On This Day

RichardTheBruce

October 10th

1945: The Royal Navy discharges Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming.
1946: Charles Dance is born--Redditch, Worcestershire, England.
1956: Fiona Fullerton is born--Kaduna, Nigeria.
1963: London premiere of From Russia With Love at the Odeon Leicester Square.

1963: The Kinematograph Weekly grudgingly admits crowds had been gathered at the theatre since mid-day and opening day records would be bettered by From Russia With Love. It was just the beginning for that type of thing and the film triggered outright spy mania through the 60s. (Later reports say Soviet premier Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev got a copy of the film from the British embassy. And screened it. At least three times.)
1968: Comic strip The Harpies begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 June 1969. 816-1037)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=999


Swedish Semic Comic 1978 Fågelkvinnorna ("Bird Woman" - The Harpies)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3



Swedish Semic Comic 1989 Fågelkvinnorna ("Bird Woman" - The Harpies - Part 1 & 2)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358




Danish 1970 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-19-1970/

1979: Moonraker released in France.
1985: Orson Welles dies at age --Los Angeles, California. (Born 6 May 1915--Kenosha, Wisconsin.)

A Cocktail Recipe For
Disaster: Peter Sellers And
Orson Welles On The
Making Of Casino Royale
https://sabotagetimes.com/tv-film/a-cocktail-recipe-for-disaster-peter-sellers-and-orson-welles-on-the-making-of-casino-royale
Take one deluded producer, two huge egos, four directors, five 007s and half-a-dozen writers. Sprinkle with cash, add jokes to taste, shake, stir - and voila! Casino Royale: a cocktail recipe for disaster
Richard Luck | Updated on Nov 2, 2015

Casino Royale must have looked an appetising prospect when it went into pre-production in 1965. The Saltzman/Broccoli Bond movies had established the playboy spy as a bankable commodity, and when producer Charles Feldman signed up comic genius Peter Sellers for his film version of Fleming's novel, he doubtless thought he had a licence to print money. Rather than breaking box-office records, however, Feldman's $12 million movie would devour its budget, fail to recoup its costs and destroy careers, including his own.

But Casino Royale was cursed even before Feldman optioned it in the early '60s. CBS, who had made a US TV movie of it in 1954, passed the option on to actor-director Gregory Ratoff. He signed to make a big-screen version for Fox in 1960 - only to die before a frame was shot.

As for Feldman, his problems began the day he hired Sellers - at the time one of the biggest movie stars in the world. The impact of his performances in Dr Strangelove, in addition to the commercial success of the Pink Panther movies, elevated Sellers to a position of rare power for a comic actor. Feldman knew from experience that Sellers was a draw - the actor had helped make a hit of the producer's giddy comedy What's New Pussycat? - so he agreed to pay the former Goon a then-unheard-of $1m to play accountant and Bond imposter Evelyn Tremble.

No sooner had he agreed terms than Sellers fell out with Feldman and began to act irrationally. He insisted that the producer hire his friend, TV director Joe McGrath, and refused to appear on set with co-star Orson Welles. Many concluded that the already eccentric Sellers had gone mad, especially after he came to blows with McGrath and then fled the set - never to return.

The impact of his performances in Dr Strangelove, in addition to the commercial success of the Pink Panther movies, elevated Sellers to a position of rare power for a comic actor

Peter Sellers' walkout seemed to spell the end of Casino Royale. But rather than capitulating, Charles Feldman reverted to his original plan and set about making a truly immense movie. Out went McGrath and original writer Wolf Mankowitz; in came a string of different directors - Val Guest, John Huston, Richard Talmadge, Robert Parrish, Ken Hughes - and a raft of screenwriters that included co-stars Woody Allen and David Niven, Hollywood legend Billy Wilder and groundbreaking novelist Terry Southern .

The end result has to be one of the strangest films ever made by a Hollywood studio. The combination of Sellers' walkout and Feldman's extravagance deprived Casino Royale of anything approaching structure and transformed it into a series of unconnected sketches. Worst of all, here was a comedy almost totally devoid of laughs.

It was to be Feldman's swansong: he died of stomach cancer within a year of the film's 1967 premiere. The paranoid Peter Sellers had predicted as much. "Feldman is going to die!" he once ranted, "and the reason he'll die is so he can blame me! He'll say, 'Sellers killed me!' He'll do it to spite me!"

Charles Feldman (producer): I love the movies, always have. I like money too, but only because it lets me make the movies I want to make.

Orson Welles (actor, Le Chiffre): The movies need people like Charles Feldman: rich, jolly, generous men who're happy writing cheques.

Val Guest (director): Charlie found out that, when he bought the book, all he got was the title. Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had already used everything in the book except the baccarat game, so the whole thing had to be structured around that.

Woody Allen (actor, Jimmy Bond/Dr Noah): I was offered a lot of money and a small part. My manager said, "Why not? It could become a big movie." So I went to London. I was on a good salary and expense account. But they didn't film me for six months! I stayed in London at their expense for six months! That's only one example of how utterly wasteful the project was.

I once saw him on one phone to Peter Sellers, on a second to United Artists and on a third to the Italian government

Bryan Forbes (first-choice director): Charlie came into my life brandishing a copy of Casino Royale. He told me he wanted to have five James Bond and would guarantee me an all-star cast. "You can write it wherever you want. Do you like the south of France?" Gifts started to arrive - silk scarves, theatre tickets. Charlie was talking Monopoly money to secure my services. Every time I expressed doubts, he sweetened the deal.

Peter Sellers (actor, Evelyn Tremble): People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.

Woody Allen: Charlie was a genius. I once saw him on one phone to Peter Sellers, on a second to United Artists and on a third to the Italian government. He was a big-time charming con man and I never trusted him for a second.

Bryan Forbes: I said 'yes' to Charlie and then thought about the basic idiocies of the script. Five Bonds! That meant departing from the novel. I called one of Charlie's assistants who went into a fit on the phone. But I stuck to my guns.

Wolf Mankowitz (screenwriter): Peter Sellers was a treacherous lunatic. My advice to Feldman was not in any circumstances to get involved with Sellers. But Sellers was at his peak. I told Charlie that Sellers would fuck it all up.

Joseph McGrath (director): Feldman was glad to get Peter at any price. He'd put up the money for Sellers' insurance on What's New Pussycat? - after his heart attack, nobody would cover him.

Wolf Mankowitz: Charlie gave Sellers a Rolls Royce on the first day of shooting as a come-on.

Peter Sellers: I was offered $1 million to play Bond. I said, "You must be out of your bloody minds - what about Sean Connery?" Feldman said, "Yes, I know, but I have this book and I'm going to make it." I said, "I certainly can't play Bond!"

Wolf Mankowitz: Charlie Feldman offered Peter more and more money to play 007. In the end, the fee was so large Peter would have been mad to turn it down.

Peter Sellers: I wanted to play James Bond the way Tony Hancock would play him. But Ian Fleming's people would never have allowed it.

Wolf Mankowitz: In the end, Peter didn't play Bond. He played Evelyn Tremble. "Who's Evelyn Tremble?" everyone asked. Nobody knew. But then we didn't know who Sellers was either.

Charles Feldman: The only way to make a film with Peter is to let him direct, write and produce it as well as star in it.

Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers wanted different directors; he wanted to piss around with the script. He knew nothing about anything except doing funny faces and funny voices.

Joseph McGrath: Peter asked me if I'd be interested in directing a film he'd agreed to star in. I said, "I'd be delighted to." And that's where the trouble started.

Wolf Mankowitz: By Casino Royale, Peter Sellers was pretty well round the bend and couldn't function properly. He'd change the order of shooting. He'd be 'unavailable' or constantly change his timing, making it hard to splice material together.

Sellers was frightened of the scale of Orson - his legend, literally his weight and immensity.

Orson Welles: Sellers wasn't terribly bright, but he came on as the great actor.

Joseph McGrath: One of the problems that blew the film apart was that Orson and I got along really well. And Sellers got really annoyed. "I didn't think you and Orson would take sides against me." I said, "I'm not - but Orson thinks we can come up with some funny stuff." Sellers replied, "I'll only attempt to come up with funny stuff so long as he's not here." He was frightened of the scale of Orson - his legend, literally his weight and immensity.

Wolf Mankowitz: I'll never forget the occasion Orson and I, two rather large fellows, were in the lift. The door opened and Sellers was there. Sellers wasn't talking to Orson, and he was none too keen on me either. He wouldn't go down in the lift with us - said it wasn't safe. Orson was pissed off. "What the fuck is he talking about?" "I think he means the combined weight, Orson." "What the fuck does he weigh? Skinny as a shrimp. Looks like a shrimp, come to think of it."

Joseph McGrath: Orson didn't have the same attitude about his career as Peter did. Peter was what he did. Orson thought, I'll be here for four weeks, let's enjoy ourselves. Peter's thing was: My career is on the line.

Wolf Mankowitz: Peter was terrified of playing with Orson and converted this into an aversion for him.

Joseph McGrath: Orson would come onto the set at 9am prompt, sit down at the baccarat table and say, "So, Joe, where's our thin friend today?"

Orson Welles: Sellers was very proud of how thin he was. Apparently, he'd taken a lot of pills to help shift the weight. If you listened to him talking, you'd think it was the greatest achievement of his career.

Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers claimed Orson was surrounded by a dark aura and said it would not be healthy for him to be close to Orson. He was incredibly superstitious. He was obsessed with horoscopes, tarot cards and colours.

Peter Sellers: Green has been a superstition of mine for a long time. And purple. Vittorio De Sica told me, "My dear Peter, purple is the colour of death." And certain shades of green. The hard, acidy green is bad. I pick up strange vibrations from it. It disturbs me.

Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers was completely obsessed with royalty. He was always going on about Princess Margaret. His biggest thrill was to present people to her.

Orson Welles: The fact that Princess Margaret was stopping by every day at my house was unknown to Sellers. One day she came to the set to have lunch with Peter, or so he claimed. He couldn't wait to tell the cast and crew who he was dining with. Then she walked past him and said, "Hello, Orson, I haven't seen you for days!" That was the real end. That's when we couldn't speak lines to each other. "Orson, I haven't seen you for days!" absolutely killed him. He went white as a sheet, because he was going to present me!

Joseph McGrath: Peter and I had a fist fight in his caravan. He threw a punch and I hit him back. We got separated by Gerry Crampton, the stunt coordinator. "I love you both. I don't know who to thump first," Gerry said. Sellers and I started laughing and crying, but I said, "There's no point going on, because somebody's going to hit somebody again." And he did.

Peter Sellers: If I find myself surrounded by stupid people, I get rid of them.

Joseph McGrath: After I was fired - at Peter's request - Sellers phoned and said, "Come back! Feldman's going to give you a Rolls Royce." I said, "I don't want one." Two years later, I was in LA and Jerry Bressler, who got a credit on Casino Royale as an executive producer, pulled up in a white Coriniche. "Are you Joe McGrath?" he said. "I'm driving your Rolls Royce!"

Peter Sellers: In the end, Peter did one of his celebrated walkouts.

Ken Hughes (director): Peter stated that he was not prepared to complete the movie. Casino Royale came to a ghastly halt. Charles Feldman was left with a few scenes shot with Sellers but no movie. He had to consider closing down. But big money was involved and he decided to go ahead.

Joseph McGrath: It's hard to finish a film when you lose your star.

Ken Hughes: At a panic script meeting, it was decided that since they no longer had Sellers, they'd have to improvise. The writers were working like crazy trying to save the day. Feldman hired everyone in sight: Woody Allen, David Niven, John Huston. It was total chaos. Units were shooting in three studios. I was shooting at Shepperton, another unit was shooting at MGM. And none of us saw a completed script. I had to call the director at MGM to find out what he was shooting so I'd know how it dovetailed into what I was shooting.

Orson Welles: At the end of it, Charlie Feldman hired John Huston to direct and John moved everybody to Ireland because he wanted to go fox hunting.

Ken Hughes: The end result speaks for itself - a mish-mash that came into being because the star had walked out.

Wolf Mankowitz: The film doesn't make any sense. Because of Sellers it was cut, re-cut, screwed around with a thousand different ways.

Joseph McGrath: Peter told me years later, "I don't have a lot of friends, but I can trust you. Because we've been through hell together. You've actually faced me and thrown a punch at me. I know you won't put up with any shit.

Peter Sellers: I am not a funny man. I don't have a strong comedy personality. But even without that, you can be successful if the material is funny.

Woody Allen: I never bothered to see Casino Royale. I knew it would be horrible. The set was a madhouse. I knew then that the only way to make a film is to control it completely.

Peter Sellers: The making of that film would make an interesting film in itself.

Orson Welles (1915–1985)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/

Filmography

Actor (129 credits)

2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short) - Narrator

1987 Someone to Love - Danny's Friend
1986 The Transformers: The Movie - Unicron (voice)
1985 Moonlighting (TV Series) - Orson Welles
- The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice (1985) ... Orson Welles
1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Klingsor
1983 Hot Money - Sheriff Paisley
1981-1983 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Robin Masters
- The Big Blow (1983) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
- Birdman of Budapest (1983) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
- Double Jeopardy (1982) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
- J. "Digger" Doyle (1981) ... Robin Masters (voice)
1982 The Dreamers (Short) - Marcus Kleek
1982 Wagner e Venezia (TV Short) - Richard Wagner (voice)
1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
Aliens' Father (voice, uncredited) -
1982 Butterfly - Judge Rauch
1981 The Enchanted Journey - Pippo (voice)
1981 Tales of the Klondike (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
- Love of Life (1981) ... Narrator
- The Unexpected (1981) ... Narrator
- Scorn of Women (1981) ... Narrator
- The Race for Number One (1981) ... Narrator
- The One Thousand Dozen (1981) ... Narrator 7 episodes
1981 History of the World: Part I - Narrator (voice)
1981 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow - Narrator
1980 The Greenstone Narrated by Orson Welles (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1980 Shogun (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
- Episode #1.5 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
1980 Shogun (TV Movie) - Narrator (voice)
1980 The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla - J.P. Morgan

1979 The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (Video) - Narrator
1979 The Double McGuffin - Narrator (voice)
1979 The Muppet Movie - Lew Lord
1978 A Woman Called Moses (TV Series) - Narrator
- Episode #1.2 (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
1978 The Biggest Battle - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1977 Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1977 Some Call It Greed - Narrator (voice)
1977 It Happened One Christmas (TV Movie) - Henry F. Potter
1977 Hot Tomorrows - Parklawn Mortuary (voice)
1976 Voyage of the Damned - Jose Estedes
1975 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (TV Short) - Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
1974 Ten Little Indians - U. N. Owen / and the voice of (voice)
1973 The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles (Short) - Narrator
1973 The Battle of Sutjeska - Winston Churchill
1972 The Man Who Came to Dinner (TV Movie) - Sheridan Whiteside
1972 Treasure Island - Long John Silver
1972 Get to Know Your Rabbit - Mr. Delasandro
1972 Necromancy - Mr. Cato
1971 London (Short) - Presenter / Winston Churchill / One-Man Band / ...
1971 Malpertuis - Cassavius
1971 Freedom River (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1971 Ten Days Wonder - Théo Van Horn - un multimillionnaire qui vit en despote dans sa maison
1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Narrator (segment "Silent Snow, Secret Snow")
- The Phantom Farmhouse/Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1971) ... Narrator (segment "Silent Snow, Secret Snow") (voice)
1971 A Safe Place - The Magician
1970 The Deep - Russ Brewer
1970 Is It Always Right to Be Right? (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1970 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #4.7 (1970) ... Guest Performer
1970/I Waterloo - Louis XVIII
1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Narrator
- The Enemy Before Us (1970) ... Narrator
1970 Upon This Rock (TV Movie) - Michelangelo (voice)
1970 Catch-22 - General Dreedle
1970 Start the Revolution Without Me - The Narrator
1970 The Kremlin Letter - Bresnavitch

1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short) - Shylock
1969 To Build a Fire - Narrator (voice)
1969 The Battle of Neretva - Senator
1969 Twelve Plus One - Maurice Markau
1969 Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat - Justinian
1969 The Southern Star - Plankett
1969 Tepepa - Colonel Cascorro
1968 The Last Roman - Emperor Justinian
1968 House of Cards - Leschenhaut
1968 Oedipus the King - Tiresias
1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie) - Mr. Charles Clay
1967 I'll Never Forget What's'isname - Jonathan Lute
1967 The Sailor from Gibraltar - Louis de Mozambique
1967 Casino Royale - Le Chiffre
1966 A Man for All Seasons - Cardinal Wolsey
1966 Is Paris Burning? - Consul Raoul Nordling
1965 La isla del tesoro (Short) - Long John Silver
1965 Treasure Island (Short) - Long John Silver
1965 Chimes at Midnight - Falstaff
1965 Marco the Magnificent - Akerman, Marco's Tutor
1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Narrator (voice)
1963 The V.I.P.s - Max Buda
1963 Ro.Go.Pa.G. - The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
1962 The Trial - Albert Hastler - The Advocate / Narrator
1962 Lafayette - Benjamin Franklin
1961 King of Kings - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1961 The Tartars - Burundai
1960 The Battle of Austerlitz - Robert Fulton
1960 An Arabian Night (TV Movie) - Storyteller
1960 Crack in the Mirror - Hagolin / Lamerciere
1960 David and Goliath - King Saul

1959 High Journey (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1959 Ferry to Hong Kong - Captain Hart
1959 Compulsion - Jonathan Wilk
1958 Masters of the Congo Jungle (Documentary) - Narrator, English Language Version (voice)
1958 The Roots of Heaven - Cy Sedgewick
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
- Fountain of Youth (1958) ... Narrator
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short) - Host / narrator
1958 South Seas Adventure - Supplemental Narrator (voice)
1958 The Vikings - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1958 Touch of Evil - Police Captain Hank Quinlan
1958 The Long, Hot Summer - Will Varner
1957/I Man in the Shadow - Virgil Renchler
1956 I Love Lucy (TV Series) - Orson Welles
- Lucy Meets Orson Welles (1956) ... Orson Welles
1956 Moby Dick - Father Mapple
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) - Oscar Jaffe
- Twentieth Century (1956) ... Oscar Jaffe
1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie) - An Actor Manager / Father Mapple / Ahab
1955 Confidential Report - Gregory Arkadin
1955 Napoleon - Sir Hudson Lowe
1955 Three Cases of Murder - Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
1954 Trouble in the Glen - Sanin Cejador y Mengues
1954 Royal Affairs in Versailles - Benjamin Franklin
1953 Return to Glennascaul (Short) - Narrator / Orson Welles
1953 Omnibus (TV Series) - King Lear (segment)
- King Lear (1953) ... King Lear (segment)
1953 L'uomo la bestia e la virtù - Captain Perella - the Beast
1952 Trent's Last Case - Sigsbee Manderson
1952 The Little World of Don Camillo - Narrator (voice)
1951 Othello - Othello
1950 The Black Rose - Bayan

1949 Prince of Foxes - Cesare Borgia
1949 The Third Man - Harry Lime
1949 Black Magic - Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
1948 Macbeth - Macbeth
1947 The Lady from Shanghai - Michael O'Hara
1946 Duel in the Sun - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1946 The Stranger - Professor Charles Rankin
1946 Tomorrow Is Forever - John Andrew MacDonald / Erik Kessler
1944 Follow the Boys - Orson Welles
1943 Jane Eyre - Edward Rochester
1943 Journey Into Fear - Colonel Haki
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons - Narrator (voice)
1941 Citizen Kane - Kane
1940 Swiss Family Robinson - Opening Narrator (uncredited)
1939 The Green Goddess (Short) - Rajah / Narrator
1938 Too Much Johnson - Keystone Kop
1934 The Hearts of Age (Short) - Death
1933 Twelfth Night (Short)

Director (54 credits)

2018 The Other Side of the Wind
2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short)
1955-2000 Around the World with Orson Welles (TV Mini-Series documentary) (7 episodes)
- The Dominici Affair (2000)
- Madrid Bullfight (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Queen's Pensioners (1955) ... (uncredited)
- St. Germain des Prés (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Third Man in Vienna (1955)
2000 Moby Dick (Short)
1993 It's All True (Documentary)
1992 Don Quixote (original footage)

1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (9 episodes)
- Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986)
- Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964)
- Tempo di flamenco (1964)
- Siviglia (1964)
- Le cantine di Jerez (1964)
Show all 9 episodes
1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short)
1984 The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (Short)
1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short)
1982 The Dreamers (Short)
1981 Filming 'The Trial' (Documentary)

1979 The Orson Welles Show (TV Special) (as G.O. Spelvin)
1978 Filming 'Othello' (Documentary)
1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short)
1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
1972 Don Quixote
1971 London (Short)
1970 The Deep

1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short)
1969 The Southern Star (opening scenes, uncredited)
1968 Vienna (Short)
1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie)
1967 The Heroine
1965 Treasure Island (Short)
1965 Chimes at Midnight
1962 The Trial
1962 No Exit (uncredited)
1961 Tempo (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Art of Bullfighting/The Death of Fiction (1961)
1960 David and Goliath (his own scenes, uncredited)

1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (TV Short documentary)
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Fountain of Youth (1958)
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short)
1958 Touch of Evil
1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short)
1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie)
1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Bullfighting (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Police (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Critics (1955) ... (uncredited)
1955 Confidential Report
1955 Three Cases of Murder (segment "Lord Mountdrago", uncredited)
1951 Othello
1950 The Miracle of St. Anne (Short)

1949 Black Magic (uncredited)
1948 Macbeth
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (uncredited)
1946 The Stranger
1943 It's All True (Documentary)
1943 The Story of Samba (Short)
1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
1941 Citizen Kane

1939 The Green Goddess (Short)
1938 Too Much Johnson
1934 The Hearts of Age (Short)
1933 Twelfth Night (Short)

Writer (61 credits)

Something Else (inspired by) (filming)
2018 The Other Side of the Wind (written by)
2014 Citizen Vader (Short) (characters)
2008 F for favor (Short) (writer)
2007 The Hitchhiker (radio script - uncredited)
2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short)
2002 The Magnificent Ambersons (TV Movie) (1942 screenplay)
Around the World with Orson Welles (TV Mini-Series documentary) (1 episode, 1955) (writer - 5 episodes, 1955 - 2000) (script - 1 episode, 1955)
- The Dominici Affair (2000) ... (writer)
- Madrid Bullfight (1955) ... (script - uncredited)
- The Queen's Pensioners (1955) ... (writer - uncredited)
- St. Germain des Prés (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Third Man in Vienna (1955) ... (writer) 7 episodes
2000 Moby Dick (Short) (play)

1999 The Big Brass Ring (earlier screenplay)
1998 The Way to Santiago (Short) (writer)
1997 The Big Brass Ring (Documentary short)
1997 The Hearts of Age (Short) (concept)
1992 Don Quixote (uncredited)

1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short)
1984 The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (Short)
1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short) (written by)
1982 The Dreamers (Short) (screenplay)
1978 Filming 'Othello' (Documentary) (writer)
1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short)
1976 NBC: The First Fifty Years (TV Movie documentary)
1973 F for Fake (Documentary) (writer)
1972 Don Quixote (written by)
1972 Treasure Island (adapted for the screen by - as O. W. Jeeves)
1971 London (Short)
1970 The Deep

1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short)
1968 Vienna (Short) (writer)
1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie)
1967 The Heroine (written by)
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... (uncredited)
1965 La isla del tesoro (Short)
1965 Treasure Island (Short)
1965 Chimes at Midnight
1962 The Trial (written by)
1961 Tempo (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- The Art of Bullfighting/The Death of Fiction (1961) ... (written by)

1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (TV Short documentary)
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (teleplay - 1 episode)
- Fountain of Youth (1958) ... (teleplay)
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short)
1958 Touch of Evil (screenplay)
1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short)
1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie)
1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Bullfighting (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (uncredited)
- The Police (1955) ... (uncredited)
- Critics (1955) ... (uncredited)
Show all 6 episodes
1955 Confidential Report (screenplay) / (story)
1951 Othello (uncredited)
1950 The Miracle of St. Anne (Short)

1949 Portrait of a Killer (uncredited)
1949 The Third Man (uncredited)
1948 Macbeth (adaptation - uncredited)
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (screenplay)
1947 Monsieur Verdoux (based on an idea by)
1946 The Stranger (uncredited)
1943 It's All True (Documentary) (screenplay)
1943 The Story of Samba (Short)
1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (script writer)
1941 Citizen Kane (original screen play)

1939 The Green Goddess (Short) (adaptation)
1938 Too Much Johnson (writer)
1934 The Hearts of Age (Short)
1933 Twelfth Night (Short) (writer: voice-over)

Producer (25 credits)

2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short) (producer)

1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (producer - 9 episodes)
- Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986) ... (producer)
- Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964) ... (producer)
- Tempo di flamenco (1964) ... (producer)
- Siviglia (1964) ... (producer)
- Le cantine di Jerez (1964) ... (producer)
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1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short) (producer)
1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short) (producer)
1982 The Dreamers (Short) (producer)
1981 Filming 'The Trial' (Documentary) (producer)

1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short) (producer)
1972 Don Quixote (producer)
1970 The Deep (producer)
1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short) (producer)
1968 Vienna (Short) (producer)

1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Fountain of Youth (1958) ... (producer)
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short) (producer)
1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short) (producer)
1955 Confidential Report (producer)
1951 Othello (producer - uncredited)

1948 Macbeth (producer - uncredited)
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (producer)
1943 The Story of Samba (Short) (producer)
1943 Jane Eyre (associate producer - uncredited)
1943 Journey Into Fear (producer - uncredited)
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (producer - uncredited)
1941 Citizen Kane (production)

1939 The Green Goddess (Short) (producer)
1938 Too Much Johnson (producer)

Editor (8 credits)

2018 The Other Side of the Wind

1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (9 episodes)
- Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986)
- Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964)
- Tempo di flamenco (1964)
- Siviglia (1964)
- Le cantine di Jerez (1964) 9 episodes

1973 F for Fake (Documentary) (uncredited)
1972 Don Quixote

1967 The Heroine
1962 The Trial (uncredited)
1955 Confidential Report (uncredited)
1938 Too Much Johnson

1988: Licence to Kill films Professor Joe Butcher.
2002: Planned release date for the "Die Another Day " single.

News Roundup: Oct. 9

http://www.hollywood.com/general/news-roundup-oct-9-57205166/

Warner Bros. Records confirms that “Die Another Day,” Madonna‘s new single and the title song for MGM’s forthcoming James Bond film, will be in stores on October 22. The song was to officially debut Oct. 10 but was leaked to radio stations last week. Launch.com reports that Madonna and members of her camp were beside themselves when the song–which they claim wasn’t even finished–aired on a pop station in New York City.

2005: John Murray publishes Secret Servant--The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg) in the UK.

2009: Michael Omara publishes the Roger Moore's My Word is My Bond: The Autobiography.

One of the most recognizable big-screen stars
of the past half-century, Sir Roger Moore
played the role of James Bond longer than any other
actor. Beginning with the classic Live and Let Die,
running through Moonraker and A View to a Kill,
Moore brought his finely honed wit and wry charm
to one of Hollywood's most beloved and long-lasting
characters. Still, James Bond was only one in a
lifetime of roles stretching back to Hollywood's
studio era, and encompassing stardom in theater
and television on both sides of the Atlantic. From
The Saint to Maverick, Warner Brothers to MGM,
Hollywood to London to extreme locations the
world over, Roger Moore's story is one of the last of
the classic Hollywood lives as yet untold.

Until now. From the dying days of the studio
system and the birth of television, to the quips of
Noël Coward and David Niven, to the bedroom
scenes and outtakes from the Bond movies, Moore
has seen and heard it all. Nothing is left out --
especially the naughty bits. The "special effects" by
which James Bond unzipped a dress with a magnet;
the spectacular risks in The Spy Who Loved Me's
opening scene; and Moore's preparation for facing
down villains (he would imagine they all have
halitosis): the stories in My Word is My Bond
are priceless.

Throughout his career, Moore hobnobbed with
the glamorous and powerful, counting Elizabeth
Taylor, Jane Seymour, and Cary Grant among his
contemporaries and friends. Included are stories
if a foul-mouthed Milton Berle, a surly Richard
Burton, and a kindhearted Richard Kiel, infamous
as Bond enemy Jaws.

As much as it is Moore's own exceptional
story, My Word is My Bond is a treasure trove of
Hollywood history.

MY WORD IS MY BOND
"Guy (Hamilton) wanted to toughen up my Bond a little. I think
it's most evident in the scenes I had with Maud Adams, where I
twisted her arm and threatened -- rather coldly -- to break it unless
she told me what I wanted to know. That sort of characterisation
didn't sit easy with me, but Guy was keen to make my Bond a
little more ruthless, like Fleming's. I suggested my Bond would
have charmed the information out of her by bedding her first.
My Bond was a lover and a giggler."

RichardTheBruce

October 11th

1963: From Russia With Love general release in the UK.

1968: LIFE magazine identifies finalists for the Bond role as Hans DeVries, Robert Campbell, John Richardson, Anthony Rogers and George Lazenby.

1979: 007: Misión espacial released in Mexico.

2006: The Casino Royale soundtrack is completed this day, for a November release.
2007: Roger Moore receives the 2,350th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California.

2011: Javier Bardem confirms his casting in BOND 23.
2012: A multimedia exhibition BOND by GQ opens to the public to celebrate 50 years of Bond films.
Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

multimedia exhibition

BOND by GQ

http://www.mymarka.ru/en/project/3
11 October 2012 – 20 November 2012
Solyanka State Gallery

We created this exhibition with a two-fold purpose: the 50th anniversary of the release on screen of the first film about the adventures of the most suave spy of all time, as well as the forthcoming premiere on 26 October, of the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall. The name is Bond, James Bond. Retired Royal Navy Commander, and current secret agent On Her Majesty’s Service, licensed to kill, with the number 007. Here was the darkened lair of Colonel-General Grubozaboyshikov, head of SMERSH (you can read about him in that most well-known of all Fleming’s books, From Russia with Love); this was a Soviet bunker straight out of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. In the Chocolate space there are spy accessories spanning the whole Bond legend. In the Made for Gentlemen corner the viewer found the attributes of this quintessential gentleman: three suits by Brioni which appeared in the Bond films; hats, shoes and a golden gun. And, of course, the girls: one whole wall of the gallery was given over to the girls who won Bond’s heart; on the other, vintage portraits of all the 007 stars; glossy photos taken by the legendary photographer Terry O'Neill, who has dedicated half a century of his life to Bondiana. The museum was showing the first screening of a documentary about the filming of the last part of Quantum of Solace. In addition, BOND by GQ was showing a unique collection of the titles to twenty-two of the Bond films.

Artists: Terry O’Neill, Katya Bochavar, Ivan Razumov,

Curators: Katya Bochavar, Nina Tsirkun, Alexander Pumpyanskiy, Natalia Chechel, Dmitriy Sukhodolskiy, Oksana Smirnova, Leonid Gavriliuk, Elena Kaimanova

October 10, 2012
Solyanka State Gallery | | Opening exhibition



Soviet officer of Cold War
Era

Original exhibits of the
State Polytechnic Museum
40s, 50s

Terry O'Neill, photographer
The Exhibition Opening

0dd Job Hat «Goldfinger»,
1964

White bikini worn by Honey
Rider — Ursula Andress
«Dr. No», 1962

The Golden Gun "The man
with a Golden gun” [sic], 1974

Faberge egg “Octopussy”,
1983

In the Chocolate space
there was one whole wall
of the gallery is given over
to the girls who won
Bond’s heart

Vintage portraits of all the
007 stars and them
girlfriends
Photographer Terry O'Neil

Made for Gentlemen corner

The gallery walls was
covered by Ivan Razumov's
graffiti

Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich,
Solyanka State Gallery
director
The Exhibition Opening
October 10, 2012

Michael Idov
GQ magazine Editor-in-
Chief
The Exhibition Opening
October 10, 2012

Caroline Munro, actress
The Exhibition Opening
October 10, 2012

A unique collection of the
titles to twenty-two of the
Bond films

First editions of Fleming's
detective novels

RichardTheBruce

October 12th

1942: Daliah Lavi is born--Shavei Tzion, Israel. (She dies 3 May 2017--Asheville, North Carolina.)

Daliah Lavi obituary

Glamorous film actor who made her name in spy spoofs of the
1960s

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/09/daliah-lavi-obituary
Ronald Bergan | Tue 9 May 2017 07.57 EDT


In the 1970s Daliah Lavi left the silver screen behind and started a new career as a singer. She was particularly popular in Germany. Photograph: Alamy

With the huge success of the James Bond film franchise, starting with Dr No in 1962, a plethora of spin-offs appeared throughout the 1960s. They followed the original recipe of exotic locales, an evil genius who wishes to take over the world, a laidback, oversexed super spy hero and a bevy of (mostly treacherous) beautiful women. Among the actors portraying the last of these was Daliah Lavi, who has died aged 74.

Almost all Lavi’s film career took place in that swinging decade during which she was most likely to be seen in miniskirt and kinky boots, or displaying her underwear. The multilingual Lavi (born in the British Mandate of Palestine) had already made several French, German, Italian and Hollywood films before she starred as a sexy double agent opposite Dean Martin in The Silencers (1966), the first of the “bosoms and bullets” Matt Helm series.

Continuing in the light-hearted parodic tone was The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966) – the title refers to a bulldog with a microphone implant – in which Lavi as a Russian princess slips into the bed of a British counterintelligence agent (Lionel Jeffries), something he has long dreamed of. Lavi, with her tongue firmly in her cheek, was one of the plethora of 007s in Casino Royale (1967) and, her dark hair in a high beehive, was an alluring and mysterious woman who runs a gambling house in London in the cold war thriller Nobody Runs Forever (1968). The run of spy spoofs ended with Some Girls Do (1969), in which she was a villain, opposing and attracting “Bulldog” Drummond (Richard Johnson).[/img]

Daliah Lavi with Dean Martin in The Silencers, 1966. Photograph: Alamy

She was born Daliah Lewinbuk in the village of Shavi Zion in what was to become Israel. Her Jewish parents, Reuben and Ruth, were Russian and German respectively. When Daliah was 10 years old, she met the Hollywood star Kirk Douglas, who was making The Juggler near the Lewinbuks’ village.

Discovering that she wanted to become a ballet dancer, Douglas arranged for her to get a scholarship to study ballet in Stockholm. However, after three yearsshe was advised to give up dancing because of low blood pressure. It was then that she switched her ambitions to acting, making her first screen appearance while still a teenager in Arne Mattsson’s The People of Hemso (1955), a Swedish production based on the August Strindberg novel.


Daliah Lavi in The Spy With a Cold Nose, 1966. Photograph: Alamy

On her return to Israel, Lavi worked as a model and starred as a femme fatale in Blazing Sand (1960), a trashy “matzo western”, in which she does an exotic dance in a nightclub, a foretaste of her later roles in campy spy movies. Then moving to Paris, and changing her surname to Lavi, which means lioness in Hebrew, she won the part of Cunégonde in Candide (1960), an update to the second world war of Voltaire’s satirical novel.

She had an uncharacteristic part in Violent Summer (Un Soir Sur La Plage, 1961) as a girl found murdered on the beach after a fleeting sexual encounter. For her role as the beautiful Italian woman causing friction between a washed-up movie star (Douglas) and a temperamental newcomer (George Hamilton) in Vincente Minnelli’s Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) – shot in Italy – Lavi won a Golden Globes award as the most promising female newcomer. One of her rare straight dramatic roles was as a young woman who brings comfort to the complex eponymous hero (Peter O’Toole) in Lord Jim (1965), Richard Brooks’s sluggish epic based on Joseph Conrad’s novel, and shot in Cambodia and Malaysia.


Daliah Lavi and Peter O’Toole in Lord Jim, 1965. Photograph: Alamy

But she had made only a slight impression in the films that preceded the spy spoofs, the exception being The Whip and the Body (1963), a gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava, the father of the Italian giallo genre. One of the fetish set pieces takes place on a beach when the cruel aristocrat (Christopher Lee) horsewhips his brother’s bride (Lavi), before they engage in sado-masochistic love play.


Daliah Lavi performing one of her biggest German hits

After a turn as a furious Mexican woman scorned by an outlaw (Yul Brynner) in the mediocre western Catlow (1971), Lavi deserted the silver screen and began a whole new career as a singer. The Israeli actor Topol had persuaded Lavi to make recordings of Hebrew songs for the BBC in 1969. She soon became one of the most popular singers in Germany, her biggest hits being Oh Wann Kommst Du? (Oh, when will you come?) and Willst Du Mit Mir Gehen? (Do you want to go with me?).

She is survived by her fourth husband, the businessman Charles Gans, and their three sons and daughter.

• Daliah Lavi (Daliah Lewinbuk), actor and singer, born 12 October 1942; died 3 May 2017

Daliah Lavi (1942–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492002/

Filmography

Actress (33 credits)

1997 Duell zu dritt (TV Series)
- Manöver des letzten Augenblicks (1997)
1991 Mrs. Harris und der Heiratsschwindler (TV Movie) - Jill Howard

1975 Hallo Peter (TV Series)
- Episode dated 28 September 1975 (1975)
1970-1973 Die Drehscheibe (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode dated 29 November 1973 (1973) ... Singer
- Episode dated 25 August 1971 (1971) ... Singer
- Episode dated 25 July 1971 (1971) ... Singer
- Episode dated 6 June 1971 (1971) ... Singer
- Episode dated 23 April 1971 (1971) ... Singer 7 episodes
1972 Sez Les (TV Series)
- Episode #5.3 (1972)
1971 Catlow - Rosita
1970 Schwarzer Peter (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode #1.2 (1970) ... Singer

1969 Some Girls Do - Helga
1968 The High Commissioner - Maria Cholon
1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools - Madelaine
1967 Casino Royale - The Detainer (007)
1966 The Spy with a Cold Nose - Princess Natasha Romanova
1966 The Silencers - Tina
1965 Ten Little Indians - Ilona Bergen
1965 Shots in 3/4 Time - Irina Badoni
1965 La Celestina - The Girl
1965 They're Too Much - Lolita, Charly's Step-sister
1964 Cyrano et d'Artagnan - Marion de l'Orme (as Dalhia Lavi)
1964 Old Shatterhand - Paloma
1963 Das große Liebesspiel - Sekretärin
1963 The Whip and the Body - Nevenka
1963 The Demon - Purificata
1962 Black-White-Red Four Poster - Germaine
1962 Two Weeks in Another Town - Veronica (as Dahlia Lavi)
1961 Le jeu de la vérité - Gisèle Palerse
1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse - Maria Sabrehm
1961 Le puits aux trois vérités (uncredited)
1961 No Time for Ecstasy - Nathalie Conrad
1961 Violent Summer - Marie
1960 Candide - Cunégonde (as Dahlia Lavi)
1960 Blazing Sand

1955 The People of Hemso - Professor's Daughter

Soundtrack (6 credits)

2014 Tito's Glasses (Documentary) (performer: "Willst Du mit mir geh'n")
2010 Cindy Does Not Love Me (performer: "Willst du mit mir geh'n" (Original: "Would you follow me"))
2002 Richtung Zukunft durch die Nacht (performer: "Oh, wann kommst du?")
1996 Tohuwabohu (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Beweisstück 30 (1996) ... (performer: "Oh, wann kommst du?" - uncredited)
1973 Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Messe (1973) ... (performer: "Wär' ich ein Buch", "Auf 'ner Messe als antik" - uncredited)
1971 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1 (1971) ... (performer: "Wer hat mein Lied so zerstört" - uncredited)

Thanks (1 credit)

2008 The Making of 'Casino Royale' (Video documentary) (special thanks)

1962: Dr. No released in Ireland.

1965: The Daily Gleaner in Kingston reports another author may continue to write Bond novels post-Fleming.

https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner-oct-12-1965-p-7/
To continue Bond series
By LONDONER

LONDON:
ON the day that the very
last lames Bond story writ-
ten by the late Ian Fleming
begins to appear in the Daily
Express, there is word that a
new author is being consider-
ed to carry on the Bond saga.

He is none other that Mr.
Kingsley Amis, author of
Lucky Jim, That Uncertain
Feeling, and also more recent-
ly of The James Bond Dos-
sier, a detailed study of Flem-
ing's creation.

Negotiations are still in a
relatively early stage, says
Ian Fleming's agent,
Peter Janson-Smith: decision
has been made yet. The es-
tate is a very complex busi-
ness and there are. Lots of peo-
pie involved."

And Kingsley Amis himself
will only say: "I was ap-
proached three or four
months ago but have heard
nothing about the plan since.
I suppose it would be a rather
frightening thing to do. One
would have a great sense of
responsibility to the readers,
but I think it would be great
fun all the same."

One intriguing aspect of
this proposal is that the new
Bond series should be written
under a pseudonym! Someone
who has heard a whisper of
the royalties being offered
for this work suggests that
the best pseudonym would be
"Lucky Jim."

But I doubt if Mr. Amis
would agree. So I offer a fiver
for the best suggestions on a
postcard that I receive by
first post on Wednesday.

--Express

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films OO7 chased by Jaws through the pyramids.
1977: L'espion qui m'aimait released in France.

2006: AOL Music says Chris Cornell was inspired by Tom Jones and "Thunderball".

CHRIS CORNELL Inspired By TOM JONES For
JAMES BOND Theme

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/chris-cornell-inspired-by-tom-jones-for-james-bond-theme/
October 12, 2006

AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell recently told AOL Music that being asked to do the theme song for a James Bond movie is both a great honor and responsibility. "The Bond soundtrack song is different than any other movie you're going to write a song for, because it's steeped in lore," explained Cornell. "It's part of the tradition of the franchise."

Cornell, who has the distinction of doing "You Know My Name", the main song from the upcoming "Casino Royale", told AOL Music he understood the significance in large part because of Paul McCartney. "If you would've told me when I was 10, the first time I heard 'Live and Let Die', being a huge BEATLES and Paul McCartney fan, that I would be doing the song for the 21st James Bond film — imagining that is a fantasy," he said.

But it was another U.K. icon whom Cornell looked to for inspiration in recording "You Know My Name". He says he was thinking about Tom Jones' over-the-top singing style when someone mentioned that Jones actually did a Bond theme.

"So I heard his version of the song 'Thunderball'," Cornell said. "It's kind of a funny song. The words are about a secret agent. His voice is incredible. The band sounds small and thin, and it's Tom Jones singing, so his voice sounds enormous."

2012: Christie's reports the James Bond 50th anniversary combined online auction plus in-house party auction raised $2.6 million/€2,000,000 for charity.

James Bond auction raises $2.6 million

https://nation.com.pk/12-Oct-2012/james-bond-auction-raises-2-6-million

LONDON (AFP) - A London sale of James Bond souvenirs to mark the secret agent’s 50th silver-screen anniversary has raised over $2.6 million (two million euros), Christie’s auction house said Wednesday.

Buyers from 42 countries took part in the auction with all proceeds going to a charity.

The auction took place in two stages, firstly online from September 28 to October 8, and secondly during a party at Christie’s auction house on Friday.

Notable guests included actor Roger Moore, who played the famous agent on the big screen, and Judi Dench, who appears in Skyfall, the saga’s latest installment which is released on October 24. Many of the objects on offer were supplied by Eon Productions, the British company that has produced the Bond films.

The highlight of the collection was the Aston Martin DBS driven by Daniel Craig, the current Bond, in the opening scene of “Quantum of Solace” (2008), during an Italian car chase.

The car, estimated pre-auction at between $160,000 and $240,000, finally went under the hammer for $390,101.

The titanium Omega watch worn by Craig in Skyfall sold for $250,000 euros while his Tom Ford tuxedo was snapped up for $75,000.

2015: Daniel Craig visits Cyprus in his role as United Nations advocate against the use of land mines.

Entertainment News

UK actor Craig drops Bond killer
role to see mines in Cyprus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-entertainment-craig-landmines/uk-actor-craig-drops-bond-killer-role-to-see-mines-in-cyprus-idUSKCN0S71J620151013
October 13, 2015

British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.

Entertainment News October 13, 2015 / 10:31 AM / 3 years ago UK actor Craig drops Bond killer role to see mines in Cyprus 2 Min Read NICOSIA (Reuters) - His James Bond character might blow things up and kill for a living, but actor Daniel Craig was in Cyprus on Tuesday to see first hand the perils of unexploded ordnance littering the ethnically-split island. British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases Hammerhead #1.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #1
(OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272201011

Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
UPC: 725130252722 01011
Cover B: Robert Hack
UPC: 725130252722 01021
Cover C: Ron Salas
UPC: 725130252722 01031
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: October 2016
Format: Comic Book | Page Count: 32 Pages | ON SALE DATE: 10/12

Bond is assigned to hunt down and eliminate Kraken, a radical anti-capitalist who has targeted Britain's newly-upgraded nuclear arsenal. But all is not as it seems. Hidden forces are plotting to rebuild the faded glory of the once-mighty British Empire, and retake by force what was consigned to history. 007 is a cog in their deadly machine - but is he an agent of change, or an agent of the status quo? Loyalties will be broken, allegiances challenged. But in an ever-changing world, there's one man you can rely on: Bond. James Bond.

RichardTheBruce

October 13th

1968: EON announce Diana Rigg as the lead female role of Teresa di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

1972: Live and Let Die films a boat chase on the Irish Bayou, Louisiana.
1997: Sony Pictures Entertainment Company and partner Kevin McClory announce their plan to remake Thunderball. Again. Rumored title: Warhead 2000.
2008: Benjamin Pratt's book Ian Fleming's Seven Deadlier Sins & 007's Moral Compass published in paperback.

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2009: Sir Ken Adam appears on In Conversation with Shumon Basar.

ADAM, Sir Ken
'In Conversation' with Sir Ken Adam

https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1163

Series:
Date: Tuesday 13 October 2009
Time: 15:01
Venue:
Running time: 71 mins

Sir Ken Adam is one of the most important production designers of the 20th century. In this illustrated conversation with AACP Director Shumon Basar, Adam will discuss highlights from an extraordinary career stretching back over 60 years: the transition from architecture to film, the origins of his iconic James Bond sets and the unique relationship he developed with legendary director Stanley Kubrick.

Sir Ken Adam (b. 1921) originally trained in architecture and interior design. In 1962 he designed the first James Bond film, Dr No, and six subsequent Bonds until Moonraker in 1979. Adam’s design for the war room in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1962) became an icon of Cold War paranoia, and his minutely detailed period sets for Barry Lyndon (1974) and The Madness of King George (1994) both earned him Academy Awards.

All lectures are open to members of the public, staff and students unless otherwise stated.

RichardTheBruce

October 14th

1927: Roger Moore is born--Stockwell, London.
(He dies 23 May 2017 at age 89--Crans-Montana, Mollens, Valais, Switzerland.)

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class, Biography, 1995.

Roger Moore (I) (1927–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000549/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (97 credits)

Astrid Silverlock (filming) - Narrator (voice)
Troll Hunters (filming) - Leif (voice)
2017 The Saint (TV Movie) - Jasper
2016/I The Carer - Roger Moore
2015 GivingTales (Video Game)
Narrator - The Princess and the Pea; The Steadfast Tin Soldier (voice, as Sir Roger Moore)
2014 The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (TV Series) - Sir Roger Moore
- The Day of the Triffids (2014) ... Sir Roger Moore (as Sir Roger Moore)
2013 Incompatibles - Roger Moore
2011 A Princess for Christmas (TV Movie) - Edward Duke of Castlebury
2011 The Lighter (Short) - George Boreman (voice)
2010 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Tab Lazenby (voice)

2009 De vilde svaner - Archbishop (voice)
2008 Agent Crush - Burt Gasket (voice)
2005 Foley & McColl: This Way Up (TV Short) - Butler (as Sir Roger Moore)
2005 Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (Video) - January Q. Irontail (voice)
2004 The Fly Who Loved Me (Short) - Father Christmas (voice, as Sir Roger Moore)
2002 Boat Trip - Lloyd Faversham
2002 Tatort (TV Series) - Celebrity actor
- Schatten (2002) ... Celebrity actor
2002 On Our Own Vesna - Roger Moore
2002 Alias (TV Series) - Edward Poole
- The Prophecy (2002) ... Edward Poole
2001 The Enemy - Supt. Robert Ogilvie

1999 The Dream Team (TV Series) - Desmond Heath
- El Conquistador (1999) ... Desmond Heath
- Diplomatic Immunity (1999) ... Desmond Heath
- Merchant of Death (1999) ... Desmond Heath
- The Team (1999) ... Desmond Heath
1997 Spice World - Chief
1997 The Saint - Car Radio Announcer (voice)
1996 The Quest - Lord Edgar Dobbs
1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (TV Movie) - Thomas Grace / Inspector Fulbright
1993 Stakka Bo: Living It Up (Video short)
1991 Bed & Breakfast - Adam
1990 Bullseye! - Gerald Bradley-Smith / Sir John Bavistock
1990 Fire, Ice & Dynamite - Sir George

1987 The Magic Snowman - Lumi Ukko, the Snowman (voice)
1985 A View to a Kill - James Bond
1984 The Naked Face - Dr. Judd Stevens
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (as Turk Thrust II)
1983 Octopussy - James Bond
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
1981 The Cannonball Run - Seymour
1980 Sunday Lovers - Harry Lindon (segment "An Englishman's Home")
1980 The Sea Wolves - Captain Gavin Stewart
1980 ffolkes - Ffolkes

1979 Moonraker - James Bond
1979 Escape to Athena - Major Otto Hecht
1978 The Wild Geese - Lt. Shawn Fynn
1977-1978 Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #1.6 (1978) ... Guest Performer
- Episode #1.4 (1977) ... Guest Performer
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Guest Performer
- Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Guest Performer
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - James Bond
1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV Movie) - Sherlock Holmes
1976 Shout at the Devil - Sebastian Oldsmith
1976 Street People - Ulisse
1975 That Lucky Touch - Michael Scott
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - James Bond
1974 Gold - Rod Slater
1973 Live and Let Die - James Bond
1971-1972 The Persuaders! (TV Series)
Lord Brett Sinclair / The General / The Admiral / ...
- Read and Destroy (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
- Nuisance Value (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
- A Death in the Family (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair / The General / The Admiral / ...
- Element of Risk (1971) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
- The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
... 24 episodes
1970 The Man Who Haunted Himself - Pelham
1969-1970 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #3.16 (1970) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)
- Episode #3.13 (1969) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)

1969 Crossplot - Gary Fenn
1962-1969 The Saint (TV Series) - Simon Templar
- The World Beater (1969) ... Simon Templar
- Portrait of Brenda (1969) ... Simon Templar
- The Man Who Gambled with Life (1969) ... Simon Templar
- The Ex-King of Diamonds (1969) ... Simon Templar
- Vendetta for the Saint: Part 2 (1969) ... Simon Templar
...118 episodes
1969 Vendetta for the Saint - Simon Templar
1968 The Fiction-Makers - The Saint
1965 The Trials of O'Brien (TV Series) - Roger Taney
- What Can Go Wrong (1965) ... Roger Taney
1962 No Man's Land - Enzo Prati
1961 Romulus and the Sabines - Romulus
1961 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) - 14 Karat John
- Right Off the Boat: Part 2 (1961) ... 14 Karat John
- Right Off the Boat: Part 1 (1961) ... 14 Karat John
1959-1961 Maverick (TV Series) - Beauregarde Maverick / John Vandergelt
- Red Dog (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- Flood's Folly (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- Diamond Flush (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- Dutchman's Gold (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
- The Cactus Switch (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
...
1959-1961 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series)
Roger Moore / Radio Announcer
- Tiger by the Tail (1961) ... Roger Moore
- Vacation with Pay (1959) ... Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
1961 Gold of the Seven Saints
Shaun Garrett
1961 The Sins of Rachel Cade - Paul Wilton
1959-1960 The Alaskans (TV Series) - Silky Harris
- The Devil Made Fire (1960) ... Silky Harris
- The Ballad of Whitehorse (1960) ... Silky Harris
- White Vengeance (1960) ... Silky Harris
- Sign of the Kodiak (1960) ... Silky Harris
- Calico (1960) ... Silky Harris
...

1959 The Miracle - Captain Michael Stuart
1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Inspector Benson
- The Avon Emeralds (1959) ... Inspector Benson
1959 The Third Man (TV Series) - Jimmy Simms
- The Angry Young Man (1959) ... Jimmy Simms
1958-1959 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe / Trumper
- The Devil's Dungeon (1959) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Circus (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Fledgling (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Princess (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- The Swindler (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
Show all 39 episodes
1957 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) - Old Man / Randolph Churchill
- Avenging of Anne Leete (1957) ... Old Man
- The Remarkable Mr. Jerome (1957) ... Randolph Churchill
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1957)
1957 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Gavin
- The Taggart Light (1957) ... Gavin
1957 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Legionnaire Paul Harding
- The Richest Man in the Legion (1957) ... Legionnaire Paul Harding
1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series) - Patrick Simmons
- A Murder Is Announced (1956) ... Patrick Simmons
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) - Billy Mitchell
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... Billy Mitchell
1956 Diane - Prince Henri
1955 The King's Thief - Jack
1955 Interrupted Melody
Cyril Lawrence
1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris - Paul
1954 The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series)
- Black Chiffon (1954)
1953 Black Chiffon (TV Movie)
1953 Julius Caesar (TV Movie)
1953 The Clay of Kings (TV Movie) - Josiah Wedgwood
1953 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - French Diplomat
- The Wind Cannot Read (1953)
- World by the Tail (1953) ... French Diplomat
1951 Honeymoon Deferred - Ornithologist on a Train (uncredited)
1951 One Wild Oat - Man Watching Elevator Repair (uncredited)
1950 Drawing-Room Detective (TV Movie)

1949 The Interrupted Journey - Soldier in Paddington Café (uncredited)
1949 The Gay Lady - Stage Door Johnny (uncredited)
1949 Paper Orchid - Bit Part
1949 A House in the Square (TV Movie) - John Anstruther
1949 The Governess (TV Movie) - Bob Drew
1946 Piccadilly Incident - Guest Sitting at Pearson's Table (uncredited)
1946 Showtime - Member of the Audience (uncredited)
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra - Roman Soldier (uncredited)
1945 Vacation from Marriage - Soldier (uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
2017 And the Winner Isn't (Documentary) (additional filming)
1971-1972 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (clothes - 24 episodes)
- Read and Destroy (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- Nuisance Value (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- A Death in the Family (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- Element of Risk (1971) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
- The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
...

Producer (12 credits)
2017 The Saint (TV Movie) (co-producer)
1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1991 Bed & Breakfast (producer - uncredited)
1987 CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
- The Saint in Manhattan (1987) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) (producer - uncredited)
1975 Hugo the Hippo (executive producer - uncredited)
1973 Night Watch (executive producer - uncredited)
1973 A Touch of Class (executive producer - uncredited)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
- Overture (1971) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
1969 Crossplot (co-producer - uncredited)
1969 The Saint (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
- Vendetta for the Saint: Part 1 (1969) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
1968 The Fiction-Makers (co-producer - uncredited)

Director (2 credits)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- The Long Goodbye (1971) ... (directed by)
- The Time and the Place (1971) ... (directed by)
1964-1968 The Saint (TV Series) (9 episodes)
- Where the Money Is (1968)
- Invitation to Danger (1968)
- Escape Route (1966)
- The House on Dragon's Rock (1966)
- The Old Treasure Story (1965)

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1980 The Muppet Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Roger Moore (1980) ... (performer: "Talk to the Animals" - uncredited)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Greensleeves (1971) ... (performer: "Greensleeves" - uncredited)

Writer (1 credit)

1962 The Saint (TV Series) (uncredited)

1959: Ian Fleming writes Ivar Bryce about Kevin McClory with budget concerns.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

With the financial aspects of the production under such serious
discussion, once again Fleming raised doubts over McClory. Not his
inexperience this time, but whether he would be able to keep proper rein on
the budget. He wrote Bryce 14 October: "There's a great difference between
the sorf of Bobo Commando (meaning McClory) that has been running
hitherto and the hard working, professional units like the Boulting Brothers
and such like who get down to work on tight schedules and simply have to
stick to their budget. I think such a unit might be got together under Kevin,
but I regard it as absolutely essential that you should sit over his head
be prepared to command the team."

For some time now Fleming had grown concerned about his friend
ploughing money into a film whose script hadn't even been written yet, and
that he really ought to take a tougher stance. "You will have to be a fairly firm
hand on top of the whole thing and not just a horn of plenty paying the bills."

Again, McClory saw this kind of intervention as Fleming "obviously using
his influence upon Bryce, my co-partner, gradually to edge me out of the
projected company and the partnership."

1971: De Rusia Con Amour re-released in Argentina.

1975: James Bond comic strip Till Death Do Us Apart ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 7 July 1975 - October 14, 1975 2898-2983) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




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


Swedish Semic Comic 1977 Kontraspionaget Slår Till: Intrig På Balkan! (Till Death Do Us Part)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3



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

1980: Ben Whishaw is born--Clifton, Bedfordshire, England.
2005: A London press conference reveals Daniel Craig (arriving by speedboat) as the new James Bond.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in the US. (Delayed from 2 May 2008 due to the writers' strike, and absent director Roger Mitchell as originally planned.)
2012: "Skyfall" rises to #2 on the UK Singles Chart, tying "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran for Bond theme success.

RichardTheBruce

October 15th

1955: Tanya Roberts is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.
1964: Kinematograph Weekly (an early doubter of Bond, later reporting on the success of From Russia With Love) hails "staggering figures" for Goldfinger's box office.
1975: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 15 January 1976. 2984-3060.)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1016


Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3
En Enkel, Acapulco! (The Torch-Time Affair)


Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no47-1979/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 47: “The Torch-Time Affair” (1979)

1987: 007: Su nombre es peligro (007: His Name is Danger) released in Peru.

2005: Rik Van Nutter dies at age 76--West Palm Beach, Florida. (Born 1 May 1929--Los Angeles, California.)

Rik Van Nutter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Van_Nutter
Born: Frederick Allen Nutter - May 1, 1929 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died: October 15, 2005 (aged 76) - West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.

Nationality American
Years active 1959-1979
Spouse(s) Anita Ekberg (1963-1975)

Rik Van Nutter (May 1, 1929 – October 15, 2005) was an American actor who appeared in many minor films and the James Bond picture Thunderball.

Career

He is best known for playing the third version of Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). He also had a role alongside Peter Ustinov in Romanoff and Juliet (1968), and his later films included Foxbat (1977) with Henry Silva and Vonetta McGee and the Jim Brown WW2 adventure Pacific Inferno (1979).

Personal life
Van Nutter was married to film actress Anita Ekberg from 1963 until 1975. They lived in Spain and Switzerland and started a shipping business together.

Death
Van Nutter died on October 15, 2005 at the age of 76.

Rik Van Nutter (1929–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887607/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (14 credits)

1979 Pacific Inferno - Dennis
1977 Foxbat - Crays

1968 A Stroke of 1000 Millions - Fraser
1967 Joe l'implacabile - 'Dynamite Joe' Ford
1965 Thunderball - Felix Leiter
1965 Seven Hours of Gunfire - Buffalo Bill Cody (as Clyde Rogers)
1965 The Revenge of Ivanhoe - Ivanhoe (as Clyde Rogers)
1962 Tharus figlio di Attila - Oto
1961 A noi piace freddo...! - German Officer
1961 Romanoff and Juliet - Freddie (as Rik Von Nutter)
1960 The Passionate Thief (as Rik Von Nutter)
1960 Assignment: Outer Space - Ray Peterson (IZ41) (as Rik Von Nutter)

1959 Guardatele ma non toccatele - Charlie (as Rick Van Nutter)
1959 Uncle Was a Vampire - Victor (uncredited)

Writer (1 credit)

1971 Casting Call (as Clyde Rogers)

Self (1 credit)

1965 Thunderball: James Bond Follows Beatles in Filming in the Bahamas (Documentary short)

2017: Pinewood Studios designates The Roger Moore Stage in honor of the late Bond actor.

Roger Moore stage opened at Pinewood Studios

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41641574
16 October 2017


Sir Roger had had his own office at Pinewood since 1970 [??]

A soundstage named after the late Sir Roger Moore has been opened by the Countess of Wessex at Pinewood Studios.

Dame Joan Collins, Sir Michael Caine and Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli were among the attendees at Sunday's private event.

Lady Moore and the star's three children paid an emotional tribute, saying how proud Sir Roger would be.

Sir Roger, who played secret agent James Bond in seven films, died from cancer in May at the age of 89.

It would have been his 90th birthday on Saturday.

Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli were among the speakers at the celebration

Other guests included Stephen Fry, Sir Tim Rice, Stefanie Powers and David Walliams, representing Unicef.

Sir Roger acted in more than 40 productions at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire and also had an office there.

Sir Michael Caine, Sir Tim Rice, Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams were also present

Moore's Bond movies

Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)
A View to a Kill (1985)

RichardTheBruce

October 16th

1924: Alan Hume is born--London, England. (He dies at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.)

Alan Hume: Cinematographer who
switched between James Bond and the
Carry On films

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alan-hume-cinematographer-who-switched-between-james-bond-and-the-carry-on-films-2104788.html
Anthony Hayward | Wednesday 13 October 2010 00:00

In 1976, Alan Hume was standing on a snow-covered, 3,000ft-high rock on Baffin Island, north of Canada. As the second-unit director of photography on the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), he had to capture the breathtaking, pre-title, ski-jump sequence.

For three weeks, Hume and the crew lived in tents on this freezing, far-flung peninsula while they waited for the cloud to lift. When it finally did, they sprang into action, capturing the spectacular sight of 007's stunt double, Rick Sylvester, skiing over the edge and, finally, opening his Union Jack parachute. Being a one-take sequence, there were three cameras shooting the action, one of them with Hume in a helicopter.

It was an example of the dedication that this veteran of more than 100 feature films gave to his job, and it led to his becoming the fully fledged director of photography on the Bond pictures For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985). This signalled a change of gear for Hume, although he had already been earning his living as a director of photography – establishing the look of films and lighting them appropriately – for almost 20 years.

He took that role on many of the Carry On productions, whose low budgets and tight schedules – in contrast to the resources he enjoyed with the 007 pictures – taught him to work quickly. Carry On Cabby (1963) presented particular challenges. "There were a lot of close-ups in taxi cabs," recalled Hume. "When they were travelling along, I was often hanging outside the cab with the camera or fixing cameras on the front bonnet or inside looking forward. It was difficult lining the shot up and getting the actors to look as if they were driving the taxi. While driving one of the cabs, Charlie Hawtrey banged into my car in the car park and made a dent. Not only did he do that, but he knocked my scooter down as well, making a few dents in that, too."

George Alan Hume was born in Putney, south London, in 1924. His father worked on track maintenance for London Underground and found him a job in its stores on leaving school. The teenager then moved to Olympic Film Laboratories, in Acton, often picking up the daily "rushes" of film footage from Denham Studios.

When Hume heard of a vacancy for a clapper loader there, he left Olympic and found himself working on the wartime picture The First of the Few (1942), the story of the real-life Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell, directed by and starring Leslie Howard. Because there were several other people at the studios called George, he became known by his middle name, Alan.

His next film was In Which We Serve (1942), directed by David Lean and its screenwriter, Noël Coward, who also played the ship's captain in the patriotic tale of a British Second World War destroyer and its crew. Within a year, Hume had been promoted to focus puller on The Yellow Canary (1943), featuring Anna Neagle as a British wartime spy. In this capacity, he also worked on Lean's definitive version of Oliver Twist (1948).

His career was briefly interrupted when, in 1944, he was called up and joined the Fleet Air Arm, working as a photographer. On his return to Denham Studios two years later, Hume continued as a focus puller but had his first opportunity as a camera operator with the second unit working on Lean's Great Expectations (1946), notable for its stark, atmospheric, black-and-white photography.

It was another seven years before he became a fully fledged camera operator, on the comedy Our Girl Friday (1953), starring Joan Collins as a woman stuck on a Pacific island with three love-hungry men. He was soon much in demand in his new role, working on several films a year, including the black comedy The Green Man (1956), starring Alastair Sim and George Cole.

Then, in 1958, came the call from the producer-director team of Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas to shoot Carry On Sergeant, the first of the long-running comedy series featuring stars such as Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey and, from Carry On Constable (1960, the fourth in the series), Sid James.
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Hume was camera operator on all of the first four, then graduated to director of photography on Carry On Regardless (1961) and another 15 of the 30 films, including the final one, Carry On Columbus (1992).

In between, he was director of photography on many other films, such as Return of the Jedi (1983, later retitled Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi), A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as 26 episodes of the television fantasy series The Avengers (1965-68).

Before his retirement in 1998, Hume spent the last few years of his career working in television, on programmes such as the Gerry Anderson-produced, live-action drama Space Precinct (1994-95), Tales from the Crypt (1996), and a feature-length version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997).

Hume, whose autobiography, A Life Through the Lens: memoirs of a film cameraman, was published in 2004, was president of the British Society of Cinematographers from 1969 to 1971. In retirement, he continued to attend Carry On and James Bond conventions and other events.

All four of his children followed him into the film industry: Lindsey, who died in a car crash in 1967, aged 21, was an assistant editor; Martin is a camera operator; Pauline is a titles designer; and Simon is a focus puller. Simon's son Lewis is a camera assistant.

George Alan Hume, cinematographer: born London 16 October 1924; married 1946 Sheila Nevard (two sons, one daughter, and one son deceased); died Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire 13 July 2010.

Alan Hume (I) (1924–2010)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401727/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Cinematographer (103 credits)

1997 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1996 Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- The Kidnapper (1996)
- Last Respects (1996)
1995 Screen Two (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Return of the Native (1995)
1995 Annie: A Royal Adventure! (TV Movie)
1994 The Return of the Native (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1994 Space Precinct (TV Series)
1993-1994 Acapulco H.E.A.T. (TV Series) (director of photography - 22 episodes)
- Code Name: Assassin (1994) ... (director of photography)
- Code Name: Deep Six (1994) ... (director of photography)
- Code Name: Stalemate: Part 2 (1994) ... (director of photography)
- Code Name: Stalemate - Part 1 (1994) ... (director of photography)
- Code Name: Shamrock (1994) ... (director of photography)
... 22 episodes
1993 Laugh with the Carry Ons (TV Series) (13 episodes)
- Episode #1.13 (1993)
- Episode #1.12 (1993)
- Episode #1.11 (1993)
- Episode #1.10 (1993)
- Episode #1.9 (1993)
... 13 episodes
1992 Covington Cross (TV Series) (director of photography - 11 episodes)
- Blinded Passions (1992) ... (director of photography)
- The Hero (1992) ... (director of photography)
- Cedric Hits the Road (1992) ... (director of photography)
- Outlaws (1992) ... (director of photography)
- Armus Returns (1992) ... (director of photography)
... 11 episodes
1992 Carry on Columbus
1992 Just Like a Woman
1991 Stepping Out
1991 Eve of Destruction
1990 Secret Weapon (TV Movie)

1989 Till We Meet Again (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1989) ... (director of photography)
- Episode #1.1 (1989) ... (director of photography)
1989 Shirley Valentine
1988 The Tenth Man (TV Movie)
1988 Without a Clue
1988 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... (director of photography)
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... (director of photography)
1988 A Fish Called Wanda
1987 Hearts of Fire
1987 Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (TV Movie)
1987 The Second Victory
1986 Space Police (TV Movie)
1984-1986 What a Carry On (TV Series) (13 episodes)
- Episode #1.13 (1986)
- Episode #1.12 (1986)
- Episode #1.11 (1986)
- Episode #1.10 (1986)
- Episode #1.9 (1986)
...13
1985 John and Yoko: A Love Story (TV Movie)
1985 Runaway Train
1985 Lifeforce (director of photography)
1985 A View to a Kill (director of photography)
1984 Supergirl (director of photography)
1983 Octopussy (director of photography)
1983 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (director of photography)
1982 The Adventures of Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Movie)
1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie)
1981 Carry on Laughing (TV Series) (13 episodes)
- Episode #1.13 (1981)
- Episode #1.12 (1981)
- Episode #1.11 (1981)
- Episode #1.10 (1981)
- Episode #1.9 (1981)
...13 episodes
1981 Eye of the Needle (director of photography)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (director of photography)
1981 Caveman (director of photography)
1980 The Watcher in the Woods

1979 Bear Island (director of photography)
1979 Birth of the Beatles
1979 Arabian Adventure (director of photography)
1978 Wombling Free (lighting cameraman)
1978 Carry On Emmannuelle (director of photography)
1978 The Legacy (director of photography)
1978 Warlords of the Deep (director of photography)
1977 The Amsterdam Kill
1977 The People That Time Forgot (director of photography)
1977 Checkered Flag or Crash
1977 Gulliver's Travels (director of photography)
1976 Star Maidens (TV Series) (director of photography - 1 episode)
- Hideout (1976) ... (director of photography)
1976 At the Earth's Core (director of photography)
1976 A Dirty Knight's Work
1975 Confessions of a Pop Performer (director of photography)
1975 Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (director of photography)
1974 The Land That Time Forgot (director of photography)
1974 The Bunny Caper (director of photography)
1974 From Beyond the Grave
1973 Carry on Girls
1973 The Legend of Hell House (director of photography)
1973 Father Dear Father (director of photography)
1973 Visions of Eight (Documentary) (segment "The Fastest")
1973 Not Now Darling (uncredited)
1972 For the Love of Ada (director of photography)
1972 Carry on Abroad (director of photography)
1972 Bless This House (director of photography)
1971 Shirley's World (TV Series) (director of photography - 7 episodes)
- A Girl Like You (1971) ... (director of photography)
- A Mother's Touch (1971) ... (director of photography)
- A Hell of an Engineer (1971) ... (director of photography)
- To Dream the Improbable Dream (1971) ... (director of photography)
- The Lovers (1971) ... (director of photography)
... 7 episodes
1971 Carry on Henry VIII (director of photography)
1971 The Firechasers (director of photography)
1971 Zeppelin (director of photography)
1970 Perfect Friday (director of photography)
1970 For the Love of Ada (TV Series)
1970 The Last Grenade
1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) (director of photography)

1969 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (director of photography)
The Avengers (TV Series) (10 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (director of photography - 18 episodes, 1967 - 1968)
- The Rotters (1968) ... (director of photography)
- Wish You Were Here (1968) ... (director of photography)
- False Witness (1968) ... (director of photography)
- All Done with Mirrors (1968) ... (director of photography)
- Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40? (1968) ... (director of photography)
...28 episodes
1968 Father, Dear Father (TV Series)
1968 The Bofors Gun
1967 Carry On Doctor (director of photography)
1967 Carry On... Follow That Camel (director of photography)
1967 The Violent Enemy
1967 Don't Lose Your Head (director of photography)
1966 Finders Keepers
1966 Carry On Screaming! (director of photography)
1965 Three Hats for Lisa (director of photography)
1965 Carry On Cowboy (director of photography)
1965 The Big Job (director of photography)
1965 The Third Man (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The House of Bon Bons (1965)
1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (director of photography)
1964 Carry On Cleo (director of photography)
1964 Carry On Spying (director of photography)
1964 Carry On Jack (director of photography)
1964 This Is My Street (director of photography)
1963 Carry On Cabby (director of photography)
1963 The Kiss of the Vampire (director of photography)
1963 Nurse on Wheels
1963 The Swingin' Maiden (director of photography)
1962 Carry On Cruising (director of photography)
1962 Twice Round the Daffodils (director of photography)
1961 In the Doghouse
1961 Roommates (director of photography)
1961 Carry On Regardless (director of photography)
1960 Beware of Children (director of photography)

Camera and Electrical Department (50 credits)

1998 What's a Carry On? (TV Movie documentary) (camera operator)

1986 Space Police (TV Movie) (lighting cameraman)
1985 A View to a Kill (camera operator: pre-shot scenes of San Francisco - uncredited)

Star Maidens (TV Series) (lighting camera - 2 episodes, 1976) (lighting cameraman - 1 episode, 1976)
- The Enemy (1976) ... (lighting cameraman)
- Nemesis (1976) ... (lighting camera)
- Escape to Paradise (1976) ... (lighting camera)
1976 Shout at the Devil (cameraman: second unit)
1973 Visions of Eight (Documentary) (camera operator)

1963 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
- Kidnapped: Part 2 (1963) ... (camera operator)
- Kidnapped: Part 1 (1963) ... (camera operator)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (camera operator: second unit - uncredited)
1960 Watch Your Stern (camera operator)
1960 Tarzan the Magnificent (camera operator)
1960 Carry On Constable (camera operator)
1960 Kidnapped (camera operator)

1959 Please Turn Over (camera operator)
1959 This Other Eden (camera operator)
1959 Carry On Teacher (camera operator)
1959 Carry On Nurse (camera operator)
1958 Chain of Events (camera operator)
1958 Carry On Sergeant (camera operator)
1958 The Duke Wore Jeans (camera operator)
1958 The Silent Enemy (camera operator)
1957 The Truth About Women (camera operator)
1957 The Circle (camera operator)
1957 She Played with Fire (camera operator)
1956 Three Men in a Boat (camera operator)
1956 Loser Takes All (camera operator)
1956 The Green Man (camera operator)
1956 It's a Wonderful World (camera operator - as Allan Hume)
1956 The Extra Day (camera operator)
1956 The Secret Tent (camera operator)
1955 Postmark for Danger (camera operator)
1955 Wee Geordie (camera operator)
1955 The End of the Affair (camera operator)
1954 Svengali (camera operator)
1954 Dance Little Lady (camera operator)
1953 The Adventures of Sadie (camera operator - as Allan Hume)
1952 Hot Ice (camera operator)
1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (focus puller - uncredited)
1951 Hotel Sahara (focus puller - uncredited)
1950 The Clouded Yellow (focus puller - uncredited)
1950 Prelude to Fame (focus puller - uncredited)
1950 Madeleine (focus puller - uncredited)

1949 Poet's Pub (focus puller - uncredited)
1948 Oliver Twist (focus puller - uncredited)
1946 Great Expectations (second camera operator: second unit - uncredited)
1944 They Came to a City (focus puller - uncredited)
1944 Tawny Pipit (focus puller - uncredited)
1943 Yellow Canary (focus puller - uncredited)
1942 Thunder Rock (clapper loader - uncredited)
1942 In Which We Serve (clapper loader - uncredited)
1942 Spitfire (clapper loader - uncredited)

Director (1 credit)

1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie) (uncredited)

Special effects (1 credit)

1976 Star Maidens (TV Series) (special effects lightng camera - 1 episode)
- Nightmare Cannon (1976) ... (special effects lightng camera)

1959: Kevin McClory praises Ian Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

McClory responded positively to Fleming's second treatment. "Very
exciting," he called it in a letter dated 16 October. "Although a great deal of
work has to be done on it, and I am not as yet convinced that we have the full
story, but I think this will come in the next few script conferences."

1967: Sólo se vive dos veces (We Only Live Twice) released in Spain.

1992: Vladek Sheybal dies at age 69--London, England. (Born 12 March 1923--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland.)

Vladek Sheybal Online

https://www.vladeksheybal.com/

In 1963, Vladek was offered a small part in the second James Bond film
From Russia With Love but was reluctant to take the part and turned
it down. Eventually he was persuaded by Sean Connery (who was by now
a close friend) to take the role of the villainous chess master "Kronsteen."
Vladek played the part as usual, to perfection; creating a character so
elegantly arrogant that "Kronsteen" is one of the more memorable
Bond villains of the genre to date.

Here is an interview with Vladek Sheybal which originally appeared in issue #8 (December 1992) of FAB, the magazine produced by the official Gerry Anderson fan club Fanderson. This interview was conducted by Tim Mallett and Glenn Pearce, and is reproduced here with permission from Fanderson.
https://ufoseries.com/magazines/fab08.html

THE FAB INTERVIEW
VLADEK SHEYBAL
UFO - DOCTOR DOUG JACKSON

Wladislaw Sheybal was born in March 1923, into a Catholic family at Zgierz, near Lodz in Poland, the son of a university professor. Imprisoned in a concentration camp during the war, Sheybal escaped only to be captured and to escape once again. During each spell in prison, he was forced to face a mock execution as part of the Nazi 'punishment by terror'.

As an actor, Sheybal's first major role came in 1957 with a part in Andrzej Wajda's Kanal, a film about the Polish Resistance and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, but the increasingly Soviet face of his native country dismayed Sheybal, and in 1958 he fled his homeland and re-established his career in Britain. He arrived almost destitute, unable to speak a word of English and knowing no-one.

His first employment in London was as a dish-washer in the kitchens of a drama college, where he eventually began to teach acting to the students who recognised him from Kanal. He learnt English and gradually involved himself in the London theatrical world, staging Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina for the Oxford University Opera Club. This led to a job with the BBC, directing opera for television, and in 1960, he became joint director of a theatre company based at the Little Theatre, Bromley, where his first production - Donald Howarth's All Good Children - was promoted to Hampstead Theatre Club.

Sheybal had originally wanted to be a romantic actor, but the course of his acting career was laid down by his friend Bette Davis, whom he met in Hollywood. She told him, "Just be the bitch, darling. You'll never stop working then." In 1962, on Sean Connery's request, he took the role of the villainous Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia With Love, and this led to a career of similarly creepy roles as middle-European or Soviet villains, in episodes of The Man In Room 17 (twice), The Saint, Danger Man, Strange Report and The Champions.

In the cinema, he was particularly liked by Ken Russell who used him in the award-winning film of D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love (1970), in which he played the artist-sculptor cavorting in the snow with Glenda Jackson; The Music Lovers (1970); and The Boyfriend (1971), in which he played the film director Cecil B. de Thrill. Russell had previously 'discovered' Sheybal in the BBC canteen in 1961, and hired him to play Debussy in his television production Strauss. Sheybal also appeared in John Boorman's Leo The Last, in which he played a political schemer in the entourage of Marcello Mastroianni's Italian prince.

However, it was his role as the Eurosec physician Dr. Beauville in Gerry Anderson's Doppelganger, that led to his being cast as Dr Doug Jackson in the UFO episode Exposed. Vladek reprised the role on an episode-by-episode basis during the first production block (he was not contracted for the whole series) as his character was required, more often than not as a replacement to Maxwell Shaw's Dr Shroeder when Shaw became seriously ill during production. This resulted in an intriguing character whose real loyalties were uncertain, and whose area of expertise enabled him to function in a variety of roles for both SHADO and the International Astrophysical Commission. For the second block, Jackson's function within SHADO was more clearly defined as a psychiatrist, and Vladek became a more permanent member of the cast.

Following UFO, Vladek appeared in such films as Puppet On A Chain (1971), in which he played the smuggler pursued by Interpol along the canals of Amsterdam, and The Wind And The Lion (1975) as Sean Connery's brother, while on television he made a brief return to the Anderson fold as Sandor Karolean in The Protectors episode Brother Hood, and also made a memorable guest appearance as the bird-man Zacardi in The New Avengers episode Cat Amongst The Pigeons.

More recently, Sheybal had forged a second acting career for himself in France. Leaving his villainous roles behind him, he found a niche playing middle-aged romantics in love with much younger women. His last screen appearance was in The Bill episode Sympathy For The Devil in September 1992, while his last interview was with Fanderson for The UFO Documentary. He died suddenly of an abdominal haemorrhage at his home in London on October 16th, 1992.

How did you come to get the part of Dr. Jackson in UFO?

"I started playing UFO in...1969? Yes, 1969. So long ago, I can't believe it. And I can't believe that it became a cult film all over the world! It's incredible. Anyway, Sylvia Anderson, who was very beautiful and looked like a film star, with big eyelashes, asked through my agent, "Would I be interested at all to play a Dr Jackson?" and she didn't elaborate at all. Well, I got the (script of the) first episode, I learned my lines and I went to the studio where Sylvia Anderson - with the big eyelashes and a very beautiful hairdo - was there, and I met all these friends afterwards from UFO for the very time, including Gabrielle Drake. You remember Gabrielle Drake? She was my pupil at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - I once was teaching acting there and she was my pupil, and I was very surprised when she was there in the studio.

"Anyway, to cut a long story short, I didn't know who this Dr Jackson was and Sylvia Anderson, after we had finished - or maybe it was while we were filming? - she said, "Would you be at all interested if we feed a script in with Dr Jackson, because we like very much the way that you are doing it." And then I asked her, "Who is this Dr Jackson?". "We don't know," she said. And that is what happened, so from time to time when they wanted to write in Dr Jackson they would ask my agent if I would be free for, let's say, next week for ten days to come to the studio to play Dr Jackson.

"And then I started forming my opinion about the character, and I came to the conclusion that he's got lots of colours and whatever, and I think that I developed it while I was playing it. But I wasn't a regular of UFO like the others - I was only from time to time, whenever I was free and whenever they wanted to write in Dr Jackson."

Jackson spoke with a heavy Eastern European accent, which seemed at odds with the character's ordinary Anglo-Saxon name, leading to speculation that perhaps the character was using an assumed name to hide a secret in his life before SHADO?

"Lots of things happen in films that we don't understand. You know, I have been in about 35 films as an 'international film actor' - as I am called - and believe it or not, in one, which was called The Wind And The Lion, they asked me to play the brother of Sean Connery. Can you imagine that? I was looking up at him and we had completely different hair colour, completely different accents and yet I was his brother. So it is unpredictable.

"You see, my name is Sheybal, which is not Polish name, which is not Armenian name, which comes from Scotland as a matter of fact. And I was brought up in about four or five languages. I was brought up in a terribly international family - as a matter of fact, I don't have a drop of Polish blood. I am mostly Armenian, a little bit of Scottish, a little bit of Austrian, and yet I am Polish actor and I arrived into this country as Polish actor, and (yet) I was lucky enough to have been (cast) in several cult films - Women In Love with (director) Ken Russell and Glenda Jackson, then with Marcello Mastroianni in John Boorman's Leo The Last, then Puppet On A Chain with Barbara Bach, and then UFO of course - and it's incredible really.

"I never aimed at it, I never thought that these sort of things would happen to me, but everything in my career was always the unexpected and coincidence and I was never pushing it or anything - just things were happening."

Prior to UFO, you were best-known for your role as the sinister chess-master and SPECTRE agent Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia With Love.

"It was the second James Bond film. I first of all started my career in this country as a teacher in drama school and as a director in television. I had done quite a lot for BBC Television and suddenly, quite by chance, I was seated in the canteen at BBC Television eating my lunch and a man came up to me and he said, "My name is Ken Russell and I do short artistic films and I would like you to play a part because I saw you in the Polish film Kanal." It was a film about Debussy, the composer, and this was Oliver Reed, who was not yet Oliver Reed and Vladek Sheybal when he was not yet Vladek Sheybal. And then, you know, Harry Saltzman was one of the producers, I think, of James Bond, and he telephoned my agent, my first agent, and he said, "I saw you in Ken Russell's film and I would like you to play a part in From Russia With Love."

"I said to my agent that I would like to read the script and he gave me the script and I just thought, 'No, I'm not going to be bothered about that - one scene in the beginning, one scene in the middle and then Lotte Lenya kills me with that spiked shoe!' I thought this was just ridiculous. I was very serious actor before I started acting in films and I just said to my agent, "This is ridiculous. Why should I bother to play this part? I was just playing a leading part in Ken Russell's film for television!", and he said, "Look, listen! It was Sean Connery who asked personally that you accept the part!" Why did Sean Connery ask me to accept the part? Because I met Sean Connery as well when he wasn't Sean Connery. He was the boyfriend of Diane Cilento, who was an actress and I was directing a television (play) with her, and he was always coming to the rehearsal room to pick her up and the three of us would go for a drink and then Diane Cilento would try to sell him to me. She would say, "Look at him! Isn't he sexy? Doesn't he have star quality? Do you have a part for him?", because nobody wanted him. And two years later he was James Bond and Diane Cilento went into decline or whatever - this happens. And then Sean Connery wanted me to play The Wind And The Lion as well, as his brother, because he thought this would be a good bit of fun.

"So, anyway, when I refused flatly to play this part, suddenly there was a telephone call from Sean Connery saying, "Look, listen! This is something which is going to change the world! It's a new series - 'James Bond' - and it's going to be next episode and next episode, and if you take a part in it you are in cult thing." So I signed to do it. He was very kind because he was waiting personally for me at the doorstep of the studio and he said, "Welcome to From Russia With Love."

"But during the filming there was an incident which shows my tempestuous character, or my honest character perhaps - that I can't be bought for the money. Harry Saltzman, the producer, started interfering in my scenes, in the way I was acting the scene. So I said to Harry Saltzman, "This is the director Terence Young and he doesn't want me to play the part in any different way. Why should I do what you say?" "Because I am the producer," he said. So I said, "You mean that you represent money?" and he said, "Yes."

"Lotte Lenya supported me very much and I played it my way and then Harry Saltzman became completely unbearable so I just said, "I've had enough of it!" I just walked off the studio, not being a star or whatever - later I learned that only the stars walk off the studio! But perhaps I was born a star? I always felt like a star. So I walked off the studio. They followed me (saying), "What are you doing? What are doing?" I went to the dressing room, I started taking off my make-up and I said, "Get away with you! I go back home!" and I went home!

"And in the evening, Terence Young rings me up and he says, "Vladek, I promise that Harry Saltzman won't be in the studio tomorrow. Will you come and finish the part?" So I came in and finished it."

After your role in From Russia With Love, you found yourself playing a string of memorable villainous roles in series such as The Man In Room 17, The Saint, Danger Man, Strange Report, The Champions and The New Avengers. Did you find that you were becoming typecast?

"Not necessarily, but this happens in the acting profession, that if you chisel for yourself a niche, then you're in. If you can't be identified immediately with your voice, without your villain-ness, with your looks or whatever, then you are in my position when I was completely unknown actor in this country and the western world. I had an accent - I didn't have any chance at all.

"I didn't know anything about it until one fantastic person, great friend of mine for several years, who was Bette Davis, and she said to me, "Honey, you have no chance whatsoever. You're ugly - everything is against you. I think that you should start playing threatening things and everybody will remember you." And I said, "How do I play threatening things? I'm such a loveable character." and she said, "You just narrow your eyes, you lower your voice and just whisper and make long pauses." So that was the trick and I started doing it, and she said, "Just look at me when I'm playing the bitch. I narrow my eyes like that and lower my voice and whisper and make long pauses." And so she launched me - and I'm ever grateful to her - into the part of playing the villains or frightening people.

"But later on, I was playing quite a number of parts in which I wasn't the villain at all, and people will say, "How villainous you were!" People don't want to remember. Once they establish you in a niche, they just want you to stick to this, so I gave them what they wanted.

"But a few years ago, I started playing fringe theatres here in London, and I found I was playing the 'greats' such as Gustav Mahler and Frederick Nietzsche, and I realised that I had to use exactly the same trick to play the 'greats' - whisper, make long pauses and narrow your eyes - so what is the difference between the villain and the 'great', you know?"

More recently, you have been cast in more varied roles both in England and abroad, and have made extensive film appearances in France and Germany. What sort of roles do you prefer to play?

"I have lived, for several years now, partly in France, in Paris mainly, and I have started playing in French films. You know, I had the same trouble, because I thought, 'If I'm going to launch myself into French films, then I've got to find a niche.' But they didn't cast me as villains in France. They cast me as aging men who are madly in love with very young girls and then rejected. So I decided to play them as unhappy, with long pauses as well because it helps, and speaking very fluently, but very softly, and it took off. Here, I'm turning down quite a lot of things, because, quite simply, after so many years now having acted in so many things, I couldn't be bothered playing the same character.

"You see, we actors, we always say that any part which could give you the material to build a character on it in your own way, your own interesting way, is a good part - whether this is cameo part, or larger part, or medium part, or just one close up or whatever. So I think that all actors are multi-character people and that's why they enjoy everything.

"I think I'm no different in being an actor than anybody else. I like playing these unhappy elderly men in France."

Vladek Sheybal (1923–1992)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792996/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (91 credits)

1992 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Lederman
- Sympathy for the Devil (1992) ... Mr. Lederman
1992 Double X: The Name of the Game - Pawnbroker
1990 After Midnight - Hiyam El-Alfi (The Hotel Manager)
1990 Strike It Rich - Kinski

1989 Le bateau bar (Short)
1989 Champagne Charlie (TV Movie) - Count Plasky
1987 Valtos or the Veil (Short) - Narrator
1987 Network 7 (TV Series) (Flesh and Blood segment)
1986 The Lost Secret (Video) - Professor Basil Sline
1986 Masterpiece Theatre: Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (TV Mini-Series) - Jinnah
- Episode #1.6 (1986) ... Jinnah
- Episode #1.5 (1986) ... Jinnah
- Episode #1.4 (1986) ... Jinnah
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Jinnah
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Jinnah
... 6 episodes
1984 Red Dawn - Bratchenko
1984 Memed My Hawk - Ali
1984 Where Is Parsifal?
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Gen. Zorin
1983 Marco Polo (TV Mini-Series) - Prosecutor
- Episode #1.8 (1983) ... Prosecutor (uncredited)
1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - Otto Leipzig / Otto Leipzig (The Magician)
- Episode #1.5 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig (The Magician)
1981 Tristan and Isolde - Andret
1980 All About a Prima Ballerina - Marcus
1980 The Apple - Boogalow
1980 Shogun (TV Mini-Series) - Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.5 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
1980 Shogun (TV Movie) - Captain Ferriera
1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - Bengtsson

1979 Quest of Eagles (TV Series) - Priest
- Decision (1979) ... Priest
- Chase (1979) ... Priest
- Memories (1979) ... Priest
- Enigma (1979) ... Priest
- Treasure (1979) ... Priest
... 7 episodes
1979 Avalanche Express - Zannbin (as Vladets Shebal)
1979 The Lady Vanishes - Trainmaster
1979 Running Blind (TV Series) - Kennikin
- The Deception Operation (1979) ... Kennikin
- Sixteen Rivers to Cross (1979) ... Kennikin
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Mr. Morango
- The Kitchen (1977) ... Mr. Morango
1977 Supernatural (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Hubert
- Night of the Marionettes (1977) ... Herr Hubert
1977 Gulliver's Travels (voice)
1976 Hamlet - Player Queen / Lucianus / 1st Player
1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Zarcardi
- Cat Amongst the Pigeons (1976) ... Zarcardi
1976 The Sell-Out - Dutchman
1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Boris Lubchenko
- Invasion (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Intrepid (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Minisub (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Crisis (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Taped (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
1976 House of Pleasure for Women - Francesco
1975 The Wind and the Lion - The Bashaw
1974 Invasion: UFO - Dr. Doug Jackson
1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Dr. Doug Jackson
1974 No, Honestly (TV Series) - Giovanianni
- Only Make Believe (1974) ... Giovanianni
1974 The Kiss of Death - Portiere d'albergo
1974 S*P*Y*S - Borisenko (Russian Spy Chief)
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Yerimenko
- The Man in the Middle (1974) ... Yerimenko
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Sobotnik
- Part Three (1974) ... Sobotnik
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Sobotnik
1974 Napoleon and Love (TV Mini-Series) - Prince Poniatowski
- Maria Walewska (1974) ... Prince Poniatowski
1974 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Mr. Miller
- The Deep Blue Sea (1974) ... Mr. Miller
1973 Scorpio - Zemetkin
1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Dr. Doug Jackson / Jackson
- The Long Sleep (1973) ... Dr. Doug Jackson
- Reflections in the Water (1971) ... Dr. Doug Jackson
- Court Martial (1971) ... Jackson
- Ordeal (1971) ... Jackson
- Timelash (1971) ... Dr. Doug Jackson
... 10 episodes
1972 The Protectors (TV Series) - Sandor Karoleon
- Brother Hood (1972) ... Sandor Karoleon
1972 Innocent Bystanders - Aaron Kaplan
1972 Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag (TV Movie) - Kaiphas
1972 The Spy's Wife (Short) - Vladek
1971 The Boy Friend - De Thrill
1971 Puppet on a Chain - Meegeren
1971 The Last Valley - Mathias
1970 Play for Today (TV Series) - Hans Weider
- A Distant Thunder (1970) ... Hans Weider
1970 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Otto Zobel
- First You Eat: Later We Ruin You (1970) ... Otto Zobel
1970 Leo the Last - Laszlo
1970 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Joseph Goebbels
- Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) ... Joseph Goebbels

1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Kulik
- Report 7931: Sniper - When Is Your Cousin Not? (1969) ... Kulik
1969 Women in Love - Loerke
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Psychiatrist
1969 Mosquito Squadron - Lieutenant Schack
1969 Callan (TV Series) - Dicer
- The Little Bits and Pieces of Love (1969) ... Dicer
1968 The Limbo Line - Oleg
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Max Kellor
- The Dark Island (1968) ... Max Kellor
1968 Deadfall - Dr. Delgado
1968 To Grab the Ring - Mijnheer Smith
1967 Billion Dollar Brain - Dr. Eiwort
1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers - Herbert (voice)
1967 Casino Royale - Le Chiffre's Representative
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Narrator
- Amerika (1966) ... Narrator (voice)
1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Nikita Roskin
- The Helpful Pirate (1966) ... Nikita Roskin
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Lt. Josef Dyboski
- Silence Is the Enemy (1966) ... Lt. Josef Dyboski
1965-1966 The Man in Room 17 (TV Series) - Yasha Saroya / Max Opals
- How to Rob a Bank - And Get Away with It (1966) ... Yasha Saroya
- Tell the Truth (1965) ... Max Opals
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Reiner
- And Suddenly You're Dead (1966) ... Reiner
1965-1966 The Big Spender (TV Series) - Lamarck
- The Twist (1966) ... Lamarck
- The Snatch (1966) ... Lamarck
- The Green Table (1965) ... Lamarck
- The Front Man (1965) ... Lamarck
- The Hard Sell (1965) ... Lamarck
1965 Return from the Ashes
Paul, Chess Club Manager
1965 Mogul (TV Series) - Herr Lenz
- The Schloss Belt (1965) ... Herr Lenz
1965 Monitor (TV Series documentary) - Pierre Louÿs / Film Director
- The Debussy Film (1965) ... Pierre Louÿs / Film Director
1965 Front Page Story (TV Series) - George Litdz
- Stateless (1965) ... George Litdz
1965 R3 (TV Series) - Jan Wolkowski
- A Whole Lot of Reasons (1965) ... Jan Wolkowski
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Tewfick
- Fish on the Hook (1964) ... Tewfick
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - William Jones
- Wild Goose Chase (1964) ... William Jones
1961-1964 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Klaus / Gutman / Mr. Prizborski
- The Other Man (1964) ... Klaus
- Camino Real (1964) ... Gutman
- Ring of Truth (1961) ... Mr. Prizborski
1963 Z Cars (TV Series) - Yador
- Daylight Robbery (1963) ... Yador
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Arva
- Meet My Son, Henry (1963) ... Arva
1963 From Russia with Love - Kronsteen
1963 The Birth of a Private Man (TV Movie) - Jurek Stypulkowsky
1961 Man of Rope (Short) - Prisoner

1957 Trzy kobiety - Gestapo Officer (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)
1957 Kanal - Michal 'Ogromny', the composer (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)
1957 Television Theater (TV Series)
- Grona gniewu (1957) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)

Director (5 credits)

1980 All About a Prima Ballerina
1961-1962 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- A Choice of Weapons (1962)
- Jeannette (1961)
1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Visitors (1961)
1961 A Brother for Joe (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- The Morning After (1961)
- Into the Dark (1961)
- The Knife (1961)
1955-1957 Television Theater (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Goscie o zmierzchu (1957) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal, directed by)
- Tristan i Izolda (1956) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal, directed by)
- Tragedia amerykanska (1955) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal, directed by)
- Ballady i romanse (1955) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal, directed by)
- Czlowiek smiechu (1955) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal, directed by)
... 6 episodes

Writer (3 credits)

1980 All About a Prima Ballerina
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (story adaption - 1 episode)
- Jeannette (1961) ... (story adaption)

1956 Television Theater (TV Series) (translation - 1 episode)
- Tristan i Izolda (1956) ... (translation - as Wladyslaw Sheybal)

Producer (1 credit)

1960 Pagliacci (TV Movie) (producer)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1980 The Apple (performer: "Showbizness", "How to Be a Master")

Le Chiffre's Representative

2012: Eurocom's North American release of first-person shooter video game 007 Legends, published by Activision.

2012: Globe Pequot Press publishes Bond On Bond by Roger Moore.

2019: National Liqueur Day in the US.

RichardTheBruce

October 17th

1959: Ivar Bryce is impressed by Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball, though he shares criticisms.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

Bryce was likewise impressed, though in a letter dated 17 October made
these criticisms to Fleming: "Be careful not to take Domino off the scene for
too long. Also, is it necessary to bump off poor Felix? You will need him again
you know -- a problem you have already had once. I should like to do Live and
Let Die one day." Bryce also mentioned Ernest Cuneo's positive reaction.
"Although he is worried by all Italian names of Mafia villains, and fears
resentment in Italian minority here, but I cannot go along with that." Nor did
Fleming pay much credence in Cuneo's suggestion that using the Mafia would
infuriate America's Italian population. "Don't agree with Ernie about the Italian
names," Fleming wrote back. "The Mafia is a villainous organisation and if the
Italians don't like it, they ought to suppress it."

In his letter Bryce also referred to a recent news incident of an American
bomber that collided with a tanker plane and crashed. It was carrying two A-
bombs, which did not explode. "Of interest for your script?" Is Bryce
suggesting that this would be a more realistic way of bring the aircraft down,
of getting the villains to orchestrate a mid-air collision that would look to the
authorities like an accident? If it was, it was never followed up in any of the
subsequent scripts.

1962: A review of Dr. No in Variety says "As a screen hero James Bond is clearly here to stay. He will win no Oscars but a heck of a lot of enthusiastic followers."

Original 31 December 1961 review.

Dr. No

https://variety.com/1961/film/reviews/dr-no-1200420202/
December 31, 1961

First screen adventure of Ian Fleming's hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.

With: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Zena Marshall

First screen adventure of Ian Fleming’s hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.

The hero is exposed to pretty (and sometimes treacherous) gals, a poison tarantula spider, a sinister crook, flame throwers, gunshot, bloodhounds, beating up, near drowning and plenty of other mayhem and malarkey, and comes through it all with good humour, resourcefulness and what have you.

Connery is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British confidential agent and his secretary. Since both murders happen within three or four minutes of the credit titles the pic gets away to an exhilarating start. He becomes involved with the activities of Dr. No, a sinister Chinese scientist (Joseph Wiseman) who from an island called Crab Key is using a nuclear laboratory to divert off course the rockets being propelled from Cape Canaveral.

Among the dames with whom Connery becomes involved are easy-on-the-eye Ursula Andress, who shares his perilous adventures on Crab Key, and spends most of her time in a bikini; Zena Marshall, as an Oriental charmer who nearly decoys him to doom via her boudoir; and Eunice Gayson, whom he picks up in a gambling club in London and who promises to be the biggest menace of the lot.

Dr. No

UK

Production: Eon/United Artists. Director Terence Young; Producer Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli; Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather; Camera Ted Moore; Editor Peter Hunt; Music Monty Norman; Art Director Ken Adam

Crew: (Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1962. Running time: 110 MIN.

With: Sean Connery Ursula Andress Joseph Wiseman Jack Lord Bernard Lee Zena Marshall

1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 flying Little Nellie.

1983: People Magazine features Sean Connery promoting Never Say Never Again.

After a 12-Year Leave, Sean Connery Is
Back as 007 but Willing to Say Never Again

https://people.com/archive/after-a-12-year-leave-sean-connery-is-back-as-007-but-willing-to-say-never-again-vol-20-no-16/
Jesse Birnbaum
October 17, 1983 12:00 PM

His name is Bond. James Bond. And he has a problem: lower back pain and a slight paunch. It’s mid-life crisis for 007. And now—of all times—his superiors want to pluck him form semiretirement for the toupee-raising assignment of saving the world from nuclear holocaust. Dispatched ingloriously to a health clinic, he must work out, lift weights and sweat himself into top spy form. Is he getting older, or better?

This clever, thoroughly ingratiating setup for Never Say Never Again is pointedly ironic: The real high-stakes issue is whether the star, after 12 years in retirement from the high-tech spy biz, can carry the film. His name is Connery. Sean Connery. And he has a problem. At 53, Connery is no longer the slim young Scot who began it all with Dr. No in 1962 and five more through Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. Still, he is back as Bond for one last hurrah.

“I may be 20 years older,” admits Connery, who once aspired to the Mr. Universe title. But, he adds confidently, “The age factor is no crisis.”

Not now, anyway. Onscreen he rides horseback, fights live sharks in scuba gear and mauls all manner of assailants in hand-to-hand combat. In bed (with girlie magazine co-stars Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera), he proves that if he’s gained a pound or two across his brawny torso, he hasn’t lost a step on his bygone Bonds.

The thing is—it didn’t come easy. Connery trained hard, keeping barbells in his location trailers through the grueling eight-month shoot in England, France and the Bahamas. He did many stunts and most fight scenes himself, he says. Somehow, his short-cropped toupee never budged. “He was fabulous underwater,” says a very impressed Basinger, who also did her own swimming stunts. “You couldn’t tell Sean from the stunt divers.” She says Connery helped production on land as well. “He took things lightly, instead of panicking. He would tell jokes all day.”

Some stunts were no joke. “I dived 50 feet underwater into a sunken wreck,” says Sean. “I hated that; it’s claustrophobic.”

So why do it at all? That Connery has long expressed his boredom with the character he created and helped make into the longest-running major series in movie history is the joke behind the film’s title. Connery will only say that his wife encouraged him to do it. Other reasons might be the lack of success of his last films (Wrong Is Right, Five Days One Summer).

But pride is also at stake. Connery’s disenchantment with the series began when his character began to give way to gimmickry and gags. But Roger Moore’s six flashy Bonds have been huge hits anyway, eclipsing the memory of Connery in some quarters. Never’s producer Jack Schwartzman thinks audiences might want to see a 007 who is “not a cardboard figure.”

Connery won’t compare himself to Moore, 55, a longtime pal. But some criticism does slip in. “I think the trap with Roger’s way is that one is a bit overwhelmed with the hardware,” says Connery. “You get the feeling they dream up the stunt first, then write the story around it. I try for a more realistic, credible film, within the realm of possibility.”

To keep his life the same way, Connery and his second wife, Micheline Roquebrune, 48, a French artist he married in 1975, shuttle in tax exile between a villa in Marbella, on Spain’s southern coast, and a home in the Bahamas, where he golfs (eight handicap) and plays tennis. British tax laws make it impossible to spend more than 90 days a year in his homeland without going broke. His proudest investment may well be son Jason, 20, by his first wife, actress Diane (Tom Jones) Cilento. The lad made his film debut in Lords of Discipline this year. Though Connery’s own truckdriver father is deceased and his mother bedridden, Sean is atypically emotional about home and hearth. His suntanned arms are emblazoned with two tattoos: One says, “Scotland Forever,” the other, “Mum and Dad.”

Still, coming home to Bond is another matter. For Connery, Never Say Never Again is a movie title, not a promise. “Why do it again,” he says. “I’m too old.”

2004: Julius Harris dies at age 81--Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 17 August 1923--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

Julius Harris, 81; Broke Stereotypes of Movie Roles for Black Actors
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-22-me-harris22-story.html
By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer
Oct. 22, 2004

Julius Harris, the deep-voiced stage and screen actor who played the villainous Tee Hee in the James Bond film Live and Let Die and Ugandan President Idi Amin in the TV movie “Victory at Entebbe,” has died. He was 81.

Harris, a former member of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, died of heart failure Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.

In an acting career that spanned four decades, Harris appeared in more than 70 film and television productions.

He played such diverse roles as a preacher who headed a slave group in the 1982 Civil War miniseries “The Blue and the Gray” and a gangster in the 1972 blaxploitation film classic “Superfly.”

“Even today, if I am walking in a black neighborhood, people call me by my ‘Superfly’ name -- Scatter,” Harris told The Times last October before being honored with a tribute by the Next Generation Council of the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Legacy Film Series at the Directors Guild of America Theatre.

“His work helped African Americans break out of stereotypical movie roles and be seen as dynamic heroes and fully realized human beings,” actress Halle Berry said in a taped introduction to Harris’ film work.

A Philadelphia native whose mother was a Cotton Club dancer and whose father was a musician, Harris served as an Army medic during World War II. After leaving the service in 1950, he found work as an orderly and eventually became a nurse before moving to New York City.

As a regular at a Greenwich Village bar, he became friends with James Earl Jones, Yaphet Kotto, Al Freeman, Louis Gossett Jr. and other actors, whom he teased for being out of work.

“I would say to them, ‘You bums. You are always broke. What kind of actors are you? ... I can do your job with my arms tied behind my back,’ ” he recalled in The Times interview.

To back up his claim, he landed the small role of Ivan Dixon’s drunk, defeated father in “Nothing but a Man,” a critically acclaimed 1964 film about black life in the South starring Dixon and Abbey Lincoln.

“Not knowing the business, feeling I had to be in character, I got me a pint of bourbon, some of the worst rotgut stuff I could get,” Harris said.

When he arrived on the set, the producer and director took one look at him and said, “We can’t do anything with you today, Julius, but if you are the man we think you are, you’ll come back tomorrow.”

Harris said: “I was so embarrassed. So I went back home, sobered up and came back the next day and did the master [shot] in [one] take and close-ups in two [takes] and went home.”

In his review of the film, The Times’s Kevin Thomas deemed Harris’ performance superb.

He is survived by his children, Kimberly and Gideon.

A private memorial service will be held.

Julius Harris (1923–2004)

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Filmography

Actor (92 credits)

1997 ER (TV Series) - Gramps
- Random Acts (1997) ... Gramps
1996 The Burning Zone (TV Series) - Tribal Shaman
- The Silent Tower (1996) ... Tribal Shaman
1994 Shrunken Heads - Mr. Sumatra
1993 The Gifted
1993 Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence - Houngan
1992 The Boys (TV Movie) - Doc
1992 Eerie, Indiana (TV Series) - Prop Man
- Reality Takes a Holiday (1992) ... Prop Man
1992 Jake and the Fatman (TV Series) - James Allan Chester
- Pennies from Heaven (1992) ... James Allan Chester
1992 Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (TV Movie) - Elderly Farmer
1991 Last Breeze of Summer (Short) - The Reverend
1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Judge Adams
- Pilot (1991) ... Judge Adams
1991 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Jack Lee Johnson
- Judge Not (1991) ... Jack Lee Johnson
1991 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man - Old Man
1991 The Golden Girls (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
- Older and Wiser (1991) ... Mr. Lewis
1990 Prayer of the Rollerboys - Speedbagger
1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Mr. Leyland
- Living Victim (1990) ... Mr. Leyland
1990 Darkman - Gravedigger
1990 To Sleep with Anger - Herman

1989 1st & Ten (TV Series) - Willie Buck Newton
- The Irreducible Bottom Line (1989) ... Willie Buck Newton
1989 Friday the 13th: The Series (TV Series) - Simpson
- The Butcher (1989) ... Simpson
1988 Split Decisions - Tony Leone
1987 Frank's Place (TV Series) - Mr. Kicks
- Cool and the Gang: Part 2 (1987) ... Mr. Kicks
- Cool and the Gang: Part 1 (1987) ... Mr. Kicks
1987 A Gathering of Old Men (TV Movie) - Coot
1987 Outlaws (TV Series) - Butch
- Primer (1987) ... Butch
1986 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Minister
- The Shipshape Cruise (1986) ... Minister
1986 Capitol (TV Series) - Papa Nebo
- Episode dated 6 October 1986 (1986) ... Papa Nebo
1986 Hollywood Vice Squad - Jesse
1983-1986 Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) - Sgt. Major Brennan / Bardo
- Post Partum (1986) ... Sgt. Major Brennan
- The Grandest Jewel Thief of Them All (1983) ... Bardo
1986 My Chauffeur - Johnson
1985 Amazing Stories (TV Series) - Joe
- Mr. Magic (1985) ... Joe
1985 Crimewave - Hardened Convict
1985 Hollywood Wives (TV Mini-Series) - Reverend Daniel
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Reverend Daniel
1984 The Jeffersons (TV Series) - Rev. Taylor
- They Don't Make Preachers Like Him Anymore (1984) ... Rev. Taylor
1984 Benson (TV Series) - Uncle Buster
- The Reunion (1984) ... Uncle Buster
1984 Booker (TV Movie) - Lee
1984 Gone Are the Dayes (TV Movie) - Man #1
1984 The Enchanted - Booker T
1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Krohn
- Slam Dunk (1984) ... Krohn
1983 Going Berserk - Judge
1983 Missing Pieces (TV Movie) - Spencer Harris
1983 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Earl
- Graveyard (1983) ... Earl
1981-1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Jules / Montgomery
- Thin Air (1982) ... Jules
- The Least Dangerous Game (1981) ... Montgomery (as Julius W. Harris)
1982 Voyagers! (TV Series) - Auctioneer
- The Travels of Marco... and Friends (1982) ... Auctioneer
1982 The Blue and the Gray (TV Mini-Series) - Preacher / Swamp Preacher
- Part 3 (1982) ... Preacher (credit only)
- Part 2 (1982) ... Preacher
- Part 1 (1982) ... Swamp Preacher (credit only)
1981 Full Moon High - Hijacker (uncredited)
1981 Circle of Power - B.B.
1981 Thornwell (TV Movie) - Frisco
1980 First Family - Ambassador Longo
1980 Gorp - Fred the Chef

1979 Uptown Saturday Night (TV Movie) - Geechie Dan
1979 Delta Fox
Tiny (as Julius W. Harris)
1979 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - Doc Alden
- The Slam (1979) ... Doc Alden
1978-1979 Insight (TV Series) - Baggott / Avry
- Plus Time Served (1979) ... Baggott
- The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Avry
1979 Vega$ (TV Series) - Yancy
- Kill Dan Tanna! (1979) ... Yancy
1978 B.J. and the Bear (TV Series) - Colonel Whitmore
- The Foundlings (1978) ... Colonel Whitmore
1978 To Kill a Cop (TV Movie) - Detective Baker
1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Mr. Dove
- Voodoo Doll, Part II (1978) ... Mr. Dove
- Voodoo Doll: Part 1 (1978) ... Mr. Dove
1978 Ring of Passion (TV Movie) - Chappie Jackson
1977 The Fat Albert Christmas Special (TV Short) - Mr. Tyrone (voice)
1977 Kojak (TV Series) - Joe Addison
- Once More from Birdland (1977) ... Joe Addison
1977 Looking for Mr. Goodbar - Black Cat
1977 Alambrista! - 2nd Drunk
1977 Visions (TV Series) - Second Drunk
- Alambrista! (1977) ... Second Drunk
1977 Islands in the Stream - Joseph
1977 Sanford and Son (TV Series) - Doctor
- The Will (1977) ... Doctor
1976 Good Times (TV Series) - Ben Foster
- Florida's Night Out (1976) ... Ben Foster
1976 Victory at Entebbe (TV Movie) - President Idi Amin (as Julius W. Harris)
1976 King Kong - Boan
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man (TV Mini-Series) - Augie
- Part II: Chapters 3 and 4 (1976) ... Augie
1975 Friday Foster - Monk Riley
1975 Ellery Queen (TV Series) - Doyle the Butler
- The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party (1975) ... Doyle the Butler
1975 Let's Do It Again - Bubbletop Woodson
1975 Doctors' Hospital (TV Series) - Tolan
- Knives of Chance (1975) ... Tolan
1975 Cannon (TV Series) - Millner
- Search and Destroy (1975) ... Millner
1975 A Cry for Help (TV Movie) - George Rigney (as Julius W. Harris)
1975 Harry O (TV Series) - Arthur 'Art Sully' Daniels
- Sound of Trumpets (1975) ... Arthur 'Art Sully' Daniels
1974-1975 Salty (TV Series) - Clancy
- The Vigil (1975) ... Clancy
- To Taylor from Salty with Love (1975) ... Clancy
- Sentimental Value (1975) ... Clancy
- A Sense of Worth (1975) ... Clancy
- Scape Goat (1974) ... Clancy
... 20 episodes
1974 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - Inspector Daniels
1973 Blade - Card Player
1973 Hell Up in Harlem - Papa Gibbs (as Julius W. Harris)
1973 Shock-a-bye, Baby (TV Movie)
1973 The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series) - Mr. Billings
- Blues for Mr. Borden (1973) ... Mr. Billings
1973 Salty - Clancy Ames (as Julius W. Harris)
1973 Live and Let Die - Tee Hee (as Julius W. Harris)
1973 Black Caesar - Mr. Gibbs (as Julius W. Harris)
1972 Trouble Man - Big
1972 Super Fly - Scatter (as Julius W. Harris)
1972 Shaft's Big Score! - Capt. Bollin (as Julius W. Harris)
1971 Incident in San Francisco (TV Movie) - Henry Carter

1969 Slaves - Shadrach
1968-1969 N.Y.P.D. (TV Series) - Hector / Banks
- Candy Man: Part 2 (1969) ... Hector
- Candy Man: Part 1 (1969) ... Hector
- Which Side Are You On? (1968) ... Banks
1964 Nothing But a Man - Will Anderson

2008: David Arnold's Quantum of Solace soundtrack album released by J.
2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Casino Royale. Hardcover.

JAMES BOND: CASINO ROYALE
HARDCOVER

Cover: Fay Dalton
Writer: Ian Fleming, Van Jensen
Art: Dennis Calero
Publication Date: October 2017
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 160 pages

Ian Fleming's literary debut of British Secret Service agent 007 is stylishly adapted to the sequential art medium by Van Jensen and Matt Southworth in the official James Bond: Casino Royale graphic novel. Sent to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux, Bond aims to eliminate the threat of the deadly Le Chiffre by bankrupting the ruthless SMERSH operative at the baccarat table. However, when the luck of the draw favors his enemy, 007 becomes the target of assassins and torturers in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.

RichardTheBruce

October 18th

1898: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) is born--Vienna-Penzing, Austria Hungary.
(She dies 27 November 1981 at age 83--New York City, New York.)

Lotte Lenya

https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/lotte-lenya/

Award-winning Austrian actress and singer Lotte Lenya (b. Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary, October 18, 1898; d. New York City, November 27, 1981), transplanted to the United States for the latter part of her career, is best remembered by music-lovers for her interpretations of songs by her husband Kurt Weill (1900–1950), and by moviegoers for her performances in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and From Russia With Love (1963). She was nominated for an Academy Award® for the former film; from her Broadway performances, which spanned over three decades, she had one Tony Award® (The Threepenny Opera 1957) and was nominated for another (Cabaret 1967).

Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer was born into a working class family in an outlying district of Vienna. At the age of sixteen she moved to Zurich in Switzerland, where she studied classical ballet, singing, and acting, and made a stage debut under the name of Lotte Lenja. In 1921, against the cosmopolitan but precarious backdrop of the Weimar Republic, she moved to Berlin and began rounds of theatrical auditions. In 1924, through playwright Georg Kaiser, she met composer Kurt Weill – actually he had played the piano for her at an audition two years earlier but she had taken no notice of him – and they married early in 1926.

In collaboration with Bertholt Brecht, Weill wrote the leading part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) as a vehicle specifically for Lenya, and the first performance in 1928 was a big breakthrough for both of them. Soon she was very busy in the theatre, especially in works created by the Weill-Brecht team: Happy End (1929), Der Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny 1930), and Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins 1933), produced in exile in Paris.

In 1933, with the rise of Nazism and the banning of Weill’s works in Germany, both Lenya and Weill fled to France – although they were now estranged and going through a divorce (Weill was a workaholic and not especially communicative). Weill began work on an unprecedentedly ambitious spectacle-opera with text by Franz Werfel entitled Der Weg der Verheißung (The Promised Road), in the midst of which, in 1935, Lenya and Weill came to be reconciled. They emigrated together to the United States and were married again in 1937.

Lenya sang the roles of Miriam and the Witch of Endor in Weill’s new opus, now called The Eternal Road, for 153 performances at the Manhattan Opera House in early 1937. The cast included 245 actors and singers, wearing a total of 1,772 costumes, and the show – a frightening depiction of Jews hiding from a pogrom in a synagogue that included several generous slices of Biblical history – lasted over six hours. It has not been staged since.

Two successful musicals, Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and introducing the immortal “September Song,” and Lady in the Dark (with Ira Gershwin, 1941) established Kurt Weill’s reputation on Broadway, and the couple was able to move upstate to New City in Rockland County. Their marriage would last until Weill’s death in 1950.

Lenya meanwhile appeared in Anderson’s Candle in the Wind (1941). Her next role was in a Weill “operetta,” The Firebrand of Florence (1945), that was such a box-office disaster that Lenya decided to quit the stage. But in 1951, a little more than a year after her husband’s death, she returned as Xantippe in Maxwell Anderson’s short-lived Barefoot in Athens.She starred again as Jenny in the English-language revival of The Threepenny Opera (1954, 1955), winning the 1956 Tony® for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Lotte Lenya’s American film career began when she was sixty-three, with The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961), and hit a high point in 1963 when she played Rosa Klebb, the Spectre agent with poisoned blades in the toes of her boots, in From Russia with Love. She played the title role in Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder on German television in 1965, and the Gypsy in Tennessee Williams’s sleeper Ten Blocks on the Camino Real on National Education Television in 1966. The same year on Broadway she originated the role of Fräulein Schneider in Kander and Ebb’s musical Cabaret.

Lenya was married three more times in the thirty-one years between Weill’s death and her own. She established the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, which is still active in the promotion of Weill music and theatre, in 1962. Cancer was the cause of her death in 1981; she is entombed alongside Weill in a mausoleum in Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. A musical play, Lovemusik, a meditation on the relationship of these two musical and theatrical greats, was produced on Broadway in 2007.

– LEC

Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

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Filmography

Actress (10 credits)
1980 Mahagonny (voice)

1977 Semi-Tough - Clara Pelf
1974 CBS Daytime 90 (TV Series) - Rosa Harcourt
- Trio for Lovers (1974) ... Rosa Harcourt
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1969 The Appointment - Emma Valadier
1966 Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (TV Movie) - The Gypsy
1965 Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (TV Movie) - Mutter Courage
1964 Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler (Short)
1963 From Russia with Love - Rosa Klebb
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales

1931 The 3 Penny Opera - Jenny (as Lotte Lenja)

Soundtrack (6 credits)

2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Truth Tellers at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "Alabama Song")
2016 Uncle Howard (Documentary) (performer: "September Song")
2007 The Savages (performer: "Salomon-Song")
2001 Guileless Guile (Short) (performer: "Denn wie Man sich bettet")

1997 Seven Years in Tibet (performer: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer/The Ballad of Mack the Knife")

1952 Because of My Hot Youth (performer: "Die Seeräuber-Jenny. Ur Die Dreigroschenoper")

1916: Anthony Dawson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland. (He dies 8 January 1992 at age 75--Sussex, England.)

Anthony Dawson

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

Dawson as Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No
Born Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson, 18 October 1916, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Died 8 January 1992 (aged 75), Sussex, England
Nationality British
Alma mater RADA
Occupation Actor
Years active 1940–1991

Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in British films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954) and Midnight Lace (1960), as well as playing Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No (1962). He also appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

Life

Dawson was born in Edinburgh, the son of Ida Violet (Kittel) and Eric Francis Dawson.

Career

Following RADA training and WW II service, he made his film debut in 1943's They Met in the Dark. He went on to appear in such classic British films as The Way to the Stars (1945), The Queen of Spades (1948) and The Wooden Horse (1950), before moving to America in the early 1950s.

It was while there that he appeared on Broadway in the play, and then the subsequent Alfred Hitchcock film of Dial M for Murder (1954), playing C. A. Swann/Captain Lesgate.[5][6] In the film, he is blackmailed by Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) into murdering his wife Margot (Grace Kelly). In his unpublished memoirs, Rambling Recollections, Dawson reminisced about getting the part:

... I had never met Hitchcock before, and yet he was about to do me the most fantastic good turn I could imagine. In that wonderful fat man's Cockney voice, he said, slowly, drooping every word separately, as though he had all day: 'Tony, I just called to let you know that I want you for this picture, so you're quite safe to make yourself a nice deal.' What could I say? I mumbled my thanks and put the phone down, feeling rather dazed, electrified, stunned; all of these. The full impact of this call from Hitch was very soon to come home to me.

He had two other memorable roles on his return to Britain, including the evil Marques Siniestro in Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and henchman Professor Dent in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962).[7]

Throughout his career he could often be found in the films of director Terence Young, including the aforementioned Dr. No, They Were Not Divided (1950), Valley of Eagles (1951), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), Triple Cross (1966), Red Sun (1971), Inchon (1982) and The Jigsaw Man (1983). Young also cast him as the physical presence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), stroking the ubiquitous white cat. His face was never seen, however, and Blofeld's voice was provided by Eric Pohlmann. Dawson appeared alongside fellow Bond veterans Adolfo Celi, Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee in the Italian Bond knockoff O.K. Connery.

After the early 1960s, his roles got progressively smaller, but he continued to act until his death.

Death

He died in Sussex of cancer at the age of 75 in January 1992.

Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206060/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

1991 Selling Hitler (TV Mini-Series) - Marquess of Bath
- Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Marquess of Bath
1990 The Gamblers - Roy

1988 Run for Your Life - Colonel Moorcroft
1987 Ghoulies II - Priest
1986 Pirates - Spanish Officer
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Vicar
1981 Inchon - Gen. Collins

1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - Noirtier De Villefort
1973 Massacre in Rome
1973 The Big Game - Burton (uncredited)
1972 Cool Million (TV Series) - Prefect
- Mask of Marcella (1972) ... Prefect
1972 The Valachi Papers - Federal Investigator
1971 Red Sun - Hyatt (as Tony Dawson)
1970 Deadlock - Anthony Sunshine, der alte Killer
1970 Rosolino Paternò, soldato... - Italian General

1969 The Battle of Neretva - Morelli
1968 A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof - Samuel Pratt (as Anthony M. Dawson)
1967 Dirty Heroes - American Colonel (as Anthony M. Dawson)
1967 Hell Is Empty - Paul Grant
1967 Your Turn to Die - Dr. Evans
1967 The Rover - Captain Vincent
1967 Death Rides a Horse - Burt Cavanaugh
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Alpha
1966 Triple Cross - Major Stillman (as Tony Dawson)
1966 Kaleidoscope - English Casino Manager (uncredited)
1965 Change Partners - Ben Arkwright
1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (uncredited)
1964-1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Simpson / Lucas
- A Very Dangerous Game (1965) ... Simpson
- Don't Nail Him Yet (1964) ... Lucas
1965 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Ben Arkwright
- Change Partners (1965) ... Ben Arkwright
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Officer of Dragoons
1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Mickey (uncredited)
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Colonel Nathan
- We the Hunted (1964) ... Colonel Nathan
1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavros Blofeld (as ?)
1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Harris
- Key Witness (1963) ... Harris
1962 Seven Seas to Calais - Lord Burleigh
1962 The Saint (TV Series) - Floyd Vosper
- The Arrow of God (1962) ... Floyd Vosper
1962 Dr. No - Professor Dent
1961 The Devil Inside - James Dawson
1961 Naked City (TV Series) - Mike Grundy
- A Kettle of Precious Fish (1961) ... Mike Grundy
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - George Frobisher
- I Heard You Calling Me (1961) ... George Frobisher
1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - The Marques Siniestro
1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Martin / Security Officer
- The Leak (1960) ... Martin
- The Sisters (1960) ... Security Officer
1960 Midnight Lace - Ash
1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Clouston
- Ascent to Murder (1960) ... Clouston
1960 The Valley of Decision (TV Movie)
1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Gilles Porret
- The Dennison Case (1960) ... Gilles Porret

1959 The Flying Doctor (TV Series) - Al Vintner
- The Conspiracy (1959) ... Al Vintner
1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Stranger
- Markheim (1959) ... Stranger
1959 Libel - Gerald Loddon
1959 Tiger Bay - Barclay
1958 The Haunted Strangler - Supt. Burk
1958 Dial M for Murder (TV Movie) - Captain Lesgate (Swann)
1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Sir Maurice
- Wedding Cake (1958) ... Sir Maurice
- Freeing the Serfs (1958) ... Sir Maurice
1957 Action of the Tiger - Security Officer
1957 Hour of Decision - Gary Bax
1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Count Victor Mattoni
- I Killed the Count: Part 3 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
- I Killed the Count: Part 2 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
- I Killed the Count: Part 1 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
1956 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Captain Pierre Cordier
- The Debt (1956) ... Captain Pierre Cordier
1956 The Buccaneers (TV Series) - Captain Flask
- The Hand of the Hawk (1956) ... Captain Flask
1956 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Lucas
- Blackmail (1956) ... Lucas
1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Archduke Johann Salvator
- The Mayerling Affair (1956) ... Archduke Johann Salvator
1955 London Playhouse (TV Series) - Adrian Childe
- Area Nine (1955) ... Adrian Childe
1955 That Lady - Don Inigo
1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - German
- The Bridge (1955) ... German
1954 Dial M for Murder - Charles Swann
1951-1953 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
- Beyond Reason (1953)
- Colonel Judas (1951)
1951-1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - - Of Lena Geyer (1952)
- Claire Ambler (1952)
- Top Secret (1951)
1952 The King's Author (TV Movie) - Lord Chamberlain
1951 Repertory Theatre (TV Series) - - A Little Night Music (1951)
- Women of Intrigue (1951)
1951 Valley of the Eagles - Sven Nystrom
1951 The Long Dark Hall - The Man
1951 Lucky Nick Cain - Secret Agent (uncredited)
1950 Five Angles on Murder - Inspector Wilson (uncredited)
1950 The Wooden Horse - Pomfret
1950 They Were Not Divided - Michael

1949 The Queen of Spades - Fyodor
1947 Meet Me at Dawn - First Duelling Opponent (uncredited)
1946 Secret Flight - Flt. Lt. Norton
1946 Beware of Pity - Lt. Blannik
1945 Johnny in the Clouds - Bertie Steen
1943 They Met in the Dark - 2nd Code Expert
1940 Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt - Student (uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series)
1958 The Snorkel (from "The Snorkel" by)

1979: Moonraker released in Belgium.

1985: Od nišana do smrti (Serbian, Croatian) and Od tarče do smrti (Slovenian) released in Yugoslavia.

2008: The "Quantum of Solace" single charts at #15 on the Canadian Hot 100, mostly on downloads.

2017: Dynamite Comics publishes James Bond Kill Chain #4.

RichardTheBruce

October 19th

1931: Ian Fleming begins his association with Reuters.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

...On 7 October Ian travelled along
the Thames to the Reuters office on the Embankent at the end of
Carmelite Street, close to Blackfriars Bridge. There, on the first floor, he
was interviewed again, and then by Cecil Fleetwood May, a wireless technician
who, following the introduction of the City ticker-tape three years earlier,
was beginning to develop the business information side of the service.
Both were impressed by the young man's qualities. Rickatson-Hiatt, a
former Coldstream Guards officer, with a clipped moustache and a
monacle, had worked with Associated Press in the United States and was
keen to introduce AP's speed and efficiency to European news-gathering
operations. He reported to Jones that Ian was "quite the right type and
seemed most intelligent". He added, "After leaving Eton, he went to
Sandhurst. He will therefore know the value and importance of discipline."
Rickatson-Hiatt suggested that Ian should be hired initially on a trial basis
for one month without pay.

The aspiring young journalist started work at Reuters on Monday, 19
October 1931. In the circumstances, Ian was particularly anxious to do
well and within a couple of days Rickatson-Hiatt was commending the
new recruit to Sir Roderick. His only negative comment was that Ian
suffered from a slight Foreign Office "bum". He promised, however, that
"you can depend on us to put some pep into him before many days have
gone by." The Reuters chef also had Ian's praises heaped on him from
another source. Ever mindful of her maternal duties, Eve Fleming wrote
to thank him for taking her son on, gushing, "He has great character and
is supposed to be very intelligent, though I ought not to say so!" She
dissembled slightly when she said she was disappointed that Ian was
not trying again for the Forein Office since he had never been expected
to get in first time round.

After his month's trial, Ian was judged a success and offered a permanent
post at a salary of £150 a year. ...

1931: Spy novelist John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) is born--Poole, Dorset, England.
1964: Comic strip for Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang begins it run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 October.)
1988: Licence to Kill films villain Sanchez explaining his caper.
2005: IGN interviews Martin Campbell on Casino Royale.

Interview: Campbell on Casino
Royale
The director talks Bond!

https://uk.ign.com/articles/2005/10/19/interview-campbell-on-casino-royale
By Jeff Otto | 19 Oct 2005 2:48 pm

The James Bond news machine is heating up with the recent announcement (finally!) of the lead actor to portray Bond in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig. The film is to begin shooting soon and the release date is now set for November 17, 2006.

This weekend IGN FilmForce had the chance to question Royale helmer Martin Campbell at the press day for his latest film, the upcoming Sony sequel Legend of Zorro, which releases on the 28th of this month.

Though Campbell and everyone else involved is still remaining tight-lipped about the specifics of James Bonds' 21st big screen adventure (not counting the original Casino Royale or Never Say Never Again), Campbell answered as many questions as he could this weekend and shed at least a bit of light on the upcoming spy flick.

Q: Did you have any input in the selection of Mr. Craig?

MARTIN CAMPBELL: Oh, yeah.
[img]https://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/658/658547/craig-bond1_1129321022-001.jpg?fit=bounds&width=640&height=480[.img] Craig as Bond[/img]Q. Is there going to be anything of the novel in the movie?

CAMPBELL: A lot of it, yeah.

Q: How are you going to handle the genital flogging scene from the book?

CAMPBELL: Very interesting. You're the second person who's asked that. I think I'll do it in close up. (Laughs) There are a lot of women who will love that. I've got to get PG-13, so it's a very interesting dilemma.

Q: Every time they have gone from a popular Bond and replaced him, the films have not been as successful. How do you avoid that?

CAMPBELL: I dunno. You just do the best movie you can make. It's as simple as that.

Q: Why do you think Craig will make a great Bond?

CAMPBELL: Because, first of all, he's a great actor. And I think it's in Casino Royale, where Fleming said he looked like Hoagie Carmichael, which is a very interesting comparison. And he's a very interesting looking guy and I think he has all the attributes to make a grittier and tougher bond. A much more interesting – just different and more interesting in my view.

Q[/b]: It seems every time they say that the story is overwhelmed by all those gadgets.

CAMPBELL: Well, first of all there are no gadgets in the first one. So, how about that?

Q: So is it mostly the title being used and the basic plot rather than specifics from the book?

CAMPBELL: The only thing you can't use from the book – I don't know how many of you have read it – it was written in 1953 [and] was set against the Cold War. In fact, it was the first one that involves Smersh, and we've obviously had to change that. But, essentially the book remains pretty much in tact. The whole game takes place. La Chiffre is the bad guy, who was the bad guy there. Your genital whacking scene, whomever came up with that, that all remains. So, it's pretty much the last 2/3rds of the movie will be like the book. And Bond will fall in love with Vesper Lynd, as he does in the book. He's just got his 007 stripes when he gets into the story so he's got some rough edges on him to begin with and hopefully, by the end of it, he'll become the 007 we all know and love.

Martin Campbell on the set of
the first Zorro with Anthony Hopkins
and Antonio Banderas

Q: Does it restart the franchise?

CAMPBELL: Yeah, I guess so.

Q: Does this mean you start remaking the other movies?

CAMPBELL: That's exactly the same question I asked them. When's the point you start re-making Dr. No? Who knows? No, this is the last book they are filming. Because, all the rest have been done.

Q: Do you think the re-start of Batman Begins had to do with this?

CAMPBELL: No, I think they always wanted to get the book and they never have been able to till just recently. Now they have the book. I think Cubby, Barbara, said Cubby always wanted to make the book. They made one. Not a good movie. A spoof with five bonds, which Ursula Andress was one, by the way.

Q: Have you cast any of the new Bond girls?

CAMPBELL: Not yet. We were more worried about casting Bond…

Q: Is there a chance Judi Dench will return as M?

CAMPBELL: Yeah, we're discussing that at the moment. Yeah, maybe.

Q: Did you talk to Pierce about coming back?

CAMPBELL: No, that wasn't my choice. That was over before I came into those discussions as they were.

Q: When is it going to start?

CAMPBELL: End of January. I hope!

Q: Do they have a release date?

CAMPBELL: Yes, November.

2008: BBC airs the documentary Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began.

2009: Joseph Wiseman dies at age 91--Manhattan, New York City, New York.
(Born 15 May 1918--Montreal, Quebec, Canada.)

Joseph Wiseman obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/20/joseph-wiseman-obituary
Versatile character actor best remembered on screen as James
Bond's adversary Dr No
Ronald Bergan | Tue 20 Oct 2009 13.33 EDT

‘I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery,’ said Wiseman of his role in Dr No.

Despite the fact that Joseph Wiseman, who has died aged 91, appeared in dozens of movies and countless TV series and had only 20 minutes of screen time in Dr No (1962), it is for his performance in that film, as the eponymous adversary to James Bond in the first movie of the series, based on the books by Ian Fleming, that he will best be remembered.

Dressed in a white Nehru jacket with a pair of shiny black, prosthetic hands, the result of a "misfortune", Wiseman was cool and calculating as the half-German, half-Chinese arch enemy of 007, played by Sean Connery, and one of the most effective of Bond villains. Dr Julius No is a member of Spectre – the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. "The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains in the world," he explains. "Correction. Criminal brains," says Bond. "A successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be," retorts Dr No.

Wiseman was fortunate that Noël Coward, a friend and neighbour of Fleming's in Jamaica, where the film was set, turned the role down, saying, "Doctor No? No. No. No." Of his most famous role, Wiseman said: "I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I had no idea it would achieve the success it did. I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them. As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery."

Wiseman was born in Montreal, Canada, and his family subsequently moved to the US. He started his acting career on stage in his late teens, making his Broadway debut as part of the ensemble in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), with Raymond Massey in the title role. There followed parts in three plays by Maxwell Anderson: Journey to Jerusalem (1940), Candle in the Wind (1941) and Joan of Lorraine (1946), and he was the eunuch Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), directed by and starring Kathleen Cornell.

But it was his role on stage in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story (1949) that launched his film career, during which he typically played slightly crazy off-beat characters. Wiseman, in a loud striped suit, was both sleazy and comic as the lowlife burglar, becoming hysterical when interrogated by overzealous policeman Ralph Bellamy. He repeated the role in William Wyler's 1951 film version, starring Kirk Douglas, without toning down his manic stage performance.

This coiled-up energy proved to be highly effective in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952), in which he played the opportunistic journalist and agent provocateur who finally betrays Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando). He continued to steal scenes in two rather risible biblical epics, as an imposing priest in The Silver Chalice (1954), Paul Newman's debut picture, and as a wily beggar in The Prodigal (1955). Around the same time, Wiseman was able to reveal more of his talent on stage. He played Edmund to Louis Calhern's King Lear; the gangster Eddie Fuselli in a revival of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (1952), and The Inquisitor in Jean Anouih's The Lark (1955), with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc.

In 1960, returning to movies, Wiseman had a typically flashy role as a one-eyed, deranged itinerant evangelist armed with the "Sword of God" in John Huston's western The Unforgiven. Then, in 1962, came The Happy Thieves, in which, third-billed after Rita Hayworth and Rex Harrison, he seemed to have some fun as a master forger, and the infamous Dr No. It was six years before Wiseman made another movie.

Making up for lost time, he appeared in seven films within a few years. Apart from playing ruthless Italian gangsters in Stiletto (1969) and The Valachi Papers (1972), Wiseman created a niche for himself portraying a variety of Jewish characters. In The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Wiseman is the bemused Jewish owner of the notorious burlesque theatre, who disapproves of his son's introducing striptease.

Bye Bye Braverman (1968) saw him as a pedantic lecturer on his way to a friend's funeral. Of his performance, Time magazine wrote that Wiseman "wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried ham … What picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical littérateur … As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity."

Back in Canada for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Wiseman played a Trotskyite owner of a blouse factory, who calls his nephew (Richard Dreyfuss) "a pushy Jewish boy".

On Broadway, Wiseman originated the role of LeDuc, a Jewish psychotherapist, in Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy (1964), who asserts that "the Jew is only the name we give to that stranger within everyone". Also on Broadway was his Drama Desk award-winning performance in the title role of In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer (1969).

Wiseman continued to be active on television throughout his career, notably in Crime Story (1986-88) as the menacing gang boss Manny Weisbord. In his later years, Wiseman would often give readings of Yiddish writers, and his last stage performance was in 2002 at a gala concert called Yiddish in America at the New York town hall. His last Broadway appearance had been the previous year, as a prosecution witness in Abby Mann's stage adaptation of his film drama Judgment at Nuremberg.

Wiseman's first marriage, to Nell Kennard, ended in divorce, and he is survived by his daughter, Martha, by that marriage, and his sister Ruth. His second wife, the dancer, teacher and choreographer Pearl Lang, died last February.

•Joseph Wiseman, actor, born 15 May 1918; died 19 October 2009

Joseph Wiseman (1918–2009)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936476/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (95 credits)

1996 Law & Order (TV Series) - Seymour Bergreen
- Family Business (1996) ... Seymour Bergreen
1994 A Passover Seder (Video short) - Grandfather
1994 L.A. Law (TV Series) - Isidore Schoen
- Finish Line (1994) ... Isidore Schoen
1992 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Julius Schiff
- For Better or Perverse (1992) ... Julius Schiff

1989 MacGyver (TV Series) - Joe Catano
- The Battle of Tommy Giordano (1989) ... Joe Catano
1988 Lady Mobster (TV Movie) - Victor Castle
1986-1988 Crime Story (TV Series) - Manny Weisbord
- The Hearings (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
- Last Rites (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
- Little Girl Lost (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
- Shockwaves (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
- Atomic Fallout (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
... 18 episodes
1986 Seize the Day - Dr. Adler
1985 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Eddie Vanessi
- The Confirmation Day (1985) ... Eddie Vanessi
1984 The A-Team (TV Series) - Zeke Westerland
- The Bells of St. Mary's (1984) ... Zeke Westerland
1984 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Judge Leopold Wapter
- The Ghost Writer (1984) ... Judge Leopold Wapter
1983 Rage of Angels (TV Movie) - Antonio Granelli
1983 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Dr. Albert Tessa
- Birdman of Budapest (1983) ... Dr. Albert Tessa
1981 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - James J. Beck
- Don't Mess Around with Jim (1981) ... James J. Beck
1981 Masada (TV Mini-Series) - Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part IV (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part III (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part II (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part I (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
1980 Freebie and the Bean (TV Series) - Dr. Dorf
- Health Nuts (1980) ... Dr. Dorf

1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Carl Morphus
- Vegas in Space (1979) ... Carl Morphus
1979 Jaguar Lives! - Ben Ashir
1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - King Draco
1978 The Betsy - Jake / Angelo's uncle
1977 Murder at the World Series (TV Movie) - Sam Druckman
1976 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) - Barbado
- The Thrill Killers: Part 2 (1976) ... Barbado
- The Thrill Killers: Part 1 (1976) ... Barbado
1975 Journey Into Fear - Colonel Haki
1975 Zalmen: or, The Madness of God (TV Movie) - Rabbi
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Morris Cady
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Morris Cady
1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Uncle Benjy
1974 The Suicide Club (TV Movie)
1974 Men of the Dragon (TV Movie) - Balashev
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Hon Chi Kai
- The Illusion of the Lost Dragon (1974) ... Hon Chi Kai
1973 If I Had a Million (TV Movie)
1971-1973 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Gilford / Big Julio
- The Pay-Off (1973) ... Gilford
- Bitter Harbor (1971) ... Big Julio
1973 Nightside (TV Movie) - Grudin
1973 The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) - Mr. Silverado
- Suicide Club (1973) ... Mr. Silverado
1972 Pursuit (TV Movie) - Dr. Nordman
1972 McCloud (TV Series) - Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
- Fifth Man in a String Quartet (1972) ... Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Armand Pringle
- Operation: White Fire (1972) ... Armand Pringle
1972 The Valachi Papers - Salvatore Maranzano
1971 Lawman - Lucas
1970 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
- Room with a View/The Little Black Bag/The Nature of the Enemy (1970) ... Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
1970 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Lev
- They Have Taken Over (1970) ... Lev
1970 The Mask of Sheba (TV Movie) - Fandil Bondalok

1969 Stiletto - Emilio Matteo
1968 The Night They Raided Minsky's - Louis Minsky
1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Rajeski
1968 Bye Bye Braverman - Felix Ottensteen
1967 The Outsider (TV Movie) - Ernest Grimes
1967 Coronet Blue (TV Series) - Rudi Nateseh
- The Presence of Evil (1967) ... Rudi Nateseh
1966 T.H.E. Cat (TV Series) - Prince Nicky Cavalcante
- The System (1966) ... Prince Nicky Cavalcante
1966 Preview Tonight (TV Series) - Pharaoh
- Great Bible Adventures: Seven Rich Years and Seven Lean (1966) ... Pharaoh
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Rajeski
- The Faceless Man (1966) ... Rajeski
1966 The Legend of Jesse James (TV Series) - Captain Hammel
- The Last Stand of Captain Hammel (1966) ... Captain Hammel
1964 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Jim Case
- The Santiago Quesada Story (1964) ... Jim Case
1963-1964 Quest (TV Series) - Eli Peck
- Eli, the Fanatic (1964) ... Eli Peck
- Eulogy (1963)
1962 Dr. No - Dr. No
1962 The New Breed (TV Series) - Clayton Grimes
- Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? (1962) ... Clayton Grimes
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Paul Radin
- One More Pallbearer (1962) ... Paul Radin
1961 The Happy Thieves - Jean Marie Calbert
1961 Festival (TV Series) - Prisoner / Messenger
- The Police (1961) ... Prisoner
- The Dybbuk (1961) ... Messenger
1960-1961 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Russell Shield / Albert Maris
- The Antidote (1961) ... Russell Shield
- The Tommy Karpeles Story (1960) ... Albert Maris
1961 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Manson
- A Possibility of Oil (1961) ... Manson
1960 The Westerner (TV Series) - 'Serafin'
- Ghost of a Chance (1960) ... 'Serafin'
1958-1960 Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series) - Lurgan / Sorcerer
- Kim (1960) ... Lurgan
- The Wild Swans (1958) ... Sorcerer
1960 The Unforgiven - Abe Kelsey
1960 CBS Repertoire Workshop (TV Series) - Anton
- Tessie Malfitano and Anton Waldek (1960) ... Anton

1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) - Lepke Buchalter
- Lepke (1959) ... Lepke Buchalter
1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Torok
- The Derelict (1959) ... Torok
1956-1959 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) - Max Gebler / Antonio
- False Alarm (1959) ... Max Gebler
- Twice in Peril (1956) ... Antonio
1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Dr. Newland
- Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
- Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
1958 Rendezvous (TV Series) - - Alone (1958)
1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Max Gebler
- False Alarm (1958) ... Max Gebler
1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) - Hosea
- The Prophet Hosea (1958) ... Hosea
1957 Suspicion (TV Series)
- The Deadly Game (1957)
1957 The Garment Jungle - George Kovan
1957 Studio 57 (TV Series)
- You Take Ballistics (1957)
1956 Three Brave Men - Jim Barron
1956 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Will Prentiss
- The Marked Bullet (1956) ... Will Prentiss
1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series)
- Darkness at Noon (1955)
1954-1955 Ponds Theater (TV Series) - Death
- Billy Budd (1955)
- Death Takes a Holiday (1954) ... Death
- Arrowsmith (1954)
1955 The Prodigal - Carmish
1954 The Silver Chalice - Mijamin
1954 Justice (TV Series) - Vincent Wilbec
- Terror on the Tracks (1954) ... Vincent Wilbec
1954 Inner Sanctum (TV Series) - Insurance Inspector
- Ghost Mail (1954) ... Insurance Inspector
1954 Medallion Theatre (TV Series)
- Contact with the West (1954)
1950-1954 Suspense (TV Series)
- The Fourth Degree (1954)
- Criminals Mark (1950)
1953 The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series) - Baroff
- Brandenburg Gate (1953) ... Baroff
1953 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
- Tour of Duty (1953)
1953 Champ for a Day - Dominic Guido
1953 Danger (TV Series)
- Circus Story (1953)
1953 Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series)
- Lazarus Walks (1953)
- The Squeeze Play (1953)
1952 Frontiers of Faith (TV Series)
- As a Wind That Blows (1952)
1952 Les Miserables - Genflou
1951-1952 Lights Out (TV Series) - The Croupier
- Man in the Dark (1952)
- The Deal (1951) ... The Croupier
1952 Viva Zapata! - Fernando Aguirre
1951 Detective Story - Charley Gennini
1950 With These Hands - Mike Deleo

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]

2010: During pre-production, writer Peter Morgan exits the BOND 23 project leaving an unfinished film treatment.
2016: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond #11 Eidolon Chapter 5.

JAMES BOND #11

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181811011
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: October 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/19

EIDOLON, CHAPTER 5: Eidolon have M and Moneypenny, in a remote safehouse, with no hope of backup, no aid on the way, and no sign of James Bond. Fear and paranoia and the collapse of governmental structure are in sight. Britain is going back to the Dark Ages and SPECTRE, finally, have won.

RichardTheBruce

October 20th

1955: Thomas Newman is born--Los Angeles, California.
1956: Danny Boyle is born--Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
1957: The Sunday Times ends its six week serialization of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers, started 15 September.
1999: Garbage introduces "The World Is Not Enough" during a University of Denver concert. The same day MTV screens its documentary Making the Video, then premieres it.

Garbage, Making the World Is Not Enough, 1999

The World Is Not Enough - Official Video, 1999

2001: Geoffrey Boothroyd dies--UK. (Born 1925--Blackpool, England.)

Geoffrey Boothroyd

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

Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) was a British firearms expert and author of several standard reference works on the subject. He gave weapons advice to James Bond author Ian Fleming, who named the character Major Boothroyd after him as a result. He was born in Blackpool. Beginning with A Guide to Gun Collecting and Guns Through the Ages (both 1961) to The British Over and Under Shotgun co-authored with Susan Boothroyd (2004), Boothroyd was a prolific author on the subject of firearms.

Whilst employed with Imperial Chemical Industries, an ammunition manufacturer, Boothroyd wrote a letter to Fleming professing admiration for the character of James Bond, but not his choice of weapons, particularly the .25 calibre Beretta. Fleming responded to Boothroyd, and their correspondence about weaponry has been reprinted in various places. As a result of the correspondence Fleming gave Bond a 7.65mm Walther PPK pistol in Dr. No and created a character named "Major Boothroyd" in the novel (the real Boothroyd held no such rank). Prior to the correspondence Fleming is reported to have thought the subject of guns to be rather dull and uninteresting. Boothroyd advised Fleming on the use of silencers and suggested various firearms for use by Bond and other characters.

Boothroyd provided illustrator Richard Chopping with his own .38 Smith & Wesson snubnosed revolver, modified with one third of the trigger guard removed, to meet Fleming's wish for a design incorporating a pistol and a rose for the first edition cover of From Russia, with Love. Boothroyd had to assist the police with their enquiries when a similar weapon was used in a triple murder in Glasgow explaining that his weapon had been posted to Ian Fleming for a book cover. Peter Manuel was later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder.

In the first Bond film, Dr. No, Major Boothroyd, portrayed by Peter Burton, recreates the scene from the novel. Geoffrey Boothroyd appeared as himself in a short film The Guns of James Bond available on the Dr. No Ultimate Edition DVD.

Geoffrey Boothroyd

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2508719/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Self (1 credit)

1964 The Guns of James Bond (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (2 credits)

2015 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) - Himself - Armourer 'Q'
- Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC (2015) ... Himself - Armourer 'Q'
2008 Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1964 Time Out - The Guns of James Bond

2008: "Another Way to Die" single released in Europe.
2012: The "Skyfall" single enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #8.

RichardTheBruce

October 21st

1945: Everett McGill is born--Miami Beach, Florida.
1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs the live television production of Casino Royale featuring American CIA Agent Jimmy Bond, British Agent Clarence Leiter, and Bond Girl Valerie Mathis.

Casino Royale

William H. Brown... Director
Ian Fleming ... source novel
Antony Ellis, Charles Bennett... writers for television

Cast
Barry Nelson ... James Bond
Peter Lorre ... Le Chiffre
Linda Christian ... Valerie Mathis
Michael Pate ... Clarence Leiter
William Lundigan ... Himself - Host
Music by Jerry Goldsmith

1959: Ian Fleming writes a second film treatment called James Bond of the Secret Service.
1968: Principal photography begins at Piz Gloria, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With the restaurant still under construction, the production paid for electricity, airlifts, and the construction of the helipad.
1972: James Bond comic strip Isle of Condors finishes its run. (Started 12 June 1972. 1952–2065)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/




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


Swedish Semic Comic Kondorernas ö (Isle of Condors)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

Swedish Semic Comic Kondorernas ö (Isle of Condors)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3


Danish James Bond Agent 007 no. 28: “Isle of Condors” (1974)
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-28-1974/

1976: Andrew Scott is born--Dublin, Ireland.
1987: Bob Simmons dies at age 65--Fullham, London, England. (Born 31 March 1922.)

Bob Simmons (stunt man)

Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.

Biography
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.

Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.

Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Bob Simmons (I) (1922–1987)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799689/

Filmography

Stunts (49 credits)

1987 Going Bananas (stunt coordinator - as Robert Simmons)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt team supervisor)
1983 Octopussy (action sequences arranger)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1982 The Wall (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (action sequences arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts - uncredited)

1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) (action arranger)
1979 Moonraker (action sequence arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1979 Zulu Dawn (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Mister Deathman (stunt coordinator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (action arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones (fight instructor)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Happy Days Are Here Again (stunt coordinator)
1975 Paper Tiger (action arranger)
1975 The Wilby Conspiracy (stunts)
1974 Caravan to Vaccares (stunts: fight sequence)
1973 Live and Let Die (stunts co-ordinator)
1973 A Touch of Class (stunt and fight arranger)
1973 The Offence (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb (fight arranger)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Hopkins - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War (stunt arranger)
1970 The Adventurers (stunts - uncredited)

1968 Shalako (action sequences arranger)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunt double: Guy Doleman - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Genghis Khan (action sequences)
1964 Goldfinger (action sequences by) / (stunt double: Harold Sakata - uncredited) / (stunt double: Michael Mellinger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunt double - uncredited) / (train fight double: Sean Connery - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Night Creatures (fight sequence staged by)
1961 The Hellions (stunt double: Lionel Jeffries - uncredited)
1961 The Secret Ways (stunt supervisor)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Gregory Peck - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Scent of Mystery (stunt double: Denholm Elliott - uncredited)

1958 Tom Thumb (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited)
1957 Action of the Tiger (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Fire Down Below (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Zarak (stunts)
1954 The Black Knight (stunt double: Alan Ladd - uncredited)
1953 Paratrooper (stunts - uncredited)
1952 Ivanhoe (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Jamaica Inn (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (25 credits)

1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)

1978 The Wild Geese - Pilot (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - KGB Thug #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Next Man - London Assassin
1976 Montana Trap
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Jeep Driver / Card Player
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Jeep Driver (uncredited)
- To the Death, Baby (1971) ... Card Player (uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War - member of German sub crew (uncredited)

1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Fake Limo Driver
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Fake Limo Driver (uncredited)
1965 Thunderball - Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love- James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 Sparrows Can't Sing
Pub Patron (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Astronaut (uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone - German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Carlos, a pirate
1960 Exodus - Man of arms (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Perce's Opponent

1959 Great Van Robbery - Peters
1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Brading
- The Man Who Was Twice (1958) ... Brading
1958 Tank Force (aka No Time To Die) - Mustapha
1955 Tangier Assignment - Peter Valentine (as Robert Simmons)
1953 The Sword and the Rose - French Champion
1953 Bad Blonde - Booth Man (uncredited)

1939 Reform School - Johnny

Miscellaneous Crew (16 credits)

1982 The Final Option (action arranger)
1980 The Sea Wolves (action arranger)

1978 The Wild Geese (action arranger)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (master of horse)
1973 The Man Called Noon (action supervisor)
1971 Catlow (action sequence coordinator)
1970 The Adventurers (action sequences arranger: second unit)

1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (action arrangements)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences by)
1965 Thunderball (action sequences by)
1964 Goldfinger (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1964 The Long Ships (action sequences)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 The Pirates of Blood River (horse master) / (master at arms)
1961 The Naked Edge (fight arranger)

Camera and Electrical Department (2 credits)

George & Mildred (TV Series) (lighting director - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (lighting - 2 episodes, 1979)
- The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979) ... (lighting)
- A Military Pickle (1979) ... (lighting)
- I Believe in Yesterday (1978) ... (lighting director)
- The Right Way to Travel (1977) ... (lighting director)
- All Around the Clock (1977) ... (lighting director)
1977 The Upchat Line (TV Series) (lighting director - 1 episode)
- Accommodation Address (1977) ... (lighting director)

Art department (1 credit)

1987 Promised Land (storyboard artist)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (second unit director)

Producer (1 credit)

1973 The Man Called Noon (associate producer)

RichardTheBruce

October 22nd

1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, the first of three volumes, illustrated by John Burningham. Ian Fleming writes this for son Caspar.

1964: Desde Rusia con amor released in Uruguay.

1981: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Για τα μάτια σου μόνο (James Bond, Agent 007: For Your Eyes Only) released in Greece.

1995: Sir Kinglsey Amis CBE dies at age 73--London, England. (Born 16 April 1922--Clapham, London, England.)

Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-kingsley-amis-1579017.html
David Lodge | Monday 23 October 1995 01:02

Kingsley Amis was the most gifted of the British novelists who began publishing in the 1950s and were grouped together - by the media rather than by their own volition - as "Angry Young Men". He also proved himself to be the one with the most stamina and capacity for development.

Amis was a key figure in the history of British post-war fiction, but his originality was not always fully appreciated because it did not manifest itself in any obvious novelty of form. Indeed the literary new wave of the Fifties, in which Amis played a leading role (its poetic wing, to which he also contributed, was known as "The Movement"), was an aesthetically conservative force, consciously setting itself against modernist experimentation. A passage in a review Amis contributed to the Spectator in 1958 is representative in both its sentiments and the down-to-earth blokeishness of its manner:

The idea about experiment being the life-blood of the English novel is one that dies hard. "Experiment" in this context boils down pretty regularly to "obtruded oddity", whether in construction - multiple viewpoints and such - or in style. It is not felt that adventurousness in subject matter or attitude or tone really count.

This is a thinly disguised manifesto for Amis's own early fiction, but it is as obscuring as it is revealing. It is true that Lucky Jim (1954) and its successors dealt with what was then new or neglected social territory (for example, the provincial university) from unhackneyed perspectives (for example, the upwardly mobile young professional who is unimpressed by the values and lifestyle of the bourgeoisie). This is presumably what Amis meant by adventurousness of subject matter, attitude and tone. And it is also true that these novels were very traditional in form - the specific tradition to which they belonged being that of the English comic novel, in which satirical comedy of manners and robust farce are combined in an entertaining and easily assimilable story. Fielding, Dickens, Wodehouse and Waugh are some of Amis's obvious precursors. But it is also true that Amis's novels are triumphs of "style" - a way of using language that, if not obtrusively "odd", is highly original, and wonderfully expressive.

Dixon had read, or begun to read, dozens [of scholarly articles] like it, but his own seemed worse than most in its air of being convinced of its own usefulness and significance. "In considering this strangely neglected topic," it began. This what neglected topic? This strangely what topic? This strangely neglected what?

Lucky Jim (1954)

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap, I got indoors, vigorously rubbing lipstick off my mouth with my handkerchief.

That Uncertain Feeling (1955)

All that type of stuff, dying and so on, was a long way off, not such a long way off as it had once been, admitted, and no doubt the time when it wouldn't be such a long way off as all that wasn't such a long way off as all that, but still. Still what?

Take a Girl Like You (1960)

There is nothing quite like this in English fiction before Amis (though a good deal afterwards, for other writers were quick to learn his tricks). It is a kind of English equivalent to the prose of Samuel Beckett (though Amis would have spluttered derisively at the comparison). In each case, language, denied the luxury of metaphysical affirmation and romantic afflatus, coils back upon itself, mocking its own pretensions as well as the follies and foibles of human behaviour. Both writers use repetition and bathos to marvellous effect, eschewing "elegant variation" and "fine writing" except for purposes of parody. The effort is always to be scrupulously exact, honest and undeceived. It was of course carried to a bleaker, more challenging and subversive extreme by Beckett.

Amis's fundamental scepticism is actually quite dark and disturbing, but it is cushioned or concealed by the conventions of the well-made novel. Some critics have seen this as an evasion or betrayal of artistic integrity, a kind of refusal to be "serious". Amis himself would have taken his stand on the writer's responsibility to entertain as well as instruct. The career of Kingsley Amis crystalises, without resolving, a perennial debate about the contemporary English novel: whether, by remaining faithful to the native realistic tradition and refusing the legacy of modernism, it ensures its own authenticity or fails to be significant in a Hegelian "world-historical sense".

Kingsley Amis was born, ironically enough, in 1922, the year in which the great masterpiece of modernist fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, was published. He was brought up in a dull outer suburb of south London called Norbury, the only child of respectable lower- middle-class parents, and won a scholarship to the City of London School, to which he commuted daily like his father, a clerk in a commercial office. From this school, of which he always spoke highly, Amis went up to Oxford in 1941, as an Exhibitioner of St John's College, to read English. Here he met Philip Larkin, and formed the basis of a lifelong friendship. The two young men had similar backgrounds, tastes, and sensibilities, and fertilised each other's imaginative development. In this chance conjunction lay the seeds of the literary revolution of the 1950s.

After only a year at Oxford, Amis was called up for military service and served in the Royal Signals in Normandy, Belgium and Germany from 1944 to 1945, an experience which left surprisingly little overt trace in his work apart from a few early short stories. After the Second World War he returned to Oxford, graduating with a First Class degree in 1947, and began research towards a BLitt which he never completed. In this period he kept in touch with Larkin, now a librarian at University College, Leicester, and met another young undergraduate who shared his admiration for Larkin's verse, John Wain. The nucleus of the Movement was beginning to form.

In 1947 Amis published his first "slim volume" of verse, Bright November, and later, along with Larkin and Wain, was one of the contributors to Robert Conquest's anthology New Lines (1956), which marked the arrival of the Movement on the English poetic scene, and its displacement of the late modernist mode epitomised by Dylan Thomas (memorably parodied in That Uncertain Feeling). Amis continued to write poetry, not very prolifically, throughout his life. In this department he was always somewhat overshadowed by Larkin, to whom he paid the homage of imitation, but he was an excellent exponent of light verse, especially of a satirical and ribald kind.

Amis married Hilary Bardwell in 1948, and the following year took up a post as lecturer in English Literature at the University College of Wales, Swansea. He settled down in that pleasant but deeply provincial seaside town to teach, write, and raise a family of three children, one of whom was called Martin. From this congenial but humdrum and materially somewhat pinched existence, Amis was catapulted to fame by the publication of Lucky Jim (dedicated to Larkin) in January 1954. It became a bestseller and a cult book - not surprisingly, for it was a sublimely funny novel which also put its finger very accurately on certain changes which had taken place in post-war British culture and society. Although Amis himself belonged to a small elite of pre-war scholarship boys, he articulated through his hero, Jim Dixon, the feelings of a much larger number of people in the next generation (my own) who were products of the 1944 Education Act and the Welfare State. Through the comedy of Jim's private fantasies and accidental breaches of social decorum, Amis gave us, as it were, permission not to be overawed by the social and cultural codes of the class to which we had been elevated by education. It was enormously liberating.

Measured on a simple laugh-out-loud scale, Lucky Jim was probably the funniest novel Amis wrote, and for some readers his career was therefore downhill all the way. But in spite of his talent for comedy, Amis was, in the words of Larkin's poem, always surprising in himself a hunger to be more serious, and in the novels that followed he combined amusing social satire with a thoughtful and sometimes uncomfortable investigation of the moral life, especially in the sexual sphere. Take A Girl Like You (1960) was a particularly interesting response to the first intimations of the Permissive Society.

Because of the antiestablishment stance of the early novels, Amis was identified with the Left, and in 1957 he declared his allegiance to the Labour Party in a Fabian pamphlet. Ten years later, however, he announced his conversion to Conservatism, in an essay entitled "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right". Henceforward he adopted a combatively right-wing stance on the political issues of the day - Vietnam, nuclear arms, the expansion of higher education and women's liberation.

There was always an element of deliberate provocation and self-parody in this stance, as in the case of Evelyn Waugh (whom Amis came to resemble more and more, in all kinds of ways, as he got older), but there is no reason to doubt the fundamental sincerity of his views. The young Amis's identification with the party of the Welfare State was always emotional rather than ideological, and Lucky Jim was a rebel rather than a revolutionary. As soon as left-wing attitudes became trendy, as they did in the late 1960s, Amis's innate scepticism was turned upon them and their proponents.

One does have the impression, however, that in an increasingly unsympathetic cultural climate Amis became less certain of his constituency, and of his own literary identity, than he had been in the heyday of the Movement. This may have been connected with change and upheaval in his private life. In 1961 he had moved from Swansea to Cambridge, to teach English as a Fellow of Peterhouse, but the notoriously factious English Faculty was not very welcoming. Dr Leavis was reported to have described his new colleague as "a pornographer", a failure in close reading if nothing else, for Amis's novels, though much concerned with sex, are notable for their reticence about the sexual act. He resigned his fellowship after three years to become a full-time writer. At about the same time his marriage broke up, and he married the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

In the late Sixties and Seventies he experimented a good deal with "genre" fiction: science fiction (The Anti-Death League, 1966, and The Alteration, 1976), the James Bond thriller (Colonel Sun, 1968), the classic detective story (The Riverside Villas Murder, l973) and the ghost story (The Green Man, 1969). These forms perhaps attracted him as ways of escaping the constraints of the realistic novel and the expectations of an audience who kept hoping he would repeat Lucky Jim. In some of them he addressed himself to weighty philosophic and religious themes, such as the nature of evil.

In spite of having had an essentially secular upbringing, Amis always took a lively, though pugnaciously sceptical, interest in Christian doctrine. An essay boldly entitled "On Christ's Nature" reveals an impressive familiarity with the New Testament, and a characteristic refusal to be awed. (A representative passage raises "the question why, if God wanted human beings to have religion, he did not simply give it to them, instead of arranging the world in one way and then sending someone along to explain that really the whole set-up was quite different").

Amis's best novel after Take A Girl Like You was arguably Ending Up (1974), a black comic tale of a group of retired people failing to cope with the afflictions of old age. "I suppose", says one of their young relatives to another in the course of a particularly joyless Christmas, "I suppose with luck we might get a couple of weeks between the last of them going and us being in their situation." The brilliantly titled Jake's Thing (1978) brought the same mordant scrutiny to bear on male impotence and sex therapy, often to wonderfully comic effect, though without the elegant economy of its predecessor. Both these novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

There followed something of a lull in Amis's creativity. But in the late Eighties he enjoyed a kind of second spring, producing in quick succession Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), Difficulties with Girls (1988) and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990). The first of these achieved some notoriety as a misogynist tract, and it was rumoured that a feminist cabal in the New York publishing world significantly delayed its publication in America. Amis's distrust of the female psyche was evident, for those who had eyes to see, as early as Lucky Jim, in the characterisation of the hysterical and devious Margaret. Stanley and the Women caused particular offence perhaps because it is cunningly constructed to catch the unwary liberal reader in its narrative trap. In Difficulties with Girls, however, Amis made some amends with a sympathetic portrait of Jenny Bunn, the heroine of Take a Girl Like You, coping with marriage to the compulsively unfaithful Patrick Standish.

These late novels are notable for their intricate if uneventful narrative structures and frequent shifts of point of view, which require considerable powers of concentration and inference from the reader. The best of them was The Old Devils, for which Amis was deservedly awarded the Booker Prize in 1986. This is another fictional study of old age. The setting in Amis's old haunts in south Wales lends the book an affectionate, nostalgic glow which is deceptive; an appalling abyss of pain, despair and anxiety gradually opens up beneath the novel's comic surface. But Amis is in total command of his material and his unique narrative style. The reader knows he is in for a treat from the first few pages describing Malcolm's cautious negotiation of breakfast:

He had not bitten anything with his front teeth since losing a top middle crown on a slice of liver-sausage six years earlier, and the right-hand side of his mouth was a no-go area, what with the hole in the lower lot where stuff was always apt to stick and a funny piece of gum that seemed to have got detached from something and waved about whenever it got the chance.

Kingsley Amis's second marriage broke up in 1983 and in later life he happily shared a house in Hampstead with his first wife, Hillie, and her second husband, Lord Kilmarnock - a twist in his biography that might have come from one of his own late novels. He took pride in the literary success of his son Martin, who occupies much the same key position among the British novelists who came of age in the 1970s as Kingsley did among those of the 1950s - a dynastic succession unprecedented in the annals of English literature. In spite of the differences of tone and ideology that divide them, it is a fascinating critical exercise to track the stylistic gene that unites these two novelists.

It would be an understatement to say that Kingsley Amis enjoyed a drink. He was an opinionated connoisseur of wine, and an unsurpassed observer of bar-room speech and behaviour. In later life he was a habitue of the Garrick Club, in London. He was appointed CBE in 1981, was granted the freedom of the City of London in 1989, and knighted in 1990. In many ways he became a pillar of the Establishment that he had once tilted at. He did not care for foreign travel, and apart from a spell in Portugal to spend the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1955 (which he was awarded for Lucky Jim), and a couple of visiting professorships in America a few years later, "Abroad" made little impact on his life or work. The title of the book inspired by the visit to Portugal was I Like It Here, and "here" meant England. He exploited the English prejudice that foreigners speak funny to marvellous comic effect - witness the overseas students solemnly interrogating the hero of I Like It Here about Grim Gin, Ifflen Voff, Zumzit Mum, Shem Shoice, and that popular classic Sickies of Sickingdom by Edge-Crown.

In 1991 Amis published his Memoirs, consisting mainly of amusing, scandalous and sometimes cruel anecdotes about his literary contemporaries, many of whom were now dead, including Philip Larkin. The two men kept a wary distance from each other in later years, communicating mainly by letter, as if conscious they could never recover the easy intimacy of youthful friendship. "He was my best friend and I never saw enough of him or knew him as well as I wanted to," Amis wrote, rather sadly, in the Memoirs.

This year, Eric Jacobs published a biography, with Amis's collaboration. It revealed (as literary biographies tend to do) a closer correspondence between the life and the fiction than one might have supposed, especially as regards difficulties with women. It also revealed a surprisingly vulnerable person behind the bluff, blimpish public mask, and the poised, sardonic prose stylist: a rather timid man, fearful of flying, unable to drive a car or perform the simplest domestic tasks, needing a regular and repetitive daily routine to keep the black dog of depression at bay: work, club, pub, telly. Work was the most important of these resources. In spite of increasing physical debility, Amis kept writing up till the end of his life. You Can't Do Both (1994) was generally well received and is perhaps the most openly autobiographical of his novels. If The Biographer's Moustache, published earlier this year, was not the biographee's revenge that many reviewers had hoped for, it still had more than a touch of past mastery.

In That Uncertain Feeling the hero is accosted one evening in the street of a small Welsh town by two lascars, one of whom seems to ask him:

"Where is pain and bitter laugh?" This was just the question for me, but before I could smite my breast and cry, "In here, friend", the other little man had said: "My cousin say, we are new in these town and we wish to know where is piano and bit of life, please?"

That is one of my favourite quotations from Amis because it seems to epitomise his art. He did not dodge the pain of existence and his laughter was sometimes bitter, but he always retained the liberating, life- enhancing gift of comic surprise.

Kingsley Amis, writer: born London 16 April 1922; CBE 1981; Kt 1990; books include A Frame of Mind 1953, Lucky Jim 1954, That Uncertain Feeling 1955, A Case of Samples 1956, I Like it Here 1958, Take a Girl Like You 1960, New Maps of Hell 1960, My Enemy's Enemy 1962, One Fat Englishman 1963, The Egyptologists 1965, (with Robert Conquest) The James Bond Dossier 1965, The Anti-Death League 1966, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 1966, A Look Round the Estate 1967, Colonel Sun 1968, I Want it Now 1968, The Green Man 1969, What Became of Jane Austen? 1970, Girl, 20 1971, On Drink 1972, The Riverside Villas Murder 1973, Ending Up 1974, Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975, The Alteration 1976, Jake's Thing 1978, Collected Poems 1944-79 1979, Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980, Collected Short Stories 1980, Every Day Drinking 1983, How's Your Glass? 1984, Stanley and the Women 1984, The Old Devils 1986, (with J. Cochrane) Great British Songbook 1986, The Crime of the Century 1987, Difficulties with Girls 1988, The Folks that Live on the Hill 1990, We are All Guilty 1991, Memoirs 1991[/i], The Russian Girl 1992, Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993, You Can't Do Both 1994, The Biographer's Moustache 1995; married 1948 Hilary Bardwell (two sons, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1965), 1965 Elizabeth Jane Howard (marriage dissolved 1983); died London 22 October 1995.

Kingsley Amis
(Kingsley William Amis)

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/kingsley-amis/
(1922 - 1995) Father of Martin Amis, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard

aka Robert Markham, William Tanner

Sir Kingsley Amis, who died in October 1995, was born in London in 1922. In 1954 his first novel, 'Lucky Jim', burst onto the literary scene with extraordinary force, gaining him instant fame and notoriety as one of the most prominent of the so-called 'angry young men'. He went on to write over twenty novels (winning the Booker Prize in 1986 for 'The Old Devils'), and many volumes of poetry and non-fiction. He was knighted in 1991. His last novel, 'The Biographer's Moustache', was published in September 1995.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller

Series
Jim Dixon
Lucky Jim (1954)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
I Like it Here (1958)
Lucky Jim's Politics (1968)

Jenny Bunn
1. Take a Girl Like You (1960)
2. Difficulties with Girls (1988)

Novels
My Enemy's Enemy (1962)
One Fat Englishman (1963)
The Egyptologists (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
The Anti-Death League (1966)
I Want It Now (1968)
The Green Man (1969)
Girl, 20 (1971)
Dear Illusion (1972)
The Riverside Villas Murder (1973)
Ending Up (1974)
The Crime of the Century (1975)
The Alteration (1976)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978)
Jake's Thing (1978)
Russian Hide-and-Seek (1980)
Stanley and the Women (1984)
The Old Devils (1986)
The Folks That Live On the Hill (1990)
We Are All Guilty (1991)
The Russian Girl (1992)
The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

Omnibus
A Kingsley Amis Omnibus (1980)

Collections
Bright November (poems) (1947)
A Frame of Mind (poems) (1953)
Poems: Fantasy Portraits (poems) (1954)
A Case of Samples (poems) (1956)
Poems (poems) (1962)
A Look Round the Estate (poems) (1967)
Collected Poems 1944-1979 (poems) (1979)
Collected Short Stories (1980)
Mr Barrett's Secret (1993)
Complete Stories (2011)

Series contributed to
James Bond Non Fiction
The Book of Bond (1965) (as by William Tanner)
The James Bond Dossier (1965)

James Bond Fiction
James Bond (as by Robert Markham)
Colonel Sun (1968)

Anthologies edited
Spectrum (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 2 (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 3 (1963) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 4 (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 5 (1966) (with Robert Conquest)
The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (1978)
The Faber Popular Reciter (1978)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
The Amis Anthology (1988)
The Pleasure of Poetry (1990)
The Amis Story Anthology (1992)

Non fiction
New Maps of Hell (1960)
What Became of Jane Austen? (1970)
Tennyson (1972)
On Drink (1972)
Rudyard Kipling and his World (1975)
Harold's Years (1977)
An Arts Policy? (1979)
Every Day Drinking (1983)
How's Your Glass? (1984)
The Great British Songbook (1986) (with James Cochrane)
The Amis Collection (1990)
Memoirs (1991)
Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters (1991)
You Can't Do Both (1994)
The King's English (1997)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000)
Conversations with Kingsley Amis (2010)
Raising A Smile (2019)

Anthologies containing stories by Kingsley Amis
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967)
Best SF: 1974 (1975)
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)

Short stories
My Enemy's Enemy [short story] (1955)
Court of Inquiry (1956)
The 2003 Claret (1958)
Moral Fibre (1958)
Hemingway in Space (1960)
Something Strange (1960)
All the Blood Within Me (1962)
I Spy Strangers (1962)
The Friends of Plonk (1964)
Dear Illusion [short story] (1972)
Mason's Life (1972)
Too Much Trouble (1972)
Who or What Was It? (1972)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery [short story] (1978)
The House on the Headland (1979)
To See the Sun (1980)

Awards
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1974) : Ending Up
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1977) : The Alteration
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : Jake's Thing
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1986) : The Old Devils

Books about Kingsley Amis
The Anti-Egotist (1996) by Paul Fussell
Lucky Him (2001) by Richard Bradford

Kingsley Amis recommends
The Bell (1958). Iris Murdoch.
"A distinguished novelist of a rare kind."
The Other Side of the Sky (1958), Arthur C Clarke.
"Science fiction of the finest quality: original, imaginative, disturbing."
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1959), Brian Aldiss.
"...Takes us far from the here-and-now into regions of sharply-flavoured eeriness."
The Drowned World (1962), J G Ballard.
"Ballard is one of the brightest new stars in post-war fiction. This tale of strange and terrible adventure in a world of steaming jungles has an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad."
Day Million (1970), Frederik Pohl.
"The most consistently able writer science fiction, in the modern sense, has yet produced."
The Xanadu Talisman (1981). (Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, book 9) Peter O'Donnell.
"One of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson."
The Alternative Detective (1993) (Hob Draconian, book 1), Robert Sheckley.
"Always he crackles with ideas."

2002: Warner Bros. releases the "Die Another Day" single (delayed from 10 October due to a radio station leak). The video premieres worldwide on MTV the same day--a first for the music channel.

2008: Jessica Fellowes' piece "Necklace with a starring role" appear on The Telegraph obline.

Necklace with a starring role

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG3365680/Necklace-with-a-starring-role.html
BY Jessica Fellowes | 22 October 2008

In Quantum of Solace, it's not a gizmo or Q invention that holds the key to the plot, but a piece of jewellery.

Having designed two sets of earrings and a loveknot necklace for Eva Green's Vesper Lynd (above) to wear in the casino scene for Casino Royale, jeweller Sophie Harley was called upon once again. In Quantum of Solace, the beginning of which is set an hour after the climax of Casino Royale, the necklace makes another appearance.

"Obviously, the producers were very strict about revealing the plot," says Sophie, "But they told me that the necklace is the only thing that Bond has left of Vesper Lynd's. In the trailer there is a shot of the necklace on a table just as Camille (Olga) asks Bond: "Do you love someone?". "I do," he replies.

Is this the end of Bond as we knew him? Has he at last found "enduring love" or will he stay true to form and give the necklace to another girl?

"The producers did indicate that the necklace would be worn again in Quantum," says Sophie.

The original loveknot necklace can be bought for £1,939, as can the original garnet drop earrings (£323 and £384) but there are also cheaper designs based on the same shape, from £135. www.sophieharley.com ; 020 7430 2070.

2012: The Italian Cultural Institute at St. George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house, next door to the Attorney General’s Office) hosts The Science of James Bond. Free.

The Science of James Bond (22 Oct.)
https://www.um.edu.mt/newsoncampus/eventscommunity/archive/the_science_of_james_bond_22_oct.

To celebrate James Bond's fiftieth anniversary and in anticipation of the forthcoming SkyFall in local cinemas, Euro Media Forum, Science is Culture in conjunction with Eden Cinemas are organising The Science of James Bond event taking place on Monday 22 October at 1900hrs at the Italian Cultural Institute, St George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house) and next door to the Attorney General’s Office. Entrance is free.

Are 007’s gadgets science fact or fiction? From Bond’s first gadget – the stylish briefcase that featured hidden ammunition, gold coins and an AR7 folding sniper’s rifle with infrared telescopic sight, a teargas cartridge disguised as a tin of talcum powder. The lethal luggage was only the prelude to the world’s most famous car - the sleek Aston Martin DB5 that shoots bullets, has revolving number plates, a rear bullet proof screen and had Connery’s Bond in awe with its ejector seat that’s handy at disposing of passengers at the push of a button. The science and technology of Q’s gadgets played by the late Desmond Llewellyn, the legendary gadget master of MI6 has thrilled movie audiences and kept gadget enthusiasts guessing for five decades as to whether these gadgets are indeed truly possible.

The Science of James Bond will take the audience on a fascinating journey through the science that underlies Bond’s most fantastic missions. Bond Gadget enthusiast, scientist David Pace and film researcher Justin Camilleri will provide a highly entertaining, informative look at the real-world science behind Bond’s gadgets, such as the Omega Seamaster laser watch that cuts through steel, the White Lotus Esprit car that turns into a submarine, the ever popular rocket firing cigarette and last but not least the Aston Martin Vanquish that turns invisible. Bond villains’ gadgets will also be examined such as how the first watch gadget in From Russia With Love was not issued to Bond but Robert Shaw’s villain Red Grant. Whether Jaws’ (Richard Kiel) steel teeth qualify as a gadget and how Rosa Klebb’s dagger shoe was so influential that it would be used by Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. The late Q’s ingenious inventions which have accompanied Bond through his astonishing battles beneath the earth, sea, skies and outer space, will be analysed ,as well as the new Q for the Facebook generation played by Ben Whishaw who supplies Daniel Craig’s Bond with his first ever fingerprint recognition Walter PPK in the upcoming SkyFall.

The audience is invited to participate and put forward to the panel their questions regarding their favourite James Bond or villain gadget. The speakers promise an interesting debate and fantastic entertainment, seeking to answer the questions about the limits of science and technology in James Bond movies, the laws of nature, and the future of gadget spy technology.

To spice up the evening there will also be James Bond memorabilia exhibition on display and a 007 quiz, where the first winner will win an all inclusive package – two cinema tickets, a bowling game for two persons and free parking. The second winner will win two cinema tickets and free parking. The third winner will win two cinema tickets. So quiz participants keep your eyes open on the clues behind the science, gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world's greatest spy!

2012: University of Leeds Political and International Studies (POLIS) hosts a workshop discussion of The Politics of James Bond.

For Staff
Research and innovation news archive - October 2012
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news?mmyyyy=102012&categoryID=30389&page=2
The politics of James Bond
22 October 2012

James Bond matters! As the films enter their 50th year, POLIS is hosting a half-day workshop to discuss the Politics of James Bond (in the broadest sense of the word).

Posted in: Research and innovation

2012: Sky launches a James Bond HD channel in Belgrade, Serbia.
2012: David Arnold and Thomas Newman are interviewed at Classic FM Studios, London.

James Bond: The Music of 007

22 October 2012, 12:35

Listen to James Bond's music and get to know the challenges of writing a 007 soundtrack in our exclusive interview with Bond score composers Thomas Newman and David Arnold.

It's not every evening we see two Hollywood legends spend the evening at the Classic FM studios. Thomas Newman, composer of the soundtrack to the new Bond film, Skyfall, was joined by David Arnold, who wrote the scores for the last five Bond films, for a live interview with movie music expert Tommy Pearson. This special programme was recorded in front of a live studio audience a little earlier this month – and you can listen to it again below.

With such a massive film franchise, there's a lot of pressure on soundtrack composers to deliver, but Arnold revealed it's an honour to be able to use the iconic Bond theme: "It's a moment of great joy. Whenever we did the Bond theme at a recording session that was the one where everyone wanted to attend, the one where we had the most people and everyone sat on the edge of their seats a little bit more."

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2015: The Sydney Morning Herald reports unanimous raves in the UK for Spectre.

EntertainmentMovies

Spectre movie reviews: James Bond's latest gets unanimous raves in the UK

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/spectre-movie-reviews-james-bonds-latest-gets-unanimous-raves-in-the-uk-20151022-gkfmkk.html
By Karl Quinn - 22 October 2015 — 9:01pm, first published at 1:06pm

The first reviews of Spectre have landed from the UK, and they are uniformly raves.

The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian have all lavished the 24th James Bond film with five-star ratings, while The Sun and the London Evening Standard raved without rating the film, dubbing their assessments "first impressions".

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Monica Bellucci with Daniel Craig in Spectre.

At any rate, the unanimous praise almost guarantees a monster opening in the UK for the fourth film starring Daniel Craig as 007 this weekend.

In Spectre, Bond comes face to face with a ghost from his past in the form of Christoph Waltz's Franz Oberhauser, head of the secretive and up-to-no-good organisation SPECTRE (the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion).

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Cool as cucumber, sharp as ice: Daniel Craig in the 24th Bond film Spectre.

In The Telegraph, Robbie Collin wrote that "ghosts of Bond films past come gliding through the film, trailing shivers of pleasure in their wake". He praised the film's director Sam Mendes, who also made 2012's Skyfall, the most successful film in the long-running franchise with global box office of more than $US1.1 billion ($A1.38 billion), for what he described as "a swaggering show of confidence".

Kate Muir of The Times said the fourth outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond "is achingly cool, as sleek and powerful as the silver Aston Martin DB10 that races through the movie".

She added that Mendes and Craig now seemed so comfortable with the terrain "that a relaxed wit percolates almost every scene. Their recipe, like the car, now seems to be bulletproof".

For The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw described the film as "pure action mayhem with a real sense of style" and called it "a terrifically exciting, spectacular, almost operatically delirious 007 adventure".


Could the latest Bond film shatter the record set by the last, 2012's Skyfall?

The Evening Standard's Ben Travis said "director Sam Mendes has, against all the odds, delivered a film that at least matches, and perhaps even betters, Skyfall", while The Sun's showbiz reporter Ed Dyson effused that "all the classic elements fans expect from Bond await in Spectre – and then some", adding that "we were expecting you to deliver Mr Bond... and you certainly didn't disappoint".

What does disappoint, though, is the fact that Australia will have to wait until November 12 for its chance to similarly froth in collective excitement.

Hurry up, Mr Bond. We've been expecting you.

Thunderfinger

Come to think of it, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the first I read by Fleming as a kid, but it was an abbreviated version.

RichardTheBruce

October 23rd

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the Angels of Death at Piz Gloria.
1986: From Russia With Love re-released in Norway.
2012: Skyfall premieres at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

2015: Universal Music Classics releases the Spectre soundtrack by Thomas Newman in the UK.
2015: The Telegraph explains the meaning of 13 Bond film titles.

13 James Bond film titles explained

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/titles-explained-goldfinger-quantum-goldeneye/

Sean Connery in Goldfinger, the title of which was named after
Ian Fleming's golf partner's cousin, who sued him
Credit: Everett/REX[/1]

Patrick Smith 23 October 2015 • 11:17am

Which Bond film owes its title to a typo? Who was Goldfinger? And what's a quantum? Ahead of the SPECTRE release, we reveal the meanings of previous 007 titles

1. Goldfinger (1964)

The first James Bond film to win an Oscar took its title from a man 007 creator Ian Fleming used to know called Ernő Goldfinger. He was the cousin (by marriage) of Fleming’s golf partner, John Blackwell, and threatened to sue over the use of his name. The matter was settled out of court.

2. You Only Live Twice (1967)

Fleming was inspired by the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, who wrote these words more than 300 years before they were used as the title for the 12th Bond novel.

Sean Connery and Donald Pleasance in 1967's You Only Live Twice,
the title of which came from Japanese poetry
Credit: MGM/Everett/REX

3. Diamonds are Forever (1971)

In 1947, copywriter Frances Gerety coined the phrase "A Diamond Is Forever" in an advertising campaign for De Beers. It seems inconceivable that Fleming wouldn’t have been directly influenced by this.

4. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Unlike the film, The Spy Who Loved Me novel is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel, and Bond doesn’t appear until two thirds of the way through. The title makes a lot more sense when you think about it that way.

5. Octopussy (1983)

The 1983 movie takes its name from a coracle Ian Fleming received from his neighbour – and lover – in Jamaica, Blanche Blackwell (the small boat was called Octopussy).
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Peter Lamont's concept for Octopussy's barge. The film, incidentally,
shared its name with one of Ian Fleming's boats
Credit: 1984 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq LLC.

6. A View To A Kill (1985)

This grammatically suspect title comes from an unrelated Fleming short story called "From A View To a Kill". The film attempts to make some sort of sense of it with the following lines of dialogue from villain Zorian (Christopher Walken) and his henchwoman May Day (Grace Jones): Her: "What a view." Him: "To a kill!"

7. Licence to Kill (1989)

Timothy Dalton’s second Bond outing was originally titled Licence Revoked, which makes perfect sense given that in the film M suspends 007 after he refuses to give up the hunt for the person who fed his friend Felix Leiter to a shark. However, because polled American audiences said the phrase reminded them of confiscated driving licences, it was changed to Licence to Kill – absurd, really, when you consider it’s the only film he’s not legally allowed to shoot people.

8. GoldenEye (1995)

Pierce Brosnan made his Bond debut in this 1995 film, named after Ian Fleming’s estate in Jamaica. The novelist claimed a number of origins for the name of the estate, including Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye and Operation Goldeneye, a plan he developed during the Second World War for maintaining communication between Britain and Gibraltar. Goldeneye is also a type of duck …

GoldenEye, which was named after Fleming's Jamaican estate, is also a type of duck
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

9. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

The film was originally supposed to be called Tomorrow Never Lies – a reference to the (fictional) newspaper, Tomorrow, run by the villainous Elliot Carver (played by Jonathan Pryce). Word has it, however, that when the title was faxed to MGM, there was a typo, and the marketing department preferred the incorrect version. The title for Tomorrow Never Lies, meanwhile, came to scriptwriter Bruce Feirstein while he was listening to The Beatles’ trippy song, "Tomorrow Never Knows".

10. The World Is Not Enough (1999)

This phrase, believed to originate from Alexander the Great’s epitaph, appeared in the 1963 Bond novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as the family motto of Sir Thomas Bond, whose Coat of Arms 007 is shown while on assignment.

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Syd Cain's designs for Blofeld's coat of arms in On Her Majesty's Secret Service,
the film in which Bond learns his own family motto
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq. LLC.

11. Die Another Day (2002)

There’s a 1896 poem by AE Housman called A Shropshire Lad, which features the line “But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day”. That’s the only explanation for this terrible title for an equally terrible film.

12. Quantum of Solace (2008)

After this title was announced in 2008, many struggled to understand its meaning – including the film's screenwriter, Paul Haggis. "I have no idea," he admitted when asked. "It's not my title." Indeed, it's the title of a Fleming short story about Bond meeting a cuckolded husband, and more inquiring minds were quick to point out that "quantum" is the smallest possible amount of a physical property. For Daniel Craig, it was about relationships: "When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace," he clarified. But perhaps comedian Adam Buxton explained it best in his alternative Quantum of Solace theme song: “I want a quantum of solace, but just a quantum / I know they do big bags of solace, but I don’t want ‘em.”

13. SPECTRE (2015)

SPECTRE is a fictional terrorist organisation that featured in both the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming and the films adapted from them. Fleming originally pitted Bond against SMERSH, the arm of the KGB set up by Stalin as an equivalent of the Gestapo. Believing the Cold War to be coming to an end, and fearing a recurring Soviet enemy would make his novels look dated, the author told Playboy in 1964 that he created this network of spies and assassins to replace the Soviets as natural enemies for the British Secret Service.


Franz Oberhauser: SPECTRE's number one in the new film

The organisation's name is an acronym for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. It made its first appearance in Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball, and on screen in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962). It is headed by the franchise's ultimate villain, the cat-stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose name was inspired by a boy Fleming knew at Eton, Thomas Blofeld – father of the cricket commentator Henry "Blowers" Blofeld.

2015: Capital releases "Writing's on the Wall" as a CD single.

RichardTheBruce

October 24th

1943: Martin Campbell is born--Hastings, New Zealand.
1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey showering.
2005: The Design Museum showcases iconic Robert Brownjohn contributions.

Robert Brownjohn at the Design Museum
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/1804

Many of the most memorable images of the Sixties are on show as part of
the Design Museum's Robert Brownjohn restrospective.



From the top floor windows of the museum on the exhibition's opening day it was possible to watch Daniel Craig arrive by speed boat on the far bank where he was revealed as the latest actor to play James Bond.

In the exhibition we learn that it was Brownjohn's work which helped to make the James Bond legend so enduring. His opening title sequences for the 1963 Bond film From Russia With Love and the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, which required exacting attention to detail in a pre-digital age, can be enjoyed on a screen. Almost as important is the poster depicting Sean Connery and Honor Blackman which had such impact.

Also playing are his Midland Bank cinema commercials which received standing ovations at the Cannes Film Festival.

Brownjohn's arresting Fifties' graphic art includes a Harper's cover drawing featuring red skull caps surrounding a single white one. This was to illustrate the article on the new Pope John XXIII who was the first pontiff to make a global impact.

Other early work, before the artist's move from New York to Britain in 1960, is a pleasing use of letterpress for festival posters. In America he had come under the influence of Andy Warhol as his collection of slides confirms.

Two years before his death in London he designed the artwork for the Rolling Stones' album Let It Bleed.



The exhibition is curated by Emily King who to coincide with the Design Museum show has written a book Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography (Laurence King Publishing £25). This is closely related to the exhibition making it both a worthwhile souvenir as well as a fascinating overview of Robert Brownjohn's work and influence.

In a foreword Alan Fletcher of Pentagram writes: "Bj was the right man, in the right job, in the right place."

Robert Brownjohn is at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, daily 10am-5.45pm until Sunday 26 February; admission £7 (conc £4; child under 12 free)

2005: John Murray publishes James Bond: The Man And His World by Henry Chancellor.

http://commanderbond.net/2831/james-bond-the-man-and-his-world.html

2018: Dynamite releases James Bond: The Body Vol. 1, including Parts One through Four (The Body, The Gut, The Brain, The Heart).

James Bond: The Body (2018) Vol. 1

https://www.comixology.co.uk/James-Bond-The-Body-2018-Vol-1/digital-comic/704425?ref=Y29taWMvdmlldy9kZXNrdG9wL3NsaWRlckxpc3Qvc2VyaWVz

"As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them. PART TWO - THE BRAIN James Bond leads the interrogation of a scientist who allowed a lethal virus to be stolen. But when the investigation takes a surprising turn, Bond begins to question whether he is enough. PART THREE - THE GUT One sauna. Twenty Neo-Nazis. One Bond. James Bond. This weapons deal won't go according to plan. PART FOUR - THE HEART On the run from a lethal antagonist, weaponless and wounded deep in the Highlands, Bond finds solace with a woman who exchanged her job as a doctor and a life in the city for a cottage and solitary life of a writer. Can Bond find a quiet peace unlike he has known before or will his life choices catch up with him? AND MORE…"

RichardTheBruce

October 25th

1965: Mathieu Amalric is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

1972: James Bond comic The League of Vampires begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 28 February 1973. 2066–2172) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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





https://www.popoptiq.com/the-league-of-vampires/



Swedish Semic Comic 1982 Vampyrligan (The League of Vampires)
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3


Danish James Bond Agent 007 no. 32: “The League of Vampires” (1975)
https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no32-1975/

1977: Eileen Alderton reviews the Christopher Wood novelization James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me in The Australian Women's Weekly..

Books
reviewed by Eileen Alderton

JAMES BOND LOVES ON

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51275146

ENTIRELY different from the late
Ian Fleming's original story The
Spy Who Loved Me is Christopher
Wood's JAMES BOND, THE
SPY WHO LOVED ME.

Published by Jonathan Cape ($9.95) it is
a gutsy, punchy novel written under licence
(from the owners of Ian Fleming's
copyrights) from the script Christopher
Wood and Richard Maibaum produced for
the latest Bond film.

Ian Fleming made his indestructible
Bond immortal - and here he is again, a
woman chaser, charming, ironic, decadent,
ruthless, with a constitution that stands up
to any amount of bashing and bruising.
In this thriller British and Russians get
together because a nuclear-powered
submarine is missing. There is, of course, a
beautiful girl called Anya with the rank of a
major in the Russian army, deadly villains
and as much action as anyone could take.

1982: Octopussy films Magda seducing OO7 for the egg.

1995: David Healy dies at age 66--London, England.
(Born 15 May 1929--New York City, New York.)

David Healy (actor)

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Healy_(actor)

David Healy (I) (1929–1995)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372242/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2012: The Scotsman reviews the new James Bond film Skyfall.

Film review: The new James Bond film ‘Skyfall’

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/film-review-the-new-james-bond-film-skyfall-1-2597521/amp

Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond
Published: 02:35 Thursday 25 October 2012

In Skyfall, Sam Mendes has given us a James Bond for the 21st century and also made a film with genuine heart. Alistair Harkness is bowled over

WITH the traditional hype and hoopla surrounding the release of the latest Bond film Skyfall reaching fever pitch over the past month or so, it’s been impossible to ignore the fact that the world’s longest running film franchise is also celebrating its 50th anniversary. That’s partly down to Skyfall itself making a virtue of celebrating its heritage. Directed by Sam Mendes and once again starring Daniel Craig as cinema’s most conspicuous secret agent, Craig’s third outing is both a playful tribute to the entire history of Bond on the big screen and a worthy modern-day action movie that finally advances 007 into the 21st century with the panache one might expect from a character whose chief appeal has always been his penchant for sophistication, insouciance and ruthless violence.

Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

Those traits were, of course, present almost from the first moment a tuxedoed Sean Connery, cigarette hanging loosely from his mouth, uttered the immortal words “Bond, James Bond” in Dr No. That film’s release on 5 October 1962, the same day as The Beatles’ first single "Love Me Do" – and a mere ten days before the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of disaster – has elevated Bond’s cinematic origins to near mythical status, so much so that it’s hard to deny that this weird confluence of seismic cultural and political events has played an important role in shaping and defining an entire era.

As such, the release of a new Bond film can never simply be dismissed as just another movie. Twenty-two “official” films on from Dr No (and with rogue entries into the canon in the form of the star-stuffed 1967 Casino Royale spoof and Sean Connery’s contentious rival outing Never Say Never Again), the very existence of Skyfall is testament to the resilience of Ian Fleming’s original creation. Sure, there have been some lean years (Timothy Dalton’s brief tenure in the role), some creaky years (Roger Moore’s later efforts), and some increasingly silly years (Pierce Brosnan’s invisible car; Madonna’s cameo as a fencing instructor), but the character’s remarkable gift for reinvention and resurrection has enabled him to survive the ravages of time surprisingly well with each new iteration.

As it happens, it is precisely those ravages that form the primary thematic concerns of Bond 23. Even though it barely feels like yesterday that Craig’s blond, bloodied, brutal and, let’s face it, ludicrously buff take on the character radically reinvented him for an age in which Jason Bourne already seemed to have shown him the door, the otherwise soporific Casino Royale is now six years old and its frenetic follow-up Quantum of Solace is already four. For those paying close attention to Craig’s more rooted-in-reality approach, that means his Bond is already starting to feel the punishing effects of being a double-0 agent, effects Roger Moore would likely have dismissed with an arched eyebrow jutting into his wrinkly forehead, but which Mendes and his team of writers (regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade; Scorsese collaborator John Logan) smartly weave into the main body of the story.

That story kicks off in typically spectacular style with Bond being accidentally shot and left for dead by MI6 (a sequence that ends with him floating away into a hauntingly illustrated title sequence to the strain’s of Adele’s instant classic Bond theme). When he re-emerges from the shadows – after M (Judi Dench) has written his obituary – his physical prowess has largely deserted him, but his ailments are symptomatic of a wider concern percolating down through the security services: namely that Bond’s cold-blooded methodology – and the practices of MI6’s entire double-O branch – is outdated and irrelevant, especially in an age of cyber-terrorism where, as Ben Wishaw’s new Q surmises, more damage can be done with a laptop while drinking a cup of Earl Grey than by Bond with an entire arsenal of gadgets.

Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

Though Bond films have periodically commented on their imminent obsolescence – in GoldenEye, M famously scolded Pierce Brosnan’s 007 for being “a sexist misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War”), Skyfall feels as if Mendes is genuinely trying to engage with who the character is and what his function should be, especially at a time when audiences want the old-school excitement of a Bond film but with an ever greater degree of verisimilitude.

Mendes negotiates that tricky path by effectively turning Skyfall into a comment on its own creation. The 50th anniversary, for instance, gives him licence to spoon-feed fans a number of treats in the form of overt references to past films, but he’s careful not to abuse that privilege and works some more subtle ones in, too. In fact, the biggest influence is probably On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which may feature the least-loved 007 (George Lazenby, making his sole outing in the role) but, thanks to its dazzling technical achievements and jaw-dropping emotional beats, now seems like the most accomplished of all the Bond films.

Mendes has certainly absorbed a lot from it, using its acknowledgment of the Scottish parentage Fleming subsequently furnished the character with in tribute to Connery’s definitive performance for a fantastic third act sojourn to the Highlands, where the titular significance of Skyfall comes into play. But he also uses its influence to land some moments of real poignancy, giving the film the emotional kick Bond’s doomed romance with Vesper Lynd in the much-praised Casino Royale sorely lacked.

What’s particularly thrilling about Skyfall is that Mendes has reconfigured the tropes of the series so that Bond is once again out in front, setting the template anew for what a Bond film can really do. That’s something that’s made clear early on courtesy of a rooftop fight sequence in which Mendes (working with genius cinematographer Roger Deakins) frames Bond in silhouette against Shanghai’s neon-lit night sky as he battles an assassin. As action sequences go it’s as gorgeous as it is gutsy, and works as a real statement of intent for the film.

The other big piece of the Bond pie that Mendes gets right – aside from finally using the Monty Norman theme properly (there’s both a reassuring two-second blast of it at the start of the film and reprise later on to accompany a typically iconic moment) – is Javier Bardem’s deliciously outré villain, Raoul Silva. A former agent with a personal vendetta against M, Silva is certainly a memorable throwback to Bond villains of old: he’s both an irrational megalomaniac and as camp as Diamonds are Forever’s Mr Kidd and Mr Wint. The difference is he’s progressive and transgressive with it. In their most intimate exchange, Silva taps into the hitherto unexplored homoerotic side of Bond, something the movie thoroughly embraces by giving Bond his funniest comeback in the film. It’s a further sign of how far the Bond films have come and also works as a belated acknowledgment of one of the more subversive aspects of Craig’s Bond: his willingness to be objectified.

As a result, it makes sense that Bond girls in the classic sense barely feature, with only Naomi Harris’s Eve sticking in the memory beyond the end credits. That’s perhaps also because over three films it has become clear that the only woman Craig’s Bond really has space for in his life is M, and it’s their relationship that provides Skyfall with something that Bond films have consistently lacked: genuine heart. If that sounds sappy then so be it: Skyfall is the kind of film that makes it easy to love Bond the way you probably did as a kid. When “James Bond will return” flashes up ahead of the end credits, it’s hard not to hold out hope for his next 50 years.

• Skyfall is on general release from tomorrow.

2019: The original planned release date for BOND 25.

Bond 25 'will miss 2019 release date' after Danny Boyle exit

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45294809
24 August 2018

Boyle was originally confirmed as the director of Bond 25 in May

The release date of the next James Bond film is widely expected to be put back following Danny Boyle's abrupt decision to exit the currently untitled project.

"Bond 25" is scheduled to arrive in UK cinemas on 25 October 2019 and open in US cinemas two weeks later.

But the film may not now be released "until late 2020", according to the Hollywood Reporter's unnamed sources.

The Oscar-winning director's shock departure earlier this week was attributed to "creative differences".

According to The Telegraph, those may have included Boyle's purported wish to cast Polish actor Tomasz Kot as the film's main Russian villain.

Kot, 41, can currently be seen in Pawel Pawlikowski's film Cold War, which had its premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The Telegraph also claimed the film's producers had concerns over the script's focus on current political tensions with Russia.

A spokeswoman for Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, author of the script in question, confirmed this week that he was also no longer involved.

MGM and Eon, who produce the Bond films, declined to comment.


Boyle reportedly wanted Tomasz Kot to play the film's villain

Filming had been due to start in December at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as Ian Fleming's iconic spy.

David Mackenzie, Yann Demange and Joe Wright are among the film-makers who have been tipped to take over the director's chair.

With the exact reasons for Boyle's departure still unclear, people previously involved in the Bond films are being asked for their thoughts on the situation.

These include actor Jonathan Pryce, who is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying that the producers parted company with Boyle because "they obviously couldn't take a socialist Bond".

"There are the Dannys of this world and then there are people who do the blockbusters," continued Pryce, who played the villainous Elliot Carver in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies.

Boyle has never concealed his left-leaning sympathies, though he declined to identify himself as a socialist in a 2013 interview.

His opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics featured a Bond-based short and a set-piece tribute to the National Health Service.

RichardTheBruce

October 26th

1967: Men leeft slechts tweemaal (Flemish, also in French On ne vit que deux fois) released in Brussels, Belgium.

2012: Skyfall released in the UK, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, UK, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Iraq, Iceland, Jordan, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malta, Norway, Oman, Poland, Palestine, Qatar, Sweden, and Slovakia.
2012: 007 - Operação Skyfall released in Brazil.

2012: 007 Skyfall released in France and Portugal. Bérénice Marlohe promotes the premiere in France.

2012: 007: Coordonata Skyfall (007: Skyfall Coordinate) released in Romania.

2012: 007: Координаты Скайфолл released in Russia.

2015: Spectre London premiere at Royal Albert Hall.

2015: Spectre general release for the UK and Ireland.
2015: BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime airs the first installment of Trigger Mortis, read by Rupert Penry-Jones.

RichardTheBruce

October 27th

1915: Harry Saltzman is born--Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
(He dies 28 September 1994 at age 78-- Paris, France.)

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.

1939: John Cleese is born--Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England.
1967: Men leeft slechts twee maal (Flemish title) released in Belgium. Also On ne vit que deux fois (French title).

1977: La espía que me amó released in Argentina.

1977: De spion die me liefhad released in Belgium.

1983: Octopussy released in Colombia.
1983: 007 - Operação Tentáculo (Tentacle Operation) released in Portugal.

Later video covers.

2008: Roy Stewart dies at age 83--London, England.
(Born 27 October 1925--Jamaica.)

Roy Stewart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stewart
Born 15 May 1925, Jamaica
Died 27 October 2008 (aged 83).
London, England
Occupation actor
Years active 1959–1981

Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television.

In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973). Other film appearances include Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Leo the Last (1970), Games That Lovers Play (1971), Twins of Evil (1971), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) and Arabian Adventure (1979). He was also active on television, with credits including: Out of the Unknown, Adam Adamant Lives!, Doctor Who (in the serials The Tomb of the Cybermen and Terror of the Autons), Doomwatch, Up Pompeii!, The Troubleshooters, Space: 1999 and I, Claudius.

Background

One of seven brothers, Roy Stewart was born in Jamaica, and came to Britain in 1948 with aspirations of being a doctor. But either theatre or a television commercial changed that.

Having suffered for some time from heart disease, Stewart died on 28 October 2008, aged 83.

Film and television career

In a role, possibly his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for Fry's Turkish Delight, playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain.

Film

Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, The Mummy. In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe the changes that had taken place over the years.

One of his last roles in film was as Pomeroy in Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, a 1981 made-for-television movie.

Television

He appeared in Dr. Who at least twice. He played Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and Tony in Terror of the Autons.

Television commercials

Fry's Turkish Delight[10]
Surf washing powder[11]

Business interests

Stewart ran a basement gymnasium at 32A Powis Square, Kensington, west London which was opened in 1954. It had the policy of allowing all races to train there. Some actors trained there too, one of them, David Prowse, a Commonwealth Games weightlifter in 1962, went on to play Darth Vader in the film Star Wars. The Gymnasium had a dual purpose. It was also an unofficial after-hours drinking club. By 1964, Stewart had been convicted four times for selling liquor without a license. He also ran a nightclub in Bayswater. Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison and Bob Marley were some of the patrons.

The Globe

In the 1960s he opened a Caribbean restaurant and bar called The Globe. The Globe, formerly Bajy's, was located at 103 Talbot Road. Jimi Hendrix was reportedly seen there the night before his death in September 1970. Stewart ran The Globe until he died in October 2008. The Globe functions to this day and is one of longest-running nightclubs in London. It also has a Caribbean restaurant upstairs.

Roy Stewart (II) (1925–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829796/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (42 credits)

1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Pomeroy

1979 Rentaghost (TV Series) - Djinn
- Rentasanta (1979) ... Djinn
1979 Arabian Adventure - The Nubian
1978 Sykes (TV Series) - Porter
- Football Match (1978) ... Porter
1977 Follow Me (TV Mini-Series) - General
- Episode #1.7 (1977) ... General
- Episode #1.6 (1977) ... General
1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - American sailor
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Sentor
- Waiting in the Wings (1976) ... Sentor
1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Tall Alien in Cave
- The Metamorph (1976) ... Tall Alien in Cave (uncredited)
1976 Caesar and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Nubian Slave
1975 Quiller (TV Series) - John Cornelius
- Objective Caribbean (1975) ... John Cornelius
1973 Live and Let Die - Quarrel
1972 Call Me by My Rightful Name - Doug's Agent
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb - Black Pug
1971 Twins of Evil - Joachim
1971 Lady Chatterly Versus Fanny Hill - Mr. Howanda
1965-1971 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Toberman / Strong Man / Saracen warrior
- Terror of the Autons: Episode Two (1971) ... Strong Man
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 3 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 2 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1 (1967) ... Toberman
... 6 episodes
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jeremy
- Guess Who's Coming to Sin'Er Nymphia (1970) ... Jeremy
1970 Mogul (TV Series) - Security Man / Carlos
- Let's See the Colour of Your Money (1970) ... Security Man
- Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1970) ... Carlos
1970 Julius Caesar - Slave
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Negro
- Spectre at the Feast (1970) ... Negro
1970 Leo the Last - Jasper's Bodyguard
1970 Carry On Up the Jungle - Nosha (uncredited)

1965-1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Boxer / Major Buba
- Son of Man (1969) ... Boxer
- For the West (1965) ... Major Buba
1968 Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Mulatto
- Wisteria Lodge (1968) ... Mulatto
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Pompey
- The High Adventure (1968) ... Pompey
1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Giles
- Have Guns - Will Haggle (1968) ... Giles
1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - 3rd Guard / Guard
- The Great Ring of Akba (1968) ... 3rd Guard
- Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier (1968) ... Guard
1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) - Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
1966-1967 Adam Adamant Lives! (TV Series) - Guard / Negro Bodyguard / Weightlifter
- The Basardi Affair (1967) ... Guard
- A Slight Case of Reincarnation (1966) ... Negro Bodyguard (uncredited)
- Beauty Is an Ugly Word (1966) ... Weightlifter
1967 Prehistoric Women - Warrior (uncredited)
1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Wrestler
- The Man Who Liked Lions (1966) ... Wrestler (uncredited)
1966 On the Margin (TV Series)
- Episode #1.2 (1966)
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - A Dervish
- Gordon of Khartoum (1966) ... A Dervish
1965 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Security guard
- No Place Like Earth (1965) ... Security guard
1965 The Mind of the Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Chief Nwambe
- The New Member (1965) ... Chief Nwambe
1965/I She - Black Guard (uncredited)
1964 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series) - Ali
- An End to Revenge (1964) ... Ali
- Dishonour (1964) ... Ali
- Evidence of a Crime (1964) ... Ali
- Unlimited Credit (1964) ... Ali
- A Garden in Auteuil (1964) ... Ali
1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Bearer in Museum (uncredited)
1963 First Night (TV Series) - Broccoli
- The Strain (1963) ... Broccoli
1961 Operation Snafu - Trinidad (uncredited)
1960 Sands of the Desert - Gong Banger at Sheik's Tent (uncredited)

1959 The Mummy - Flashback Slave (uncredited)

2012: Skyfall released in Switzerland.

Thunderfinger

Operation Tentacle-I suppose that is Octopussy? Could be a title for NSNA as well.

RichardTheBruce

An excellent point, @Thunderfinger. I couldn't find a poster from the era, but I can divert to video covers as the example. Thanks for this call-out, correction made.

RichardTheBruce

October 28th

1971: Dedos de oro (Fingers of Gold) re-released in Argentina.

1976: The Spy Who Loves Me films OO7 in Cairo's Karnak ruins, pursuing and pursued by Jaws.
1994: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills screens Goldfinger on its 30th anniversary.
2015: BBC's Timeshift airs its documentary Looking for Mr Bond 007 at the BBC.

Timeshift (2002– )

Looking for Mr Bond: 007
at the BBC

7.1/10
1h | Documentary | Episode aired 28 October 2015
Season 15 | Episode 5

Directed by

Matthew Thomas

Cast (in credits order)

Tamsin Greig ... Herself - Narrator (voice)
Sean Connery ... Himself (archive footage)
Geoffrey Boothroyd ... Himself - Armourer 'Q' (archive footage)
Ian Fleming ... Himself (archive footage)
Noël Coward ... Himself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage) (as Noel Coward)
Lois Maxwell ... Herself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage)
John le Carré ... Himself - Former MI6 Agent and Novellist (archive footage)
Albert R. Broccoli ... Himself - James Bond Producer - speaking in 1967 (archive footage) (as Cubby Broccoli)
Harry Saltzman ... Himself - James Bond Producer - speaking in 1967 (archive footage)
Shirley Bassey ... Herself (archive footage)
David Frost ... Himself (archive footage)
Millicent Martin ... Herself - Presenter 'Mainly Millicent' (archive footage)
Roger Moore ... Himself (archive footage)
Joan Bakewell ... Herself - Interviewer (voice) (archive footage)
Christopher Trace ... Himself - Presenter, 'Blue Peter' (archive footage)
Patrick Campbell ... Himself - Presenter, 'Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life' (archive footage)
S.J. Perelman ... Himself (archive footage)
Alan Whicker ... Himself - Presenter, 'Whicker's World' (archive footage)
Roald Dahl ... Himself - Novellist and Writer of 'You Only Live Twice' (archive footage)
Lewis Gilbert ... Himself - Director, 'You Only Live Twice' - 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker' (archive footage)
George Lazenby ... Himself - Speaking in 1997 (archive footage)
Diana Rigg ... Herself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage)
Barry Norman ... Himself - Film 73 Presenter (archive footage)
Britt Ekland ... Herself (archive footage)
Ken Adam ... Himself - Set Designer (archive footage)
Timothy Dalton ... Himself (archive footage)
Pierce Brosnan ... Himself (archive footage)
Martin Campbell ... Himself - Director, 'Goldeneye' (archive footage)Stella Rimington ... Herself - Director General of MI5 - Speaking in 2006 (archive footage)
Michael G. Wilson ... Himself - Producer, 'Casino Royale' (archive footage)
Daniel Craig ... Himself (archive footage)
Jonathan Ross ... Himself - Interviewer (archive footage)
Eva Green ... Herself (archive footage)

RichardTheBruce

October 29th

1943: Margaret Nolan is born--Hampstead, London, England.
1974: Cecilie Thomsen is born--Bogø, Denmark.
1995: Fox television airs The World of 007 with host Elizabeth Hurley.

Opening excerpt

1996: The Propellerheads and composer David Arnold record "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" for Tomorrow Never Dies. A remix is released in 1997, becoming the only top ten hit for the Propellerheads.

2008: Quantum of Solace UK premieres at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

2008: The Scotsman prints "A Quantum Leap" regarding the latest Bond film.

A Quantum leap

https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678
Published: 18:38 Updated: 19:07 Wednesday 29 October 2008

DANIEL CRAIG bounds into the room, his arm in a sling. "Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice," he says. Wound up like a coil from talking all day, he's eager to cut the crap when it comes to his interpretation of Bond. "I guenuinely just nicked a lot of stuff from Ian Fleming," he says. "His Bond is very psychological: he thinks, he's morally ambiguous, he's an assassin, he kills people for a living; at the same time he always gets his man and goes after the bad guys. But there's no deep and meaningful thing here. I don't approach it like some big dramatic piece."

He's reluctant to claim any ownership over the character, though. "I think I'm only borrowing it, don't you? This is all great, but I think someone else is going to come along and hopefully do a better job than I've done. It's not mine. It's Ian Fleming's, it's the Broccolis' – I could say I'm the caretaker, but that's a really naff thing to say."

Director Marc Forster also understands his relationship with Bond could be temporary. "If this film doesn't become a commercial success, I'm going to be on a very long vacation," laughs the German-born, Swiss-raised filmmaker.

Craig and Forster probably don't have much to worry about, but such is the pressure of following up Casino Royale, the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed (albeit bafflingly so) Bond film to date, that even though they're holed up in five-star luxury at London's Dorchester Hotel before the world premiere of Quantum of Solace, they'd rather crack self-deprecating gags than pat themselves on the back.

That's unsurprising, though. Before Bond, Forster was an art-house filmmaker in the enviable position of being able to make modestly budgeted pictures such as The Kite Runner, Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland with complete artistic freedom. It's little wonder, then, that he considers his move into the blockbuster arena something of a risk. According to producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (the step-son and daughter of the late Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli), he took a lot of persuading, not least because when they approached him 18 months ago there was no script, no title, just Daniel Craig and a release date.

"Yeah, that's true," says Forster. "It was only when I met Daniel that I was inspired enough to take it. I thought he was incredible. Then I got on a plane to Italy and I thought, what am I doing? Am I crazy? I started thinking maybe I should talk to Barbara and Michael and pull out because I was frightened. There was no script and suddenly I was scouting the world for Bond locations, going, OK, we could shoot here, here, here and here, and all I had was a release date in my head. It was intense."

Nevertheless, he was soon buoyed by the realisation that doing action was not as difficult as "doing intense psychological scenes with actors". Which may be why, despite a CV that suggests he was brought on board to deliver a talkier, more character-driven Bond film, Forster has actually made the most action-packed installment to date. Kicking off just moments after the end of Casino Royale it barely stops for breath as 007 traverses the globe to find those responsible for the death of his lover Vesper Lynd. Indeed it's a film that cuts so ruthlessly to the chase it has already received flack for being a little too pared down, with rumours circulating that some of the performances – particularly Gemma Arterton's Bond girl, Agent Fields – are lying on a cutting-room floor somewhere.

Not so, says Forster. Aside from a 45-second sequence involving Craig, everything that was scripted ended up in the movie. "I just wanted this to be a much shorter film. Casino Royale was way too long for my taste; that poker game was really slow, so I wanted to make this a really tight and fast film. It should be like a bullet."

Still, even though Quantum of Solace is not the touchy-feely Bond film that was threatened, its makers make it sound as if they've shot a three-hankey-weepie. Ask Forster about Bond's relationship with M (played once again by Judi Dench) and he refers to 007 as an emotionally dysfunctional orphan in search of a parental figure. Get Broccoli on the subject of the film's relationship to Casino Royale and she expounds at length about how Lynd's betrayal of Bond in the previous film has left him broken-hearted and wondering if she ever really loved him. Blimey.

It's a relief, then, when Craig finally bounds into the room, and a reminder that it is his bruising, brutal and brooding take on 007 that has really made Bond relevant again, especially in a cinematic landscape dominated by Jason Bourne. Bring up this comparison (which is even more pronounced this time out) to Forster, Wilson or Broccoli and you'll be treated to a weary, resigned acknowledgement that, yes, stylistically there is some overlap, especially in the use of handheld cameras to make the action more realistic and emotionally intense. But, says Wilson: "If you look at the character and the storylines they're really different. Bond has a kind of sophistication and a different approach."

"Just having the Bond girls and the villains makes it different. There are certain things that are said in a Bond film that are iconic and you want to keep them in there," Forster says.

A faster, more intense Bond is certainly preferable to another jump-the-shark moment such as the invisible car in Die Another Day. "That idea was based on real technology," protests Broccoli sheepishly.

"Unfortunately it just looked a bit too science fiction-like when we executed it," Wilson chips in. "But that happens a lot in Bond films. Moonraker was another point where we went a bit too far and had to bring things back down to Earth with For Your Eyes Only. It's a constant cycle and if the Brosnan films got a little fanciful, these ones have given us the chance to strip them back again."

Finally acquiring the rights to Casino Royale was actually the real motivation for the current reboot, says Wilson, though Craig reckons there was another good reason for starting again from scratch. "It's hard to believe, but there is a generation of people who don't know the Bond movies. They haven't watched them the way I watched them growing up, so just saying the lines and introducing the characters and expecting them to understand who these people are would have been the wrong thing to do. But I do think that means we can do anything in the next Bond movie. We can introduce Moneypenny and Q back into it, I think we've just got to get the best actors we can find, and ask them to do the best job."

So, he'll definitely return as James Bond? "I don't know. I'd love to do another one. Maybe I'm just superstitious – or stupidly pessimistic. I just want to see how it goes and if I get the chance, I'll do it." • Quantum of Solace is in cinemas tomorrow. Read Alistair Harkness's full review of the film in tomorrow's Scotsman Review

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678

2009: Puffin Books publishes Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier by Charlie Higson, with the short story "A Hard Man to Kill".

2012: Skyfall breaks existing UK box office records for a 007 opening weekend.
2012: Sony Classical releases the Skyfall soundtrack in the UK, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London. Thomas Newman's score is nominated for an Oscar and wins a BAFTA.
2015: Spectre released in The Netherlands.
2016: Inspired by Spectre, the Mexican government channels promotion of pre-Hispanic culture into a "Día de los Muertos" parade through Paseo de la Reforma and Centro Historico. 250,000 in attendance.

Mexico City's James Bond-inspired Day
of the Dead parade gets mixed reviews

Thousands attend spectacle, but others bemoan changing face of
festival traditionally marked by more intimately
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/day-of-the-dead-parade-james-bond-mexico-city
David Agren in Mexico City @el_reportero
Sun 30 Oct 2016 10.15 EDT

Mexico City celebrates its first ever Day of the Dead parade

Mexico City has held its first Day of the Dead parade, complete with floats, giant skeleton marionettes and more than 1,000 actors, dancers and acrobats in costumes.

A tradition that normally takes place in private homes or at candle-lit cemetery sites was transformed this year by the silver screen – specifically the James Bond film Spectre.

“Day of the Dead is always something in Mexico City that is celebrated, though in a more serious way,” Enrique de la Madrid, the country’s tourism secretary, told the Guardian. “It’s a deeply rooted tradition in Mexico, but what we decided to do is a festival.”

The city government and Mexican tourism officials were inspired by parts of last year’s Bond film, which were filmed in Mexico City and featured 007 chasing a villain through a Day of the Dead celebration in the historical centre.

The official parade on Saturday attracted thousands of people with its full spectacle of skulls and skeletons, oceans of marigolds and catrinas (stylised skeleton costumes depicting high-society figures).

“It’s great that we can celebrate and remember our deceased loved ones,” said Jesús Arreola, 21, a brewery worker who was strolling along the parade route.

Day of the Dead dates back to the Aztec period and celebrants believe the spirits of their deceased loved ones return for a visit. Families build altars adored with photographs, votive candles and items the deceased enjoyed such as food and drink – even tequila or mezcal.

Day of the Dead has remained popular despite predictions the US import of Halloween would wipe it out.


Women wear skeleton masks during a procession organized by sex workers to remember their
deceased colleagues ahead of the Day of the Dead parade.
Photograph: Ginnette Riquelme/Reuters

But Saturday’s parade did not go down well with everyone. Some on social media pointed to it as another populist pitch from a local government famous for opening the world’s biggest ice rink, building urban beaches and having a fetish for setting world records such as taking the biggest ever selfie.

“This is a cheap stunt,” tweeted Esteban Illades, editor of the magazine Nexos. “They film James Bond here and now we have the ‘traditional Day of the Dead parade’. Let’s see what happens when (the mayor) finishes reading The Da Vinci Code.”

The parade came as Mexico approaches the 11th the year of its crackdown on drug cartels and organised crime, a conflict that has cost an estimated 150,000 lives.

“More than 100,000 dead: decapitated, disappeared, buried in clandestine graves, thrown in garbage dumps, reduced to ashes, drowned in sewage canals, dead by hanging in the public plaza … Why do with minimising what should give us all chills?” wrote Alma Delia Murillo in the online publication Sin Embargo.

Some see a big parade – even one inspired by 007 – as part of an evolution already under way in Mexico.

Shawn Haley, a Canadian who lives in southern Oaxaca state, and studies Day of the Dead, said the tradition had been evolving since 2000, when he started seeing parades and processions. He predicted it would continue its transformation into a less spiritual occasion, especially in urban areas.

“We are seeing the transition from a private family celebration with folks who truly believed the dead family members returned home to a much more community oriented event [which] has removed much of the sincere belief,” Haley said.

“In the smaller villages, the private family celebration of the Day of the Dead goes on … and family is what keeps the Day of the Dead going.”

RichardTheBruce

October 30th

1943: 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/

Saturday 30 October, 1943

Day in bed with cold in spite of four anti-catarrhal injections. Got up
to have dinner with I. Talked about every kind of thing as usual:
Admiralty, personalities, happenings, the funeral, love, death,
marriage, houses, Tahiti – or any escape island – and the formidable
future till after 12.

1963: The Desert Sun prints a short article "Hero or Creator--James Bond? Nope, Only Ian Fleming."

HERO OR CREATOR--
James Bond? Nope,
Only lan Fleming

Desert Sun, Volume 37, Number 75, 30 October 1963 —
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19631030.2.34&e

LONDON (UPI - As he stood there, bemused in Fleet Street, the tall man m the dark blue suit with cuffs on its sleeves did not look like secret agent James Bond, holder of; the rare double-cipher number 007, which entitles its bearer to kill in the performance of duty.

His suit fitted well, too well in fact for even an extra-flat Beretta automatic in a chamois skin holster hidden under the armpit. His shoes were certainly hand-made but on close examination too soft in the toes to be steel-tipped (for kicking out in emergencies, naturally).

His bow tie? Now that might have been whipped off and used for a garrote in the event of a sudden confrontation with an assassin from SMERSH A Soviet agency set up to eliminate counterspies or "double” agents. And the hard grey-blue eyes in the battered handsome face would probably not flinch from such a routine encounter (or, for that matter, a duel with cyanide guns, throwing knives or poisoned brass knuckles.)

But this was definitely not James Bond for the good reason that it was lan Fleming, the British journalist who created a fictional secret agent and gained a world wide audience that includes President Kennedy.

All Things Possible
In the world Fleming has created with the skill of his pen all things are possible, all characters are believable at least for the moment no matter how bizarre. This is a tribute to the sure instinct of his writing and to a trick of weaving the improbable within a solid framework of solid, practical information.

Some interpreters of the Fleming cult allege that Bond is the way he sees his mirror-image. He was a commander in the Royal Navy. So is Bond. He was engaged in a highly secret work during the war. Bond is an agent of the British Secret Service. They dress alike, insist on the same drinks, smoke the same cigarettes, buy their clothes in the same stores and frequent the same restaurants.

With three homes, a wife who is one of London’s leading hostesses, one of the fastest private automobiles in Europe and all the luxuries that royalties can provide, Fleming is willing to let the public think what it wants as long as it continue* to buy his books and patronize the series of films now being made from them.

Millions Sold
The James Bond novels have sold more than 14 million copies and the first film. "Dr. No,” was a box office smash.

The second, “From Russia With Love" has now opened to equally enthusiastic notices. Fleming approved the star who portrays Bond, Sean Connery. But they do not resemble each other in any way. Fleming’s nose looks as though he had started his career with a left hook in his face instead of a silver spoon in his mouth. It is not, to be tactful, film-star photogenic, although at 55, Fleming has rugged good looks of his own.

Fleming was born to a member of parliament and a mother who was regarded as the reigning beauty of England. He had a typically upper-class education at Eton, which he disliked, and later Sandhurst Military Academy the West Point of Britain. From there he went to the universities of Munich and Geneva where he learned fluent German and French.

Later in his career, as manager of the Moscow bureau of Reuters, he added fluent Russian.

But along came the war and someone remembered that he was a linguist, widely traveled, a man of many interests from golf to gambling. This added up to an invitation to join naval intelligence.

Much of his war work is still secret although he had a staff under him assigned to moving in with the advance troops to seize codes and special equipment. He insists that he has never had to draw from his personal experience for his plots but the contracts he made then must be invaluable when it comes to checking accuracy or possibilities.

1973: Thomas Wright in The Gleaner calls Live and Let Die “the poorest of the lot so far, though there were some great moments during the speed-boat chase”. He dismisses the idea the film was “insulting to black people."
2008: Penguin Modern Classics publishes Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories.

2008: The Guardian prints "For Your Ears Only", a rundown of Bond title song near-misses.

For your ears only

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/31/james-bond-songs
Jude Rogers | Thu 30 Oct 2008 20.01 EDT

Amy Winehouse was lined up to sing the theme for Quantum
of Solace, but it never happened. Jude Rogers looks down her
gun-barrel at other tunes that nearly made the 007 title
sequence

The Bond girl that almost was: Amy Winehouse.
Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty

Goldfinger

Anthony Newley (1964)

Shirley Bassey's gutsy performance nearly never was. Goldfinger's lyrics were co-written by Leslie Bricusse and singer Anthony Newley, and it was Newley - the Cockney pop impresario - who made the original recording. A light jazz version in which he delivers the lyrics in a sinister whisper was included on 1992's 30th-anniversary album, The Best of Bond, but Bassey's version, enhanced by composer John Barry's brassy arrangement, became the quintessential James Bond theme.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6b33qc

Thunderball

Johnny Cash (1965)

Submitted on spec by Johnny Cash, this majestic country track paints Bond as a furious avenger, his arrival heralded by trumpets, female harmonies and urgent drums. The lyrics also refer to the nuclear bombs for which Bond was hunting in the film ("There's a rumble in the sky and all the world can hear it call/ They shudder at the fury of the mighty Thunderball"). Also rejected was Barry and Bricusse's Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, made as a demo by Bassey but recorded by Dionne Warwick. That was turned down at the last minute after producers decided the theme tune should share the film's title. Don Black, the lyricist who still works on Bond film soundtracks, was recruited, and Tom Jones's theme was written in a few days.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5qxatn

You Only Live Twice

Lorraine Chandler (1967)

Discovered in the RCA vaults in the 1990s, Lorraine Chandler's northern soul floor-filler began life as a demo that the Detroit-born singer-songwriter submitted herself. It refers to the film's narrative, incorporating both Japanese scales, to reflect the film's location, and the bassline of Monty Norman's famous 007 theme. It was rejected in favour of Barry's song of the same name for Nancy Sinatra, and Chandler went on to write songs for the O'Jays and Eddie Parker.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5pmcr2

The Man With the Golden Gun

Alice Cooper (1974)

Alice Cooper decided that he was Bond's next main man after Paul McCartney and Wings had international success with 1973's Live and Let Die. Cooper's track is four minutes of dirty glam-metal, and revels in the phallic imagery of the film title ("The man with the golden gun in his pocket/ The man with the golden gun in his case/ The man with the golden gun in your face"). Rejected out of hand by the studio, it appeared on Cooper's album Muscle of Love.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/3vgdfb

For Your Eyes Only

Blondie (1981)

Debbie Harry agreed to sing this film's theme tune, but pulled out after being told that the track would be written by Bill Conti, the composer of the Rocky soundtrack, rather than Blondie. Sheena Easton filled Harry's high heels, but Blondie wrote their own theme tune regardless, a strange, dramatic song that they included on their final album, The Hunter.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6nhtb7

Never Say Never Again

Phyllis Hyman (1983)

Although Never Say Never Again was not an official Bond film, its original theme tune was also shelved late in the day. Stephen Forsyth wrote a smooth, sultry song, performed by American soul singer Phyllis Hyman. He claims it was dropped after the film's soundtrack composer, Michael Legrand, demanded that he also be allowed to write the title track. Forsyth finally released the track for free on the internet earlier this year, 13 years after Hyman committed suicide. Brazilian singer Lani Hall, the wife of Herb Alpert, sang the song that replaced it.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5r8bvb

The Living Daylights

The Pet Shop Boys (1987)

After industry rumours that they were in the running to perform the next Bond theme, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe made a demo with a Bond-style guitar motif. But after Duran Duran's success with A View to a Kill, another pretty boy pop group, A-ha, were chosen to collaborate with Barry - an unpleasant process for both parties, which Barry later likened to "playing ping-pong with four balls". Tennant and Lowe later returned to their Bond demo, turning it into This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave on their 1990 album, Behaviour.
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Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5lx9k6

License to Kill [sic]

Vic Flick and Eric Clapton (1989)

Vic Flick played lead guitar on Norman's original 007 theme, and had been contributing to Barry's Bond film soundtracks since the early 1960s. In 1989, Clapton had just released Journeyman, his successful album of guitar-and-vocal collaborations. Flick and Bond's two-man take on the theme was meant to reflect the grit of Timothy Dalton's Bond, but the producers thought differently. Elements of Flick's guitar work remain in the score, but Gladys Knight's Goldfinger homage took the opening credits.

Hear it: Sorry, you can't.

The Goldeneye

Ace of Base (1995)

Fresh from having international hits with All That She Wants and The Sign, Ace of Base were recruited to write and perform the theme for Pierce Brosnan's first Bond film. Their record company Arista pulled them from the project after the track was complete, because of fears the film would flop. The opposite happened: not only was it a critical and commercial success, but it rebooted the career of Tina Turner. Seven years later, the band reworked the song, renamed it The Juvenile, and released it on their 2002 album Da Capo.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/66ms2t

Tomorrow Never Dies

Saint Etienne (1997)

Swept up by the easy listening boom, Saint Etienne were one of many bands asked to compete for this Bond theme. Their exotica-flavoured song made much of Sarah Cracknell's breathy vocals, but it was rejected, as were entries by the Cardigans, Pulp and Marc Almond. Saint Etienne put theirs on their 1999 fanclub compilation, Built on Sand, and wrote in the liner notes that Pierce Brosnan had kept the master tape of their song, deeming it "seven times better than Sheryl Crow".

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6ga5db

The World Is Not Enough

Straw (1999)

Straw, a Bristol band formed by Mattie Bennett and Roger Power of the Blue Aeroplanes, were the bright hope for record label WEA in 1999. Their Bond theme nodded towards Radiohead's romantic ballads, but it was rejected in favour of David Arnold and Black's theme for Garbage. A specially recorded Scott Walker song for the closing credits was also dropped, though it did feature on the soundtrack album for the movie.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/27vngo

Quantum of Solace

Amy Winehouse (2008)

The theme tunes for Die Another Day and Casino Royale were agreed and recorded quickly, but the hunt for the latest Bond theme tune was protracted. Black and Arnold wrote a song for Quantum of Solace earlier this year, and Black says Amy Winehouse was approached to sing it, amid rumours she and Mark Ronson were also working on a track. Neither worked out.

But Bond themes have changed now, as Black explains. "They're not about being seductive or provocative, with that whiff of the boudoir about them. They're also not as lyrically led." Black quite likes the new song by Jack White and Alicia Keys, but, like many other Bond fans, he's still a sucker for history. "I'm all for the music that makes you think of menace and drama, of spiders running across the pillow," he says. "And personally, I'd get Shirley Bassey to sing them all."

Hear it: Sorry, you can't.

2012: Skyfall premieres in Berlin, Germany.

2015: Spectre released in Denmark and Sweden.
2015: 007 Spectre released in Finland.
2015: James Bond: Spectre released in Norway.
2018: British auction house Fellows puts the last Rolex screen-worn by Bond up for sale.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/watches/rolex-submariner-may-or-may-not-grant-you-a-licence-kill

https://www.fellows.co.uk/james_bond_watch

A Licence To Kill

A Rolex Submariner worn by 007 could fetch a whopping £90,000 at auction. The magnificent timepiece - worn by Timothy Dalton’s stunt double during the British spy thriller, Licence to Kill, in 1989 – is estimated at £60,000 - £90,000 in the upcoming Watch Sale on Tuesday 30th October.

The Rolex featured in a memorable scene - a car chase where 007 is driving a tanker truck in Mexico. Shot almost entirely in Mexico and the US, Licence to Kill pits Britain’s favourite spy against a fierce drug lord.

The watch comes with photos of the cast and crew on set in Mexico, as well as paperwork from Rolex. There is also a book detailing the making of the movie, a soundtrack album, and a certificate of authenticity from EON Productions (the film company).

Licence to Kill was Timothy Dalton’s final appearance as 007 in the franchise, before Pierce Brosnan took over the role as the famous British spy.

Additional information on provenance

• Filming of this scene in Licence to Kill took place at two locations in Mexico. Timothy Dalton was in one location wearing the Submariner 16610 which can be seen in the film.
• Rodney Pincott (Stand-by propman 2nd unit) was in the second location with the stunt doubles.
• Because the stunt double needed to wear a watch during the scene, Pincott’s own watch was used. Pincott’s watch was very similar to the 16610 worn by Timothy Dalton in the film - apart from the date which is not displayed. It is Pincott’s Rolex Submariner 5513 that is being offered for sale.
• The watch was badly damaged during the filming of the tanker scene and was sent to Rolex for a full service. We have the service paperwork, showing the correct serial reference, to prove this. We also have all of the original parts that Rolex replaced. Rolex performed the service free of charge.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #12.

JAMES BOND 007 #12

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532512011
Cover A: Dave Johnson UPC: 725130275325 12011
Cover B: Khoi Pham UPC: 725130275325 12021
Cover C: Ben Caldwell UPC: 725130275325 12031
Cover D: Robert Carey UPC: 725130275325 12041
Writer: Greg Pak, Art: Robert Carey
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/30/2019
"Goldfinger" concludes. From GREG PAK (Agents Of Atlas, Star Wars) and ROBERT CAREY (Aliens: Resistance).

https://www.newsarama.com/47602-james-bond-007-12-preview.html#s9

RichardTheBruce

October 31st

1948: Michael Kitchen is born--Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
1966: You Only Live Twice films the film climax of the rocket launching sequence.
1968: 007: Sólo se vive dos veces released in Mexico.

1974: David Dencik is born--Stockholm, Sweden.
1976: US television premiere of Live and Let Die on ABC.

An awesome Sunday.

1977: 007: O Espião que me Amava released in Brazil.

2006: MTV video premiere of "You Know My Name". Director Michael Haussman's contrasts "the lives of a professional spy and a rock star".

MTV's Making the Video 2006 - You Know My Name by Chris Cornell

2008: Quantum of Solace released in the UK, Ireland, France, Sweden.
2008: EU release of the video game Quantum of Solace.

Trailer


"When No One Loves You", Kerli


Soundtrack

2008: ScienceDaily proposes "Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real Thing."

Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real
Thing, Spy Researcher Says

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075649.htm

Date: October 31, 2008
Source: University of Warwick
Summary: Researchers say that the once improbable seeming villains in the Bond movies have become close to the real threats face faced by modern security services. One researcher said, "Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord."

FULL STORY

Professor Richard J. Aldrich, Professor of International Security at University of Warwick, who has just been awarded a £447,000 grant from UK's Art and Humanities Research Council to examine 'Landscapes of Secrecy' says that the once improbable seeming villains in the Bond movies have become close to the real threats face faced by modern security services.

He says:

"Throughout the Cold War, Bond's villains looked improbable, but now life imitates art. Indeed, in the early 1990s as the Cold War came to a sudden end, real MI6 officers worried about redundancy. Their boss, the real "M", Sir Colin McColl reassured them that the end of the Cold War would be followed by a Hot Peace. He was quite right. Within a few years they had joined with special forces to battle drug barons in South America and to track down war criminals in the former Yugoslavia."

"Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord. They are always the miscreants of globalization, they endanger not only the security of single country, but the safety of the whole world. Like our modern enemies, they thrive on the gaps between sovereign states and thrive on secrecy."

The full text of his comments now follows:

"Spying is often thought of a Cold War phenomena. Ten years ago, in the film "Goldeneye", the stern figure of "M" told 007 that he was nothing more than a historical relic. Yet even before Ian Fleming's extraordinary hero first appeared on the screen, the world of James Bond was in fact looking forward to the twenty-first century - and not backwards."

"Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord. They are always the miscreants of globalization, they endanger not only the security of single country, but the safety of the whole world. Like our modern enemies, they thrive on the gaps between sovereign states and thrive on secrecy."

"Throughout the Cold War, Bond's villains looked improbable, but now life imitates art. Indeed, in the early 1990s as the Cold War came to a sudden end, real MI6 officers worried about redundancy. Their boss, the real "M", Sir Colin McColl reassured them that the end of the Cold War would be followed by a Hot Peace. He was quite right. Within a few years they had joined with special forces to battle drug barons in South America and to track down war criminals in the former Yugoslavia."

"In "The Quantum of Solace" [sic] this forward-looking theme is continued. Counter-terrorism is already yesterday's business and instead Bond looks forward to the next decade when the enemies will be climate change, environmental hazard and global uncertainty. Here the villain - Dominic Greene - played by Mathieu Amalric - together with the mysterious Le Chiffre and Mr White - hide behind an organisation appropriately titled "Greene Planet". This looks like a foundation for global preservation and eco-friendly fundraising. In fact Greene Planet is a front for a secret criminal conspiracy and kleptocratic generals. 007 and the villain first come face to face at a lavish eco fund-raising cocktail party."

"The role of film and fiction in shaping the public understanding of espionage is serious stuff. Curiously, although government secret services hide in shadows, the public somehow feels it knows more about them than the more mundane work-a-day civil service. This is because "007", together with television series such as "Spooks", "24" and the "X-Files" have allowed the viewer to spend literally hours inside their highly-secure buildings."

"Programme-makers often go to obsessive lengths to get things right, albeit in reality "M"s office on the south bank of the Thames is a little less glitzy than the one portrayed in "Quantum of Solace". Secret services have come to recognise that film and fiction play an important part in the public understanding of intelligence work and the CIA has gone so far as to appoint a Hollywood liaison officer to assist film-makers whose wish to portray the agency. "

"Many films, like "The Good Shepherd", are retrospective and are praised for their historical accuracy, and some, like "The Bourne Conspiracy", seek to capture the present. But few capture the wave of the future with the wonderful insight of Ian Fleming. His villains, drawn half a century ago, are truly the miscreants of globalisation. Far fetched in the 1960s, they are now the stuff of reality. We need James Bond more than ever."

Story Source:
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Cite This Page:
University of Warwick. "Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real Thing, Spy Researcher Says." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 31 October 2008. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075649.htm>.

2012: Skyfall released in Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, and The Philippines.
2012: Skajfol released in Serbia.

Thunderfinger

Haha, Skajfol?

RichardTheBruce

November 1st

1945: Lani Hall is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1964: The Sunday Gleaner reports Kingston cinemas still showing Dr. No as they anticipate Goldfinger.
1966: O.K. Connery (aka Operation Kid Brother and Operation Double 007) released.

1982: Octopussy films OO7 playing dead at Kamal Khan’s fortress.
1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr #11 "Indian Summer".

Featuring Baron von Skarin.

1995: Esquire magazine prints Will Self's James Bond Story "License to Hug".

LICENSE TO HUG
In a smoke-free world of nonviolent solutions, 007
must fight to the death just to stay unevolved

November 1 1995 WILL SELF

See the complete article here:

https://classic.esquire.com/article/1995/11/1/license-to-hug

As Bond watched the secretaries, he thought not of unbridled, unfettered carnality but of melanoma.

Bond looked up, straight into the most captivating pair of eyes he had beheld for... at least two weeks.

"I see, so Mister Secret Agent has become Mister Flop-on Merchant, has he?” exclaimed Blanche.

License to Hug

Fiction In a smoke-free world of nonviolent solutions, 007 must fight to the death just to stay unevolved

WILL SELF

- - -

1995: This month Topps Comics releases James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 as a limited edition preview at the James Bond Convention.

James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-007-goldeneye-0-special-james-bond-conv/4000-246134/

James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 - Special James Bond Convention Limited Preview Edition released by Topps Comics on November 1995.

This preview issue had a limited edition run and was only given away at the James Bond Convention.

Creators: Don McGregor, writer. Rick Magyar, artist.

Characters: James Bond

Locations: England, London, Monte Carlo, Russia

1995: This month Berkley publishes the GoldenEye novelisation by John Gardner (from the screenplay by Michael France and Jeffrey Caine) in paperback.

https://bookfrom.net/john-gardner/41223-bond_-_29_-_goldeneye.html

1997: This month Hodder & Stoughton publishes the Tomorrow Never Dies novelisation by John Gardner (from the screenplay by Bruce Feirstein) in hardcover.

TOMORROW NEVER DIES

Pierce Brosnan stars again as
James Bond in 007's most exciting
screen adventure. The cars -- and
motorcycles -- are fast, the women
are fascinatingly seductive and
Bond's enemy is the most deadly he
has ever encountered.

From the snowy Khyber Pass to the
sultry South China Sea, TOMORROW
NEVER DIES is a breathtaking all-
action story that pits Bond -- and
Britain -- against a power-mad global
media mogul who is determined to
destroy the world's peace.

Partnered with a Chinese secret
agent who also happens to be a
stunningly beautiful woman, 007
uncovers the secrets of a high-tech
modern TV studio and the
underwater wreck of a sabotaged
warship. His objective: to prevent
the outbreak of World War III. If he
can stay alive for long enough . . .

This is the story all Bond's fans
have been waiting for, with all the
action, the excitement and the
glamour of the screen's bravest
and most enthralling secret agent.

Raymond Benson is the author of THE
JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION, which
was shortlisted for an Edgar Allan Poe
Award for best biographical/critical
word and is considered by 007 fans to
be the definitive book on the world of
James Bond. His is a director of the
Ian Fleming Foundation and served as
vice-president of the American James
Bond 007 Fan Club for several years.
Mr Benson is also the designer and
writer of several award-winning
interactive software products and
spend over a decade in New York
directing stage productions and
composing music. He has taught film
theory classes at the New School
for Social Research in New York
and interactive screenwriting at
Columbia College in Chicago. Mr
Benson is married, has one son and
lives in the Chicago area. ZERO MINUS
TEN, his first novel, is published by
Hodder & Stoughton.

1999: Garbage performs "The World Is Not Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman.

2002: 007 Ice Racer video game developed published by Vodafone, using the Die Another Day ice chase.

007 Ice Racer

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/007_Ice_Racer

007 Ice Racer
Game information:

Developer(s): In-Fusio
Publisher(s): Vodafone UK
Designer(s): Marc Pestka
Released: 1st November 2002
Genre: Action-adventure, racing video game
Mode(s): Single-player
Platform(s): ExEn

Preceded by: 007 Racing
Followed by: Agent Under Fire

2012: Skyfall released in Austria, Bolivia, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, El Salvador, Thailand.
2012: Skaifoli released in Georgia.
2012: Operacija Skyfall released in Lithuania.
2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.
2012: 007: Координати Скайфолл released in Ukraine.

RichardTheBruce

November 2nd

1961: Kathryn Dawn (K.D.) Lang is born--Consort, Alberta, Canada.
2006: John Murray publishes Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg).

2010: Activision releases GoldenEye 007 in North America.

2012: Skyfall released in Colombia. Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, Turkey, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
2012: 007: Skyfall released in Estonia.
2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Mexico. And Venezuela.

2015: 007: Spectre premieres in Mexico.

RichardTheBruce

November 3

1933: John Barry Prendergast is born--York, North Yorkshire England.
(He dies 30 January 2011 at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.)

John Barry obituary
Composer most closely associated with the golden age of James Bond but whose scores ranged from Midnight Cowboy to Dances With Wolves

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary
Adam Sweeting - Mon 31 Jan 2011 13.31 EST


John Barry in the recording studio, 1965. Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann / Rex Features

John Barry, who has died aged 77 following a heart attack, will always be associated with the golden age of James Bond, but though much of his most famous music was written to accompany the outlandish adventures of 007, his work covered a huge variety of moods and styles. Barry wrote epic, sweeping film scores for Zulu (1964), Born Free (1966) and Out of Africa (1985), introduced blues and jazz themes into The Chase (1966) and The Cotton Club (1984), and conceived the shivery, sinister music for The Ipcress File (1965). He even became something of a pop star in his own right.

He was born John Barry Prendergast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist. "My father had seven or eight cinemas, so I was brought up in the cinema," he recalled. "I remember my dad carrying me through the foyer of the Rialto in York and pushing the swing doors open at a matinee. I was looking at this big black-and-white mouse on the screen, and he'd taken me to see a Mickey Mouse cartoon."

Barry cherished an early ambition to join the family business and become a projectionist, but the combination of film and music made a deep impression on him. He began taking piano lessons with Francis Jackson, master of the music at York Minster, and studied with the jazz arranger Bill Russo, who had worked with Stan Kenton's orchestra. His father was a jazz fan, and would present concerts by such stars as Kenton and Count Basie.

After national service with the army, Barry formed his own jazz combo, the John Barry Seven, and scored a string of pop hits during the late 50s and early 60s, including Hit and Miss (the theme from TV's Juke Box Jury), Walk Don't Run and Black Stockings.

Barry thrived on the feverish wave of creativity that made London the world's most fascinating city at the time. He socialised with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, collaborated with the pop stars Adam Faith and Nina & Frederik, and guaranteed himself the attention of gossip columnists by marrying the actress Jane Birkin. In 1960 he was asked to write music for the Peter Sellers/Richard Todd vehicle Never Let Go and then for the Faith comedy Beat Girl.

In 1962, he was signed up to work on the first Bond film, Dr No, although only as back-up to the composer Monty Norman, for a fee of £250. The official story is that Barry merely arranged Norman's famous James Bond Theme, and when Barry claimed in a Sunday Times interview many years later that he had written it himself, Norman successfully sued for libel and was awarded £30,000 in damages.

Subsequently there was no such ambiguity, as Barry's scores for From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and [n]Thunderball[/b] (1965) became popular the world over. Such was the potency of the Bond mystique that Barry's soundtrack album for Goldfinger knocked the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night off the top of the American charts in 1964, and earned the composer his first gold disc. He scored 10 consecutive Bond films and decided he had had enough after The Living Daylights (1987) because "all the good books had been done". 

In 1969, he scored John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy, one of the first movies to use a selection of pop songs on the soundtrack. It was a technique that would be copied by countless imitators. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie."

However, Barry always gave credit to the great classically influenced Hollywood film composers, such as Bernard Herrmann or Max Steiner, and echoes of their work would frequently bubble up in his own. Barry's music was used on the soundtracks of many other films – The Knack (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Murphy's War (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Raise the Titanic (1980), Body Heat (1981), Jagged Edge (1985), Chaplin (1992), Dances With Wolves (1990) and Indecent Proposal (1993) – and he was a natural choice to write the theme for the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis TV series, The Persuaders!

He won five Oscars, including two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves. He also won Bafta's Anthony Asquith award for The Lion in Winter, and a Grammy for Dances With Wolves. In 1998 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Barry had never needed a career boost, but during the 1990s he found himself being feted by a younger generation of artists, including David Arnold, who had stepped into the role of James Bond's personal composer for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Arnold masterminded the Shaken and Stirred album in homage to Barry's Bond music, and commented that "for me the success of the Bond series was 50% Sean Connery and 50% John Barry". Barry was delighted by Arnold's enthusiasm. "I think Shaken and Stirred is terrific. David Arnold has kept all the essence of the originals, and he's cast it beautifully with all the different performers. It has a real freshness and rhythmic impetus, which sounds very now."

A throat cancer scare in 1989 slowed Barry's work rate, but his ambition remained undimmed. In 1998 he released The Beyondness of Things, a "tone poem" unconnected to any film and which he presented as a concert piece. "It's amazing to work without film or without a director or producer," commented Barry, who was appointed OBE in 1999. "I love doing films, but it's been refreshing to work with such total freedom."

It was rumoured that Beyondness … had been derived from his rejected score for The Horse Whisperer, and a certain sameness of mood could be discerned creeping into his compositions. Perhaps recognising the need for fresh stimulus, he signed up to collaborate with the lyricist Don Black and director Michael Attenborough on a stage musical version of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, which had a short run in London in 2004. "I don't mind people going on about my past as long as I've still got a future," said Barry, "and I've got plenty of things coming up."

In 2006, Barry was executive producer on the album Here's to the Heroes by the Australian group the Ten Tenors. It featured several songs he had written with Black. The duo also wrote a new song, Our Time Is Now, for Shirley Bassey's 2009 album The Performance, their first for her since Diamonds Are Forever.

Barry, who had lived in Oyster Bay, New York state, since 1980, is survived by his fourth wife Laurie, their son Jonpatrick, and three daughters, Susie, Sian and Kate.

Eddi Fiegel writes:

I wrote to John Barry in 1997 telling him I had been commissioned to write his biography. I heard nothing for months but then, just at the point when I had almost given up hope of a reply, I got a message on my answerphone saying, "This is John Barry. I'm in London working at Abbey Road studios. Why don't you come in and we can meet?"

He immediately put me at ease with a dry, self-deprecating humour and extraordinary personal charm. A few days later we had the first of many epic lunches at his favourite London restaurant, Rules, in Covent Garden.

He had an excellent memory and was a superb raconteur – a gift for a biographer. Like many artists he could also veer between insecurity and supreme confidence. When he arranged to play his first British concert in decades at the Albert Hall, he asked me: "Do you think people will come?"

Another day, however, I mentioned to him that an electronic dance act had recently recorded what they described as a tribute to his television theme to The Persuaders! I played it to him, curious to know what he would make of it. He listened in silence. Then after a pause, he said: "It's not as good as The Persuaders!, is it?"

• John Barry (John Barry Prendergast), composer and songwriter, born 3 November 1933; died 30 January 2011
• The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 10 February 2011. In this article, we said that John Barry scored 10 consecutive Bond films; in fact he scored six consecutively, 11 in all. We quoted Barry as saying that the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack included a John Lennon song. It contained two songs by Elephants Memory, who worked with Lennon, but none written by him. Barry had a ruptured oesophagus in the late 80s, rather than a throat cancer scare. The film Beat Girl is not a comedy, although Halliwell's film guide describes it as risible melodrama.

• This obituary was further amended on 24 February 2015. Earlier versions said that Barry was born Jonathan, rather than John, Barry Prendergast.

John Barry (I) (1933–2011)
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1948: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (Lulu) is born--Glasgow, Scotland.
1957: Dolph Lundgren is born--Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
1961: The Daily Cinema announces Sean Connery in the James Bond role.
2002: "Die Another Day" charts in the UK at #3.

2008: Casino Royale re-released in The Netherlands.
2011: EON Productions announces the start to filming for Skyfall at the Corinthia Hotel, London. Locations confirmed: London, Shanghai, Istanbul, Scotland. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Ben Wishaw, Naomie Harris, Javier Bardem.

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RichardTheBruce wrote: »

November 3

1933: John Barry Prendergast is born--York, North Yorkshire England.

He would've been 86.

John Williams is 87 and still at large.

If only Barry were still with us too.