration than his centenary this year.

So who really misses Paul Dehn after a hundred years? Besides John le Carré, that is, and Dehn’s niece, the poet Jehane Markham, who remembers him “as a dear friend as well as top notch uncle”? Perhaps no one.

There’s just one hitch. By end of next year, the same centennial odometer will turn over on the screenwriters of High Noon, Midnight Cowboy, The Defiant Ones, Salt of the Earth, and On the Waterfront—four blacklistees and one informer, all heroically gifted, each tragically either silenced, compromised, or redeemed. Will their fascinating careers share the Dehn curse of asterisked obscurity?

It’s up to us. Think of a dead screenwriter’s reputation like an early silver nitrate print of a classic movie. It degrades, over time, into dust. But once touched with sunlight, it might yet flare into incandescence—and send all our prized assumptions about film authorship up in smoke. 

Paul Dehn (I) (1912–1976)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214989/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Writer (20 credits)

1974 Murder on the Orient Express (screenplay by)
1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes (story)
1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (written by)
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes (written by)
1970 Fragment of Fear (screenplay)
1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (screenplay) / (story)
1970 Music on 2 (TV Series) (libretto - 1 episode)
- The Bear (1970) ... (libretto)

1968 Beryl Reid Says Good Evening (TV Series) (additional material - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3 (1968) ... (additional material)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Episode #2.1 (1967)
1967 The Taming of the Shrew (screen play by)
1967 The Night of the Generals (adapted for the screen by) / (additional dialogue)
1967 The Deadly Affair (screenplay)
1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (screenplay)
1964 Goldfinger (screenplay)
1960 A Place for Gold (Documentary short) (commentary writer)
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- A Woman of No Importance (1960) ... (adaptation)

1958 Orders to Kill (screenplay)
1956 On Such a Night (Short) (screenplay)
1951 Waters of Time (Documentary short)
1950 Seven Days to Noon (original story)

Music department (2 credits)

1955 I Am a Camera (English lyric by)
1952 Moulin Rouge (lyrics adaptd by)

Producer (1 credit)

1970 Fragment of Fear (associate producer)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1961 The Innocents ("O Willow Waly")

1989: Licence to Kill released in Japan.

1991: Syndicated animated television series James Bond Jr, produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and MGM Animation, airs Episode 01 - The Beginning. (Final Episode 65 - Thor's Thunder airs 2 March 1992.)

2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a single in the US.

2013: William Boyd's Bond novel Solo begins a 10-episode run on Books at Bedtime. BBC Radio 4. Read by Paterson Joseph, adapted by Libby Spurrier.

RichardTheBruce

October 1st

1903: Richard Loo is born--Maui, Hawaii. (He dies 30 November 1983 at age 80--Los Angeles, California.)

RICHARD LOO,
ACTOR 5 DECADES

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/obituaries/richard-loo-actor-5-decades.html
Nov. 22, 1983

Richard Loo, a Chinese-American actor best known for his many portrayals of Japanese villains in World War II movies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday night at the age of 80.

Mr. Loo, who was born in Maui, Hawaii, appeared in nearly 150 films over the course of almost 50 years in the movie business. ''He was known as the man who died to make a living,'' said his daughter Beverly Jane Loo.

''He was always either stabbing himself or committing hara-kiri or kamikaze,'' she said. ''He always played the big honcho who was really going to make life tough for the Americans, the really nasty Japanese general or colonel who ended up killing himself as a point of honor because he never got the best of the Americans.''

Among Mr. Loo's movies were ''The Purple Heart,'' ''God Is My Co-pilot,'' ''Story of Dr. Wessell,'' ''Keys of the Kingdom,'' ''The Good Earth,'' ''The Bitter Tea of General Yen,'' and ''Back to Bataan.''

In later years, he frequently appeared on television, and was featured in the ''Kung Fu'' television series. He was also the subject of impersonation by others; during his own television heyday, Dick Cavett was fond of doing Richard Loo imitations, particularly a scene from ''Purple Heart'' in which Mr. Loo, as a Japanese general, interrogated American fliers shot down in a raid over Tokyo.

According to Miss Loo, Mr. Loo did not mind the typecasting that dominated his career. ''He felt very patriotic about being in those movies,'' she said.

Mr. Loo's last film was a 1974 James Bond movie called ''The Man With the Golden Gun,'' in which he played a Chinese capitalist who financed the villain.

He is survived by his wife, Hope; two daughters, Beverly Jane, the head of Beverly Jane Loo Associates, a New York book publishing company, and Angela Levy of Los Angeles, and one grandchild. His former wife, Bessie Loo, served as his agent and maintains her own talent agency, Bessie S. Loo Associates, in Los Angeles.

Richard Loo (I) (1903–1983)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519618/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (172 credits)

1981 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) -Kam Chong
- East Winds (1981) ... Kam Chong

1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Chen Lee
- The Secret of the Jade Kwan Yin (1977) ... Chen Lee
1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Eddie Lee
- The Blue Fog (1977) ... Eddie Lee
1976 The Quest (TV Series) - Dr. Li Po
- Welcome to America, Jade Snow (1976) ... Dr. Li Po
1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (TV Movie) - Chiang-Kai-Shek
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Hai Fat
1972-1974 Kung Fu (TV Series) - Master Sun / Ho Fai, The Weapons Master / Wu Chang / ...
- Besieged: Cannon at the Gates (1974) ... Master Sun
- The Devil's Champion (1974) ... Ho Fai, The Weapons Master
- Arrogant Dragon (1974) ... Wu Chang
- The Tong (1973) ... Chen
- Blood Brother (1973) ... Master Sun
1974 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Tanaka
- The Attacker (1974) ... Tanaka
1973 McCloud (TV Series) - Y.S. Chen
- The Solid Gold Swingers (1973) ... Y.S. Chen (uncredited)
1973 Ironside (TV Series) - Lin Chu Tai
- In the Forests of the Night (1973) ... Lin Chu Tai
1972 The Delphi Bureau (TV Series) - Shen Si
- The Deadly Little Errand (1972) ... Shen Si
1972 The Sixth Sense (TV Series) - Matsuo
- With This Ring, I Thee Kill! (1972) ... Matsuo
1971 Chandler - Leo
1971 One More Train to Rob - Mr. Chang
1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
1970 One More Time (uncredited)
1968-1970 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Wong / Dr. Langpoor / Clown
- Project "X" (1970) ... Wong
- Payoff in the Piazza (1969) ... Dr. Langpoor
- A Case of Red Turnips (1968) ... Clown
1970 Bewitched (TV Series) - Mr. Tanaka
- Samantha's Better Halves (1970) ... Mr. Tanaka

1969 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Chi Pei
- Marriage, Chinese Style (1969) ... Chi Pei
1969 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) - Kenji Yamashita
- A Matter of Humanities (1969) ... Kenji Yamashita
1968 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Wong Tou
- Twenty-Four Karat Kill (1968) ... Wong Tou
1967 My Three Sons (TV Series) - Mr. Chang
- Weekend in Paradise (1967) ... Mr. Chang
1967 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Chen
- The Mother Tongue (1967) ... Mr. Chen
1966 The Sand Pebbles - Major Chin
1966 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Dr. Yahama
- The Indian Affairs Affair (1966) ... Dr. Yahama
1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Wong
- Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper (1966) ... Wong
1966 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Wang Chung
- The Night the Dragon Screamed (1966) ... Wang Chung
1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Admiral Osuma
- The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 2 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
- The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 1 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
1965 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Grass Slipper
- Deadlier Than the Male (1965) ... Grass Slipper
1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Li Tung
- Time Bomb (1965) ... Li Tung
1965 Honey West (TV Series) - Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
- The Owl and the Eye (1965) ... Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Tsung
- So Long, Patrick Henry (1965) ... Mr. Tsung
1963 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Mr. Eng
- The Case of the Floating Stones (1963) ... Mr. Eng
1963 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Liu Yang
- The Widow O'Rourke Story (1963) ... Liu Yang
1963 The Outer Limits (TV Series) - Li-Chin Sung
- The Hundred Days of the Dragon (1963) ... Li-Chin Sung
1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - George Yang
- The Chooser of the Slain (1963) ... George Yang
1963 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - C.K. Yang
- Two Too Many (1963) ... C.K. Yang
1962 The Red Uncle (Short)
1962 A Girl Named Tamiko - Otani
1962 Diamond Head - Yamagata (uncredited)
1962 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Andrew Ling
- So Various, So Beautiful (1962) ... Andrew Ling
1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater - George Wah
1962 The Beachcomber (TV Series) - Ah Wei
- Charlie Six Kids (1962) ... Ah Wei
1961 Espionage: Far East
1961 Bonanza (TV Series) - General Mu Tsung
- Day of the Dragon (1961) ... General Mu Tsung
1961 7 Women from Hell - Sgt. Takahashi
1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - District Attorney
- The Woman Who Never Was (1961) ... District Attorney
1961 Maverick (TV Series) - Lee Hong Chang
- The Golden Fleecing (1961) ... Lee Hong Chang
1960-1961 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Chung / Low
- Suitable for Framing (1961) ... Chung
- The Jade Empress (1960) ... Low

1959 The Scavengers
1958 Hong Kong Affair - Li Noon
1958 The Quiet American - Mr. Heng
1958 Tombstone Territory (TV Series) - Quong Key
- Tong War (1958) ... Quong Key
1957 Battle Hymn - Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Hong Kong Saloon Manager (uncredited)
1955-1956 TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) - Lew Gar Mun / Officer
- The Smuggler (1956) ... Lew Gar Mun
- The Brainwashing of John Hayes (1955) ... Officer
1954-1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series) - Ho Chung
- Diplomatic Outpost (1956) ... Ho Chung
- Ordeal in Burma (1954)
1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) - Jo-Kai
- Wall of Bamboo (1956) ... Jo-Kai
1956 The Man Called X (TV Series) -
- Assassination (1956)
1956 The Conqueror - Captain of Wang's Guard
1956 Crossroads (TV Series) - Colonel
- Calvary in China (1956) ... Colonel
1956 Navy Log (TV Series) - General Hashimoto
- Dr. Van (1956) ... General Hashimoto
1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Robert Hung
1955 House of Bamboo - Inspector Kito's Voice (voice, uncredited)
1955 Soldier of Fortune - Gen. Po Lin
1954 The Bamboo Prison - Commandant Hsai Tung
1954 My Little Margie (TV Series) - Mr. Tang
- San Francisco Story (1954) ... Mr. Tang
1954 December Bride (TV Series)
- The Chinese Dinner (1954)
1954 The Shanghai Story - Junior Officer
1954 Living It Up - Dr. Lee
1954 Hell and High Water - Hakada Fujimori
1953 China Venture -0 Chang Sung
1953 Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Major Chang
- The Traitor (1953) ... Major Chang
- I Cover Korea (1953)
1953 Summer Theatre (TV Series)
- Foo Young (1953)
1953 Mr. & Mrs. North (TV Series) - John Wing
- Jade Dragon (1953) ... John Wing
1953 Destination Gobi - Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp (uncredited)
1953 Target Hong Kong - Fu Chao
1952 5 Fingers - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
1951 I Was an American Spy - Col. Masamato
1951 Operation Pacific - Japanese Fighter Pilot (uncredited)
1951 Chinatown Chump (Short) - Chinese Counterfeiter
1951 The Steel Helmet - Sgt. Tanaka

1949 Malaya - Colonel Genichi Tomura
1949 The Clay Pigeon - Ken Tokoyama - aka The Weasel
1949 State Department: File 649 - Marshal Yun Usu
1948 Rogues' Regiment - Kao Pang
1948 The Golden Eye - Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1948 The Cobra Strikes - Hyder Ali
1948 Half Past Midnight - Lee Gow
1948 To the Ends of the Earth - Commissioner Lu (uncredited)
1948 Women in the Night - Col. Noyama
1947 Beyond Our Own - James Wong
1947 Web of Danger - Wing
1947 Seven Were Saved - Colonel Yamura
1947 The Beginning or the End - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
1946 Tokyo Rose - Colonel Suzuki
1945 Prison Ship - Capt. Osikawa
1945 First Yank Into Tokyo - Col. Hideko Okanura
1945 Back to Bataan - Maj. Hasko
1945 China's Little Devils - Colonel Huraji
1945 China Sky - Col. Yasuda
1945 God Is My Co-Pilot - Tokyo Joe
1945 Betrayal from the East - Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani
1944 The Keys of the Kingdom - Lt. Shon
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell - Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
1944 The Purple Heart - General Ito Mitsubi
1943 Rookies in Burma - Colonel Matsuda (uncredited)
1943 Jack London - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
1943 So Proudly We Hail! - Japanese Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
1943 Destroyer - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
1943 Behind the Rising Sun - Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium (uncredited)
1943 Yanks Ahoy - Japanese Submarine Officer (uncredited)
1943 China - Lin Yun
1943 The Falcon Strikes Back - Jerry
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday - General Chan (uncredited)
1943 Flight for Freedom - Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)
1943 City Without Men - Japanese Spy (uncredited)
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm - Emperor Hirohito - 'Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang' Number (uncredited)
1942 Road to Morocco - Chinese Announcer (uncredited)
1942 Flying Tigers - Dr. Tsing (uncredited)
1942 Manila Calling - Filipino (uncredited)
1942 Across the Pacific - First Officer Miyuma
1942 Wake Island - Mr. Saburo Kurusu (uncredited)
1942 Little Tokyo, U.S.A. - Oshima
1942 Bombs Over Burma - Japanese Colonel
1942 Submarine Raider - Chauffeur Suji (uncredited)
1942 Remember Pearl Harbor - Mandolin-Playing Japanese Radioman (uncredited)
1942 A Yank on the Burma Road - Commandant (uncredited)
1941 Secret of the Wastelands - Quan
1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
1941 Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery - Henchman (uncredited)
1940 Doomed to Die - Tong Leader
1940 The Fatal Hour - Jeweler

1939 Barricade - Colonel Commander of Rescue Party (uncredited)
1939 Daughter of the Tong - Wong - Hotel Clerk
1939 Island of Lost Men - Gen. Ahn Ling
1939 Lady of the Tropics - Delaroch's Chauffeur (uncredited)
1939 Miracles for Sale - Chinese Soldier in Demo (uncredited)
1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown - Tong Chief
1939 Panama Patrol - Tommy Young
1939 Torchy Blane in Chinatown - Masked Chinese Hood (uncredited)
1939 North of Shanghai - Jed's Pilot
1938 Shadows Over Shanghai - Fong
1938 Too Hot to Handle - Charlie (uncredited)
1938 Blondes at Work - Sam Wong (uncredited)
1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Cop at Shooting Site (uncredited)
1937 West of Shanghai - Mr. Cheng
1937 That Certain Woman - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1937 Outlaws of the Orient - The General (uncredited)
1937 The Singing Marine - Shanghai Hotel Official (uncredited)
1937 The Soldier and the Lady - Tartar (uncredited)
1937 China Passage - Lia Sen's Husband (voice, uncredited)
1937 Lost Horizon - Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
1937 The Good Earth - Chinese Farmer (uncredited)
1936 After the Thin Man - Lichee Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
1936 Stowaway - Chinese Merchant (uncredited)
1936 Mad Holiday - Li Yat (uncredited)
1936/II Shadow of Chinatown - Chinese Man on Street (uncredited)
1936/I Shadow of Chinatown - Loo, Chinese Man on Street [Chs. 5-7] (uncredited)
1936 Roaming Lady - Chinese Seaman (uncredited)
1935 China Seas - Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
1935 Captured in Chinatown - Ling Hatchet Man (uncredited)
1935 Shadows of the Orient - Yung Yow - Chinese Henchman (uncredited)
1935 Stranded - Chinese Groom (uncredited)
1934 The Mysterious Mr. Wong - Bystander Outside Store (uncredited)
1934 Limehouse Blues - Customer at Harry Young's (uncredited)
1934 The Painted Veil - Chinese Peasant (uncredited)
1934 Student Tour - Geisha's Customer (uncredited)
1934 Now and Forever - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Capt. Li
1932 The Secrets of Wu Sin - Charlie San
1932 War Correspondent - Bandit (uncredited)

Sergeant Tanaka in Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet

1959: Ian Fleming sends nephews Christopher, David, and Valentine Fleming ‎£100 for their 21st birthdays (late for David and Valentine). With conditions.

"Until now I had not got enough money to get people presents
that were really presents, but now I send each of you ‎£100 on one
condition--that at least ‎£75 must be spent within a month on one
single object, or two or three objects, which you would really
like to have."

1959: Kinematograph Weekly announces pre-production on the film project James Bond of the Secret Service, with Ian Fleming writing an original script for producer Kevin McClory. Filming planned to start February 1960.
1960: James Bond comic strip Dr. No ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 23 May 1960. 584-697)
John McLusky, artist. Peter O'Donnell , writer.

Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3?s=comics&id=01777
Döden På Jamaica (Death At Jamaica- Dr No)


Danish 1965 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-4-1964/

1964: Dr. No re-released in the UK.
1965: From Russia With Love released in Belgium.
1965: This month Marvel Comics introduces the character Desmond Boothroyd, S.H.I.E.L.D. Armorer.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Desmond_Boothroyd_(Earth-616)


Strange Tales Volume 1, #137

1976: Moonraker films Richard Kiel as Jaws.
1987: The Living Daylights released in Belgium.
1992: This month Marvel comics releases James Bond Jr #10 "Friends Like These", featuring Dr. Derange.

James Bond Jr #10 "Friends Like These"
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-jr-10-friends-like-these/4000-36306/user-reviews/

2012: Adele is confirmed as the singer of the title song "Skyfall".
2015: Sony's Made for Bond advertisement with Moneypenny and the Xperia Z5 premieres in the UK.

RichardTheBruce

October 2nd

1926: Tom Pevsner is born--Dresden, Germany. (He dies 18 August 2014 at age 80--United Kingdom.)

Tom Pevsner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pevsner

Born Thomas C. Pevsner, 2 October 1926, Dresden, Germany
Died 18 August 2014 (aged 87), Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Occupation Assistant film director and producer
Years active 1953–95
Parent(s) Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Lola Pevsner

Tom Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.

He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian-Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.

He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the St John's College Film Society. He was editor of The Cambridge Review; after graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation.

Tom Pevsner's s notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula. He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner.

He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.

Tom Pevsner (1926–2014)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678932/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (27 credits)

1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (assistant director)

1969 Sinful Davey (assistant director)
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (assistant director)
1967 The Night of the Generals (assistant director)
1964 Topkapi (assistant director)
1963 Ladies Who Do (assistant director)
1962 The Longest Day (assistant director)
1962 The Counterfeit Traitor (assistant director)
1961 One, Two, Three (assistant director)
1961 The Devil's Daffodil (assistant director)
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (assistant director)
1960 The City of the Dead (assistant director)
1960 The Savage Innocents (assistant director)

1959 Portrait of a Sinner (assistant director)
1959 The Scapegoat (assistant director)
1958 Indiscreet (assistant director)
1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (assistant director)
1957 All at Sea (assistant director)
1957 The Shiralee (assistant director)
1957 Decision Against Time (assistant director)
1956 Who Done It ? (assistant director)
1955 The Ladykillers (assistant director)
1955 The Night My Number Came Up (assistant director)
1954 The Divided Heart (second assistant director - uncredited)
1954 High and Dry (third assistant director - uncredited)
1953 The Square Ring (third assistant director - uncredited)
1953 The Cruel Sea (third assistant director - uncredited)

Producer (10 credits)

1995 GoldenEye (executive producer)
1989 Licence to Kill (associate producer)
1987 The Living Daylights (associate producer)
1985 A View to a Kill (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
1983 Octopussy (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (associate producer)

1979 Dracula (associate producer)
1977 Julia (associate producer)
1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (associate producer)
Hide Hide Production manager (4 credits)
1975 The Wind and the Lion (production supervisor)
1974 The Spikes Gang (production supervisor)
1971 'Doc' (production manager)

1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (supervising production manager)

Director (1 credit)

1962 Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?

1962: Dr. No previewed to the British press at the London Pavilion.
1967: Com 007 Só Se Vive Duas Vezes (With 007 Only If You Live Twice) released in Brazil.

2008 Puffin releases Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Silverfin released as a graphic novel.
Kev Walker, artist. Charlie Higson, writer.

Released in the US by Disney Hyperion 2010. Awarded the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award.

https://ebabble.net/silverfin-graphic-novel/

2012: Bérénice Marlohe promotes BOND 24 in Russia.
2012: Adele's Bond title theme is leaked online.
2017: Scientific Games showcases casino slot machines representing Casino Royale, Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever at the Global Gaming Expo ("G2E"), Sands Expo, Las Vegas. With the rights to all existing and future Bond films.

Casino Royale

Goldfinger

Diamonds Are Forever

RichardTheBruce

October 3rd

1960: Bond comic strip Goldfinger begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 1 April 1961. 698-849) John McClusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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







Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3



Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk2-goldfinger-1965/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 2: “Contra Goldfinger” (Interpresse 1965)

1968: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 18 December 1967. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence , writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_tswlm_review.php3







Swedish Semic Comic 1967 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3


Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-18-1969/



Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/the-spy-who-loved-me/

1968: EON announce model George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery in the Bond role.

1977: La espía que me amó (The Spy Who Loves Me) released in Spain. Catalan L'espia que em va estimar (The Spy That Loved Me).

1982: Octopussy films OO7 chased by elephants
1985: 007 En la mira de los asesinos (007 at the Sight of the Murderers) released in Peru.

1987: 007 Marcado para a Morte (007 Marked for Death) released in Brazil.

1992: Shiela Johnston and Joel Silver speculate on the stalled James Bond franchise.

FILM / James Bond, for screen and
country: Sheila Johnston talks to current
action king Joel Silver about Bond's
prospects

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-james-bond-for-screen-and-country-sheila-johnston-talks-to-current-action-king-joel-silver-1555168.html
SHEILA JOHNSTON | Saturday 3 October 1992 00:02

Thirty years after James Bond's screen debut, his reputation has been severely shaken, not stirred. He hasn't been activated for three years, has suffered a serious identity crisis, and is being challenged at the box-office by an American arriviste by the name of Ryan, Jack Ryan.

THE celebrations surrounding Dr No's 30th birthday (the film opened on 5 October 1962) have been clouded by one regrettable absence: Bond himself. The latest 007-movie, which ought to have appeared in the summer of 1991 with its usual biennial regularity, failed to show, and any future productions have vanished in a snowstorm of litigation. Cubby Broccoli, the movies' 83-year-old producer, is suing MGM-Pathe, the distributors, and has announced his decision to sell Danjaq, the company that owns the rights to the Fleming novels.

One reason for all this is the poor performance of the last two Bonds, in which Roger Moore was replaced by Timothy Dalton. The Living Daylights grossed only dollars 55m in the US; the follow-up, Licence to Kill, dipped as low as dollars 16.6m there. The theories of what went wrong fall into two camps: those which feel that the character himself is hopelessly outmoded, and those which maintain that there is life in the old dog yet and that it's the films which have lost their way.

This, emphatically, is the view of Joel Silver, who is in a position to know, being the most successful producer of action movies of recent years (his credits include the Beverly Hills Cops, the Lethal Weapons and the Die Hards). 'I love being in the sequel business,' he says. 'Audiences know what to expect and want to see it, but it's also a challenge; you have to bring something new to each movie. Early on the series-makers were very conscious of the Bond concept: Thunderball was quite a different film from Goldfinger. Towards the end, the films were almost ordinary.'

Silver also believes that the movies erred fatally in ceasing to take themselves seriously: he recalls that his own worst disaster was also his most (late-) Bondian--Hudson Hawk, which featured a wise-cracking hero, an incredible plot and caricatured villains. 'When you make everything a farce, it becomes like toffee.' he says. 'The key to the action genre is that you have to believe everything that's happening could happen. The early Bonds were fantastical, but they did feel reality- based. And, although they had a lot of whimsy, they didn't make fun of themselves either. The late films began to be parodies, like Naked Gun 2 1/2 .'

007 is not altogether dead: US kids have been watching one James Bond Jnr [sic] - Bond's skateboarding teenage nephew, who stars (alongside teen versions of Felix Leiter and Q) in an animated show syndicated to more than 100 American television stations. There are no signs of a live-action comeback, however. Plans were announced last year for a 26-part TV series featuring a less violent, non-smoking, celibate - in short, barely recognisable--Bond, but Broccoli has resisted them stoutly.

At Cannes last May, rumours were flying around that Silver himself hoped to acquire the rights: the producer, it was said, had spoken to Mel Gibson and to Richard Donner, the director of the Lethal Weapons, and had convinced them to commit to three Bond movies. Casting Gibson as the quintessential English hero is not as wild as it sounds: Bond has been played in the past by an American (Barry Nelson - the very first 007, in an hour-long TV drama in the Fifties), a Scot (Sean Connery), an Australian (George Lazenby) and a Welshman (Timothy Dalton).

More importantly, Gibson is a world-famous name. 'Putting in him alone would fresh up the genre,' Silver says. 'He has the same good looks and the same boldness as Connery. And casting an international star would make the film an international vehicle.' That, perhaps, was Broccoli's mistake in casting Dalton, believing that he could - as he had before with Connery - turn a highly respected, but relatively unknown actor into a big box-office draw. 'You can't build a star like you could in the old days. You're better served having a well-known personality; that's the way I would do it.' But Silver's plans have so far come to nought.

Meanwhile, the crypto-Bonds continue: Harrison Ford has taken Patriot Games to dollars 83m at the American box-office so far, and has just signed to play the central character, Jack Ryan, in four more films adapted from Tom Clancy's novels - a contract rumoured to bring him a cool dollars 50m. And, of course, there are Silver's own new breeds of hero.

But Silver is scornful of the idea that these will ever take Bond's place in the popular consciousness, or that he himself, having failed to secure the franchise, might one day field a thinly-disguised 007 clone. 'Some of the reviews of the Die Hards referred to them as blue-collar Bonds. But Bond is an icon. He's part of our communal lives and will go through generations. He's magic! He's not just a man who's a spy - he's James Bond! That's what I think is so valuable and that's why I think he should not be lost.'

The Living Daylights, 6.30pm, tonight, ITV; Thirty Years of James Bond, 9.30pm, tonight ITV

1992: ITV from London airs The Living Daylights plus a 50 minute special 30 Years of James Bond.

2008: "Another Way to Die" premieres on BBC's Channel 4.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment announces a Felix Leiter comic for January 2017 release.
Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.
2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #2. Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244702011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: David Mack
Cover C: Kev Walker
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q

RichardTheBruce

October 4th

1883: The Orient Express begins service.

Tea & Madeleine | November 11, 2017
Orient Express

An Icon of Art Deco Design

The inaugural Orient Express service launched on 4 October 1883. During its time, the train carried passengers including Tolstoy, Trotsky, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia and the spy Mata Hari. To the present day, movies about the service have starred Sean Connery (The Spy Who Loved Me From Russia With Love, 1963), Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench (Murder on the Orient Express, 2017), among others. And let’s not forget its crucial role in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The Venice Simplon-Orient Express is the most storied set of carriages in the world. It promises to take you not just across Europe, but to transport you back in time. With its polished wood, sumptuous upholstery and antique fixtures, the train epitomises the glamour and elegance of the Golden Age of travel.

The carefully restored 1920s cabins are rich with craftsmanship. Plush sofas provide the perfect spot to watch the scenery unfold. At night, climb the upholstered ladder to your upper berth or cosy up under crisp sheets on the bottom bunk. Art Deco interiors and Lalique glassware conjure the romance and glamour of the Roaring Twenties.

The luxurious dining car, where scenes for Murder on the Orient Express and other movies were filmed, is now in the OSE museum of Thessalonica. The local authorities plan to refit the train to make it available for tourist use around the Balkans in the near future.

Classic routes on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express take in such fabled European cities as London, Paris, Venice, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. But this experience really is all about the journey. As you glide through lush, rolling countryside and majestic mountains, you’re encouraged to savour every moment.

The glamour and rich history of the Orient Express has frequently lent itself to the plot of books such as Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene written in 1969, From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming written in 1956 and of course Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie written in 1934.

1956: Christoph Waltz is born--Vienna, Austria.
1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
1962: Roger Moore first appears as Leslie Charteris' The Saint in the UK television series of the same name. Episode 1 "The Talented Husband" starred Shirley Eaton.

1965: The Daily Express serializes Ian Fleming's short story "Octopussy".

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/06/daily-express-illustrations-by-robb.html

1966: You Only Live Twice films the assassination of Aki.
1967: Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte released in Italy.

1971: Hoyte Van Hoytema is born--Horgen, Switzerland.
1984: Rachel McDowall is born--Whiston, Merseyside, England.
1990: Nora Noel Jill Bennett dies at age 58--Kensington, London, England.
(Born 24 December 1931--Penang, Malaysia.)

Jill Bennett (British actress)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(British_actress)

Jill Bennett in trailer for The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Born Nora Noel Jill Bennett, 24 December 1931, Penang, Straits Settlements
Died 4 October 1990 (aged 58), London, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death Suicide
Years active 1951–1990
Spouse(s) Willis Hall (m. 1962–1965), John Osborne (m. 1968–1978)

Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.

Early life

She was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in The Long Dark Hall (1951) with Rex Harrison.
Career

Bennett made many appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), The Nanny (1965), The Skull (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990).

She made forays into television, such as roles in Play for Today (Country, 1981), with Wendy Hiller, and as the colourful Lady Grace Fanner in John Mortimer's adaptation of his own novel, Paradise Postponed (1985). Among several roles, Osborne wrote the character of Annie in his play The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) for her. But Bennett's busy schedule prevented her from playing the role until it was screened on television in 1971.[1]

She co-starred with Rachel Roberts in the Alan Bennett television play The Old Crowd (1979), directed by Lindsay Anderson.

Personal life

She was the live-in companion of actor Godfrey Tearle in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978. She had no children.

Death

She died by suicide in October 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage to Osborne (according to Osborne's biographer). She did this by taking an overdose of Quinalbarbitone. Osborne, who was subject during her life to a restraining order regarding written comments about her, immediately wrote a vituperative chapter about her to be added to the second volume of his autobiography. The chapter, in which he rejoiced at her death, caused great controversy.

In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?" The event was included in Anderson's autobiographical BBC documentary Is That All There Is? (1992).

Jill Bennett (I) (1931–1990)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071824/

Filmography

Actress (62 credits)

1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle

1989 A Day in Summer (TV Movie) - Miss Prosser
1988 Hawks - Vivian Bancroft
1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series) - Elizabeth Berrington
- The Barrington Case (1987) ... Elizabeth Berrington
1986 Paradise Postponed (TV Mini-Series) - Lady Grace Fanner
- The Simcox Inheritance (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Faith Unfaithful (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- The Gods of the Copy Book Headings (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Enigma Variations (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- And a Happy New Year to You, Too! (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
1986 Lady Jane - Mrs. Ellen
1985 Time for Murder (TV Series) - Sonia Barrington
- The Murders at Lynch Cross (1985) ... Sonia Barrington
1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) - Daisy Troop
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... Daisy Troop
1983 The Aerodrome (TV Movie) - Eustasia
1982 Britannia Hospital - Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Alice Carlion
- Country (1981) ... Alice Carlion
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Jacoba Brink
1980 Orient-Express (TV Mini-Series) - Jane
- Jane (1980) ... Jane

1979 The Old Crowd (TV Movie) - Stella
1977 The Haunting of Julia - Lily Lofting
1976 Almost a Vision (TV Movie) - Isobel
1976 Murder (TV Series) - Lola
- Hello Lola (1976) ... Lola
1975 Mr. Quilp - Sally Brass
1975 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) - Maria
- The Three Marias (1975) ... Maria
1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Jill
- Ms or Jill and Jack (1974) ... Jill
1974 Intent to Murder (TV Movie) - Janet Preston
1972 I Want What I Want - Margaret Stevenson
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series)
- The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
1971 Speaking of Murder (TV Movie) - Annabelle Logan
1970 Julius Caesar - Calpurnia
1969 Rembrandt (TV Movie) - Geertje
1968 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Penelope
- Its Only Us (1968) ... Penelope
1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Liz
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mrs. Duberly
1968 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Anna
- The Parachute (1968) ... Anna
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mary Hass
- Brainscrew (1966) ... Mary Hass
1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) - Frida Holmeier
- Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) ... Frida Holmeier
1965 The Nanny - Aunt Pen
1965 The Skull - Jane Maitland
1956-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Masha / Marjorie Wilton / Gilda / ...
- We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar (1965) ... Marjorie Wilton
- A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... Gilda
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) ... Helena
- Three Sisters (1963) ... Masha
- The Rainmaker (1963) ... Lizzie
1964 First Night (TV Series) - Libby Beeston
- How Many Angels (1964) ... Libby Beeston
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Mistress Patience Wright
- The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... Mistress Patience Wright
1963 Maupassant (TV Series)
- Foolish Wives (1963)
1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hilary / Victoria Thomson
- The Sponge Room (1963) ... Hilary
- Storm in a Teacup (1962) ... Victoria Thomson
1960-1962 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Annette
- The Book Bag (1962)
- The Unconquered (1960) ... Annette
1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Ferba Martinez
- Time to Kill (1962) ... Ferba Martinez
1960 The Concrete Jungle - Maggie
1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Stella / Lily / Agnes Madinier / ...
- Thunder on the Snowy (1960) ... Stella
- Hand in Glove (1959) ... Lily
- The Web of Lace (1958) ... Agnes Madinier
- Ring Out the Old (1956) ... Isa
1960 Return to the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Rena
- Other People's Houses (1960) ... Rena

1959 A Glimpse of the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1954-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Anne-Marie / Catherine Sloper / Barbara Shearer / ...
- Figure of Fun (1959) ... Anne-Marie
- The Heiress (1958) ... Catherine Sloper
- Statue of David (1958) ... Barbara Shearer
- Do It Yourself (1957) ... Grette Brinson
- Night Was Our Friend (1955) ... Sally Raynor
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Trilby O'Ferrall
- Trilby (1959) ... Trilby O'Ferrall
1957 Do It Yourself (TV Series) - Assistant
1957 Villette (TV Mini-Series) - Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.6 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.5 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.4 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.3 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.2 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
1957 Peace and Quiet (TV Movie) - Josephine Elliott
1956 Lust for Life - Willemien
1956 The Extra Day - Susan
1956 The Anatomist (TV Movie) - Mary Belle
1955 Murder Anonymous (Short) - Mrs. Sheldon
1954 Corsican Holiday (Short) - The Girl (voice)
1954 Aunt Clara - Julie Mason
1954 Hell Below Zero - Gerda Petersen
1953 The Pleasure Garden (Short) - Miss Kellerman
1953 The Nine Days' Wonder (TV Movie) - Miss Smith
1952 Moulin Rouge - Sarah
1951 The Long Dark Hall - First Murdered Girl

Writer (1 credit)

1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) (idea - 8 episodes)
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... (idea)
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... (idea)
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... (idea)
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... (idea)
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... (idea)

1999: The Radioactive label releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a single. B side "Ice Bandits".

2012: Media reports reveal the casting of Ben Whishaw as Q.

Ben Whishaw to update James Bond

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/ben-whishaw-to-update-james-bond-28876896.html

Ben Whishaw stars as Q in the new Bond film
October 4 2012 11:12 AM

James Bond producers have revealed they cast Ben Whishaw as 007's gadget guru Q in a bid to update the franchise - but they hope he plays the role into his old age.

The 31-year-old British actor - who stars in BBC One drama The Hour - will make his debut as Q opposite Daniel Craig in new film Skyfall later this month.

Producer Michael G Wilson said: "The decision was made to make him a younger man, as would be the case these days. Let's hope he goes on as long as Desmond Llewelyn did."

The Welsh actor played Q in 16 Bond films until he died aged 85 in 1999. Q has not appeared in the last two films.

The film franchise - which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year - began when Albert R 'Cubby' Broccoli secured the rights to Ian Fleming's novels, which he later passed on to his children.

His youngest daughter Barbara Broccoli said: "Cubby used to say, 'This is the goose that laid the golden egg, keep it safe.'

"One of the things he said was we're temporary people making permanent decisions. When you have a franchise, and you're invested in it as emotionally as we are, you make decisions based on the health of the franchise going forward."

PA

RichardTheBruce

October 5th: Global James Bond Day

1919: Donald Pleasence is born--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
(He dies 2 February 1995 at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.)

Donald Pleasence OBE

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

Pleasence in London, 1973.
Portrait by Allan Warren

Born Donald Henry Pleasence, 5 October 1919, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Died 2 February 1995 (aged 75), Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Nationality British
Education Ecclesfield School
Occupation Actor, singer, narrator
Years active 1946–1995
Spouse(s) Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958), Josephine Crombie (m. 1959–1970), Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988), Linda J. Kentwood (m. 1988)
Children 5, including Angela Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ˈplɛzəns/); 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English character actor. His best known film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971), and the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981).

Early life

Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice (née Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway stationmaster. He was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received his formal education at Crosby Junior School, Scunthorpe and Ecclesfield Grammar School, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. After working as the Clerk-in-Charge at Swinton railway station in South Yorkshire, he decided that he wanted to be a professional actor, taking up a placement with the Jersey Repertory Company in 1939.

Second World War

In December 1939, Pleasence initially refused conscription into the British Armed Forces, registering as a conscientious objector, but changed his stance in autumn 1940, after the attacks upon London by the Luftwaffe, and volunteered with the Royal Air Force. He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No. 166 Squadron in Bomber Command, with which he flew almost sixty raids against the Axis over occupied Europe. On 31 August 1944, Lancaster NE112, in which he was a crew member, was shot down during an attack upon Agenville, and he was captured and imprisoned in the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I, where he was treated well reciprocally (like the British treated captured Luftwaffe pilots) in similar prisoner-of-war camps. Here, Pleasence produced and acted in many plays for the entertainment of his fellow captives.

After the war and his release, he was discharged from the R.A.F. in 1946.

Acting career

Returning to acting after the war, Pleasence resumed working in repertory theatre companies in Birmingham and Bristol. In the 1950s, Pleasence's stage work included performing as Willie Mossop in a 1952 production of Hobson's Choice at the Arts Theatre, London and as Dauphin in Jean Anouilh's The Lark (1956). In 1960, Pleasence gained excellent notices as the tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a role he would again play in a 1990 revival. Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos (1963-64) and Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968. Pleasence's later stage work included performing in a double bill of Pinter plays, The Basement and Tea Party, at the Duchess Theatre in 1970.

Television

Pleasence made his television debut in I Want to Be a Doctor (1946). He received positive critical attention for his role as Syme in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and featured Peter Cushing in the lead role of Winston Smith.

Pleasence played Prince John in several episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956–1958). He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes "Position of Trust" (1960) and "Find and Return" (1961). Pleasence's first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, playing an aging teacher at a boys' school in the episode "The Changing of the Guard" (1962). In 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Man With the Power". In 1966, he also guest starred in an episode of The Fugitive entitled "With Strings Attached"

In 1973, Pleasence played a sympathetic murderer in an episode of Columbo entitled "Any Old Port in a Storm". Also that year, he played a supporting role in David Winters' musical television adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

He also portrayed a murderer captured by Mrs. Columbo in "Murder Is a Parlor Game" (1979). In 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Michener's Centennial. Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBC's TV series The Barchester Chronicles (1982). In this series, his daughter Angela Pleasence played his onscreen daughter Susan.

He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear.

In 1986, Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness.

Film

Donald Pleasence in the trailer for
the film Eye of the Devil (1966).

Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he plays a vindictive market inspector opposite Richard Burton. In the same year, Pleasence starred in the horror films Circus of Horrors directed by Sidney Hayers, playing the role of Vanet, the owner of a circus, and The Flesh and the Fiends as the real-life murderer William Hare, alongside Peter Cushing, George Rose and Billie Whitelaw.

Endowed with a bald head, a penetrating stare, and an intense voice, usually quiet but capable of a piercing scream, he specialised in portraying insane, fanatical, or evil characters, including the title role in Dr Crippen (1962), the double agent Dr Michaels in the science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage (1966), the white trader who sells guns to the Cheyenne Indians in the revisionist western Soldier Blue (1970), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer–Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad! (1974), Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967), the first film in which Blofeld's face is clearly seen. His interpretation of the character has become predominant in popular culture considering the popularity of the comic villain, Dr. Evil in the successful Austin Powers film series, which primarily parodies it. In the crime drama Hell is a City (1960), shot in Manchester, he starred opposite Stanley Baker, whilst he was memorably cast in the horror comedy What a Carve Up! (1961) as the “horrible-looking zombie” solicitor opposite Shirley Eaton, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Dennis Price.

He appeared as the mild-mannered and good-natured POW forger Colin Blythe in the film The Great Escape (1963), who discovers that he is slowly going blind, but nonetheless participates in the mass break-out, only to be shot down by German soldiers because he is unable to see them. In The Night of the Generals (1967), he played another uncharacteristically sympathetic role, this time as an old-school German general involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. In 1971, he returned to the realm of the deranged, delivering a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright.

Pleasence played Lucifer in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). His character taking on many dark, shadowy human disguises throughout the film was unprecedented in breathing life into the Luke 4:13 phrase "... he left Him until an opportune time ..." He was one of many stars who were given cameos throughout the film.

He also acted in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (1966), in which he portrayed the love-sodden husband of a much younger French wife (Françoise Dorléac). He ventured successfully into American cowboy territory, playing a sadistic self-styled preacher who goes after stoic Charlton Heston in the Western Will Penny (1968).

He portrayed SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), opposite Robert Duvall which was the directorial debut of George Lucas. A few years later, he portrayed antagonist Lucas Deranian, in Walt Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and, in Telefon (1977), Nicolai Dalchimsky, the Russian seeking to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Pleasence appeared as Dr. Samuel Loomis in John Carpenter's horror film Halloween (1978). The film was a major success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic of the horror genre. He also played the teacher, Kantorek in All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), Dr. Kobras in The Pumaman (1980) and the held-hostage President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981). The rather sinister accent which Pleasence employed in this and other films may be credited to the elocution lessons he had as a child. He reprised his Dr. Sam Loomis role in Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).

Pleasence admired Sir Laurence Olivier,[15] with whom he worked on-stage in the 1950s, and later on the film version of Dracula (1979). Two years earlier, Pleasence did an amusingly broad impersonation of Olivier in the guise of a horror-film actor called "Valentine De'ath" in the film The Uncanny (1977). According to the film critic Kim Newman on a DVD commentary for Halloween II, the reason for Pleasence's lengthy filmography was that he never turned down any role that was offered.

Spoken records and voice-overs

During the early 1960s, Pleasence recorded several children's-story records on the Atlas Record label. These were marketed as the Talespinners series in the United Kingdom. They were also released in the United States as Tale Spinners for Children by United Artists. The stories included Don Quixote and the Brave Little Tailor.

Pleasence provided the voice-over for the British public information film, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (1973). The film, intended to warn children of the dangers of playing near water, attained notoriety for allegedly giving children nightmares.

Books

Pleasence was the author of the children's book Scouse the Mouse (1977) (London: New English Library), which was animated by Canadian animator/film director Gerald Potterton (a friend of the actor, who directed him in the Canadian film The Rainbow Boys (1973), retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States) and also adapted into a children's recording (Polydor Records, 1977) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew describes Pleasence as "a potent combination of eyes and voice. The eyes are mournful but they can also be sinister or seedy or just plain nutty. He has the kind of piercing stare which lifts enamel off saucepans."

Awards

Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.

Pleasence was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to the acting profession by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.

Personal life

Pleasence married four times and had five daughters from his first three marriages. He had Angela and Jean with Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958); Lucy and Polly with Josephine Martin Crombie (m. 1959–1970); and Miranda with Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988). His last marriage was to Linda Kentwood (m. 1988–1995; his death)

Death

On 2 February 1995, Pleasence died at age 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, from complications of heart failure following heart valve replacement surgery. His body was cremated.

Legacy

The 1995 film Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers was dedicated to Donald Pleasence. The 1998 film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later also features a dedication to Pleasence in the end credits, with sound-alike voice actor Tom Kane providing a voice-over for Loomis in the film. In the 2018 film, Halloween, sound-alike comedian Colin Mahan voiced Loomis.

Dr. Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films (1997–2002), and Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget are parodies of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

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Filmography

Actor (234 credits)

1996 Fatal Frames -Professor Robinson
1995 Safe Haven - The Sailor
1995 Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers - Dr. Loomis
1995 Signs and Wonders (TV Series) - Cornelius Van Damm
- Episode #1.4 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
- Episode #1.3 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
- Episode #1.2 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
- Episode #1.1 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
1994 Guinevere (TV Movie) - Merlin
1993 The Thief and the Cobbler - Phido the Vulture (original and Majestic Films version) / Additional voices (Miramax version) (voice)
1993 The Big Freeze (TV Movie) - Soup slurper
1993 The Advocate - Pincheon
1993 Screen Two (TV Series) - Victor Harty
- Femme Fatale (1993) ... Victor Harty
1992 Lovejoy (TV Series) - Karel Redl
- The Prague Sun (1992) ... Karel Redl
1992 Diên Biên Phú - Howard Simpson
1991 Shadows and Fog - Doctor
1991 Millions - Ripa
1991 Women in Arms (TV Movie) - Dreyfuss
1991 L'avvoltoio può attendere - Armon Shalik
1990 Moi, général de Gaulle (TV Movie) - Winston Churchill

1989 American risciò - Reverend Mortom
1989 Buried Alive - Dr. Schaeffer
1989 Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (TV Movie) - Jason Rafiel
1989 Casablanca Express - Colonel Bats
1989 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - Loomis
1989 Paganini Horror - Mr. Pickett
1989 Ten Little Indians - Judge Wargrave
1989 River of Death - Heinrich Spaatz
1989 The House of Usher - Walter Usher
1988 The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (TV Movie) - Dr. Absalon
1988 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - Dr. Sam Loomis
1988 Vampire in Venice - Don Alvise
1988 Last Platoon - Colonel B. Abrahams
1988 The Commander - Henry Carlson
1988 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - George Hill
- Punishment Without Crime (1988) ... George Hill
1988 Hanna's War - Captain Thomas Rosza
1988 Phantom of Death - Inspector Datti
1987 Gila and Rik (TV Movie) - Joe Gardenia
1987 Urban Animals - Prof. Livingstone
1987 Django Strikes Again - Ben Gunn
1987 Prince of Darkness - Priest
1987 Ground Zero - Prosper Gaffney
1987 Double Target - Senator Blaster
1987 Basements (TV Movie) - Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
1987 Specters - Professor Lasky
1987 Scoop (TV Movie) - London - Lord Copper
1987 Warrior Queen - Clodius
1986 Hit Man (TV Mini-Series) - Olindo Cuomo
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
1986 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Aldo Rossi (as Donald Pleasance)
1986 Into the Darkness (Video) - David Beckett
1986 Operation Nam - Father Lenoir
1986 To Kill a Stranger - Col. Kostik
1985 Nothing Underneath - Commissioner Danesi
1985 Treasure of Doom - Klaus von Blantz
1985 The Corsican Brothers (TV Movie) - The Chancellor
1985 Phenomena - Professor John McGregor
1985 Black Arrow (TV Movie) - Sir Oliver Oates
1984 Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie - Victor Frankenstein / Old Baron Frankenstein
1984 Arch of Triumph (TV Movie) - Haake
1984 A Breed Apart - J.P. Whittier
1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Mackintosh
1984 The Ambassador - Minister Eretz
1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Salomon Van der Merwe
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
1983 Warrior of the Lost World - Prossor
1983 The Devonsville Terror - Dr. Warley
1971-1983 Play for Today (TV Series) - Samuel Johnson / Gerry Muddiman / Tom
- The Falklands Factor (1983) ... Samuel Johnson
- Skin Deep (1971) ... Gerry Muddiman
- The Fox Trot (1971) ... Tom
1982 The Barchester Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) - Rev. Septimus Harding
- Part 7 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
- Part 6 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
- Part 5 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
- Part 4 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
- Part 3 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
1982 Witness for the Prosecution (TV Movie) - Mr. Myers
1982 Alone in the Dark - Dr. Leo Bain
1981 Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr - Gilbert Carson
1981 Halloween II - Sam Loomis
1981 Computercide (TV Movie) - George Dettler
1981 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Ignatius Slake
- Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 4 (1981) ... Ignatius Slake
- Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 1 (1981) ... Ignatius Slake
1981 The Monster Club - Pickering (segment "Vampire Story")
1981 Escape from New York - President
1980 Blade on the Feather (TV Movie) - Professor Jason Cavendish
1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - The old man
1980 The Pumaman - Kobras (as Donald Pleasance)

1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Max Dechambre
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Max Dechambre
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Max Dechambre
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Max Dechambre
1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) - Kantorek
1979 Better Late Than Never (TV Movie) - Colonel Riddle
1979 Jaguar Lives! - General Villanova
1979 Dracula - Dr. Jack Seward
1979 Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff - Dr. Steiner
1979 L'homme en colère - Albert Rumpelmayer
1979 Gold of the Amazon Women (TV Movie) - Clarence Blasko
1979 Mrs. Columbo (TV Series) - Ian A. Morly
- Murder Is a Parlor Game (1979) ... Ian A. Morly
1978-1979 Centennial (TV Mini-Series) 0 Sam Purchas
- The Scream of Eagles (1979) ... Sam Purchas
- The Winds of Death (1979) ... Sam Purchas
- The Winds of Fortune (1979) ... Sam Purchas
- The Crime (1979) ... Sam Purchas
- The Storm (1979) ... Sam Purchas
1978 Halloween - Loomis
1978 Last In, First Out - Rothko
1978 Power Play - Blair
1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - B.D. Hoffler
1978 The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
- Tithing Day, Sheaving Tide, Husking Bee, Corn Play, Kindling Night, Harvest Home (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
- Ploughing Day, Planting Day, Agnes Fair, Choosing the Young Lord, the Day of Seasoning (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
1978 Night Creature - Axel MacGregor
1978 The Bastard (TV Movie) - Solomon Sholto
1978 Tomorrow Never Comes - Dr. Todd
1978 Blood Relatives - James Doniac
1978 The Defection of Simas Kudirka (TV Movie) - Captain Vladimir Popov
1977 Telefon - Nicolai Dalchimsky
1977 Oh, God! - Doctor Harmon
1977 The Uncanny - Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - Melchior
- Part 1 (1977) ... Melchior
1976 Ubu roi (TV Movie) - Pa Ubu
1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Himmler
1976 Hindle Wakes (TV Movie) - Nat Jeffcote
1976 The Last Tycoon - Boxley
1976 The Passover Plot - Pontius Pilate
1973-1976 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - George Livingston / Aaron / Bendel
- The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl (1976) ... George Livingston
- The Cafeteria (1974) ... Aaron
- The Joke (1973) ... Bendel
1976 Glory Days - John Tyler Jones
1976 Land of the Minotaur - Father Roche
1976 A Dirty Knight's Work - Sir Giles Marley
1976 Death of an Informer (TV Movie) - The man in the office
1976 Peep Show (TV Series) - Max
- Death (1976) ... Max
1975 Performance (TV Series) - - The Captain of Kopenick (1975)
1975 Shades of Greene (TV Series) - Puckler
- The Root of All Evil (1975) ... Puckler
1975 Hearts of the West - A.J. Nietz
1975 Journey Into Fear - Kuvetli
1975 Sharon's Baby - Dr. Finch
1975 Escape to Witch Mountain - Deranian
1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - Danglars
1974 Barry McKenzie Holds His Own - Erich Count von Plasma
1974 The Mutations - Professor Nolter
1974 House of the Damned - Martin Zayas
1974 Occupations (TV Movie) - Christo Kabak
1974 The Black Windmill - Cedric Harper
1974 Watch Out, We're Mad - The Doctor
1974 From Beyond the Grave - Jim Underwood (segment 2 "An Act of Kindness")
1973 The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (TV Short) - The Spirit (voice)
1973 Malachi's Cove - Malachi
1973 Tales That Witness Madness - Tremayne (segment "Clinic Link Episodes")
1973 Columbo (TV Series) - Adrian Carsini
- Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) ... Adrian Carsini
1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Cawser
- Captain Rogers (1973) ... Cawser
1973 The Rainbow Boys - Ralph Logan
1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Fred Smudge
1972 Wedding in White - Jim Dougall, Sr.
1972 Raw Meat - Inspector Calhoun
1972 Police Surgeon (TV Series) - Jerry Hahn
- Lady X (1972) ... Jerry Hahn
1972 Innocent Bystanders - Loomis
1972 Henry VIII and His Six Wives - Thomas Cromwell
1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Victor Cobb
- A Glass of Snake Wine (1972) ... Victor Cobb
1972 The Pied Piper - Baron
1972 The Jerusalem File - Major Samuels
1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Hans Vogler
- The Ninety-Second War: Part II (1972) ... Hans Vogler
1971 Kidnapped - Ebenezer Balfour
1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Carnacki
- The Horse of the Invisible (1971) ... Carnacki
1971 Wake in Fright - Doc Tydon
1971 THX 1138 - SEN
1970 Confession (TV Series) - Sergeant Hurby
- The Fell Sergeant (1970) ... Sergeant Hurby
1970 Soldier Blue - Isaac Q. Cumber

1969 Arthur? Arthur! - Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot - The Prospector
1969 NBC Experiment in Television (TV Series) - - Pinter People (1969) ... (voice)
1968 Creature of Comfort - James Thorne
1968 The Other People - Clive - Elsa's father
1968 Mr. Freedom - Dr. Freedom (as Don Pleasence)
1967-1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - J.G. / Richard Pratt
- The News-Benders (1968) ... J.G.
- Taste (1967) ... Richard Pratt
1967 Call Me Daddy (TV Movie) - Mr. Hoffman
1967 Will Penny - Preacher Quint
1967 The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Movie) - Albert Dussel
1967 Matchless - Gregori Andreanu
1967 You Only Live Twice - Blofeld
1967 Eye of the Devil - Pere Dominic
1957-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Ben Hoffman / Fred Watson / Arthur Gladwell / ...
- Call Me Daddy (1967) ... Ben Hoffman
- The Bandstand (1964)
- The Cupboard (1960) ... Fred Watson
- Small Fish Are Sweet (1959) ... Arthur Gladwell
- A House of His Own (1959)
1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Buchanan
- The Good & Faithful Servant (1967) ... Buchanan
1967 The Night of the Generals - General Kahlenberge
1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - The Head Waiter
- The Head Waiter (1966) ... The Head Waiter
1966 Fantastic Voyage - Dr. Michaels
1966 Cul-de-sac - George
1956-1966 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Supt. Smith / Barton Keyes / Henri Pincoff / ...
- The Move After Checkmate (1966) ... Supt. Smith
- Double Indemnity (1960) ... Barton Keyes
- ... And Humanity (1958) ... Henri Pincoff
- One (1956) ... Burden
1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Max Pfeiffer
- With Strings Attached (1966) ... Max Pfeiffer
1965 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Ambrose
- Ambrose (1965) ... Ambrose
1965 The Hallelujah Trail - 'Oracle' Jones
1965 The Defenders (TV Series) - Dr. Byron Saul
- Fires of the Mind (1965) ... Dr. Byron Saul
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - The Dark Hermit - Satan
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Escalon
- The Liberators (1964) ... Escalon
1963 The Outer Limits (TV Series) - Harold J. Finley
- The Man with the Power (1963) ... Harold J. Finley
1963 Dr. Crippen - Dr. Crippen
1963 The Guest - Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
1963 The Great Escape - Blythe 'The Forger'
1962 The Hatchet Man (TV Movie) - Harry Laws, assistant to Curnic
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Professor Ellis Fowler
- The Changing of the Guard (1962) ... Professor Ellis Fowler
1962 Lisa - Sgt. Wolters
1961 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Captain Pinski
- The Horsemasters: Tally Ho (1961) ... Captain Pinski
- The Horsemasters: Follow Your Heart (1961) ... Captain Pinski
1961 No Place Like Homicide! - Everett Sloane
1961 Spare the Rod - Mr. Jenkins
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Harvey Laurence
- The Confession (1961) ... Harvey Laurence
1961 The Wind of Change - 'Pop' Marley
1961 No Love for Johnnie - Roger Renfrew
1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Nikolides / Captain Aldrich
- Find and Return (1961) ... Nikolides
- Position of Trust (1960) ... Captain Aldrich
1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Nabal
1960 The Hands of Orlac - Graham Coates
1960 Alice Through the Looking Box (TV Movie) - Caterpillar
1960 The Risk - Parsons, alias Bill Brown
1960 The Big Day - Victor Partridge
1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Karl Haussman
- The Absent Assassin (1960) ... Karl Haussman
1960 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Admiral Vespery
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Admiral Vespery
1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Potter
- The Dodo (1960) ... Potter
1960 Sons and Lovers - Pappleworth
1960 Circus of Horrors - Vanet
1960 Hell Is a City - Gus Hawkins
1960 The Battle of the Sexes - Irwin Hoffman (as Donald Pleasance)
1960 The Flesh and the Fiends - William Hare
1960 The Shakedown - Jessel
1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Paul Koster
- The Survivor (1960) ... Paul Koster

1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro - Captain
1956-1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Robertson / Leonard Browne / Lenin / ...
- The Silk Purse (1959) ... Robert Robertson
- Mr. Browne Comes Home (1959) ... Leonard Browne
- Blood on the Snow (1958) ... Lenin
- Fate and Mister Browne (1958) ... Captain Browne
- Chance Meeting (1956) ... Albert
1952-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor / The Foreign Minister / Syme / ...
- The Millionairess (1959) ... Doctor
- The Moment of Truth (1955) ... The Foreign Minister
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) ... Syme
- Caesar's Friend (1954) ... Gamaliel
- Such Men Are Dangerous (1954) ... Chamberlain
6 episodes
1959 The Traitor (TV Movie) - Grantley Caypor
1959 William Tell (TV Series) - The Spider
- The Spider (1959) ... The Spider (as Donald Pleasance)
1959 Look Back in Anger - Hurst
1959 The Scarf (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Harry Yates
- Episode #1.6 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
- Episode #1.5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
- Episode #1.4 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
- Episode #1.3 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
- Episode #1.2 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
6 episodes
1958 Granite (TV Movie) - A nameless man
1958 The Two-Headed Spy - General Hardt (as Donald Pleasance)
1958 The Man Inside - Organ Grinder (as Donald Pleasance)
-1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Prince John / Bailiff Baldwin
- Marian's Prize (1958) ... Prince John
- Ambush (1957) ... Prince John
- Isabella (1956) ... Prince John
- A Village Wooing (1956) ... Bailiff Baldwin (as Donald Pleasance)
- The Prisoner (1956) ... Prince John
6 episodes
1958 The Wind Cannot Read - The Doctor
1958 The Desk Set (TV Movie) - Kenny
1958 Heart of a Child - Spiel
1958 The Killing Stones (TV Series) - Jakob Kleiber
- The Carefulness of Kleiber (1958) ... Jakob Kleiber
1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Barsad
1958 I Spy (TV Movie) - Mr. Frute
1957 All at Sea - Cashier
1957 Stowaway Girl - Evans
1957 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Commandant
- The Coward (1957) ... Commandant
1957 Decision Against Time - Crabtree
1956 The Black Tent - Ali
1956 1984 - R. Parsons (as Donald Pleasance)
1956 Encounter (TV Series) - - We Must Kill Toni (1956)
1955 On Camera (TV Series)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1955)
1955 Value for Money - Limpy
1955 The Grove Family (TV Series) - Monsieur Paul
- Parlez-Vous Français? (1955) ... Monsieur Paul
1954 Orders Are Orders - L / Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
1954 The Face of Love (TV Movie) - Alex
1954 The Runaway Slave (TV Movie) - Kidnapper
1954 Montserrat (TV Movie) - Juan Alvarez
1954 The Beachcomber - Tromp
1954 The Coiners (TV Movie) - Mr. Chamberlayn
1952 The Dybbuk (TV Movie) - Second batlon

Writer (5 credits)

1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series) (teleplay - 1 episode)
- Vengeance (1959) ... (teleplay)
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- Ebb Tide (1959) ... (adaptation)
1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) (adapted by)
1955 On Camera (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1955) ... (adaptation)
1954 Encounter (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- Ebb Tide (1954) ... (adaptation)

Soundtrack (3 credits)

1981 Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (performer: "Beautiful Browneye" - uncredited)
1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (performer: "I Want You (She's So Heavy)")
1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) (performer: "Smudge's Song")

Director (1 credit)
1970 Zur Nacht (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
- Dialogue of actors - Versuch eines Schauspielerporträts (1970)

1930: John Pearson is born--Epsom, Surrey, England.
1946: Vic Armstrong is born--Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England.
1961: Kinematograph Weekly announced the Dr No film production will begin.
(Broccoli and Saltzman don't yet have an actor for the Bond role.)

1962: Dr. No premieres at the London Palladium.

1973: Com 007 Viva e Deixe Morrer (With 007 and Live and Let Die) released in Brazil.

1977: La espía que me amó released in Venezuela.

1983: Octopussy released in France.
1983: Newly discovered asteroid is named in honor of Ian Fleming: 9007 James Bond.

9007 James Bond Asteroid

https://www.universeguide.com/asteroid/9007jamesbond

James Bond is an asteroid, a large rock that orbits the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They tend to be an irregular shaped but Ceres asteroid is known to be spherical in shape but because it doesn't clear its path round the Sun, it is only a dwarf planet.

James Bond was discovered on Oct 5 1983 by Anton Mrkos. Its orbit takes 3.89 years to travel round the Sun.

The absolute magnitude of the object is 13.9 which is the brightness of the object. A higher absolute magnitude means that the object is faint whereas a very low number means it is very bright.

The Aphelion of the object is 2.84994 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is furthest from the object that it is orbit. At this point, it will then return back to the orbit target. The Perihelion of the object is 2.09805 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is closest to the object that it is orbit around.

The Semi-Major Axis of the orbit is 2.47399, which is the furthest point from the centre to the edge of an elliptical point.

The orbital inclination, the angle at which James Bond orbits in relation to the orbital plane is 5.859 degrees. The orbital eccentricity is 0.15196, it is the degree at which James Bond orbits close to a circular (0) orbit as opposed to an elliptical (1) orbit.

Agent James Bond, 007, not 9007

The asteroid is named after the world's most famous and popular M.I.6. secret agent, James Bond. It was chosen to honour the spy after the ID of the asteroid ended in 007, the agent's code number. It was not sponsored by EON Productions or M.G.M., the distributors.

James Bond Facts

Type - Asteroid
Date of Discovery Oct 5 1983
Discoverer Anton Mrkos
Orbital Period 3.89
Absolute Magnitude 13.9
Aphelion (Furthest) 2.84994 A.U.
Perihelion (Nearest) 2.09805 A.U.
Semi-Major Axis 2.47399
Orbital Inclination 5.859
Orbital Eccentricity 0.15196

1986: Two weeks of filming in Vienna begin for The Living Daylights.

RichardTheBruce

2011: MI6 readers notice Sony fielding domain names indicating the title of BOND 23 will be Skyfall.
2012: "Skyfall" single released.
2014: Geoffrey Holder dies at age 84--New York City, New York. (Born 1 August 1930--Port of Spain, Trinidad.)

Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Actor,
Painter and More, Dies at 84

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/arts/geoffrey-holder-dancer-choreographer-and-man-of-flair-dies-at-84.html
Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Actor, Painter and More, Dies at 84
By Jennifer Dunning and William McDonald | Oct. 6, 2014

Mr. Holder, the multitalented artist, and ebullient performer died Sunday at 84.CreditErin Combs/Toronto Star, via Getty Images

Geoffrey Holder, the dancer, choreographer, actor, composer, designer and painter who used his manifold talents to infuse the arts with the flavor of his native West Indies and to put a singular stamp on the American cultural scene, not least with his outsize personality, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 84.

Charles M. Mirotznik, a spokesman for the family, said the cause was complications of pneumonia.

Few cultural figures of the last half of the 20th century were as multifaceted as Mr. Holder, and few had a public presence as unmistakable as his, with his gleaming pate atop a 6-foot-6 frame, full-bodied laugh and bassoon of a voice laced with the lilting cadences of the Caribbean.

Mr. Holder directed a dance troupe from his native Trinidad and Tobago, danced on Broadway and at the Metropolitan Opera and won Tony Awards in 1975 for direction of a musical and costume design for “The Wiz,” a rollicking, all-black version of “The Wizard of Oz.” His choreography was in the repertory of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Dance Theater of Harlem. He acted onstage and in films and was an accomplished painter, photographer and sculptor whose works have been shown in galleries and museums. He published a cookbook.

Mr. Holder acknowledged that he achieved his widest celebrity as the jolly, white-suited television pitchman for 7Up in the 1970s and ’80s, when in a run of commercials, always in tropical settings, he happily endorsed the soft drink as an “absolutely maaarvelous” alternative to Coca-Cola — or “the Uncola,” as the ads put it.

Long afterward, white suit or no, he would stop pedestrian traffic and draw stares at restaurants. He even good-naturedly alluded to the TV spots in accepting his Tony for directing, using their signature line “Just try making something like that out of a cola nut.”

Geoffrey Lamont Holder was born into a middle-class family on Aug. 1, 1930, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the youngest of five children of Louise de Frense and Arthur Holder, who had immigrated from Barbados. Geoffrey attended Queen’s Royal College, an elite secondary school in Trinidad. There he struggled with a stammer that plagued him into early adulthood.

“At school, when I got up to read, the teacher would say, ‘Next,’ because the boys would laugh,” he said in an oral history interview.

Growing up, Mr. Holder came under the wing of his talented older brother, Arthur Aldwyn Holder, known to everyone by his childhood nickname, Boscoe. Boscoe Holder taught Geoffrey painting and dancing and recruited him to join a small, folkloric dance troupe he had formed, the Holder Dancing Company. Boscoe was 16; Geoffrey, 7.

Geoffrey Holder’s career mirrored that of his brother in many ways. Boscoe Holder, too, went on to become a celebrated dancer, choreographer, musician, painter and designer, and he, too, left Trinidad, in the late 1940s, for England, where he performed on television and onstage.

His brother’s departure put Geoffrey Holder in charge of the dance company, as its director and lead performer, and he took it to New York City in 1954, invited by the choreographer Agnes de Mille, who had seen the troupe perform two years before in St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands. She arranged an audition for the impresario Sol Hurok. To pay for the troupe’s passage, Mr. Holder, already an established young painter, sold 20 of his paintings.

After dropping his bags at an uncle’s apartment in Brooklyn, he fell in love with the city.

“It was a period when all the girls looked like Janet Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor, with crinoline petticoats and starched hair,” he told The New York Times in 1985. “The songs of that period were the themes from ‘The Moulin Rouge’ and ‘Limelight,’ and it was so marvelous to hear the music in the streets and see the stylish ladies tripping down Fifth Avenue. Gorgeous black women, Irish women — all of them lovely and all of them going somewhere.”

Mr. Holder had the good fortune to arrive in New York at a time of relative popularity for all-black Broadway productions as well as black dance, both modern and folk. Calypso music was also gaining a foothold, thanks largely to Harry Belafonte.


Mr. Holder at the opening of the Broadway musical “The Lion King” in 1997 accompanied by his wife, the dancer Carmen de Lavallade. He made his own Broadway debut in 1954. Credit Nancy Siesel/The New York Times

For a while Mr. Holder taught classes at the Katherine Dunham School, and he was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet from 1956 to 1958. He continued to dance and direct the Holder dance company until 1960, when it disbanded. In the meantime, at a dance recital, he caught the attention of the producer Arnold Saint-Subber, who was putting together a show with a Caribbean theme.

Thus did Mr. Holder make his Broadway debut on Dec. 30, 1954, as a featured dancer in “House of Flowers,” a haunting, perfumed evocation of West Indian bordello life, with music by Harold Arlen and a book by Truman Capote, based on his novella of the same name. Directed by Peter Brook at the Alvin Theater, it starred Diahann Carroll and Pearl Bailey, and among its dancers was a ravishingly pretty young woman named Carmen de Lavallade. She and Mr. Holder married in 1955, had a son, Léo, and sometimes shared the stage. Both wife and son survive him. Boscoe Holder died in 2007.

One character Mr. Holder played in the musical was the top-hatted Baron Samedi, the guardian of the cemetery and the spirit of death, sex and resurrection in Haitian Voodoo culture. Mr. Holder relished Samedi: he played him again in the 1973 James Bond film, “Live and Let Die” (the first of the Bond franchise to star Roger Moore), and featured him in his choreography — in his “Banda” dance from the musical “House of Flowers,” and in “Banda,” a further exploration of folk themes that had its premiere in 1982.

His Voodoo villain in “Live and Let Die” was of a piece with much of his sporadic film career: with his striking looks and West Indian-inflected voice, producers tended to cast Mr. Holder in roles deemed exotic. In “Doctor Dolittle” (1967), he was a giant native who ruled a floating island as William Shakespeare (the 10th). In Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * but Were Afraid to Ask” (1972), he played a sorcerer. In “Annie” (1982), he was the Indian servant Punjab. (An exception was the 1992 romantic comedy “Boomerang,” in which he played a randy director of commercials working for Eddie Murphy’s playboy advertising executive.)

Mr. Holder was multitasking before the term gained currency. In 1957, he landed a notable acting role playing the hapless servant Lucky in an all-black Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Herbert Berghof. The show, just seven months after the play’s original Broadway production, closed after only six performances because of a union dispute, but the role, with its rambling, signature 700-word monologue, lifted Mr. Holder’s acting career.

That same year, he choreographed and danced in a revival of the George and Ira Gershwin musical “Rosalie” in Central Park. And he received a Guggenheim fellowship in painting.

Painting was a constant for him. Whether life was hectic or jobs were scarce, he could usually be found in the SoHo loft he shared with Ms. de Lavallade, absorbed in work that drew on folk tales and often delivered biting social commentary. On canvases throughout the studio, sensuous nudes jostled for space with elegantly dressed women, ghostly swimmers nestled beside black Virgin Marys, bulky strippers seemed to burst out of their skins, and mysterious figures peered out of tropical forests.

His work was shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. And then there was his photography, and his sculpture.

His visual creativity extended to costume designs, “The Wiz” being just one showcase. Another was John Taras’s 1982 production of “The Firebird” for the Dance Theater of Harlem, in which the Russian fairy tale was relocated to a tropical forest. Mr. Holder designed both the sets and the costumes, one of which was a blend of 30 or 40 colors. He earned another Tony nomination for best costume design for the 1978 Broadway musical “Timbuktu!,” an all-black show based on the musical “Kismet.” He also directed and choreographed “Timbuktu!”

Mr. Holder’s dance designs were equally bold. Reviewing a 1999 revival of “Banda” by the Dance Theater of Harlem, Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The Times, “Mr. Holder is a terrific showman, and his mix of Afro-Caribbean rituals, modern dance and even ballet’s pirouettes is potent and dazzling.”

Other Holder dance classics were “Prodigal Prince” (1971), a dreamlike re-creation of the life and work of Hector Hyppolite, the Haitian folk painter, for which he also composed the musical score; and “Dougla” (1974), an evocation of a mixed-race Caribbean wedding. (Dougla refers to people who are of African and Indian descent.)

In 1959, he published a book on Caribbean folklore, Black Gods, Green Islands, written with Tom Harshman and illustrated by Mr. Holder; in 1973, he produced Geoffrey Holder’s Caribbean Cookbook. He himself was the subject of books and documentaries, including “Carmen & Geoffrey” (2009), by Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob.

Mr. Holder said his artistic life was governed by a simple credo, shaped by his own experience as a West Indian child who had yet to see the world.

“I create for that innocent little boy in the balcony who has come to the theater for the first time,” he told Dance magazine in 2010. “He wants to see magic, so I want to give him magic. He sees things that his father couldn’t see.”

Correction: Oct. 6, 2014
An earlier version of this obituary misstated Mr. Holder’s age. He was 84, not 83. (His date of birth was correctly given as Aug. 1, 1930.) It also misstated his middle name. It was Lamont, not Richard.
Correction: Oct. 6, 2014

An earlier version of a picture caption with this obituary misstated Mr. Holder's surname as Holden.
Correction: Oct. 14, 2014

An obituary last Tuesday about the dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder misstated his tenure as a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. It was from 1956 to 1958, not 1955 and 1956. The obituary also misstated the number of siblings Mr. Holder had. He was the youngest of five children, not “one of four children.”
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 7, 2014, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Geoffrey Holder, Multitalented Artist, Dies at 84. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

Geoffrey Holder
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390305/

Filmography

Actor (31 credits)

2008 Butterfield (Short) - Mr. Emory
2008 The Little Wizard: Guardian of the Magic Crystals - Narrator
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Narrator (voice)
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Video Game) - The Narrator (voice)
2002-2003 Cyberchase (TV Series) - Master Pi
- Double Trouble (2003) ... Master Pi (voice)
- Problem Solving in Shangri-La (2002) ... Master Pi (voice)
1997-2002 Bear in the Big Blue House (TV Series) - Ray the Sun
- Welcome to Woodland Valley: Part 2 (2002) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- Welcome to Woodland Valley: Part 1 (2002) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- Read My Book (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- Let's Get Interactive (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
- I've Got Your Number (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
(Total 41 episodes)
2002 Bear in the Big Blue House LIVE! - Surprise Party (Video) - Ray (voice)

1999 Goosed - Dr. Bowman
1998 Chance or Coincidence - Owner of Soutine's Bar
1995 Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (Video Game) - Jean St. Mouchoir (voice)
1992 Boomerang - Nelson
1987 Where Confucius Meets the New Wave - Narrator
1987 Ghost of a Chance (TV Movie) - Johnson
1986 John Grin's Christmas (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Future
1983 Great Performances (TV Series) - Cheshire Cat
- Alice in Wonderland (1983) ... Cheshire Cat
1982 Annie - Punjab
1980 ABC Weekend Specials (TV Series) - Jupiter
- The Gold Bug (1980) ... Jupiter

1976 Swashbuckler - Cudjo
1975 The Noah - Friday
1973 Live and Let Die - Baron Samedi
1973 The Man Without a Country (TV Movie) - Slave on ship
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask - Sorcerer
1970 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Paul Trion
- Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers (1970) ... Paul Trion

1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Sailor
1967-1968 Tarzan (TV Series) - Mayko / Zwengi
- A Gun for Jai (1968) ... Mayko
- The Pride of the Lioness (1967) ... Zwengi
1967 Doctor Dolittle - William Shakespeare X
1967 Androcles and the Lion (TV Movie) - Lion

1959 Porgy and Bess - Dancer (uncredited)
1958 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Genie
- Cole Porter's 'Aladdin' (1958) ... Genie
1957 Carib Gold - Voodoo Dancer (as Geoffery Holder)
1957 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Calypso Singer
- The Bottle Imp (1957) ... Calypso Singer

2018: Aston Martin celebrates Global James Bond Day times seven.

https://www.motor1.com/news/268490/aston-martin-james-bond-day/

2019: EON releases a No Time To Die teaser poster, from Greg Williams.

RichardTheBruce

October 6th

1941: Sir Frank Nelson writes Admiral Godfrey proposing (Fleming's) plan for better relations with the Special Operations Executive.

Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Top Secret Story Behind 007. Brian Gordon Lett, 2012.

Fleming had come up with his own idea for smoothing future
relations between the Admiralty and SOE. He entered into
discussions with Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, and with Sir
Frank Nelson, the head of SOE (a civilian, whose name itself as
the head of an upstart organization probably did not make
him any more popular with the Admiralty). On 6 October
1941, Nelson wrote to Godfrey, putting forward Fleming's
plan for a better working relationship:

As has been pointed out to us by Fleming, we think
it would also be a convenience for the Admiralty if
plans in which they were bound to have an interest,
and which would therefore have to pass through
their hands, could be drawn in a form and in
language which would be familiar to and easily
understood by them.

Fleming and Taylor have been discussing this
question, and I think that they both feel that the
ideal solution would be the transfer to SOE of an officer
RN, of about the rank of Commander [author's italics],
who had worked in the Plans Division at the
Admiralty. Our idea would be to appoint this officer
as a member of our special planning staff which,
under Archie Boyle, directs, supervises and checks
al plans for our various operations.

Ian Fleming held the rank of Commander, was heavily
involved in intelligence planning, and Nelson's letter to
Godfrey strongly suggests that Fleming was hoping that he
himself might be appointed full time to SOE -- and thereby
become one of M's secret agents like his brother Peter.
Fleming did not get his wish. Godfrey was short of
experienced intelligence officer, and clearly valued
Fleming's work too highly to give him away to SOE. For the
time being, at least, the status quo was preserved. Godfrey
wrote back to Nelson agreeing that greater supervision was
necessary, but declining the proposal.

Fleming remained a member of Naval Intelligence under
Rear Admiral Godfrey's command, and continued to act as
their liaison officer. He clearly got on well with M
and his team, and was trusted by them.

1942: Britt-Marie Ekland is born--Stockholm, Sweden.
1967: Casino Royale released in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films OO7 and XXX and Wet Nelly Bond exiting the sea onto the beach.
1983: Never Say Never Again premieres in Los Angeles, California.

1984: A View to a Kill via John Richardson begins fourth unit filming on the Golden Gate Bridge.
2011: BOND 23 announces the casting of Bérénice Marlohe and Helen McCrory.
2012: Sony Classical releases detail for the Skyfall score track names and times.

RichardTheBruce

October 7th

1947: John Brosnan is born--Perth, Australia. (He dies 11 April 2005--South Harrow, Harrow, London, England.)

John Brosnan
Science-fiction writer and film critic

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-brosnan-489441.html
Saturday 16 April 2005 00:00

John Raymond Brosnan, writer and film critic: born Perth, Western Australia 7 October 1947; died London c11 April 2005.

The writer and film critic John Brosnan was a man of deep friendships, some of which had lasted half a century - the Australian writer John Baxter, with whom Brosnan collaborated on a novel, knew him that long - and he enjoyed a wide range of acquaintances throughout the science-fiction and film subcultures of London.

He wrote seven books on film. The first of these was James Bond in the Cinema (1972). His interest in filmed science fiction culminated in Future Tense: the cinema of science fiction (1978). He wrote most of the film entries for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979), edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute.

As a writer of science fiction and often comically exaggerated horror, Brosnan published at least 23 novels. His collaborations with Leroy Kettle were pseudonymous; the best known of these horror tales is probably Bedlam (1992), the film version of which (Beyond Bedlam) gave Liz Hurley her first main role. More ambitious science-fiction novels, under his own name, included the Sky Lords novels from 1988, and his last published novel, Mothership (2004). He had already completed a draft of the sequel at the time of his death.

Brosnan was born in 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, and became active as an SF fan in the mid 1960s. By 1970 he had moved to London, where he settled for good. Though he was convivial from the start - my own 25-year-old memories of post-launch drinks with him at the Troy Club off the Tottenham Court Road remain warm - the story of his life is essentially one of hard work.

His death was reported on 11 April. Friends had become alarmed at his absence over Easter, and gained access to his flat in South Harrow, where he was found. He had died in his sleep, possibly several days earlier. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was acute pancreatitis. This finding has scotched rumours that he had met with foul play.

It was perhaps to be expected that Brosnan died alone, as he had lived alone for many years. But he was a continual and welcome presence in many lives, a friend to some and companion to many. He was a funny and surprisingly tough-minded writer.

John Clute

Summary Bibliography: John Brosnan
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1755

Bibliography

Fiction Series

Damned and Fancy
1 Damned & Fancy (1995) also appeared as:
- Translation: Verflixt und zugehext [German] (1996)
- Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Eins [German] (2005)
2 Have Demon, Will Travel (1996) also appeared as:
-Translation: Hokuspokus Hexenkuß [German] (1997)
-Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Zwei [German] (2005)
Anderwelt [German] (2005) [O/1,2]

Mothership
1 Mothership (2004) also appeared as:
-Serializations:
-Translation: Supernave (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2006)
2 Mothership Awakening (unpublished)

Sky Lords
1 The Sky Lords (1988) also appeared as:
-Translation: I Signori dell'Aria [Italian] (1989)
2 War of the Sky Lords (1989) also appeared as:
-Translation: I guerrieri dell'aria [Italian] (1990)
3 The Fall of the Sky Lords (1991) also appeared as:
-Translation: La fine del dominio [Italian] (1991)

Novels

Skyship (1981)
Slimer (1983) with Leroy Kettle also appeared as:
-Variant: Slimer (1983) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Translation: Terreur déliquescente [French] (1986) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
The Midas Deep (1983)
Carnosaur (1984) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
The Fungus (1985) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
- Variant: The Fungus (1985) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Translation: L'immonde invasion [French] (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Variant: Death Spore (1990) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
Tendrils (1986) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
-Variant: Tendrils (1986) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
-Translation: Vrilles! [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
Torched! (1986) with John Baxter only appeared as:
-Variant: Torched! (1986) [as by James Blackstone]
-Translation: Brasiers humains [French] (1988) [as by James Blackstone]
Worm (1987) only appeared as:
-Variant: Worm (1987) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
-Variant: Worm (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Translation: Les parasites de la haine [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
Bedlam (1992) with Leroy Kettle [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
-Serializations:
-Bedlam (Part 1 of ?) (1994) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
The Opoponax Invasion (1993)

Nonfiction

James Bond in the Cinema (1972)
Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974)
The Horror People (1976)
Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978)
The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film (1991)

Short Fiction

The Bethlehem File (1972)
Conversation on a Starship in Warpdrive (1975)
The Junk Shop (1976) also appeared as:
-Variant: Junk Shop (1976)
The One and Only Tale from The White Horse (1986)
An Eye in Paradise (1989) also appeared as:
-Translation: Un privé au paradis [French] (1994)
Barry McKenzie Meets Jerry Cornelius (2013)

Poems

The Dangers of Colour T.V. (1974) also appeared as:
-Variant: The Dangers of Colour TV (1991) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
Something Came Out of the Toilet (1991) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]

Essays

Letter (SF Commentary 7) (1969)
Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part One (1970)
Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part Two (1970)
Special Effects and The Science Fiction Film (1974) also appeared as:
-Translation: Les magiciens du trompe-l'oeil [French] (1976)
No Nose is Good Nose (1974)
SF on TV: Part 1 (1975)
Star Trek: Film Review (1975)
Raftan's Viewpoint (1975)
SF on Television Part 2: Britain (1975)
The Australian Science Fiction Scene (1975)
A Look at Space 1999 (1976)
SF TV Review: The Invisible Man (1976)
Letter (SF Commentary 52) (1977)
Film & TV News: A Report from John Brosnan (1978)
Letter (Science Fiction Review #29) (1979)
Letter (Starship, Spring 1979) (1979)
Letter (Australian SF News, August 1979) (1979)
The British Science Fiction Cinema (1979)
Letter (Foundation #23) (1981)
Letter (Izzard #5) (1983)
Letter (Ansible 41) (1984)
Special Effects in Science Fiction Cinema (1985)
Letter (Ansible 45) (1986)
Ray Harryhausen Filmography (1987) with Jeff Rovin
The Magician's Magician (1987)
Terror Tactics (1988)
Introduzione dell'autore all'edizione italiana (I guerrieri dell'aria) [Italian] (1990)
Why is Arnold Schwarzenegger Mad at Me? (1991)
Letter (Banana Wings 9) (1998)
Hollywood Calling (1998)
Letter (Interzone #137) (1998)
Letter (Interzone #141) (1999)
Letter (Interzone #173) (2001)
Letter (SF Commentary 77) (2001)
Letter [2] (SF Commentary 77) (2001)
Letter (SF Commentary 78) (2003)
Letter (Ansible 189) (2003)
Letter (Ansible 195) (2003)
Letter (SF Commentary 80) (2010)

Interior Art

Trieste '75 Film Festival (1975)

Reviews

A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Films (1976) by Jeff Rovin

Interviews by This Author

Jack Arnold SF Film Director Extraordinaire (1974) with Jack Arnold
Chris Priest (1974) with Christopher Priest
Vertex Interviews Harry Harrison (1975) with Harry Harrison
An Interview with Bob Shaw (1975) with Bob Shaw

Interviews with This Author

An Interview (of sorts) with Harry Adam Knight (1985) by Jo Fletcher and Stephen Jones (co-interviewed with Leroy Kettle )

1962: Dr. No's general release in the UK.

1966: LIFE Magazine publishes a two-part feature on Ian Fleming's biography .

1968: An EON press conference at the Dorchester Hotel formally introduces Lazenby to the world.

Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, Ajay Chowdhury and Matthew Field, 2015.

On 7 October 1968 the coronation of the new James Bond took place
before the world's press at the Dorchester, where it had all begun four
months earlier. Lazenby famously said: '"I'm really looking forward to
being Bond, for the bread and the birds. It's not that I'm a sex maniac.
Forget my ego. I wouldn't even care if they didn't put my name on the
marquee."' [Director Peter] Hunt explained the choice:

Sean Connery had 'sexual assurance'. I interviewed hundreds [of]
wonderful actors, marvellous people on the stage but they didn't have this
quality. They might be able to try to act it but it was not an inherent thing. It
was quite by chance we came across George Lazenby. You do look at him
if he walks in the street and so do the girls.

A soon-to-be Bond Girl in two ways -- the lead in the next film and, briefly,
Lazenby's companion -- Jill St. John concurred. 'Cubby told me when they
were interviewing people for the first James bond, in walked Sean. And
when he left, every secretary said, "Who is that?" And he said the only other
time it happened again was when George Lazenby walked into the office.

1983: Warner Brothers general release of Never Say Never Again.

2011: George Baker dies at age 80--West Lavington, England. (Born 1 April 1931--Varna, Bulgaria.)

George Baker: Actor whose career
climaxed in his portrayal of the
Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-baker-actor-whose-career-climaxed-in-his-portrayal-of-the-shakespeare-quoting-dci-wexford-2368541.html
Anthony Hayward | Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:00


George Baker: Actor whose career climaxed in his portrayal of the Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

In 1987, two detectives from contemporary literature were transferred to television and their screen lives ran in parallel for 14 years.

While John Thaw stepped into the opera-loving shoes of Colin Dexter's Oxford sleuth Inspector Morse, George Baker had his first outing as Ruth Rendell's Shakespeare-quoting Detective Chief Inspector Wexford in "Wolf to the Slaughter".

The 6ft 4in Baker traded his crisp vowels for a regional burr in the role of the affable, fatherly figure investigating crimes in the fictional south of England market town Kingsmarkham. With his dour sidekick, Detective Inspector Mike Burden (Christopher Ravenscroft), he plodded thoughtfully through an alarmingly high number of murder cases.

Reg Wexford was also a dependable husband and doting father, and Rendell revealed that the character traits were taken from her own father. She was so enamoured with Baker's portrayal that she admitted to writing The Veiled One, the first new Wexford novel published after the television adaptations began, with him in mind.

Following the stand-alone first mini-series, the programmes – featuring 23 stories in all and running until 2000 – were screened as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and, occasionally, The Ruth Rendell Mystery Movie. Location filming was done in and around the Hampshire town of Romsey, not far from Baker's own home in Wiltshire.

In 1992, his second wife, the actress Sally Home, died after a three-year fight against cancer. The following year, he married Louie Ramsay – who played his screen wife, Dora, in the Wexford dramas and was a long-time friend of the couple – calling her his "soulmate" and adding: "Sally was the love of my life. With Louie, the love is quite different, but it's almost as strong." Ramsay died last March.

Baker was born at the British Embassy in Varna, Bulgaria, where his father, Frank – originally from Wetherby, West Yorkshire – was the honorary British vice-consul. A literate, cultured individual who was a writer and expert wine-taster, Baker was at pains to point out that, according to diplomatic etiquette, he was born on British soil.

When the Second World War broke out, he, his Irish mother Eva and four brothers and sisters moved to Yorkshire. Baker attended Lancing College, West Sussex, before joining Deal repertory company, in Kent, when he was just 15. During national service in Hong Kong he served with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. As a horse rider he was made regimental equitation officer but returned to Britain after contracting the intestinal disease sprue, and finished his Army service on a training range in Pembrokeshire.

Baker then acted in repertory theatre across Britain before making his London début as Arthur Wells in a revival of the Frederick Lonsdale drawing-room comedy Aren't We All? (Haymarket Theatre, 1953). Many roles followed in the West End, and with the Old Vic company (1959-60) and the RSC (1975). He also directed some plays himself, including The Sleeping Prince (St Martin's Theatre, 1968) and The Lady's Not for Burning (Old Vic Theatre, 1978). As artistic director, Baker launched his own provincial touring company, Candida Plays (named after his eldest daughter), in 1966.

Film casting directors spotted his matinee-idol looks early on. His first screen appearance, alongside Jack Hawkins, was in The Intruder (1953) and he followed it with a role in the Second World War drama The Dam Busters (1955). Then came star billing in another war film, A Hill in Korea (1956), and the Civil War adventure The Moonraker (1958).

Baker's six-week affair with Brigitte Bardot while he was at Pinewood Studios filming The Woman for Joe (1955) and she was making Doctor at Sea put a strain on his marriage to the costume designer Julia Squire, which also suffered from the constant pressure of being in debt. He lived with Sally Home for 10 years before she became his second wife. His confidence was knocked by the film director Tony Richardson's description of him as the worst actor in England and another disappointment was the James Bond author Ian Fleming's assertion that Baker would make the perfect 007, before the part went to Sean Connery.

However, Baker appeared in three Bond films: as a Nasa engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967), Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), in which he also dubbed the voice of George Lazenby – in that actor's one screen appearance as the secret agent – for a scene in which 007 impersonates his character.

Television began to play a bigger part in Baker's career, with dramatic roles such as the second Number Two in The Prisoner (1967), Tiberius in I, Claudius (1976) and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn in four feature-length adaptations of Ngaio Marsh's novels, made in New Zealand in 1977.

He also had some success in sitcoms. After playing Peter Craven's boss in The Fenn Street Gang (1972), Baker was spun off into his own series, Bowler (1973), in which he was seen as a spiv and petty villain trying to exude class but failing abysmally. Later, alongside Penelope Keith in the first two series of No Job for a Lady (1990-91), he played the Conservative MP Godfrey Eagan, sparring with the newly elected Labour MP Jean Price.

As a writer, Baker adapted four of the Ruth Rendell stories himself and scripted many radio dramas and the television play The Fatal Spring (1980), about the First World War poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, which won the United Nations Media Prize Award of Merit.

In 1999, Baker underwent surgery to remove his prostate gland after being diagnosed with cancer. His autobiography, The Way to Wexford, was published three years later. He also collected together recipes from his own culinary exploits in A Cook for All Seasons (1989). In 2007, Baker was made an MBE for youth club fund-raising activities in his then home village of West Lavington, Wiltshire.

George Morris Baker, actor, writer and director: born Varna, Bulgaria 1 April 1931; MBE 2007; married 1950 Julia Squire (divorced 1974, died 1989; four daughters), 1974 Sally Home (died 1992; one daughter), 1993 Louie Ramsay (died 2011); died 7 October 2011.

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Filmography

Actor (144 credits)

2007 New Tricks (TV Series) - Steve Palmer
- Ducking and Diving (2007) ... Steve Palmer
2007 Heartbeat (TV Series)
Maurice Dodson - - Vendetta (2007) ... Maurice Dodson
2005 Spooks (TV Series) - Hugo Ross
- Episode #4.8 (2005) ... Hugo Ross
2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) - Charlie / Jack Magwood
- The House in the Woods (2005) ... Charlie / Jack Magwood
2003 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Cecil Newton 6 episodes
- Episode #1.5635 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5634 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5633 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5632 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
- Episode #1.5631 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
2001 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series) - Berry Pomeroy
- O Happy Isle (2001) ... Berry Pomeroy
1987-2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Det. Chief Insp. Wexford / Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford / Chief Insp. Wexford / ... 50 episodes
- Harm Done (2000) ... D.C.I. Wexford
- Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... D.C.I. Wexford
- Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... D.C.I. Reg Wexford
- Simisola: Part Three (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
- Simisola: Part Two (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
2000 Back to the Secret Garden - Will Weatherstaff

1995 Johnny and the Dead (TV Mini-Series) - Alderman
- Part 4 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 3 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 2 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 1 (1995) ... Alderman
1995 Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Mini-Series) - The Earl of Dorincourt 6 episodes
- Episode #1.6 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.5 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.4 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.3 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
- Episode #1.2 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
1992 ITV Telethon (TV Series) - Chief Inspector Wexford
- Telethon '92 (1992) ... Chief Inspector Wexford
1990-1991 No Job for a Lady (TV Series) - Godfrey Eagan 12 episodes
- No Rumour in the Truth (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- Undesirable Aliens (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- Poetic Justice (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- White Knights (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
- But I Voted for You (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
1990 Hudson & Halls (TV Series) - Guest
1980-1989 Minder (TV Series) - Cooper / Altman
- Days of Fines and Closures (1989) ... Cooper
- You Gotta Have Friends (1980) ... Altman
1988 Journey's End (TV Movie) - The Colonel
1988 For Queen & Country - Kilcoyne
1988 Bergerac (TV Series) - Higgins
- A Man of Sorrows (1988) ... Higgins
1987 Out of Order - Chief Inspector
1987 The Charmer (TV Mini-Series) - Harold Bennett
- Gorse in the Middle (1987) ... Harold Bennett
- Gorse, the Deceiver (1987) ... Harold Bennett
1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) - Chief Inspector Fred Davy
1986-1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Greaves / Valentine Swift
- Coast to Coast (1987) ... Greaves
- Time After Time (1986) ... Valentine Swift
1986 Lenny Henry Tonite (TV Series) - - Gronk Zillman (1986)
1986 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - Uncle Hesketh
1986 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
- Winter Schedule (1986) ... Director General
- The Siege (1986) ... Director General
1984-1986 Robin Hood (TV Series) - Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Power of Albion (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 2 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 1 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Prophecy (1984) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) - Maximillian Pierpont
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Maximillian Pierpont
1986 Dead Head (TV Mini-Series) - Eldridge
- The Patriot (1986) ... Eldridge
- Anything for England (1986) ... Eldridge
- Why Me? (1986) ... Eldridge
1985 We'll Support You Evermore (TV Movie) - Colonel
1985 Marjorie and Men (TV Series) - Norton Phillips
- Be Your Age (1985) ... Norton Phillips
1985 Bird Fancier (TV Movie) - Albert Seers
1985 A Woman of Substance (TV Mini-Series) - Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Bruce McGill (credit only)
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - George Damos
- Death Dig (1984) ... George Damos
1984 Goodbye Mr. Chips (TV Mini-Series) - Meldrum
- Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Meldrum
1983 Spyship (TV Mini-Series) - Irving
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Irving
1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Whittington
1982-1983 Triangle (TV Series) - David West 52 episodes
- Episode #3.26 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.25 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.24 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.23 (1983) ... David West
- Episode #3.22 (1983) ... David West
1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Jack Balfe
- Chorale (1982) ... Jack Balfe
1982 Q.E.D. (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Harold Metcalfe
- The Great Motor Race (1982) ... Sir Harold Metcalfe
1982 Little Miss Perkins (TV Movie) - Mr. Macauley
1981 The Gentle Touch (TV Series) - Gerald Harvey
- The Hit (1981) ... Gerald Harvey
1981 The Member for Chelsea (TV Series) - Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
1981 Goodbye Darling (TV Series) - Jonathan Cowper
- Maude (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
- Anne (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
1981 Crown Court (TV Series)
- The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
1981 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series)
Janaka
- The Mouse, the Merchant and the Elephant (1981) ... Janaka
1980 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Login
- Full Circle: Part Four (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Three (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Two (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part One (1980) ... Login
1980 Hopscotch - Parker Westlake
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
- Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday (1980) ... Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
1980 Square Mile of Murder (TV Series) - Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 2 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 1 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
1980 ffolkes - Fletcher

1979 Empire Road (TV Series) - Mr. Butterworth
- Godfadder at Bay (1979) ... Mr. Butterworth
1968-1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Ballard / George King
- Print Out (1979) ... Robert Ballard
- The Bonegrinder (1968) ... George King
1978 Died in the Wool (TV Movie) - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
1978 The Thirty Nine Steps - Sir Walter Bullivant
1977 Colour Scheme (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Vintage Murder (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Opening Night (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Capt. Benson
1977 Three Piece Suite (TV Series) - Frank - This Situation / Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
- Come in, No.1/This Situation/All in the Mind (1977) ... Frank - This Situation
- Miss/Celluloid Dreams/Mea Culpa (1977) ... Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Tiberius 10 episodes
- Old King Log (1976) ... Tiberius
- Zeus, by Jove! (1976) ... Tiberius
- Reign of Terror (1976) ... Tiberius
- Queen of Heaven (1976) ... Tiberius
- Some Justice (1976) ... Tiberius
1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Frank Chandler
- Baked Beans (1976) ... Frank Chandler
1976 Intimate Games - Professor Gottlieb
1976 Get Some In! (TV Series) - Wing-Commander Birch
- Flight (1976) ... Wing-Commander Birch
1970-1976 Z Cars (TV Series) - Gerald / Calvin Flood / Gordon Glossop
- A Preacher in Passing (1976) ... Calvin Flood
- Friends (1974) ... Gordon Glossop
- A Big Shadow: Part 2 (1970) ... Gerald
- A Big Shadow: Part 1 (1970) ... Gerald
1975 Sea Area Forties (Short) - Commentator (voice)
1975 The Firefighters - Station Officer Harrison
1975 Three for All - Eddie Boyes
1975 Spy Trap (TV Series) - Colonel Jacoby
- April Sixty-Seven (1975) ... Colonel Jacoby
1975 Survivors (TV Series) - Arthur Wormley
- Genesis (1975) ... Arthur Wormley
1974 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Det. Inspector Martin
- The Final Chapter (1974) ... Det. Inspector Martin
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Martin Willis
- Murder on Demand (1974) ... Martin Willis
1974 Zodiac (TV Series) - Mark Braun
- The Cool Aquarian (1974) ... Mark Braun
1973 The Laughing Girl Murder (Short) - Chief Sopt Keegan
1973 Bowler (TV Series) - Stanley Bowler 13 episodes
- Without Let or Hindrance (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- Bowler's Analysis (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- The Family Tree (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- R.I.P. (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
- Sweet and Sour Charity (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
1973 Between the Wars (TV Series) - Walter Jeffries
- Voyage in the Dark (1973) ... Walter Jeffries
1973 A Warm December - Dr. Henry Barlow
1973 Because of the Cats - Boersma
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - George Dixon
- Your Witness (1973) ... George Dixon
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
- The Salesman's Job (1973) ... Mr. Lewis
1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Bowler
- Low Noon (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Left Hand Path (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- Smart Lad Wanted (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Great Frock Robbers (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series) - John Randall
- Two Into One Will Go (1972) ... John Randall
1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Philip Lockley
- Mandala (1972) ... Philip Lockley
1972 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Major Donovan
- Love's Old Sweet Song (1972) ... Major Donovan
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Britten
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Britten
1971 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Morell
- Candida (1971) ... Morell
1970 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Bill Garland
- Golden Island (1970) ... Bill Garland
1970 The Goodies (TV Series) - Chief Beefeater
- Tower of London (1970) ... Chief Beefeater
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jamus Bondus
- Secret Agents Jamus Bondus (1970) ... Jamus Bondus
1970 The Executioner - Philip Crawford
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - John Mitchell
- Train and De-Train (1970) ... John Mitchell
1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Mark
- Games People Play (1970) ... Mark
1970 Kate (TV Series) - Tom Prentice
- One Good Turn (1970) ... Tom Prentice

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Sir Hilary Bray
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Lord Sutterwick
1969 Justine - British Ambassador David Mountolive
1968 The Sex Game (TV Series) - - Women Can Be Monsters (1968)
1968 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Wing Commander Stebbs
- Private Pimpernel (1968) ... Wing Commander Stebbs
1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series)
Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
- Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
1957-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
Kenny Baker / Theodore Quill / Mike / ...
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... Kenny Baker
- Love Life (1967) ... Theodore Quill
- The Paraffin Season (1965) ... Mike
- The Pillars of Midnight (1958) ... Dr. Stephen Monks
- The Constant Stranger (1957)
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Ernest Whipple
- Happiness Is E Shaped (1968) ... Ernest Whipple
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - The New Number Two
- Arrival (1967) ... The New Number Two
1967 You Only Live Twice - NASA Engineer (uncredited)
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Tim Johnson
- Myself, I have Nothing Against South Ken (1967) ... Tim Johnson
1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Martin
- Surface of Innocence (1967) ... Martin
1967 Mister Ten Per Cent - Lord Edward
1965-1967 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Jacques / Louie Summers / Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson / ...
- Days in the Trees (1967) ... Jacques
- The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966) ... Louie Summers
- Alice (1965) ... Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson
- The Navigators (1965) ... Vera
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Frank Ashton
- So Dark the Night (1966) ... Frank Ashton
1966 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Patrick
- Four Triumphant: St Patrick (1966) ... Patrick
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Matthew Hobhouse / Edward Jackson
- Up and Down (1966) ... Matthew Hobhouse
- The Queen and Jackson (1966) ... Edward Jackson
1966 The Master (TV Series short) - Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Death by Misadventure (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- World of Disbelief (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- The Squadron Leader (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Behind the Antlers (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Totty McTurk (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
1965 Londoners (TV Series) - Bruce
- Common Ground (1965) ... Bruce
1965 Undermind (TV Series) - Thallon
- End Signal (1965) ... Thallon
1965 Drama 61-67 (TV Series)
- Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965)
1965 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Edward Drayton
- Insufficient Evidence (1965) ... Edward Drayton
1965 Curse of the Fly - Martin Delambre
1965 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bailey
- The Great Plane Robbery (1965) ... Bailey
1964 Curtain of Fear (TV Series) - Stewart Caxton 6 episodes
- The Regan Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Shand Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Linton Compact (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Tannikov Dilemma (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
- The Liebert Question (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Geoffrey Harrison
- Any Other Business (1964) ... Geoffrey Harrison
1964 Rupert of Hentzau (TV Series) - Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V 6 episodes
- The Decision of Fate (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
- A Perilous Reunion (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
- The Wheel of Chance (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
- Audience with the King (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
- Return to Zenda (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Lord Randolph (voice)
1964 The Full Man (TV Series documentary) - MacBeth
- Tragedy (1964) ... MacBeth
1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Gawaine
1963 It Happened Like This (TV Series) - Miles Standish
- The Hidden Witness (1963) ... Miles Standish
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Cargan
- Glidepath (1962) ... Cargan
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Dominic Père
- The Simple Case (1961) ... Dominic Père
1957-1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Giorgio / Docker Starkie / Biff Loman / ...
- Faraway Music (1961) ... Giorgio
- The Square Ring (1959) ... Docker Starkie
- Death of a Salesman (1957) ... Biff Loman
- The Guinea Pig (1957) ... Nigel Lorraine
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Louis Cornudet
- Boule de Suif (1961) ... Louis Cornudet
1961 The Dickie Henderson Show (TV Series)
- The Exchange Visit (1961)
1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Bill Walker
- Episode #2.31 (1961) ... Bill Walker

1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.9 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.8 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- The Mystery of Cabin 5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.6 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
- Episode #1.5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
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1958 Tread Softly Stranger - Johnny Mansell
1958 The Moonraker - The Moonraker
1958 The Truth About Melandrinos (TV Series) - David Westbrook
1958 Doomsday for Dyson (TV Movie) - Goltsev
1957 No Time for Tears - Dr. Nigel Barnes
1957 Dangerous Youth - Padre
1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Percy French
- The Last Troubadour (1957) ... Percy French
1956 Hell in Korea - The National Servicemen: Lt. Butler / Lt Butler
1956 Adventure Theater (TV Series) - - The Wilful Widow (1956)
1956 The Extra Day - Steven Marlow
1956 The Gentle Touch - Jim
1955 The Woman for Joe - 'Joe Harrop'
1955 The Dam Busters - Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955 PT Raiders - Bill Randall
1953 The Intruder - Adjutant

Writer (3 credits)

1991-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (adaptation - 5 episodes)
- Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... (adaptation)
- Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... (adaptation)
- The Strawberry Tree: Part 1 (1995) ... (adaptation)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (adaptation)
- From Doon with Death: Part One (1991) ... (adaptation)
1982 Imaginary Friends (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- Fatal Spring (1980) ... (screenplay)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
1992 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (production associate - 3 episodes)
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) (performer: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" (1887) - uncredited)

2012: The "Skyfall" single charts at #4 in the UK 48 hours after release, later peaking at #2.

2014: Dynamite Entertainment receives its licence to James Bond material.
2015: Daniel Craig jokingly tells Timeout magazine "I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists" than do another Bond film. And that if he did, it "would only be for the money."

RichardTheBruce

October 8th

1963: From Russia with Love press screening at the Leicester Square Odeon, London.

1965: A five-day serialization of Octopussy finishes in The Daily Express.
1965: The Daily Telegraph reports "James Bond as Villain in Soviet Novel.”
1972: Roger Moore travels to New Orleans, Louisiana.
1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Colombia.
1983: Author Steven Jay Rubin hosts the 007 Master Trivia Marathon near Los Angeles.
2011: Duntrune Castle's owners confirm the filmmakers pursued it as a possible location for the final action sequence at the Bond family estate.

2012: Christie's of London hosts an online charity auction celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bond movie franchise, ending this date after 11 days.
2013: HarperCollins publishes William Boyd's Bond novel Solo in the US.

IT'S 1969, AND, HAVING JUST
celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James
Bond -- British special agent 007 -- is sum-
moned to headquarters to receive an un-
usual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West
African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter
civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the
rebels threatening the established regime.

Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start
of a feverish mission to discover the forces
behind this brutal war -- and he soon realizes
the situation is far from straightforward.
Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause
of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a
twisting conspiracy that extends further
than he ever imagined.

Moving from rebel battlefields in West
Africa to the closed doors of intelligence
office in London and Washington, this novel
is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted
story full of memorable characters and
breathtaking twists, and a masterful study
of power and how it is wielded -- a brilliant
addition to the James Bond canon.

WILLIAM BOYD
is also the author of A Good Man in Africa,
winner of the Whitbread Award and the
Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream
War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys
Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize;
Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the
Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunder-
storms; and Waiting for Sunrise; among other
books. He lives in London.

WWW.IANFLEMING.COM

2015: Title song "Writing's on the Wall" reaches #1 on the UK charts, first ever for a James Bond film.

2015: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC releases The Man with the Golden Typewriter.

2016: Daniel Craig on the Bond role: "As far as I'm concerned, I've got the best job in the world. I'll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it."

Is Daniel Craig not quitting as Bond after all?
"I've got the best job in the world"​

Maybe hold off on those Hiddleston/Elba bets for now.
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/james-bond-007/news/a810428/daniel-craig-not-quitting-bond-best-job-in-the-world/
By Sam Warner | 08/10/2016

Sony Pictures

Will he? Won't he? It's the question that has plagued Bond fans for the better part of the year - or at least since Spectre was released.

And it looks like Daniel Craig is still happy to keep us all guessing, as despite previously saying he would rather "slash his wrists" than play the role of James Bond again, now it seems Daniel is still up for returning again after all.

"They say that shit sticks, and that definitely stuck," he said at the New Yorker Festival last night (October 8) when recalling that particular statement, Vulture reports.

"It was the day after filming [stopped on Spectre]," he explained. "I'd been away from home for a year."

Craig also added that the physical strains of the role coupled with the filming schedule taking him a great distance away from his family had all taken its toll on him - but not enough to completely dampen his spirits about playing 007.

"Boo-hoo," he added. "It's a good gig. I enjoy it."

He continued: "As far as I'm concerned, I've got the best job in the world. I'll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it."

So, he's staying then? At the very least, it looks like Craig doesn't want to NOT be Bond, adding later on that "if [he] were to stop doing it, [he'd] miss it terribly".

Randy Holmes / ABCGetty Images

Of course, after his original controversial comments, speculation hit fever drive over who could potentially replace the star as 007 should he not return.

Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba have been seen by many as the frontrunners - Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie is firmly on Team Idris, for one - although maybe those bets are off for the moment, going by Craig's latest comments.

He is, after all, still "absolutely" the producers' first choice to play Bond despite his return still being up in the air.

"I know [producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson] are hoping for him to come back," executive producer Callum McDougall revealed earlier this year, though he still didn't know if Craig had signed on or not.

So, the role is still his if he wants it (and the rumoured $150 million that goes with it), so let's remind ourselves of what makes Craig so good as Bond by re-watching the Spectre trailer:

Thunderfinger

Would be interesting to read that Soviet novel, if there is any translation.

RichardTheBruce

October 9th

1902: Freddie Young is born--London, England. (He dies 1 December 1998 at age 96--London, England.)

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

Frederick Archibald Young was born on 9 October 1902 in London. He entered the film industry in 1917 at Lime Grove Studios, West London.

At that time it was run by Gaumont and had a glass exterior to allow light for shooting. Later it was re-built. It became Gaumont British in 1922. Young said the glasshouse was good in theory but in practice wasn’t so good. If it was a foggy day the studio became a pea souper. If it was cloudy, lights would be required to provide exposure, but if the sun came out the studio would be filled with sunlight and the shot would be ruined.

Young started in the laboratory and eventually moved into cameras, remaining with the studio for ten years. In those days he operated the Debrie Parvo camera. He worked with a cameraman called Arthur Brown. Later, Bill Shenton worked there and despite only having one eye he was considered to be a very good cameraman. Eventually the studio became the home to BBC Television. Housing now stands on the site. One of the films he worked on after leaving Gaumont was Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) photographed by Jack Cox and made at British International Pictures (BIP). Young was asked to shoot a montage for the silent version.

For several years he worked at British and Dominions at Elstree for producer and director Herbert Wilcox. Cinematographer Oswald Morris said: “He was a powerful cinematographer. He treated filmmaking rather like being in the army. There was strict discipline. At the height of his career his crew had to call him Mr Young.”

Sir Sydney Samuelson says: “The first technical marvel for which he was responsible, and which held me in awe of his genius, was as far back as 1938 on Sixty Glorious Years. I remember two technical aspects quite clearly. One sequence was an early example of British Technicolor three-strip. There was a remarkable ballroom scene, which was achieved by means of an early matte shot. Called something like the ‘Shufton process’. There was a glorious wide-angle shot of an elegant ballroom. Freddie once told me that as clever as Shufton was, the most stunning effect was actually brought about by him, pricking holes in the top part of the back of the matte then shining through each chandelier painted on its front. Amazing!”

During WW2 Young was in the Army Kinematograph Service with Freddie Francis. Francis said: “He always insisted on being called Mr Young or sir. After the war Freddie was Freddie to everyone.”

Young was the first President of the BSC 1949-1952. He was President again from 1957-1960. He was also a member of the ASC and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).

Following the war Young became head of cameras at MGM Elstree. “I suppose it was the finest studio in the country. It had a beautiful lot and was beautifully equipped,” remarked Young.

Renowned director Nicolas Roeg, who worked with Young at MGM and later photographed the second unit on Lawrence of Arabia, said Freddie was a terrific guy to work with.

In 1959, faced with a pay cut due to production cuts Young decided to leave the company. The day after leaving he realised that it was the first time he’d been out of work since 1917. In 1960 he was approached by producer Sam Spiegel to photograph Lawrence Of Arabia for director David Lean. Other notable directors he worked with include George Cukor, John Ford and John Huston.

He first met Lean on Major Barbara (1941). Lawrence was released in 1962 and was the start of three 65mm wide screen pictures with Lean, earning Young three Oscars. Sydney Samuelson said: “Young is definitely ‘the master’ in my book of cineastes. Arguably and certainly in his era he was the best cameraman in the world. I had the pleasure of involvements with him and his crew from Lawrence Of Arabia onwards. David Lean was such a brilliant storyteller but nobody when working on one of his movies would accuse him of being easygoing. Freddie carried on for him regardless of personal and technical problems. Apart from three American Oscars Freddie won many awards including only the second Fellowship after Hitchcock from our own Academy BAFTA.”

The three films he made with Lean were a challenge. “Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees. We had a sunshade over the camera and a wet cloth on top of the camera, which acted like refrigerator. We never saw rushes, the results were cabled from London. The famous mirage scene was shot using a 500mm lens. This was obtained from Panavision in Hollywood along with the rest of the camera equipment,” said Young.

His next outing with Lean was Dr Zhivago (1965). It was filmed in the heat of Spain but was set in Russia, so a lot of faking was required. Some was shot in Finland. “We painted trees white, coloured hedge rows with white plastic and used hundreds of tons of marble dust,” said Young. “We used a blue filter for much of the film and it was my hardest technically.”

His final film for Lean was Ryan’s Daughter (1971). The whole of the film is set on the west coast of Ireland. He said: “Winter came and the summer scenes hadn’t been completed, so the main unit went to South Africa, a second unit stayed behind headed by Roy Stevens. Denys Coop was in charge of the cinematography. Lean gives you an inspiration so you go out of your depth and try and do something extraordinary.”

In conversation with cinematographer Robin Vidgeon’s wife Angela, Young said: “Whenever I had a candlelit scene I would go into a dark room, light a candle, sit and watch it for a while, blow it out and then take those images to set and light accordingly.”

"Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees."
- Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

In 1992 Lawrence of Arabia was re-launched and Young went to several screenings. At one screening Steven Spielberg told him it was seeing Lawrence in 1962 that made him decide a film career was for him.

Later in 1992 he was invited to speak to film students at the royal college of art. In July 1994 the college honoured him by making him a doctor of art.

Young said that people often asked him about his techniques. He said he had no plan or technique; he lit the scene according to what was in the script.

Following Ryan’s Daughter he carried on shooting until 1983. The same year he directed Arthur’s Hallowed Ground, his only film as director and the last he worked on. After this he shot commercials until his retirement aged eighty-five. His autobiography was published by Faber and Faber in 1999 called Seventy Light Years, which can be obtained through Amazon.

Finally, he said: “I worked in the industry for seventy years, photographing more than 120 films and being paid for a job I love. At the age of ninety-six I look back and think I’ve been incredibly lucky.”

Freddie Young OBE passed away on 1 December 1998 age 96.

Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)
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Filmography

Cinematographer (130 credits)

1985 Invitation to the Wedding
1984 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1981 Stainless Steel and the Star Spies (TV Movie)
1980 Ike: The War Years (TV Movie)
1980 Richard's Things (director of photography)
1980 Rough Cut

1979 Bloodline
1978 Stevie (director of photography)
1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1976 The Blue Bird (director of photography)
1975 The Executioner
1974 Great Expectations (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1974 The Tamarind Seed (director of photography)
1974 Love from A to Z (TV Movie)
1974 Luther
1972 The Asphyx
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra (director of photography)
1970 Ryan's Daughter (photographed by)
1970 The Maker and the Process (TV Short)
1969 Battle of Britain (director of photography)
1969 Sinful Davey (director of photography)
1967 You Only Live Twice (director of photography)
1967 The Deadly Affair (director of photography)
1965 Doctor Zhivago (director of photography)
1965 Rotten to the Core
1965 Lord Jim (as Frederick A. Young)
1964 The 7th Dawn (as Frederick Young, photographed by)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1961 Loss of Innocence (as Frederick A Young, photographed by)
1961 Hand in Hand (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1961 Gorgo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) (as F.A. Young)

1959 Solomon and Sheba (director of photography - as Fred A. Young)
1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1958 Indiscreet (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1958 I Accuse! (director of photography)
1957 Island in the Sun
1957 The Little Hut (as F.A. Young)
1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (as F.A. Young)
1956 Beyond Mombasa (as Frederick A. Young)
1956 Lust for Life (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1956 Invitation to the Dance (segments "Circus", "Ring Around the Rosy", as F.A. Young)
1956 Bhowani Junction (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1955 Bedevilled
1954 Betrayed (as F.A. Young)
1953 Knights of the Round Table (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1953 Mogambo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1953 Terror on a Train (as F.A. Young)
1952 Ivanhoe (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1952 Giselle (Short)
1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond (as F.A. Young)
1950 Treasure Island (as F.A. Young)

1949 Conspirator (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
1949 Edward, My Son (as F.A. Young)
1948 The Winslow Boy (director of photography)
1948 Escape (as Frederick A. Young)
1947 While I Live (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1947 So Well Remembered (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1946 Bedelia (as Frederick A. Young)
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra (as F.A. Young, photography)
1942 The Young Mr. Pitt (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
1941 49th Parallel (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
1940 Haunted Honeymoon (as F.A. Young, photography)
1940 Suicide Legion
1940 Blackout (as F.A. Young)

1939 Nurse Edith Cavell (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
1938 Queen of Destiny (as F.A. Young)
1938 A Royal Divorce
1937 Millions (uncredited)
1937 The Rat (as F.A. Young)
1937 Victoria the Great (as F.A. Young)
1937 Backstage
1937 The Frog (as F.A. Young)
1937 Girl in the Street (as F.A. Young)
1936 The Show Goes On (as F.A. Young)
1936 This'll Make You Whistle
1936 Two's Company
1936 Fame
1936 When Knights Were Bold (as F.A. Young)
1935 Come Out of the Pantry
1935 Peg of Old Drury (as F.A. Young, photography)
1935 Escape Me Never (uncredited)
1934 The King of Paris
1934 Nell Gwyn (as F.A. Young)
1934 Girls Please!
1934 Runaway Queen
1933 It's a King (as F.A. Young)
1933 Just My Luck
1933 Night of the Garter
1933 Up for the Derby
1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest (uncredited)
1933 Trouble
1933 That's a Good Girl
1933 Summer Lightning
1933 Yes, Mr. Brown
1933 Bitter Sweet (as F.A. Young)
1933 The Little Damozel
1933 The King's Cup
1932 Leap Year
1932 The Love Contract
1932 Thark
1932 The Mayor's Nest
1932 Magic Night
1932 A Night Like This
1932 The Blue Danube
1931 Up for the Cup
1931 Mischief
1931 Venetian Nights (as F.A. Young)
1931 The Chance of a Night Time
1931 Tilly of Bloomsbury
1931 The Speckled Band (as F.A. Young)
1931 The Sport of Kings (as Fred Young)
1930 Tons of Money
1930 Plunder
1930 A Warm Corner (as Fred Young)
1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930 On Approval
1930 Die Somme: Das Grab der Millionen (as Frederick Young)
1930 The Loves of Robert Burns (uncredited)
1930 The W Plan
1930 One Embarrassing Night (uncredited)

1929 White Cargo
1929 A Peep Behind the Scenes
1929 The Bondman
1928 Blue Bottles (Short) (as F.A. Young)
1928 Day-Dreams (Short)
1928 The Tonic (Short)
1928 Victory

Camera and Electrical Department (8 credits)

1979 Ike: The War Years (TV Mini-Series) (cinematographer - 2 episodes)
- Part II (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
- Part I (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)

1959 The Wreck of the Mary Deare (additional photographer - as F.A. Young)
1956 Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light (Documentary short) (cinematographer: scenes from "Lust for Life (1956)
1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris (location camera - uncredited)

1927 The Somme (second camera operator)
1927 The Flag Lieutenant (second camera operator)
1922 Rob Roy (assistant camera)

1919 The First Men in the Moon (film development technician)

Director (1 credit)

1984 Arthur's Hallowed Ground (TV Movie)

1959: The Spectator publishes Ian Fleming's article "If I Were Prime Minister".

If I were prime minister, by Ian Fleming

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/if-i-were-prime-minister-by-ian-fleming/
Ian Fleming | 14 May 2015

This article was first published in The Spectator on 9 October, 1959.

I am a totally non-political animal. I prefer the name of the Liberal Party to the name of any other and I vote Conservative rather than Labour, mainly because the Conservatives have bigger bottoms and I believe that big bottoms make for better government than scrawny ones. I only once attended a debate in the House of Commons. It was, I think, towards the end of 1938 when we were unattractively trying to cajole Mussolini away from Hitler. I found the hollowness and futility of the speeches degrading and infantile and the well-fed, deep-throated ‘hear, hears’ for each mendacious platitude verging on the obscene. If this is politics, I reflected, I would much rather not see it happening and I swore never to re-enter the Chamber. I never have.

My own particular hero is Sir Alan Herbert, an independent-minded though admittedly think-shanked man, who swimming alone, stayed out of the muddy red and blue stream and more or less single-handed changed a section of our law for the benefit of the common man. And of course I have the affectionate reverence for Sir Winston Churchill that most of us share. But in general I regard politicians as a race apart and if the Bottle Imp were to offer me high office I would accept, and that with reluctance, nothing less than the Premiership.

On taking office, I would concentrate on small things.

The big things — the H-bomb, the conquest of outer space, the colour problem— these are too vast and confused for one man’s brain; I would leave them to my ministers and to the wave of common sense, which, it seems to me, by a process of osmosis between peoples rather than between politicians, is taking a rapid and healthy control of the world.

My first ‘Action This Day,’ through my Minister of Transport, would be simple but significant: on the road signs displaying a diamond-studded black banana with the word ‘CURVE’ underneath, I would have the word ‘CURVE’ removed. By this and other small tokens, I would proclaim that the English people are no longer babies and that, after all these years of universal education, I propose to deal with the citizens as if they were in fact universally educated. All my education would start with this assumption.

Next, I would try and stop people being ashamed of themselves. In the United Kingdom we have a basically nonconformist conscience and the fact that taxation, controls and certain features of the welfare state have turned the majority of us into petty criminals, liars and work-dodgers is, I am sure, having a very bad effect of the psyche of the kingdom. Tax-dodging in all its forms would have my attention and I would proceed to reduce income tax, surtax and death duties by the maximum amount possible in exchange for abolishing all expense accounts and other forms of fiscal chicanery. Motor-cars, whether Rolls-Royces or Fords, owned by a company, would have the name of that company displayed in half-inch letters in a prominent position so that if a company’s car was seen disgorging a load of mink and cigar smoke in theatreland in the evening, any of the company’s shareholders who happened to be a witness could, if he wanted, ask the company to justify the use of a company vehicle. But the real deterrent would be snobbery. I think everyone would gain morally by this legislation and no real harm would be done to anyone. To begin with, of course, the restaurants would suffer from the absence of the expense-account aristocracy who have ridiculously inflated the price of meals all over the world, while at the same time deflating the quality of the food. I would hope that the really good restaurants would survive, but that the hosts of bogus eating places with Algerian ‘Infuriator’ (otherwise known as ‘Instant’ Burgundy), described as Beaujolais selling at 15s. for half a carafe, would disappear.

Having looked after the moral fibre of the ‘Haves,’ I would next direct my attention to the work-shy ‘Have-nots,’ being convinced that the man who is not returning good work for good money is basically ashamed of himself. In consultation with the trade unions, I would devise a scheme of benevolent Stakhanovism. There would be a minimum wage in every industry, but rapidly mounting merit bonuses for real work in either quantity or quality. This would not abolish tea breaks or the games of whist but make them unpopular with the wives. I would also request the trade unions to re-examine the whole question of overtime. Having obtained an eight-hour day and a five-day week, it seems to me wrong that workers should use two extra days and many extra hours earning overtime double money when they should be enjoying the leisure and repose they have fought to obtain.

And while on the subject of leisure, I would certainly consider appointing a Minister of Leisure, with a small staff, to make every effort to enhance the pleasure people get from their increasing spare time.

Having observed at close quarters the great waste of money on paint and canvases in one of our art schools, I am not convinced that the welfare ‘artist,’ copying as he usually does, one or another, or very often several, of the modern theories of painting, is worth encouraging any farther. Instead, therefore, of spending larger sums on the arts, I would spend them on the crafts. I would encourage the fine metal workers, enamellers, binders, printers, woodworkers, etc., in a most lavish fashion and attempt to arrest at once the decline of the craftsman, even down to the lowly thatcher.

To give the craftsman, the designer and, of course, the artist an outlet for his capabilities, I would take the Rolls-Royce motor-car as an example and persuade all manufacturers that, let us say, 5 per cent of output should consist of an absolutely top-grade, luxury product in which price is an entirely secondary consideration. Every firm would then be producing, perhaps only in small quantities, the Rolls-Royce of its particular line of manufacture — real grain whisky and gin, quintessentially distilled, ice-cream made with real strawberries and real cream, lavatory paper as luxurious as a peach skin, scissors that actually cut your nails, and so on through the list of all our products. By this means I would make quality goods available to those here and abroad who like these things and can afford them and I would hope to educate the admass to eschew the shoddy. Coincidentally, in the world’s markets, ‘British made’ would go back to the place where it used to belong.

Next I should proceed to a complete reform of our sex and gambling laws and endeavour to cleanse the country of the hypocrisy with which we so unattractively clothe our vices. To deal only with my most far-reaching proposal, I would consult with my Minister of Leisure about the possibility of turning the Isle of Wight into one vast pleasuredome (cf. Fr. Baisodrome) which would be a mixture of Monte Carlo, Las Vegas, pre-war Paris and Macao. Here there would be casinos (they are building one on Gibraltar and they have one in Nassau; why not one on the Isle of Wight?) and the most luxurious maisons de tolérance in the world. Bingo, poker, faro, fan-tan, craps— even whist drives with money prizes! This would be a world where the frustrated citizen of every class could give full rein to those basic instincts for sex and gambling which have been crushed through the ages. At last our cliff-girt libido would have an outlet and the sleazy strip-tease joints, rump-sprung street-walkers and backroom card games would be out of business forever. Since it is impossible to suppress the weaknesses of mankind, I would at least put an honest face on the problem and do something to release the homme moyen sensuel, or femme for the matter of that, from some of their burden of shame and sin.

After dealing with the spiritual comfort of the electorate, I would proceed to his physical state, and my first step would be the abatement of noise, carbon-monoxide gas and exasperation caused by the traffic problem in our big towns. I would solve these with the help of Mr Francis Bacon’s recently invented, much-publicized battery. Our present internal-combustion engine is a ridiculous steam-age contraption which turns only a modest proportion of fuel into energy and spews the rest out in the form of petrol vapour of a more or less solid consistency. When there is no wind, this lies in a dense layer in our streets and we breathe it in day and night. It then rises into the upper atmosphere, where I am told, it forms a kind of envelope round the world which has the effect of interfering with the beneficial rays of the sun. Whether that is so or not, the petrol engine is obviously a noxious and noisy machine, and I would gradually abolish and replace it by some form of electric motor. This would take some time, but I would hope that, within three years of assuming office, I could have converted the whole of central London to electric transport. Very cheap, State-owned garages would be built at the point of entry into London of our main roads and drives would there transfer into electric buses or the Underground and later into cheap, state-run electric taxis. There would be quiet, no smell and no parking problems. Gradually I would extend this system to our other great towns and in due course the problem would be solved for the whole country.

In an attempt to make government more honest, I would face up to the fact that my Exchequer battens fatly on the vices and follies of the electorate and I would have HM Stationery Office publish quarterly a periodical entitled Hazard. Hazard would give, without comment, the very latest information obtainable anywhere in the world on the ill-effects of smoking too much, drinking too much and consuming white bread, TT tested milk, refined sugar, foods too long frozen, etc. Hazard would also give the correct odds for football pools and Premium Bonds and, from time to time, publish the annual accounts of the bookmaking firms throughout the country. Road accident figures would be given in detail, and in cases where mechanical failure (those shattering windscreens, for instance) attributable to faulty manufacture was involved, the name of the manufacturer would be published. There would, as I say, be no editorial comment in the magazine, but I should be able to face with a clear conscience the fact, from the Exchequer’s point of view, the most valuable citizen is the man who drinks or smokes himself to death.

There are other various small matters I would attend to, such as men’s clothing, which I regard as out-of-date, unhygienic and rather ridiculous; press reform — we have the grimiest press in the world; the matter of titles — I would greatly reinforce the Orders of Chivalry and, if a Lord or a Baron or an Earl did not behave as a lord or a baron or an earl should, he would lose his title after the third offense (as is more or less the case with service rank); rich state prizes for all inventions or innovations that were even of remote benefit to the Commonwealth; enthusiastic encouragement of emigration, but more particularly of a constant flow of peoples within the Commonwealth; a Commonwealth super-Parliament; and less fried food for the constipated masses.

All these, as I have said, are small, workaday things — too small, alas, for the attention of either M. Harold Macmillan or Mr Gaitskell. So I look forward, with squared shoulders and glazed resignation, to five years of Summitry, pensions and the 11-plus.

Ian Fleming Estate

This article was first published in The Spectator on 9 October, 1959. Anthony Horowitz’s new James Bond novel will be published in September by Orion.

1966: The Sunday Times of London quotes the late Ian Fleming.

''A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.''

1972: The Gleaner reports the Hanover Parish Council agrees to filming in Lucea, Lousiana. Involves closure of the new road at Johnson Town and assurances local labour will support the filming of the bus chase.
1082: Octopussy films OO7 on horseback catching a plen.
2008: BBC Audiobooks publishes My Word Is My Bond, read By Sir Roger Moore himself.

2012: DK Books publishes Bond On Set: Filming Skyfall by Greg Williams in the UK.