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November 4th

1964: Ian Fleming's will is proved.
1972: Live and Let Die films OO7's boat crashing a wedding in the Louisiana bayou.
1976: James Bond comic strip Nightbird ends it run in The Daily Express. (Started 2 June 1976. 3179-3312)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3
Nattfågeln Dödligt Uppdrag För Bond! (Nightbird) Issue: #50 (1967+ series)

2015: Spectre released in Belgium and Luxembourg.
2015: Dynamite Entertainment publishes Vargr #1.

VARGR - 4 November 2015 - Jason Ellis
VARGR was Dynamite Comics' first story arc in its series of James Bond comics, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters. Published in six issues from 2015 to 2016, the first issue was released on 4th November 2015, coinciding with the arrival of the twenty-fourth James Bond film, Spectre. A hardcover collection of the first six issues of VARGR was later published on 21st June 2016.

James Bond #1 - VARGR released by Dynamite Entertainment on November 2015.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-1-vargr/4000-504958/
Beginning “VARGR”, the first story in the ongoing James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. But something evil is moving through the back streets of the city, and sinister plans are being laid for Bond in Berlin...

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RichardTheBruce

November 5th

1912: Paul Dehn is born--Manchester, England. (He dies 30 September 1976 at age 63.)

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

ISSUE: Winter 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our Man in Hollywood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tinker Tailor Soldier Screenwriter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Dehn (I) (1912–1976)
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Filmography

Writer (20 credits)

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

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

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

Music department (2 credits)

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

Producer (1 credit)

1970 Fragment of Fear (associate producer)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1961 The Innocents ("O Willow Waly")

1935: Christopher Hovelle Wood is born--Lambeth, London, England. (He dies 9 May 2015--France.)

Christopher Wood, writer - obituary
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11951112/Christopher-Wood-writer-obituary.html
Author of the risqué Confessions novels who armed James Bond with wit and
humour in Moonraker
5:47PM BST 23 Oct 2015

Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood, who has died aged 79, was an advertising executive turned writer whose oeuvre included literary fiction, historical novels and the screenplays for the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

“One of the keys of writing a Bond movie,” he said, “is to do the same thing, just differently.” It was, however, his Confessions series of humorous erotic novels, written during the 1970s under the name “Timothy Lea” and presented as Lea’s real experiences, which proved his richest seam . “Timothy” recalls his amorous encounters while on a variety of jobs, and his improbable success rate as window cleaner, driving instructor or plumber made the books a publishing phenomenon.

Wood took as his inspiration the tall tales he heard in his youth while working as a mason’s mate and part-time postman. “These stories were prolific,” he said. “Even one of the – to my eyes – singularly uncharismatic workers had apparently been invited to indulge in carnal capers after a glass of lemonade one hot summer afternoon near Guildford.” Most of the men’s claims, Wood recalled, involved a mature but seductive “posh bird”.


Film poster for Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)

The first in the series, Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1971), set the tone. “She has dyed hair, too much lipstick and a diabolical eyebrow pencil beauty spot that dates her a bit,” Timothy notes while eyeing up a potential conquest. “If she is going down hill I can think of a few blokes who wouldn’t mind waiting for her at the bottom.”

Henry Hitchings, author of Sorry! The English and their Manners, suggested that the first book proved “that we are not just bad at anything to do with the erotic life but also window cleaning”. The combination of soft pornography and bawdy comedy proved a hit, prompting 18 more titles – each one dashed off in five weeks – and four film adaptations, scripted by Wood, with Robin Askwith as the irrepressible Lea and Tony Booth (father of Cherie Blair) as Timothy’s oily brother-in-law.


Film poster for Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Photo: Rex Features

Elegant and erudite, Wood was an unlikely author of erotica. One interviewer was taken aback by his tweed jacket and received pronunciation. Yet, when the series was republished in 2013, Wood remained unapologetic about the books’ racy content. “They were funny then, and they are funny now,” he insisted. “They are full of clever alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphors and similes.” In later life he observed that Fifty Shades of Grey made his Confessions books “seem like Aristotle”.

Christopher Hovelle Wood was born on November 5 1935 in Lambeth, south London. During the Blitz his parents sent him away to Norwich where he became a pupil at the Edward VI Grammar School. He later returned to London to attend King’s College Junior School.

He read Economics and Law at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and after graduating in 1960 had a spell working in Cameroon, where he took part in the administration of the UN plebiscite of 1961. He did his National Service in Cyprus during the Eoka crisis.

By the end of the 1960s Wood was back in London managing brands for the advertising agency Masius Wynne-Williams. He used his daily journey from Royston in Hertfordshire to write fiction. His first two novels, both in the comical-realist vein of Evelyn Waugh, drew on his experience in Cameroon (Make it Happen to Me, 1969) and Cyprus ('Terrible Hard’, Says Alice, 1970). Although well reviewed, neither sold well. He then pitched the idea of a sex journal written in the hand of a Cockney chancer, and he “could almost see the pound signs in my publisher’s eyes”.

In 1976 he wrote the comedy film Seven Nights in Japan (1976, starring Michael York) for the director Lewis Gilbert, with whom he shared an agent. Gilbert’s next project was The Spy Who Loved Me, and he brought Wood on board. “I just wanted to do a good job for everybody,” Wood said, describing their producer, Cubby Broccoli, as a generous employer: “Everybody on the movie lived in style.” His approach to the script, writing with Richard Maibaum, fitted the Roger Moore era in which Bond was more of a lover than a killer.


Wood, centre, looking up at Richard Kiel as he greets Prince Philip at the premiere of
Moonraker in 1979
Photo: Rex Features

Wood returned to the franchise two years later as the sole writer on Moonraker. “It seemed to me that we were copying Star Wars,” he recalled. “I also found the idea of space slow in filmic terms. It is difficult to rush around in an astronaut’s suit. Did I tell Cubby that his idea sucked? No.”

As Ian Fleming had sold only the titles to his books, not the content, Wood was commissioned to “novelise” his screenplays for tie-in paperbacks. “Mr Wood has bravely tackled his formidable task,” Kingsley Amis wrote in the New Statesman, “that of turning a typical late Bond film, which must be basically facetious, into a novel after Ian Fleming, which must be basically serious.”


Film poster for Moonraker (1979)
Photo: Rex

In the early 1980s Wood published A Dove Against Death (1983), a Boy’s Own tale set in Africa during the First World War. In all his writing there was a sense of fun and a keen intelligence. William Boyd, who wrote the Bond sequel Solo, described Wood as “one of the most quick-witted, wittiest men I have ever met – up there with Gore Vidal”.

Wood’s other projects include two novels involving the adventurer John Adam (“deadlier than Kung Fu, lustier than Flashman”), the Rosie Dixon series of novels, sex comedies this time from a female perspective , and the screenplay for Remo Williams: Unarmed and Dangerous (1985), an action film directed by another Bond veteran, Guy Hamilton.

Latterly he lived in France, where he was occasionally asked to comment on Timothy Lea and James Bond. “I miss the lightness of touch of the old Bonds,” he told one reporter. In 2013 Harper Collins republished the Confessions books.

Christopher Wood married Jane Patrick in 1962; the marriage was dissolved. He is survived by their son and daughter; another son predeceased him.

Although he died in May, his death only became widely known earlier this month when Sir Roger Moore published the news on Twitter, saying: “He wrote two of my best.”

Christopher Wood, born November 5 1935, died May 9 2015

Christopher Wood (I) (1935–2015)

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Filmography

Writer (16 credits)

2000 Dangerous Curves

1999 Stray Bullet (writer)
1997 Eruption
1996 The Unspeakable (TV Movie)
1991 James Bond Jr. (TV Series) (character Jaws - uncredited)

1988 Steal the Sky (TV Movie) (written by)
1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (written by)

1979 Lovely Couple (TV Series) (writer - 13 episodes)
- Wedding Bells (1979) ... (writer)
- Just the Job (1979) ... (writer)
- Jealousy (1979) ... (writer)
- Dirty Weekend (1979) ... (writer)
- Australia Calling (1979) ... (writer)
- Hospital Corners (1979) ... (writer)
- The Cup and the Lip (1979) ... (writer)
- Home Sweet Home (1979) ... (writer)
- Future Prospects (1979) ... (writer)
- Cuckoo in the Nest (1979) ... (writer)
- Change Partners (1979) ... (writer)
- The Engagement Party (1979) ... (writer)
- Come Fly with Me (1979) ... (writer)
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1979 Moonraker (screenplay)
1978 Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (novel - as Rosie Dixon) / (screenplay)
1977 Confessions of a Summer Camp Councillor (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (screenplay)
1976 Seven Nights in Japan (screenplay)
1976 Confessions of a Driving Instructor (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
1975 Confessions of a Pop Performer (novel "Confessions from the Pop Scene" - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
1974 Confessions of a Window Cleaner (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)

RichardTheBruce

1964: Famke Janssen is born--Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
1977: James Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds begins its run in The Daily Express.
(November 5, 1976 - January 22, 1977. 3313-3437) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1019


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




Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3
Dödligt Kommando ("Fatal Command" - Ape Of Diamonds)


Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/horak-en/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 48: “Ape of Diamonds” (1979)

1987 A View to a Kill US premier on ABC-TV's Thursday Night Movie.

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2008: Quantum of Solace released in Belgium, Switzerland, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
2008: 콴텀 오브 솔라스 released in the Republic of Korea.

2010: Refinanced and under the control of Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, MGM announces Peter Jackson's production of "The Hobbit" and the November 2012 release of BOND 23.
2012: Film Music Magazine prints Daniel Schweiger's interview with Thomas Newman.

Interview with Thomas Newman

http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=10217
By Daniel Schweiger • November 5, 2012

As James Bond gun-barrels hell-bent into the 21st century with his 23rd film “Skyfall,” 007’s owners have continued to re-shape their iconic 50 year-old bread-and-Broccoli character into a spy who’s far more a part of a believable “Bourne” universe, as opposed the stylish wisecracker who duked it out with evil industrialists aboard super tankers and space stations. While that gallows humor is still very much part of Bond’s DNA, the character has achieved a real-world level of brute force and inner turmoil unheard of in his past incarnations. But even before the real world makeover that’s best been personified by Daniel Craig, 007’s music has strived to stay in tune with modern musical tastes. The soundtrack variations have included the positively relaxed jazz-action approach of John Barry, George Martin’s Afro-funk, the disco-style heroics of Marvin Hamlisch and Bill Conti, the appalling Euro beat of Eric Serra and most recently David Arnold’s electrifying mash up Barry’s now old-school orchestrations and his biggest fan’s rock-pop pulse.

Now James Bond’s music has taken on board perhaps its most interesting agent provocateur by giving Thomas Newman a license to score. A composer who’s somehow managed to walk the Hollywood line between indie experimentalism and studio conformity, Newman has never lost the alt. edge that’s made him the most musically progressive member of his family’s film scoring dynasty, especially with such breakout scores as “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “The Lost Boys” and “The Rapture.” Yet his father Alfred’s robustly melodic symphonic spirit has very much flowed through Thomas’ bloodline in scores to “Little Women,” “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Good German.” But if there was one genre that Newman barely hit through the years, it’s been action, with recent scores for “The Adjustment Bureau” and “The Debt” showing off the rhythmic possibilities he might give a balls-out car chase, a fight atop a train or a gun battle inside a government building.

Thanks to “Skyfall,” Thomas Newman gets to engage in all three, and many more action sequences, all with a particular debt to filmmaker Sam Mendes, whom the composer has worked before with scores like “American Beauty,” “The Road To Perdition” and “Jarhead.” The result of the confidence of a director who brings equally eccentric energy to his work has allowed Newman to engage in a crazy-quilt of his greatest hits for “Skyfall,” among them from the rock rhythms of “Erin Brockovich” the eerie orchestrations of “The Green Mile” and the lush romance of “Meet Joe Black,” with even “Finding Nemo’s” perky comedy thrown in for good measure. It’s a thoroughly engaging Newman mix tape, as uniquely heard for a Bond mission that starts big and ends relatively small. Even cooler yet, his “Skyfall” more than acknowledges the many of the composing styles that have come before, incorporating the famed theme, lush jazz swagger and Vic Flick guitar stylings in a way that will please both purists and Discman-wearing newcomers to the franchise. For a Bond that holds more surprises than most, Thomas Newman’s score is one of “Skyfall’s” most impressive, and wackiest weapons in a musical cannon that’s never been afraid to go for the shot.

In your wildest dreams did you ever imagine you’d be scoring a big action movie, let alone a James Bond picture?

I guess the answer to that would be ‘No.’ I don’t think I ever thought about it. Action scores speak with a muscularity and strength that had to be heard next to tire screeches and gunshots and things of that nature. So even though I enjoy action movies, it’s not like scoring an action movie was ever a thought of mine, especially because one’s personal voice was less likely to come out because of those kinds of requirements. I’d never really thought about doing a Bond movie until I heard that Sam Mendes was directing one. So I thought I’d be brave and give him a holler to say that I’d love to work on it with him if he would have me. But I also didn’t want to be pushy about it. And it turned out that Sam had already been thinking about calling me to see if we could make “Skyfall” happen together.

Did Sam have to fight to get you the gig, especially as you didn’t have a lot of action movies on your resume?

I don’t know. You’d have to ask him that. Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson loved working with David Arnold on the last several Bond scores, and wanted to make sure I was the right guy in their mind, and that they could get along with me. So they made sure to come to see me in Los Angeles before hiring me. I enjoyed meeting them, and that was about it.

The Broccoli family has a legendary level of control over the franchise. How much of that did you feel during the scoring process, or did Sam keep you separate from it?

Sam sheltered me up to the point of the recording sessions, which the Broccolis were present for. They were not shy to speak up. But in fairness to them and Sam, the communication was always through Sam in the recording environment.

Did it always go smoothly with the Broccolis?

I think it did go smoothly. They’re kind and good people. Obviously, they’re not going to stop until they get what they want, but they were never ferocious about it. They were always very respectful of me, even if they weren’t going to be shy about making sure I understood any issues they may have had.

What has James Bond meant to you, and what do you think the responsibilities are of scoring such an iconic franchise?

While I wasn’t a rabid fan of James Bond movies when growing up, I really loved watching them. Now there’s obviously a huge amount of expectation in terms of what a “James Bond score” is. Everybody has an opinion on Bond, and his music. But I really didn’t feel an obligation to meet up to these expectations. Or if I was going to defy them, I wanted to defy them in a way that was pleasing and compelling as opposed to making people feel that I was doing something different for it’s own sake.

As one of Hollywood’s more experimental composers, how “far out” did you think you could go with “Skyfall’s” score?

You have ideas, and you see if they fly. In the case of the action, there was so much going on sonically that I wondered how much space was left to hear the intricacy, and detail in the manner that I’ve scored films with before. So at the very least, I knew that sounds really needed to hit the subwoofers to really hit the audience physically. So I think I recognized that I’d have to be more extroverted with “Skyfall’s” score then maybe I’m used to being.

While the musical voice is most definitely your own in “Skyfall,” you can still hear the styles that such past composers as John Barry and David Arnold brought to Bond. Did you want to make a point of capturing those past styles?

It’s not like I set out to study the past Bond scores. I watched some of the movies, and had general notes and impressions about how the music was operating. But after that, I didn’t want to be too studious about it all. I thought that would be intimidating, and suppressing any ability I might have to be creative in my own right. But maybe butting up against those past scores kind of rubbed off on me a bit.

Yet the main theme in the film is essentially the classic James Bond melody.

I guess that’s appropriate, right? It’s a great, iconic and satisfying theme to so many people, especially the fans. I definitely wanted to use it. The issue was when and where, and Sam and I, with the help of Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, talked about where we should evoke the Bond theme.

The Adele theme song is only reflected in the cue “Komodo Dragon.” Did you want to incorporate it anywhere else in the score?
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Michael Wilson had asked where I was going to use the Adele song so that it didn’t appear as a kind of “one off” at the top of the movie. And the scene where he enters the Macau casino with his new, shaved appearance and tuxedo was a real moment of “Bond” swagger. The Adele tune has that quality to it too, so that seemed like a good place to reprieve the song.

Did you have any interaction with Adele or the writers of the song?

While I did not get to meet with Adele, I did with Paul Epworth, who was the co-writer and producer of the song, He really wanted to evoke the early Shirley Bassey arrangements with “Skyfall,” and talked to me about arranging the strings and brass to that effect But my task was already so huge and daunting that my orchestrator J.A.C. Redford, who’s a great composer in his own right, ended up doing the arrangements.

The film you scored before “Skyfall” was “The Iron Lady,” which dealt with Margaret Thatcher’s imperious rule of England’s government. Do you think there are any similarities between her and M?

That’s interesting. I guess there’s a certain stoic nature to English behavior, a kind of stiff upper lip. That was obvious in the case of Margaret Thatcher, and also in the case of M. Their music couldn’t be overly sentimental or emotional. And if they were being emotional, then the score had to allow for that without directly “speaking” for their feelings. I think that kind of character gives strength to the way I musically depicted them.

Javier Bardem’s Silva is my favorite character in the film, especially because he’s just might be the craziest Bond villain the series has had. Do you think your naturally offbeat music is particularly well suited to him?

You know, I never thought of it that way. There was so much quirkiness in Silva’s personal choice of music that it occurred to me that my sense of his character would be more wrapped up in his unfolding story.

You’ve got a lush approach for the femme fatale character of Severine.

That’s because I probably wanted to evoke as much of a John Barry’ish type of melody for her as I could find, which meant using a major-minor theme, something that had sexuality and danger as mixed with a certain level of satin loveliness.

I think you’re one of the few composers to write a comedy cue for James Bond with “Close Shave.”

That was a tough scene for Sam because we’re still figuring out what the Bond and his fellow agent Eve is. The scene’s dangerous, sexy and had a level of humor. I ended up doing many different versions of it because the cue kind of came late in late during our process. I’d spent some time on the podium refining a take on “Close Shave” that Sam was very high on. Or at least I thought he was until he rejected it a few minutes later!

What didn’t work about your first “Close Shave?”

I think my first approach, was a kind of classical in its sexiness, and Sam was wondering if the music was saying the wrong thing, or it was saying too much and tipped this kind of balance in what Bond and Eve’s relationship was.

Was the rest of the score relatively easy? Or were there a lot of changes like that?

There were tough moments and areas that needed to be re-examined, and in some cases re-written. But that’s no different then any other movie where something is accepted on a Monday and rejected on a Thursday.

What do Sam’s sensibilities as a director bring to “Skyfall?”

Sam’s great with character, obviously, and had a fundamental understanding of Bond. So I think it was a perfect storm of him really wanting to respect the character and the franchise while wanting to make the story more compelling, and more evolving.

How do you think that “English” quality rubs off on the score?

“Skyfall” is very much an English movie. I felt the same way when doing “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” in a way, which is for me to think, “What’s a yank doing on a movie like this?” I was over in London for three and a half months on “Skyfall,” did nearly all of the writing over there. It was a really different experience for me in many ways to have an office at Abbey Road studios, composing morning, noon and night, and then to have the score performed there. The musicians are so fantastic as well in England. There’s a real sense of ensemble on the way the orchestra plays. It’s a great town musically.

Were you ready for “Skyfall’s” rave reviews, some of which say that it’s the best Bond movie since “Goldfinger?”

I always thought it was a good movie. I really enjoyed it when I first saw it. In terms of reviews and people liking it it’s really a wonderful thing to happen at the end of this arduous process.

What kind of doors do you think that “Skyfall” is going to open up for you in terms of people who may have thought Thomas Newman couldn’t score an action film?

I don’t know. I try not to think on that level. What’s fun is to think I can take action films on and handle them, that I can be chameleonic in a way. It’s always a great thing to defy expectations. It’s been such a high point in my career to work with Sam on this film. He tends to bring good work out of me. But then, he kind of expects it and won’t stop until he gets it. So it hurts, but it always rewards, especially with “Skyfall.”

Do you think of “Skyfall” as your biggest score yet?


I never thought of it that way. What’s funny is how much visibility scoring a Bond film has. The Pixar movies I score like “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E” become known when they’re completed, but typically not before they are completed. Me scoring “Skyfall” has become a much bigger deal then I would have thought.

Interview transcribed by Peter Hackman

2012: Skyfall released in Armenia.
2015: Spectre released in Albania, Bahrain, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan.
2015: 007: Spectre released in Argentina and Mexico.
2015: 007 Contra Spectre (007 Against Spectre) released in Brazil.

2015: James Bond 007: Spectre released in Germany.
2015: 007 Spectre: A Fantom visszatér (007 Spectre: The Phantom Returns) released in Hungary.

2015: 007 Spectre released in Portugal.
2015: Spektra (Spectra) released in Serbia.
2015: James Bond: Spectre released in Slovakia.
2015: 007: Спектр (007: Spectrum) released in Ukraine.

RichardTheBruce

November 6th

1973: The Man With the Golden Gun filming at the RMS Queen Elizabeth, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
2008: Quantum of Solace released in Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia (Skopje), Malaysia, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Slovakia, Syria, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates.
2008: 007 Quantum of Solace released in Argentina and Portugal.
2008: James Bond 007 - Ein Quantum Trost) James Bond 007: A Quantum of Comfort) released in Germany.

2008: Kvantum sočutja (Quantum of Compassion) released in Slovenia.

2008: Quantum shel nehama (Quantum of Comfort) released in Israel.
2008: Zrno utehe (Grain of Consolation) released in Serbia.

2008: Квант милосердия (Quantum Mercy) released in Russia.

2008: 007: Квант милосердя (007: Quantum of Mercy) released in Ukraine.

2008: BBC Audiobooks releases Ian Fleming's 'Quantum of Solace' on CD, collecting all the Bond short stories.

2012: Thomas Newman's Skyfall soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US. It wins the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and is nominated for an Oscar.

2014: Random House publishes Steven Cole's Young Bond novel Shoot to Kill.

2015: Thomas Newman's Spectre soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US.

2015: Spectre released in Austria, Belarus, Canada, Spain, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, Iraq, Iceland, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Venezuela, USA, and Vietnam.
2015: 007: Spectre released in Estonia.
2015: Спектър (Spectrum) released in Bulgaria.

2015: Speqtri released in Georgia.
2015: Spektras (Spectrum) released in Lithuania.
2015: 007: Spektrs (007: Spectrum) released in Latvia.

Latvia premiere 5 November for a 6 November general release.

2015: 007: Спектр (007 : Spectrum) released in Russia.

2017: Kätherose Derr (Karin Dor) dies at age 79--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
(Born 22 February 1938--Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.)

Karin Dor obituary
Actor best known as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/15/karin-dor-obituary
Ronald Bergan | Wed 15 Nov 2017 06.43 EST

Karin Dor as the seductive Spectre operative Helga Brandt, with Sean Connery as 007, in You Only Live Twice, 1967. Photograph: Allstar/United Artists

No matter what roles she played in films, on stage or on television throughout the rest of her career, the German actor Karin Dor, who has died aged 79, was labelled a Bond girl. Her induction as a member of this exclusive group of beautiful women who have provided James Bond with a love interest came in You Only Live Twice (1967), in which she met a memorably grisly end.

Dor played the seductive, titian-haired Helga Brandt, an operative of the criminal organisation Spectre ordered to kill 007 (Sean Connery), who has been conveniently tied up for her. “I’ve got you now,” she states ambivalently. “Well, enjoy yourself!” he replies. She slaps his face and threatens him with a surgical knife, which he wrestles from her, using it to cut the strap on her black dress.

Helga expertly switches from being cold and calculating to passionately kissing Connery. She seems to have changed sides, though she makes a further attempt to kill Bond by trapping him in a booby-trapped plane, which she parachutes out of, before it crashes. When the super-villain Spectre boss Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) discovers that Bond has survived the crash, he activates a mechanism that dumps Helga into a tank filled with piranha fish, which eat her alive.

Karin Dor with Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of the 1969 film Topaz.Photograph: Allstar/Universal

Dor also fails to survive to the end of Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz (1969). A rare bright spot in one of Hitchcock’s most anonymous films, she is Juanita de Cordoba, a dark-haired anti-Castro resistant, her German accent notwithstanding, known as the widow of a “hero of the revolution”, a description that enables her to work undercover. When her activities are discovered, she is shot by her revolutionary lover, providing the film with its best visual sequence. As Juanita collapses onto a marble floor, her deep purple dress spreads beneath her like a pool of blood.

Surprisingly, these high-profile roles in two English language commercial successes did not help Dor to achieve further international recognition. However, she was hugely popular in Germany and Austria throughout the 1960s, mainly in escapist action movies loosely based on the thrillers of Edgar Wallace (called Krimis from the German Kriminalfilm), and the western adventures of Karl May, co-starring the dubbed ex-Tarzan Lex Barker, almost all of them directed by her first husband, Harald Reinl.

Born Kätherose Derr in Wiesbaden, she studied acting and ballet at school and began in films as an extra. Her marriage at 18 to the Austrian director Reinl, 30 years her senior, gave her the chance to appear as a juvenile lead in numerous period melodramas and operettas such as The White Horse Inn (1960).

Apart from the Wallace and May series, Dor was a favourite fräulein in distress in several horror movies with Barker as the hero, including The Invisible Doctor Mabuse (1962), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) and The Torture Chamber of Doctor Sadism (1967), the last two starring Christopher Lee as an evil mastermind.

In contrast to the range of the low-budget Krimis, horror spin-offs and German westerns, Dor starred as Brunhild in Reinl’s The Nibelungen, shown in two parts, Siegfried (1966) and Kriemhild’s Revenge (1967), an epic that required the use of 8,000 extras in one battle scene alone.

Dor took fewer and fewer film roles from the 70s onwards, although she did appear regularly in series on German television.

Her third husband, the stuntman George Robotham, died in 2007. Dor is survived by a son, the actor Andreas Renell, from her marriage to Reinl, which ended in divorce, as did her second marriage.

• Karin Dor (Kätherose Derr), actor, born 22 February 1938; died 6 November 2017

Karin Dor (1938–2017)

Filmography

Actress (74 credits)

2015 Die abhandene Welt - Rosa
1998-2011 Rosamunde Pilcher (TV Series) - Lady Claire Sherberton / Emily Stockton / Daisy
- Herzensfragen (2011) ... Lady Claire Sherberton
- Ruf der Vergangenheit (2000) ... Emily Stockton
- Der Preis der Liebe (1998) ... Daisy
2010 Das Traumschiff (TV Series) - Ellen Barner
- Panama (2010) ... Ellen Barner
- Indian Summer (2010) ... Ellen Barner

2006 I Am the Other Woman - Frau Winter
2004 Inga Lindström (TV Series) - Elinor Frödin
- Sehnsucht nach Marielund (2004) ... Elinor Frödin
2001 SOKO 5113 (TV Series) - Berenike Stassfurth
- Ludwig der Letzte (2001) ... Berenike Stassfurth

1994 My Friend, the Lipizzaner (TV Movie) - Louise
1992-1993 Die große Freiheit (TV Series) - Jutta van Straaten
- Van Straatens Verlobung (1993) ... Jutta van Straaten
- Besuch aus Bremen (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten
- Liebe, Krach und Phantasie (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten
- Ein Mann erfüllt sich seine Träume (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten

1987 Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown - Jetty
1985 Gipfeltreffen (TV Movie) - Nadine
1983 Der Lord und das Kätzchen (TV Movie)
1980 Achtung Zoll! (TV Series) - Monika Gerber
- Vanloo und der Gast aus Frankreich (1980) ... Monika Gerber

1977 Dark Echoes - Lisa Bruekner
1977 Four Against the Desert (TV Movie) - Karin
1977 Women in Hospital - Claudias Mutter
1977 Warhead - Liora
1974 Only the Wind Knows the Answer - Nicole Monnier
1974 Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies (TV Movie) - Regine Mangold
1972 Liebe ist so selten - Die Krise einer Ehe (TV Short) - Schwester Ruth
1971 Haie an Bord - Andrea Jacobs
1970 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Maria Chernoff
- The Target (1970) ... Maria Chernoff
1970 Ironside (TV Series) - Jeanine Duvalier
- Check, Mate, and Murder: Part 2 (1970) ... Jeanine Duvalier
- Check, Mate and Murder: Part 1 (1970) ... Jeanine Duvalier
1970 Assignment Terror - Maleva Kerstein

1969 Topaz - Juanita de Cordoba
1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Angela
- The Three Virgins of Rome (1969) ... Angela
1968 The Valley of Death - Mabel Kingsley
1968 Dear Caroline - Isabelle de Loigny
1967 The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism - Baroness Lilian von Brabant
1967 You Only Live Twice - Helga Brandt
1967 Die Nibelungen, Teil 2 - Kriemhilds Rache -Brunhilde
1966 Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried - Brunhild
1966 Target for Killing - Sandra Perkins
1966 Killer's Carnival - Denise (Rio segment)
1966 The Spy with Ten Faces - Helen Farheit
1965 The Sinister Monk - Gwendolin
1965 I Knew Her Well - Barbara, the lady friend of Adriana
1965 Winnetou: The Last Shot (uncredited)
1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Maria Muller
1965 The Last Tomahawk - Cora Munroe
1965 Hotel der toten Gäste - Gilly Powell
1964 Winnetou: The Red Gentleman - Ribanna
1964 Room 13 - Denise
1963 Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe - Clarisse
1963 The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle - Claridge Dorsett
1963 Die weiße Spinne - Muriel Irvine
1962 The Treasure of the Silver Lake - Ellen Patterson
1962 Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett - Barbara Holstein
1962 The Carpet of Horror - Ann Learner
1962 The Invisible Dr. Mabuse - Liane Martin
1962 The Bellboy and the Playgirls
1961 Im schwarzen Rössl - Eva Lantz
1961 Am Sonntag will mein Süsser mit mir segeln gehn - Georgie Hagen, die Sprachstudentin
1961 The Forger of London - Jane Clifton, geb. Leith
1961 Pichler's Books Are Not in Order - Anneliese
1961 Der grüne Bogenschütze - Valerie Howett, geb. Bellamy
1960 The White Horse Inn - Brigitte Giesecke
1960 The Terrible People - Nora Sanders

1959 That's No Way to Land a Man - Tessy
1959 A Summer You Will Never Forget - Christine von Auffenberg
1959 The Blue Sea and You - Helga Heidebrink
1959 Skandal um Dodo - Helga, die Nichte
1958 13 kleine Esel und der Sonnenhof - Monika
1958 False Shame - Christa Riek
1958 Sin Began with Eve - Dinah
1957 Almenrausch und Edelweiß - Maresi Meier
1957 Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal - Daniela Kleemann
1957 Little Man on Top - Meike Brauns
1956/I Santa Lucia - Manina
1955 As Long as You Live - Pepita
1954 Ihre große Prüfung - Elena Clausen
1954 Der schweigende Engel (as Rose Dor)
1954 Rosen-Resli (as Rose Dor)
1954 Rosen aus dem Süden (as Kätherose Derr)
1953 The Last Waltz - Extra (uncredited)

RichardTheBruce

November 7th

1924: Wolf Mankowitz is born--Bethnal Green, London, England.
(He dies 20 May 1998 at age 73--County Cork, Ireland.)

Screenwriting Lessons from One of Britain’s Best: A Rare Interview with Wolf Mankowitz

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/screenwriting-lessons-one-britains-best-rare-interview-wolf-mankowitz/

One of the most interesting cultural personas of the British fifties and sixties, the versatile writer Wolf Mankowitz made a name for himself in the spheres of literature, film industry and theater. As a child of two Russian Jewish immigrants, he lived in poverty but unexpectedly got the opportunity to turn the tables around when he received a scholarship for Cambridge, where he went to study English and soon dedicate himself to writing. In 1952 he published his first novel ‘Make Me an Offer,’ which was soon turned into a film and a successful West End musical. The very next year his biggest literary success came out: ‘A Kid for Two Farthings’ was translated into many languages and ultimately ended up as a Carol Reed film. In 1960 he wrote the script for Anthony Asquith’s The Millionairess, an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play with Sofia Loren and Peter Sellers in leading roles, and his musical Expresso Bongo, a fine satire of the music industry, blossomed as a successful movie with Cliff Richard and Laurence Harvey. Interestingly enough, one of Mankowitz’s biggest contributions to the world of cinema came surprisingly from a project he didn’t even want his name on. Mankowitz introduced his friend Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli to Harry Saltzman, the man who held the film rights to James Bond. This partnership instigated one of the biggest franchises in the history of film business starting with Dr. No, but Mankowitz, fearing the movie would be a huge flop that could potentially seriously damage his reputation, asked that his name be removed from the credits, even though he worked on the script. Mankowitz would later, however, write the screenplay for the 1967 Bond movie Casino Royale.

Mankowitz continued to write all the way until 1991, when he anounced he suffered from cancer and stepped away from the spotlight. Some MI5 files released in 2010 revealed that the famous screenwriter and playwright had been seen as a security risk by the secret service for roughly a decade after the Second World War due to his Russian roots, connections and the fact that his wife was once a member of the Communist Party, a suspicion that caused Mankowitz to unsuccessfully apply for several BBC positions during the fifties. He was ultimately allowed to join BBC on a three-week contract to translate and dub Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Bear’ for television, but not before BBC consulted the secret service first, concluding that translating Chekhov, despite Mankowitz’s obviously controversial background, failed to present any serious security risks for the country.

Today we bring you a precious interview with Mr. Mankowitz published in the February, 1974 edition of the great Filmmakers Newsletter. The esteemed novelist and screenwriter talks about the differences between writing for the stage, film and literary audiences, about his greatest professional successes, the problems he faced throughout his career, the role of the writer both as someone who tries to illuminate and to entertain, and much more. It’s a wonderful and educational read we wholeheartedly recommend, especially if you want to learn more about the craft from the mouth of one of Britain’s best. You can download the PDF version here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgulsfs008i1cuk/A Rare Interview with Wolf Mankowitz.pdf?raw=1

“The task of adapting the 1958 novel ‘Dr No’ for the screen initially fell to Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz, with Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather brought in to polish later drafts. At this time, Mankowitz—a friend of ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s—was best-known for the Peter Sellers-Sophia Loren vehicle The Millionairess (1960) and the apocalyptic sci-fi The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He would later ask for his name to be removed from the Dr No credits after seeing the rushes and fearing a major flop. Maibaum, on the other hand, who had spent the 1950s writing war films like The Red Beret (1953) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1954), as well as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life (1956), would go on to make a career out of Fleming’s secret agent, penning a further 12 Bond films before bowing out with Licence to Kill in 1989. To celebrate Mr Bond’s cinematic anniversary, we present an extract from the fifth draft script. It’s the classic moment part-way into Dr No in which the suave superspy (played in the film by Sean Connery) is first introduced to the world. The scene is a London gambling room called Le Cercle, where at the top stakes table, surrounded by onlookers, a chic woman in a red dress and a tuxedoed man with his back to the camera issue their commands to the croupier…” —British Film Institute

Wolf Mankowitz (1924–1998)

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Filmography

Writer (39 credits)

1984 Almonds and Raisins (Documentary) (treatment)
1984 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (dramatisation - 1 episode)
- Have a Nice Death (1984) ... (dramatisation)

1976 Dickens of London (TV Mini-Series) (written by - 13 episodes)
- Memories (1976) ... (written by)
- Angel (1976) ... (written by)
- Nightmare (1976) ... (written by)
- Magic (1976) ... (written by)
- Dreams (1976) ... (written by)
- Possession (1976) ... (written by)
- Money (1976) ... (written by)
- Fame (1976) ... (written by)
- Love (1976) ... (written by)
- Success (1976) ... (written by)
- Blacking (1976) ... (written by)
- The Deed (1976) ... (written by)
- Mask (1976) ... (written by)
1973 The Battle of Sutjeska (writer)
1973 The Hireling (screenplay)
1972 Treasure Island (adapted for the screen by)
1971 Black Beauty (screenplay)
1970 The Hero (screenplay)

1969 Pickwick (TV Movie) (book of musical play)
1969 The Assassination Bureau (additional dialogue)
1968 Die Pickwickier (TV Movie) (play)
1967 Doctor Faustus (co-writer - uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale (screenplay)
1967 The 25th Hour
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Make Me an Offer (1966) ... (writer)
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1966) (adaptation - 1 episode, 1959)
- The Battersea Miracle (1966) ... (writer)
- The Model Marriage (1959) ... (adaptation)
1966 Where the Spies Are (screenplay)
1965 Love Story (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- A Cure for Tin Ear (1965) ... (writer)
1965 Bongo Boy (TV Movie) (play)
1962 Dr. No (treatment - uncredited)
1962 Waltz of the Toreadors
1961 The Day the Earth Caught Fire (written for the screen by)
1961 Jungle Fighters (screenplay)
1960 The Millionairess (screenplay)
1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (screenplay)

1959 Expresso Bongo (based on "Expresso Bongo" by) / (written by)
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (based on an idea by - 24 episodes, 1958 - 1959) (book "The ABC of Show Business" - 24 episodes, 1956 - 1957)
- X, Y and Z (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- W (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- V (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- U (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- T (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- S (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- R (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- Q (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- P (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- O (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- N (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- M (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- L (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- K (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- J (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- I (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- H (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- G (1959) ... (based on an idea by)
- F (1958) ... (based on an idea by)
- E (1958) ... (based on an idea by)
- D (1958) ... (based on an idea by)
- C (1958) ... (based on an idea by)
- B (1958) ... (based on an idea by)
- A (1958) ... (based on an idea by)
- X, Y and Z (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- W (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- V (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- U (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- T (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- S (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- R (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- Q (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- P (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- O (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- N (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- M (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- L (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- K (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- J (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- I (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- H (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- G (1957) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- F (1956) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- E (1956) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- D (1956) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- C (1956) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- B (1956) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
- A (1956) ... (book "The ABC of Show Business")
1959 Wednesday Magazine (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 11 March 1959 (1959) ... (story)
Theatre Night (TV Series) (original story - 1 episode, 1958) (play - 1 episode, 1958)
- Expresso Bongo (1958) ... (original story) / (play)
1958 The Killing Stones (TV Series) (script - 6 episodes)
- The Bankrupting of Hammerman (1958) ... (script)
- The Retirement of De Haan (1958) ... (script)
- The Homecoming of Coetze (1958) ... (script)
- The Fearfulness of Desai (1958) ... (script)
- The Holiness of Ant Eater (1958) ... (script)
- The Carefulness of Kleiber (1958) ... (script)
1958 East End, West End (TV Series) (writer - 6 episodes)
- Episode #1.6 (1958) ... (writer)
- Episode #1.5 (1958) ... (writer)
- Episode #1.4 (1958) ... (writer)
- Episode #1.3 (1958) ... (writer)
- Episode #1.2 (1958) ... (writer)
- Episode #1.1 (1958) ... (writer)
1956 Trapeze (uncredited)
1955 The Bespoke Overcoat (Short) (by) / (screenplay)
1955 It Should Happen to a Dog (TV Movie)
1955 The Girl (TV Movie)
1955 Make me an Offer! (additional dialogue) / (novel)
1955 A Kid for Two Farthings (based on the book by) / (screenplay)
1954 Playbill (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Bespoke Overcoat (1954) ... (adaptation)
1954 The Bespoke Overcoat (TV Short) (adaptation)

Producer (2 credits)

1970 The Hero (producer)

1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (executive producer - 6 episodes)
- Bullfighting (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Police (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Critics (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Early Days (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
-
Actor (1 credit)

1959 Expresso Bongo - Sandwich Man (uncredited)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1959 Expresso Bongo (lyrics: "Nausea", "The Shrine on the Second Floor", "I've Never Had It So Good", "Nothing Is For Nothing" - uncredited)

1932: Yuri Borienko is born--Russia.
1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and May Day and the Eiffel Tower.
1995: Parlaphone and Virgin release the "GoldenEye" single.

2002: Coronet Books publishes Raymond Benson's Die Another Day novelization.

2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a download for Guitar Hero World Tour.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Austria, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iceland, Latvia, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, El Salvador, Switzerland, Turkey, and Taiwan. (Original planned released date for UK and US.)
2008: 007 - Quantum of Solace released in Brazil, Italy, and Poland.
2008: Спектър на утехата (Spectrum of Consolation) released in Bulgaria.

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2008: 007: Veidi lohutust (A Little Consolation) released in Estonia.

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2008: Paguodos kvantas (The Quantum of Consolation) released in Lithuania.

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2008: 007: Partea lui de consolare (His Side of Consolation) released in Romania
2011: Principal photography for BOND 23 begins in London.
2012: Skyfall released in Jamaica.

2018: Dynamite releases James Bond 007 #1. Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #1

Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: John Cassaday
Cover C: Rafael Albuquerque
Cover D: Marc Laming
Writer: Greg Pak, Art: Marc Laming
Page Count: 36 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 11/7/2018

The ODD JOB epic begins in a new ongoing James Bond comic series by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)! Agent 007 tracks a smuggler into Singapore to secure a dangerous case, contents unknown. But a Korean mystery man wants the case as well, for very different reasons. And if Bond and this new rival don't kill each other, the ruthless terrorist organization known as ORU will be more than happy to finish the job.

Thunderfinger

Some interesting translations of QOS there.

RichardTheBruce

November 8th

1945: Angela Scoular is born--London, England. (She dies 11 April 2011 at age 65--Maida Vale, London, England.)

Angela Scoular

Angela Scoular, the actress who died on Tuesday aged 65, played Agent
Buttercup in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and was Ruby
Bartlett in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); she was also the second
wife of the Carry On star Leslie Phillips.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8448951/Angela-Scoular.html
7:08PM BST 13 Apr 2011

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Angela Scoular Photo: ITV/ REX FEATURES

Her qualifications as a Bond girl are obvious in OHMSS when she becomes Bond's (George Lazenby) first conquest, after writing her room number in lipstick on his inner thigh. "I used to hate chicken," she tells 007. "Used to make me break out. It was all over. You'd be surprised where."

She met Leslie Phillips in 1970 on the set of Doctor in Trouble (in which his character chases her character aboard an ocean liner). They met again in 1976 when they were both in the same play. She was pregnant at the time with a son by another actor, while Leslie Phillips's first marriage to Penny Bartley had foundered in the 1960s following his affair with the actress Caroline Mortimer. They began living together, but at first there was no question of marriage. When Penny was crippled by a stroke, Leslie Phillips was "pulled back into the frame" by his children and he and Angela helped to care for her until her death in a house fire in 1981. They married in 1982.

Despite Phillips's on-screen reputation as a lothario, theirs was a happy marriage. Angela Scoular went on to appear in several more films, stage productions and television series, notably as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the television series You Rang, M'Lord? (1988-93). But during her early years as an actress she had struggled with anorexia and later on she suffered from severe clinical depression which, according to her husband, meant that she lost her ability to face an audience. It was "difficult to be a character actress when you were a sex symbol", he observed.

Angela Scoular was born in London on November 8 1945 and encouraged in her ambitions to be an actress by her aunt, the actress Margaret Johnston.

She began her screen career in the mid-1960s, appearing in the long-running police drama No Hiding Place and taking a bit part in Ian McKellen's adaptation of David Copperfield, before going on to appear in her first feature films, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967, with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren), Casino Royale and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968).

On television she appeared in series such as The Avengers, Penmarric, Coronation Street and As Time Goes By, and was Cathy in a 1967 television adaptation of Wuthering Heights. On stage she starred in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular, at the Criterion Theatre (1974); appeared in a production of Hamlet at the Cambridge Theatre (1971); in Joseph Caruso's Little Lies at the Wyndham (1983); and in Peter Shaffer's White Liars and Black Comedy at the Lyric Theatre (1968).

She is survived by her husband and son.

Angela Scoular (1945–2011)

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Filmography

Actress (35 credits)

1996 As Time Goes By (TV Series) - Glenys
- Avoiding the Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
- The Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
1988-1993 You Rang, M'Lord? (TV Series) - Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Well, There You Are Then...! (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Fall of the House of Meldrum (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Truth Revealed (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Come to the Ball (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Requiem for a Parrot (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- A Day in the Country (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Night of Reckoning (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Gretna Green or Bust (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Current Affairs (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Please Help the Orphans (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Royal Flush (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Wounds of War (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Meldrum Vases (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Trouble at Mill (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Love and Money (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Phantom Sign Writer (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Pilot (1988) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross

1981 The House on the Hill (TV Series) - Aileen Douglas
- Man of Straw (1981) ... Aileen Douglas
1971-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Joanna Trout / The Girl
- Dear Brutus (1981) ... Joanna Trout
- Evelyn (1971) ... The Girl
1979 Penmarric (TV Series) - Maud Castallack / Maud Penmar
- Episode #1.6 (1979) ... Maud Penmar
- Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
- Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
1977 Adventures of a Private Eye - Jane Hogg
1976 Adventures of a Taxi Driver - Marion
1975 Rooms (TV Series) - Madeline Parsons
- Midgely: Part 2 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
- Midgely: Part 1 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
1973-1974 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Thomasine / Patty
- Only the Other Day (1974) ... Thomasine
- Hopcraft Into Europe (1973) ... Patty
1974 Beryl's Lot (TV Series) - Jill Savage
- Backs to the Wall (1974) ... Jill Savage
- A Bit of Culture (1974) ... Jill Savage
- It's a Rum World (1974) ... Jill Savage
1973 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Charlotte
- The Runaway (1973) ... Charlotte
1973 Second City Firsts (TV Series) - Astral Philips
- Mrs Pool's Preserves (1973) ... Astral Philips
1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Frankie Prentiss
- Episode #1.62 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
- Episode #1.61 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
1973 Crown Court (TV Series) - Serena Cutforth
- The Gilded Cage: Part 2 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
- The Gilded Cage: Part 1 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
1972 For Loving (TV Movie) - Girl
1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Dorinda
- Nearly the End of the Picture (1972) ... Dorinda
1972 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1193 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1192 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1191 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1190 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1189 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1188 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
1972 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Francesca Stokes
- Knightsbridge (1972) ... Francesca Stokes
1971 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Pauline
- Equal Partners (1971) ... Pauline
1970 Doctor in Trouble - Ophelia O'Brien
1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Charlotte
- Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It (1970) ... Charlotte
1970 The Adventurers - Denisonde

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ruby
1969 Doctor in the House (TV Series) - Fiona
- Rallying Round... (1969) ... Fiona
1968 Great Catherine - Claire
1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Myra
- Super Secret Cypher Snatch (1968) ... Myra
1968 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Caroline Beauchamp
1967 Wuthering Heights (TV Series) - Catherine Earnshaw / Cathy Earnshaw
- The Last Revenge (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
- The Abduction (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
- The First Revenge (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
- An End to Childhood (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
1967 Love Story (TV Series) - Joy
- Her Freudian Slip (1967) ... Joy
1967 Casino Royale - Buttercup
1967 Girl in a Black Bikini (TV Series) - Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.6 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.5 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
1967 A Countess from Hong Kong - The Society Girl
1966 David Copperfield (TV Series) - Emily
- Toll of the Sea (1966) ... Emily
- Old Acquaintances (1966) ... Emily
1965 Romeo and Juliet (TV Movie) - Juliet
1963-1964 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Chantal Smith / Gillian Kendrick
- Why Baker Died (1964) ... Chantal Smith
- Pillar to Post (1963) ... Gillian Kendrick

1969: Insan Iki Kere Yasar (Human Lies Twice) released in Turkey.

1999: The World Is Not Enough Los Angeles premiere.

2012: Skyfall IMAX premiere in the US for a 9 November general release.

2019: Planned BOND 25 release date (confirmed by an official announcement 24 July 2017).

RichardTheBruce

November 9th

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 arriving at Piz Gloria as Sir Hilary Bray.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Colombia.
1983: Octopussy - Operazione piovra (Octopussy - Operation Octopus) released in Italy.

James Bond higher and higher!

1989: East Germany opens its Berlin Wall.
1999: Radioactive/MCA label releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough in the US.

2012: Skyfall released in Albania, Canada, Pakistan, and the US.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #2.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #2 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272202011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Publication Date: November 2016
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 11/9

Assigned to hunt down and eliminate a terrorist threatening Britain's nuclear deterrent, 007 shadows the nation's leading defense contractor at the Dubai Arms Fair. As a lethal trap is sprung around him, Bond finds an unexpected ally in glamorous arms company executive Victoria Hunt.

RichardTheBruce

November 10th

1945: Ian Fleming finishes his work with Naval Intelligence.
1953: James Bond is born--so says his Die Another Day passport.

1959: Jack Whittingham's outline for a first film is called "James Bond of the Secret Service".
1968: Daphne Deckers is born--Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
1974: The US network premiere of Dr. No on ABC-TV.
1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez interrogating OO7.

RichardTheBruce

November 11th

1920: James Bond's birthday according to John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007.

1920: James Bond's birthday as used by Charlie Higson in his Young Bond novels.
1921: James Bond's birthday according to Bond scholar John Griswold.
1963: Lotte Lenya finishes filming with the scene riding in a taxi next to Red Grant.

1963: El satánico Dr. No released in Uruguay.

1966: Donald Pleasence takes over the Blofeld role from Czech actor Jan Werich. A decision by director Gilbert and producer Broccoli--however, publicly the change is blamed on illness.

1966: Alison Doody is born--Dublin, Ireland.
1999: "The World Is Not Enough" music video airs before the MTV Europe Music Awards, part of heavy promotion for the film including a BMW Z8 giveaway.

1999: TV Guide publishes Raymond Benson's Bond short story "Live at Five".
2003: Robert Brown dies at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England. (Born 23 July 1921--Swanage, Dorset, England.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Brown (I) (1921–2003)

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Filmography

Actor (138 credits)
1991 Merlin of the Crystal Cave (TV Series) - Gorlois
- Reckoning (1991) ... Gorlois
- The Return (1991) ... Gorlois

1989 Licence to Kill - M
1989 Slow Burn (Video) - Grandfather in Church
1988 Hannay (TV Series) - Roberton
- Act of Riot (1988) ... Roberton
1987 The Living Daylights - M
1985 A View to a Kill - M
1984 The Life and Death of King John (TV Movie) - Earl of Pembroke
1984 Fantasy Island (TV Series)
- Lady of the House/Mrs. Brandell's Favorites (1984)
1983 Octopussy - M
1983 The Winds of War (TV Mini-Series) - English Merchantman Captain
- The Changing of the Guard (1983) ... English Merchantman Captain
1983 The Forgotten Story (TV Series) - Captain Stevens
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Captain Stevens
1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Luke
- Pilgrim, Farewell (1982) ... Luke
1980 Lion of the Desert - Al Fadeel
1980 Angels (TV Series) - Mr. Carlisle
- Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Mr. Carlisle
1980 Time of My Life (TV Series) - Mr. Richards
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Mr. Richards

1979 Henry IV Part I (TV Movie) - Sir Walter Blunt
1979 Danger UXB (TV Series) - Civil Defence Officer
- Butterfly Winter (1979) ... Civil Defence Officer
1979 The Passage - Major
1978 All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series) - Mr. Hewison
- Merry Gentlemen (1978) ... Mr. Hewison
1978 Warlords of the Deep - Briggs
1978 Play for Today (TV Series) - Rector
- Red Shift (1978) ... Rector
1977 The Cost of Loving (TV Series) - Adam Greenaway
- Madge (1977) ... Adam Greenaway
1977 Mr. Big (TV Series) - Sheik Ibrahim
- The Sheiks (1977) ... Sheik Ibrahim
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Adm. Hargreaves
1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - A Pharasee
- Part 2 (1977) ... A Pharasee
1976 The Message - Otba
1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Uncle Serge
- Dearest Nicky (1974) ... Uncle Serge
- The Last Tsar (1974) ... Uncle Serge
1972 Demons of the Mind - Fischinger
1972 Wreck Raisers - Cox'n
1972 The Protectors (TV Series) - Governor
- Brother Hood (1972) ... Governor
1971 1,000 Convicts and a Woman - Ralph
1971 Private Road - Mr. Halpern
1971 The Doctors (TV Series) - Robert Thurlow, 28 episodes
1970 Big Brother (TV Mini-Series) - Edward Cheeseman
- The Wife Factor (1970) ... Edward Cheeseman

1969 Tintin and the Temple of the Sun - Tarragon (English version, voice, uncredited)
1967-1969 The Newcomers (TV Series) - Bert Harker, 218 episodes
1969 Un hombre solo
1966 One Million Years B.C. - Akhoba
1966 King of the River (TV Series) - Ben King, 10 episodes
1966 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Insp. Wilkins
- The Move After Checkmate (1966) ... Insp. Wilkins
1966 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Bramley
- Tickle on Wheels (1966) ... Bramley
1965 Against the Tide (Short)
1965 The Avengers (TV Series) - Saul
- The Town of No Return (1965) ... Saul
1965 Jury Room (TV Series) - Mr. Duckworth - Juror
- The Chess Player (1965) ... Mr. Duckworth - Juror
1965 Operation Crossbow - Air Commodore
1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Sam Sixty
- Photo Finish (1965) ... Sam Sixty
1964 All in Good Time (Short) - George Fitch
1964 The Yellowbird (TV Movie)
1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bill Campbell
- The Big Fix (1964) ... Bill Campbell
1963-1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Atkins / Howard Jackman
- The Miracle Tea Party (1964) ... Atkins
- The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Howard Jackman
1964 Escape by Night - Mawsley
1964 Smuggler's Bay (TV Series) - Sam Tewkesbury
- On the Beach (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- A Reward of Fifty Pounds (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- The Auction (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- In the Vault (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- A Death and a Discovery (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
1964 The Masque of the Red Death - Guard
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Kaufmann
- Death of a Cop (1964) ... Kaufmann
1964 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mr. Waterman
- Episode #1.686 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
- Episode #1.685 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
- Episode #1.681 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
1963 The Double - Richard Harrison
1963 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Sam / Douin / Sam Farley
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 3 (1963) ... Sam
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 2 (1963) ... Sam
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 1 (1963) ... Sam Farley
- The Horse Without a Head: The Key to the Cache (1963) ... Douin
- The Horse Without a Head: The 100,000,000 Franc Train Robbery (1963) ... Douin
1963 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - Sam Farley
1963 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - Adrian Marshall
- Thread of Evidence (1963) ... Adrian Marshall
1961-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Berry / Lew Evatt
- An Eye on the Kings (1963) ... Berry
- Man in the Dark (1961) ... Lew Evatt
1963 Sierra Nine (TV Series) - Galliver
- The Q-Radiation: Part One (1963) ... Galliver
1963 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Harrison
- The Double (1963) ... Richard Harrison
1962 Mystery Submarine - Coxswain Drage
1962 Live Now - Pay Later (unconfirmed)
1962 Billy Budd - Arnold Talbot - Maintopman
1962 The 300 Spartans - Pentheus
1960-1961 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Mr. Lee / Dick Hastings
- The Bent Twig (1961) ... Mr. Lee
- The Guilty Party (1960) ... Dick Hastings
1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Harry Barnett
- Episode #2.37 (1961) ... Harry Barnett
1961 The Arthur Askey Show (TV Series)
- Pilbeam, the Journalist (1961) ... (as Bob Brown)
1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Jashobeam
1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) - Bloody Sergeant
1960 Sands of the Desert - 1st Tourist
1960 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - George Hibberd
- Flight from Treason (1960) ... George Hibberd
1960 Kraft Mystery Theater (TV Series) - George Hibberd
- Flight from Treason (1960) ... George Hibberd
1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jack Brooks, 13 episodes
1960 It Takes a Thief - Bob Crowther
1959-1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Sergeant at Car Impound / Attendant
- A Foreign Body (1960) ... Sergeant at Car Impound
- Dead on Arrival (1959) ... Attendant
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Gunnery Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)
1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Bert Turner / Singer / Kenneth Dowey / ...
- Where I Live (1960) ... Bert Turner
- Dangerous World (1958) ... Singer
- The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (1956) ... Kenneth Dowey
- The Handshake/Bid for Fame (1956) ... Joe Mawson in

1959 The Flying Doctor (TV Series) - Sam Marlow
- The Riddle (1959) ... Sam Marlow
1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Prof. Howard
- The Rocket (1959) ... Prof. Howard
1959 Ben-Hur - Chief of Rowers (uncredited)
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Richard Pengelly
- Haul for the Shore (1959) ... Richard Pengelly
1959 Shake Hands with the Devil - First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
1959 The Offshore Island (TV Movie) - Martin
1958-1959 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Gurth, 39 episodes
1958 The Veil (TV Mini-Series) - Constable
- Jack the Ripper (1958) ... Constable
1958 Room 43 - Mike
1957 Campbell's Kingdom - Ben Creasy
1957 The Abominable Snowman - Ed. Shelley
1957 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
- Desert Patrol (1957)
1957 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (TV Series) - Erik Richter
- My Favourite Kidnapper (1957) ... Erik Richter
1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Steve Ryan
1957 The Steel Bayonet - Sgt. Maj. Gill
1956 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Sergeant Boucher
- The Sword of Truth (1956) ... Sergeant Boucher
1956 Hell in Korea - The Regular Soldiers: Pte. O'Brien / Pte O'Brien
1956 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series) - Baron Buray / Valpezzo
- The Barefoot Empress (1956) ... Baron Buray
- The Island (1956) ... Valpezzo
1950-1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Pengelly / Mick Egan / Oliver North / ... 20 episodes
1956 Kraft Theatre (TV Series) - Crewman / Officer
- A Night to Remember (1956) ... Crewman / Officer
1956 The Man Who Never Was - French (uncredited)
1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Hastings
- Error at Daybreak (1956) ... Hastings
1956 Tears for Simon - Farmer with Shotgun (uncredited)
1956 Helen of Troy - Polydorus
1956 The Alien Sky (TV Movie) - John Steele
1955-1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Zanos / Surgeon Lt. Donald Reynell, RCNVR
- Dimitrios (1956) ... Zanos
- Heritage (1955) ... Surgeon Lt. Donald Reynell, RCNVR
1955 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Swain
- The Orderly (1955) ... Swain
1955 Passage Home - Shane
1955 The Warriors - First French Knight
1954 Barbara's Wedding (TV Short) - Dering
1954 Campbell Summer Soundstage (TV Series)
- Reville for Two Angels (1954)
1953 The Long Rope - Mick Jordan
1953 The Will (TV Short) - Philip Ross
1953 Wednesday Theatre (TV Series) - Dick Pascoe
- For Want of a Nail.... (1953) ... Dick Pascoe
1953 Noose for a Lady - Jonas Rigg
1953 Shadow of the Vine (TV Movie) - Arthur Heath
1953 The Pickwick Papers (TV Series) - Mr. Bob Sawyer
- The Sixth Paper (1953) ... Mr. Bob Sawyer
- The Fifth Paper (1953) ... Mr. Bob Sawyer
1952 Gambler and the Lady - John - Waiter at Max's Dive (uncredited)
1952 The Infinite Shoeblack (TV Movie) - Andrew Berwick
1952 The Mask (TV Short) - James Glasson
1952 Time, Gentlemen, Please! - Bill Jordan
1952 Ivanhoe - Castle Guard Yelling 'Horseman Approaching from the South!' (uncredited)
1952 Derby Day - Foster - Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
1952 Leading Question (TV Short) - Peace-be-with-us Smith
1952 The Marvellous History of St. Bernard (TV Movie) - Bonaventure
1952 Death of an Angel - Jim Pollard (uncredited)
1951 Out of True (Short) - Dr. Dale
1951 Milestones (TV Movie) - Arthur Preece
1951 A Tomb with a View (TV Movie) - Alec Lanch
1951 The Fifty Mark (TV Movie) - Roy Clarke
1951 The Empty Street (TV Short) - Robins
1951 Cloudburst - Carter
1951 Rush Job (TV Movie) - Cliff Whatley
1951 The Dark Man - Policeman at Hospital (uncredited)
1950 Marion (TV Movie) - George Saunders

1949 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - First soldier
1949 The Big Story (TV Series) - Danny
- Make Believe Bandit ... Danny
1949 The Third Man - British Military Policeman in Sewer Chase (uncredited)
1948 Good Friday (TV Movie) - Herod (1950 version)

2015: Spectre released in Switzerland and France.
2015: 스백터 released in the Republic of Korea.

RichardTheBruce

November 12th

1929: Peter Lamont is born--England.
1943: Julie Ege is born--Sandnes, Norway. (She dies 29 April 2008 at age 64--Oslo, Norway.)

Julie Ege: 'Sex Symbol of the 1970s'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/julie-ege-sex-symbol-of-the-1970s-820386.html
Saturday 3 May 2008 00:00

REX

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, British cinema-goers, and British men in general, had a weakness for Scandinavian women. For a time, the Norwegian actress and model Julie Ege was as ubiquitous as Sweden's Britt Ekland.

In 1969, Ege's stunning looks caught the eye of the film producer Albert Broccoli, who cast her in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the only James Bond film to feature George Lazenby as the lead. In 1971, Ege was Voluptua to Frankie Howerd's Lurcio in the first Up Pompeii film, based on the titter-heavy sitcom of the same name. Having starred in Creatures the World Forgot, another Hammer "cave girl" film in the vein of the Raquel Welch vehicle One Million Years BC, Ege was touted as the "Sex Symbol of the 1970s" by Sir James Carreras, head of Hammer Film Productions, and his son Michael.

Despite further appearances in sci-fi and horror hokum like The Final Programme (1973), Craze, Dr of Evil (aka The Mutations) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (all in 1974), she was typecast as a glamour girl, in comedies such as The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) and Not Now Darling (1973), both with Leslie Phillips, as well as Percy's Progress (1974) and The Amorous Milkman (1975).

Born in Sandnes, on the south-west coast of Norway, in 1943, she was a bit of a tomboy but blossomed into a teenager obsessed with Hollywood stars. Spotted by local photographers, Ege appeared in advertisements for "anything from dresses to sardines", she later recalled. Following a short-lived marriage to a major in the Norwegian army, she moved to Oslo, won a beauty contest and took part in the Miss Universe pageant in Florida in 1962. She then remarried and undertook various modelling assignments, including an appearance in Penthouse magazine.

In 1967, she made her acting début playing a German masseuse in Stompa til Sjøs ("The Sky and the Ocean"), a low-budget Norwegian film, and also had an uncredited part in Robbery, a British gangster picture about the Great Train Robbery. She settled in London, registered with various model agencies, and sent her picture to Broccoli. The Bond producer signed Ege to play the Scandinavian Girl, one of the 10 women of different nationalities being brainwashed by Blofeld, the villain portrayed by Telly Savalas in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the English Girl was played by Joanna Lumley). Ege spent nearly three months on location at Piz Gloria, the revolving restaurant on top of the Schilthorn in Switzerland, but was disappointed to see that, in the finished film, she only appeared on screen for a few moments.

In 1970, Ned Sherrin gave her a role opposite Marty Feldman in the comedy Every Home Should Have One. "It was my first real part with dialogue. They wanted me to look and sound like a Scandinavian nanny so I gave them just that. It was really difficult," Ege joked. She had spent time as an au pair in London in the early Sixties. "Once the film opened, all the newspapers carried a photo of me with the caption 'Every Home Should Have One'. I was famous overnight and was not prepared for all the decision-making so crucial at that moment," she admitted.

Ege's subsequent career moves bore out this claim. She turned down the chance to appear with Peter Sellers in the saucy comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and signed up with Hammer to do Creatures the World Forgot. The shooting on location in Africa turned out to be something of an ordeal for Ege who had recently given birth to her first daughter. "They made me wear this awful wig and my bikini was a far cry from the one Raquel Welch wore," she recalled. "I had dirt smeared all over me. My newborn child was back in England and after a few days I got homesick."

Ege then undertook a gruelling publicity schedule which included appearances on the Johnny Carson and David Frost chat-shows and a special edition of The Money Programme documenting the amount of money Hammer was investing in her. However, Creatures the World Forgot was slated by the critics and her career lost momentum after she passed on Hammer's Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde in 1972. "I was by then very reluctant about doing nudity," she said. "Many people think I did so much nudity in my films. I did a short scene in Every Home Should Have One, and two bathtub scenes in Not Now Darling and Mutations."

Ege was happier doing comedies, including playing "the sexy wife of a mad scientist" (Donald Sinden) in Rentadick (1972), even if the project went so awry that Graham Chapman and John Cleese, the film's original writers with John Fortune and John Wells, asked for their names to be removed from the credits. In 1972, she also had cameos in The Alf Garnett Saga and in Go For a Take with Reg Varney of On the Buses fame. "They needed a pretty girl with a good attitude to play these parts," she said. "It was all a laugh and I have never seen these films since."

In the Seventies, Ege lived for several years with the Beatles associate Tony Bramwell and recorded a version of "Love", a John Lennon composition originally featured on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album in 1970. She subsequently went back to Norway and took up photography before training as a nurse in the Eighties. She was delighted when one of her patients presented her with a video copy of The Amorous Milkman.

Over the last decade, Ege was amazed by the renewed interest in her films. "There I was on the front cover of so many newspapers as the forgotten diva of British horror and comedy films," she said in 2004, two years after publishing her autobiography, Naken ("Naked"), in Norway. In 1999, she visited Britain and took part in a reunion of Hammer alumni. In 2005, she featured in the BBC documentary Crumpet! A Very British Sex Symbol, presented by the former Daily Sport editor Tony Livesey. "To be honest, I was never really that proud of my performance in films," she said, "but I gave it my best and enjoyed the work very much."

Pierre Perrone

Julie Ege, model, actress and nurse: born Sandnes, Norway 13 November 1943; twice married (two daughters); died Oslo 29 April 2008.

Julie Ege (1943–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250774/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actress (24 credits)

1998 Blodsbånd (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.2 (1998)
- Episode #1.3 (1998)
- Episode #1.1 (1998)

1988 Fengslende dager for Christina Berg - Krags hustru

1976 Farlig yrke (TV Mini-Series) - Wenche Berg
- Det tredje offeret (1976) ... Wenche Berg
- Helmer (1976) ... Wenche Berg
- Etterlyste ble sist sett... (1976) ... Wenche Berg
1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones - Sondag's secretaresse
1975 The Amorous Milkman - Diana
1974 Bortreist på ubestemt tid - Christina
1974 The Mutations - Hedi
1974 Den siste Fleksnes - Julie Ege
1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Miss Hanson
1974 The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - Vanessa Buren
1974 Craze - Helena
1973 The Final Programme - Miss Dazzle
1973 Kanarifuglen - Kari, flyvertinne
1973 Not Now Darling - Janie McMichael
1972 Double Take - April
1972 The Alf Garnett Saga - Julie Ege
1972 Rentadick - Utta Armitage
1971 The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins - Ingrid (segment "Gluttony")
1971 Creatures the World Forgot - Nala - The Girl
1971 Up Pompeii - Voluptua
1970 Every Home Should Have One - Inga

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - The Scandinavian Girl
1967 Stompa til Sjøs!
1967 Robbery - Hostess (uncredited)

1943: Valerie Leon is born--Islington, London, England.
1966: James Bond comic strip The Living Daylights completes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 12 September 1966. 210-263) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


http://bdzoom.com/94191/patrimoine/james-bond-operation-comics-premiere-partie/


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




Swedish Semic Comics 1985 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1985.php3
Spionen Från Öst (The Living Daylights)


Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no14-1968/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 14: “The Living Daylights” (1968)
https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no14-1968/

1981: William Holden dies at age 63--Santa Monica, California. (Born 17 April 1918--O'Fallon, Illinois.)

William Holden

Holden in a publicity photo, 1954

William Franklin Beedle Jr.
Born April 17, 1918 | O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.
Died November 12, 1981 (aged 63) | Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Cause of death Exsanguination
Resting place Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
Nationality American
Alma mater South Pasadena High School
Occupation Actor, wildlife conservationist
Years active 1938–1981
Home town South Pasadena, California, U.S.
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Brenda Marshall
(m. 1941; div. 1971)
Partner(s) Stefanie Powers (1972–1981) (his death)
Children 3

Awards

Academy Award for Best Actor (1953)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (1974)

Military career

Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg
United States Army Air Forces
Years of service 1942–45
Rank US-O2 insignia.svg First lieutenant[2]
Unit First Motion Picture Unit (USAAF)
Battles/wars World War II

William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, Picnic and Network. He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

Early life and education

With Lee J. Cobb (right) in Holden's first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939)

Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist, and his wife Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball, 1898–1990), a schoolteacher.[3] He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle (1921–1944) and Richard P. Beedle (1924–1964). One of his father's grandmothers, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors settled in Virginia's Lancaster County after emigrating from England in the 17th century.[3] His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific, on January 5, 1944.

His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays.

Career
Paramount
Holden appeared uncredited in Prison Farm (1939) and Million Dollar Legs (1939) at Paramount.

A version of how he obtained his stage name "Holden" is based on a statement by George Ross of Billboard: "William Holden, the lad just signed for the coveted lead in Golden Boy, used to be Bill Beadle. [sic] And here is how he obtained his new movie tag. On the Columbia lot is an assistant director and scout named Harold Winston. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Winston was one of those who discovered the Golden Boy newcomer and who renamed him—in honor of his former spouse!"[4]

Golden Boy
Holden's first starring role was in Golden Boy (1939), costarring Barbara Stanwyck, in which he played a violinist-turned-boxer.[5] The film was made for Columbia who negotiated a sharing agreement with Paramount for Holden's services.

Holden was still an unknown actor when he made Golden Boy, while Stanwyck was already a film star. She liked Holden and went out of her way to help him succeed, devoting her personal time to coaching and encouraging him, which made them into lifelong friends. When she received her Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, Holden had died in an accident just a few months prior. At the end of her acceptance speech, she paid him a personal tribute: "I loved him very much, and I miss him. He always wished that I would get an Oscar. And so tonight, my golden boy, you got your wish".[6][7]

Next he starred with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros. gangster epic Invisible Stripes (1939).[8]

Back at Paramount he starred with Bonita Granville in Those Were the Days! (1940) followed by the role of George Gibbs in the film adaptation of Our Town (1940), done for Sol Lesser at United Artists.[9]

Columbia put Holden in a Western with Jean Arthur, Arizona (1940), then at Paramount he was in a hugely popular war film, I Wanted Wings (1941) with Ray Milland and Veronica Lake.

He did another Western at Columbia, Texas (1941) with Glenn Ford, and a musical comedy at Paramount, The Fleet's In (1942) with Eddie Bracken, Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton.

He stayed at Paramount for The Remarkable Andrew (1942) with Brian Donlevy then made Meet the Stewarts (1943) at Columbia. Paramount reunited him and Bracken in Young and Willing (1943).

World War Two
Holden served as a second and then a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit, including Reconnaissance Pilot (1943).

Post War
Holden's first film back from the services was Blaze of Noon (1947), an aviator picture at Paramount directed by John Farrow.

He followed it with a romantic comedy, Dear Ruth (1947) and he was one of many cameos in Variety Girl (1947).

RKO borrowed him for Rachel and the Stranger (1948) with Robert Mitchum and Loretta Young, then he went over to 20th Century Fox for Apartment for Peggy (1948).

At Columbia he did a film noir, The Dark Past (1948) and a Western with Ford, The Man from Colorado (1949). At Paramount he did another Western, Streets of Laredo (1949).

Columbia teamed him with Lucille Ball for Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) then he did a sequel to Dear Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). He did a comedy at Columbia Father Is a Bachelor (1950).


With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

His career took off in 1950 when Billy Wilder tapped him to play a role in Sunset Boulevard, in which he played a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent-screen star, played by Gloria Swanson. Holden earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination with the part.[12]

Getting the part was a lucky break for Holden, as the role was initially cast with Montgomery Clift, who backed out of his contract.[13] Swanson later said, "Bill Holden was a man I could have fallen in love with. He was perfection on- and off-screen."[14] And Wilder commented "Bill was a complex guy, a totally honorable friend. He was a genuine star. Every woman was in love with him."[14]

Paramount reunited him with Nancy Olson, one of his Sunset Boulevard costars, in Union Station (1950).

Holden had another good break when cast as Judy Holliday's love interest in the big screen adaptation of Born Yesterday (1950). He made two more films with Olson: Force of Arms (1951) at Warners and Submarine Command (1951) at Paramount.

Holden did a sports film at Columbia, Boots Malone (1952) then returned to Paramount for The Turning Point (1952).

Stalag 17 and Peak Era of Stardom
Holden was reunited with Wilder in Stalag 17 (1953), for which Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor. This ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom.

He made a sex comedy with David Niven for Otto Preminger, The Moon Is Blue (1953), which was a huge hit, in part due to controversy over its content. At Paramount he was in a comedy with Ginger Rogers that was not particularly popular, Forever Female (1953). A Western at MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) did much better, and the all star Executive Suite (1954) was a notable success.


With Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)

Holden made a third film with Wilder, Sabrina (1954), billed beneath Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.[16] Holden and Hepburn became romantically involved during the filming, unbeknown to Wilder: "People on the set told me later that Bill and Audrey were having an affair, and everybody knew. Well, not everybody! I didn't know."[14]:174 The interactions between Bogart, Hepburn, and Holden made shooting less than pleasant, as Bogart had wanted his wife, Lauren Bacall, to play Sabrina. Bogart was not especially friendly toward Hepburn, who had little Hollywood experience, while Holden's reaction was the opposite, wrote biographer Michelangelo Capua.

Holden recalls their romance:

Before I even met her, I had a crush on her, and after I met her, just a day later, I felt as if we were old friends, and I was rather fiercely protective of her, though not in a possessive way.

Their relationship did not last much beyond the completion of the film. Holden, who was at this point dependent on alcohol, said, "I really was in love with Audrey, but she wouldn't marry me."[19] Rumors at the time had it that Hepburn wanted a family, but when Holden told her that he'd had a vasectomy and having children was impossible, she moved on. A few months later, Hepburn met Mel Ferrer, whom she would later marry.[20]

He took third billing for The Country Girl (1954) with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, directed by George Seaton from a play by Clifford Odets.

It was a big hit, as was The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), a Korean War drama with Kelly.[21][22]

In 1954, Holden was featured on the cover of Life. On February 7, 1955, Holden appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy as himself.

The golden run at the box office continued with Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), from a best-selling novel, with Jennifer Jones, and Picnic (1955), as a drifter, in an adaptation of the William Inge play with Kim Novak.[24][25] Picnic was his last film under the contract with Columbia.

A second film with Seaton did not do as well, The Proud and Profane (1956), where Holden played the role with a moustache.

Neither did Toward the Unknown (1957), the one film Holden produced himself.

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Holden had his most widely recognized role as an ill-fated prisoner in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with Alec Guinness,[26] a huge commercial success.

He made another war film for a British director, The Key (1958) with Trevor Howard and Sophia Loren for director Carol Reed.[27] He played an American Civil War military surgeon in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959) opposite John Wayne, which was a box office disappointment.[28] Columbia would not meet Holden's asking price of $750,000 and 10% of the gross for The Guns of Navarone (1961); the amount of money Holden asked exceeding the combined salaries of the stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.

Holden had another big hit with The World of Suzie Wong (1960) with Nancy Kwan that was shot in Hong Kong.

Less popular was Satan Never Sleeps (1961), the last film of Clifton Webb and Leo McCarey; The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), this third film with Seaton; or The Lion (1962), with Trevor Howard and Capucine. The latter was shot in Africa and sparked a fascination with the continent that was to last until the end of Holden's life.

Holden's films continued to struggle at the box office however: Paris When It Sizzles (1964) with Hepburn that was shot in 1962 but given a much delayed release; The 7th Dawn (1964) with Capucine and Susannah York, a romantic adventure set during the Malayan Emergency produced by Charles K. Feldman; Alvarez Kelly (1966), a Western; and The Devil's Brigade (1968). He was also one of many names in Feldman's Casino Royale (1967).

Holden in The Revengers (1972)

In 1969, Holden made a comeback when he starred in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent Western The Wild Bunch,[5] winning much acclaim.

Also in 1969, Holden starred in director Terence Young's family film L'Arbre de Noël, co-starring Italian actress Virna Lisi and French actor Bourvil, based on the novel of the same name by Michel Bataille. This film was originally released in the United States as The Christmas Tree and on home video as When Wolves Cry.[30]

Holden made a Western with Ryan O'Neal and Blake Edwards, Wild Rovers (1971). It was not particularly successful. Neither was The Revengers (1972), another Western.

For television roles in 1974, Holden won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of a cynical, tough veteran LAPD street cop in the television film The Blue Knight, based upon the best-selling Joseph Wambaugh novel of the same name.[31]

In 1973, Holden starred with Kay Lenz in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood called Breezy, which was considered a box-office flop.

Also in 1974, Holden starred with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in the critically acclaimed disaster film The Towering Inferno,[33] which became a box-office smash and one of the highest-grossing films of Holden's career.

Two years later, he was praised for his Oscar-nominated leading performance in Sidney Lumet's classic Network (1976),[34] an examination of the media written by Paddy Chayefsky, playing an older version of the character type for which he had become iconic in the 1950s, only now more jaded and aware of his own mortality.

Around this time he also appeared in 21 Hours at Munich (1976).

Final Films
Holden made a fourth and final film for Wilder with Fedora (1978). He followed it with Damien: Omen II (1978) and had a cameo in Escape to Athena (1978).

Holden had a supporting role in Ashanti (1979) and was third-billed in another disaster movie with Paul Newman for Irwin Allen, When Time Ran Out... (1980), which was a flop.

In 1980, Holden appeared in The Earthling with popular child actor Ricky Schroder,[36] playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident, and teaches him how to survive.

After making S.O.B. (1981) for Blake Edwards, Holden refused to star in Jason Miller's film That Championship Season.

Personal life


Matron of honor Brenda Marshall (left) and best man William Holden, sole guests at Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan's wedding in 1952

Holden was best man at the wedding of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952; however, he never involved himself in politics.

While in Italy in 1966, Holden killed another driver in a drunk-driving incident. He received an eight-month suspended sentence for vehicular manslaughter.

Holden maintained a home in Switzerland and also spent much of his time working for wildlife conservation as a managing partner in an animal preserve in Africa. His Mount Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki (founded 1959) became a mecca for the international jet set. On a trip to Africa, he fell in love with the wildlife and became increasingly concerned with the animal species that were beginning to decrease in population. With the help of his partners, he created the Mount Kenya Game Ranch and inspired the creation of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation. The Mount Kenya Game Ranch works to assist in Kenya with the wildlife education of its youth. Within the Mount Kenya Game Ranch is the Mount Kenya Conservancy, which runs an animal orphanage as well as the Bongo Rehabilitation Program in collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service. The orphanage provides shelter and care for orphans, injured and neglected animals found in the wild, with the aim of releasing these animals back into the wild whenever possible. The conservancy is home to the critically endangered East African mountain bongo, and aims to prevent its extinction by breeding.
Marriage and relationships

Holden was married to actress Ardis Ankerson (stage name Brenda Marshall) from 1941 until their divorce 30 years later, in 1971.[5] They had two sons, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014) and Scott Porter Holden (1946–2005). He adopted his wife's daughter, Virginia, from her first marriage with actor Richard Gaines. During the filming of the film Sabrina (1954), costar Audrey Hepburn and he had a brief but passionate affair. Holden met French actress Capucine in the early 1960s. The two starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism. Capucine and Holden remained friends until his death in 1981.

In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers, and sparked her interest in animal welfare. After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch.

Death
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a teak bedside table, and bled to death. Evidence suggests he was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. He likely may not have realized the severity of the injury and did not summon aid, or was unable to call for help. His body was found four days later. The causes of death were given as "exsanguination" and "blunt laceration of scalp." Rumors existed that he was suffering from lung cancer, which Holden himself had denied at a 1980 press conference. His death certificate made no mention of any cancer. He had dictated in his will that the Neptune Society cremate him and scatter his ashes in the Pacific Ocean. In accordance with his wishes, no funeral or memorial service was held.

Ronald Reagan released a statement, saying, "I have a great feeling of grief. We were close friends for many years. What do you say about a longtime friend – a sense of personal loss, a fine man. Our friendship never waned." For his contribution to the film industry, Holden has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1651 Vine Street. He also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. His death was noted by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose 1987 song "Tom's Diner" (about a sequence of events one morning in 1981) included a mention of reading a newspaper article about "an actor who had died while he was drinking". Vega subsequently confirmed that this was a reference to Holden.

William Holden (I) (1918–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000034/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

1981 S.O.B. - Tim Culley
1980 The Earthling - Patrick Foley
1980 When Time Ran Out.. - Shelby Gilmore

1979 Ashanti - Jim Sandell
1979 Escape to Athena - Prisoner smoking a cigar in prison camp (uncredited)
1978 Omen II: Damien - Richard Thorn
1978 Fedora - Barry Detweiler
1976 Network - Max Schumacher
1976 21 Hours at Munich (TV Movie) - Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber
1974 The Towering Inferno - Jim Duncan
1974 Open Season - Hal Wolkowski
1973 Breezy - Frank Harmon
1973 The Blue Knight (TV Movie) - Bumper Morgan
1972 The Revengers - John Benedict
1971 Wild Rovers - Ross Bodine

1969 The Christmas Tree - Laurent Ségur
1969 The Wild Bunch - Pike
1968 The Devil's Brigade - Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
1967 Casino Royale - Ransome
1966 Alvarez Kelly - Alvarez Kelly
1964 The 7th Dawn - Major Ferris
1964 Paris When It Sizzles - Richard Benson / Rick
1962 The Lion - Robert Hayward
1962 The Counterfeit Traitor - Eric Erickson
1962 Satan Never Sleeps - Father O'Banion
1961 Frances Farmer Presents (TV Series) - Colin McDonald
- Blaze of Noon (1961) ... Colin McDonald
1960 The World of Suzie Wong - Robert Lomax

1959 The Horse Soldiers - Maj. Henry Kendall
1958 The Key - Captain David Ross
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Shears
1956 Toward the Unknown - Maj. Lincoln Bond
1956 The Proud and Profane - Lt. Col. Colin Black
1956 Picnic - Hal Carter
1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Mark Elliott
1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Lt. Harry Brubaker
1954 The Country Girl - Bernie Dodd
1954 Sabrina - David Larrabee
1954 Executive Suite - McDonald Walling
1953 Escape from Fort Bravo - Capt. Roper
1953 Forever Female - Stanley Krown
1953 Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach - Tourist (uncredited)
1953 The Moon Is Blue - Donald Gresham
1953 Stalag 17 - Sgt. J.J. Sefton
1952 The Turning Point - Jerry McKibbon
1952 Boots Malone - Boots Malone
1951 Submarine Command - Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
1951 Force of Arms - Sgt. John 'Pete' Peterson
1950 Born Yesterday - Paul Verrall
1950 Union Station - Lt. William Calhoun
1950 Sunset Blvd. - Joe Gillis
1950 Father Is a Bachelor - Johnny Rutledge

1949 Dear Wife - Bill Seacroft
1949 Miss Grant Takes Richmond - Dick Richmond
1949 Streets of Laredo - Jim Dawkins
1948 The Man from Colorado - Del Stewart
1948 The Dark Past - Al Walker
1948 Apartment for Peggy - Jason Taylor
1948 Rachel and the Stranger - Big Davey
1947 Variety Girl - William Holden
1947 Dear Ruth - Lt. William Seacroft
1947 Blaze of Noon - Colin McDonald
1943 Reconnaissance Pilot (Documentary short) - Lt. Packard A. Cummings (uncredited)
1943 Young and Willing - Norman Reese
1942 Meet the Stewarts - Michael Stewart
1942 The Remarkable Andrew - Andrew Long
1942 The Fleet's In - Casey Kirby
1941 Texas - Dan Thomas
1941 I Wanted Wings - Al Ludlow
1940 Arizona - Peter Muncie
1940 Our Town - George Gibbs
1940 Those Were the Days! - P.J. 'Petey' Simmons

1939 Invisible Stripes - Tim Taylor
1939 Golden Boy - Joe Bonaparte
1939 Million Dollar Legs - Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
1938 Prison Farm - Prisoner (uncredited)

Soundtrack (6 credits)

1971 Wild Rovers (performer: "Ballad of the Wild Rovers" - uncredited)
1956 Picnic (performer: "Moonglow" - uncredited)
1950 Sunset Blvd. (performer: "La Cumparsita" (1916) - uncredited)
1947 Variety Girl ("HARMONY")
1940 Arizona (performer: "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (1854), "Kiss Me Quick and Go" (1856) - uncredited)
1939 Golden Boy (performer: "Lullaby (Cradle Song)", "Funiculi, Funicula")

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1984: A View to Kill films OO7 and Stacey in elevator peril.
1995: GoldenEye cast including Pierce Brosnan attend the Second Annual James Bond Convention, New York.

1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Singapore.
2002: Warner Bros. Records releases David Arnold's Die Another Day soundtrack.

Now expanded.

2015: Spectre released in Australia, Greece, and Uruguay.

RichardTheBruce

November 13th

1923: Linda Christian is born--Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
(She dies 25 July 2011 at age 87--Palm Desert, California.)

Linda Christian obituary
B-movie actor who could lay claim to having been the first Bond
girl

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/26/linda-christian-obituary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linda Christian (I) (1923–2011)

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

Filmography

Actress (36 credits)

1988 Cambiamento d'aria (TV Movie) - Linda Christian
1987 Amore inquieto di Maria - Helen
1987 Delitti - The Narrator

1968 L'oro del mondo - Mother of Lorena
1967 The World's Gold - Laura - mother of Lorena
1966 How to Seduce a Playboy - Lucy's Mother
1966 Murder in Amsterdam - Ellen Martens
1965 The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall - Madre de Martha
1965 The Moment of Truth - Linda, American woman
1964 Contest Girl - Rose of England Judge (uncredited)
1964 Full Hearts and Empty Pockets - Minelli
1963 The V.I.P.s - Miriam Marshall
1963 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Susan Lane
- Last of the Private Eyes (1963) ... Susan Lane
1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show (TV Series) - Taina Haagen
- The Waltz of the Two Commuters (1963) ... Taina Haagen
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Eva Ashley
- An Out for Oscar (1963) ... Eva Ashley
1962 Passport for a Corpse - Eva
1961 The Devil's Hand - Bianca Milan
1960 Das große Wunschkonzert - Vilma Cortini
1960 Appuntamento a Ischia - Mercedes Barock

1959 Meet Peter Voss - Grace McNaughty
1959 Rebel Flight to Cuba - Gräfin Colmar
1959 The House of the Seven Hawks - Elsa
1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - - A Piece of Cake (1956)
1956 Thunderstorm - Maria Ramon
1954 Athena - Beth Hallson
1954 Climax! (TV Series) - Valerie Mathis
- Casino Royale (1954) ... Valerie Mathis
1953 Slaves of Babylon - Princess Panthea
1952 The Happy Time - Mignonette Chappuis
1952 Battle Zone - Jeanne
1951 Show Boat - Chorus Girl (uncredited)

1948 Tarzan and the Mermaids - Mara
1947 Green Dolphin Street - Hine-Moa
1946 Holiday in Mexico - Angel (uncredited)
1945 Club Havana - Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
1944 Up in Arms - Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
1943 The Rock of Souls (as Linda Welter)

Valerie Mathis and CIA Agent Jimmy Bond

Diego Rivera painting.

1952: Art Malik is born--Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
1969: Gerard Butler is born--Paisley, Scotland.
1986: Goldfinger re-released in Norway.
1995: GoldenEye world premiere at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York.

2001: Electronic Arts publishes video game Agent Under Fire for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube.

2005: Draft US cover art for Blood Fever revealed, dropping the UK tagline "Death is contagious".

2006: A&M releases the Chris Cornell single "You Know My Name" from his album Carry On.

2008: A Quantum csendje (The Silence of Quantum) released in Hungary.

2015: 幽灵 released in China in an edited form.

2019: The Sunday Times Driving shares "James Bond stunt team provide toughest test of all for new Land Rover" with the promotional video.

James Bond stunt
team provide
toughest test of all
for new Land Rover
Defender

Nobody punishes it better
https://www.driving.co.uk/video/james-bond-stunt-team-provide-toughest-test-new-land-rover-defender/
Published 13 November 2019 by Will Dron

WHATEVER your thoughts on the all-new Land Rover Defender, the 4×4 has been put through some serious testing during its development, covering more than 745,000 miles in some of the most extreme environments around the world, where temperature ranged from -40C to 50C and the altitude reached 10,000ft. But nothing could have prepared it for what the James Bond stunt team had in store.

A new teaser video released by Land Rover shows Lee Morrison, stunt co-ordinator for No Time To Die, the 25th official James Bond film, and stunt driver Jess Hawkins doing their absolute best to punish the Defender.

Behind the scenes of Stunt Coordinator Lee Morrison with the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die

Land Rover says its design team worked closely with Chris Corbould, the special effects and action vehicles supervisor, on the specification of the Defenders to feature in the movie.

The cars used were the first Defenders to be built at Jaguar Land Rover’s new production facility in Nitra, Slovakia, and based on the Defender X model in Santorini Black, with darkened skid pans, 20in dark finish wheels and professional off-road tyres.

Behind the scenes image of the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die

No Time To Die, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig, who returns for his fifth film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007, will be released globally in cinemas in April 2020.

It will also feature the Range Rover Sport SVR, Series III Land Rover and Range Rover Classic, as well as a host of models from other brands including the Jaguar XF, Aston Martin Valhalla supercar and, of course, the legendary Aston Martin DB5.

RichardTheBruce

November 14th

1966: Bond comic strip Octopussy begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 27 May 1967. 264-428)

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


http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=996


https://www.007collector.com/comic-octopussy-2/






Barcelona James Bond numero 04: Octopussy
https://en.todocoleccion.net/comics/james-bond-numero-04-octopussy~x116600976


https://www.007collector.com/comic-jb007-no-16/
Italian James Bond Comic Series Number 16 ‘Octopussy’


JAMES BOND DI IAN FLEMING. OCTOPUSSY. N. 112. ED. C. CONTI, 1977. ITALIANO


Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 1) - Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 2)

Danish


Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no42-1977/

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service's Peter Hunt films OO7 and more cowbell.
1972: Live and Let Die begins filming on location in Jamaica.
1979: Olga Kurylenko is born--Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
(Today known as Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.)
1995: EMI releases Éric Serra's GoldenEye soundtrack.

2006: Casino Royale Royal Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

2006: Casino Royale released in Kuwait.
2006: Sony Classical releases David Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Morocco (Casablanca), Kenya, Pakistan, Vietnam, and the US.
2008: 007 Quantum released in Canada and Mexico.
2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #3.

James Bond Origin #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244703011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Declan Shalvey
Cover C: Kev Walker
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q

"CHAPTER THREE: ROCKET SEA"
The epic account of James Bond's exploits during World War II continues, by superstar JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger)!
Aboard a Royal Navy submarine, Lieutenant James Bond and crew encounter deadly German warships and bombers! Can the British crew keep their nerve and evade...or will they sink into a watery grave?

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Thunderfinger

That Italian opening panel is magnificent.

marketto007

Sophie Marceau is Nov. 17th. Isn't she?

RichardTheBruce

Thanks for that correction, @marketto007. Ms. Marceau is front-loaded for the 17th as you said, not sure how that got pulled into another day.

RichardTheBruce

November 15th

1939: Yaphet Kotto is born--New York City, New York.
1972: Live and Let Die films Rosie Carver's death by scarecrow.
1999: Radioactive releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a limited-edition digipak CD single and a cassette single in the UK. Both include "Ice Bandits". CD adds remix by Unkle.

2005: From Russia with Love video game published by Electronic Arts in the US for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation Portable.

2006: Casino Royale released in the Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, and the Philippines.
2011: Michael Alexander Olson (of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada) completes Goldeneye 007's Antenna Cradle in record time on Nintendo 64.

2012: The New York Times prints Edward Rothstein's "No, Mr. Bond, We Expect You to Die".

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/arts/design/exquisitely-evil-bond-villains-at-international-spy-museum.html?ref=todayspaper

2012: Skyfall released in Cambodia.
2013: Danjaq, LLC and MGM announce they acquired full rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the McClory estate.
2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Kill Chain #5.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017805011
Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Publication Date: November 2017
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 11/15

As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe's most wanted man. Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infiltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!

2018: Mitchell Beazley publishes Shaken – Drinking with James Bond & Ian Fleming, by bar entrepreneurs Mia Johansson, Bobby Hiddleston and Edmund Weil. In coordination with the Ian Fleming Estate and Ian Fleming Publications.

RichardTheBruce

November 16th

1942: Joanna Pettet is born--Westminster, London.
1968: Yildirim Harekati (Lightning Strike) released in Turkey.

Apparently there was also a sequel.

1995: L'oeil de feu (The Eye of Fire) released in Canada.

1999: Electronic Arts releases Tomorrow Never Dies video game in North America for Sony PlayStation.

1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Malaysia.
2006: Casino Royale released in the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Singapore, and Syria.

2006: James Bond: Casino Royale released in Slovakia.
2006: Казино Рояль released in Russia.
2006: 007: Казино Рояль released in Ukraine.

2012: Skyfall premieres in Sydney, Australia, at the State Theatre.

2012: The International Spy Museum in Washington DC opens its Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains exhibit.

RichardTheBruce

November 17th

1905: Teru Shimada is born--Mito, Japan. (He dies 19 June 1988 at age 82--Encino, California.)

Teru Shimada

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

Born Akira Shimada, November 17, 1905 - Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Died June 19, 1988 (aged 82) - Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, Years active 1932–1975

Teru Shimada (November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. His film career began in 1932 with the Night Club Lady. He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic Mr. Moto's Last Warning. Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film, Tokyo Joe. He had an uncredited role in 20th Century Fox's 1966 film Batman as a Japanese Delegate and as Mr. Kurawa in Cary Grant's final film, Walk, Don't Run. He also appeared in an episode (titled "And Five of Us are Left") of the 1960s American television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in 1965. That year he also made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Dr. Maseo Tachikawa in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" and as Ito Kumagi in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Capricious Corpse". In 1970, he had had a leading role in an episode of Hawaii Five-O (titled "The Reunion"). He later retired in the mid-1970s following appearances in Barnaby Jones and The Six Million Dollar Man and died in Encino, Los Angeles, California in 1988.

During World War II, Shimada was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793574/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (74 credits)

1975 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - Shige Ishikawa
- The Wolf Boy (1975) ... Shige Ishikawa
1975 Barnaby Jones (TV Series) - Hidekei Ito
- The Deadly Conspiracy: Part 2 (1975) ... Hidekei Ito
1971 To Rome with Love (TV Series) - Mr. Okada
- Bonsai (1971) ... Mr. Okada
1970 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shigato
- The Reunion (1970) ... Shigato
1970 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Mr. Orokumu
- Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 2 (1970) ... Mr. Orokumu
1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
1970 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Osaki
- Mr. Osaki's Tree (1970) ... Mr. Osaki
-
1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Mr. Namura
- Hostage (1968) ... Mr. Namura
1968 Mannix (TV Series) - Gardener
- The Need of a Friend (1968) ... Gardener
1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Judge Hara
- Transplant (1968) ... Judge Hara
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Mr. Tsu
- When Good Friends Get Together (1968) ... Mr. Tsu
1967 The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk - Mr. Pan
1967 Savage Justice - Tom Hirata
1967 You Only Live Twice - Mr. Osato
1966 Batman: The Movie
Japanese Delegate (uncredited)
1966 Walk Don't Run - Mr. Kurawa
1965 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Capt. Osama
- I'm Dreaming of a Wide Isthmus (1965) ... Capt. Osama
1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Okura
- Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Mr. Okura
1962-1965 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Dr. Maseo Tachikawa / Ito Kumagi
- The Case of the Baffling Bug (1965) ... Dr. Maseo Tachikawa
- The Case of the Capricious Corpse (1962) ... Ito Kumagi
1965 King Rat - The Japanese General
1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Nakamura
- ...And Five of Us Are Left (1965) ... Nakamura
1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - President Sing-Mok
- Alexander the Greater Affair: Part Two (1965) ... President Sing-Mok
1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Japanese Captain
- A Time for Killing (1965) ... Japanese Captain
1963 The Prize - Japanese Correspondent (uncredited)
1963 Sunday in New York - Maitre 'd (uncredited)
1963 Hazel (TV Series) - Mr. Nakuro Isaka
- A Good Example for Harold (1963) ... Mr. Nakuro Isaka
1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ling Chow
- In a Foreign Quarter (1962) ... Ling Chow
1962 The Horizontal Lieutenant - Master of Ceremonies at Show (uncredited)
1962 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Takara - Board Game Opponent
- Coming of the Tiger (1962) ... Takara - Board Game Opponent
1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - Captain Suma
- The Longest Crap Game in History (1961) ... Captain Suma
1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Kami
- Dragon at the Door (1961) ... Kami
1960-1961 The Islanders (TV Series) - Kam Chuh / Regas
- The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo (1961) ... Kam Chuh
- The Terrified Blonde (1960) ... Regas
1961 Assignment: Underwater (TV Series) - - Affair in Tokyo (1961)
1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army - Maj. Samada
1960 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Colonel Okumara
- Colonel Cat (1960) ... Colonel Okumara
1960 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - Noburu
- Sword of the Samurai (1960) ... Noburu
1960 The Detectives (TV Series) - Mr. Harada
- Karate (1960) ... Mr. Harada

1959 The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (TV Series) - Osato
- The Ricardos Go to Japan (1959) ... Osato
1959 Battle of the Coral Sea - Comm. Mori
1959 Tokyo After Dark - Sen-Sei
1959 Steve Canyon (TV Series) - Major Fukuda
- The Prisoner (1959) ... Major Fukuda
1958 The Geisha Boy - Osakawa, Japanese Detective (uncredited)
1958 Run Silent Run Deep - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
1956-1957 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Kiyoshi Arikawa / Kiyoshi
- Innocent Conspiracy (1957) ... Kiyoshi Arikawa
- The Pearl (1956) ... Kiyoshi
1956-1957 Navy Log (TV Series) - Patriarch / Judge Toyama
- The Commander and the Kid (1957) ... Patriarch
- A Guy Called Mickey (1956) ... Judge Toyama
1957 The Delicate Delinquent - Togo's Japanese Interpreter (uncredited)
1957 Battle Hymn - Korean Official
1956 Navy Wife - Mayor Yoshida
1956 Telephone Time (TV Series)
- Time Bomb (1956)
1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series)
- Call Home the Heart (1956)
1955 House of Bamboo - Nagaya (uncredited)
1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Japanese Father (uncredited)
1954 The Snow Creature - Subra
1953 The War of the Worlds - Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
1950 Emergency Wedding - Ho (uncredited)

1949 Tokyo Joe - Ito
1944 Dragon Seed - Villager (uncredited)
1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Colonel (uncredited)

1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Fake Mr. Moto (uncredited)
1936 White Legion - Dr. Nogi (as Teru Shumada)
1936 Revolt of the Zombies - Buna
1935 The Affair of Susan - Spieler (uncredited)
1935 Oil for the Lamps of China - Tea House Owner (uncredited)
1935 Public Hero Number 1 - Sam - Sonny's Japanese Houseboy (uncredited)
1935 Let 'em Have It - Chinese Houseboy (uncredited)
1935 Bordertown - Law School Graduate (uncredited)
1934 Imitation of Life - Japanese Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
1934 Charlie Chan's Courage - Jiu Jitsu Man
1934 Murder at the Vanities - Koto (uncredited)
1934 Four Frightened People - Native (uncredited)
1933 Midnight Club - Nishi (uncredited)
1933 Gabriel Over the White House - Japanese Admiral at Debt Conference (uncredited)
1932 The Night Club Lady - Ito Mura (uncredited)
1932 The Washington Masquerade - Japanese Dignitary (uncredited)

Self (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Mr. Osato
1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- The World of James Bond (1967) ... Himself

1966: Sophie Marceau is born--Paris, France.
1982: Octopussy films OO7 fighting Mischka and Grischka.
1995: GoldenEye general release in the US.

2006: Casino Royale released in Canada, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and the US.

2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Estonia.
2006: Kazino Royale released in Lithuania and Latvia.

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2006: 皇家赌场 released in Taiwan.

Thunderfinger

Interesting Baltic spelling.

RichardTheBruce

November 18th

1926: Mickey Mouse is born as a comic strip. (Known as Topolino in Italy.)
1962: The Sunday Times prints the Ian Fleming piece "James Bond's Hardware. [The Guns of James Bond]".

https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/442/lot/142155/Two-appearances-by-Ian-Fleming-in-The-Sunday-Times-Magazine

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1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 infiltrating the volcano.
1988: Licence to KIll principal photography finishes. (Started 18 July.)
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malaysia and Singapore.
2002: Die Another Day world premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London.

2002: Electronic Arts publishes Nightfire in North America for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance.

2012: Daniel Craig visits British troops at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and screens Skyfall with 800 soldiers.

2017: Mark Milsome dies at age 54--Ghana. (Born 1963--London, England.)

Mark Milsome Foundation

https://www.imago.org/index.php/news/item/800-mark-milsome-foundation.html

On 18th November 2017, Mark Milsome was killed age 54 on a film set in Ghana whilst operating a camera for a car stunt that went tragically wrong. It was a shocking happening leaving everybody astonished by the fact that the accident ocurred while in duty and should have never happened. Now a few initiatives like getting up a foundation under is name is now underway in the occasion of the date of the first year of his death.

The Mark Milsome Foundation is inspired by the achievements, character and unique nature of our respected friend and colleague, Mark Milsome who was killed behind his camera whilst filming a car stunt in Ghana 18th November 2017.

We are a non profit registered UK charity which aims to support, encourage and inspire young people, initially through two scholarship programmes, and to raise awareness of the importance of Health and Safety in the Film and Television Industry.

We have established one scholarship in advance of our launch via the Guild of British Camera Technicians Training Programme and will announce a second early in 2019 that will support deserving Film Students to secure mentorship and work experience.
We have taken our core values and ambitions as a charity from the example set by Mark Milsome and believe opportunities should be open to men and women who prove they have the character, determination and focus needed to thrive in the industry.

We will encourage young people from all parts of the UK, all social and economic backgrounds, all levels of academic achievement, whether from obscurity or from a recognised educational programme to work with us. We will require evidence of genuine passion and a strong work ethic before considering anyone to be deserving of support or scholarships in Mark’s name.

As an organisation we are open to exploring other areas, including furthering health and safety, and will evolve in any way that best serves the scholars, the Film and Television Industry and the memory of Mark Milsome.

Please go to www.markmilsomefoundation.com to remember Mark and discover more about the ambitions of the foundation.

LAUNCH OF MARK MILSOME FOUNDATION WEBSITE AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF BLACK - T - WEEK (18TH -24TH NOVEMBER)
Following the tragic death of Mark Milsome on set in Ghana on 18th November 2017 a charitable foundation has been set up in his name by industry professionals, friends and family.

The Foundation will officially launch early 2019 but as we approach the anniversary of Mark’s death they are inviting cast and crew from the film making community worldwide to honour Mark during the week of 18th - 24th November by wearing a black foundation T shirt on set. The limited edition T shirts will be available to purchase through October from the Foundation website at: www.markmilsomefoundation.com with deliveries early November in time for Black - T - Week.

The Foundation are encouraging crew to visit their site to remember Mark and to sign up for updates and the ambitions of the Foundation to help young people in the industry.

You can also receive Mark Milsome Foundation updates and info from:
Facebook @MarkMilsomeFoundation
Twitter @MarkMilsomeFDN
Instagram @markmilsomefoundation

Mark Milsome (1963–2017)

Camera and Electrical Department | Cinematographer | Miscellaneous Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590600/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Camera and Electrical Department (80 credits)

2018 Black Earth Rising (TV Series) (camera operator)
2018 The Etruscan Smile (camera operator)
2018 National Treasure: Kiri (TV Mini-Series) (second camera operator - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.4 (2018) ... (second camera operator)
2017 Bang (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
2017 The Durrells in Corfu (TV Series) (camera operator - 6 episodes)
- Episode #2.6 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.5 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.4 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.3 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
2017 Bitter Harvest (b camera operator: additional photography)
2016 Game of Thrones (TV Series) (b camera operator - 3 episodes)
- Battle of the Bastards (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
- The Door (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
- Book of the Stranger (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
2014-2015 Downton Abbey (TV Series) (a camera operator - 9 episodes)
- Christmas Special (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.8 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.7 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.6 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.5 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.4 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.3 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #5.6 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #5.5 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
2015/I Bill (camera operator)
2015 Safe House (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (2015) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.3 (2015) ... (camera operator)
2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (camera operator)
2014 The Theory of Everything (camera operator: 'b' camera)
2014 24: Live Another Day (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
- 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. (2014) ... (camera operator)
- 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (2014) ... (camera operator)
2014 Call the Midwife (TV Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
- Episode #3.4 (2014) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #3.3 (2014) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #3.2 (2014) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #3.1 (2014) ... (camera operator)
2010-2014 Sherlock (TV Series) (camera operator - 7 episodes)
- The Sign of Three (2014) ... (camera operator)
- The Empty Hearse (2014) ... (camera operator)
- The Reichenbach Fall (2012) ... (camera operator)
- The Hounds of Baskerville (2012) ... (camera operator)
- A Scandal in Belgravia (2012) ... (camera operator)
- The Great Game (2010) ... (camera operator - uncredited)
- The Blind Banker (2010) ... (camera operator)
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2013 What Remains (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (2013) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.3 (2013) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.2 (2013) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.1 (2013) ... (camera operator)
2013 How I Live Now (additional photography) / (camera operator: "b" camera)
2012 Hunted (TV Series) (camera operator - 1 episode)
- Snow Maiden (2012) ... (camera operator)
2012 Accused (TV Series) (second camera operator - 2 episodes)
- Tina's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
- Tracie's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
2011 Hunky Dory (camera operator: second unit)
2011 My Week with Marilyn (camera operator: "c" camera)
2011 Your Highness (camera operator: "b" camera)

2009 Into the Rose-Garden (Short) (camera operator)
2009 Small Island (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator)
2009 Nowhere Boy (camera operator: "b" camera)
2009 Skellig: The Owl Man (TV Movie) (camera operator)
2008 Quantum of Solace (camera operator "b" camera: main unit)
2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (focus puller: "a" camera)
2008 The Passion (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (2008) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.3 (2008) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.2 (2008) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.1 (2008) ... (camera operator)
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age (camera operator: second unit)
2007 1408 (additional camera operator)
2006 Dracula (TV Movie) (additional camera operator)
2006 Notes on a Scandal (second assistant camera)
2006 Miss Potter (focus puller: "a" camera)
2006 Caught Out (Short) (camera operator)
2006 Longford (TV Movie) (focus puller)
2006 The History Boys (first assistant camera: "a" camera)
2006 Breaking and Entering (focus puller)
2005 Mrs Henderson Presents (first assistant camera)
2005/I Game Over (first assistant camera)
2005 The Constant Gardener ("b" focus puller: London)
2005 Russian Dolls (first assistant camera: London)
2005 The Dark (camera operator: second unit)
2005 On a Clear Day (second camera operator: Isle of Man)
2004 Finding Neverland (focus puller: "b" camera)
2004 King Arthur (camera operator: additional photography - uncredited)
2004 Stage Beauty (camera operator: "c" camera) / (focus puller: "a" camera)
2004 Sex Lives of the Potato Men (camera operator)
2003 Winter Solstice (TV Movie) (camera operator)
2003 Loving You (TV Movie) (focus puller)
2002 Anita & Me (focus puller)
2002 Tipping the Velvet (TV Mini-Series) (focus puller - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (2002) ... (focus puller)
- Episode #1.2 (2002) ... (focus puller)
- Episode #1.1 (2002) ... (focus puller)
2002 Ritual (first assistant camera)
2002 Silent Cry (focus puller)
2002 Thunderpants (focus puller)
2001 Victoria & Albert (TV Movie) (focus puller)
2001 Wit (TV Movie) (focus puller: "b" camera)
2000 The House of Mirth (focus puller) / (focus puller: second unit)
2000 Purely Belter (focus puller)
2000 24 Hours in London (camera operator)

1999 Oklahoma! (TV Movie) (focus puller)
1999 Heart (focus puller)
1998 Little Voice (focus puller)
1998 Saving Private Ryan (first assistant camera)
1997 Photographing Fairies (focus puller)
1997 A Merry War (camera focus)
1997 Zeus and Roxanne (assistant camera: second unit)
1996 Brassed Off (focus puller)
1996 Mary Reilly (clapper loader)
1995 Hackers (clapper loader)
1994 Dandelion Dead (TV Mini-Series) (second assistant camera - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
- Episode #1.3 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
- Episode #1.1 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral (clapper loader)
1993 Dark Waters (camera operator)
1993 Cliffhanger (second assistant camera: "b" camera)
1992 Wuthering Heights (camera loader)
1992 Blame It on the Bellboy (clapper loader)
1991 American Friends (clapper loader)
1990 Memphis Belle (clapper loader: aerial unit)
1990 Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (TV Movie) (clapper loader)
1989 About Face (TV Series) (clapper/loader - 1 episode)
- Bag Lady (1989) ... (clapper/loader)

Cinematographer (5 credits)

Rasta Man Vibrations (Short) (completed)
2017 Arsenal and Dashen and the Penalty (Short)
2017 Bang (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Episode #1.8 (2017)
- Episode #1.7 (2017)
- Episode #1.6 (2017)
- Episode #1.5 (2017)
- Episode #1.4 (2017)
- Episode #1.3 (2017)
2014 Touch 4 Love (Short)

1991 Caruncula (Short)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) (jobfit trainee - 1 episode)
- The Yob (1988) ... (jobfit trainee)

Thanks (1 credit)

2018 King of Thieves (in memory of)

Self (1 credit)

2000 Supporting Acts (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Special Effects Contact Lenses/Focus Puller ... Himself (as Mark Millsome)

Thunderfinger

Happy Birthday, Mickey!

RichardTheBruce

November 19th

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

1963: Ian Fleming is photographed by the Keystone Press Agency Ltd.

1963: In the case of McClory v Fleming, the Chancery Division of the High Court allows Fleming and Ivar Bryce to settle. McClory gains rights to the screenplay, including film rights. Fleming receives rights to his novel, to be labeled "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the Author".
1965: Rusya'dan Sevgilerle (From Russia With Love) released in Turkey.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Australia.

1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Argentina.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Australia.

1988: Licence to Kill completes filming, representing Timothy Dalton last day on camera as Bond.
1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in Canada.

1999: The World Is Not Enough US general release, plus Iceland premiere.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Australia, Peru, and South Africa.
2013: BBC reports "Bond villain Blofeld could return to Bond."

Bond villain Blofeld could return to Bond

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24999407
19 November 2013

Charles Gray played Blofeld in Diamonds are
Forever

Famous Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld could appear in future 007 films now that a long-running legal dispute has been settled.

Kevin McClory, who came up with the story for Thunderball with Ian Fleming, had been locked in a battle over Bond rights since 1959.

McClory, and later his estate, asserted he had created the Blofeld character.

Now film studio MGM and Bond film company Danjaq have acquired all the rights from McClory's estate.

A joint statement from the three parties involved said the deal brought "to an amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically over 50 years".

The agreement means that Bond producers are clear to use the Blofeld character again if they wish.

Dispute
Blofeld's face was often concealed in the films as the camera focused on him stroking his white cat.

The character has appeared in six official Bond films - From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as well as McClory's Never Say Never Again (1983).

He has been played by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow.

The dispute began when McClory worked on the script for Thunderball, which first introduced the character of Blofeld.

It was then used by Fleming to form the basis for his novel of the same name.

But McClory and another scriptwriter, Jack Whittingham, were unaware the novel was being published and were not credited.

This led them to sue Fleming successfully in 1963.

Connery's return
McClory, who died in 2006, produced the movie of Thunderball in 1965.

But the dispute raised its head again in the 1970s, when McClory wanted to make another Bond film - he won the right to do so in court and the result was his 1983 movie Never Say Never Again.

He brought back Sean Connery as agent 007 after a 12-year hiatus, and the film was again based on the Thunderball novel.

However the movie has never been welcomed into the official Bond canon.

McClory lost another legal case in 2001 over the rights to the James Bond film character.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed his case, saying McClory had waited too long to make a claim.

The next Bond film, starring Daniel Craig and directed by Sam Mendes, is due for release in 2015.

RichardTheBruce

November 20th

1926: John Edmund Gardner is born--Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England.
(He dies 3 August 2007 at age 80--Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.)

John Gardner
Prolific thriller writer behind the revival of James Bond and Professor Moriarty

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
Mike Ripley - 3 Nov 2007 19.53 EDT

John Gardner, who has died aged 80, was the consummate thriller writer, producing[ more than 50 novels. But he owed his reputation to James Bond. His early success came with send-ups of the Bond genre, and he was to find greater fame, if not satisfaction, in reinventing Agent 007 almost 20 years after the death of the secret agent's creator, Ian Fleming.

Born in Seaton Delaval, then in Northumberland, Gardner was the only child of an Anglican priest - the family moved south when his father became chaplain at St Mary's, Wantage, Berkshire, where Gardner attended King Alfred's school. During the second world war, he joined the Home Guard aged only 14. He then served in the Fleet Air Arm in 1944 and the Royal Marine commandos in the Middle and Far East. After the war, he read theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and entered the Anglican priesthood, but after five years and a crisis of faith, he turned to journalism as drama critic of the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, and to drink.

By the age of 33, he realised that his intake of gin qualified him as an alcoholic. As part of his therapy, he wrote Spin the Bottle (1963), a memoir about his relationship with alcohol. He claimed never to have touched booze since 1959, and the memoir - his only non-fiction book - launched him on a writing career.

Gardner's first novel, The Liquidator, a spoof of the Bond books, was published in 1964, the year of Fleming's death. The anti-hero, Boysie Oakes, had one drawback as a licensed-to-kill man of action: he was a coward who hated violence and sub-contracted parts of his missions to an assassin.

The book was filmed by Jack Cardiff, with Rod Taylor in the Oakes role and Eric Sykes as the hit man. Gardner was unimpressed with the result, but he was far less complimentary about Michael Winner's 1973 film The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson, adapted from his novel, A Complete State of Death (not one of the Oakes series), which he wrote in 1969 under the pen name Derek Torry.

Seven more Oakes books followed, including Amber Nine (1966), in which the villain turned out to be Hitler's long-lost daughter. By 1974, though, Gardner was ready for a change and launched a new series based on the diaries of Professor James Moriarty, the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. He intended a trilogy, but after the appearance of The Return of Moriarty (1974) and The Revenge of Moriarty (1975), he could not agree a publishing deal for a third book, and, in any case, Bond was about to intervene once more.

While living in tax exile in Ireland, Gardner was approached by crime novelist and president of the Detection Club Harry Keating, on behalf of the Fleming estate. The proposition was to reinvent the Bond books for the late 1970s. Gardner, by now the author of 17 novels and two collections of short stories, was at first reluctant to commit. But in the end he convinced himself he could "round out" the character.

Licence Renewed (1976) was the first in a franchise which lasted 20 years. There was a media frenzy at the return to the page of a more politically correct Bond - and an outcry that 007 was now driving a Saab 900 Turbo.

Although they brought him wealth and a worldwide audience, Gardner never seemed comfortable with the Bond franchise, though he remained proud of one title, The Man From Barbarossa. Within three years, he had launched a series of five much grittier, hardboiled espionage thrillers, starting with The Nostradamus Traitor (1979) starring "Big" Herbie Kruger, a character shaped by the second world war - as Gardner had been.

Gardner wrote more Bond books than Fleming - a total of 16, two based on the films Licensed [sic] to Kill (1989) and GoldenEye (1995) - but in the same period, he also produced the Kruger books, another trilogy of spy stories and six stand-alone thrillers.

Gardner moved to America in 1989, but ill-health forced him to relinquish the Bond franchise to Raymond Benson in 1996. Medical bills for treating cancer of the oesophagus forced his return to England in reduced circumstances, only to suffer further when his wife of more than 40 years, Margaret, died suddenly the following year.

Now living quietly in an almshouse in Basingstoke, he turned to his own memories of wartime Britain for his final series of thrillers, featuring Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford. The first, Bottled Spider, was published in 2002. The leading character was based on Gardner's youthful romance with a nurse named Patricia Mountford, who, some 50 years after their last meeting, contacted him after reading about her namesake. The couple enjoyed a romantic reunion.

In the field of espionage fiction, Gardner lacked the intellectual complexities of John le Carré or the stylistic innovations of Len Deighton or Anthony Price, but he was a prolific and reliable deliverer to a thrill-seeking audience. Harsher critics have suggested he fed off the creations of others. He always knew that Bond would overshadow everything, and longed to be remembered as more than the man who brought back 007. In that, despite 52 novels, he probably failed.

The fifth Suzie Mountford book, No Human Enemy, has just been published. The third Moriarty book, The Redemption of Moriarty, completed shortly before Gardner's death, will be published posthumously. He is survived by the son and daughter of his marriage, Simon and Alexis; Miranda, the daughter of his relationship with Susan Wright; and Patricia Mountford, to whom he was engaged.

· John Edmund Gardner, writer, born November 20 1926; died August 3 2007

John Gardner (British Writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_(British_writer)

Works

Autobiography

Spin the Bottle (1964)

Boysie Oakes novels

The Liquidator (1964)
Understrike (1965)
Amber Nine (1966)
Madrigal (1967)
Founder Member (1969)
Traitor's Exit (1970)
The Airline Pirates (1970) - published in the US as Air Apparent
A Killer for a Song (1975)

Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in The Assassination File (A Handful of Rice, Corkscrew).
Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in Hideaway (Boysie Oakes and The Explosive Device, Sunset At Paleokastritsa).

Derek Torry novels

A Complete State of Death (1969) - reissued in the US as The Stone Killer
The Corner Men (1974)

Professor Moriarty novels

The Return of Moriarty (1974)
The Revenge of Moriarty (1975)
Moriarty (2008)

Herbie Kruger novels

The Nostradamus Traitor (1979)
The Garden of Weapons (1980)
The Quiet Dogs (1982)
Maestro (1993)
Confessor (1995)

Herbie Kruger also appears in The Secret Houses and The Secret Families.

The Railton family novels

The Secret Generations (1985)
The Secret Houses (1988)
The Secret Families (1989)

James Bond novels

Licence Renewed (1981)
For Special Services (1982)
Icebreaker (1983)
Role of Honour (1984)
Nobody Lives for Ever (1986)
No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987)
Scorpius (1988)
Win, Lose or Die (1989)
Licence to Kill (1989) – novelization of a film script
Brokenclaw (1990)
The Man from Barbarossa (1991)
Death is Forever (1992)
Never Send Flowers (1993)
SeaFire (1994)
GoldenEye (1995) – novelization of a film script
Cold (1996) – published in the US as Cold Fall

Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford novels

Bottled Spider (2002)
The Streets of Town (2003)
Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004)
Troubled Midnight (2005)
No Human Enemy (2007)

Other novels

The Censor (1970)
Every Night's a Bullfight (1971) (Published in the US in a bowdlerized edition as Every Night's a Festival in 1972.)
To Run a Little Faster (1976)
The Werewolf Trace (1977)
The Dancing Dodo (1978)
Golgotha (1980) - (Published in the US as The Last Trump)
The Director (1982) (A re-working of his 1971 novel Every Night's a Bullfight.)
Flamingo (1983)
Blood of the Fathers (1992) (as by "Edmund McCoy". Later published under his own name in 2004.)
Day of Absolution (2000)

Short story collections

Hideaway (1968) (Contains two Boysie Oakes stories.)
The Assassination File (1974) (Contains two Boysie Oakes stories.)

1930: Bernard Horsfall is born--Bishop's Stortford, Herfordshire England.
(He dies 28 January 2013 at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.)

Bernard Horsfall obituary
Imposing stage and screen actor whose work ranged from
Shakespeare to The Bill

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jan/30/bernard-horsfall
Michael Coveney | Wed 30 Jan 2013 13.14 EST

Bernard Horsfall in The Merry Widow, a 1981 episode of the ITV show, Crown Court.
Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

The character actor Bernard Horsfall, who has died aged 82, appeared in television, films and on the stage for more than half a century. Tall, imposing and authoritative, he appeared in many of the major television series from Z Cars and Dr Finlay's Casebook to Casualty and The Bill, and in Doctor Who took no fewer than four roles.

In 1968 he played Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, where he was encountered by Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, in the Land of Fiction. The following year he returned as a Time Lord in The War Games. In 1973, with Jon Pertwee now donning the time-traveller's cape, he played the Thal chieftain, Taron, in the six-part Planet of the Daleks. And finally, he was another Time Lord, Chancellor Goth, in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, famously battling with Tom Baker's Doctor inside the Matrix and holding him under water. This sequence drew complaints from the campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and was edited out of the repeat showings.

His many film roles included Campbell in the sixth James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), starring George Lazenby, and General Edgar in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) with Ben Kingsley. He had an extensive, distinguished stage career, too, playing the Ghost to Richard Burton's Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1953 and the Player King to Roger Rees's with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, first in a series of prominent roles with the company in Stratford-upon-Avon and London in the late 1980s.

Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and always claimed he was a 25th-generation descendant of William the Conqueror. The son of an opera singer, Margaret Horsfall, nee Norton, and her RAF officer husband, Charles, Bernard grew up in Hindhead, Surrey, and Wisborough Green, West Sussex. Always drawn to the outdoor , adventurous life, he left Rugby school early to visit his favourite uncle, Jack Norton, in Canada, and took a job cutting down trees. Jack had been a first world war pilot, flown with TE Lawrence in Palestine and had run the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Returning to London, Bernard trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy and was soon in rep, at Dundee in 1952, at the Old Vic, the old Nottingham Playhouse in the mid-1950s (in a company that included Graham Crowden, Joan Plowright and Denis Quilley) and at the Birmingham Rep under John Harrison at the end of the 60s.

He met and married the actor Jane Jordan Rogers while she was appearing at the Bristol Old Vic, and made his mark in movies such as The Steel Bayonet (1957), a second world war adventure featuring an unknown Michael Caine, and Guy Green's The Angry Silence (1960) in which Attenborough played a strike-breaker. His notable television work after Doctor Who included a performance as Melford Stevenson, QC, in a documentary drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. Later well-known as a judge, Stevenson was the barrister who defended Ellis. He had a leading role as the doctor, Philip Martel, in the highly successful Channel Islands wartime drama, Enemy at the Door (1978-80).

At the RSC in 1984, Horsfall was part of a great season that, in addition to Rees's Hamlet, included Kenneth Branagh as Henry V (Horsfall played a wonderful ageing hooligan of a Pistol) and Antony Sher as a speedy, spidery Richard III. He also appeared in Pam Gems's Camille, with Frances Barber, when Ron Daniels's RSC production transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London, in 1985.

Back at Stratford, he was, says the director Terry Hands, "the epitome of warmth" as a genuinely funny Old Shepherd (his young sidekick was Simon Russell Beale) in The Winter's Tale in 1987 with Jeremy Irons as Leontes, and he also played the title role in Cymbeline (in a red dressing gown) and a brutally authoritarian Capulet in the Romeo and Juliet of Mark Rylance and Georgia Slowe.

This period coincided with a family move from London to the Isle of Skye, where Horsfall rambled over mountains and became a dedicated crofter, producing fruit and vegetables.

His renown as a wise and generous actor led to him becoming a natural father figure in any company he joined. Jonathan Kent cast him as Ventidius in Dryden's All For Love at the Almeida in 1991, and he expertly discharged the great suicide speech; James Laurenson and Diana Rigg were Antony and Cleopatra. In 1993 at the Birmingham Rep, he was described as "scurrilous, lofty and urbane" as Volpone. His last major film was Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995, and in 1998 he played a witty and touching Sir Patrick Cullen in Michael Grandage's revival of Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma at the Almeida and on a National Theatre tour.

He was another dignified old shepherd, Corin (doubled with Hymen, god of marriage), in the revival by Grandage of As You Like It at the Sheffield Crucible in 2000 that propelled Victoria Hamilton into the front rank. Grandage said that the older Horsfall got, the younger his outlook; he was always keenly interested in environmental matters.

He is survived by Jane; their daughters, Hannah, an occupational therapist, and Rebecca, a theatre director and novelist; five grandchildren; and a sister. His son, Christian, died last year.

• Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall, actor, born 30 November 1930; died 28 January 2013
• This article was amended on 7 February 2013. The original referred to the Doctor Who character Taron as a Thai chieftain. This has been corrected.

Bernard Horsfall (1930–2013)

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Filmography

Actor (109 credits)

2008 Stone of Destiny - Archdeacon
2005 Doctors (TV Series) - Joseph Bryan
- Locked Away (2005) ... Joseph Bryan
2000 Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Crawford Senior
- The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1 (2000) ... Crawford Senior

1995 Queen of the East (TV Movie) - Sir William Pitt
1988-1995 Casualty (TV Series)
Gerald Lassiter / Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner / Tom Baxter
- When All Else Fails (1995) ... Gerald Lassiter
- Judgement Day (1991) ... Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner
- Welcome to Casualty (1988) ... Tom Baxter
1995 Braveheart - Balliol
1993 Seekers (TV Series) - Major Hurley
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Major Hurley
1992 Nice Town (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Dobson
- Idyll (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Unto Us a Child Is Born (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Immaculate Conception (1992) ... Peter Dobson
1992 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Ch. Const. Gordon
- The Chill Factor (1992) ... Ch. Const. Gordon
1992 Virtual Murder (TV Series) - Professor Donn
- A Torch for Silverado (1992) ... Professor Donn
1992 The Advocates (TV Series) - Lord Thornhill
- Episode #2.3 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
- Episode #2.2 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
- Episode #2.1 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
1991 Thatcher: The Final Days (TV Movie) - Alan Clark
1991 For the Greater Good (TV Series) - Prime Minister
- Minister (1991) ... Prime Minister
1991 Poirot (TV Series) - Harrington Pace
- The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1991) ... Harrington Pace

1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Albert Blackwell
- You Can't Beat Mozart (1989) ... Albert Blackwell
1989 The Bill (TV Series) - Dr. de Beyfus
- Getting It Right (1989) ... Dr. de Beyfus
1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Movie) - Frankland
1986 First Among Equals (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.5 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.4 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Doctor
- A Distant Scream (1984) ... Doctor
1984 Weekend Playhouse (TV Series) - Logan Mayhew
- Grand Duo (1984) ... Logan Mayhew
1984 Goodbye Days (TV Movie) - Armitage
1984 Strangers and Brothers (TV Series) - Dr. Bradbury
- Episode #1.13 (1984) ... Dr. Bradbury
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Major General Rankin
- Regimental Silver (1984) ... Major General Rankin
1982 Gandhi - General Edgar
1982 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Jack Driscoll
- A Breach of the Peace (1982) ... Jack Driscoll
1982 Inside the Third Reich (TV Movie) - Fritz Todt
1976-1982 Crown Court (TV Series) - Prosecuting Counsel / Mr. Baldwin
- Face Value: Part 1 (1982) ... Prosecuting Counsel
- The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
- Beyond the Call of Duty: Part 1 (1976) ... Mr. Baldwin
1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) - Hardekker
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hardekker
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hardekker
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hardekker
1982 Minder (TV Series) - Mr. Russel QC
- Poetic Justice, Innit? (1982) ... Mr. Russel QC
1981 Echoes of Louisa (TV Series) - Roger Burr
- The Quarry (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Trip (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Ride (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Secret (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Meeting (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Homecoming (1981) ... Roger Burr
1981 When the Boat Comes In (TV Series) - Rowse
- Back to Dear Old Blighty (1981) ... Rowse
1980 The Square Leopard (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Percival
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Det. Insp. Percival
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
- Lucky, Lucky Thirteen! (1980) ... Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
1980 Turtle's Progress (TV Series) - Janos
- Episode #2.4 (1980) ... Janos
1978-1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Dr. Philip Martel / Dr. Philip Martell
- Escape (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- From a View to a Death (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Right Blood (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- War Game (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Jealousy (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Post Mortem (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Committee Man (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- No Quarter Given (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Angels That Soar Above (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Judgement of Solomon (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Prussian Officer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Pains and Penalties (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Treason (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Jerrybag (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Officers of the Law (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Polish Affaire (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- V for Victory (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Laws and Usages of War (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martell
- Steel Hand from the Sea (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- After the Ball (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Librarian (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- By Order of the Fuhrer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel

1978 Brass Target - Shelley
1977 Jubilee (TV Series) - Mervyn Marsh
- An Hour in the Life... (1977) ... Mervyn Marsh
1977 Big Boy Now! (TV Series) - Alan Viner
- Follow That Cat (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Edgar's Other Woman (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Supergirl (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Ships with Everything (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Poker Face (1977) ... Alan Viner
1977 This Year Next Year (TV Mini-Series) - Lars Gunnerson
- Profit and Loss (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
- Another Place (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
1976 Beasts (TV Series) - Clyde Boyd
- The Dummy (1976) ... Clyde Boyd
1968-1976 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Taron / Chancellor Goth / Gulliver / ... 15 episodes
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Four (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Three (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Two (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part One (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- Planet of the Daleks: Episode Six (1973) ... Taron
1976 Within These Walls (TV Series) - Mr. Parrington
- The Complaint (1976) ... Mr. Parrington
1976 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Mr. Wendell
- Future Imperfect (1976) ... Mr. Wendell
1976 John Macnab (TV Series) - John Palliser-Yeates
- The Old Hero (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
- The Return of Harold Blacktooth (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
- Our Reputations at the Stake (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
1976 Shout at the Devil - Captain Joyce
1976 Red Letter Day (TV Series) - Nigel
- The Five Pound Orange (1976) ... Nigel
1975 The Hill of the Red Fox (TV Mini-Series) - Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.6 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.5 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.4 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.3 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.2 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
1975 The Changes (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Gore
- The Noise (1975) ... Mr. Gore
1974 South Riding (TV Mini-Series) - David Brownlow
- The Powers That Be (1974) ... David Brownlow
1974 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Sweyn
- The Ceremony of Innocence (1974) ... Sweyn
1974 Gold - Dave Kowalski
1974 Childhood (TV Series) - Dr. Braden
- Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies (1974) ... Dr. Braden
1973 Freewheelers (TV Series) - Cunliffe
- The Hoist (1973) ... Cunliffe
- The Think Bank (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Break-Up (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Switched! (1973) ... Cunliffe
- The Crypt! (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Darkness at Noon (1973) ... Cunliffe
1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.76 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.75 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.74 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.73 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
1972 Some Kind of Hero - George Crane
1972 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Steven Granger
- Sex and Violence (1972) ... Steven Granger
1972 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Severin
- Cecile (1972) ... Det. Insp. Severin
1972 Love Story (TV Series) - Tony Walker
- Never Too Late (1972) ... Tony Walker
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Christianson
- The Morning After (1971) ... Christianson
1971 Suspicion (TV Series) - Klaus
- Off Season (1971) ... Klaus
1971 Mr. Horatio Knibbles - Mr. Bunting
1971 Jackanory (TV Series) - Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 5 - The Whole Truth (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 4 - Friday's Decision (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 3 - On the Beach (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 2 - Penguin Island (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 1 - The Far North Bus (1971) ... Storyteller
1971 Quest for Love - Telford
1971 Elizabeth R (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Christopher Hatton
- Shadow in the Sun (1971) ... Sir Christopher Hatton
1967-1970 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Fidel Castro / Timekeeper
- Revolutions: Fidel Castro (1970) ... Fidel Castro
- The Timekeepers (1967) ... Timekeeper
1970 Ivanhoe (TV Mini-Series) - Black Knight... 6 episodes
- Saint Martin's Day (1970) ... Black Knight
- Time of Trial (1970) ... Black Knight
- Templestowe (1970) ... Black Knight
- The Black Knight (1970) ... Black Knight
- Condemned (1970) ... Black Knight
-
1969 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Tony Fraser
- Try Loving (1969) ... Tony Fraser
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Campbell
1969 Canterbury Tales (TV Series) - Arveragus
- The Canon Yeoman's Tale/The Franklin's Tale (1969) ... Arveragus
1969 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Charles Peters
- M.Y.O.B (1969) ... Charles Peters
- The Day of the Miuras (1969) ... Charles Peters
1969 Department S (TV Series) - Captain Carter
- Six Days (1969) ... Captain Carter
- Six Days ... Captain Carter
1969 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - John Stewart
- 1+1=1.5 (1969) ... John Stewart
1969 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - William Wordsworth
- The Woman from the Shadows (1969) ... William Wordsworth
1965-1968 The Avengers (TV Series)
Captain Smythe / Fox / Jephcott
- They Keep Killing Steed (1968) ... Captain Smythe
- The Fear Merchants (1967) ... Fox
- The Cybernauts (1965) ... Jephcott
1968 Sanctuary (TV Series) - Father Carlo Frallini SJ
- Diary and the Devil's Advocate (1968) ... Father Carlo Frallini SJ
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Nigel Strangeways
- The Beast Must Die (1968) ... Nigel Strangeways
1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Peter
- Give Me the Simple Life (1968) ... Peter
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Keith Lythgoe
- The Jonah Site (1968) ... Keith Lythgoe
1966-1967 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Gentleman John Cassidy / Jackson
- The Bombay Doctor (1967) ... Gentleman John Cassidy
- Barlow Was There: Part 1: Allegation (1966) ... Jackson
1967 Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV Series) - Adam Hadley
- Criss-Cross (1967) ... Adam Hadley
1958-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Dr. Ernst Bang / Sir Purback Temple / Valentine
- ITV Summer Playhouse #8: One Fat Englishman (1967) ... Dr. Ernst Bang
- The Killing of the King (1959) ... Sir Purback Temple
- You Never Can Tell (1958) ... Valentine
1957-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Inspector / Interviewer
- Any Number Can Play (1967) ... Inspector
- The Last Flight (1957) ... Interviewer
1967 Mrs Thursday (TV Series) - Norman Millett
- The Old School Tie Up (1967) ... Norman Millett
1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Bill Bast
- The Death Game (1967) ... Bill Bast
1966 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - John Harris
- The World of Silence (1966) ... John Harris
1965 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Palethorpe
- The Minister (1965) ... Palethorpe
1964 Guns at Batasi - Sgt. 'Schoolie' Prideaux
1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Harding
- War (1963) ... Harding
1963 Z Cars (TV Series) - Murdoch
- The Bad Lad (1963) ... Murdoch
1962 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Philip Nash
- Episode #2.14 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.8 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.6 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.3 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.1 (1962) ... Philip Nash
1962 Out of This World (TV Series) - Dr. Arthur Bailey
- Divided We Fall (1962) ... Dr. Arthur Bailey
1961 Family Solicitor (TV Series) - Francis Naylor
- Test Case (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- House in Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Threats and Menaces (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Wage Snatch (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Slander (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Conflict of Laws (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Possession Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- First Eleven Plus (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Dangerous Driving (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Strike Action (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Cross Petition (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Man of Straw (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Arson (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- The Case of the Dyed Hair (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- The Meeting (1961) ... Francis Naylor
1960 Pathfinders to Mars (TV Series) - Professor Hawkins
- Sabotage in Space (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
- The Imposter (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
1960 Man in the Moon - Rex
1960 Death of a Ghost (TV Series) - Albert Campion
- Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.5 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.4 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Albert Campion
1960 Don't Do It Dempsey (TV Series) - Paul Gossett
- Mothers' Help (1960) ... Paul Gossett
1960 Captain Moonlight: Man of Mystery (TV Series) - Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.5 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.4 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
1960 The Angry Silence - Pryce-Evans

1959 Dancers in Mourning (TV Series) - Albert Campion
- Part 6 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 5 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 4 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 3 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 2 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 1 (1959) ... Albert Campion
1958-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philip Irwin / Frank Barrett
- The Driving Force (1959) ... Philip Irwin
- The Shadow of Doubt (1958) ... Frank Barrett
1959 For Schools: Twelfth Night (TV Movie) - Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1958 Cinderella (TV Movie) - Signor Benvenuto
1958 Victory (TV Movie) - Captain Blackwood
1958 The Riddle of the Red Wolf (TV Series) - Rompus
- Poor Rufus! (1958) ... Rompus
1957 The Critical Point (TV Movie) - Detective Sergeant Green
1957 The One That Got Away - Lieutenant - Kent (uncredited)
1957 High Flight - Radar Operator
1957 Paradise Lagoon - Lifeboatman (uncredited)
1957 The Steel Bayonet - Pvt. Livingstone

1943: Mie Hama is born--Tokyo, Japan.
2000: Electronic Arts publishes 007 Racing for PlayStation.

2002: Die Another Day released in the UK, Ireland, and Switzerland.

2002: Meurs un autre jour released in France.

RichardTheBruce

2006: Kevin O'Donovan McClory dies at age 80--Dublin, Ireland. (Born 8 June 1926--Dublin, Ireland.)

Kevin McClory
Co-author of the 'Thunderball' screenplay who sued Ian Fleming

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kevin-mcclory-427368.html

Thursday 7 December 2006 01:00
Kevin O'Donovan McClory, screenwriter and film producer: born Dublin 8
June 1926; twice married (two sons, two daughters); died London 20
November 2006.[/b]

To devotees of James Bond history, the name Kevin McClory will be forever associated with Thunderball - the Ian Fleming novel, the court case surrounding it, and the film - and his myriad abortive attempts, countered by litigation, to launch an alternative James Bond film franchise.

Born in Dublin in 1926, Kevin O'Donovan McClory was a descendant of the literary Brontë family through his grandmother Alice McClory. His parents were both actors on the Irish stage, which fired Kevin's early desire to become an actor, but this ambition was hampered by severe dyslexia at school, and was finally blocked by a nervous stammer that was caused by a traumatic incident during the Second World War; in 1943, when serving in the Merchant Navy, Kevin McClory's ship was torpedoed while in the North Atlantic. He drifted over 700 miles in a lifeboat in freezing conditions with other crew members for 14 days, before being picked up off the coast of Ireland as one of the few remaining survivors.

In 1946, his desire still strong to be in show business and now with a greater appreciation of life, McClory talked his way into a £4-a-week job as a boom operator and "tea boy" at Shepperton Studios. Keen to be noticed, McClory worked in various capacities on classic British films including Anna Karenina (1948) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955). It was during this early period at Shepperton that he formed a lifelong friendship with the director John Huston, another larger-than-life Irishman.

McClory was Huston's assistant on pictures like The African Queen (1951) and Moulin Rouge (1952), before graduating to Assistant Director on Huston's version of the Herman Melville classic Moby Dick (1956), starring Gregory Peck. This was McClory's stepping stone to becoming jack-of-all-trades on the mammoth production Around the World in 80 Days (1956), with him as the producer Mike Todd's assistant, as Assistant Producer and as Assistant Director.

McClory wanted more control over his own creative destiny and decided to write, produce and direct The Boy and the Bridge (1959). In the Bahamas, he met the wealthy Englishman Ivar Bryce, who formed Xanadu Productions with McClory to finance his first solo production. Bryce was a very close friend of the James Bond author Ian Fleming, and it wasn't long before, at Bryce's suggestion, McClory read several of Fleming's novels with a view to filming one of them.

The young and enthusiastic Irishman realised that these books had great potential. And great earning potential. However, McClory thought very much in visual terms, a hangover from his childhood dyslexia, and believed that he, Fleming and Bryce should collaborate on an original, more cinematic screenplay. To this triumvirate, he introduced Jack Whittingham, then ranked among the top 10 screenwriters in the UK, whose work had been received with great critical and public acclaim in Ealing Studios films including Mandy (1952) and The Divided Heart (1954).

Whittingham wrote a first-draft screenplay that eventually Ian Fleming would title Thunderball. The Bondwagon was about to start rolling, with the big bucks and the fame only a stone's throw away, or so McClory believed. Unfortunately for him, The Boy and the Bridge performed very badly at the box office and sank without a trace. Bryce and Fleming's initial enthusiasm for the young Irishman's handling the production of their first James Bond film project suddenly faded. Having expected the profits from The Boy and the Bridge to part-finance the Thunderball film, both Bryce and Fleming got cold feet and walked away from the project, leaving McClory high and dry.

When Ian Fleming sat at his typewriter at his Jamaican home, Goldeneye, in January 1961 to write his ninth Bond novel, he was in ill-health with heart trouble and felt very much a spent force. Writing to William Plomer, an old friend from his days with Naval Intelligence, who always proof-read and pre-edited his Bond novels, Fleming complained that he was

terribly stuck with James Bond. What was easy at 40 is very difficult at 50. I used to believe - sufficiently - in Bonds and blondes and bombs. Now the keys creak as I type and I fear the zest may have gone. Part of the trouble is having a wife and child. They knock the ruthlessness out of one. I shall definitely kill off Bond with my next book - better a poor bang than a rich whimper!

Perhaps it was no surprise, then, that a tired writer would turn to a convenient formed idea. Why let it go to waste? So Fleming based his ninth novel, Thunderball, on the collaborative screenplay, without any idea of including any credit for McClory's input and Whittingham's screen treatment. It would prove to be a costly error in judgement.

Before the publication of Thunderball on 27 March 1961 in London by Jonathan Cape, Kevin McClory obtained an advance proof copy of the novel. As soon as he realised that Fleming had plagiarised their collaborative screenplay, he sent a warning letter to the publishers that if they published the book as it stood he would take legal action. Receiving no answer, McClory sued. McClory was out to stop Jonathan Cape from representing Thunderball as the sole work of Fleming.

At a hearing, a judge decided that, since the accused had insufficient time to mount a defence, and publication of Thunderball was already so well advanced it couldn't be stopped, McClory and Whittingham's application would be refused. A little over two weeks after the failed book injunction, Ian Fleming suffered a major heart attack during the regular Tuesday-morning conference at The Sunday Times. He was rushed to the London Clinic, where he remained for a month.

The ensuing case that began on 20 November 1963 at the High Court in London was heavily covered in the media. Newspaper headlines screamed, "James Bond in a Thunderball clash!" Whittingham found it necessary to withdraw as co-plaintiff due to escalating costs, but, although in extreme ill-health, he returned loyally every day to support McClory. After nine days in court both Ivar Bryce and Ian Fleming decided to settle. McClory demanded £55,000.

In the final outcome, McClory was awarded £35,000 and his court costs paid (totalling £52,000), plus the film and television rights to all the existing Thunderball screen treatments. However, even though he had won the case, he was unhappy with the financial result and never paid his lawyer's costs. He also did nothing to help Whittingham meet his crippling court costs.

Fleming had two further serious heart attacks during the trial. On 12 August 1964, he suffered a final, fatal heart attack, aged 56, and died in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

Thunderball was eventually made into a film in 1965 by the producers Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli & Harry Saltzman, who "presented' the film for their company EON Productions. McClory was billed as producer on the film and Thunderball credited as being "Based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham & Ian Fleming". The film grossed $141.2m worldwide. Whittingham died of a heart attack in Malta in 1973, his contribution to the cinematic legacy of James Bond all but forgotten and unrecognised.

In 1983 Kevin McClory acted as executive producer on Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball, for which Sean Connery returned after 12 years to star as James Bond, going head-to-head with Roger Moore as Bond in Octopussy. The film grossed an estimated £137.5m worldwide.

One of McClory's closest friends during the late Fifties and Sixties was Jeremy Vaughn, who also knew Ian Fleming well as his neighbour in Jamaica. He told Robert Sellers, author of the upcoming The Battle for Bond, that

Kevin was a smooth operator, an attractive character, but not a particularly pleasant one, certainly compared to his brother, Desmond, who was one of the kindest people you could ever meet. If a friend was in trouble, Desmond would always be there. Kevin would just tell you to piss off, if you weren't any good to him.

He's been very cruel to a number of people over the years who thought they were his friends. The overdriving thing with Kevin was that he just wanted to be a celebrity, he wanted to be famous . . . He probably had some semi-professional technical interest in making a film, but he really wanted the glamour.

McClory continued to be involved in legal wrangles over the years. In the 1990s, he announced plans to make Warhead 2000 AD, another adaptation of the Thunderball story, which was to have been made by Sony, with Timothy Dalton in the lead role, but this was eventually scrapped.

"It was Kevin's burning ambition, these [Bond] movies," Vaughn said,

but I don't think he gave a damn who he walked over and what he did in order to get there. Kevin had a project in life and that project was Kevin McClory.

Graham Rye

Kevin McClory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McClory
Second World War

As a teenaged radio officer in the British Merchant Navy, McClory endured attacks by German U-boats on two different occasions. The first attack occurred on 20 September 1942 was while he was serving aboard The Mathilda. A U-Boat surfaced and attacked the ship with heavy machine gun fire. The crew of the ship fired back and the U-Boat retreated. The second attack occurred on 21 February 1943 when McClory was serving on the Norwegian tanker Stigstad, which was attacked by torpedo from multiple U-boats. The ship sank and McClory and the other survivors made it to a life raft. They survived in terrible conditions for two weeks and traveled more than 600 miles before being rescued off the coast of Ireland. Two seaman died on the raft and a third died soon after they were rescued. McClory suffered severe frostbite and lost the ability to speak for more than a year after the incident. When he recovered his voice he was left with a pronounced stammer. He served out the rest of the war in the British Navy.

Kevin McClory (1926–2006)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565886/?ref_=nv_sr_5?ref_=nv_sr_5

Filmography

Producer (5 credits)

1983 Never Say Never Again (executive producer)

1976 Circasia (Short) (producer)

1965 Thunderball (producer)

1959 The Boy and the Bridge (producer)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (associate producer - uncredited)

Sound department (5 credits)

1953 Beat the Devil (boom operator - uncredited)
1952 Moulin Rouge (boom operator - uncredited)
1951 The African Queen (boom operator - uncredited)
1950 The Mudlark (boom operator - uncredited)

1948 Anna Karenina (assistant boom operator - uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

1983 Never Say Never Again (presenter)

1957 Legend of the Lost (assistant to Henry Hathaway - uncredited)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (assistant to producer: foreign locations - as Kevin O'Donovan McClory)
1952 Moulin Rouge (assistant: Mr. Huston - uncredited)
1951 The African Queen (assistant: Mr. Huston - uncredited)

Writer (3 credits)

1983 Never Say Never Again (based on an original story by)

1965 Thunderball (original story)

1959 The Boy and the Bridge (writer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1956 Around the World in 80 Days (second unit director: foreign locations - as Kevin O'Donovan McClory)
1956 Moby Dick (assistant director - uncredited)

Director (1 credit)

1959 The Boy and the Bridge

Actor (1 credit)

1965 Thunderball - Man Smoking at Nassau Casino (uncredited)

Location management (1 credit)

1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (location manager)

Self (6 credits)

2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Documentary) - Himself - Interviewee
2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 Brits Go to Hollywood (TV Series) - Himself
- Sean Connery (2003) ... Himself
1996 John Huston: An t-Éireannach (Documentary) - Himself

1983 Never Say Never Again: Royal Film Premiere (TV Special short) - Himself

1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Himself[/u\

2015: Spectre released in India (edited for duration of kissing).

Bond and gagged: Spectre's kissing
scenes censored by Indian film
certification board

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/19/spectre-kissing-censored-in-india
The latest James Bond instalment has had its licence to thrill
revoked after certification board orders scenes with kissing to be
cut by 50%

Too ‘vulgar’ for India? ... Spectre co-stars Léa Seydoux, Daniel Craig
Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

He is known for his competence with gadgets, guns and members of the opposite sex. But Indian filmgoers heading to see the new James Bond movie, Spectre, may only see the first two after the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) reportedly ordered all scenes involving kissing to be cut by 50% for the local release, according to Variety.

The move – the most recent example of the prudish sentiment of Indian censors – has been criticised by CBFC board member Ashoke Pandit, who claimed to have been sidelined from the decision-making process and accused the board’s director and Bollywood film-maker Pahlaj Nihalani of being a stooge for the socially conservative Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Last year, Nihalani directed a music video that glorified Modi.

“Spectre is an internationally applauded film, but again Pahlaj Nihalani messes it up by shading it with his own thought process,” Pandit wrote on Twitter. “Nihalani’s action should not be a reflection of my choices. I feel it’s a mockery of the freedom of a film-maker,” he added.

Pandit suggested Nihalani’s actions were compounded by the fact that the director had helped introduce the trend for “vulgarity” in Indian cinema, but was now “giving sermons to film-makers”. The censored version of Spectre, which is directed by the Oscar-winning British film-maker Sam Mendes, has been rated U/A, suggesting parental discretion for children under 12, for Indian cinemas. It opens there on 20 November.

Censors allegedly ordered cuts to four scenes in which Bond, played by Daniel Craig, romances French actor Léa Seydoux, the film’s female lead as Dr Madeleine Swann, and Italy’s Monica Bellucci, who plays widow Lucia Sciarra. Nihalani has been in the hot seat since January, when previous CBFC incumbent Leela Samson and more than half of the organisation’s board members resigned amid complaints of “interference, coercion and corruption”.

Nihalani’s connections with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party have been controversial. Last February, the board reportedly postponed plans to introduce a list of banned words and content, including a wide range of profanity, referring to Mumbai by its colonial name Bombay and scenes depicting violence against women.

In the wake of the CBFC’s decision to censor Spectre, hashtag #SanskariJamesBond, meaning a version of 007 that complies with traditional Indian cultural mores, has began trending on Twitter. It has led to users posting a multitude of satirical memes, including photoshopped efforts of a woman in a sari replacing Ursula Andress in the Swiss actor’s classic bikini scene from Dr No, and a version of Craig with traditional Indian facepainting and full handlebar moustache.

2017: La La Land Records releases an expanded Die Another Day soundtrack.

RichardTheBruce

November 21st

1942: Al Matthews is born--Brooklyn, New York. (He dies 22 September 2018--Orihuela, Spain.)

Aliens actor Al Matthews dies aged 75

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/al-matthews-dead-age-aliens-grande-hill-death-a8552286.html

Matthews also appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song 'Fool' reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975
Clarisse Loughrey | @clarisselou | Monday 24 September 2018 11:48

20th Century Fox

Al Matthews, best known for playing Gunnery Sergeant Apone in Aliens (1986), has died aged 75.

El Pais reports that the actor was found dead in his home, in Orihuela Costa, in the Spanish Mediterranean province of Alicante, on Sunday, after a neighbour called the emergency services.

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Matthews had served as a Marine in the Vietnam War. His website states: "I hold thirteen combat awards and decorations, including two purple hearts. I was the first black Marine in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam to be meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant".

Alongside his role in Aliens, Matthews also played the fire chief in Superman III (1983), a workman in Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981), and General Tudor in The Fifth Element (1997). He returned to the role of Sgt Apone nearly 30 years later, when he voiced the character in the video game Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013).

He also had a strong career in the UK, where he appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song "Fool" reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975. He retired in Spain in 2005, although his last film was this year's The Price of Death, which is currently in post-production.

Al Matthews (I) (1942–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559922/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (35 credits)

2018 The Price of Death - Williamson
2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines (Video Game) - Sgt. Al Apone (voice)
2011 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Video Game) - Col. Shannon J.Hardaway (voice)

1998 Short Stories About Love (TV Mini-Series)
- Shlosha Kochavim (1998)
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Master Sergeant 3
1997 The Fifth Element - General Tudor
1997 The Apocalypse Watch (TV Movie) - Wesley Sorenson
1996 Ellington (TV Series) - J.P. Coates
- Matchmaker (1996) ... J.P. Coates
1995 Soul Survivors (TV Movie) - Grover Cleveland
1994 Desmond's (TV Series) - Reverend Marvin Jones
- Judgement Day (1994) ... Reverend Marvin Jones

1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Dube
- Three Blind Mice (1989) ... Dube
1988 American Roulette - Morrisey
1988 Stormy Monday - Radio DJ
1987 Excuse Me But That's My Car (Short) - Winston Smith
1987 Out of Order - U.S. DJ
1987 London Embassy (TV Mini-Series) - Uwlie Cooper
- The Man on the Clapham Omnibus (1987) ... Uwlie Cooper
1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Curtis Duchamps
- Coast to Coast (1987) ... Curtis Duchamps
1986 Big Deal (TV Series) - American punter
- Panel Money (1986) ... American punter
1986 Aliens - Sergeant Apone
1986 The American Way - Benedict
1985 Defense of the Realm - First U.S. Controller
1984 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Admiral
- The Bullshitters: Roll out the Gunbarrel (1984) ... Admiral
1983 Funny Money - 1st Hood
1983 Superman III - Fire Chief
1983 The Professionals (TV Series) - Faroud
- The Ojuka Situation (1983) ... Faroud
1982 The Sender - Viet Nam Veteran
1982 Shelley (TV Series) - Newscaster
- No News Is Good... (1982) ... Newscaster
1982 Nancy Astor (TV Mini-Series) - Billy
- The Longhornes of Virginia (1982) ... Billy
1981 Ragtime - Maitre D'
1981 The Final Conflict - Workman
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Oxford St. John
- The Black Madonna (1980) ... Oxford St. John
1980 Rough Cut - Ferguson
1979-1980 Grange Hill (TV Series) - Mr. Green
- Episode #3.10 (1980) ... Mr. Green
- Episode #2.2 (1979) ... Mr. Green
- Episode #2.1 (1979) ... Mr. Green

1979 Yanks - Black G.I. at Dance
1977 Bad Loser (Short)

"Fool", Al Matthews, 1975.

1966: You Only Live Twice films Donald Pleasance as Blofeld.
1985: A View to a Kill released in Australia.

1995: Royal premiere of GoldenEye at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Spain.
2011: Syd Cain dies at age 93--London, England. (Born 16 April 1918--Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.)

Syd Cain obituary
Production designer behind the deadly gadgets used by James Bond – and his foes

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/01/syd-cain
Kim Newman - Thu 1 Dec 2011 13.29 EST

Syd Cain at Pinewood Studios with the model used in the explosive climax to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). Photograph: 007magazine.com

The production designer Syd Cain, who has died aged 93, was one of many behind-the-scenes professionals elevated to something like prominence by the worldwide interest in the James Bond films. An industry veteran who began work in British cinema as a draughtsman in 1947, contributing to the look of the gothic melodrama Uncle Silas, Cain is credited on a range of film and television projects, but remains best known for his work in various design capacities on the 007 series, from Dr No in 1962 to GoldenEye in 1995.

Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Cain served in the armed forces in the second world war, surviving a plane crash and recovering from a broken back. Working at Denham Studios in Buckinghamshire in the 1940s and 50s, he moved up from uncredited draughtsman (on Adam and Evelyne, The Interrupted Journey, You Know What Sailors Are and Up to His Neck) to assistant art director (for The Gamma People, Fire Down Below, Interpol, How to Murder a Rich Uncle and The World of Suzie Wong). During this time, he developed a habit of slipping his name on to the screen among documents provided as props. In Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959), where the blueprints for a vacuum cleaner are mistaken for rocket secrets, he is listed on the papers as the designer of the device. His first credit as art director was on The Road to Hong Kong (1962), the British-produced last gasp of the series of Bob Hope/Bing Crosby comedies. Cain also worked on the Hope vehicle Call Me Bwana (1963), best remembered because of an in-joke reference to it in From Russia With Love, where a sniper is concealed behind a billboard advertising the film.

Having worked as a draughtsman on Hell Below Zero (1954) and assistant art director on The Cockleshell Heroes (1956), both produced by Albert R Broccoli, he was chosen by Broccoli to work on the Bond films. Though uncredited, he worked with the production designer Ken Adam – in whose shadow he modestly remained for much of his career – on Dr No, taking over as art director when Adam was not available for the immediate follow-up, From Russia With Love (1963). This was the film that introduced the character of Q (Desmond Llewelyn). Cain was responsible for the design of the gadgets issued to Sean Connery's Bond, notably the briefcase with concealed sniper rifle and tear-gas talcum tin. For the villains, Cain also provided Rosa Klebb's shoes, with poison-tipped blade, and the chess-themed decor of Blofeld's lair.

Later, he was production designer for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). With a new Bond (George Lazenby) and a move away from the gadgets and vast sets of Connery and Adam's later work, Thunderball and Goldfinger, this tried to seem less fantastical – the only contraption issued to Bond is a photocopier. Cain was the supervising art director on Roger Moore's first Bond film, Live and Let Die (1973), then left the series, eventually returning as a storyboard artist for Pierce Brosnan's 007 debut, GoldenEye.

Arguably more impressive than his Bond associations, Cain worked with a number of notable film-makers throughout the 1960s and 70s, as assistant art director for Stanley Kubrick (Lolita, 1962), art director for Ronald Neame (Mister Moses, 1965) and François Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451, 1966), executive art director for Richard Lester (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1966) and production designer for Ken Russell (Billion Dollar Brain, 1967), Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, 1972) and Jack Gold (Aces High, 1976).

Contributing to lasting British pop-culture artefacts, he was also art director on the Cliff Richard vehicle Summer Holiday (1963) and production designer of the revival series The New Avengers (1976). After the popular, action-oriented Alistair Maclean adventure Fear Is the Key (1973), Cain became associated with a brand of high adventure that grew out of the Bond films, working with Peter R Hunt (director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service) on the Moore movies Gold (1974) and Shout at the Devil (1976), both set in Africa, and with the producer Euan Lloyd on a series of boozy, British macho epics – The Wild Geese (1978), The Sea Wolves (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982).

Cain retired as a production designer after Tusks (1988), but contributed storyboards to a select run of high-profile films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). His final credit was on the Michael Caine boxing movie Shiner (2000). In retirement, he illustrated children's books, wrote an autobiography (Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain, 2002) and was a well-liked guest at Bond-themed fan events.

Cain was married twice. His five sons and three daughters survive him.

• Sidney Cain, production designer, art director and illustrator, born 16 April 1918; died 21 November 2011

Syd Cain (1918–2011)

Filmography

Production designer (17 credits)

1988 Tusks
1985 Wild Geese II
1982 The Final Option
1981 Loophole
1980 Lion of the Desert
1980 The Sea Wolves

1978 The Wild Geese
1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) (13 episodes)
- Dirtier by the Dozen (1976)
- Gnaws (1976)
- Sleeper (1976)
- Faces (1976)
- Three Handed Game (1976)
- The Tale of the Big Why (1976)
- Target! (1976)
- Cat Amongst the Pigeons (1976)
- To Catch a Rat (1976)
- The Last of the Cybernauts...? (1976)
- House of Cards (1976)
- The Midas Touch (1976)
- The Eagle's Nest (1976)
1976 Aces High
1976 Shout at the Devil
1974 Gold
1972 Fear Is the Key (as Sidney Cain)
1972 Frenzy
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1967 Billion Dollar Brain
1966 Fahrenheit 451
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Art department (27 credits)

2001 The Fourth Angel (storyboard artist)
2000 Shiner (storyboard artist)

1998 Tarzan and the Lost City (storyboard artist)
1995 GoldenEye (storyboard artist)
1994 The NeverEnding Story III (storyboard artist)
1991 Robin Hood (storyboard artist - as Sydney Cain)

1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (storyboard artist: UK)
1984 Supergirl (research art director)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (executive art director)
1962 Lolita (associate art director - as Sidney Cain)
1960 The World of Suzie Wong (assistant art director - as Sydney Cain)
1959 Our Man in Havana (assistant art director)
1958 Tank Force (assistant art director)
1957 High Flight (assistant art director)
1957 How to Murder a Rich Uncle (assistant art director)
1957 Fire Down Below (assistant art director)
1957 Pickup Alley (assistant art director)
1956 Zarak (assistant art director - uncredited)
1956 The Gamma People (assistant art director)
1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (assistant art director)
1954 Up to His Neck (draughtsman - uncredited)
1954 You Know What Sailors Are (draughtsman - uncredited)
1954 Hell Below Zero (draughtsman - uncredited)

1949 The Interrupted Journey (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 Madness of the Heart (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 Adam and Evalyn (draughtsman - uncredited)
1947 The Inheritance (draughtsman - uncredited)

Art director (10 credits)

1973 Live and Let Die (supervising art director)
1966 Fahrenheit 451
1965 Mister Moses
1965 McGuire, Go Home!
1964 Agent 8 3/4
1963 From Russia with Love
1963 Call Me Bwana
1963 Summer Holiday
1962 Dr. No (uncredited)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong

2012: The University of Hertfordshire awards an honorary Doctorate of Arts degree to Roger Moore, for outstanding contribution to UK film and television industry for over 50 years.

https://www.whtimes.co.uk/what-s-on/reviews/sir-roger-moore-james-bond-the-saint-at-elstree-studios-hertsmere-university-of-hertfordshire-1-5033710

2017: "The next" Aston Martin Vantage (based on the DB10) is revealed.
More than 500 horse power and 505 foot pounds of torque.

https://autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2018-aston-martin-vantage-confirmed-more-500hp

RichardTheBruce

November 22nd

1899: Hoagy Carmichael is born--Bloomington, Indiana.
(He dies 27 December 1981 at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.)

Hoagy Carmichael

American composer, musician, and actor
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hoagy-Carmichael
Written By: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last Updated: Nov 18, 2019 See Article History
Alternative Title: Hoagland Howard Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael, byname of Hoagland Howard Carmichael, (born November 22, 1899, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.—died December 27, 1981, Rancho Mirage, California), American composer, singer, self-taught pianist, and actor who wrote several of the most highly regarded popular standards in American music.

Carmichael’s father was an itinerant electrician, and his mother earned extra money for the family as a pianist for dances and silent movies; from her, Carmichael absorbed the basics of playing the piano. He was strongly influenced by ragtime music and by the music he heard from black families and churches in his neighbourhood. As a teenager, he made every effort to hear and play as much jazz as possible, studying in Indianapolis, Indiana, with pianist Reginald DuValle and traveling to Chicago to hear Louis Armstrong. While studying at Indiana University in Bloomington (LL.B., 1926), Carmichael led a small jazz band that had some success playing for college dances throughout the Midwest. In the spring of 1924, Carmichael became friends with Bix Beiderbecke after engaging the young cornetist to play for several fraternity parties. Carmichael’s first composition, “Free Wheeling,” was retitled “Riverboat Shuffle” when recorded by Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, later the same year; the recording subsequently became a jazz classic.

After graduating from college, Carmichael practiced law in Florida for a brief period. During this time, he happened to hear a recording of his song “Washboard Blues,” by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Surprised that the song had been recorded and encouraged by this mark of success, he abandoned law and moved to New York City to embark on a career as a musician and composer. He recorded a version of his song “Stardust” in 1927; the song, an instrumental until fitted with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish in 1929, attracted little notice at first. In 1930 Isham Jones and his Orchestra had a hit with the song, and it went on to become one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music. During his stay in New York, Carmichael became friends with the young lyricist Johnny Mercer; the two collaborated on several songs throughout the years, with “Lazy Bones” being their first hit in 1933. Other hits composed during Carmichael’s years in New York include “Lazy River,” “Rockin’ Chair,” and “Georgia” (also known as “Georgia on My Mind”).

Hoagy Carmichael.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Carmichael moved to Hollywood, California, in 1936. There he composed songs for films and found additional success as a character actor, often playing the role of a philosophical and world-weary piano player, as in To Have and Have Not (1944). His hit songs for movies include “Two Sleepy People,” “Small Fry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” “The Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and a song that reflected Carmichael’s jazz influences in that, according to one music scholar, it “seemed to have the improvisations built right into the melody.”

As the golden age of American popular song waned during the advent of rock and roll in the 1950s, Carmichael continued to write songs—including such minor hits as “My Resistance Is Low” and “Winter Moon”—but had no more major successes as a songwriter. He also acted in a variety of television roles, such as his recurring dramatic part on the western series Laramie during the 1959–60 season. He never stopped composing, although most of his later songs were never recorded. One notable exception was a collection of children’s music released in 1971, Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop. Mostly, he devoted his later years to his hobbies of golf and coin collecting.

Carmichael wrote two well-received volumes of memoirs, The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965). After Carmichael’s death, his family donated his archives and personal effects to his alma mater, Indiana University, which opened the Hoagy Carmichael Room in his honour in 1986.

Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (23 credits)

1972 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Uncle Walter
- Smiles from Yesterday (1972) ... Uncle Walter
1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Willie Meeker
- Echo of a Nightmare (1970) ... Willie Meeker

1966 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series)
- Oh Boy, Is the Honeymoon Over (1966)
1965 The Man Who Bought Paradise (TV Movie) - Mr. Leoni
1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Carl Baker / 'Jango' Jordan
- Who Killed Molly? (1964) ... Carl Baker
- Who Killed Snooky Martinelli? (1964) ... 'Jango' Jordan
1960 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Narrator
- Those Ragtime Years (1960) ... Narrator
1959-1960 Laramie (TV Series) - Jonesy
- Cemetery Road (1960) ... Jonesy
- Midnight Rebellion (1960) ... Jonesy
- Saddle and Spur (1960) ... Jonesy
- The Protectors (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Hour After Dawn (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Ride or Die (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Street of Hate (1960) ... Jonesy
- Duel at Alta Mesa (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Rope of Steel (1960) ... Jonesy
- Company Man (1960) ... Jonesy
- Death Wind (1960) ... Jonesy
- The Legend of Lily (1960) ... Jonesy
- Day of Vengeance (1960) ... Jonesy
- Trail Drive (1960) ... Jonesy
- Ride into Darkness (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The Pass (1959) ... Jonesy
- Night of the Quiet Men (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The Lonesome Gun (1959) ... Jonesy
- Bare Knuckles (1959) ... Jonesy
- Man of God (1959) ... Jonesy
- Dark Verdict (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The General Must Die (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Run to Tumavaca (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- General Delivery (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Iron Captain (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Lawbreakers (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Star Trail (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Fugitive Road (1959) ... Jonesy
- Circle of Fire (1959) ... Jonesy
- Glory Road (1959) ... Jonesy
- Stage Stop (1959) ... Jonesy

1958 Climax! (TV Series) - Jazzman
- Sound of the Moon (1958) ... Jazzman
1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Marty Dix
- The Helen Morgan Story (1957) ... Marty Dix
1956 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series)
Frazier
- Death in the Snow (1956) ... Frazier
1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Sam
- Casablanca (1955) ... Sam
1955 Timberjack - Jingles
1952 The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series) -
- The Whale on the Beach (1952)
1952 Belles on Their Toes - Thomas George Bracken
1952 The Las Vegas Story - Happy
1950 Young Man with a Horn - Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

1949 Johnny Holiday - Hoagy Carmichael
1947 Night Song - Chick
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Butch Engle
1946 Canyon Passage - Hi Linnet
1945 Johnny Angel - Celestial O'Brien
1944 To Have and Have Not - Cricket
1937 Topper - Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

Soundtrack (376 credits)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Music department (5 credits)

2012 All American Alston (TV Movie)

1992 George Shearing: Lullaby in Birdland (Video) (music: "Memphis in June")
1990 Michael Bolton: Georgia on My Mind (Video short)

1956 Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (featuring the music of - 1 episode)
- C (1956) ... (featuring the music of)

1939 St. Louis Blues (songs by)

Composer (1 credit)

1964 De muziek van Hoagy Carmichael (TV Short)

Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953.
Chapter 5 - The Girl From Headquarters

'He is very good looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his . . .'

Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne

As he tied his thin, double ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical. Not much of Hoagy Carmichael there, thought Bond, as he filled a flat, light gunmetal box with fifty of the Morland cigarettes with the triple gold band. Mathis had told him of the girl's comment.

Moonraker, Ian Fleming, 1955.
Chapter XIV - Itching Fingers

Commander Bond. James Bond. Clearly a conceited young man like so many of them in the Secret Service. And why had he been sent down instead of somebody she could work with, one of her friends from the Special Branch, or even somebody from MI5? The message from the Assistant Commissioner had said that there was no one else available at short notice, that this was one of the stars of the Secret Service who had the complete confidence of the Special Branch and the blessings of MI5. Even the Prime Minister had had to give permission for him to operate, for just this one assignment, inside England. But what use could he be in the short time that was left? He could probably shoot all right and talk foreign languages and do a lot of tricks that might be useful abroad. But what good could he do down here without any beautiful spies to make love to. Because he was certainly good-looking. (Gala Brand automatically reached into her bag for her vanity case. She examined herself in the little mirror and dabbed at her nose with a powder puff.) Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. Were they grey or blue? It had been difficult to say last night. Well, at any rate she had put him in his place and shown him that she wasn't impressed by dashing young men from the Secret Service, however romantic they might look.

"Stardust", Hoagy Carmichael.


Have and Have Not, "Am I Blue", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.


Have and Have Not, "Georgia", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.

1961: Broccoli & Saltzman announce Sean Connery in the James Bond role and kick off a big publicity campaign.

1965: Mads Mikkelsen is born--Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966: O.K. Connery (aka Operation Kid Brother and Operation Double 007) released.

1980: Leonard Barr dies at age 77--West Hollywood, California. (Born 27 September 1903--West Virginia.)

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

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

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

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

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

Personal life

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

Death

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

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

Filmography

Actor (14 credits)

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

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

Soundtrack (2 credits)

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

1981: ABC-TV premieres Moonraker.

1999: The World Is Not Enough European Charity London premiere at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

2002: Die Another Day released in the US and Puerto Rico.
2002: Meurs un autre jour released in Canada.

2002: Muere otro día released in Spain. (Catalan: Mor un altre dia.)

2002: Lamut B'Yom A'her premieres in Israel. (premiere)
2002: Smierc nadejdzie jutro released in Poland.

2004: Electronic Arts publishes GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for PlayStation 2, Xbox,Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS.

http://elitgamer.net/kepek/Golden_EYe_Rogue_Agent_by_RazeX776.jpg

2006: "You Know My Name" (the grittier version) charts at #20 as a UK Single Download.

2006: Casino Royale released in Belgium, France, and Switzerland.

RichardTheBruce

November 23rd

1930: Ricou Browning is born--Fort Pierce, Florida.
1990: Roald Dahl dies at age 74--Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
(Born 13 September 1916--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.)

Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected

Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago in September and lived a life
scarred by tragedy and marred by his own difficult personality.
But his magical characters are more alive than ever
Wednesday 12 September 2018

Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal (recovering from a stroke, hence the eye patch) in 1965, with their children Theo, baby Ophelia and Tessa, at their home in Great Missenden.

Emily Hourican - August 29 2016 2:30 AM

Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago, on September 13, to Norwegian parents in Cardiff. He died 26 years ago, yet his books, specifically his children's books, are still bought in huge numbers (over 200 million worldwide) and regularly adapted for film, TV and stage. Matilda has been playing on Broadway since 2013 and, of course, The BFG has just been released in a new, big-screen version directed by Spielberg. Roald also created a dynasty and established Dahl as a surname that manages to be both thoroughly establishment and fascinatingly bohemian.

His remarkable imagination - exuberant, vengeful, often nauseating - and ability to create characters, usually orphans, filled with a pathos that makes us burn with indignation, are what have kept Dahl's books alive, but the whiff of sulphur that always hung around the man hasn't gone away either. Because as much as he is acknowledged a wonderful writer, with a rare understanding of children's psychology, he was also a difficult, often cruel man, with a heap of unpalatable views.

Most recently, as Spielberg prepared for the release of The BFG, he was ambushed by allegations of Dahl's anti-Semitism, specifically a quote Dahl gave to The New Statesman: "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews . . . even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."

Spielberg, himself Jewish, of course, and visibly horrified, was forced to try and defend Dahl, and by extension himself, saying he had "no excuse" for not researching Dahl's public statements, but adding: "Later, when I began asking questions of people who knew Dahl, they told me he liked to say things he didn't mean just to get a reaction. And all his comments . . . he would say for effect, even if they were horrible things."


Dahl's second wife, Felicity, beneath his portrait.

It is difficult to judge and condemn the products of a previous era by our own much-changed standards. But even so, Spielberg's defence seems weak and Dahl's words far less the act of a provocateur than the musings of a bigot.

Probably the best defence - if one is to be admitted - is Dahl's own life; the many tragedies he faced, the strange mixture of courage and cruelty he displayed. Bad things happen in Roald Dahl books - James's parents die, Mr Fox gets his tail shot off, the child (never named) from The Witches spends his life as a mouse - and they are full of disgusting, terrible people, such as James's aunts, Matilda's father, George's grandmother. These people and events are faithfully rendered, with no glossing-over or soothing euphemisms, and the reason for it becomes very obvious with even a passing knowledge of Dahl's life.

He may have been dashing, handsome, brilliant - his second wife, Felicity Crosland, described him as the "sexiest seducer in Washington" - but Dahl was also known as 'Roald The Rotten'; domineering, inconsistent and driven by his memories of tragedy. Granddaughter Sophie described him as "a very difficult man - very strong, very dominant".

The little girl with the big eyes in The BFG is based on Sophie, but the book is dedicated to Olivia, Dahl's eldest daughter, who he adored and who died of measles encephalitis when she was just seven. It was a terrible loss, one that had heart-breaking echoes of the death from appendicitis, also at the age of seven, of Roald's elder sister, Astri.

A month after her death, Roald's father, who never recovered from the blow, died of pneumonia.

Roald was just three at the time. From the age of eight, he was sent off to a series of boarding schools, where he was mostly miserable and homesick. That may have been the experience of most small boys dispatched in that particularly English tradition; the difference with Roald is that he never forgot. Nor, perhaps, did he ever recover.

Reviewer Kathryn Hughes once said: "No matter how you spin it, Roald Dahl was an absolute sod. Crashing through life like a big, bad child, he managed to alienate pretty much everyone he ever met."

His nickname when young was 'Apple' because he was his mother's favourite. He wrote to her every day from boarding school, but never confessed the depths of his loneliness and misery. Instead, he put a brave face on the regular bouts of violence and ritual humiliation that were so much part of the boarding-school experience then and this daily exercise in glossing over the wretched truth may very well have been the early training in storytelling he needed.

After school, Dahl travelled the world, working for Shell oil, then joined the RAF when the Second World War broke out. A dashing, daring pilot, he spent much of the war in the US, sleeping with society beauties and passing on whatever bits of intelligence he gleaned from pillow talk. Felicity Crosland described Dahl, 6ft 6ins and a fine sportsman, as "wildly attractive and handsome, in his RAF uniform, speaking English, a fighter pilot - completely seductive. And he was charming and intelligent. A lot of women fell for him."

Dahl, in turn, fell for the actress Patricia Neal, who he met at a dinner party hosted by playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman. Neal's career had started in a blaze of glory - before she was 21, she won a Tony award for her Broadway debut. Then she moved to Hollywood, where she started in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's best-selling, ground-breaking novel The Fountainhead, and fell passionately in love with Gary Cooper.

The affair lasted three years, during which time Neal got pregnant and had an abortion.

Later, she wrote: "If I had only one thing to do over in my life, I would have that baby" - but Cooper refused ultimately to leave his wife.

The Fountainhead was a disaster, followed by a couple more turkeys, and by the age of 27, Neal was back in New York, heartbroken, barely over a nervous breakdown, with her career in tatters. This was the point at which she met Dahl.

Years later, in her autobiography As I Am, Neal wrote that she knew she didn't love Dahl from the moment they married in 1953 but she wanted to have "beautiful children" with him. And initially, the marriage seemed to be working. Neal's career revived and she won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1963 for Hud. Meantime, the couple were indeed having "beautiful children", five in all: Olivia, Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy.

Seven years after their marriage, the couple's baby son, Theo, four months old, was crushed between a bus and a taxi while out with a nanny and left brain-damaged. The accident was witnessed by Tessa.

Theo had eight brain operations and Dahl, unhappy with the shunt put in to drain the fluid that clogged his brain, spent two years designing and manufacturing a better version. He decided to move the family back home to England, settling in Gypsy House in the village of Great Missenden. But just a few years later, seven-year-old Olivia, the eldest, died of measles encephalitis, a tragedy that left Dahl "limp with despair".

Patricia Neal did some of her best work in this period, then suffered a series of strokes when she was 39 and pregnant with her fifth child.

After a lengthy operation on her brain, Patricia couldn't talk or walk and was largely paralysed.

Here, Dahl showed himself to be a man of complete determination and a certain vision, but touched with coldness, even sadism.

He essentially forced Patricia to get well. If she wanted something, he held it out of reach until she asked for it. He badgered her to walk, to move, to read and memorize and forced her to do hours of painful physical and speech therapy.

For those watching, there were many pitiful moments, but in the end, Dahl's strange, stubborn insistence came good. Six months after the brain operation Neal gave birth to a healthy daughter, Lucy. Shortly after that, he decided she was ready to give a speech to a charity dinner for brain-damaged children. Although terrified, she did, to thunderous applause. "I knew at that moment that Roald the slave driver, Roald the bastard, with his relentless scourge, Roald the Rotten, as I had called him more than once, had thrown me back into the deep water. Where I belonged," she later said.

He may have forced Neal to get well again, but there didn't seem any way of saving the marriage. Dahl began an affair with one of Neal's best friends, Felicity Crosland, and in 1983 the couple divorced and he remarried. To Patricia's fury, their children mostly knew of and condoned the affair. Ophelia Dahl, who was 14 when her parents divorced, later said: "All of us realised that he had found the love of his life with Liccy (Felicity) and there's always a sense of relief when that happens."

Throughout, Dahl had been writing, finding early and considerable success with Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, published in 1964 and a classic ever since.

At the same time, he was also writing adult fiction, including pornography for Playboy - friend and fellow writer Noel Coward once said of his adult fiction: "The stories are brilliant and the imagination is fabulous. Unfortunately, there is, in all of them, an underlying streak of cruelty and macabre unpleasantness and a curiously adolescent emphasis on sex" - and was often very dismissive of children's literature and his own role within it.

Of course, the streak of "cruelty and macabre unpleasantness" that Coward detected was very much present in his children's books too.

It seemed also to be present in his life. As a father, Dahl was irascible and inconsistent; protective and manipulative, controlling and kind; a tough combination. Tessa, the daughter next to Olivia in age, was frequently compared with the child her father mourned so obviously - "my older sister Olivia had been the love of Daddy's life . . . both of us contracted measles, but she had died" - and always unfavourably.

"In our family, you got attention only if you were brain-damaged or dead or terribly ill. There was no reward for being normal," she once said. And so Tessa gave up on being 'normal', instead becoming wild, precocious and deeply unhappy.

In a piece written in 2012, she talks of being brought to see psychiatrist Anna Freud after Theo's accident. Freud recommended therapy for the whole family, but Dahl had a mistrust of something that he believed had left various friends unable to write because they "had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes", so he insisted on medication instead. Freud refused, so Dahl found another doctor, less scrupulous, to prescribe, and Tessa, from the age of four, was medicated.

By her teenage years, Tessa was given Quaaludes, a sedative, by her father, who brought them home from America, and regularly drank alcohol with him. She had developed, she says "narcissistic character disorders" and was "the problem child who became the scapegoat." But she insists: "My parents did their best."

Tessa, like her mother, was a beauty. By her teenage years, she had become a gossip-column fixture, for dating Peter Sellers and Brian de Palma, among others. Sophie was her first child, from a short affair with actor Julian Holloway when Tessa was 19. Later, she married twice, and had three more children.

She battled drug addiction and crippling depression and began a long search for meaning, visiting ashrams, falling under the spell of various gurus.

She also began to write - articles, children's books and one novel. Dahl, although publicly supportive, was privately competitive: "After I sold my first children's book, he had struggled up to his hut with agonised hips to fetch his royalty statements - to prove to me that I would never make as much money as him, however successful I became."

And yet despite, or more likely because of, Dahl's emotional distance, he was the great focus of Tessa's life.

"I loved him with an undiluted and unmet passion. He was my major motivation as my whole life consisted of proving to him that, although my sister died, I was still worthy of life and love."

Someone once said that all siblings have different parents. Dahl was perhaps a different kind of father to his other children.

Ophelia is a social justice and healthcare advocate, while Lucy, the youngest and a screenwriter in Hollywood - she wrote Wild Child, made into a film with Natasha Richardson - remembers a generous, magical kind of parent.

"He absolutely hated children being bored. He used to say boredom was death," she recalls, and so he bought a Morris Minor for them to drive around a track he had created.

As a grandfather, Dahl seems to have hit his stride. For Tessa's daughter, Sophie, whose young life was spent trailing along on her mother's search for happiness, peace and enlightenment, he was a fixed and stable point.

"Wonderful, really wonderful," is how she describes him.

He had an old gypsy caravan in his garden, which Sophie and her friends used as a playhouse.

"It was brutally uncomfortable and really cold, but I would stay in there with my friends and so we'd have midnight feasts of chocolate in bed. Then, in the morning, we'd appear in the house and he'd make us all breakfast."

Sophie now lives in Gipsy House with her husband, singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum, and their two children.

By the time Dahl died in 1990, aged 74, 4,000 letters a week were arriving to the local post office for him. Last year, 80,000 people visited the museum dedicated to him in Great Missenden.

They don't go despite the core of darkness in his books, but because of it. The enduring magic of Dahl's world is the way it acknowledges the nasty side of life, has irresistible fun with it, then allows good to triumph.

Roald Dahl (1916–1990)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001094/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Writer (76 credits)

Matilda (based on the book by) (announced)
Willy Wonka (creator) (announced)

2020 The Witches (novel) (post-production)
2017 Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Video) (based on the novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by)
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part Two (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part One (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- You Only Live Twice (2016) ... (screenplay)
2016 The BFG (based on the book by)
2016 In the Ruins (Short) (short story)
2016 Lamb to the Slaughter (Short) (novel)
2015 The Taste (Short) (based on a short story by)
2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (TV Movie) (based on the novel by)
2013 Baa Baa Black Sheep (Short) (story)
2013/I Cheap Thrills (short story "Man from the South" - uncredited)
2012 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (Video short) (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - uncredited)
2012 Bang-lure (Short) (story)
2012 Chippendale (Short)
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox (novel)
2008 Three Little Pigs (Short) (writer)
2007 Jackanory Junior (TV Series)
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)
2005 Imagine (TV Series documentary) (quotations - 1 episode)
- Fantastic Mr Dahl (2005) ... (quotations - uncredited)
2005/I The Bet (Short) (story)
2002 Lamb to the Slaughter (story)
2000 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (story)

1999 Inaudito (Short) (story)
1997 The Enormous Crocodile (TV Movie)
1996 Matilda (book)
1996 James And The Giant Peach (based on the book by)
1995 Alien Tales (Video Game) (synopsis: Matilda)
Jackanory (TV Series) (book - 14 episodes, 1968 - 1986) (novel - 6 episodes, 1979 - 1995)
- The Twits (1995) ... (novel)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Five (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Four (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Three (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Two (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part One (1986) ... (novel)
- George's Marvellous Medicine: Grandma Gets the Medicine (1986) ... (novel)
- George's Marvellous Medicine: The Cook-Up (1986) ... (novel)
- George's Marvellous Medicine: The Marvellous Plan (1986) ... (novel)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1979) ... (novel)
- James and the Giant Peach: Down to Earth (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Adventures in the Air (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Danger - Sharks! (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Strange Creatures (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: The Mysterious Peach (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Surprise for Charlie (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Shock for Veruca and Violet (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Chocolate Room (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Fudgemallow Delight (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Golden Tickets (1968) ... (book)
1995 Pisvingers! (Short) (story "The Swan")
1992 Idealnaya para (stories)
1990 Dirty Beasts (TV Movie)
1990 Revolting Rhymes (TV Movie)
1990 The Magic Finger (TV Movie)
1990 The Silent Hunt (novel)
1990 The Witches (book)

1989 Breaking Point (TV Movie) (novel "Beware of the Dog")
1989 Danny the Champion of the World (TV Movie) (novel)
1988 Velká rosáda (TV Movie) (adaptation)
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (writer - 15 episodes, 1979 - 1981) (story - 11 episodes, 1979 - 1988)
- The Surgeon (1988) ... (story)
- The Sound Machine (1981) ... (writer)
- The Boy Who Talked with Animals (1981) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1980) ... (story)
- Vengeance Is Mine Inc. (1980) ... (writer)
- Mr Botibol's First Love (1980) ... (story)
- Genesis & Catastrophe (1980) ... (story)
- The Umbrella Man (1980) ... (story)
- Depart in Peace (1980) ... (writer)
- Georgy Porgy (1980) ... (story)
- My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... (writer)
- Taste (1980) ... (writer)
- Poison (1980) ... (story)
- The Hitch-Hiker (1980) ... (story)
- Galloping Foxley (1980) ... (story)
- Skin (1980) ... (writer)
- Royal Jelly (1980) ... (writer)
- The Way Up to Heaven (1979) ... (writer)
- A Dip in the Pool (1979) ... (writer)
- Edward the Conqueror (1979) ... (writer)
- Neck (1979) ... (writer)
- The Landlady (1979) ... (writer)
- Lamb to the Slaughter (1979) ... (writer)
- William and Mary (1979) ... (writer)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1979) ... (writer)
- The Man from the South (1979) ... (story)
1988 The Book Tower (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #10.1 (1988) ... (writer - segment ": "Boy")
1987 The BFG (novel)
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Pilot (1985) ... (story - segment "Man from the South")
1984 Kobra (Short) (short story "Poison")
1983 Kalle och chokladfabriken (TV Mini-Series) (novel)

1976 James and the Giant Peach (TV Movie) (based upon a novel by)
1976 Le care mogli (TV Movie) (play)
1975 A Gigot (Short) (short story "Lamb to the Slaughter")
1975 Hundert Mark (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Des Pfarrers Freude ... (writer)
1975 Uit de wereld van Roald Dahl (TV Series) (story - 5 episodes)
- Een frisse duik (1975) ... (story)
- De verrassing (1975) ... (story)
- Op weg naar de hemel (1975) ... (story)
- Vergif (1975) ... (story)
- De weddenschap (1975) ... (story)
1974 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (short story "Genesis and Catastrophe")
1973 Et lite grøss? (TV Mini-Series) (short story "The Landlady" - 1 episode)
- Vertinnen (1973) ... (short story "The Landlady")
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") / (screenplay)
1971 The Road Builder
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (screenplay)
1968 Late Night Horror (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1968) ... (writer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (screenplay)
1967 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (short story "Taste" - 1 episode)
- Maku (1967) ... (short story "Taste")
Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1965) (writer - 1 episode, 1967)
- Taste (1967) ... (writer)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1965) ... (story)
1966 Des Pfarrers Freude (TV Movie) (story)
1964 36 Hours (story "Beware of the Dog")
1962 That Was the Week That Was (TV Series)
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1961) ... (by)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (based on a story by - 3 episodes, 1958 - 1961) (story - 2 episodes, 1958) (story by - 1 episode, 1960) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
- The Landlady (1961) ... (based on a story by)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960) ... (based on a story by)
- Man from the South (1960) ... (story by)
- Poison (1958) ... (story)
- Dip in the Pool (1958) ... (based on a story by)
- Lamb to the Slaughter (1958) ... (story) / (teleplay)
1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) (short story: "Beware of the Dog" - 1 episode)
- Blind Landing (1959) ... (short story: "Beware of the Dog")
1958 Suspicion (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Way Up to Heaven (1958) ... (story)
1956 Le coup du berger (Short) (story - uncredited)
1955 Cameo Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Man from the South (1955) ... (story)
1955 Star Tonight (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1955) ... (story)
1954 Danger (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- A Dip in the Pool (1954) ... (story)
1954 The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1954) ... (story)
1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Taste (1952) ... (story)
1952 CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Sound Machine (1952) ... (story)
1950 Suspense (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Poison (1950) ... (story)

Actor (2 credits)
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... Narrator (voice)
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - Host
- 20/20 (1961) ... Host
- Side Show (1961) ... Host
- Hush-Hush (1961) ... Host
- The Overnight Case (1961) ... Host
- The Croaker (1961) ... Host
-
Soundtrack (2 credits)

2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (lyrics: "Augustus Gloop", "Violet Beauregarde", "Veruca Salt", "Mike Teavee")

1996 James And The Giant Peach (lyrics: "Eating The Peach")

2002: Madonna’s Die Another Day single peaks at #1, Canadian Soundscan Singles Sales chart.
Stays there (on and off) 7 weeks.

2006: Casino Royale released in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Croatia, and the Netherlands.
2006: 007 - Casino Royale released in Slovenia.
2006: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Germany and Portugal.
2006: Kazino rojal released in Serbia.
2006: 007: Kajino rowaiyaru opens the Tokyo International Cine City Festival.

RichardTheBruce

November 24th

1959: Jack Whittingham meets Ian Fleming and Ivor Bryce in New York.
1981: Altin Tabancali Adam (The Man with the Golden Gun) released in Turkey.

1966

1983: Octopussy released in Australia.

Australian Daybill

1983: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Οκτάπουσι (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Octopus) released in Greece.

1995: GoldenEye released in the UK, Ireland, and Poland.

2006: Casino Royale released in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway. Romania, and Sweden.
2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Spain.
2006: Казино Pоял (Casino Bowl) released in Bulgaria.
2018: Ricky Jay (Richard Jay Potash) dies at age 70--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 26 June 1948--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.)

Ricky Jay, Master Magician and
Actor in ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Boogie
Nights,’ Dies at 72

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS

Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter

Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.

Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”

His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”

A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.

He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”

Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”

In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

In the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Jay played a cyber-terrorist to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.

He also provided the narration for movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” His one-man Broadway show directed by Mamet, “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” was recorded for an HBO special in 1996.

With Weber, he created the Deceptive Practices company, which provided solutions to movies and TV productions such as the wheelchair that hid Gary Sinise’s legs in “Forrest Gump.” They also worked on films including “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist” and “Oceans Thirteen.”

Jay, who was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, was introduced to magic by his grandfather. He began performing in New York, opening for rock bands. Jay first worked in film with on Caleb Deschanel’s “The Escape Artist.”

A documentary about his life, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” was released in 2012.

A student of all facets of magic, prestidigitation and trickery, he maintained a large library of historic works and wrote two books, as well as numerous articles for the New Yorker; he also frequently lectured at museums and universities.

Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

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Trivia

Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta) is also an acclaimed magician, who holds a world record for the fastest throwing playing cards. The producers initially wanted a scene where he threw playing cards at Bond. They set up the scene to block, Ricky was fifty or seventy-five feet away, and was asked to hit Pierce Brosnan in the face. Ricky warned them it wasn't a good idea, safety wise. After they convinced him to do it, he agreed, and hit Pierce right above the eyes. To his disappointment, for some reason, they never asked him to repeat it on film. Gupta is shown throwing cards in the DVD deleted scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cofb-jJiFk

Filmography

Actor (41 credits)

2019 Sneaky Pete (TV Series) - T.H. Vignetti
- The Sunshine Switcheroo (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Little Sister (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The California Split (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Invisible Man (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Brooklyn Potash (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti (voice, uncredited)
- The Vermont Victim & The Bakersfield Hustle (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Stamford Trust Fall (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Huckleberry Jones (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
2015 The Automatic Hate - Josh / Howard's son
2014 Getting On (TV Series) - Thoracic Surgeon
- Turnips... North Day... Yes, yes. (2014) ... Thoracic Surgeon
2013 Breathe Life Radio TV (TV Series)
2013 Teen Titans Go! (TV Series short) - Narrator
- Double Trouble (2013) ... Narrator (voice)
2011 The End of 'Sluggers' (Short)
2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (Video short) - Narrator
2009-2010 Flashforward (TV Series) - Ted Flosso / Man in Warehouse
- Revelation Zero: Part 2 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
- Revelation Zero: Part 1 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
- Playing Cards with Coyote (2009) ... Man in Warehouse
2009 Lie to Me (TV Series) - Mason Brock
- Fold Equity (2009) - .. Mason Brock

2009 Intense - John
2007-2009 The Unit (TV Series) - Agent Kern
- Bad Beat (2009) ... Agent Kern
- Pandemonium: Part Two (2007) ... Agent Kern
- Paradise Lost (2007) ... Agent Kern
- Bedfellows (2007) ... Agent Kern
2008 The Brothers Bloom - Narrator (voice)
2008 Redbelt - Marty Brown
2008 The Great Buck Howard - Gil Bellamy
2006-2007 Kidnapped (TV Series) - Roger Prince
- Mutiny (2007) ... Roger Prince
- Gone Fishing (2007) ... Roger Prince
- Number One with a Bullet (2006) ... Roger Prince
- Pilot (2006) ... Roger Prince
2006 The Prestige - Milton
2005 Last Days - Detective
2004 Deadwood (TV Series) - Eddie Sawyer
- Sold Under Sin (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Mister Wu (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- No Other Sons or Daughters (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Suffer the Little Children (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Bullock Returns to the Camp (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Plague (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- The Trial of Jack McCall (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Here Was a Man (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Reconnoitering the Rim (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
2004 Incident at Loch Ness - Party Guest
2001 Heist - Don 'Pinky' Pincus
2001 Heartbreakers - Dawson's Auctioneer
2000 State and Main - Jack
2000 The X-Files (TV Series) - The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
- The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck

1999 Magnolia - Burt Ramsey / Narrator
1999 Mystery Men - Vic Weems
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Henry Gupta
1997/I Hacks - The Hat
1997 Boogie Nights - Kurt Longjohn
1997 The Spanish Prisoner - George Lang
1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) - Hawkes
1993 Magiskt (TV Series) - Magic film clip
- Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
- Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
- Special guest: Lars-Peter Loeld (1993) ... Magic film clip
1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) - Special appearance
- S2 - Show 6 (1992) ... Special appearance
- S2 - Show 5 (1992) ... Special appearance
- S2 - Show 4 (1992) ... Special appearance
- S2 - Show 3 (1992) ... Special appearance
- S2 - Show 2 (1992) ... Special appearance
- S2 - Show 1 (1992) ... Special appearance
- S1 - Show 6 (1990) ... Special appearance
- S1 - Show 5 (1990) ... Special appearance
- S1 - Show 4 (1990) ... Special appearance
- S1 - Show 3 (1990) ... Special appearance
- S1 - Show 2 (1990) ... Special appearance
- S1 - Show 1 (1990) ... Special appearance
1992 Ring of the Musketeers (TV Movie) - Kerns (as Rickey Jay)
1992 The Water Engine (TV Movie) - Ratty Inventor
1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Lenny NiCastro
- Pilot (1991) ... Lenny NiCastro
1991 The Thrill Is Gone (TV Movie) - Dealer
1991 Homicide - Aaron

1988 Things Change - Mr. Silver
1987 House of Games - George / Vegas Man
1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Philostrate
1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Bird
- Red Dog Blues (1983) ... Bird

Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)

2008 The Great Buck Howard (technical consultant: magic)
2007 Ocean's Thirteen (consultant)
2006 The Prestige (technical advisor: magic)
2006 The Illusionist (technical advisor: magic)
2001 The Affair of the Necklace (technical consultant)
2001 Heist (technical consultant)
2001 Heartbreakers (technical consultant: con games)

1998 The Parent Trap (technical consultant)
1997 The Spanish Prisoner (technical consultant)
1995 Congo (illusion creator) / (technical consultant)
1994 Forrest Gump (illusion wheelchair designer)
1994 Wolf (technical consultant)
1994 I Love Trouble (technical consultant)
1992 Leap of Faith (consultant: cons and frauds)
1992 Sneakers (sleight of hand consultant)
1990 The Magic Balloon (Short) (technical consultant)

1987 House of Games (consultant: confidence games)
1987 The Believers (technical consultant)
1984 The Natural (technical consultant)
1983 New Magic (Documentary short) (magic advisor)
1982 The Escape Artist (technical advisor)
Hide Hide Writer (5 credits)
2007 The Unit (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Bedfellows (2007) ... (story)
2004 Deadwood (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... (written by)
1996 Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (TV Movie)
1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) (12 episodes)
- S2 - Show 6 (1992)
- S2 - Show 5 (1992)
- S2 - Show 4 (1992)
- S2 - Show 3 (1992)
- S2 - Show 2 (1992)
- S2 - Show 1 (1992)
- S1 - Show 6 (1990)
- S1 - Show 5 (1990)
- S1 - Show 4 (1990)
- S1 - Show 3 (1990)
- S1 - Show 2 (1990)
- S1 - Show 1 (1990)

1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)

Music department (1 credit)

1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) (music effects)

RichardTheBruce

November 25th

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Jaws exiting the train, his final scene filmed.
1977: 007 - La spia che mi amava released in Italy.

1997: Filmtracks.com publishes Christian Clemmensen's review of the Tomorrow Never Dies score.
(Revised 3 March 2008.)

EDITORIAL REVIEW

FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #47

WRITTEN 11/25/97, REVISED 3/3/08

Tomorrow Never Dies: (David Arnold) If one thing is certain about Pierce Brosnan's tenure as British agent James Bond, it's the superiority of Tomorrow Never Dies. Everything clicked in this, the second of his films as 007. His performance reached back to the confidence of Sean Connery, the love interest came packaged as Michelle Yeoh (who is more Bond's equal than just another conquest), a previous flame's death provokes a malice in Bond loyal to the books' original intent, the villain is charmingly enthusiastic and has a cool new stealth weapon as a toy, and David Arnold's score combined the best of the John Barry years with the younger composer's techno-saavy sensibilities. While Goldeneye had revived the series by becoming the first $100 million grossing Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies was far better packaged and drew greater interest from hardcore fans of the franchise's classics. With John Barry now out of the picture (despite his seeming renewed interest in scoring another Bond film during the Brosnan years), Arnold was a perfect successor. His love of the franchise and knack for imitating the expansive style of Barry in his early scores, not to mention his British heritage, made him the logical choice. And fans weren't disappointed. The score than Arnold assembled for Tomorrow Never Dies is a sophisticated and intelligent tribute to the classic Barry scores while pushing the envelope with synthetic rhythms and drum pads to aide the traditional orchestra in joining Bond in a rapidly evolving technological age. The trademark action style that Arnold established in Stargate and Independence Day is combined with a distinct return to the flamboyant style of the jazzy Bond scores of the 1960's, and with the presence of the synthetic elements native to Arnold's roots in the rock genre, every variety of Arnold fan had something to look forward. Arnold would become the franchise's regular voice, allowing the subsequent films to really define his career (with very few notable scores for non-Bond films mixed in between). He would continue pushing the synthetic side of his music for the franchise until a somewhat dissatisfying score for Die Another Day would pull Arnold back to the combo style of Tomorrow Never Dies in the outstanding Casino Royale.

Arnold was obviously keenly aware that the Bond frachise's scores had their own unique formula while Barry was in charge, and that formula would continue here. The franchise theme by Monty Norman is quoted liberally in Tomorrow Never Dies, with its incorporation ranging from full-blown three-minute tributes to clever counterpoint against the new themes for the film. Arnold's full expressions of the Norman theme are extremely astute in an instrumental sense. Even the opening fifteen seconds of the score offers brass and cymbal accents true to Barry's introductions. The muted trumpets, solo flute, and electric guitar performances in "Company Car" provide the most true and entertaining modern performance of the Norman concept available. This three-minute cue establishes a standard by which fans and students of the franchise can worship and study. Acoustically, the recording is flawless. Aside from the statements of Norman's theme throughout the score, Arnold wrote one of the franchise's best title songs and integrated its theme extremely well throughout the entire score. With all the wailing brass flair of Goldfinger, his title theme is both seductively alluring and strikingly defiant, an easily memorable aspect of the film. In the opening action sequence before the credits ("White Knight"), Arnold introduces the theme with nobility at the 7:10 mark (in between ample development of Norman's theme). This theme punctuates many of the action sequences and is given an Eastern personality in "Kowloon Bay" before a last monumental statement for strings and bold brass counterpoint at the resolution of the film. A theme for Teri Hatcher's role as the villain's wife and former Bond lover is provided twice in Tomorrow Never Dies. As they reunite, Arnold allows the Barry-like idea to flourish with the full ensemble (once again in layered strings under brass counterpoint) before a solo woodwind echos accompany her demise. A deliberate, pounding motif for the villain Elliot Carver and his stealth ship is sparsely utilized throughout the score (its fullest appearance is at 3:55 into "The Sinking of the Devonshire"), though it receives some intriguing, less obvious exploration in "Underwater Discovery." If the score for Tomorrow Never Dies has a weakness, it's in the largely understated musical representation for Carver, as well as other "badguy" elements such as in "Doctor Kaufman."

To counter the theme for Carver's wife earlier in the film, Arnold writes a theme for Michelle Yeoh's agent and the Eastern locations of the story. It's only receives brief treatment, but it is quite gorgeous on solo guitar and piano in the early portions of "Bike Shop Fight" and "Kowloon Bay." A full rendition in the latter cue, merging with the title theme, is a highlight of the score. Faint hints of this theme come through in the very last minute of the score, though this progression seems to be a nod to Barry's You Only Live Twice. And that brings up another important point about Tomorrow Never Dies: the many references to previous scores in the franchise. In the opening battle, Arnold states a fragment of From Russia With Love. The following cue offers brass wails identical to later action sequences in Goldfinger. In both "White Knight" and more obviously at 0:45 into "Hamburg Break In," Arnold quotes the five-note bass sequence that preceded Tina Turner's song for Goldeneye, arguably the most memorable element from the soundtrack of that film. He would not make the same number of references in his scores for the subsequent Brosnan/Bond films, though he does make a clever reference to the title theme for Tomorrow Never Dies during a conversational cue after Bond's early rescue in Die Another Day. In retrospect, Tomorrow Never Dies is a much better score than many gave it credit for being at the time. Some listeners were turned off by the extensive synthetic percussion used in "Back Seat Driver" and "Hamburg Break Out," among a few others, and these cues are indeed less effective outside the context of the film (where they come in conflict with the better balance of the surrounding material). But the varied, slapping percussion of "Bike Chase" is a perfect combination of both worlds, and its highly effective sound would set the stage for cues like the one for the opening chase sequence in Casino Royale. For the most part, the balance in mixing in Tomorrow Never Dies is outstanding, and the gorgeous piano solos in several cues are testimony to this clarity. Subsequent Arnold scores tended to get muddy in their rowdy action cues, especially in Die Another Day, though a total lack of theme in that later score is the greater problem.

As anyone can expect, not everything with Tomorrow Never Dies went well. First and foremost, the song situation would be very dissatisfying for both Arnold and Bond fans alike. While the recording of the title song by k.d. lang would match the style and theme of Arnold's score with incredible cohesion and effectiveness, the producers of the film saw fit to hire a bigger name to provide a replacement song for the traditional opening credits sequence. This move was unfortunate not only because of Arnold's song was superior and in spirit of the franchise, but also because of lang's sulty voice and spirited performance. The replacement song is performed by Sheryl Crow, whose popularity at the time was seen as an asset, but whose beach-bum voice and lazy performance was a disgrace to the film. The video game score for Tomorrow Never Dies would heavily favor the use of Arnold's song theme, retitled "Surrender," over the presence of Crow's song. With critics, fans, and producers all easily recognizing the superiority of the lang song, Arnold was rewarded with the opportunity to write his own song for The World is Not Enough two years later (before suffering from extraordinary frustration trying to adapt Madonna's non-thematic song into the score for Die Another Day). A more minor criticism of Tomorrow Never Dies responds to the fact that Arnold only used his trademark, beautiful choir for a short snippet of "The Sinking of the Devonshire," though given that this cue sounds awkward in its sudden shift to Stargate during the slow-motion sinking and death sequence, that's not necessarily a negative. A truly major problem with Tomorrow Never Dies, however, was its album release. Much to the angst of Arnold, a hectic and disorganized post-production schedule for the film caused the music to be recorded chronologically in small portions over a matter of many months. As a result, the original 1997 album release by A&M Records could only feature the score material that had been mixed and mastered from the first half of the film. The entire last third of the score was missing from this product, including all of the Eastern-flavored cues and the pivotal "Bike Chase" and "All in a Day's Work" music of over ten minutes. This omission, which didn't make sense to consumers at the time, combined with the replacement of lang's song from the title credits, caused Bond fans to go stir crazy immediately.

After much fuss and delay, controversy and discussion, most of the remaining music from the film was finally made available on a commercial release from Chapter III Records in 2000 (along with a concurrent release of Tommy Tallarico's score for the Tomorrow Never Dies video game). At the time, The World is Not Enough was failing to muster the same approval as its predecessor, and the latter film's release date forced Chapter III to hold back the expanded version of Tomorrow Never Dies by several weeks. Despite providing 26 minutes of score not available on the previous album, the Chapter III product does have its share of flaws. Although the packaging and press information advertised it as being "complete," it's actually missing several important pieces of music from the film. One major omission is the track "Station Break," the four-minute cue that plays as Bond takes Elliot Carver off the air and Arnold provides a darkly dramatic performance of the love theme that foreshadows an uncertain future for the Paris character. Ironically, this cue appeared in full on the 1997 album. Additionally, several very short snippets of music remain missing on album, including the film's ending to "White Knight." The second major drawback to the expanded album is the lack of the k.d. lang song. None of the songs on the original album appears on the expanded volume, likely due to financial reasons. The eleven-minute interview with Arnold at the end of the 2000 album is interesting; the questions are intelligent and the interview is mixed nicely with some of Arnold's cues. But it's not something you'll find yourself listening to a second time. A perfect album could have resulted if the interview were dumped in favor of "Station Break" and "Surrender," but failing that, fans of the film and franchise are forced to own both products. The sound quality on both albums is equally vibrant. For the most hardcore of fans, there do exist 2-CD bootlegs that are indeed complete, featuring the isolated DVD score, the two songs, and bonus material totalling over 140 minutes in length. Overall, Tomorrow Never Dies remains ahead of Casino Royale as the definitive David Arnold entry in the James Bond franchise. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the best film of the Brosnan era featured the best score during that period.

1999: The World Is Not Enough preview screening in the UK.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Australia.

1999: A világ nem elég released in Hungary.

1999: Ha-Olam E'ino Maspik released in Israel.

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2011: English actor Ben Whishaw revealed as "Q" for BOND 23.