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Thunderfinger

The Danish translation is out of order. (Google translate?) It is a straight translation of the original.

RichardTheBruce

What do you suggest, @Thunderfinger.

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

What do you suggest, @Thunderfinger.

The man with the golden gun (or pistol).

RichardTheBruce

Google translate actually confirms it, correction made. I've also removed James Bond 007 #2 which appeared earlier in the month. Thanks for these updates, @Thunderfinger.

RichardTheBruce

December 18 Addendum

2019: Claudine Auger dies at age 78--Paris, France. (Born 26 April 1941--Paris, France.)

Auger 'Thunderball' Bond girl, dies aged 78

https://www.france24.com/en/20191219-auger-thunderball-bond-girl-dies-aged-78
Issued on: 19/12/2019 - 22:12

Paris (AFP)

French actress Claudine Auger, best known to international audiences playing alongside Sean Connery in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, has died aged 78, her agent said Thursday.

She died in Paris, the Time Art agency announced.

Born in April 1941 in Paris, Auger began her career as a model and represented France at the 1958 Miss World competition.

On the side she was taking acting lessons, winning small cinema parts to gradually earn a reputation as an actress in France, including the 1962 Three Musketeers film "The Iron Mask".

But it was Thunderball that made her name as the first French "Bond Girl".

The film's trailer introduced Auger as: "Young. Beautiful. Trapped. Could be dangerous".

She played the character "Domino" in the film, the fourth in the Bond franchise, which was set in the Bahamas providing ample opportunity for swimsuit action scenes.

In a 1965 television interview, she said starring alongside 007 or "playing Moliere" was "a game, the same thing".

After the 1960s, Auger continued her acting career in French film and television.

Claudine Auger

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000805/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (80 credits)

1997 The Red and the Black (TV Movie) - Madame de Fervaques
1995 Un orage immobile (TV Movie) - Artémise d'Aubec
1995 Men Always Lie - Isabelle
1994 L'ombra della sera (TV Movie) - La mère d'Eva
1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Isadora Klein
- The Three Gables (1994) ... Isadora Klein
1992 Desire - George's Mother
1991 La bocca - Countess Veronica Rospigliosi
1990 La piovra 5 - Il cuore del problema (TV Mini-Series) - Matilde Linori
- Episode #1.5 (1990) ... Matilde Linori
- Episode #1.4 (1990) ... Matilde Linori
- Episode #1.3 (1990) ... Matilde Linori
- Episode #1.2 (1990) ... Matilde Linori
- Episode #1.1 (1990) ... Matilde Linori
1990 Haute tension (TV Series) - Dominique
- La porte secrète (1990) ... Dominique
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1989 Oggi ho vinto anch'io (TV Movie)
1988 The Sparrow's Fluttering - Dino's Widow
1988 Una grande storia d'amore (TV Movie) - Vanessa
1988 Love of a Woman - Gabriella's mother
1987 Qui c'est ce garçon? (TV Mini-Series) - Jicky
- Le grand mariage (1987) ... Jicky
- Les amours de Justine (1987)
- Le torchon brûlé (1987)
- Grand-mère ou pas? (1987)
- Les amours de Petite Chérie (1987)
- Justine a un enfant (1987)
1986 What Every Frenchwoman Wants - La mère
1985 The Repenter - Rosa Ragusa
1984 The Man who Married a French Wife (TV Movie) - Ginette
1984 Secret Places - Sophie Meister
1984 The Devil's Lieutenant (TV Movie) - Lily Wencel
1983 Die goldenen Schuhe (TV Mini-Series) - Katja Milenkaja
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Katja Milenkaja
- Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Katja Milenkaja
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Katja Milenkaja
- Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Katja Milenkaja
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Katja Milenkaja
1983 Credo (TV Movie) - Mme Lenski
1982 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Ginette
- Irwin Shaw Triple Bill: The Man who Married a French Wife/The Monument/The Girls in their Summer Dresses (1982) ... Ginette
1982 Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (TV Movie) - La princesse de Cadignan
1981 Fregoli (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1981)
- Episode #1.4 (1981)
- Episode #1.2 (1981)
- Episode #1.1 (1981)
1981 Black Jack - Jill Stradford
1981 Great Performances (TV Series) - Ginette Beauchurch (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife')
- The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (1981) ... Ginette Beauchurch (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife')
1980 Prestami tua moglie - Diana
1980 Fantastica - Johanne McPherson

1979 L'associé - Agnès Pardot
1979 Lobster for Breakfast - Carla Rebaudengo Spinosi
1979 Lovers and Liars - Elisa Massacesi
1978 La nasse (TV Movie) - Carole
1978 Un papillon sur l'épaule - La femme à l'imperméable
1978 The Bermuda Triangle - Sybil
1977 Pane, burro e marmellata - Betty
1977 Take Me to the Ritz (TV Movie)
1977 Spia - Il caso Philby (TV Movie) - Eleanor Philby
1976 Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra - Sol
1976 Il colpaccio
1975 Flic Story - Catherine
1975 L'intrépide - Sophie
1974 Bloody Sun - Consuelo
1974 Blood on the Streets
Une passagère sur le paquebot (uncredited)
1974 Les oiseaux de Meiji Jingu (TV Series) - Annie
1972 Summertime Killer - Michèle
1972 Gli ordini sono ordini - Giorgia's friend
1972 Medical Center (TV Series) - Dr. Suzanne Millay
- Fatal Decision (1972) ... Dr. Suzanne Millay
1971 A Few Hours of Sunlight - Nathalie Silvener
1971 A Bay of Blood - Renata Donati
1971 Black Belly of the Tarantula - Laura
1971 Equinozio - Paola

1969 Come ti chiami, amore mio?
1969 Komm, süßer Tod - Marina
1968 The Bastard - Barbara
1968 Listen, Let's Make Love - Ida Bernasconi
1968 Adriatic Sea of Fire - Mirjana
1968/I Escalation - Carla Maria Mannini
1968 Anyone Can Play - Esmerelda
1967 Il padre di famiglia - Adriana
1967 The Killing Game - Jacqueline Meyrand
1966 The Devil in Love - Maddalena de' Medici
1966 Triple Cross - Paulette
1966 The Treasure of San Gennaro - Concettina
1966 L'homme de Marrakech - Lila
1965 Thunderball - Dominique 'Domino' Derval
1965 The Reckless (uncredited)
1965 Yoyo - Isolina
1964 Alerte à Orly (TV Mini-Series)
1964 Games of Desire - Elektra
1964 La caméra explore le temps (TV Series)
- Le mystère de Choisy (1964)
1963 Il mistero del tempio indiano - Amrita
1963 Kali Yug, la dea della vendetta - Amrita
1963 In the French Style - Clio Andropolous
1962 The Iron Mask - Isabelle de Saint-Mars
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins - La nouvelle servante (segment "Envie, L'") (uncredited)
1961 Le théâtre de la jeunesse (TV Series) - Macha
- Doubrowsky (1961) ... Macha
1961 Panurge's Sheep - Monique (as Elena Cardy)
1960 Wasteland
1960 Testament of Orpheus - Minerve (uncredited)
1958 Christine (uncredited)

Thanks (1 credit)

2011 Climb It, Tarzan! (special thanks)

Self (16 credits)

2010 Cinémas (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 17 April 2010 (2010) ... Herself
2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Herself

1991 Il gioco dei 9 (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 9 December 1991 (1991) ... Herself
1979-1991 La nuit des Césars (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- 16ème nuit des Césars (1991) ... Herself
- 4ème nuit des Césars (1979) ... Herself

1987 Mardi cinéma (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- Episode dated 12 May 1987 (1987) ... Herself
- Episode dated 10 March 1987 (1987) ... Herself

1978 Les rendez-vous du dimanche (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 7 May 1978 (1978) ... Herself
1971 Grand Amphi (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 14 November 1971 (1971) ... Herself

1966 A Bob Hope Comedy Special (TV Special) - Herself
1966 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Cantinflas, Eva Renzi, Emily Cranz, Freddie Guzman, Teddy Stauffer (1966) ... Herself
1966 Cinéma (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- Episode dated 21 November 1966 (1966) ... Herself
1966 Danny Thomas Special: On the Road to Lebanon (TV Special) - Herself
1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
1965 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) - Herself - Guest
- Episode dated 24 November 1965 (1965) ... Herself - Guest
1965 The Steve Lawrence Show (TV Series) - Herself - Guest
- Episode dated 8 November 1965 (1965) ... Herself - Guest
1965 Reflets de Cannes (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- Episode dated 27 May 1965 (1965) ... Herself
1964 Thunderball: Production Footage (Short) - Herself

Archive footage (13 credits)

2015 James Bond's Spectre with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Domino (uncredited)
2008 The South Bank Show[/b] (TV Series documentary)
- Bond (2008)
2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short)
2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Domino
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Domino (uncredited)

1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) - Domino Derval (uncredited)
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Herself / Domino
1995 In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Domino (uncredited)

1989 MTV Movie Special: Licence to Kill (TV Special documentary) - Domino (uncredited)

1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Herself
- Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Herself
1965 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Actress
- Episode #18.30 (1965) ... Actress

RichardTheBruce

December 20th

1959: The Atticus column of the Sunday Times presents some thoughts from Ian Fleming on Christmas.

Thriller-writer Ian Fleming has more positive ideas on Christmas:

"Ideally, the only possible place to spent it is Monte Carlo. You don't have to eat turkey--a detestable bird. There aren't any people there you know at this time of year, and it's perfectly easy to play a little golf and avoid over-eating."

But even for the creator of James Bond, the ideal is not always attainable, and Mr. Fleming will in fact be spending his Christmas near Belfast, reading three good American thrillers, including the latest Rex Stout, and "going to church in a long crocodile with the rest of the family" on Christmas morning. His one way of simplifying Christmas is to give the same present year after year to all and sundry. It consists of a dozen snuff handkerchiefs from Fribourg and Treyer.

1963: Agent 007 jages (Agent 007 is Chased) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-dk-release-poster-1963/
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/from-russia-with-love-1963/


Re-release

1967: Casino Royale released in Monaco.

1971: Les diamants sont éternels (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in France.

1971: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Τα διαμάντια είναι παντοτινά (James Bond, Agent 007: Diamonds are Forever) released in Greece.
1971: Diamantfeber released in Sweden.

1974: De man met de gouden revolver (Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1974: 007 ja kultainen ase (007 and a Golden Gun; Swedish title Mannen med den gyllene pistolen) released in Finland.

1974: L'homme au pistolet d'or (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in France.

1974: Az aranypisztolyos férfi (The Golden-Haired Man) released in Hungary.

1974: Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro released in Italy.

Not to be confused with.

1974: Mannen med den gyldne pistol released in Norway.
1974: Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem (A Man With a Golden Pistol) released in Poland.
1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in the UK, USA, and Ireland.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Philippines.

1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.

1995: GoldenEye released in Belgium, France, and Spain.

2002: Prapancha Veerudu 007 (World Hero 007, Telugu title) released in India.

2006: Casino Royale released in Hong Kong.
2009: Screenwriter Peter Morgan reveals an unimaginable twist planned for BOND 23--

The death of M.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Kill Chain #6,

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Kill_Chain
Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130260178 06011
ON SALE DATE: 12/20

SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia's grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.

2018: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications

2019: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications-2/


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RichardTheBruce

December 21st

1963: Bjørn Rasmussen reviews From Russia With Love for the Danish daily magazine Aktuelt.

“From Russia With Love”: Aktuelt’s film review (1963)

[Source: http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-aktuelt-film-review-1963/ ]
Film review, 21 December 1963

Several Danish film critics expressed their dislike of the James Bond 007 films during their original release in the early 1960's. The highly regarded Bjørn Rasmussen, M.A., who reviewed films for the Danish daily Aktuelt and hosted the film programme "Filmorientering" on national Danish television during the 60's, dismissed the Bond films as "sensationalist entertainment marked by poor taste" in his reference book Filmens Hvem-Hvad-Hvor (1967). He did however note that From Russia with Love (1963) was "the best in the series".

When EON Productions' From Russia with Love was released into Danish theatres in December 1963, Bjørn Rasmussen was markedly less kind in his scathing review for Aktuelt:

”Agent 007” returns
Christmas programming at Nørreport Cinema is brutal entertainment

With the pulp thriller From Russia with Love (1963), Nørreport [Cinema] picks up from Dr. No. This is a coarsely brutal, sensational serial based on Ian Fleming's vulgar novels, issued in Denmark by [Sven] Hazel's publishing house (of all!). The films, as well as the novels, are brimming with straightforward suspense, devoid of probability and based on the spectator not having time to detect the obvious gaffes.

This time, a so-called ”Lektor” is to be smuggled out and change hands from Russian to English ownership. We are not dealing with a lecturer [”lektor” in Danish, ed.] but a decoding machine. Fights, murders, sex, and speed is mobilized as well as all kinds of spies for all kinds of nations. They are secretly spying on each other nonstop. The most repulsive of them all would be Lotte Lenja [sic], the widow of Kurt Weill, evil incarnate and an efficient member of the international crime organization ”Spectre” who are also out to get the Lektor.

In the middle of all this nonsense, a glimmer of something truly cinematic shines through as is often the case with rudimentary pulp thrillers such as this. But [the film] is dreadfully simple and unpleasant to watch.

Written by Bjørn Rasmussen
Translation by Bond•O•Rama.dk

1964: Goldfinger premieres in the US--at the DeMille Theatre, New York City, NY.
(Compare to UK premiere 17 September in London. Followed by Hollywood, CA 25 December.
Then US general release 9 January 1965.)

1965: Thunderball premieres in the US--New York City, New York.
(Followed by US general release 22 December. UK release 29 December. The true world premiere was earlier: December 9, Hibiya Cinema, Tokyo, Japan.)

1967: Casino Royale released in Austria, the Netherlands, and West Germany.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Denmark.
1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service principal shooting ends. (Began: 21 October.)
1969: Ilse Steppat at age 51--West Berlin, Germany. (Born 30 November 917--Barmen, Germany.)

Ilse Paula Steppat

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

Born Ilse Paula Steppat
30 November 1917
Wuppertal, Germany
Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52)
West Berlin, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Actress
Years active 1932–1969

Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

Biography
She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.

In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]

Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.

Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (60 credits)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
- Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
- Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
- Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
- Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
- Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller

1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
1951 Die Tat des Anderen
1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde

1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")

1973: Leven en laten sterven released in Belgium.

French and Dutch

1973: Leva och låta dö (Swedish title) released in Finland.

1973: Vivre et laisser mourir released in France.

1974: Mannen med den gyllene pistolen released in Sweden.

1982: Moonraker released in Iceland.

1995: GoldenEye released in Hong Kong.

2006: 카지노 로얄 released in the Republic of Korea.

2010: BOND 23 resumes pre-production, halted most of this year as related to MGM financial issues.
2017: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings with their annual card.

http://www.ianfleming.com/merry-christmas-ian-fleming-publications/


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RichardTheBruce

December 22nd

1962: Ralph Fiennes is born--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
1964: Bosley Crowther reviews Goldfinger in The New York Times.

GOLDFINGER

nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173DE464BC4A51DFB467838F679EDE
By Bosley Crowther - Published: December 22, 1964

Old Double-Oh Seven is slipping—or, rather, his scriptwriters are. They are involving him more and more with gadgets and less and less with girls. This is tediously apparent in Goldfinger, the latest movie adventure of James Bond, the dauntless sleuth of Ian Fleming's detective fiction, whom Sean Connery so handsomely portrays.

In this third of the Bond screen adventures, which opened last night at the DeMille and goes continuous today at that theater and the Coronet, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service virtually spurns the lush temptations of voluptuous females in favor of high-powered cars and tricky machines.

That is to say, he virtually spurns them in comparison to the way he went for them in his previous cinematic conniptions, Dr. No and From Russia with Love. In those fantastic fabrications, you may remember, he was constantly assailed by an unending flow of luxurious, exotic, and insatiable girls. And, being the sort of omnipotent and adaptable fellow he is, he did what he could to oblige them in the course of pursuing his sleuthing chores.

But in this most gaudy of his outings—the most elaborate and fantastic to date—he manages to bestow his male attentions on only a couple of passing supplicants. One is a pliant little number who expires early, sealed in a skin of gold paint, and the other is a brawny pilot who remarkably resembles Gorgeous George. Neither is up to the standard of femininity usually maintained for Mr. Bond.

Why this neglect of his love life is difficult to imagine—except that Mr. Bond's off-handed conquests were always open to a certain amount of doubt, a certain amount of skepticism as to how much of a Lothario he actually is. Indeed, they have often intimated a bland contempt for, or, at least, a slippery spoof of the whole notion of masculine prowess. One might question whether Bond really likes girls.

So maybe his careful scriptwriters have played down that overly amorous side, delicately displacing dolls with automation and beautiful bodies with electronic brains. Anyhow, what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama, and a minimum of bedroom farce.

It is good fun, all right, fast and furious, racing hither and yon about the world as Double-Oh Seven pursues the intrigues of a mysterious financier named Goldfinger, who is criminally tampering with the gold reserves of Britain and the United States.

Meeting his quarry in a crooked card game on the terrace of a hotel in Miami Beach, he follows him to a golf club outside London, trails him to a gold refinery in the Swiss Alps, and then is captured by him and flown to America to be an inside observer of a fantastic raid on Fort Knox. En route, the fellow has some lively set-tos, exercises smashing ingenuity, and meets that Amazonian pilot, whom he conquers after a deadly judo match.

As usual, Mr. Connery plays the hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air, providing a great vicarious image for all the panting Walter Mittys in the world. Gert Fršbe is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice.

In lesser roles, Shirley Eaton is delectable as the girl who is quickly painted out, and Harold Sakata is traditionally sinister as a mute Oriental who is adept at throwing a razor-brimmed hat.

Of course, the high point of the picture is the climactic raid on Fort Knox with the intent of blowing it up and contaminating its hoard of gold with a nuclear bomb. It is spinningly staged and enacted, drenched in cliff-hanging suspense. But somehow, by the time it gets to this point—well, we've had Mr. Bond.

1965: Thunderball released in the US.

1965: Bosley Crowther reviews Thunderball in The New York Times.

Screen: 007's Underwater Adventures:Connery Plays Bond in 'Thunderball'
nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907E4DE1430E33ABC4A51DFB467838E679EDE
By BOSLEY CROWTHER - Published: December 22, 1965

THE popular image of James Bond as the man who has everything, already magnificently developed in three progressively more compelling films, is now being cheerfully expanded beyond any possible chance of doubt in this latest and most handsome screen rendering of an Ian Fleming novel, "Thunderball."

Now Mr. Fleming's superhero, still performed by Sean Connery and guided through this adventure by the director of his first two, Terence Young, has not only power over women, miraculous physical reserves, skill in perilous maneuvers and knowledge of all things great and small, but he also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes "Thunderball" the best of the lot.

This time old Double-Oh Seven, which is Mr. Bond's code number in the British intelligence service he so faithfully and tirelessly adorns, is tossing quips faster and better then he did even in "From Russia With Love," and he is viewing his current adventure with more gaiety and aplomb.

I think you will, too. In this creation of superman travesty, which arrived yesterday at the reopened Paramount, the Sutton, Cinema II and twoscore or more other theaters in the metropolitan area. Bond is engaged in discovering who hijacked two nuclear bombs in a NATO aircraft over Europe and is secretly holding them for a ransom of £100 million.

That in itself is fairly funny — fanciful and absurd in the same way as are all the problems that require the attention of Bond. But what Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins as the script writers have done is sprinkle their gaudy fabrication with the very best sight and verbal gags.

"Let my friend sit this one out." Bond asks politely of two disinterested young men as he places his dancing partner in a chair beside them at a table in a nightclub in Nassau. The gentlemen nod permission. "She's just dead," he explains.

Or when Bond leaps from a hovering helicopter wearing a skindiver's suit of extraordinary mechanical complexity to engage in an underwater war between SPECTRE and C.I.A. frogmen in the climactic scene of the film, he flips the conclusive comment: "Here comes the kitchen sink!"

In addition to being funny, "Thunderball" is pretty, too, and it is filled with such underwater action as would delight Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The gimmick is that the airplane carrying the hijacked bombs has been ditched, sunk and covered with camouflaging on a coral reef off Nassau. And to get this information and then find and explore the sunken plane. Bond has to do a lot of skindiving, with companions and alone.

The amount of underwater equipment the scriptwriters and Mr. Young have provided their athletic actors, including an assortment of beautiful girls in the barest of bare bikinis, is a measure of the splendor of the film. Diving saucers, aqualungs, frogman outfits and a fantastic hydrofoil yacht that belongs to the head man of SPECTRE are devices of daring and fun.

So it is in this liveliest extension of the cultural scope of the comic strip. Machinery of the most way-out nature become the instruments and the master, too, of man. "I must be six inches taller," Bond wryly quips at one point after he has been almost shaken to pieces on an electric vibrating machine. The comment is not without significance. This is what machines do to men in these extravagant and tongue-in-cheek Bond pictures. They make distortions of them.

Mr. Connery is at his peak of coolness and nonchalance with the girls. Adolfo Celi is piratical as the villain with a black patch over his eye. Claudine Auger, a French beauty winner, is a tasty skindiving dish and Luciana Paluzzi is streamlined as the inevitable and almost insuperable villainous girl.

The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film.

1967: Casino Royale released in Spain, Finland, and France.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale! released in Sweden.

1969: 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad (007 To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Spain.

1971: Diamantes para la eternidad (Diamonds for Eternity) released in Spain. (Diamants per a l'eternitat, Catalan title.)

1973: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζήσε κι άσε τους άλλους να πεθάνουν (James Bond, Agent 007: Live and Let the Others Die) released in Greece.
1973: Leva och låta dö released in Sweden.

1983: Never Say Never Again released in Belgium.

1985: A View to a Kill released in the Republic of Korea.

1995: GoldenEye released in Luxembourg and Malaysia.

2006: Casino Royale released in Panama.

2014: Richard Graydon dies at age 92--England. (Born 12 May 1922--London, England.)

Richard Graydon - obituary

Richard Graydon was an amateur jockey turned stuntman whose daredevil
feats in 10 James Bond films made audiences gasp
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11316314/Richard-Graydon-obituary.html
Richard Graydon at home in Surrey in 2000 Photo: REX FEATURES
5:30PM GMT 29 Dec 2014

Richard Graydon, who has died aged 92, was a former amateur jockey who became one of the most celebrated stuntmen in the business, keeping cinemagoers on the edges of their seats in some of the most hair-raising sequences in the James Bond canon.

Graydon’s first outing as “007” came in 1969 when he doubled for George Lazenby, tobogganing down the Cresta Run at breakneck speed in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In one terrifying sequence, in which Bond effects his escape from Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s mountaintop eyrie, Graydon was required to slide down, using a piece of chain, to a cable-car dangling over the abyss. “The drop was about 80 feet,” he recalled. “The only safety devices I had were two hooks in the palm of my hand attached to my safety belt. The difficulty was that ice had formed on the cable.”

The scene was filmed without mishap and 10 years later Graydon was again to be found atop a cable-car, this time suspended hundreds of feet above the ground in Rio de Janeiro, doubling for Roger Moore in the scene in Moonraker (1979) where Bond fights the steel-toothed “Jaws” (fellow stuntman Martin Grace). On this occasion things nearly came unstuck when Graydon slipped and was left hanging from the cable-car by just one hand without any safety hooks. “One slip and it would have been certain death,” he said, recalling the episode as “the nastiest moment of my career”.

Graydon performed in 10 Bond films in total. In You Only Live Twice (1967), he was seen abseiling down into a volcano and made a brief appearance as a Russian cosmonaut. In Octopussy he replaced Martin Grace (who had been injured on the second day of filming) as Roger Moore’s stunt double for much of the sequence in which Bond makes his way along the roof of a moving train, fighting off henchmen of the arch villain Kamal Khan, with the action taking place on top, hanging on to the side and even under the train. He also played the part of “Francisco the Fearless” – the man who gets shot out of a cannon at Octopussy’s circus.

Martin Grace described Graydon as the most courageous stuntman he had ever worked with: “He treated hanging in the rafters of a volcano 120 feet up, and on top of the cable car in Rio as if he was having a coffee down at Piccadilly Circus in London. He made what other stuntmen claimed as too dangerous and impossible look like a walk in the park.”

Inevitably such daredevilry came at a cost. Graydon broke an arm in four places when the horse he was riding in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962, with Peter Sellers) collided with a camera car. Worse was to come at a stunt show in Sweden in the 1970s, when a guide wire snapped as he was launching himself off the top of a tall tower. He broke his back and both legs and was in hospital for 14 weeks.

Richard Graydon was born on May 12 1922 into a theatrical family. His grandfather owned the Middlesex Music Hall (now the New London Theatre) in Drury Lane and his father was an agent and manager for such stars as Maurice Chevalier.

By contrast, after leaving Stowe Richard Graydon began his career as a gentleman jockey working for trainers – an occupation which, he later observed, provided an excellent grounding in stunt work and also brought him his first injuries. On one occasion he broke his neck and a leg riding for Boggy Whelan in a novice chase at Wye. The nearest he got to success on the turf was coming third on Squire’s Mount in the amateur riders’ Carnarvon Cup at Salisbury.

Graydon on top of a cable-car above Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (REX FEATURES)

Graydon continued to ride out for trainers as he embarked on his showbusiness career, first as a dancer at the Windmill and other London theatres. Partially blinded in one eye following a childhood accident, he was turned down for wartime service in the RAF, though he performed with Ensa in India.

His first screen credit came in 1952 when he played one of Robin Hood’s Merrie Men in the Disney film of that name. His stunt career began with James Bond’s second big screen adventure, From Russia with Love, in 1963, and he appeared, uncredited, in Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

Graydon’s experience and knowledge of horsemanship also led to work as a stunt coordinator. He taught horses to fall without injuring themselves in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and – ignoring the advice of experts that it could not be done – taught camels to jump a low wall in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He also worked as stunt coordinator in the horse racing drama Champions (1984).

He earned more than 30 credits for stunt work in such productions as Where Eagles Dare (1968); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Don’t Look Now (1973); Royal Flash (1975); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Duellists (1977); Star Wars (1977); The Wild Geese (1978); International Velvet (1978); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Batman (1989); and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) in which he played a butler.

In 1970 Richard Graydon married Hermione Bedford, who survives him. There were no children of the marriage.

Richard Graydon, born May 12 1922, died December 22 2014

Richard Graydon (1922–2014)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337040/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Filmography

Stunts (44 credits)

1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (stuntman)
1997 Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- The Apprentice (1997) ... (stunts)
1993 Doctor Finlay (TV Series) (stunts)
1992 Gøngehøvdingen (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
- Død mand ønskes (1992) ... (stunt coordinator)
1991 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
- Bad Pennies (1991) ... (stunt performer)

1989 Batman (stunts)
1989 The Littlest Viking (stunts)
1988 Willow (stunts)
1987 Pathfinder (stunts)
1986 Pirates (stunts - uncredited)
1986 Dream Lover (stunt coordinator: UK)
1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
1985 Ladyhawke (stunt coordinator)
1984 A Passage to India (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1984 Champions (stunt coordinator)
1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunts)
1983 Octopussy (stunts - uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunts - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Roger Moore, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunts)
1979 The Lady Vanishes (stunt arrangements)
1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
1978 International Velvet (stunt coordinator)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (second stunt guard at cellblock AA-23 - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Duellists (horsemaster)
1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth (stunt coordinator - as Dickie Graydon)
1975 Royal Flash (stunt arranger)
1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunts - uncredited)
1974 Dead Cert (stunts - uncredited)
1973 Don't Look Now (stunt coordinator - as Richard Grayden)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: George Lazenby - uncredited)
1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunts - uncredited)
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1962 Waltz of the Toreadors (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (24 credits)

1997 Shooting Fish - Racehorse Trainer (as Dickie Graydon)
1993 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Edmonds
- Some Must Watch (1993) ... Edmonds
1990 The Fool - 1990 Wings of Fame

1989 London's Burning (TV Series) - Old Man
- Episode #2.6 (1989) ... Old Man
1985 Déjà Vu - Captain Wilson
1983 Octopussy - Francisco the Fearless
1982 Jockey School (TV Mini-Series) - Reggie Sheaton
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Reggie Sheaton
1981 Eye of the Needle - Home Guard Private
1980 ffolkes - Rasmussen

1979 Moonraker - Space Fighter (uncredited)
1979 Love and Bullets - Antonio
1977 The Duellists - Cossack / Hussar
1974 Dead Cert - Jockey (uncredited)
1974 The Fortunes of Nigel (TV Mini-Series) - Groom
- Part 5 (1974) ... Groom
1971 The Last Valley - Yuri (uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco's Driver (uncredited)
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Bingham
1967 You Only Live Twice - Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - George Reed
- Honey for the Prince (1966) ... George Reed
1965 Thunderball - Largo's Henchman (uncredited)

1959 The Unseeing Eye (Short) - Eddie Brown (as Dick Graydon)
1953 Wicked Wife - Chandler (as Richard Grayden)
1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men - Merrie Man

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

1997 Shooting Fish (animal handler)
1991 Robin Hood (horse master)
1985 Ladyhawke (horse master)
1984 Champions (horse master)
1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)

Self (12 credits)

2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' [/b](Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)

2009 À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates (Video documentary) - Himself

2016: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

http://www.jamesbondthesecretagent.com/2016/12/christmas-card-from-ian-fleming.html

BT3366

It's interesting to see in the NY Times GF review that Bosley Crowther wasn't overwhelmed by it as everyone else seemed to be. He does actually have a point about the short lifespans of the film's women, which has always seemed a flaw.

It's also noteworthy he took the opposite view of a majority of critics with TB on the increasing gadgetry and found the humor is the key when it was GF that played up the humor more. Although I'm not sure what he meant by saying even the violence is funny. There are moments when the violence is tempered by a Bond quip or action, but things in the underwater battle or Quist being thrown to the sharks don't have much humor going for them.

Thunderfinger

BT3366 wrote: »

It's interesting to see in the NY Times GF review that Bosley Crowther wasn't overwhelmed by it as everyone else seemed to be. He does actually have a point about the short lifespans of the film's women, which has always seemed a flaw.

I noticed that, and then in the TB review he calls the previous three progressively more compelling.

Revelator

Crowther loved TB so much he put it on his top 10 list for 1965. But by this late point in his career he was regarded as something of a joke, and two years later he was replaced as the Times film critic, after two decades in the saddle. In the case of TB he was doing what lots of critics do--compensating for underrating the previous film by a filmmaker/creative team by overrating their next one.

RichardTheBruce

December 23rd

1944: Ian Fleming arrives in Colombo, Ceylon, and strikes up a friendship with Wren Clare Blanshard.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycott, 1995.

As soon as he arrived 23 September, Ian struck up a close friendship
with Clare who was swept off her feet by the handsome, educated naval
officer in his tropical uniform. In a letter to her brother Paul a month
later, "Since I wrote last (and continuously, every day, but about to be
lopped off at a moment's notice like Marlow's Faustas) a beauteous being
has swum into my ken--on an official visit--and I like him very very very
much indeed. As the Wrens say, whose letters I censor so very monotonously,
he's absolutely it. It doesn't make any difference that I don't mean any-
thing to him as he's so awfully nice--so that is why I haven't written.
Next time I write he'll have gone for ever and ever and practically won't
have existed. But, believe me, he's the right shape, size, and height, has the
right sort of hair, the right sort of laugh, is 36 and beautiful. I wish I were
more glamorous..."

Ian had arrived at the height of the Christmas party season in Colombo.
He invited Clare to a dance at the Septic Prawn, the nightclub in the
Galleface Hotel where he was staying. She was impressed that he was "a
plodder dancer: I dislike men who dance well". She wore a stunning long
white silk dress, plugged with little pieces of real silver. Ian was fascinated
with the garment and, seventeen years later, sent her a postcard of the
ballroom of a Sussex hotel where he was recuperating from an illness. He
marked the front with an X and wrote, "I'm behind the palm tree on the
right, watching you in the white dress clearing the floor in the centre."
Clare recalled, "He couldn't get over that dress. He really minded about
materials and such things."

He also expressed interest in exploring the Ceylon countryside. When
Clare had told him about the jungle which straddled the railway on the
way up to the hill-station of Kandy, he jumped at the opportunity to
investigate. Enjoying the hear and mild humidity of the tropical island,
he told Clare, "I'm never going to spend the winter in England again." He
did not mention Jamaica, but his fantasy of his post-war experience was
beginning to take shape.

1965: Thunderball released in Australia.

1965: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Spain. (Operació tro, Catalan title.)

1966: You Only Live Twice completes principal photography.

1970: Anatole Taubman is born--Zurich, Switzerland.
1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in Australia, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands.

Australian Daybill,

1974: El hombre de la pistola de oro (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in Spain. (L'home de la pistola d'or, Catalan title.)

Disclaimer: not this one.

1983: 내버 새이 내버 어개인 (Never Say Never Again) released in the Republic of Korea.

1997: 007 - Il domani non muore mai released in Italy.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Chile.
1999: 007, el mundo no basta released in Argentina.

2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.

Ian Fleming Publications unveils new logo
https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/ian-fleming-publications-unveils-new-logo.htm
December 23, 2013 by David Leigh

Ian Fleming Publications last week unveiled a smart new logo comprising of the signatureian-fleming-publications-logo of James Bond’s creator and a “Doctor Bird”, Jamaica’s national bird.

There are numerous links to the bird, also known as the Streamer-tailed Humming Bird; all the Bond books were written at Goldeneye in Jamaica; 007 was named after the ornithologist who wrote A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies; and the Doctor Bird was mentioned by Fleming in the books.

2015: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

RichardTheBruce

December 24th

1931: Nora Noel Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia.
(She dies 4 October 1990 at age 58--Kensington, London, England.)

Jill Bennett (British actress)

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

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

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

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

Early life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filmography

Actress (62 credits)

1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle

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

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

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

Writer (1 credit)

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

1941: Michael Billington is born--Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
(He dies 3 June 2005 at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.)

Michael Billington
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
Charismatic actor whose tough-guy image distracted from his broader gifts
David McGillivray | Tue 28 Jun 2005 19.02 EDT

The actor Michael Billington, who has died of cancer aged 63, achieved minor cult status as Colonel Paul Foster in UFO (1969), the first live action adventure series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creators of Thunderbirds. This, and similar roles, resulted in the tough-guy actor being tipped, for more than 10 years, as "the next James Bond".

His failure to succeed first Sean Connery, then Roger Moore, was the biggest disappointment of Billington's career. His compensation, a brief part as the agent killed off before the main titles of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was not enough to keep him in Britain.

Deciding that he no longer wanted to be an action hero, he went to the United States, where he studied acting with Lee and Anna Strasberg. But the roles that followed, in episodes of series such as Hart To Hart and Magnum, PI, were not that different to what had gone before. He tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the screenplays he had written, and, after returning to the UK, worked mostly as a teacher.

A fine actor with star quality - and a very funny man to boot - Billington could, if fate had decreed it, have become a British Burt Reynolds. I first met him when I was a teenager in 1965, working in a film library he visited regularly, and was awestruck by his charisma, and later by his generosity. He played himself in an amateur film I made and, soon afterwards, got me my first professional job as a screenwriter. He was defeated by bad luck and his uncertainty about what he wanted to achieve.

Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Billington loved the cinema from childhood and came to London to work for the film distributor Warner-Pathé. Connections made at the gym got him work as a chorus boy in such West End musicals as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Shaftesbury, 1963) and Little Me (Cambridge, 1964). He also stooged at Danny La Rue's nightclub.

His first film was the short Dream A40 (1964), banned by the censors because of a scene in which male lovers kissed. In 1965, he made his television debut, as Neil Hall in the football soap opera United, and his stage debut in Incident At Vichy at the Phoenix theatre.

Sylvia Anderson spotted Billington in an episode of The Prisoner and cast him in UFO. "I cringe when I see it," he claimed later (but attended UFO conventions almost until the end of his life). His other major TV role at this time was as Daniel Fogarty, in the seafaring drama The Onedin Line (1971-4), which he left after one series. He was credited in the film Alfred The Great (1969), but was a glorified extra. He also had a small part in a television production of War And Peace (1972).

Throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, Billington waited for the call that never came to play Bond. In 1980, he sold his only filmed screenplay, Silver Dream Racer. In the US, he had a gag role in a parody, Flicks (1981), and was uncomfortably Russian in KGB The Secret War (1985), two films that were shelved for years before release on video. Back in the UK, he had his last decent role as co-star, with Peter McEnery, of The Collectors (1986), a television series about HM Customs and Excise.

Billington worked on the book of a stage musical about Jack the Ripper, and his last stage appearance was in the highly regarded Never Nothing From No One (Cockpit theatre, 2000). He enjoyed his work at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, where he was a popular tutor in the mid-1990s. He wrote enthusiastically on his website about the craft of acting that he was able to practise, to his satisfaction, all too rarely.

After eight years as the partner of Barbara Broccoli, daughter of the Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, Billington married Katherine Kristoff in 1988. She died in 1998, after which he devoted himself to raising their son, Michael Jr, who survives him.

· Michael Billington, actor, born December 24 1941; died June 3 2005

Michael Billington (I) (1941–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082545/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (34 credits)

1993 Maigret (TV Series) - Oscar
- Maigret and the Night Club Dancer (1993) ... Oscar

1986 The Collectors (TV Series) - Tom Gibbons
- Touch and Go (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Cover Up (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Rare Bird (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- The Dog It Was... (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Uncommon Market (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Major Barclay's Last Stand (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- The Great Ice-Cream War (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Swings and Roundabouts (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Go for Gold (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Diversions (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
1985 KGB: The Secret War - Peter Hubbard
1984 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Ventidius
1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Lever
- Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... Lever
1984 All the World's a Stage (TV Mini-Series)
1983 Flicks - Deputy Inspector (segment 'Whodunit')
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - King Leopardi
- The King in Yellow (1983) ... King Leopardi
1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Henri Ducette
- King of Burlesque/Death Games (1983) ... Henri Ducette
1982 The Quest (TV Series) - Count Louis Dardinay
- R.S.V.P. (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Daddy's Home (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Hunt for the White Tiger (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- A Prince of a Fellow (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Escape from a Velvet Box (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- His Majesty, I Presume (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- He Stole-A My Art (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Last One There Is a Rotten Heir (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Pilot (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
1982 Gavilan (TV Series) - Roger Morgan
- Pirates (1982) ... Roger Morgan
1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Raymond Dumont
- Vintage Harts (1982) ... Raymond Dumont
1982 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Talenikov
- It's All Downhill from Here (1982) ... Talenikov

1979 Thundercloud (TV Series) - Ben Adams
- Fair Shares All Round (1979) ... Ben Adams
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - John Coogan
- The Rack (1978) ... John Coogan
1978 Spearhead (TV Series) - Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Truth Games (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Thieves in the Night (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Both Ends Against the Middle (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Jackal (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Loyalties (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Leave (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Suspect (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
1977 Sister Dora (TV Mini-Series) - Kenyon Jones
- Part 3 (1977) ... Kenyon Jones
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Sergei Barsov
1975 Edward the King (TV Mini-Series) - Czar Nicholas II
- Good Old Teddy! (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
- The Peacemaker (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
- The Years of Waiting (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
1975 The Way of the World (TV Movie) - Fainall
1974 Invasion: UFO - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO: Prendeteli vivi. - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... - Col. Paul Foster
1974 Z Cars (TV Series) - John
- Intruder (1974) ... John
1971-1974 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Daniel Fogarty
- The Passenger (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Port Out, Starboard Home (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Silver Caddy (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Over the Horizon (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- A Proposal of Marriage (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Ice and Fire (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Law of the Fist (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Black Gold (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Danger Level (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Amazon Cargo (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Echoes from Afar (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Stranger (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Ship Devils (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Race for Power (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Challenge (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Bloody Week (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Goodbye, Goodbye (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- An Inch of Candle (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Beyond the Upper Sea (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- 'Frisco Bound (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Coffin Ship (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Survivor (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Yellow Jack (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- A Woman Alone (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Pound and Pint (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Hard Case (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Winner Take All (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Shadow of Doubt (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Cry of the Blackbird (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Mutiny (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Salvage (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Catch as Can (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The High Price (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Other Points of the Compass (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Plain Salling (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Col. Paul Foster / Col. Foster / Paul Foster
- The Long Sleep (1973) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Reflections in the Water (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Sound of Silence (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Court Martial (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Ordeal (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Timelash (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Dalotek Affair (1971) ... Col. Foster
- The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Mindbender (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Survival (1971) ... Col. Foster
- The Psychobombs (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Close Up (1970) ... Col. Foster
- The Square Triangle (1970) ... Col. Foster
- Destruction (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Sub-Smash (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Kill Straker! (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- E.S.P. (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Conflict (1970) ... Col. Foster
- The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Exposed (1970) ... Paul Foster
1972 War & Peace (TV Series)
Lt. Berg / Lieut. Berg
- A Beautiful Tale (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Reunions (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Austerlitz (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Part One: Name Day (1972) ... Lieut. Berg
1971 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Freddie Hepton
- Breakdown (1971) ... Freddie Hepton
- Absolutely Feudal (1971) ... Freddie Hepton

1969/I Alfred the Great - Offa (as Mike Billington)
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 2nd Woodland Man
- A Change of Mind (1967) ... 2nd Woodland Man
1966 United! (TV Series) - Neil Hall 23 episodes
1965 Dream A40 (Short) - Young Man (as Mike Billington)
1964 The Valiant Varneys (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1964)

Writer (2 credits)

1980 Silver Dream Racer (an original story by)

1968 BBC Show of the Week (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Roy Hudd and Bill Haley & His Comets (1968) ... (writer)

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1971 The Onedin Line (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Plain Salling (1971) ... (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" - uncredited)
1971 UFO (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Ordeal (1971) ... (performer: "Beautiful Dreamer")

Archive footage (3 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Sergei Barsov (uncredited)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Sergi

1971: James Bond comic Starfire comic finishes its run in Daily Express.
(Started 30 August 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005




Not Found:
Swedish Semic Comic 1989 #6 - Stjärnornas Herre (Starfire)

Danish 1973 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 26: “Starfire” (1973)

1971: Diamanten zijn eeuwig released in Belgium (Diamonds Are Eternal, Flemish title).

1982: Octopussy films Gobinda arming the bomb.
1983: ネバーセイ・ネバーアゲイン (Nebāsei nebāagein) released in Japan.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Singapore.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Cyprus, Ecuador, Peru, plus Trinidad and Tobago.
1999: 007 - O Mundo Não é o Bastante released in Brazil.

1999: 007: El mundo no basta released in Mexico.

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RichardTheBruce

December 25th

1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, CA.
(That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release.)
1965: Pallosalama (Fireball; Åskbollen/Thunderball, Swedish title) released in Finland.

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in Hong Kong.
1969: Al servicio secreto de Su Majestad (To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Colombia.

1971: Los diamantes son eternos (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Colombia.

1971: Timantit ovat ikuisia (Diamentena är eviga/Diamonds Are Eternal, Swedish title) released in Finland.

1971: ダイヤモンドは永遠に (007/Diayamondo wa eien ni) released in Japan.

1995: GoldenEye released in Panama.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Colombia and Panama.
1999: Само един свят не стига released in Bulgaria.

2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
2002: Die Another Day released in Bolivia and Jamaica.
2006: Casino Royale released in Bolivia.

2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.

Radiohead's James Bond Theme Song 'Spectre' Released - Listen Now!

http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/25/radiohead-spectre-james-song-theme-song/
Fri, 25 December 2015 at 12:45 pm

Radiohead just released a new song!

“Last year we were asked to write a theme tune for the [James] Bond movie Spectre,” Radiohead singer Thom Yorke wrote on his Twitter. “Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas.”

He even ended his note with a reference to Star Wars, which is currently dominating the box office. Thom capped off his tweets with: “May the force be with you.”

Listen to Radiohead‘s “Spectre” below!



FYI: Sam Smith ended up recording the official Spectre theme song called “Writing’s on the Wall“.

2017: The Cubby Broccoli Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England, is closed for the Christmas Holiday.

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CUBBY BROCCOLI CINEMA
https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/cubby-broccoli
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Savour the intimate ambience of the 106-seat Cubby Broccoli cinema—home to a truly diverse film programme. Enjoy world cinema, classic films, and independent and arthouse delights.

Browse the full list of films showing now and coming soon at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.

About the cinema
Dedicated to Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of many James Bond films, this cinema shows movies from around the world projected in formats from 16mm to digital 3D—all in the heart of Bradford, UNSECO [sic] City of Film. [Correction: UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.] It’s played host to everything from silent films with live piano accompaniment to a Super High Vision broadcast from the 2012 Olympics.

Twin 35mm projectors allow the screening of archive film prints, shown using traditional reel change-overs via alternate projectors.

In 2012, Cubby Broccoli screened a broadcast from the 2012 London Olympics in Super High Vision—one of only three venues in the UK to do so.

Guests interviewed here have included Tim Peake, Olivier Assayas and Jenny Agutter.

RichardTheBruce

December 26th

1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.

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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/
17 March 2017 • 9:00am

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

Long before he created James Bond, a young Ian Fleming had a remarkably close – and secretive – relationship with an older woman, Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess.

They met in 1931 when Russell was 40 and Fleming just 23. There was a strong mutual attraction, and Fleming quickly became a regular guest at Mottisfont, Russell’s 2,000-acre estate in Hampshire, and at the glamorous parties she threw in her Knightsbridge home, attended by Cecil Beaton, Lady Diana Cooper, Clementine Churchill, Margot Asquith and members of the Bloomsbury Group.

To Fleming, Russell was a sophisticated and impeccably connected mentor who found him first a job in banking, introduced him to members of the Intelligence Corps and, later, paid for his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, where his 007 novels were written. To Russell, Fleming (named ‘I.’ in her diaries) was the dashing, charismatic young spy who became her close friend, her confidante – and her lover.


Ian Fleming in his Naval Uniform during the war Credit: Courtesy of Emily Russell/A Constant Heart

These entries from Russell’s private diary take place towards the end of the Second World War, when Fleming worked in naval intelligence and Russell, then 52, was recently widowed; it was a time when, despite the food shortages and air raids, the tide of the war was gradually turning in the Allies’ favour – and, despite his other liaisons, the couple spoke of marriage.

[See the link above for inclusive dates Wednesday 30 June 1943 thru Monday 30 July 1945.]

Sunday 26 December, 1943

Ian came to dinner, back from the Cairo conference [a meeting of the British, US and Chinese leaders on Asia Pacific strategy]. The surroundings were like an armed camp, soldiers, guns, anti-aircraft guns etc. guarding the precious delegates – the PM, President and Chiang.

When Ian was taken ill with influenza, he sank back exhausted in bed and lay blissfully resting, looking through the window at the blue sky and eating delicious food. He was very struck by the desert, sand and camels.

Russell and Fleming remained close until his marriage to Ann Charteris in 1952. In 1946 she gave him £5,000 to buy Goldeneye in Jamaica. She had a long-term affair with Boris Anrep but never remarried. In 1957, she donated Mottisfont to the National Trust and died in London in 1982, aged 91. Her ashes were placed in the same urn as Gilbert’s.

A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell, edited by Emily Russell, is published by The Dovecote Press (£20). To order your copy for £16.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk

1947: Trina Parks is born--Brooklyn, New York.

1964: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/goldfinger-1964/

1964: Agent 007 mot Goldfinger released in Norway.

1971: Diamanter varer evig released in Norway.

https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-adsheet-1971/




http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-souvenir-programme-1971/

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in Australia and Hong Kong.

Australian Daybill.

1983: Aldri si aldri (Never Say Never) released in Norway.

Later video marketing.

Not to be confused with.

1995: GoldenEye released in Australia, Norway, and New Zealand.
1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Australia and New Zealand.
1997: 007: Igavene homne (007: Eternal Tomorrow) released in Estonia.
1997: Yarin Asla Ölmez released in Turkey.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in New Zealand.

2006: A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but released 26 December 2006.

Fan-made computer game remake

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_fandom

GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion mod in development using the Source engine developed by Valve for the computer game, Half-Life 2. GoldenEye: Source is based on the award-winning Nintendo 64 video game, GoldenEye 007, featuring Bond. An alpha release was distributed on 25 December 2005 receiving more than 65,000 downloads in 2 weeks. A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but was released on 26 December 2006.

In January 2007 it was awarded twice in the 2006 annual Moddb awards, a win in Editor's Choice[12] for the Reinvention category, and was player-voted 3rd place in the overall category Mod of the year. A significant rise from the 2005 awards, which earned GoldenEye: Source 4th place in the unreleased category.

On 5 December 2007 one of the developers released an unofficial patch. This patch fixes some of the bugs there are present in the first beta version. The developer team will not support this patch, and support is only available in a topic in the GoldenEye: Source forum.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Uruguay.

2011: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. dies at age 71--New York City, New York.
(Born 6 April 1940--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.)

Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at 71

https://variety.com/2011/film/news/pedro-armendariz-jr-dies-at-71-1118047888/
Character actor, son of Mexican star, appeared in 'Zorro'
By James Young

Mexican character actor Pedro Armendariz Jr., a near constant presence on screens big and small for more than four decades, died Monday of eye cancer in New York City. He was 71.

Armendariz, the son of Mexico “golden age” movie star Pedro Armendariz and actress Carmelita Pardo, appeared in some 140 films and dozens of Televisa skeins, mostly sudsers. The actor played Gov. Riley in the 2005 movie “The Legend of Zorro”; the president of Mexico in Robert Rodriguez’s “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”; and the corrupt cop who stole the gun from Brad Pitt in “The Mexican.” He also appeared in 1989’s “Old Gringo” and in some of the top-grossing Mexican films in recent history, including all-time domestic B.O. champ “The Crime of Father Amaro” as well as action hit “Matando Cabos” and acclaimed political satire “Herod’s Law.”

Armendariz also played a key role in expanding the voice of a new generation of filmmakers and actors as president of the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) from 2006-10.

The sturdily framed thesp was instantly recognizable for bristly beards and mustaches that framed passionate, often wildly sparkling eyes, forming a countenance that could transform alarmingly from menacing to tender in the blink of an eye.

At risk of living his life in the shadow of his father, who was known as Mexico’s Clark Gable, Armendariz Jr. followed in his footsteps, taking his first film role on locations in Mexico for Westerns like “El cachorro” in 1965 and appearing in an episode of “Daniel Boone” in 1966.

Coming into his own during a dark period for the Mexican box office, when local production slowed to a trickle in the 1970s and ’80s, the actor worked with local auteurs like Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, while bringing home a steady paycheck with roles in telenovelas and character-actor bits in numerous Stateside pics, in which he was often cast as a Mexican tough guys, graying statesmen and Latin military types.

He, like his father, landed a role in a James Bond film — he played the arch President Hector Lopez in “License to Kill” [sic]; his father had played Bond ally Kerim Bey in “From Russia With Love.” They both played revolutionary General Pancho Villa onscreen.

Aside from some nods and wins at AMACC’s Ariel awards, Armendariz really only began to win widespread respect in the last decade or so, as he worked on multiple projects every year, even through most of 2011, and the industry began to look back at his sizable body of work.

Hitting the boards, Armendariz won further kudos for recent work in leading stage roles for Mexican productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Producers.”

In 2010, reacting to harsh industry criticism, Armendariz Jr., as president of the academy, led the transformation of the AMACC, opening voting privileges that previously belonged to an aging 25-person body that only evolved through attrition to more than 625 industry members, including producers, who until that time were barred from official voting status.

He also became a vocal political agent, fighting for industry support from Congress in heated budget battles over the last few years.

Armendariz will appear in several films posthumously, including Spanish-language Will Ferrell laffer “Casa de mi padre,” which opens March 16 and stars Mexican thesps Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Luna, speaking on Twitter, said of the actor, “Just seeing him made you smile. He had time for everyone.”

As news of the death spread Monday afternoon, condolences to the family mounted, even coming from Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Televisa’s CEO Emilio Azcarraga Jean, among other officials and members of Mexico’s media elite.

Armendariz was married and divorced twice, from former Televisa spokesmodel Lucia Gomez de Parada and actress-turned-activist Ofelia Medina. He is survived by several children.

Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (1940–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Filmography

Actor (222 credits)

Desde dentro (announced) - Domingo Altamirano
2012 Freelancers - Gabriel Baez
2012 Casa de mi Padre - Miguel Ernesto
2011 The Snitch Cartel - Don Modesto
2011 The Power of Destiny (TV Series) - Anthony - 95 episodes
2011 Mamitas - Ramon 'Tata' Donicio
2011/I Despertar (Short) (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2010 El baile de San Juan - Marqués de la Villa
2010 Hilos y cables (Short)
2010 Outlaw (TV Series) - Francisco Garza
- Pilot (2010) ... Francisco Garza (as Pedro Armendariz)
2010 Sin memoria - Benitez

2009 Dare to Dream (TV Series) - Max Williams
- Promesa de amor (2009) ... Max Williams
2009 Nikté - Kaas
2008 X-mas, Inc. - Santa Claus
2008 Divina confusión - Melesio
2008 Purgatorio - Don Julio
2008 Looking for Palladin - Police Chief
2007 El último justo - Padre del Toro
2007 Distilling Love (TV Series) - Mr. Thomas
- Gran final (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
- Episode #1.2 (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
- Destilando amor (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
2007 One Long Night - Don Ricardo
2006 Guadalupe - Simon
2006 Un mundo maravilloso - Director del Periódico
2005 Después de la muerte - Don Julio
2005 The Legend of Zorro - Governor Riley (as Pedro Armendariz)
2005 Barrera de amor (TV Series) - Don Pedro Valladolid
- Barrera de amor (2005) ... Don Pedro Valladolid
2004 Matando Cabos - Oscar Cabos
2004 El segundo - El Mayor
2004 Amy, the Girl with the Blue Schoolbag (TV Series) - Captain Matías Granados
- Episode #1.15 (2004) ... Captain Matías Granados
2003 Bajo la misma piel (TV Series) - Joaquín Vidaurri
- Episode #1.1 (2003) ... Joaquín Vidaurri
2003 And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV Movie) - Don Luis Terrazas (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2003 Casa de los babys - Ernesto (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico - El Presidente (as Pedro Armendariz)
2002 The Crime of Padre Amaro - Presidente Municipal Gordo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2001 Entre los dioses del desprecio
2001 In the Time of the Butterflies (TV Movie) - Captain Pena (as Pedro Armendariz Marquez)
2001 Asesinato en el Meneo - Don Manuel
2001 Original Sin - Jorge Cortés (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2001 Serafín: La película - Thinker (voice)
2001 His Most Serene Highness
2001 The Mexican - Mexican Policeman
2000 El grito - Duarte
2000 Furcio (TV Series)
- Episode #1.1 (2000)
2000 Before Night Falls - Reinaldo's Grandfather (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1999-2000 Labyrinths of Passion (TV Series) - Padre Mateo Valencia - 80 episodes

1999 A Christmas Carol (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.4 (1999)
- Episode #1.3 (1999)
- Episode #1.2 (1999)
- Episode #1.1 (1999)
1999 Serafín (TV Series) - Thinker
- Episode #1.3 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
- Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
1999 Tres mujeres (TV Series) - Federico Méndez - 280 episodes
1999 Herod's Law - López (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1998 Derbez en cuando (TV Series) - Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
- Telenovela Mari (1998) ... Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
1998 Al Borde - Don Gabino
1998 On the Border (TV Movie) - Herman
1998 The Mask of Zorro - Don Pedro (as Pedro Armendariz)
1997 Amistad - General Espatero (as Pedro Armendariz)
1997 Reclusorio - Abogado defensor (segment "Sangre entre mujeres")
1997 Esmeralda Comes by Night - Rossellini, tenor husband
1997 A Corner of Paradise - Minister (as Pedro Armendariz)
1996 La culpa (TV Series) - Tomás Mendizábal
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1996 La sombra del otro (TV Series) - Comandante Tello
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1994 Agujetas de color de rosa (TV Series) - Aarón - 299 episodes
1994 Dos crímenes - Alfonso
1994 Una luz en la escalera - Capt. Fonseca
1994 Ámbar - Comisario
1994 Guerrero negro
1994 Novia que te vea
1993-1994 Acapulco H.E.A.T. (TV Series) - Colonel Rodriguez
- Code Name: Assassin (1994) ... Colonel Rodriguez (uncredited)
- Code Name: Honeymoon Lost (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Code Name: Checkmate - Part 2 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Code Name: Checkmate - Part 1 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
1994 Tramp - Pedro Riel
1994 The Cisco Kid (TV Movie) - General Montano (as Pedro Armendariz)
1993 Code... Death: Frontera Sur
Dragon (as Pedro Armendariz)
1993 La última esperanza (TV Series) - Alejandro Burana - - Episode #1.149 (1993) ... Alejandro Burana - 150 episodes
1993 Tombstone - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1993 Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (TV Movie)
1993 Extraños caminos
1992 Sonata de luna - Raúl
1991-1992 Tropical Heat (TV Series) - Lt. Carillo - 29 episodes
1992 Los años de Greta - Gustavo
1992 Cuentos de Borges (TV Series) - Blot
- Death and the Compass (1992) ... Blot
1992 Diplomatic Immunity - Oswaldo Delgado
1991 Corrupción y placer - Augusto Alarcon
1991 Highway Patrolman - Sargento Barreras
1991 Bandits - Cura
1991 The Legend of the Mask - López
1990 La secta del sargon
1990 Formula I (TV Series)
- Episode #1.9 ... (as Pedro Armendariz)
1990 ¡Maten a Chinto! - Don Chinto

1989 Ke arteko egunak
1989 Old Gringo - Pancho Villa (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1989 Licence to Kill - President Hector Lopez (as Pedro Armendariz)
1989 The Cost of Living
1988-1989 Un nuevo amanecer (TV Series) - Gerardo - 80 episodes
1988 Diana, René, y El Tíbiri
1988 Tony Tijuana (TV Series) - Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
1988 El placer de la venganza
1988 Camino largo a Tijuana - Juan
1988 El secreto de Romelia - Widower Roman
1988 Lovers, Partners & Spies - Duke
1988 Hora Marcada (TV Series)
- Concierto para mano izquierda (1988)
1988 Les pyramides bleues - Perez-Valdez
1987 Herencia maldita
1987 Mariana, Mariana - Carlos (adult)
1987 Walker - Muñoz (as Pedro Armendariz)
1987 Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere' - Pagano
1987 A Walk on the Moon - Doctor
1986-1987 El camino secreto (TV Series) - Alejandro - 120 episodes
1986 El puente II
1986 El tres de copas
1986 La gloria y el infierno (TV Series) - Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
1986 Murder in Three Acts (TV Movie) - Col. Mateo (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 On Wings of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Dobuti
- Part II (1986) ... Mr. Dobuti (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 Maine Ocean - Pedro De La Moccorra (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 Airwolf (TV Series) - Captain Mendez
- Break-In at Santa Paula (1986) ... Captain Mendez
1985 Secuestro sangriento
1985 Treasure Island - Mendoza (as Pedro Armendariz Jnr.)
1985 Wandering Lives - El ingeniero
1985 Historias violentas - Hombre rico (segment 3 "Reflejos")
1985 Treasure of Doom - Pablo / Zapata (as Pedro Armendariz)
1985 Sangre en el Caribe - Mario
1984 Matar o morir - Tony Collins (as Pedro Armendariz)
1984 El billetero
1984 Extraño matrimonio
1984 La silla vacía
1984 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Eduardo O'Brian
- Mouth of the Snake (1984) ... Eduardo O'Brian (as Pedro Armendariz)
1984 El corazón de la noche - El Ciego; Domingo
1983 Los dos carnales - Don Cristóbal
1983 Remington Steele (TV Series) - Captain Rios
- Steele Away with Me: Part 2 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
- Steele Away with Me: Part 1 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1983 Las musiqueras - Alejandro del Río
1982 El día que murió Pedro Infante (as Pedro Armendariz)
1982 Cosa fácil - Hector Belascoaran Shayne
1982 Huevos rancheros (segment: La virginidad en el rio)
1982 Días de combate - Héctor Belascoarán Shayne
1982 En el país de los pies ligeros
1981 La Chevre - The Captain
1981 Rastro de muerte - Alberto Villamosa
1981 La mujer del ministro - Inspector Romero (as Pedro Armendariz)
1981 Novia, esposa y amante - Esteban Ampudia (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1981 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Ricardo
- Sally's Paradise/I Love You, Too, Smith/Mamma and Me (1981) ... Ricardo (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1981 Evita Peron (TV Movie) - Cypriano Reyes (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1980 Ni solteros, ni cazados (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1980 The Dogs of War - The Captain (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1980 Mamá solita (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1980 Me olvidé de vivir - Pedro

1979 Julia (TV Series) - 17 episodes
1979 La ilegal - Felipe Leyva
1979 El vuelo de la cigüeña
1979 These Ruins That You See - Raymundo Rocafuerte
1979 Life Sentence - Javier Lira; El Tarzan
1979 Spree - Paco
1979 Crónica íntima
1978 El hijo es mío
1978 Rosario de amor (TV Series) - Pablo - 20 episodes
1978 El complot mongol - Filiberto
1978 Los pequeños privilegios - Pedro
1978 La plaza de Puerto Santo - Ernesto
1978 Carroña - El Rengo
1977 La casta divina - Abel Ortiz Argumedo
1977 Mina, Wind of Freedom
1977 The Rhinemann Exchange (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Fuentes
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Lt. Fuentes (as Pedro Armendariz)
1976 Longitud de guerra - Manuel Chávez
1976 The Passion of Berenice - Rodrigo Robles
1976 El pacto - Raúl Mateos
1976 The Great Adventure of Zorro - Emilio Walter
1976 Columbo (TV Series) - Commandante Sanchez
- A Matter of Honor (1976) ... Commandante Sanchez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1975 Ven conmigo (TV Series) - Eduardo
- Episode #1.3 (1975) ... Eduardo
- Episode #1.2 (1975) ... Eduardo
- Episode #1.1 (1975) ... Eduardo
1975 Darker Than Night - Roberto
1975 A Home of Our Own (TV Movie) - Police Captain
1975 Los caciques - Arrieta
1975 The Log of the Black Pearl (TV Movie) - Archie Hector (as Pedro Armendariz)
1974 Earthquake - Chavez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1974 Traiganlos vivos o muertos
1974 Guns and Guts - Esposo abandonado
1974 Chosen Survivors - Luis Cabral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1974 Cinco mil dolares de recompensa - William Law
1973 The Deadly Trackers - Herrero
1973 Police Story (TV Series) - Joe Gaitan
- The Violent Homecoming (1973) ... Joe Gaitan (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1973 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (TV Movie) - Francisco Perez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1973 The Soul of Nigger Charley - Sandoval (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1972 Los hermanos Coraje (TV Series) - 15 episodes
1972 Me llaman Martina Sola (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1972)
- Episode #1.2 (1972)
- Episode #1.1 (1972)
1972 Los indomables
1972 Indio - Jesse James
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride! - Pepe Carral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1972 Trio y cuarteto (segment "Cuarteto")
1972 Sucedió en Jalisco - Muñoz
1972 Ni solteros, ni casados
1972 Hardcase (TV Movie) - Simon Fuegus
1972 Killer by Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Carlos Madera
1972 Primero el dólar
1971 Siete muertes para el texano
1971 Una vez, un hombre... - Suárez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1971 Vuelo 701 - Máximo
1971 River of Gold (TV Movie) - Angel (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1970 La belleza (Short)
1970 Su precio... unos dólares - Sam
1970 Macho Callahan - Juan
1970 Los juniors - Rafael Segura Jr.
1970 Chisum - Ben (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1970 The Phantom Gunslinger - Algernon
1970 Como enfriar a mi marido

1969 Honor y orgullo (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1969)
- Episode #1.2 (1969)
- Episode #1.1 (1969)
1969 Las impuras
1969 Patsy, mi amor
1969 The Undefeated - Escalante (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1969 Super Colt 38 - Morton (as Pedro Armendariz)
1969 La marcha de Zacatecas - Mayor González
1969 Memories of the Future - Capitán Flores
1969 The Vampires - Carlos Mayer (as Pedro Armendariz)
1969 Todo por nada - Pedro
1969 El golfo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1968 Los asesinos - Talbot
1968 El corrido del hijo desobediente - Ramiro
1968 No hay cruces en el mar - Sergio
1968 Amor perdoname
1968 4 contra el crimen - Gustavo
1968 Guns for San Sebastian - Father Lucas
1967 The Bandits - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1967 Los tres mosqueteros de Dios - Manuel
1966 To Kill Is Easy - Gustavo de la Rosa
1966 The Female Soldier - Isidro
1966 El temerario
1966 Los gavilanes negros
1966 El cachorro
1966 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - First Horseman
- The High Cumberland: Part 2 (1966) ... First Horseman (as Pedro Armandarez Jr.)
1966 Outside the Law - Willy

Producer (5 credits)

1994 Dos crímenes (associate producer)
1991 Sólo con Tu Pareja (associate producer)

1985 Un retrato del indio (Documentary short) (producer)
1982 Aprendamos juntos (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... (producer)
1980 El qué sabe, sabe (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... (producer)

Archive footage (2 credits)

2006 Licence to Kill: Deleted Scenes with Director John Glen (Video documentary short) - President Hector Lopez
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short)
Presidient Lopez

2019: BBC Radio 4 Extra airs Ian Fleming and Bond-related content at 03:00 & 15:00 (Goldfinger audio drama), 04:30 (The Woman Who Invented James Bond?), 06:30 & 13:30 & 20:30 (60 Years of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), 16:30 (The Soviet James Bond). Continues into the Friday schedule.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7l/2019/12/26

RichardTheBruce

December 27th

1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.

1972: Live and Let Die films 007 surveilling his hotel room for bugs.
1972: Live and Let Die films its last day in Jamaica: Ross Kananga at Jamaica Swamp Safari, Falmouth.
1974: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ο άνθρωπος με το χρυσό πιστόλι (James Bond, Agent 007: The Man With the Gold Pistol) released in Greece.

Later video marketing.



Not to be confused with.

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1981: Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael dies at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.
(Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.)

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.

2017: Dynamite Bond comic Kill Chain becomes available for purchase.

James Bond: Kill Chain #6 (Preview)

https://www.cbr.com/james-bond-kill-chain-6/
12.25.2017 - by CBR Staff in Comic Previews Comment

Story by Andy Diggle
Art by Luca Casalanguida
Cover by Greg Smallwood
Publisher Dynamite Entertainment

SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia’s grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.

2019: The New Year Honours List recognizes Samuel Alexander Mendes to become a Knight Bachelor, Order of the British Empire, for services to Drama.

2020 New Year Honours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Year_Honours

Order of the British Empire
Grand Cross's star of the Order of the British Empire

The riband and badge of the
"Companions of Honour"

Order of the Companions of Honour

Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Sir Elton Hercules John CBE – For services to Music and charity
• Sir Keith Vivian Thomas FBA – For services to the Study of History

Knight Bachelor

• David Julian Bintley CBE – For services to Dance
• Humphrey Burton CBE – For services to Classical Music, to the Arts and to Media
• Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge – For services to Material Chemistry, to UK Science and to Global Outreach
• Peter Kenneth Estlin, Lately Lord Mayor of London – For services to International Business, to Inclusion and to Skills.
• Dr Dennis Barry Gillings CBE – For services to the Advancement of Dementia and to Life Sciences Research
• Francis John Stapylton Habgood, QPM, lately Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police. For services to Policing
• Christopher James Hampton, CBE, playwright. For services to Drama
• Clive Lloyd CBE - For services to Cricket
• Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE, theatre and film director. For services to Drama
• Robert James Macgillivray Neill, MP. Member of Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst. For political service
• Menelas Nicolas Pangalos. Executive Vice-President, and President, Biopharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca. For services to UK Science
• Rt Hon George Iain Duncan Smith MP - for political and public service.
• Simon Laurence Stevens. Chief Executive of the National Health Service. For services to Health and the NHS in England
• Jonathan Richard Symonds, CBE. Chair, Genomics England and Deputy Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to UK Life Sciences and Finance
• William Gennydd Thomas. For charitable and political service
• Professor Duncan John Wingham. Professor of Climate Physics, University College London and Executive Chair, Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Climate Science
• Andrew William Graham Wylie, CBE. Co-Founder, The Sage Group plc and Chair and Founder, Technology Services Group. For services to Business and charity

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

• Steven Rodney McQueen CBE - For services to Film

RichardTheBruce

December 28th

1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."

The Man With the Golden Typewriter, Thomas Fleming, 2015.
https://books.google.com/books?id=b0-8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=%22ian+fleming%22+%2228+december%22&source=bl&ots=lJJfzXUewL&sig=ifxwaI5K8301deJizQ7JlR9YjfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ3pii0KvYAhWNk-AKHf6YB1Q4ChDoAQgrMAE#v=onepage&q=%22ian%20fleming%22%20%2228%20december%22&f=false

TO WREN HOWARD

Fleming had written on 28 December 1956 to clarify the terms of a serialization in the Daily Express, to thank Daniel George fulsomely for his comments—‘I think the book has been greatly improved as a result’—and to assure Howard that he had no intention of changing publisher. But he cast a warning note:

‘Incidentally, when you talk airily of future books, I do beg you to believe that the vein of my inventiveness is running extremely dry and I seriously doubt if I shall be able to complete a book in Jamaica this year. There are many reasons for this, which I need not go into, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to work up enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures.’

1971: Comic strip Trouble Spot begins its run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 10 June 1972. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


http://sequart.org/magazine/16692/on-the-james-bond-omnibus-volume-004-by-jim-lawrence-yaroslav-horak/



Swedish Semic Comic 1973 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3
Dödligt Budskap (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)

Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3
Dödligt Budskap (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)

Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3
Dödligt Budskap (Trouble Spot)


Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no27-1974/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 27: “Trouble Spot” (1974)



A water pistol?

1995: James Bond 007 - GoldenEye released in Germany.

2015: Big Comics Special Edition reprints Takao Saito's manga 007 series for 女王陛下の007 (Jo'ō Heika no Zero Zero Sebun/Her Majesty's Secret Service) and 黄金の銃を持つ男 (Ōgon no Jū o Motsu Otoko/The Man with the Golden Gun). Serialized monthly in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine December 1964 to August 1967.

女王陛下の007



黄金の銃を持つ男


1981 reprint.

2016: Dynamite's James Bond #12 Eidolon Chapter 6 is released--in print and digital.
Artist Jason Masters. Writer Warren Ellis.

James Bond #12 Eidolon Chapter 6

https://www.comixology.com/James-Bond-12/digital-comic/438054

The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?

RichardTheBruce

December 29th

1965: Thunderball released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion Cinema.

1965: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Κεραυνός (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Thunderbolt) released in Greece.

1971: Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak (Diamonds For Eternity) released in Hungary.

1991: Cassandra Harris (Sandra Colleen Waites) dies at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)

Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
Dec. 30, 1991

Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39.

Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (9 credits)

1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
- Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
- Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
- Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
- Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
- The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
- Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

Self (4 credits)

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1995: GoldenEye released in Austria.

2019: The Prince Charles Cinema in London has its second 45th Anniversary screening of The Man With the Golden Gun at 3:35 PM.

RichardTheBruce

December 30th

1865: Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.
(He dies 18 January 1936 at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)

The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling Ian Flemings 007 prefix ?
http://www.007museum.com/rudyard_kipling.htm

...
Fleming had picked up number 007 from the title of a novel by the famous British writer and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (best known for "The Jungle Book"). Kipling wrote a short story that actually was called ".007", which is about a steam engine and is part of his collection of short stories The Days Framework, published in 1898. The steam engine is in the short story number 007, the short story has nothing whatsoever with agents or so to do.

The Day's Work, Rudyard Kipling, 1898.
"·007."

A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. He looked at the semicircle of bold, unwinking headlights, heard the low purr and mutter of the steam mounting in the gauges—scornful hisses of contempt as a slack valve lifted a little—and would have given a month’s oil for leave to crawl through his own driving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. .007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he stood he was worth ten thousand dollars on the Company’s books. But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour’s waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents...

Complete story linked here.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

1920: John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord) is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 21 January 1998 at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii.)

Obituary: Jack Lord

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-jack-lord-1140283.html
Tom Vallance | Friday 23 January 1998 01:02

John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord), actor: born New York 30 December 1920; married 1952 Marie de Narde; died Honolulu, Hawaii 21 January 1998.

The actor Jack Lord will forever be associated with the role he played for 12 straight years on television, Steve McGarrett, head of a fictitious Hawaiian State Police Force, in Hawaii Five-O, one of television's most successful series, still being shown all over the world.

Though he had been an actor on stage, screen and television for several years, stardom had eluded him and would probably have continued to do so. As an actor on the big screen, the intense, taciturn Lord excelled in villainous roles but as a hero was somewhat bland - in Dr No (1962) he had a prominent role as Felix Leighter [sic], the CIA man who helps Bond discover the identity of the scoundrel who is plotting to take over the world, but his character paled beside that of Sean Connery as Bond. Hawaii Five-O made Lord a household name (and a millionaire). At its peak, the series was seen in 80 countries with an audience estimated at more than 300 million.

Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, he was the son of a steamship executive and during high school summers would work as a seaman. He studied at New York University on a football scholarship and majored in art - his paintings are hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries. "I'd rather paint than eat," he once said. "I'm using acting as a way of getting my name before the public. Then my pictures will have a name value." In fact the Metropolitan purchased a lithograph when Lord was plain J.J. Ryan and only 18 years old.

He was running an art school in Greenwich Village when he decided to take up acting, and for three years he studied at the Neighbourhood Playhouse while working days as a car salesman. He also studied at the Actors' Studio along with Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, and was given roles in two Broadway plays, The Travelling Lady (1953, for which he won a Theatre World Award) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), but in 1955 he went to Hollywood to concentrate on film and television.

He had made his screen debut (billed as John Ryan) in R.G. Springsteen's The Red Menace (1949), an anti- Communist propaganda thriller that now seems risible and has achieved enough cult status to be issued on laser disc. Lord's movie career never quite took off - he tested for the leading role of a naive cowboy in Bus Stop (1956) and was told by director Joshua Logan, "You can't play a virgin, your face looks lived in" - but he had a good year in 1958 with roles in two impressive films directed by Anthony Mann.

In God's Little Acre, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's racy bestseller about Georgia farmers in the Depression, a quirky tale resembling Tennessee Williams crossed with Al Capp, Lord was one of Robert Ryan's sons, Buck, violently jealous of his wife's attraction to her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray). In Man of the West, he was a particularly sadistic henchman of outlaw Lee J. Cobb, suspicious (rightly) of the hero Gary Coop-er's motives in rejoining the gang, and in one powerful scene holding a knife to Cooper's throat and forcing Julie London, as a saloon singer, to strip.

Television, though, was offering Lord more consistently rewarding work, in such series as The Untouchables, Route 66 and Bonanza, and in 1962 he was given a western series, Stoney Burke, though it ran for only one season. "A star like Jack is money in the bank," said one television producer. "He's always on time, no bags under his eyes and he always knows his lines." After many guest roles in such series as The Man from UNCLE, Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive and Ironside, Lord was offered the lead in Hawaii Five-O in 1968.

The show initially met local opposition because of its portrayal of crime in the state, but that melted when its depiction of Hawaii's beauty proved a potent tourist attraction. As the gruff chief who ended each episode capturing the criminals and invariably telling his sidekick (James McArthur), "Book 'em, Danno", Lord became a top television star. The show ran for 12 years (284 episodes), ending in 1980 with McGarrett finally capturing his long- standing enemy, the crime boss Wo Fat.

Lord had made his home in Hawaii, producing the show and sometimes directing it. When the series finished, he and his wife remained in Hawaii, living in a beachfront condominium in Kahala, and Lord returned to his first love, painting.

Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520437/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) - Admiral Henderson

1968-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree - 281 episodes
- Woe to Wo Fat (1980) ... Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree
...
- Cocoon (1968) ... Det. Steve McGarrett
1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Don Owens
1968 The Name of the Game Is Kill! - Symcha Lipa
1968 The High Chaparral (TV Series) - Dan Brookes
- The Kinsman (1968) ... Dan Brookes
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Pharos Mandor
- The Master's Touch Affair (1967) ... Pharos Mandor
1967 Ironside (TV Series) - John Trask
- Dead Man's Tale (1967) ... John Trask
1967 The Ride to Hangman's Tree - Guy Russell
1967 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Alan Bartlett
- Goodbye My Love (1967) ... Alan Bartlett
1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - George Vikor
- Vikor (1967) ... George Vikor
1966 The Doomsday Flight (TV Movie) - Special Agent Frank Thompson
1965-1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Harry Marcus / Don Owens / Abe Perez
- Storm Crossing (1966) ... Harry Marcus
- The Faceless Man (1966) ... Don Owens
- The Crime (1965) ... Abe Perez
1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - Roy Dallman
- High Stakes (1966) ... Roy Dallman
1966 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Frank Andreas Shroeder
- Collision Course (1966) ... Frank Andreas Shroeder
1965-1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Col. Arnold Yates / Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
- Face of a Shadow (1966) ... Col. Arnold Yates
- Big Brother (1965) ... Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Jab Harlan
- Above the Law (1966) ... Jab Harlan
1965 Combat! (TV Series) - Barney McKlosky
- The Linesman (1965) ... Barney McKlosky
1965 The Loner (TV Series) - Reverend Booker
- The Vespers (1965) ... Reverend Booker
1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Paul Campbell
- The Long Ravine (1965) ... Paul Campbell
1965 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Lee Barton
- The Echo Pass Story (1965) ... Lee Barton
1964 Grand Hotel (TV Movie)
1964 The Reporter (TV Series) - Nick Castle
- How Much for a Prince? (1964) ... Nick Castle
1964 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) - Wally Walker
- Man in a Hole (1964) ... Wally Walker
1964 Dr. Kildare (TV Series) - Dr. Frank Michaels
- A Willing Suspension of Disbelief (1964) ... Dr. Frank Michaels
1962-1963 Stoney Burke (TV Series) - Stoney Burke - 32 episodes
1962 Dr. No - Felix Leiter
1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ernie Chapin
- The Star System (1962) ... Ernie Chapin
1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Wilt Farrell
- Dead Load: Dave Braddock (1961) ... Wilt Farrell
1959-1961 Rawhide (TV Series) - Paul Evans / Blake
- Incident of His Brother's Keeper (1961) ... Paul Evans
- Incident of the Calico Gun (1959) ... Blake
1961 Stagecoach West (TV Series) - Johnny Dane / Russ Doty
- The Butcher (1961) ... Johnny Dane
- House of Violence (1961) ... Russ Doty
1961 The Robert Herridge Theater (TV Series) - - A Song with Orange in It (1961)
1961 Outlaws (TV Series) - Jim Houston
- The Bell (1961) ... Jim Houston
1961 The Americans (TV Series) - Charlie Goodwin
- Half Moon Road (1961) ... Charlie Goodwin
1961 Route 66 (TV Series) - Gabe Johnson
- Play It Glissando (1961) ... Gabe Johnson
1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Cary Glennon
- The Human Trap (1960) ... Cary Glennon
1960 Walk Like a Dragon - Linc Bartlett
1960 Bonanza (TV Series) - Clay Renton
- The Outcast (1960) ... Clay Renton

1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Dan Gardner
- Father Image (1959) ... Dan Gardner
1959 The Lineup (TV Series) - Army Armitage
- The Strange Return of Army Armitage (1959) ... Army Armitage
1959 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Bill Hagen
- The Jake Lingle Killing (1959) ... Bill Hagen
1959 The Hangman - Johnny Bishop
1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Joe
- Marriage Crisis (1959) ... Joe
1958 The Sergeant and the Lady (TV Movie)
1958 The Millionaire (TV Series) - Lee Randolph
- Millionaire Lee Randolph (1958) ... Lee Randolph
1958 U.S. Marshal (TV Series) - Matt Bonner
- Sentenced to Death (1958) ... Matt Bonner
1958 Man of the West - Coaley
1958 God's Little Acre - Buck Walden
1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart - Willie Down
1957-1958 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Homer Aswell / Jim Kester
- Reunion (1958) ... Homer Aswell
- The Lone Woman (1957) ... Jim Kester
1957 The Silent Service (TV Series) - Hurt
- The Loss of the Perch (1957) ... Hurt
1957 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
- Doc's Reward (1957) ... Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
1957 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Dave
- Three Bells to Perdido (1957) ... Dave
1957 Tip on a Dead Jockey - Jimmy Heldon
1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Charlie Mullaney
- Mr. Runyon of Broadway (1957) ... Charlie Mullaney
1957 Conflict (TV Series)
- Pattern for Violence (1957)
1957 Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (Short) - John Fry
1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Rudd Kendall / Buck
- Old Acquaintance (1956) ... Rudd Kendall
- Jezebel (1956) ... Buck
1956 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Matt / Paul Chester
- A Day Before Battle (1956) ... Matt
- An Incident of Love (1956) ... Paul Chester
1956 The Vagabond King - Ferrebouc
1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation")
- The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956) ... (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell")
- One Nation (1956) ... (segment "One Nation")
1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
- This Land Is Mine (1956)
1956 Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
- This Land Is Mine (1956)
1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Davis
- Combat Medics (1955) ... Lieutenant Davis
1955 Appointment with Adventure (TV Series) - Bill - Diner Proprietor
- Five in Judgment (1955) ... Bill - Diner Proprietor
1955 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
- Buckskin (1955)
1955 Danger (TV Series)
- Season for Murder (1955)
1954 Suspense (TV Series)
- String (1954)
1954 The Web (TV Series)
- Grand Finale (1954)
1953-1954 Man Against Crime (TV Series)
- The Chinese Dolls (1954)
- The Midnight Express (1953)
1953 Broadway Television Theatre (TV Series)
- Criminal at Large (1953)
1952 The Hunter (TV Series)
- The Puzzle of Pier 90 (1952) ... (as Jack Ryan)
1950 The Tattooed Stranger - Detective Deke Del Vecchio (uncredited)
1950 Cry Murder - Tommy Warren

1949 Project X - John Bates

Producer (3 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) (executive producer)

1974-1977 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (executive producer - 49 episodes)

1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

Director (2 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

1974-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Who Says Cops Don't Cry? (1979)
- Why Won't Linda Die? (1978)
- The Bells Toll at Noon (1977)
- Honor Is an Unmarked Grave (1975)
- How to Steal a Masterpiece (1974)
- Death with Father (1974)

1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.

Concept art

1974: Yasamak Için Öldür (Kill to Live) released in Turkey.

VCD

1983: (007 - Never Again) released in Brazil.

Later video marketing.

1989: 007 살 인 면 허 (Murder Licence) released in the Republic of Korea.

Video marketing.

Soundtrack.

1998: The New Year Honours List recognizes Roger Moore to become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his UNICEF work.

1999 New Year Honours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_New_Year_Honours

Order of the British Empire
Grand Cross's star of the Order of the British Empire

Grand Cross's star of the
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry comprising five classes in civil and military divisions. It is the junior of the British orders of chivalry, and the largest, with over 100,000 living members worldwide. The highest two ranks of the order, the Knight/Dame Grand Cross and Knight/Dame Commander, admit an individual into knighthood or damehood allowing the recipient to use the title Sir or Dame.[6]

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.)
Diplomatic and Overseas

• The Honourable Ernest David Decouto, J.P., Speaker, House of Assembly, Bermuda.
• Dr. Samuel Wilson Hynd. For services to medical missionary work in Africa.
• Roger George Moore. For charitable services, especially to UNICEF.

2012: Skyfall reaches the landmark 1 billion (US) dollar point for worldwide box-office.
2016: Game over--shutdown of the Glu Mobile servers brings an end to James Bond: World of Espionage.

RichardTheBruce

December 31st

1945: Barbara Carrera is born--Bluefields, Nicaragua.

1961: The Sunday Express Susan Barnes interview for her piece "Women and Me — by the Screen's James Bond" reportedly ends on the subject of violence towards women and with Barnes abruptly exiting Connery's apartment.
1963: Deed of Assignment executed this date states Ian Fleming, Ivar Bryce, and publisher Jonathan Cape assign rights to Kevin McClory for "all the copyright in the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel Thunderball in films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." And specifically from Fleming, "the exclusive right to the character James Bond as a character in any such scripts or film of Thunderball."

1994: Chivers North America publishes a large print version of John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers.

2002: 007 어나더데이 (007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.

2034: With the end of the 70th year following author Ian Fleming's death, in theory his books and stories enter the public domain. (Though remedied by Danjaq LLC's registered trademarks for James Bond and 007.)

RichardTheBruce

January 1st

1925: Zena Marshall is born--Nairobi, Kenya. (She dies 10 July 2009 at age 84--London, England.)

Zena Marshall
Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/obituary-zena-marshall
Gavin Gaughan | Sun 26 Jul 2009 14.31 EDT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (59 credits)

1967 The Terrornauts - Sandy Lund
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Mara
- Let Slip the Dogs of War (1966) ... Mara
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Countess Sofia Ponticelli
1965 Public Eye (TV Series) - Jean Lawford
- You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere (1965) ... Jean Lawford
1965 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Carol Wright
- Find the Lady (1965) ... Carol Wright
1964 The Verdict - Carola
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Nadia
- Fish on the Hook (1964) ... Nadia
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Yvonne
- Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Yvonne
1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Carola / Pauline Logan
- The Verdict (1964) ... Carola
- Backfire! (1962) ... Pauline Logan
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Rita / Melina
- A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Rita
- A Little Sweetness and Light (1963) ... Melina
1963 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Vera Barclay
- Over and Out (1963) ... Vera Barclay
1963 The Switch - Caroline Markham
1962 Backfire! - Pauline Logan
1962 The Scales of Justice (TV Series) - Thelma Sinclair
- The Guilty Party (1962) ... Thelma Sinclair
1962 Dr. No - Miss Taro
1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Madame Thiboeuf
- Death of a Conference (1962) ... Madame Thiboeuf
1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Zara
- The Challenge (1962) ... Zara
1962 Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) - Maria
- The Bridge (1962) ... Maria
1962 Crosstrap - Rina
1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Mrs. Ramfi / Doctor Leclair
- Find and Return (1961) ... Mrs. Ramfi
- The Leak (1960) ... Doctor Leclair
1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Naomi
1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Louise
- The Dudley Case (1960) ... Louise

1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Tania
- The Locked Room (1958) ... Tania
1958 African Patrol (TV Series) - Stella Stevens
- No Place to Hide (1958) ... Stella Stevens
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Lucille Genet
- Operation Flint Axe (1957) ... Lucille Genet
1957 Let's Be Happy - Helene
1956 My Wife's Family - Hilda
1956 Bermuda Affair - Chris Walters
1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Madeleine
- The Silent Vow (1956) ... Madeleine
1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Audrey Lipton
- The Serpent Beneath (1955) ... Audrey Lipton
1955 Three Cases of Murder - Beautiful Blonde (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
1954 The Embezzler - Mrs. Forrest
1954 The Scarlet Web - Laura Vane
1954 Liebelei (TV Movie) - Mitzi Schlager
1953 Men Against the Sun - Elizabeth
1953 Deadly Nightshade - Ann Farrington
1953 Your Favorite Story (TV Series)
- Work of Art (1953)
1952 The Caretaker's Daughter - Fritzi Villiers
1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Catherine
- The Portugal Lady (1952) ... Catherine
1952 Blind Man's Bluff - Christine Stevens
1952 The Inch Man (TV Series) - Helen Anastiadi
- The Quiet Voice (1952) ... Helen Anastiadi
1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Honey Child
1950 Dark Interval - Sonia Jordan
1950 The Adventures of Sir Percy Howsey (TV Short) - Margueritte
1950 Soho Conspiracy - Dora Scala
1950 So Long at the Fair - Nina
1950 Operation Disaster - The Wren

1949 Meet Simon Cherry - Lisa Colville
1949 The Lost People - Anna
1949 Helter Skelter - Giselle
1949 Marry Me - Marcelle Duclos
1949 The Bad Lord Byron - An Italian Woman (uncredited)
1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste - Suzanne
1948 Good-Time Girl - Annie Farrell
1948 Miranda - Secretary
1948 Snowbound - Italian Girl
1948 So Evil My Love - Lisette
1947 The End of the River - Sante
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra - Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)

Self (3 credits)

1961 Juke Box Jury (TV Series) - Herself - Panellist
- Episode #1.89 (1961) ... Herself - Panellist

1956 Film Fanfare (TV Series) - Herself / Herself - Quiz Contestant
- Episode #1.30 (1956) ... Herself
- Episode #1.23 (1956) ... Herself - Quiz Contestant
- Episode #1.1 (1956) ... Herself
1956 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Fernandel, Diana Dors (1956) ... Herself

Archive footage (9 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Herself
1995 In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
1990 The Prisoner Video Companion (Video documentary)
1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) -Miss Taro
- OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... Miss Taro (uncredited)
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1963 Dr. No Featurette (Documentary short) - Miss Taro

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Silent Vow (1956) ... (performer: "Ce n'etait Rien")

1937: Suzy Kendall is born--Belper, Derbyshire, England.
1938: Kenneth Tsang is born--Shanghai, China.

1961: Ian Fleming returns to his Goldeneye Estate and begins writing the ninth Bond novel. In failing health, he uses a screenplay from a 1958 project as its basis.
1965: Agente 007 - Missione Goldfinger (Agent 007 - Goldfinger Mission) released in Italy.

Not to be confused with.

1968: Dr. No re-release in the UK.

1972: Diamenty sa wieczne (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Poland.

Video marketing.

1977: Dr. No re-release in the UK.

1998: Zítrek nikdy neumírá (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in the Czech Republic.

Video marketing.

1998: Zajtrajsok nikdy nezomiera released in Slovakia.

Video marketing.

2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Taiwan.

2003: Die Another Day released in Egypt and Panama.
2003: Πέθανε μια άλλη μέρα (He Died Another Day) released in Greece.

2010: The original date Ian Fleming material would have entered the Public Domain (based on Casino Royale's 1953 publish date, plus 28 years for the copyright period, plus another 28 year renewal). [But the US law changed 1976 and went into effect 1978.]
2015: James Bond becomes public domain in Canada. (The books and stories, not the films. Based on the Berne Convention allowing a copyright for 50 years after Fleming's death.)

2035: Under the Copyright Extension Act of 1998 (applying the year of the author's death plus 70 years), Fleming books and stories enter the public domain.

2049: Under US copyright law in effect from 1978 (applied to products published 1950-1964), the copyright period lasting 95 years from the author's death ended the previous day. So it's public domain for Fleming books and stories everywhere. [Legal commentary welcome.]

RichardTheBruce

January 2nd

1964: In The Daily Express, Fleming proposes to interviewer John Creusemann that "Bond is Scottish. On both sides."

1975: Roger Moore is photographed at London's Gerrick Club with wife Luisa and co-star Susanna York from their film "Heaven Save Us From Our Friends".

2003: Die Another Day released in New Zealand.
2003: Dnes neumírej (Do Not Die Today) released in the Czech Republic.

2003: Dnes neumíeraj (Today Do Not Die) released in Slovakia.

2003: The New York Times publishes Seoul Journal's article "The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans".

Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/world/seoul-journal-the-power-of-film-a-bond-that-unites-koreans.html
By JAMES BROOKE - JAN. 2, 2003

In real life, President Bush wrestles with policies to force North Korea to stop selling missiles and making atom bombs.

On the big screen, at movie theaters here today, James Bond wrestled with a crazed North Korean colonel who was using a space-based laser to burn a massive hole in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.

''The U.S. put North Korea in 'the axis of evil' and then the director merely followed the plot,'' said Kim So Won, a 19-year-old student taking a break from a New Year's Eve anti-American rally.

As her girlfriends nodded, she added, ''We won't go see the movie.''

The new 007 movie, ''Die Another Day,'' opened here on New Year's Eve to a fledgling boycott. But reflecting the love-hate relationship with the United States -- the fact that James Bond is British is a fine point lost on many people here -- there were long lines of people waiting to see the film at the Seoul Theater.

Min Kyung Woo, a 28-year-old pacifist, lined up too, but on a picket line. ''This is Hollywood's strategy toward Northeast Asia,'' said Mr. Min, who had not been converted by a pre-release showing of the movie intended by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to head off a boycott here.

''The movie industry is related to politics,'' he said.

Indeed, the boycott has been fueled by rising anti-American sentiment and the feeling among many here that North Koreans are replacing Colombians as Hollywood's current international bad guys.

''North Korean criminals in the movie are no different from Iraqi, Cuban or Russian terrorists, who easily commit mass murders in Hollywood action movies,'' the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo said in apparent surprise at the Bondian depiction of state-sponsored torture in North Korea, a nation that ranks high atop many ''worst'' lists compiled by international human rights groups.

While North and South Korea remain bitterly divided, judging by such reviews and those of some moviegoers here, the two sides have finally found common ground when confronting 007.

''I think there is plenty for Koreans to complain about in this movie,'' Doug E. Shin, a Korean-American pastor from Los Angeles, said as he walked in a jostling, and largely merry, flood of young South Koreans leaving a showing tonight. ''Half the North Koreans were speaking with South Korean accents. That ox looked like it was from the Philippines. That shack at the end looked like it was from Japan.''

''I guess the director didn't care,'' he continued. ''But if the movie was about Japan, would they have treated the Japanese that way?''

A recurring complaint here is about a final scene where befuddled Korean farmers, goading an ox, look at luxury cars that James Bond has dropped, upended, in a rice paddy. While North Korean agriculture plods along on ox power, South Koreans say the only ox carts seen here are in museums.

The correct image of South Korea, people say, is a nation with among the world's highest rates of cellphone ownership, high-speed Internet access and college-educated youth.

Then there is a scene where an American officer orders a South Korea military mobilization, which prompted someone to write in an Internet chat room that ''Korea in the movie is viewed as America's colony.''

After watching the movie today, Kim Yu Min, a 24-year-old office worker, said, ''My girlfriends said, 'At least James Bond doesn't go to bed with a Korean girl.' ''

MGM, which distributes 20th Century Fox movies, has worked hard to try to smooth ruffled feathers here, a nation of 43 million people that is now the 10th-largest foreign box office territory for American movies.

Lee Joo Sung, president of 20th Century Fox Korea, told opinion makers at one showing here: ''It's a movie. Not reality. Viewers must understand that it's fiction.''

The movie, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry and is already expected to be the most lucrative Bond movie yet, ran into early controversy when a South Korean actor, Cha In Pyo, turned down the bad-guy role, normally a coveted ticket to Hollywood stardom. He became a local hero last fall when he told reporters that the script was ''demeaning.''

Rick Yune, the Korean-American actor who stars as the movie's crazed North Korean officer, has found himself at news conferences here parrying hostile questions from reporters concerned about South Korea's image. In one burst of patriotism, Lee Jung Hyun, a pop singer, declined an invitation to appear alongside Mr. Yune on a popular talk show, ''Happiness Channel.''

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency has obligingly given MGM free publicity by playing true to character.

Two weeks before the release here and well before pirated copies could have made their way to reviewers in North Korea, the news agency denounced the film as a ''dirty and cursed burlesque'' that clearly proved that the United States was ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation.''

A version of this article appears in print on January 2, 2003, on Page A00004 of the National edition with the headline: Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans.

2008: George MacDonald Fraser dies age 82--Strang, Isle of Man.
(Born 2 April 1925--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.)

George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html
By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008

George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died yesterday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years.

The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent.

Over nearly four decades, Mr. Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume “memoir,” known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle and in bed. In the process, Mr. Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire.

The Flashman Papers include, among other titles, Flashman (World Publishing, 1969); Flashman in the Great Game (Knopf, 1975); and, most recently, Flashman on the March (Knopf, 2005). The second volume in the series, Royal Flash (Knopf, 1970), was made into a film of the same title in 1975, starring Malcolm McDowell as Flashman.

In what amounted to an act of literary retribution, Mr. Fraser plucked Flashman from the pages of Tom Brown’s School Days, Thomas Hughes’s classic novel of English public-school life published in 1857. In that book, Tom, the innocent young hero, repeatedly falls prey to a sadistic bully named Flashman.

In Mr. Fraser’s hands, the cruel, handsome Flashman is all grown up and in the British Army, serving in India, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Now Brig. Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman, he is a master equestrian, a pretty fair duelist and a polyglot who can pitch woo in a spate of foreign tongues. He is also a scoundrel, a drunk, a liar, a cheat, a braggart and a coward. (A favorite combat strategy is to take credit for a victory from which he has actually run away.)


Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

Last, but most assuredly not least, Flashman is a serial adulterer who by Volume 9 of the series has bedded 480 women. (That Flashman is married himself, to the fair, dimwitted Elspeth, is no impediment. She cuckolds him left and right, in any case.)

Readers adored him. Today, the Internet is populated with a bevy of Flashman fan sites.

Flashman’s exploits take him to some of the most epochal events of his time, from British colonial campaigns to the American Civil War, in which he magnanimously serves on both the Union and the Confederate sides. He rubs up against eminences like Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Florence Nightingale and Abraham Lincoln.

For his work, Flashman earns a string of preposterous awards, including a knighthood, the Victoria Cross and the American Medal of Honor.

Mr. Fraser was so skilled a mock memoirist that he had some early readers fooled. Writing in The New York Times in 1969 after the first novel was published, Alden Whitman said:

“So far, ‘Flashman’ has had 34 reviews in the United States. Ten of these found the book to be genuine autobiography.”

The son of Scottish parents, George MacDonald Fraser was born on April 2, 1925, in Carlisle, England, near the Scottish border. His boyhood reading, like that of nearly every British boy of his generation, included Tom Brown’s School Days.

In World War II, Mr. Fraser served in India and Burma with the Border Regiment. His memoir of the war in Burma, Quartered Safe Out Here (Harvill), was published in 1993.


The first Flashman novel.

After leaving the military, Mr. Fraser embarked on a journalism career, working for newspapers in England, Canada and Scotland. He eventually became the assistant editor of The Glasgow Herald and in the 1960s, was briefly its editor.

Tiring of newspaper work, Mr. Fraser decided, as he later said in interviews, to “write my way out” with an original Victorian novel. In a flash, he remembered Flashman, and the first book tumbled out in the evenings after work.

“In all, it took 90 hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table,” he said in an interview quoted in the reference work Authors and Artists for Young Adults.

Mr. Fraser’s survivors include his wife, Kathy; two sons and a daughter. Information on other survivors could not immediately be confirmed.

His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them “Mr. American” (Simon & Schuster, 1980); “The Pyrates” (Knopf, 1984); and “Black Ajax” (HarperCollins, 1997). With Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, Mr. Fraser wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “Octopussy,” released in 1983.

Mr. Fraser’s latest book, “The Reavers,” a non-Flashman novel, is scheduled to be published by Knopf in April.

For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. This award, according to every conceivable news account, was entirely genuine.

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C12 of the New York edition with the headline: George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82.

George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Writer (10 credits)

1989 The Return of the Musketeers (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
1987 Casanova (TV Movie) (written by)
1986 The Pyrates (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1985 Red Sonja (written by)
1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)

1977 Crossed Swords (final screenplay)
1975 Royal Flash (novel) / (screenplay)
1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
1973 The Three Musketeers (screenplay)
1972 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) (story "The General Danced At Dawn" - 1 episode)
- The Dirtiest Soldier in the World (1972) ... (story "The General Danced At Dawn")

Self (1 credit)

1974 The Book Programme (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Episode #2.5 (1974) ... Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)

2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself

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2008: Quantum of Solace filming begins.

RichardTheBruce

January 3rd

1922: Dana Natol (later Dana Wilson Broccoli) is born--New York City, New York.
(She dies 29 February 2004 at age 82--Los Angeles, California.)

Dana Broccoli

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1455828/Dana-Broccoli.html
12:03AM GMT 03 Mar 2004

Dana Broccoli who died on Sunday aged 82, was the widow of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond films; during their 37-year marriage she was her husband's unofficial adviser and muse, and became, after his death, the custodian of the James Bond franchise.

Elegant and well-connected, Dana Broccoli was the perfect foil to her husband who was the son of an Italian-American bricklayer; but while the vast and affable Cubby - who liked to cook pasta for his cast and crew - was noted for his geniality, it was the chic, raven-haired Dana who had a more steely reputation. "I'm half Irish and half Italian," she would explain. "I'm just bloody-minded." Even her adoring husband described her as "formidable" several times in his autobiography. "Dana," he wrote, "takes no prisoners. She does not have the gift of forgiveness".

In 1959 Broccoli was already a successful producer when he married Dana Wilson, a divorcee, following a six-week courtship. A year later Broccoli and the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman set up a film company with the intention of putting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels on the big screen. Broccoli was not the first film-maker to approach Fleming, but, aided by his shrewd and glamorous wife, the bear-like New Yorker struck up an unlikely friendship with Fleming, an Old Etonian with a marked disdain for Hollywood. "I found him a lovely man," Dana Broccoli recalled years later, "charming and intelligent."

Moreover, it was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccoli's attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.

"One day," Dana Broccoli later recalled, "Cubby called me and said: 'Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don't know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal.' I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: 'Cubby, he's fabulous!' He was just perfect, he had star material right there."

But she had little sympathy with Connery after he referred, in 1966, to "fat-slob producers living off the backs of lean actors", and after Connery issued a law-suit in 1984 against Broccoli demanding more royalties from the Bond films. Connery eventually abandoned the dispute after settling for merchandising rights.

But, following Cubby Broccoli's death in 1996, Dana Broccoli was surprised and disappointed when Connery did not appear at the memorial service. "I don't have to understand Sean," she said in 2000, "and he doesn't need my understanding; he's doing very well without my understanding."

She was born Dana Natol in New York on January 3 1922. Having decided at an early age to become an actress, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall in New York. There she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, who was the first actor to play Batman. In 1942 she gave birth to a son, Michael, and three years later the family moved to California where Dana Wilson and her husband joined the Pasadena Playhouse.

After separating from Wilson, she moved to Beverly Hills where she became a screenwriter; in 1959, at a party, she met Broccoli, whose previous wife had died. Broccoli, had been born into an impoverished family of Italian immigrants in Queens, and was a self-made man, descended, apparently, from farmers who had invented broccoli by crossing a cauliflower and a pea.

A keen gambler, he had had a sketchy career, working as a vegetable packer and coffin polisher before getting a job as a tea boy at Twentieth Century Fox. In 1947, while trying to earn some extra dollars, he had got a job selling Christmas trees on a street corner and was particularly struck by a beautiful young woman who had bought one of the trees and for whom he had constructed a stand to hold it. When he was finally introduced to Dana Wilson, 12 years later, he realised that she was the same woman, and she too remembered the incident. Both believed that fate had brought them together.

Following their wedding in Las Vegas (Cary Grant was the best man), the couple returned to Cubby Broccoli's house in London. Dana adopted Cubby's two children from his previous marriage and the following year gave birth to a daughter, Barbara.

In 1967, Danjaq LLC, the film company set up by Cubby and Dana Broccoli, produced Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, another of Fleming's books; and in 2002 Dana Broccoli produced the successful stage version, which is still running in the West End.

Dana Broccoli also published two novels, Scenario for Murder, and Florinda. She adapted the latter for the musical, La Cava, which was staged in London in 2000.

The Broccolis lived in London for many years until, in 1977, they reluctantly sold their house in Mayfair and moved to Los Angeles for tax reasons. Although the couple enjoyed the wealth acquired through the Bond films (they had a large collection of paintings, including a Renoir and a Picasso) they also raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, particularly the NSPCC, which benefited greatly from the Broccolis' largesse.

In 1977 Dana Broccoli's son, Michael G Wilson, and daughter, Barbara Broccoli, took over production of the Bond films, and after her husband's death Dana Broccoli took over as chairman of the board. "It was all family," she explained, "that was a large part of our success; the big extended family . . . We still see a lot of Timothy Dalton, and Roger [Moore] is always popping in. Roger always liked the pasta and the backgammon."

Cubby Broccoli's death left her bereft but by no means bowed. "I was very happy taking care of Cubby," she said recently, adding, "I would never marry again. Cubby was irreplaceable. We went through so much together, ups and downs, but it has been a fabulous journey."

Dana Broccoli is survived by her two sons and two daughters.

Dana Broccoli (1922–2004)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110484/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (5 credits)

1979 Moonraker - Woman at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)

1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)

1952 Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (TV Series) - Sandra Whitney
- The Golden Dagger ... Sandra Whitney (as Dana Wilson)
1951 Wild Women of Wongo - Queen (as Dana Wilson)
1950 Once a Thief - Jane (as Dana Wilson)

Thanks (26 credits)

2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) (special thanks)
2000 Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Licence to Kill' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) (special thanks)

Self (19 credits)

2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Herself
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1979 The Paul Ryan Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli (1979) ... Herself
- Episode #1.63 ... Herself
1979 My Name Is Bond... James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1967 You Only Live Twice: The Royal Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- The World of James Bond (1967) ... Herself

HiArchive footage (4 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Herself
2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Cafe Martinique Dancer

1926: Sir George Henry Martin, CBE, is born--Holloway, London, England.
(He dies 8 March 2016 at age 90--Colesshill, Oxfordshire, England.)

Sir George Martin obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/09/george-martin-obituary
The ‘fifth Beatle’, a talented musician and producer who oversaw
landmark albums and helped the band to stretch the boundaries
of sound recording
Adam Sweeting | Wed 9 Mar 2016 01.25 EST | Last modified on Tue 14 Feb 2017 12.58 EST

http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2016/mar/09/producer-george-martin-beatles-yesterday-archive-video
Producer George Martin recalls making the Beatles’ classic Yesterday – archive video

The death of George Martin at the age of 90 is not only a sad blow to Beatles fans of all generations, but it also draws a line under a vanished age of the entertainment business. Martin’s work as the Beatles’ producer, overseeing such landmarks of popular music as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, has guaranteed that his reputation will live as long as that of his illustrious proteges.

Martin and the Beatles were stretching the known boundaries of sound recording almost every time they entered the studio. “When I started, there really weren’t more than a handful of producers,” Martin commented. “Now everyone thinks they’re a producer. Technology has been getting more sophisticated every day. You can make a tune that isn’t that great sound wonderful. This stifles creativity, because you don’t have to work for it, it’s already there.”

A trained musician, Martin possessed invaluable arranging skills. He helped the Beatles to find striking juxtapositions of sounds and electronic effects previously unheard outside the more freakish fringes of the avant garde, in the process helping to justify pop music’s claims to be something more than a cellarful of noise. But perhaps most important was his capacity for making his clients raise their game to levels they themselves hadn’t believed possible.

Martin sensed that it was more a matter of psychology than technology. “I realised I had the ability to get the best out of people,” he reflected. “A producer has to get inside the person. Each artist is very different, and there’s a lot of psychology in it.”

https://theguardian.com/music/video/2016/mar/09/beatles-producer-sir-george-martin-has-died-aged-90-video-obituary
Beatles producer Sir George Martin has died aged 90 – video obituary

After his groundbreaking work with the Beatles, Martin had earned his ticket to ride, and he worked with a spectrum of luminaries including Jeff Beck, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, America, Jimmy Webb, Kenny Rogers, Ultravox and Elton John. He produced Shirley Bassey’s theme song for the Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), and composed the score for a further Bond, Live and Let Die (1973), as well as producing its title song, which was performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.

Before rock’n’roll transformed his career, he had already been well known for his work with jazz and popular musicians such as Stan Getz, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Judy Garland, but what especially endeared him to the Beatles was his track record of producing comedy albums, particularly with the Goons and Peter Sellers. John Lennon and George Harrison were aficionados of Goon-humour, and they swiftly struck up a close rapport with Martin.

It has long been a part of Beatle mythology that Martin was the debonair toff who transformed the fortunes of four leather-clad scruffs from Liverpool, but the truth was not so cut and dried. “It’s a load of poppycock really, because our backgrounds were very similar,” Martin argued. “Paul and John went to quite good schools. I went to elementary school, and I went to Jesuit college. We didn’t pay to go to school, my parents were very poor. I wasn’t taught music and they weren’t, we taught ourselves.”
George Martin with the Beatles at Abbey Road.


George Martin with the Beatles at Abbey Road. Photograph: BBC/ Apple Corps Ltd/BBC

Born in Holloway, north London, George was the son of Henry, a carpenter, and Bertha (nee Simpson), a cleaner, and studied at St Ignatius college, Stamford Hill, and Bromley county school, in south-east London. Having taught himself to play the piano, he was running his own dance band at school by the time he was 16.

By way of second world war service, in 1944 Martin joined the Fleet Air Arm. He flew as an observer and achieved the rank of sub-lieutenant. It was there that he acquired the patina of patrician lordliness that would become his trademark, an effect intensified by his aquiline profile topped by a swept-back mane of hair. No wonder the acerbic John Lennon referred to him as “Biggles”. Paul McCartney commented: “He’d dealt with navigators and pilots. He could deal with us when we got out of line.”

After being demobbed in 1947, Martin studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, for three years, specialising in composition and orchestration. In 1950 he joined Parlophone Records, part of the EMI group of companies, and in 1955 was made head of the label. But it was not until 1962 that Martin was approached by the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, who, having had his group rejected by Phillips, Decca and Pye, was anxious to find a pair of sympathetic ears in the London-based record business.

Epstein almost failed to get anywhere with Martin as well, since the Parlophone boss considered that the Beatles’ demo tape “wasn’t very good... in fact it was awful”. But Martin recognised that the group had ambition and charisma, and once drummer Pete Best had been replaced by Ringo Starr, he could see that that the necessary ingredients were in place.

Nevertheless, even Martin had not foreseen the extraordinary blossoming of the songwriting talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Having started out writing shoddy, derivative tunes, they suddenly began churning out a goldmine of great pop songs, from I Want to Hold Your Hand and A Hard Day’s Night to Strawberry Fields Forever and Back in the USSR. Under Martin’s guidance, for the rest of the decade the band made advances in writing, arrangement and use of technology that transformed pop music. Strawberry Fields, in particular, is often cited by contemporary producers as a revolutionary achievement.

Though he will always be chiefly remembered for his Beatles work, Martin had numerous other achievements to his credit. Perhaps frustrated by being tied to the terms of his employment contract with EMI, in 1965 he formed his own independent production company, Associated Independent Recordings (AIR), which lent its name to the AIR studio complex on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in the decade till it was forced to close after a hurricane in 1989, and more recently to AIR studios in Hampstead, north London.

Besides being in steady demand as a producer, Martin participated in a TV documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Sgt Pepper album in 1987, and in 1993 published a book, Summer of Love – The Making of Sgt Pepper. He examined various aspects of music-making in the BBC TV series The Rhythm of Life (1997) and in his books All You Need Is Ears (1979) and Making Music (1983), and produced the Beatles Anthology double-CD sets in the 1990s. He was knighted in 1996, and in the following year produced Elton John’s reworking of Candle in the Wind, in memory of Princess Diana. It became the bestselling single of all time.

In 1998, he masterminded his own musical swansong with In My Life, an album of Beatles songs performed by an all-star assortment of actors and musicians including Sean Connery, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Celine Dion and Phil Collins. “I’ve had a bloody good innings,” said Martin. “Knowing that I would have to finish, I decided I would make my own last record. It’s a kind of tribute, too, to all the people that I’ve been lucky to work with over the years.”

However, there was still more to come. The six-CD set entitled Produced By George Martin: 50 Years in Recording (2001) was a survey of his entire studio career, and and it was followed by Martin’s illustrated memoir, Playback (2002). George and his son Giles were music directors of the Cirque du Soleil show Love (2006), a theatrical interpretation of the Beatles’ work featuring 80 minutes of their music remixed by the two Martins and staged in Las Vegas. In 2011 the BBC2 series Arena aired a 90-minute documentary, also called Produced By George Martin, tracing his life and career, with contributions from many of the artists he had worked with.

In 1948 he married Sheena Chisholm, with whom he had two children, Alexis and Gregory. That marriage ended in divorce, and in 1966 he married Judy Lockhart Smith, with whom he had two further children, Lucy and Giles. He is survived by Judy and his children.

• George Henry Martin, record producer, born 3 January 1926; died 9 March 2016

This article was amended on 10 March. The TV documentary from 1987 on the making of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked its 20th anniversary rather than its 25th.
Note: His death is recorded as 8 March, vice 9.

George Martin (I) (1926–2016)

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Filmography

Music department (31 credits)

2006 Live and Let Die: Conceptual Art (Video documentary short) (music)
2005 Yoshiki Symphonic Concert 2002 with Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra Featuring Violet UK (Video documentary) (music arranger)

1999 Live and Let Die: On Set with Roger Moore (Video short) (music)
1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (incidental score) / (orchestrator)

1989 The Prince's Trust Rock Gala (TV Special) (musical director)
1985 Rupert and the Frog Song (Short) (music arranger)
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street (music arranger) / (musical director) / (orchestrator)

1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (conductor) / (music arranger) / (musical director) / (original soundtrack album produced by)
1972 Pulp (conductor)
1970 Tales of Unease (TV Series) (composer - 6 episodes)
- The Old Banger (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Bad Bad Jo Jo (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Superstitious Ignorance (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- The Black Goddess (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Calculated Nightmare (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Ride, Ride (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)

1969 The Beatles: Something (Video short) (record producer)
1969 The Beatles: Get Back (Video short) (record producer)
1969 The Beatles: Don't Let Me Down (Video short) (record producer)
1968 The Beatles: Hey Jude (Video short) (record producer)
1968 Frost on Sunday (TV Series) (composer: theme "By George! It's the David Frost Theme")
1968 Yellow Submarine (musical director)
1967 The Beatles: A Day in the Life (Video short) (record producer)
1967 The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (Video short) (record producer)
1967 Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie) (music producer - uncredited)
1967 The Beatles: Hello, Goodbye (Video short) (record producer)
1967 The Beatles: Penny Lane (Video short) (record producer)
1966 The Beatles: Rain (Video short) (record producer)
1966 The Family Way (music adaptor - uncredited) / (music arranger) / (music supervisor)
1966 Cilla at the Savoy (TV Special) (orchestra)
1966 The Beatles: Paperback Writer (Video short) (record producer)
1965 The Beatles: We Can Work it Out (Video short) (record producer)
1965 Help! (music producer - uncredited)
1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey (musical director)
1964 A Hard Day's Night (composer: incidental music - uncredited) / (music arranger - uncredited) / (music producer - uncredited) / (musical director) / (performer: "This Boy: Ringo's Theme" - uncredited)
1963 Calculated Risk (music director)
1963 Take Me Over (arranger and conductor)

Soundtrack (31 credits)

2017/I My Generation (Documentary) (producer: "Strawberry Fields Forever")
2017 The Big Catch (TV Series) (producer: "A Hard Day's Night")
2016 Good Girls Revolt (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Puff Piece (2016) ... (performer: "My Baby Loves Me" - uncredited)
2016 Storm Chasing: The Anthology (Documentary) ("Elephants and Castles")
2016 Morfi, todos a la mesa (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 5 April 2016 (2016) ... (producer: "All You Need Is Love")
2016 Hola y adiós (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.11 (2016) ... (producer: "Blackbird")
2016 The Walking Dead: Michonne (Video Game) (writer: "Gun in my Hand")
2015/I Aloha (performer: "Pepperland") / (writer: "Pepperland")
2014 Tu cara me suena - Argentina (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.8 (2014) ... (producer: "Yesterday", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!")

2008 Frost/Nixon (writer: "By George It's David Frost" - as George Henry Martin)
2007 Across the Universe (performer: "A Day In The Life")
2003 The Alchemists of Sound (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Time Beat" - as Ray Cathode) / (writer: "Waltz in Orbit")

1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (arranger: "Tropic Island Hum")
1997 The Rhythm of Life (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Melody (1997) ... ("God Only Knows", uncredited) / (performer: "All By Myself" - uncredited)
1995 The Beatles Anthology (TV Mini-Series documentary) (writer: "Love in the Open Air", "By George! It's The David Frost Theme")
1994 EarthBound (Video Game) (arranger: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)
1991 Ai monogatari (TV Mini-Series) (producer: "I Want to Hold Your Hand")

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway (writer: "Ticlaw Anthem", "Love Keeps Bringing Me Down")
1980 Roadie (producer: "Everything Works If You Let It")

1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (producer: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Fixing A Hole", "Getting Better", "Here Comes The Sun", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Reprise), "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Finale))
1978 Ringo (TV Movie) (arranger: "Yellow Submarine in Pepperland" (instrumental))
1975 Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death ("Trespassers Will Be Eaten")
1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) (music: "Mister Jerico")

1969 The Southern Star (arranger: "The Southern Star")
1967 The Bobo ("Girl from Barcelona", "The Bulls of Salamanca")
1966 The Family Way (performer: "Love In The Open Air" (main theme) - uncredited)
1966 Alfie (producer: "Alfie")
1962 Crooks Anonymous (music: "I Must Resist Temptation" - uncredited)
1961 V.D. (performer: "Lovers Blues") / (writer: "Lovers Blues")
1961 I Like Money (music: "I Like Money")

1956 Smiley (producer: "Smiley")

Composer (10 credits)

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway

1973 The Optimists of Nine Elms
1973 Live and Let Die (music score)
1972 Pulp

1969 With a Little Help from my Friends (TV Special) (music by)
1966 The Family Way (uncredited)
1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey
1963 Calculated Risk
1963 Take Me Over
1962 Crooks Anonymous

Actor (2 credits)

2017 MIRA Protocol (Short) - Esteban

1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street - Producer

Producer (2 credits)

2002 Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill... - A Live Tribute (TV Movie) (event producer - as Sir George Martin)

1997 Music for Montserrat (TV Special documentary) (producer)

1962: In a letter to Geoffrey Boothroyd, Ian Fleming sends greetings. "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."

The strange tale of the man who armed James Bond

https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731
Published: 23:58

THE expert behind the guns used by James Bond has been revealed as a Glaswegian whose world-class knowledge of firearms earned him the role of the Armourer in the 007 books.

Geoffrey Boothroyd, who worked for ICI in Glasgow, wrote to the author Ian Fleming shortly after reading Casino Royale in 1956, pointing out that the gun Bond used, a .25 Beretta, was inappropriate for the character.

The strength of his argument persuaded Fleming not only to incorporate his suggestions, but also to adopt Boothroyd as a paid adviser on arms-related matters in the Bond novels.

Fleming used Boothroyd’s persona as the Armourer in Dr No, describing him as Major Boothroyd, "a short slim man with sandy hair" with "very wide apart, clear, grey eyes that never seemed to flicker".

The character of Boothroyd makes a dramatic entry in Dr No: "M bent forward to the intercom. ‘Is the Armourer there? Send him in.’ M sat back. ‘You may not know it, 007, but Major Boothroyd’s the greatest small-arms expert in the world." Not surprisingly, the major had a rather acerbic view of Bond’s Beretta. When asked as to its use, Boothroyd replied in a clipped manner: "Ladies’ gun, sir."

Correspondence between Fleming and Boothroyd, which is to go under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions, the London specialist saleroom for books and manuscripts, reveal how far the author took on board the latter’s technical advice. Fleming frequently asked Boothroyd for more information on weapons and even borrowed his Smith & Wesson to be painted by Richard Chopping for the dust-jacket of From Russia with Love.

Academics and archivists hope the correspondence will not be broken up but kept together and deposited in a library where scholars can use it. Bloomsbury is to offer it as one lot with a pre-sale estimate of 15,000-20,000.

The collection of 30 previously unknown letters, written between 31 May, 1956, and 30 September, 1963, demonstrate Fleming’s passion for guns and attention to detail, coupled with Boothroyd’s intense knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject.

From that first letter on, Bond was never without the correct firearm and his enemies were suitably equipped in return.

Potential problems over legally holding guns arise in the letters. Fleming assures Boothroyd that, as the Deputy Commissioner of Scotland Yard is "a close personal friend, we should have no complications over firearms certificates."

The two men’s dry sense of humour often comes through in the correspondence. In a letter dated 3 January, 1962, Fleming writes: "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."

Boothroyd was paid for his technical advice. In a letter to him, Fleming wrote: "I propose to pay you 25 per cent of all revenue I get from this piece and I suggest we needn’t draw up any legal contracts as my secretary, Miss Griffie-Williams, is an extremely honest person and will see that you get your due!" Fleming even signed himself in 1962 as "Comptroller of the Boothroyd Privy Purse".

Boothroyd, who was born in Lancashire but lived in Glasgow from the age of three, became one of the greatest authorities on the history and development of the sporting gun and was a regular contributor to the Shooting Times. He wrote several books, including A Guide to Guns in 1961 and The Handgun in 1988. He died in 2001. Stagecoach chief executive Martin Griffiths.

A series of first edition 007 books from Boothroyd’s library are also to be sold by Bloomsbury. Fleming signed very few books and, consequently, there is a large premium for signed and presentation copies. As Boothroyd played such a key role in shaping the character of Bond, two of the books are likely to fetch new world records.

A copy of From Russia with Love is dedicated by Fleming "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - herewith appointed Armourer to J. Bond from Ian Fleming." The inscription in Dr No reads, "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - alias The Armourer from Ian Fleming". Each is expected to make up to 5,000.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731

1972: 007 - Os Diamantes São Eternos released in Brazil.

1988: Joie Chitwood dies at age 75--Tampa, Florida. (Born 14 April 1912--Denison, Texas.)

Joie Chitwood
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Joie Chitwood

Born April 14, 1912 | Denison, Texas
Died January 3, 1988 (aged 75) | Tampa Bay, Florida
Formula One World Championship career

Nationality United States American
Active years 1950
Teams Kurtis Kraft
...
First entry 1950 Indianapolis 500
Last entry 1950 Indianapolis 500

George Rice Chitwood (April 14, 1912 – January 3, 1988), nicknamed "Joie", was an American racecar driver and businessman. He is best known as a daredevil in the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show.

Born in Denison, Texas of Cherokee Indian ancestry, he was dubbed "Joie" by a track promoter and the name stuck.

Racing career
Chitwood started his racecar driving career in 1934 at a dirt track in Winfield, Kansas. From there, he began racing sprint cars. In 1939 and 1940 he won the AAA East Coast Sprint car championship. He switched to the CSRA and won its title in 1942.[1] Between 1940 and 1950 he competed at the Indianapolis 500 seven times, finishing fifth on three different occasions. He was the first man ever to wear a safety belt at the Indy 500.

Joie Chitwood Thrill Show
Chitwood also operated the "Joie Chitwood Thrill Show", an exhibition of auto stunt driving that became so successful he gave up racing. Often called "Hell Drivers," he had five units that for more than forty years toured across North America thrilling audiences in large and small towns alike with their death-defying automobile stunts.

His show was so popular, that in January 1967, the performance at the Islip Speedway, New York was broadcast on ABC television's Wide World of Sports.

On May 13, 1978, Joie Chitwood Jr.(b. Aug. 31, 1943) set a world record when he drove a Chevrolet Chevette for 5.6 miles (9.0 km) on just 2 wheels. His sons, Joie Jr. and Tim both joined the auto thrill show and continued to run the "Joie Chitwood Chevy Thunder Show" after their father's retirement. The Chitwood show toured the US from 1945-98. His grandson, Joie Chitwood III, is the President of Daytona International Speedway and a former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The show was featured during season 3 of CHiPs in an episode entitled "Thrill Show". Joie Jr. did stunts for Miami Vice on several occasions. Joie Jr. (b. 1943) also appeared as a guest challenger on the TV game show To Tell The Truth. Joie Jr. worked in over 60 feature films and national commercials.

Chitwood's show was credited by Evel Knievel as being his inspiration to become a daredevil when his show appeared in his home town of Butte, Montana.

Stuntman
Chitwood was frequently hired by Hollywood film studios to either do stunt driving for films or to act as auto-stunt coordinator. On a few occasions he appeared in a minor role, notably with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1950 film about auto racing, To Please a Lady.

In 1973, Joie Chitwood Jr. is credited as a Stunt Coordinator for the hugely successful James Bond film Live and Let Die, where he was also the stunt driver and acted in a minor part.

Safety Consultant
Joie Chitwood Jr. also acted as a car safety consultant, intentionally crashing vehicles for subsequent investigation. He had intentionally crashed more than 3000 vehicles by the time he appeared on the game show I've Got A Secret in 1965. Joie Jr. and Joie Sr. test-crashed guardrails and breakaway Interstate signs for US Steel and aluminum light poles for ALCOA. The highways are safer today because of these tests.

Retirement
When Chitwood retired, his sons took over the business. Joie Chitwood died in 1988, aged 75, in Tampa Bay, Florida.

He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993. He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2010 in the Historic category. Among his contributions to the sport was the supervision of the construction of Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway in 1945.

Joie Chitwood (I) (1912–1988)

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Filmography

[bStunts[/b] (5 credits)

1983 Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (stunts - as Joie Chitwood Sr.)
1980 Phobia (stunts)

1978 Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (TV Movie) (stunts)
1977 Stunts (ski car and special stunt driving)
1976 A Small Town in Texas (stunts)

Actor (4 credits)

1980 CHiPs (TV Series) - Joie Chitwood
- Thrill Show (1980) ... Joie Chitwood (as Joie Chitwood Jr.)
1978 Mr. No Legs
1973 Live and Let Die - Charlie

1968 Fireball Jungle (uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

1963 To Tell the Truth (TV Series) - Himself - Contestant
- Episode dated 11 March 1963 (1963) ... Himself - Contestant

2003: "Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film", so reports The Associated Press and multiple news outlets.

Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Two-Koreas-Blast-New-James-Bond-Film-7720206.php
SOO-JEONG LEE Published 6:00 pm CST, Thursday, January 2, 2003
Associated Press Writer

Some in South Korea are complaining that the latest James Bond movie unfairly depicts their communist neighbor to the north as a diabolically evil regime.

"Die Another Day" attracted crowds at its Seoul premiere on New Year's Eve. But in recent days some moviegoers have been siding with the communist North in condemning the film despite the nuclear standoff that has increased tensions between the nations.

"I don't want to see a movie where North Korea is depicted as a menace to peace on the Korean Peninsula and the United States is depicted as a hero that resolves the crisis," said Jin-young Park, a 22-year-old university student waiting for a different picture Friday. "It's really getting old."

In the movie, Bond is sent to North Korea to investigate a rogue communist officer who is planning an invasion of South Korea. The British spy is caught, imprisoned and subjected to extreme torture.

Later, the rogue North Korean officer uses a satellite-based laser to burn a swath through the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas. His plot is foiled by Bond and an American agent.

"I initially wanted to see the movie, but I decided not to because I heard some stuff from the media that the film is critical of North Korea and so I changed my mind," said Yi Hye-mi, a university student in Seoul.

On Friday, a South Korean civic group announced plans to boycott the film, which stars Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Critics say it's demeaning and distorts the situation between the two nations, which have been divided by a demilitarized zone since the Korean War of 1950-1953.

North Korea criticized the movie when it opened last year, calling it an example of the "corrupt sex culture," in the United States.

Despite calls for a boycott, however, many are still lining up for the movie.

"I want to see the movie just to see what the critics are complaining about," Lee Se-young, 27, said after buying his ticket.

Protests of the time.

2006: Casino Royale principle photography commences.
2006: Quantum of Solace main unit filming kicks off at Pinewood (originally schedule 10 December 2007).

2016: The Independent reports that Christoph Waltz is signed for two more Bond films. As long as Craig returns.

Christoph Waltz will appear in two
more James Bond films as long as
Daniel Craig returns as 007
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christoph-waltz-will-appear-in-two-more-james-bond-films-as-long-as-daniel-craig-returns-as-007-a6794351.html
'Christoph could make a brilliant ongoing man for Bond to battle like in the old days'
Jack Shepherd - @JackJShepherd - Sunday 3 January 2016 10:03


Christoph Waltz makes his debut as Franz Oberhauser ( Spectre )

Christoph Waltz's appearance in the latest James Bond film was originally surrounded in mystery, with many wondering if the actor was playing the evil genius Blofeld.

On Spectre’s release, it was revealed that he was indeed the iconic villain, the film ending with Waltz’s character having been defeated by Bond and captured by the police.

Many expect the 59-year-old to return to the series to reprise the role, with it now being revealed he has signed on for two more films - but with a catch.

The Inglourious Basterds actor will only return if Daniel Craig returns as the titular MI6 agent.

2019: Planned production start date for BOND 25 with director Danny Boyle. 25 October release date, same year.
(Update: changed to a March production start; director Cary Fukunaga; 14 February 2020 release date. Then April 2020 release dates.)

RichardTheBruce

January 4th

1900: Ornithologist James Bond is born--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(He dies 14 February 1989 at age 89--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

January 4 — James Bond Born (1900)

http://todayinconservation.com/2018/01/january-4-james-bond-born-1900/
January 3, 2018

“Bond. James Bond.” Those words are now immortal among the fans of Ian Fleming’s super-spy. James Bond has been played by Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Daniel Craig and a number of others. But who was the real James Bond? Not a spy, not a dapper man-about-town. No, the real James Bond was an ornithologist.

James Bond was born on January 4, 1900, in Philadelphia (died in 1989). He later moved to England with his father and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Returning to Philadelphia, he soon gave up a career in banking to focus on his first love—natural history. He followed in his father’s footsteps by sailing on a collecting expedition to the lower Amazon River in 1925 on behalf of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Now completely hooked, he became a volunteer curator there—one of “the last of a traditional museum breed, the independently wealthy, non-salaried curator, who lacked advanced university degrees.”



Bond was intrigued especially with the bird fauna of the Caribbean. He explored more than 100 Caribbean islands during his career. His most influential work is the definitive guide to the birds of the region, first published in 1936 as The Birds of the West Indies. Bond is credited with discovering that the birds of the Caribbean are related to those of North America, not South America, as had been previously assumed. He also published books about the birds of Maine and Bolivia, along with dozens of other scientific papers. Bond received many honors and awards for his work, including the Brewster Medal in 1954, the highest honor of the American Ornithologists’ Union.

But it was The Birds of the West Indies that earned him fame as the namesake for the world’s favorite spy. Ian Fleming, the creator of the fictional James Bond, spent months at a time at his Jamaican home (Goldeneye) and was an amateur bird-watcher. When he was writing his first spy novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, he was casting around for a name for the hero that would be unremarkable. Fleming later wrote:

“I was determined that my secret agent should be as anonymous as possible….At that time one of my bibles was, and still is, Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, and it struck me that this name, brief, unromantic and yet very masculine, was just what I needed and so James Bond II was born…”

The real James Bond—JB authenticus, as his wife referred to him—wasn’t amused by the appropriation of his name. He never played up the connection, even when offered $100 to land in a helicopter on the roof of a movie theater. Ian Fleming appreciated the couple, however, and, at their only meeting, gave them a pre-publication copy of his novel, You Only Live Twice, inscribed “To the real James Bond, from the Thief of his identity, Ian Fleming, Feb. 5, 1964—a great day!” That book sold recently at auction for $84,000.

Next time you watch the Bond film, Die Another Day, pay attention to the early scenes. As usual, Bond is pretending to be something other than a spy. This time, he claims to be an ornithologist and holds a copy of The Birds of the West Indies.

References:

Blakely, Julia. 2016. Bond, James Bond: The birds, the books, the bond. Unbound, blog of the Smithsonian Libraries. Available at: https://blog.library.si.edu/2016/06/bond-james-bond-birds-books-bond/#.WG0aeVMrKpp . Accessed January 3, 2017.

New York Times. 1989. James Bond, ornithologist, 89; Fleming adopted name for 007. New York Times, February 17, 1989. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/17/obituaries/james-bond-ornithologist-89-fleming-adopted-name-for-007.html. Accessed January 3, 2017.

Parkes, Kenneth C. 1989. In memoriam: James Bond. The Auk, 106:718-720. Available at: http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v106n04/p0718-p0720.pdf. Accessed January 3, 2017.

1962: Michael France is born--St. Petersburg, Florida.
(He dies 12 April 2013 at age 51--St. Pete Beach, Florida.)

Michael France, screenwriter and
Beach Theatre owner, dies
https://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/michael-france-screenwriter-and-beach-theatre-owner-dies/2115065
The screenwriter was one of the region's most successful movie industry figures.
By Steve Persall | Published April 14 2013
Updated April 14 2013



ST. PETE BEACH — Hollywood screenwriter and Beach Theatre owner Michael France was discovered dead at his St. Pete Beach home Friday morning after an extended illness, his sister said. He was 51.

In recent years Mr. France struggled with diabetes that impaired his left arm and right leg. Nine months ago he was found comatose at his residence by his sister, who also discovered his body Friday.

"He didn't look that bad on Thursday night," his sister, Suzanne France said when contacted at home Saturday. "He was sick, but I didn't think he was as bad as he was the last time or I would have just called an ambulance.

"He was sitting up, he had good color, he was making jokes. Just sitting there on the couch with his dog."

Suzanne France, who lives only a few houses away, took over soup and zero-calorie soft drinks Thursday, leaving her brother around 8:30 p.m. The two swapped text messages for another couple of hours, about Mr. France's nausea and groceries she would pick up for him Friday morning.

Around 10 a.m. Mr. France hadn't responded to text messages from Suzanne or their mother. Using a key she kept as a precaution, Suzanne entered his home to check on him.

"I went in, and I thought maybe he was just unconscious so I called 911," she said, sobbing. "They had me doing chest compressions on him but by the time the ambulance got there it was too late."

Mr. France was one of Tampa Bay's most successful movie industry figures, starting with his screenplay for 1993's Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone. That was followed two years later with a story credit for GoldenEye, reinvigorating the James Bond franchise with Pierce Brosnan. Mr. France also did uncredited work on the script for another 007 adventure, The World is Not Enough.

His final three produced screenplays were among the first Marvel Comics adaptations to the screen: Oscar winning director Ang Lee's 2003 version of Hulk, Fantastic Four (2005) and a co-writing credit on The Punisher (2004), filmed around Tampa Bay.

Last month at the Gasparilla International Film Festival, Mr. France presented a career achievement award to The Punisher star Thomas Jane, celebrating the movie's 10th anniversary of its local filming. Before the presentation, Mr. France and Jane met for the first time on the red carpet in Ybor City — not uncommon in a business where screenwriters generally aren't involved much when shooting begins.

In 2007, Mr. France purchased St. Pete Beach's landmark Beach Theatre for $800,000 cash, prolonging the survival of a decades-old, single-screen venue where he watched movies as a child. For five years, he presented classic, independent and foreign films generally unavailable at multiplexes, along with current hits to "pay the bills," as he often said. Eventually the bills couldn't be paid.

Beach Theatre closed its doors to business in November, 2012, after Mr. France claimed attendance had declined and efforts failed to obtain not-for-profit status that would reduce tax liabilities. Mr. France also faced the necessity to convert the theater's projection system to an expensive digital format, in order to continue showing new releases as Hollywood phases out film distribution.

Around the same time, Mr. France was sued by local small-business owner Brenton Clemons, who alleged he defaulted on a loan with the theater used as collateral. That case is still pending, as are divorce proceedings between Mr. France and his wife Elizabeth that he told the Times thwarted his bid for not-for-profit status.

"He wanted to reopen the theater, wanted to start writing again," Suzanne France said. "Obviously he didn't think he was as sick as he was. I have seen him at his sickest, and I did not see anything that indicated in any way that he would die in his sleep.

"Obviously nobody knows what's going to happen now."

Suzanne France called her brother "my best, my closest friend," especially after the death years ago of their younger brother Andrew, from hypothermia while attempting to rescue a friend from drowning.

"Mike was an extraordinary friend. He was kind. He was hilarious, and he was so good with my son," she said. "They used to watch the same kind of (television) shows because I'm such a wimp that I couldn't watch them: The Walking Dead and that one with the guy from Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston. (Breaking Bad)."

Suzanne France said her brother hadn't changed much from the boy who used to keep comic books stacked floor-to-ceiling in his room.

"If you went into his house... there's a giant Hulk toy and remember Lost in Space? He had the 'Danger, Will Robinson' robot. That's what is sitting around. Everybody else would have coffee table books; he had movie posters and the Lost in Space robot.

"Mike was a big kid. A big, intelligent kid."

Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Steve Persall can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8365. Follow him @StevePersall or Twitter.

Michael France (I) (1962–2013)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289833/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

Filmography

Writer (7 credits)

2005/I Fantastic Four (written by)
2004 The Punisher (Video Game) (based on the film written by - uncredited)
2004 The Punisher (written by)
2003 Hulk (screenplay)

1997 GoldenEye 007 (Video Game) (story, characters and earlier screenplay - uncredited)
1995 GoldenEye (story)
1993 Cliffhanger (screen story) / (screenplay)

Trivia

Produced a James Bond fan magazine as a youngster in the early 1970s.

France's favorite Punisher comic writer is Chuck Dixon. France told Comicbook Resources, "Chuck's comics had the best crime story tone of them all - they were larger than life, they had huge stylized action, but they still felt realistic. I had to use a hilarious bit of his from one of the comics - the scene where Frank threatens to blowtorch some information out of a crook is straight out of an old 'War Journal.'"

When preparing to write GoldenEye, he toured Russian airbases, a mob casino named "Casino Royale", and KGB facilities around Red Square.

Though uncredited on The World Is Not Enough, he wrote the first versions of key sequences, including the buzzsaw helicopter attack and the battle in the nuclear disarmament plant at Kazakhstan.

On the Hulk movie, he was hired twice. The first time he was replaced before he began when the studio decided to hire Jonathan Hensleigh to write and to make his directorial debut. When Hensleigh's version collapsed, France was hired to bring the movie back on track. (Ironically, Hensleigh later made his directorial debut with another France screenplay based on a Marvel character, "The Punisher".)

Although he may be best known for adapting Marvel characters, he has also worked with Marvel comics guru Stan Lee to create new characters for film and television.

1973: Live and Let Die films OO7 meeting Solitaire at the Fillet of Soul.

1990: John Cleese spoofs James Bond in a Schweppes soft drinks commercial.

1991: Richard Maibaum dies, age 81--Santa Monica, California.
(Born 26 May 1909--New York City, New York.)

Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/09/obituaries/richard-maibaum-screenwriter-for-james-bond-films-dies-at-81.html
By ELEANOR BLAU | JAN. 9, 1991

Richard Maibaum, who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for a dozen James Bond films, died on Friday at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 81 years old and lived in Los Angeles.

He died of a heart attack, The Associated Press reported.

Early in the James Bond series, Mr. Maibaum remarked that the hugely popular movies about British secret agent 007 were really parodies of the Ian Fleming novels on which they were based.

A Sleuth With Humor

In an article he wrote after the first three adaptations, "Dr. No" (1963), "From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger" (both 1964), he said that the movie character James Bond, played by Sean Connery, retained Mr. Fleming's image of a "super sleuth, super fighter, super hedonist, super lover," but that the film makers "added another large dimension: humor."

"Humor vocalized in wry comments at critical moments," he said. "In the books, Bond was singularly lacking in this."

Mr. Maibaum started his career as a playwright and actor. He was born in New York, attended New York University and then studied dramatic art the University of Iowa, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees and wrote plays, one of which, "The Tree," an anti-lynching play, was produced on Broadway.

Returning to New York, he acted with the Shakespearean Repertory Theater in 1933, and wrote two more plays for Broadway, "Birthright," an anti-Nazi drama, and "Sweet Mystery of Life," a comedy. He then got a contract as a writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. While there, he wrote another play, "See My Lawyer," which was produced in New York by George Abbott and which starred Milton Berle. Invited by Producer

Mr. Maibaum worked with film while serving in the Army during World War II, then became a writer and producer for Paramount from 1945 to 1951. He moved to England in the 1950's to work for the producer Albert Broccoli's Warwick Films, returned to the United States and wrote for television, then was invited by Mr. Broccoli to write the first Bond movie.

He wound up writing most of them, including "Thunderball," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Octopussy," "For Your Eyes Only," "The Living Daylights" and "Licence to Kill."

He is survived by his wife, Sylvia; two sons, Matthew and Paul, of Los Angeles; a sister, Gladys Gould of Washington, and a granddaughter.

A version of this obituary appears in print on January 9, 1991, on Page D00021 of the National edition with the headline: Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

Richard Maibaum (1909–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537363/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Writer (52 credits)

1996 Ransom (story)
1991 James Bond Jr. (TV Series) (character Jaws - uncredited)

1989 Licence to Kill (written by)
1987 The Living Daylights (screenplay)
1985 A View to a Kill (screenplay)
1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (screenplay)
1980 S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert

1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (screenplay)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (screenplay)
1973 Jarrett (TV Movie)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (screenplay)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (screenplay)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (additional dialogue)
1965 Thunderball (screenplay)
1964 Goldfinger (screenplay)
1963 From Russia with Love (screenplay)
1963 Combat! (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Medal (1963) ... (writer)
1962 Dr. No (screenplay)
1961 Battle at Bloody Beach (screenplay) / (story)
1960 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (adaptation)

1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro (story)
1959 The Bandit of Zhobe (story)
1958 The Man Inside (uncredited)
Wagon Train (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1958) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
- The John Wilbot Story (1958) ... (writer)
- The Bernal Sierra Story (1958) ... (teleplay)
1958 Tank Force (written by)
1956 Zarak
1956 Bigger Than Life (story and screenplay)
1956 Ransom! (screenplay)
1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (screenplay)
1954-1955 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Fearful Decision (1955) ... (writer)
- Fearful Decision (1954) ... (writer)
1954 Hell Below Zero (adaptation)
1953 Paratrooper (screenplay)

1949 Song of Surrender (screenplay)
1949 The Great Gatsby (writer)
1946 O.S.S. (written by)
1945 See My Lawyer (play)
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1941 Hold Back the Dawn (contributor to screenplay construction - uncredited)
1941 I Wanted Wings (screenplay)
1940 Foreign Correspondent (uncredited)
1940 20 Mule Team
1940 The Ghost Comes Home (screen play)

1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams (screenplay)
1939 Coast Guard (original screenplay)
1939 The Lady and the Mob (screen play)
1938 Stablemates (writer)
1937 The Bad Man of Brimstone (screenplay)
1937 Live, Love and Learn (screenplay)
1937 They Gave Him a Gun
1936 Gold Diggers of 1937 (based on the play by: "Sweet Mystery of Life")
1936 We Went to College (screen play)

Producer (14 credits)

1973 Jarrett (TV Movie) (producer)

1963 Combat! (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- No Time for Pity (1963) ... (producer)
1961 Battle at Bloody Beach (producer)
1960 Maisie (TV Movie) (executive producer)

1958-1959 The Thin Man (TV Series) (executive producer - 35 episodes)
1950 No Man of Her Own (producer)

1949 Captain Carey, U.S.A. (producer)
1949 Dear Wife (producer)
1949 Song of Surrender (producer)
1949 The Great Gatsby (producer)
1949 Bride of Vengeance (producer)
1948 The Sainted Sisters (producer)
1948 The Big Clock (producer)
1946 O.S.S. (producer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1956 Zarak (associate director - uncredited)

1949 The Great Gatsby (second unit director)

Self (4 credits)

2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) - Himself
- OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... Himself

Archive footage (6 credits)

2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself

1996: GoldenEye released in the Philippines.
1996: Zlaté oko (The Golden Eye) released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Video marketing.


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1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the Philippines.

2000: The World Is Not enough released in the Philippines.
2007: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Double or Die in paperback.

2013: Activision and Steam remove online copies and pages for Quantum of Solace, Blood Stone, 007 Legends.

RichardTheBruce

January 5th

1945: Roger Spottiswoode is born--Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

1970: 007 - A Serviço Secreto de Sua Majestade (007 - To Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Brazil.

1975: 007 Contra o Homem com a Pistola de Ouro (007 Against the Man with the Golden Gun) released in Brazil.

Video marketing.

1984: Sir Richard Joseph Hughes CBE dies at age 77--Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong.
(Born 5 March 1906--Prahran, Melbourne, Australia.)

Obituaries

RICHARD HUGHES, 77, IS DEAD; AUSTRALIAN COVERED THE WARS

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/05/obituaries/richard-hughes-77-is-dead-australian-covered-the-wars.html
By WILLIAM G. BLAIRJAN. 5, 1984
...

Richard Hughes, a Far East expert and flamboyant foreign and war correspondent for Australian and British publications for more than 40 years, died yesterday of a liver ailment in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. He was 77 years old and lived in Hong Kong.

Mr. Hughes, an Australian, covered the North African campaigns in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and was one of two Western journalists first summoned to meet the fugitive British spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, when they turned up in Moscow in 1956. The other journalist was from Reuters.

Based in Hong Kong since 1948, first for The Sunday Times of London and then, since 1973, for The Times of London, Mr. Hughes covered China and Southeast Asia for those publications and others, including The Economist, The Herald and Sun of Melbourne, The Far Eastern Economic Review and The New York Times, for which he wrote many Sunday magazine articles.

A Model for Novels

John le Carre used Mr. Hughes as the model for the fictional character Old Craw in his 1977 novel ''The Honourable Schoolboy,'' much of which is set in Hong Kong. The late Ian Fleming, at one time Mr. Hughes's foreign editor on The Sunday Times, portrayed Mr. Hughes as the fictional character Dikko Henderson in the 1964 James Bond novel ''You Only Live Twice.''

In ''The Honourable Schoolboy,'' Mr. le Carre wrote that Old Craw was ''the ancient mariner'' to other journalists. ''Craw had shaken more sand out of his shorts, they told each other, than most of them would walk over, and they were right,'' he wrote.

Robert M. Shaplen of The New Yorker, a former Hong Kong-based Far East correspondent for that magazine, recalled Mr. Hughes yesterday as a big, robust man with a dry wit. Mr. Hughes was ''a terrific storyteller, a raconteur with a raconteur's big laugh, a tremendous fund of knowledge and an incredible memory,'' Mr. Shaplen said.

Mr. Hughes's round, beneficent face and manner of quoting from the Bible won him the nicknames of ''monk,'' ''bishop'' and ''your grace'' among friends and colleagues.

Entertaining was his forte. He had an immense fund of stories frequently prefaced by the admonition, ''My son, you will take this little jest as an expression of my worldly experience.''

He Knew the Far East

Beneath his ribald jokes and careless, sometimes slovenly exterior was an intelligent and industrious reporter. He knew the Far East, as he would say, ''like the back of me hand.''

Richard Hughes was born in Melbourne on March 6, 1906. He left school there at the age of 14, trying his hand successively as a poster artist, shunter of railroad cars and public relations officer before joining The Star of Melbourne as a reporter in 1934.

He shifted to The Daily and Sunday Telegraph of Sydney in 1935 and quickly rose to principal assignment editor for both papers by 1939. He returned to reporting the next year as a foreign correspondent for the papers in Tokyo and Shanghai. After covering the war in North Africa in 1942-43, he returned to Sydney to serve first as acting editor of The Sunday Telegraph and then as a foreign correspondent again in Tokyo in 1945. He remained there for three years before moving to Hong Kong.

Mr. Hughes was the author or editor of four books, the best known of which was ''Hong Kong: Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time,'' published in 1968.

In 1980, as the widely respected dean of Asia's foreign press corps and its most colorful personality, Mr. Hughes was honored by Queen Elizabeth II, who named him a Commander of the British Empire.

Mr. Hughes is survived by his wife, Ann, daughter of a Chinese general, and a son by a previous marriage, Richard, of Sydney.

A version of this obituary appears in print on January 5, 1984, on Page B00013 of the National edition with the headline: RICHARD HUGHES, 77, IS DEAD; AUSTRALIAN COVERED THE WARS.

Conversation With Richard Hughes

https://www.timbowden.com.au/2012/01/28/conversation-with-richard-hughes/
By timbowden On January 28, 2012 · 1 Comment
CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD HUGHES | With Tim Bowden

Just before World War II Australians seemed unaware that they were geographically linked to Asia, and not simply ‘British to the bootstraps’ as Prime Minister Robert Menzies later put it. There were no Australian foreign correspondents working in Asia, and Richard Hughes (and colleagues like Denis Warner) were determined to redress this balance.


Hughes (against the wishes of his newspaper proprietor Frank Packer) went to Japan in 1940 to report from Tokyo on the growing threat of war, and returned in 1945 (still defying Packer who sacked him) to cover the Occupation under General Douglas Macarthur.

Hughes came late to journalism. He was 28 when he became a reporter on the Melbourne Star, having left school at 14 to become a boy shunter with the Victorian Railways, progressing to become the public relations assistant of Sir Harold Clapp, the head of Vic rail.

But he was always attracted to a good story, and tells hilarious tales of his time with the Victorian Railways, and indeed of his introduction to journalism in Melbourne. His achievements were legendary, but he quickly nominates his finding two of the ‘Cambridge spies’, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in Moscow in 1956, as his most memorable scoop.

Richard Hughes worked directly to Ian Fleming, his boss at the Sunday Times.

Hughes and Fleming during a tour of Southern Japan in 1959. They became good friends, and Fleming drew on Hughes’ character, writing him into his last James Bond book, as Dikko Henderson, head of Australian security in Japan. (Pictured in Japan in 1962.)

In the 1950s he began to work for the Sunday Times in London, directly to Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond books. Fleming made several trips to the Far East researching several books, and Richard Hughes (and Hughes’ Japanese friend ‘Tiger’ Saito) travelled with him.

Fleming included both men in his last Bond novel You Only Live Twice. Hughes was the model for Dikko Henderson, the head of Australian security in Japan.
As portraying a foreign correspondent as a spook is one of the worst insults to journalistic integrity that can be imagined, Hughes (tongue in cheek) threatened to sue Fleming, who responded by telling him to go right ahead, adding, ‘If you do, I’ll really write the truth about you Dikko.’

Richard Hughes in Laos in 1959 when he had his curious meeting with the Blind Bonze of Luang Prabang.

In 1975 I was lucky enough to record an extensive interview with Richard Hughes looking back at his remarkable life.
...

Richard Hughes, Ian Fleming in Japan

2006: Player One publishes a mobile game based on Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel SilverFin.

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

2006: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Blood Fever.

2007: 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

2010: Reports say Sam Mendes is connected with BOND 23. (MGM at the time denies he's signed as director. EON later confirms he was hired as a consultant until MGM worked out its financial issues.)
2015: Spectre films at Lake Altaussee.
2019: National Bird Day in the US.

BT3366

Curious a still from TB was stuck with the OHMSS ad above, which is very cool, BTW. I'm also wondering is that Luciana Paluzzi wearing Claudine Auger's costume or is that Claudine?

RichardTheBruce

I recall asking that myself, @BT3366. But I believe it's Claudine Auger. I couldn't find a clear example of Luciana Palucci wearing that one-piece.

RichardTheBruce

January 6th

1955: Rowan Atkinson is born--Consett, County Durham, England.

1966: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Colombia.

Not to be confused with

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Blofeld and Tracy exchanging verses from James Elroy Flecker's The Story of Hassan.

1972: Los diamantes son eternos (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Argentina.

https://www.archivo007.com/foros/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8468

1998: Sutra ne umire nikad (Tomorrow Is Not Dying Never) released in Serbia.

2012: Robert Wentworth John (Bob) Holness dies at age 83--Pinner, England.
(Born 12 November 1928-- Vryheid, South Africa.)

Bob Holness obituary
Modest quizmaster who achieved cult status at the helm of Blockbusters

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jan/06/bob-holness
Dennis Barker - Fri 6 Jan 2012 12.06 EST

Bob Holness in the Blockbusters studio in 1987. He always made a point of sympathising with contestants who lost. Photograph: ITV/Rex

Before television and radio quizmasters became increasingly raucous, clever-clever and sarcastic, Bob Holness, who has died aged 83, saw the role as that of a rewarder of knowledge rather than the ringmaster of a hysterical circus. Indeed, one of the worst mistakes one could make with Holness was to refer to any of the many quizzes he conducted as gameshows. In his unostentatious clothes, he resembled a jovial and thoughtful golfing companion rather than a smirking media man, and he always made a point of sympathising with contestants who lost.

Blockbusters, the TV quiz for 16- to 18-year-old contestants but aimed at a much wider audience, consolidated Holness's popularity and also gained him cult status. In the programme, he posed questions, the answers to which began with a letter of the alphabet that had been chosen by contestants from a honeycomb grid. A favourite wheeze of the contestants was to tease him by asking, "Can I have a P please, Bob?" or even "Can I have U?" Holness, who said that he always recognised the "little snigger" in the contestants' voices, took all this in good part, knowing that it helped to build up the programme's audience to more than 6 million.

A variant of a show first screened in the US, Blockbusters was the most popular programme Holness conducted. Produced by Central, it was first broadcast in the UK in 1983 and ran for 10 years at differing times in various regions on the ITV network, before being taken up by Sky – with Holness still as quizmaster – for a short run. There followed variations of the show, hosted by Michael Aspel and Liza Tarbuck.

Holness was born in Vryheid, Natal, in South Africa. His grandfather had fought in the South African wars at the turn of the century and settled there as a mining engineer and prospector. He had many contacts with Zulu people, and taught King Solomon how to drive a car. Holness's father, too, enjoyed the country, and regularly drove across Natal, paying out the wages at the mines, and returning with lumps of gold that had been discovered.

When he was young, Holness's family relocated to the UK and he won a scholarship to Ashford grammar school, now the Norton Knatchbull school, in Kent. During the second world war he and a gang of schoolmates plundered shot-down German aircraft for souvenirs. He enjoyed listening to forces radio, and would sometimes stay up all night, tuned to American stations.

After attending Maidstone College of Art, he was persuaded by his father to become a printing apprentice. He took up a printer's job in South Africa and joined a repertory theatre in Durban within two months of arriving. In the 1950s he acted first in repertory, where he met his future wife, Mary, and then on radio. He was one of the first actors to portray James Bond, taking the role in a Durban radio production of Ian Fleming's Moonraker in the mid-50s. He also presented music and magazine programmes on radio.

After he and Mary had started a family, they decided to move to the UK. It took the couple a few years to save up enough money for the tickets, and when they arrived at Southampton, it was with virtually empty pockets. They stayed with Mary's family in London while Holness looked for work.

The British actors he had met in South Africa had spoken with great enthusiasm about the booming television industry in the UK. Within three weeks of approaching companies, Holness was put under contract by Granada in Manchester. The company introduced him to audiences in 1961 on the TV shows Take a Letter and Junior Criss Cross Quiz, as well as using him as a continuity announcer and newsreader.

This lasted for three years until he moved south, buying a modest house in Pinner, north-west London, which remained the family home for more than three decades. Over the years, he worked as a reporter, interviewer and announcer for TV programmes such as World in Action and Today, and radio shows including the unscripted Late Night Extra. He delivered LBC radio's traffic reports from a helicopter and for many years, he and Douglas Cameron co-hosted LBC's morning news show, AM, which required him to get up at 3.30am.

Holness had a long association with BBC Radio 2, chiefly as presenter of Bob Holness and Friends, and with the BBC World Service, for which he presented Anything Goes, a weekly anthology of words and music. Once Blockbusters had put him on the path to celebrity, he became recognised as a master of the quizshow genre and in the 1990s, he was seen presiding over Raise the Roof and Call My Bluff.

He also lent his support to a number of children's charities including Teenage Cancer Trust, Young People's Trust for the Environment and, as vice-president from 1994, National Children's Home (now Action for Children).

Holness, who had suffered a number of minor strokes in recent years, is survived by Mary and their children, Carol, Rosalind and Jonathan.

• Robert Wentworth John Holness, quizmaster, presenter and actor, born 12 November 1928; died 6 January 2012

Bob Holness (1928–2012)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392223/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (6 credits)

2004 The Impressionable Jon Culshaw (TV Series) - Julius Caesar
- Episode #1.2 (2004) ... Julius Caesar
1998 Rex the Runt (TV Series) - Mr. Formal
- Adventures on Telly 1 (1998) ... Mr. Formal (voice)
1991 The Little and Large Show (TV Series) - - Episode #11.4 (1991)
1990 Harry Enfield's Television Programme (TV Series) - Bob Holness
- Episode #1.5 (1990) ... Bob Holness

1984 The Chain - Newsreader

1974 Thriller (TV Series) - Announcer
- One Deadly Owner (1974) ... Announcer (voice)

Self (37 credits)

2006 Blockbusters: Interactive Quiz (Video Game) - Himself - Presenter (voice)
2006 The Top of the Form Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2005 Gameshow Marathon (TV Series)
Himself / Himself - Audience Member
- The Golden Shot (2005) ... Himself
- Take Your Pick (2005) ... Himself
- The Price Is Right (2005) ... Himself - Audience Member
2005 Avenue of the Stars: 50 Years of ITV (TV Special) - Himself - Audience Member
2004 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #3.3 (2004) ... Himself
1997-2002 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Himself - Presenter / Himself - Chairman - 12 episodes
- Episode dated 30 May 2002 (2002) ... Himself - Presenter
- Episode dated 4 February 2002 (2002) ... Himself - Presenter
- Pantomime Special (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
- Episode dated 19 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
- Episode dated 5 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
2001 Bob Martin (TV Series) - Himself
- This Life (2001) ... Himself
2001 Trigger Happy TV (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.3 (2001) ... Himself
2001 An Audience with Des O'Connor (TV Special) - Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
2000 I Love a 1970's Christmas (TV Special documentary) - Himself

1991-1998 Telly Addicts (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #13.4 (1998) ... Himself
- Episode #7.17 (1991) ... Himself
1997 Auntie's Bloomers (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Auntie's New Winter Bloomers (1997) ... Himself (uncredited)
1997 Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #1.5 (1997) ... Himself
1993-1997 The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 30 April 1997 (1997) ... Himself
- Episode #1.0 (1993) ... Himself
1996 Happy Birthday Shirley (TV Special) - Himself (uncredited)
1995 Raise the Roof (TV Series) - Himself - Host
-1994 Blockbusters (TV Series) - Himself / Himself - Host / Himself - Presenter / ... 875 episodes
1994 An Audience with Bob Monkhouse (TV Special documentary) - Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
1994 Joy to the World (TV Movie) - Himself - Narrator
1994 Noel's House Party (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #3.13 (1994) ... Himself
1993 Paul Merton: The Series (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.3 (1993) ... Himself
1993 Cluedo (TV Series) - Himself - Studio Guest
- Seven Deadly Sinners (1993) ... Himself - Studio Guest
1993 The Word (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #3.19 (1993) ... Himself
1992 Gamesmaster (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.13 (1992) ... Himself
1992 Public Enemy Number One (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #1.1 (1992) ... Himself
1992 Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show (TV Series) - Himself
- Oh Blimey It's All Gone wrong (1992) ... Himself
1992 WYSIWYG (TV Series) - Himself
- Shopping (1992) ... Himself
1990 Celebrity Fifteen to One (TV Series) - Himself - Contestant
- 1990 Special (1990) ... Himself - Contestant
1990 This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Bob Holness (1990) ... Himself

1989 You Bet! (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.8 (1989) ... Himself
1988 Bullseye (TV Series) - Himself - Guest Contestant
- Christmas Special 1988 (1988) ... Himself - Guest Contestant
1986 Looks Familiar (TV Series) - Himself - Guest
- Episode #14.9 (1986) ... Himself - Guest

1968/I Today (TV Series) - Himself
1967 Transworld Top Team (TV Series) - Himself - Scorer
1965 Thank Your Lucky Stars (TV Series) - Himself - Guest DJ
- Episode #7.23 (1965) ... Himself - Guest DJ
1962-1964 Take a Letter (TV Series) - Himself - Host
- Episode dated 24 June 1964 (1964) ... Himself - Host
- Episode dated 11 March 1964 (1964) ... Himself - Host (as Robert Holness)
- Episode #1.1 (1962) ... Himself - Host
1963 Bootsie and Snudge (TV Series) - Himself
- The Lorry Route (1963) ... Himself (as Robert Holness)

Trivia

The second actor to 'play' James Bond - he was the voice of Bond in a 1957 radio dramatisation of 'Moonraker' on South African radio.

One of his daughters, Ros Holness was in a pop group called "Toto Coelo", they had a smash hit with "I Eat Cannibals".

He was the subject of an urban myth, initiated by broadcaster Stuart Maconie, who while writing for the New Musical Express, claimed (untruthfully) that he played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's song Baker Street. The true performer was Rafael Ravenscroft. The story clearly appealed to his sense of humour as he has often played along with the myth, and has also at various times jokingly claimed to be the lead guitarist on Derek and the Dominoes' Layla and the mysterious individual putting Elvis Presley off his stride on the infamous "laughing version" of Are You Lonesome Tonight?.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #3 comic, continuing VARGR.

JAMES BOND #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181803011

Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: January 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: January 6
Bond is on his way to break up a small, agile drug-trafficking operation in Berlin. The truth about what he's walking into is bigger, scarier and much more lethal. Berlin is about to catch fire, and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the "VARGR" storyline, the debut chapter of the ongoing James Bond saga as written by industry legend Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters!

2018: Daniel Craig announces he'll purchase the Brooklyn NY home of Martin Amis.

James Bond is about to be a Brooklynite

https://pagesix.com/2018/01/06/james-bond-is-about-to-be-a-brooklynite/
By Oli Coleman and Emily Smith
January 6, 2018 | 4:59pm

James Bond is Brooklyn bound.

Sources in the borough are buzzing that Bond star Daniel Craig is the mystery buyer of a Brooklyn brownstone sold by author Martin Amis and his wife, Isabel Fonseca, for $6.75 million. The home burned in a fire on New Year’s Eve a year ago, and Amis and his family have reportedly decamped to a Downtown Brooklyn high-rise.

The 1901 Cobble Hill home was bought through an LLC called On the Rows last year, according to property records. Reps for Craig and his wife, Rachel Weisz, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A broker for the property declined to comment on Friday.

Craig and Weisz reportedly lived previously in an $11.5 million Soho penthouse purchased in 2012 after Craig sold a Tribeca pad. They’d be just the latest celebs to call booming Brooklyn home, following stars such as Michelle Williams, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, and John Krasinksi and Emily Blunt (who are reportedly selling their $8 million Park Slope home).

Amis and Fonseca bought the home for $2.5 million, in 2010. But last year, a faulty chimney led to an accidental blaze that ignited the roof. A Corcoran listing for the 6,600-square-foot property explained it was being “offered as a clean, blank slate and ready for a purchaser to finish to their specifications. This home has just received a brand new roof and extensive repair after damage from a fire that was contained to the top floor and is ready for a contractor to begin the finishing work . . . Wall studs are intact, and most mechanical systems are in good working order (including radiant heat in two of the bathrooms and the garden level).”

Amis reportedly said the fire was like “the last kick in the arse of 2016.”

Amis’ famous father, Kingsley Amis, published a 1968 Bond novel, Colonel Sun — under the pseudonym Robert Markham — after the death of Ian Fleming. He also wrote a book called The James Bond Dossier, analyzing Fleming’s novels.

RichardTheBruce

January 7th

1964: Laurence Harvey states he's been asked by Kevin McClory to play Bond in a film version of Thunderball. And he'd like that a lot.

1966: Sean Connery appears on the cover of Life magazine.

1973: Richard Maibaum finishes the first draft of the screenplay for The Man with the Golden Gun.
1976: Producer Kevin McClory announces in Variety his planned film James Bond of the Secret Service, to begin filming in the Bahamas with the involvement of Len Deighton and Sean Connery.

1981: 문 레이커 (Moon-ray-ee-kuh; Moonraker) released in the Republic of Korea.

1981: RCA Selectavision buys the laser-disc rights to the 007 films for $1.5 million.

1985: Pinewood's Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage re-opens, rebuilt after a July 1984 fire. A huge Peter Lamont set of Zorin's mine interior is already constructed.

July 1984.

January 1985.

2000: Ο κόσμος δεν είναι αρκετός (James Bond, praktor 007 - O kosmos den einai arketos) released in Greece.

2000: Swiat to za malo (World for a Little While) released in Poland.

2012: Shooting resumes for Skyfall with the funeral scene following the explosion at MI6 Headquarters. On location at the Old Royal Navy College in Greenwich, Michael G. Wilson on hand.
2015: Spectre cast members Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista pose on Gaislachkogl's peak, Sölden, Austria prior to filming there.

2019: The 76th Golden Globes Awards generates evidence of potential rivalry over the Bond role.

As shared by Mr. Idris Elba.

RichardTheBruce

January 8th

1920: Douglas Wilmer is born--Brentford, London, England.
(He dies at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.)

Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932811/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1937: Dame Shirley Bassey is born--Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales.

1962: Ian Fleming begins writing On Her Majesty's Secret Service at Goldeneye.
1966: Bond comic strip You Only Live Twice ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 17 May 1965. 275-475) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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







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

Man Lever Bara Två Gånger
(You Only Live Twice - Part 1) | (You Only Live Twice - Part 2)

Swedish Semic Comic 1976 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3
Man Lever Bara Två Gånger - Djävulens Trädgård (You Only Live Twice - "Devil Garden")


Swedish Semic Comic 1967
Djävulens Trädgård - Man Lever Bara Två Gånger! (Devil's Garden - You Only Live Twice!)


Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no12-1967/
James Bond 007 no. 39 (1977)






Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no39-1977/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 12/1967

1971: 카지노 로얄 (Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.

1976: Richard Maibaum and Christopher Wood complete the screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me.

1992: Anthony Dawson dies at age 75--Sussex, England. (Born 18 October 1916--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

Anthony Dawson

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

Dawson as Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No

Born Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson, 18 October 1916, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Died 8 January 1992 (aged 75), Sussex, England
Nationality British
Alma mater RADA
Occupation Actor
Years active 1940–1991

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

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

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writer (2 credits)

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

2008: Norvic FDC (First Day Cover) issues James Bond commemorative stamps for the Fleming Centenary.

2013: Bernard Horsfall dies at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.
(Born 20 November 1930--Bisshops Stortford, Herfordshire, England.)

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)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395420/

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
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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