On This Day

Thunderfinger

Looks like McLusky has really been to Tangiers.

RichardTheBruce

February 3rd

1970: Sean Thomas Connery is photographed by Godfrey Argent.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw86015

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw86017

1976: Guatemalan television airs Casino Royale (1967) hours before an earthquake that kills thousands, earning its notoriety as La película de la noche anterior al terremoto (The Movie of the Night Before the Earthquake).

2005: EON announces Martin Campbell will direct BOND 21, with the title Casino Royale.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond_21_announced.php3

2012: BOND 23 filming has Daniel Craig running the streets of London, Tower Hill, on the way to M's hearing.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #4 Vargr.

JAMES BOND #4

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181804011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Publication Date: 3 February 2016
ON SALE DATE: February 3

James Bond is alone in Berlin, with nothing but the clothes on his back and the gun in his hand. When help is offered from an unexpected source, Bond has no choice but to accept it - even though it may guarantee that he doesn't live through the night. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the first James Bond comic book series in over 20 years! "Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." - Warren Ellis

RichardTheBruce

February 4th

1962: "The Living Daylights" is published in The Sunday Times colour supplement.

The Daily Express objects, since they have rights to comic versions of Bond books and stories. Fleming works it out with them. The story later appears in Argosy as "Berlin Escape", June 1962. A 1966 comic version eventually runs in The Daily Express. And of course the story is published in the last Fleming book Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966.

The Sunday Times Colour Section magazine - Jean Shrimpton cover (4 February 1962)

http://james-bond-literary.wikia.com/wiki/The_Living_Daylights

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films James seducing Tracy.

1989: 리빙 데이라이트 (The Living Daylights) released in the Republic of Korea.

https://extmovie.com/mposter/47644523

2012: Skyfall delays filming at Vauxhall Bridge due to snow.
2015: Spectre films airplane action at Kartitsch, Austria.

https://007travelers.blogspot.fi/2015/02/spectre-action-pics-from-kartitsch.html

RichardTheBruce

February 5th

1920: Rose Alba is born--Cairo, Egypt. (She dies January 2006 at age 85--London, England.)

Rose Alba (1918–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016196/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (30 credits)

1983 Funny Money - Mrs. de Salle
1981 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Duchess
- Landseer: A Victorian Comedy (1981) ... Duchess
1980 City of Women (uncredited)
1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - Caretaker's wife

1979 The Passage - Madame Alba
1977 Lord Tramp (TV Series) - Lady Diana
- Episode #1.6 (1977) ... Lady Diana
1975 Hogg's Back (TV Series) - Dolores
- Episode #1.7 (1975) ... Dolores
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Madama La Gata
- Angie... Angie (1971) ... Madama La Gata
1971 Foursome - Landlady

1969 School for Sex - Countess of Burwash
1968 The Saint (TV Series) - First Woman at Party
- The Double Take (1968) ... First Woman at Party
1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town (TV Series) - Sally Whitaker
- The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968) ... Sally Whitaker
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Rosetta
- Let Slip the Dogs of War (1966) ... Rosetta
1965 Thunderball - Madame Boitier
1963 Eves on Skis (Short) - Elizabeth (voice)
1961 Mary Had a Little... - Duchess of Addlecombe
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Nora
- Eyewitness (1961) ... Nora
1961 The Grand Junction Case (Short) - Colette
1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.1 (1960)
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Woman in bar
- Sparrow, Sparrow (1960) ... Woman in bar
1960 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Morris
- A Man of Straw (1960) ... Mrs. Morris
-
1959 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Kathie Morgan
- Episode #1.14 (1959) ... Kathie Morgan
1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) - - Episode #1.1 (1959)
1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Maria / Operating Theatre Charge Nurse
- Brian Rix Presents #6: Nap Hand (1959) ... Maria
- No Deadly Medicine (1959) ... Operating Theatre Charge Nurse
1959 Playbox (TV Series) - Rosita
- Episode #4.9 (1959) ... Rosita
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Mrs. Dix
- The Commentator (1958) ... Mrs. Dix
1958 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Gina Neri / Dolores Infante
- The Sins of Simone (1958)
- Vendetta (1958) ... Gina Neri
- Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1958) ... Dolores Infante
1956 Home Is the Sailor (TV Movie) - Andrée Courbois
1955 The Golden Falcon - Gertrude Montefalco
1955 Shadow of a Man - Cabaret singer

1921: Klaus Hugo (Ken) Adam is born--Berlin, Germany. (He dies 10 March 2016 at age 95--London, England.)

Ken Adam, Who Dreamed Up the
Lairs of Movie Villains, Dies at 95

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/movies/ken-adam-who-dreamed-up-the-lairs-of-movie-villains-dies-at-95.html
By William Grimes | March 12, 2016

Mr. Adam’s production design work included the war room in the Stanley Kubrick film “Dr. Strangelove.” Credit Hawk Films

Ken Adam, a production designer whose work on dozens of famous films included the fantasy sets that established the look of the James Bond series, the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and, for Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” the sinister war room beneath the Pentagon, died on Thursday at his home in London. He was 95.

His death was announced by a James Bond Twitter account run by MGM Studios and Eon Productions.

Mr. Adam was hired by the producer Albert Broccoli, known as Cubby, to design the sets for the first Bond film, Dr. No, released in 1962. (The two had worked together on the 1960 film “The Trials of Oscar Wilde,” with Peter Finch and James Mason.) With a budget equivalent to about $300,000 today, Mr. Adam delivered the title character’s sleek, futuristic headquarters, his extravagant living room with wall-size aquarium and his creepy, grottolike laboratory.

The combination of futurism and fantasy became a trademark of the Bond franchise. “Dr. No started a new approach,” Mr. Adam told The Guardian in 2002. “I think they realized that design, exotic locations, plus a tongue-in-cheek element were really successful, and so it became more and more that way.”

In Goldfinger, the third movie in the series, Mr. Adam put Bond, played by Sean Connery, into an Aston Martin equipped with an ejector seat. He envisioned Fort Knox as a cathedral of gold.


Ken Adam, left, on the set of “Diamonds Are Forever,” with the actor Sean Connery. Credit United Artists, via Photofest

With You Only Live Twice, the fifth Bond film, Mr. Adam had more than half the total budget at his disposal. He spent $1 million of it building a volcano that contained a secret military base operated by the international terrorist organization Spectre.

“He was a brilliant visualizer of worlds we will never be able to visit ourselves,” Christopher Frayling, the author of two books on Mr. Adam, told the BBC in an article posted on Friday . “The war room under the Pentagon in ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ the interior of Fort Knox in Goldfinger — all sorts of interiors which, as members of the public, we are never going to get to see, but he created an image of them that was more real than real itself.”

Mr. Adam, who was also the production designer for “The Ipcress File,” “Funeral in Berlin,” “Sleuth,” “The Seven Percent Solution,” “Agnes of God” and many other films, won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on “Barry Lyndon,” his second collaboration with Mr. Kubrick. He shared the award with Vernon Dixon and Roy Walker. He won his second Oscar, with Carolyn Scott, in 1995 for “The Madness of King George.”

Klaus Hugo Adam was born on Feb. 5, 1921, in Berlin, where his father, Fritz, a former Prussian cavalry officer, helped run S. Adam, a famous sporting-goods store. Klaus attended the prestigious French Gymnasium before the family, which was Jewish, emigrated to London in 1934.

In London he attended St. Paul’s School and became entranced by German Expressionist films, which he had not seen in Berlin. “They were so theatrical, these artists who dreamt up these fantastic dreamlike environments, and it struck a note with me,” he told The Sunday Telegraph in 2008.

Mr. Adam worked on seven films in the James Bond series, the last of which was Moonraker in 1979. Credit Eon Productions

He studied at University College, London, to pursue architecture as a way of breaking into production design, heeding the advice of Vincent Korda, a brother of the film producer Alexander Korda and a resident of the Hampstead boardinghouse run by Mr. Adam’s mother, the former Lilli Saalfeld. He enrolled in the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Shortly after the start of World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. In 1943 he took his place as a pilot flying long-range bombing missions over Europe. After the D-Day invasion, his squadron flew support missions for troops on the ground.

He was hired as a draftsman on his first film, “This Was a Woman,” in 1948, and for the next several years worked on numerous films as an assistant art director. His work on “Around the World in 80 Days,” a 1956 film that won an Oscar for best picture, gave him cachet in the industry and elevated him to production designer for “Curse of the Demon,” a 1957 film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and “The Angry Hills,” a 1959 war drama starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Robert Aldrich.

The Bond films — he worked on seven of them, the last of which was Moonraker, with Roger Moore as the superspy, in 1979 — put him in the front ranks of production designers.

“To me, designing the villains’ bases was a combination of tongue-in-cheek and showing the power of these megalomaniacs,” he told The Guardian. “I think in the last Bond film I saw — although they’re brilliantly made action pictures, one chase after another — they lost the importance of the villain. I think the villain is just as important as Bond. But someone who simply wants to destroy an oil pipeline to me is just not sufficiently important as a villain.”

Mr. Adam won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on the film “Barry Lyndon.” Credit Hawk Films

His Bond portfolio, along with his work on “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and two spy thrillers with Michael Caine based on books by Len Deighton, “Funeral in Berlin” and “The Ipcress File,” qualified him as one of the great Cold War image-makers. The Victoria and Albert Museum honored that achievement in 1999 with the exhibition “Ken Adam: Designing the Cold War.”

He described his relationship with the notoriously finicky and controlling Mr. Kubrick as creatively stimulating but dangerous to his mental health. “I was incredibly close with him,” Mr. Adam told BBC Radio’s World Service in 2013. “It was almost like an unhealthy love affair between us. And I had a breakdown eventually.”

The collaboration produced some of his most memorable work, most notably the war room in “Dr. Strangelove,” which he conceived as a vast bomb shelter with an illuminated table in the center, suggestive of a nefarious game of poker in progress.

The set inspired an accolade he treasured. “I was in the States giving a lecture to the Directors Guild when Steven Spielberg came up to me,” Mr. Adam told the BBC. “He said, ‘Ken, that war room set for “Strangelove” is the best set you ever designed.’ Five minutes later he came back and said, ‘No, it’s the best set that’s ever been designed.’ ”

Mr. Adam, who was awarded a knighthood in 2003, is survived by his wife, the former Maria Letizia.

Correction: March 15, 2016
An obituary on Monday about the production designer Ken Adam misstated the surname of one of the people with whom he shared an Academy Award for his work on “Barry Lyndon.” He was Roy Walker, not Roy Scott. The obituary also referred incorrectly to Mr. Adam’s work as an assistant art director on “Around the World in 80 Days.” It was not uncredited. And the obituary described incorrectly the 1959 film “The Angry Hills,” on which he was production designer. It is a World War II drama, not a western.
A version of this article appears in print on March 14, 2016, on Page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: Ken Adam, 95, Designer for ‘Dr. Strangelove’ and Bond Films, Dies.

Ken Adam (I) (1921–2016)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010553/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Production designer (43 credits)
2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)
2001 Taking Sides

1999 The Out-of-Towners
1997 In & Out
1996 Bogus
1995 Boys on the Side
1994 The Madness of King George
1993 Addams Family Values
1993 Undercover Blues
1991 Company Business
1991 The Doctor
1990 The Freshman

1989 Dead Bang
1988 The Deceivers
1986 Crimes of the Heart
1985 Agnes of God
1985 King David
1979 Moonraker
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 Salon Kitty
1975 Barry Lyndon
1973 The Last of Sheila
1972 Sleuth
1971 Diamonds Are Forever
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1967 You Only Live Twice
1966 Funeral in Berlin
1965 Thunderball
1965 The Ipcress File
1964 Goldfinger
1964 Woman of Straw
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963 In the Cool of the Day (as Kenneth Adam)
1962 Dr. No
1962 Sodom and Gomorrah
1960 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 Let's Get Married

1959 Portrait of a Sinner
1959 The Angry Hills
1957 Curse of the Demon
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (uncredited)

Art department (19 credits)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (visual consultant)

1970 The Owl and the Pussycat (design supervisor)

1959 Ben-Hur (assistant art director - uncredited)
1958 Missiles from Hell (set designs)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (art director: London - as Ken Adams)
1956 Helen of Troy (assistant art director)
1954 Star of India (assistant art director - as Kenneth Adams)
1953 The Intruder (assistant art director - uncredited)
1953 The Master of Ballantrae (assistant art director - uncredited)
1952 The Crimson Pirate (associate art director)
1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (associate art director - uncredited)
1950 Eye Witness (assistant art director - uncredited)

1949 The Gay Adventure (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 The Hidden Room (assistant art director - uncredited)
1949 Dick Barton Strikes Back (assistant art director - uncredited)
1949 The Queen of Spades (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 Third Time Lucky (draughtsman - uncredited)
1948 Brass Monkey (draughtsman - uncredited)
1948 This Was a Woman (draughtsman)

Art director (9 credits)

2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)

1960 In the Nick
1959 Portrait of a Sinner
1959 Web of Evidence
1959 Ten Seconds to Hell
1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard
1957 The Devil's Pass (as Kenneth Adam)
1956 Child in the House
1956 Spin a Dark Web

Miscellaneous Crew (6 credits)

2012 America's Book of Secrets (TV Series documentary) (images courtesy of - 1 episode)
- Fort Knox (2012) ... (images courtesy of - as Sir Ken Adam)
2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage courtesy of)
2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
2006 You Only Live Twice: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (footage provider)

Camera and Electrical Department (4 credits)

2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
2006 You Only Live Twice: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)

Actor (2 credits)

1979 Moonraker - Man at St. Marks Square (uncredited)
1970 The Owl and the Pussycat - Middle-Aged Man (uncredited)

Producer (1 credit)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (associate producer)

1958: The conversation between Bond and the Governor related in the story "Quantum of Solace" takes place. Bond had been on a mission since 29 January. As confirmed by the John Griswold book, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories.

1964: Mary Wickham Bond (with husband James ) visits Ian Fleming at Goldeneye.

Ian Fleming inscribes a copy of You Only Live Twice for them:

To
The Real
James Bond
from the thief of
his identity.
Ian Fleming
Feb. 5 . 1964
(A great day!)

http://www.45worlds.com/book/title/how-007-got-his-name

Author: Mary Wickham Bond
Title: How 007 Got His Name
Publisher: Collins
Country: UK
Date: 1966
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography

Notes

Written by the wife of American ornithologist James Bond.

62, pages, with two photographic illustrations comprising a frontispiece portrait of the subject and Ian Fleming's only meeting with James Bond.

© Mary F. W. Bond, 1966.
Printed in Great Britain. Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow.

Book dimensions: Octavo (20 cm x 15cm). Clothbound in a pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by Barbosa, after Richard Chopping's designs for the jackets of the original 007 novels.

The back of the dust-jacket bears a black and white photo of Ian Fleming's inscription to James Bond on the front free end paper of a British First Edition of Fleming's latest novel You Only Live Twice that he gave to Bond when they met in February 1964. In December 2008 the book was put up for auction, eventually fetching $84,000 (£56,000).

The photographic illustrations are used with acknowledgement to the author and publisher, and are included here for educational purposes.

Entry and Notes by JPGR&B, 24 April 2019.

Comments and Reviews
JPGR&B
25th Apr 2019
When ornithologist James Bond called in on Ian Fleming at Goldeneye on 5 February 1964, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) were in the middle of interviewing the author. When he broke off to greet Mr and Mrs Bond, the cameras followed them outside. I have not been able to track down footage of this, but what follows in this clip is the CBC interviewer asking Fleming how he came about selecting a name for the hero of his books.

Mrs. Bond's account of things.

b[]You Only Live twice[/b] inscription.

1965: Goldfinger released in Sweden.

Swedish insert 1964.

Re-release 1967.


Re-release 1973.

2000: 007 ワールド・イズ・ノット・イナフ (Wārudo Izu notto inafu, 007 World Is Not Enough) released in Japan.

2015: Spectre filming at Pinewood Studios pauses due to Daniel Craig's sprained knee during a fight scene.
2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Volume 3 #3.

JAMES BOND VOL. 3 #3 - JIM CHEUNG LIMITED VIRGIN COVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028697003051
5 February 2020
Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Eric Gapstur
Cover A: Jim Cheung
Genre: Action/Adventure
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020

The first arc concludes, from VITA AYALA (Morbius), DANNY LORE (Queen of Bad Dreams) and ERIC GAPSTUR (The Flash). Bond is in over his head. What started as a “punishment” assignment has expanded into a world of international crime that Bond can’t wrap his mind around. Will 007 accept that the mission is too big for one spy, and seek assistance…or will pride be his downfall?

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: The Complete Warren Ellis Hardcover Omnibus.

JAMES BOND: THE COMPLETE WARREN ELLIS HARDCOVER OMNIBUS

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115045
5 February 2020
Writers: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters, Dominic Reardon
Cover: Dominic Reardon
Genre: Spy Thriller, Action/Adventure
Price: $39.99
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 304 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-5241-1504-3
ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces gathered in secret against him, the full scope of an operation that’s much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire… and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags… and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist…
Contains James Bond #1-#12 (2015), Warren Ellis’ VARGR and EIDOLON story lines.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment re-releases James Bond Vargr #1 - Dynamite Dollar Edition.

JAMES BOND: VARGR #1 - DYNAMITE DOLLAR EDITION

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028915501011
5 February 2020
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Cover A: Dominic Reardon
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020

Get acquainted with Dynamite’s James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis with a Dynamite Dollar 1st Issue! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. But something evil is moving through the back streets of the city, and sinister plans are being laid for Bond in Berlin…

Ready for more after this initial sampling? Check out Dynamite’s JAMES BOND WARREN ELLIS OMNIBUS, also on sale this month!

RichardTheBruce

February 6th

1922: Patrick Macnee is born--Paddington, London, England.
(He dies 25 June 2015 at age 93--Rancho Mirage, California.)

Patrick Macnee’s Biography

http://www.patrickmacnee.com/bio/

Details of Patrick Macnee’s Life
Patrick Macnee was born into an aristocratic English family — his Father was a successful racehorse trainer and his mother was the lovely Dorothea Hastings, a niece of the Earl of Huntingdon (descendants of Robin Hood!). His parents divorced after his father ran off to India and his mother moved into Rooksnest, a bizarre household in Wiltshire, dominated by his mother’s lady lover, the formidable “Uncle” Evelyn. At age three, he was bundled off to Summer Fields Prep School near Oxford. Patrick then entered Eton College, where apart from an active role with the school’s dramatic society, he distinguished himself as the leading bookie and pornographer on campus — and was promptly expelled.

Macnee went on to win a scholarship to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and got his start in show business in 1941 with a small role in a stage production of Little Women. One year later he made his debut in films as an extra in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

After serving as an officer in His Majesty’s Royal Britannic Navy (1942-46), Patrick resumed his career in stage and film roles. Commuting between Britain, America and Canada, where he helped to pioneer Canadian TV, Macnee starred in over 30 television plays and more than a dozen feature films during the busy post-war years. Patrick was in Hollywood from 1957-1959 for Les Girls and Mission of Danger for MGM; his TV credits during this time included various Playhouse 90’s, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and numerous stage appearances across the country.

In 1960 Macnee landed the leading role in an imaginative new British TV series The Avengers, playing John Steed, the suave, dashing Englishman with his bowler hat, rolled umbrella and fancy clothes. Overnight The Avengers became an international hit, Macnee’s popularity soared and both show and star enjoyed a cult-like status. His leading ladies included Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson.

His early major credits include Young Doctors in Love, James Bond’s A View To A Kill, Sea Wolves with David Niven, Gregory Peck and Roger Moore, Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap, and the television series, The New Avengers. For two years Macnee also starred in the Broadway production of Sleuth. He then performed the role in Canada and other U.S. cities.

Numerous appearances on television series include Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Lee, HBO’s Dream On and 26 episodes of Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan. He currently hosts the Sci-Fi Channel’s popular program Mysteries, Magic and Miracles.

One of his great pleasures these days is recording books on tape. Recent recordings include the Bible, eight of Jack Higgins’ thrillers and Peter Mayle’s Toujours Provence. Patrick’s entertaining autobiography, Blind In One Ear, was published in 1992.

His latest book is a memoir, The Avengers: The Inside Story, which was re-published by Titan Books in January 2008, and is a companion to the digitally remastered home videos of the The Avengers and The New Avengers. Since their original release in 1998, the home videos, with episodes starring Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt have all ranked high on the Billboard Top 40 charts.

After nearly 40 years on television, The Avengers came to the big screen with Ralph Fiennes in the role of John Steed. Carrying on the suave style created by Patrick Macnee, the new Steed continued to wear a bowler hat and carry a furled umbrella, but did not — to Macnee’s delight — carry a gun.

In his spare time Patrick enjoys bird-watching, desert reclamation, and preventing terrorism! (He received an award from the Bureau of Federal Aviation for preventing terrorism on aircraft). Also, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror has honored Patrick with their prestigious Golden Scroll award. A born raconteur, Patrick delights in entertaining audiences large and small.

Patrick Macnee (1922–2015)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001495/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (174 credits)

2003 The Low Budget Time Machine - Dr. Ballard
2001 Frasier (TV Series) - Cecil Hedley
- The Show Must Go Off (2001) ... Cecil Hedley
2000 Family Law (TV Series) - Sir Thomas Matthews
- Second Chance (2000) ... Sir Thomas Matthews

1999 Nancherrow (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Awliscombe
- Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
- Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
1997-1998 Spy Game (TV Series) - Dr. Quentin / Mr. Black
- How Diplomatic of You (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
- Go, Girl (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
- Why Spy? (1997) ... Mr. Black
1998 The Avengers - Invisible Jones (voice)
1997-1998 NightMan (TV Series) - Dr. Walton - 6 episodes
1997 NightMan (TV Movie) - Dr. Walton
1997 Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) - John Garrison
- Discards (1997) ... John Garrison
1996 Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (Video short) - Chauffeur
1995 Thunder in Paradise 3 (Video) - Edward Whitaker
1994 Thunder in Paradise II (Video) - Edward Whitaker
1994 Thunder in Paradise (TV Series) - Edward Whitaker - 22 episodes
1993-1994 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) - Steadman
- Dragonswing II (1994) ... Steadman
- Dragonswing (1993) ... Steadman
1993 Thunder in Paradise (Video) - Edward Whitaker
1993 The Hound of London (TV Movie) - Sherlock Holmes
1993 Jack's Place (TV Series) - Henry
- Faithful Henry (1993) ... Henry
1992 Twenty-Four Robbers (Short) - Narrator (segment "Big Hungry Bear") (voice)
1992 Coach (TV Series) - Mr. Thind
- Dresswreckers (1992) ... Mr. Thind
1985-1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Dayton Whiting / Oliver Trumbull
- The Dead File (1992) ... Dayton Whiting (as Patrick MacNee)
- Sing a Song of Murder (1985) ... Oliver Trumbull
1992 Dream On (TV Series) - Elliot Sterns
- B.S. Elliot (1992) ... Elliot Sterns
1990-1992 Super Force (TV Series) - E.B. Hungerford / E. B. Hungerford - 48 episodes
1992 Waxwork II: Lost in Time - Sir Wilfred
1992 Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (TV Movie) - Dr. John Watson
1991 P.S.I. Luv U (TV Series) - Uncle Ray Bailey
- I'd Kill to Direct (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
- Diamonds Are a Girl's Worst Friend (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
- Smile, You're Dead (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
- Pilot (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey (as Patrick MacNee)
1991 Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
1991 The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (TV Movie) - Sir Colin
1991 Eye of the Widow - Andrew Marcus
1990 Super Force (TV Movie) - E.B. Hungerford
1990 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - Stendahl
- Usher II (1990) ... Stendahl

1989 Chill Factor - Carl Lawton
1989 Dick Francis: Twice Shy (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
1989 The Return of Sam McCloud (TV Movie) - Tom Jamison
1989 Masque of the Red Death - Machiavel
1989 Dick Francis: Blood Sport (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
1989 Sorry, Wrong Number (TV Movie) - Nigel Evans
1989 Where There's a Will (TV Movie) - Charles Crow-Finch
1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Ralph Gautier
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
- Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
- Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
1989 Lobster Man from Mars - Professor Plocostomos
1989 War of the Worlds (TV Series) - Valery Kedrov
- Epiphany (1989) ... Valery Kedrov
1988 Murphy's Law (TV Series) - Frank Houlighan
- Do Someone a Favor and It Becomes Your Job (1988) ... Frank Houlighan
1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Thaddeus
- Survival of the Fittest (1988) ... Thaddeus
1988 Transformations - Father Christopher
1988 Waxwork - Sir Wilfred
1985-1986 Lime Street (TV Series)
Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
- The Three Million Dollar Spirit (1986) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
- The Wayward Train (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
- The Mystery of Flight 401 (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
1986 Blacke's Magic (TV Series) - Beechum
- It's a Jungle Out There (1986) ... Beechum
1986 Mary (TV Series) - Burke
- Beans (1986) ... Burke
1986 Club Med (TV Movie) - Gilbert Anthony Paige
1985 Shadey - Sir Cyril Landau
1985 Hotel (TV Series) - Edmund Bradshaw
- Hearts and Minds (1985) ... Edmund Bradshaw
1985 A View to a Kill - Tibbett
1984 The Love Boat (TV Series) - David Blake
- The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master (1984) ... David Blake
1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Matthew Grade
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1984) ... Matthew Grade
1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
- Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
1984 This Is Spinal Tap - Sir Denis Eton-Hogg (as Patrick MacNee)
1984 Empire (TV Series) - Calvin Cromwell - 6 episodes
1983 For the Term of His Natural Life (TV Mini-Series) - Major Vickers
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Major Vickers
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Major Vickers
1983 Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (TV Movie) - Doctor Bloom (segment "School, Girls & You!")
1983 Automan (TV Series) - Lydell Hamilton
- Automan (1983) ... Lydell Hamilton
1983 The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (TV Movie) - Sir John Raleigh
1982-1983 Gavilan (TV Series) - Milo Bentley - 9 episodes
1983 Sweet Sixteen - Dr. John Morgan
1982 Young Doctors in Love - Jacobs
1982 Rehearsal for Murder (TV Movie) - David Mathews
1981 House Calls (TV Series) - Uncle Digby
- Uncle Digby (1981) ... Uncle Digby
1981 The Creature Wasn't Nice - Dr. Stark
1981 The Hot Touch - Vincent Reyblack
1981 Comedy of Horrors (TV Movie) - Host
1981 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Melford
- Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 5 (1981) ... Lord Melford
- Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 1 (1981) ... Lord Melford
1981 The Howling - Dr. George Waggner
1981 Vega$ (TV Series) - Lyle Jeffries
- Murder by Mirrors (1981) ... Lyle Jeffries
1980 The Sea Wolves - Major Yogi Crossley
1980 The Littlest Hobo (TV Series) - Elmer
- Diamonds Are a Dog's Best Friend (1980) ... Elmer

1979 King Solomon's Treasure - Capt. Good R.N.
1979 The Fantastic Seven (TV Movie) - Boudreau
1979 The Billion Dollar Threat (TV Movie) - Horatio Black
1979 Sweepstakes (TV Series) - Rodney
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Rodney
1978-1979 Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) - Imperious Leader / Count Iblis / Opening Credit Announcer
- War of the Gods: Part 2 (1979) ... Count Iblis
- War of the Gods: Part 1 (1979) ... Count Iblis
- The Living Legend: Part 2 (1978) ... Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
- Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 1 (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
- Saga of a Star World (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - S
- Assault on the Tower (1978) ... S
1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Ian Waldeigh
- Part II (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
- Part I (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
1978 Battlestar Galactica - Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
1976-1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed - 26 episodes
1977 Dead of Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Gheria (segment "No Such Thing as a Vampire") (as Patrick MacNee)
1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
1975 Matt Helm (TV Series) - Shawcross
- Matt Helm (1975) ... Shawcross
1975 Caribe (TV Series) - Hendy
- The Patriots (1975) ... Hendy
1975 Khan! (TV Series) - Marcus Graham
- A Game of Terror (1975) ... Marcus Graham
1975 Columbo (TV Series) - Capt. Gibbon
- Troubled Waters (1975) ... Capt. Gibbon
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Wag Frazer
- Frame (1974) ... Wag Frazer
1974 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Charles Foster
- A Time to Remember (1974) ... Charles Foster
1973 Diana (TV Series) - Bryan Harris
- You Can't Go Back (1973) ... Bryan Harris
1972 The Woman I Love (TV Movie) - Lord Brownlow
1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
- The Different Ones/Tell David.../Logoda's Heads (1971) ... Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
1971 Incense for the Damned - Derek Longbow
1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Norman Alexander
- The Man Who Murdered Himself (1971) ... Norman Alexander
1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) - Dudley
1970 The Virginian (TV Series) - Connor
- A King's Ransom (1970) ... Connor

1961-1969 The Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed / Basil - 161 episodes
1960-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
Arthur / Algernon Moncrieff / David Manning
- The Long Nightmare (1966) ... Arthur
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
- The Innocent (1960) ... David Manning
1966 Conflict (TV Series) - Thomas Mendip
- The Lady's Not for Burning (1966) ... Thomas Mendip
1964-1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Richard Page / Crawford / Alan
- The Small Hours (1966) ... Richard Page
- I Love, You Love, We Love (1964) ... Crawford
- Divorce, Divorce (1964) ... Alan
1964 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Captain Carvallo
- Captain Carvallo (1964) ... Captain Carvallo
1962 The Winter's Tale (TV Movie) - Polixenes
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Keith Salesby
- Lucky Strike (1960) ... Keith Salesby
1952-1960 Encounter (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Pine / Kesson / Mr. Darcy / ... - 29 episodes
1960 The Hill (TV Movie) - Centurion
1960 Startime (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff / Frank Hunter
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1960) ... Algernon Moncrieff
- The Browning Version (1960) ... Frank Hunter
1960 The Unforeseen (TV Series) - Cyrus
- The Tintype (1960) ... Cyrus
1960/I Shadow of a Pale Horse (TV Movie) - Kirk

1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Colonel O'Neill
- The Bamboo Curtain (1959) ... Colonel O'Neill
1959 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - First Officer McLeod
- Judgment Night (1959) ... First Officer McLeod
1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Johnny / An attorney
- Misalliance (1959) ... Johnny
- Verdict of Three (1958) ... An attorney
1959 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - British Captain
- The Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother (1959) ... British Captain (as Patrick MacNee)
- The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox (1959) ... British Captain
1959 Rawhide (TV Series) - Henry Watkins
- Incident of the 13th Man (1959) ... Henry Watkins
1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Professor Kersley / Sgt. John Theron
- The Crystal Trench (1959) ... Professor Kersley
- Arthur (1959) ... Sgt. John Theron
1959 Markham (TV Series) - John White
- The Counterfeit Stamps (1959) ... John White
1959 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Gilbert Burns
- Robbie and His Mary (1959) ... Gilbert Burns
1955-1959 Folio (TV Series) - Captain John Tregarthen / Macduff
- Iron Harp (1959) ... Captain John Tregarthen
- Macbeth (1955) ... Macduff
1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Eric Farley
- Night of April 14th (1959) ... Eric Farley
1959 Black Saddle (TV Series) - Michael Kent
- Client: McQueen (1959) ... Michael Kent (as Patrick MacNee)
1959 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Gilbert Farleigh
- Dangerous Interlude (1959) ... Gilbert Farleigh
1958 The Veil (TV Mini-Series) - Constable Hawton
- Vision of Crime (1958) ... Constable Hawton
1958 Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Shaw
- Strange Occurrence at Rokesay (1958) ... Sergeant Shaw
1958 Northwest Passage (TV Series) - Colonel Trent
- The Red Coat (1958) ... Colonel Trent
1958 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Bill Cheever
- Man Under Glass (1958) ... Bill Cheever
1956-1958 Kraft Theatre (TV Series) - Mr. Andrews / Wealthy Playboy / Reginald Urquart - 6 episodes
1956-1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) Don Pedro / Duke of Winterset / John Smith / ... - 9 episodes
1958 Suspicion (TV Series) - Captain John Biersdorf
- Voice in the Night (1958) ... Captain John Biersdorf
1955-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Lieutenant Honeywell / George / Henty / ... - 9 episodes
1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Lt. Charles Daurigny
- No Boat for Four Months (1958) ... Lt. Charles Daurigny
1957 Until They Sail - Pvt. Duff (scenes deleted)
1957 First Performance (TV Series) - Julian Shaw
- Seeds of Power (1957) ... Julian Shaw
1957 Les Girls - Sir Percy
1957 Pacific 13 (TV Series) - Famous Young Writer
- Child Wife (1957) ... Famous Young Writer
- The Transient Guest (1957)
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Lieutenant Commander Medley R.N.
1956 The Alcoa Hour (TV Series) - Charlie
- The Piper of St. James (1956) ... Charlie
1956 Playwrights '56 (TV Series) - Guy Cartwright
- Keyhole (1956) ... Guy Cartwright
1956 Star Tonight (TV Series) - - The Girl (1956)
1956 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Quayle
- The Case of Colonel Petrov (1956) ... Quayle
1956 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Lucius Septimus
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1956) ... Lucius Septimus
1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Don Juan / Captain Carvallo
- The Return of Don Juan (1955) ... Don Juan
- Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Captain Carvallo
1955 Scope (TV Series) - Horatio
- Hamlet (1955) ... Horatio
- The Verdict Was Treason (1955)
1955 Three Cases of Murder - Guard Subaltern (uncredited)
1953/II The Affair at Assino (TV Movie)
1950-1953 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
Lodovico / Captain Marchant / Peter / ... - 6 episodes
1952-1953 Tales of Adventure (TV Series) - Roger Sudden - 12 episodes
1951 Nocturne in Scotland (TV Movie) - Duke of Argyll
1951 A Christmas Carol - Young Jacob Marley (as Patrick MacNee)
1951 Flesh and Blood - Sutherland
1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie)
1950 The Fighting Pimpernel - Hon. John Bristow
1950 Dick Barton at Bay - Phillips (as Patrick McNee)
1950 Seven Days to Noon - Bit Part (uncredited)
1950 The Girl Is Mine - Hugh Hurcombe
1950 Ten Minute Alibi (TV Movie) - Colin Derwent

1949 Myself a Stranger (TV Movie) - Dick Tumbull
1949 All Over the Town - Mr. Vince (uncredited)
1949 Macbeth/II (TV Movie) - Malcolm
1949 Macbeth (TV Movie) - Malcolm
1949 Hour of Glory - Man at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
1948 The Fatal Night - Tony
1948 Wuthering Heights (TV Movie) - Edgar Linton
1947 Hamlet Part 2/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
1947 Hamlet Part 2 (TV Movie) - Laertes
1947 Hamlet Part 1/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
1947 Hamlet Part 1 (TV Movie) - Laertes
1947 The Brontes (TV Movie) - Rev. William Weightman
1947 A Month in the Country (TV Movie) - Beliaev
1946 Arms and the Man (TV Movie) - An officer
1946 Morning Departure (TV Movie) - Stoker Marks (credit only)
1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Extra (uncredited)
1938 Pygmalion - Extra (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department (1 credit)

The Avengers (TV Series) (wardrobe designer - 23 episodes, 1968 - 1969) (wardrobe - 1 episode, 1968) - 24 episodes

Soundtrack (4 credits)

1990 The ITV Chart Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 1 December 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")
1990 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 29 November 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")

1970 Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Treppen (1970) ... (performer: "Mit Schirm und mit Charme und Melone" - uncredited)

1965 The Avengers (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Too Many Christmas Trees (1965) ... (performer: "The Grand Old Duke of York", "Green Grow the Rushes, O" - uncredited)

Producer (1 credit)

1960 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1960-1961)

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

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Sunday 6 February, 1944

Yesterday I. came to dinner, looking well and busy with a dream, the
dream being a house on a mountain slope in Jamaica after the war.

1952: Succeeding George VI, Elizabeth II begins her reign as Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.

2002: Die Another Day films OO7 fighting Zao at the Alvarez Clinic.
2008: Mythbusters airs its James Bond Special Part 2 (Season 6, Episode 4).

2012: Skyfall reaches #7 on the list of top film box office grosses.
2015: Three days of filming begins at "Bond chapel" (Bacher Kapelle zur Schwarzen Madonna/Bacher Chapel of the Black Madonna).

2015: 87-year-old former Bond actor Roger Moore acknowledges Daniel Craig's injury on the BOND 24 set.

"Sorry to hear Daniel Craig has sprained his knee on set of #Spectre...
Being 007 is not without its hazards.
I'm available to step in if needed."

2017: Alec McCowen dies at age 91--London, England. (Born 26 May 1925--Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.)

SINCE 1880
Obituary: Alec McCowen
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2017/obituary-alec-mccowen/
by Michael Quinn - Feb 17, 2017


Alec McCowen in The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1993. Photo: Marilyn Kingwill Actor Alec McCowen, 91. Photo: Marion Kingwill

Few actors were as consistently intelligent and engagingly relaxed on stage and screen as Alec McCowen. They were qualities that shone through a career encompassing the classics and contemporary work and that lit up his two remarkable one-man plays – St Mark’s Gospel (1978) and Kipling (1983).

Both pieces enjoyed runs in the West End and on Broadway, the former – a vivid account from the King James’ Bible – boasted “theatrical merits past telling” according to The Stage, while the latter, a portrait of the Edwardian poet written by Brian Clark, was “a personal triumph” for McCowen.

Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, to devout evangelical parents, he made his professional debut as Micky in Paddy the Next Best Thing with Macclesfield Rep in 1942 while still a student at RADA. He spent the war in India and Burma performing with the military’s Entertainments National Service Association.

His first London appearance was as Maxim in Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov (Arts Theatre, 1950) and he made an impression at the same venue in 1952 as Hugh Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance. A run of successful roles that included Daventry (Roger MacDougall’s Escapade, St James’s Theatre, 1953), Barnaby Tucker (Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, Haymarket Theatre, 1954) and Dr Bird (Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Hippodrome Theatre, 1956) soon saw him rising through the ranks.

He became a regular with London’s Old Vic in the 1960s, making his debut as the Dauphin – “the most striking and interesting… since Alec Guinness” said The Stage – in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan and as Mercutio to Judi Dench’s Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, before going on to play Algernon, Richard II, Oberon and Malvolio.

With the Royal Shakespeare Company, McCowen was a knowing Fool to Paul Scofield’s King Lear in Peter Brook’s austere 1962 production, contrasting its severity with the comic relish of Antiphonus in the same year’s The Comedy of Errors.

Forty years later he teamed again with Scofield’s Lear, this time as the Earl of Gloucester, for a recording by Naxos featuring Kenneth Branagh as the Fool.

His “large, sweeping, dominating performance” (The Stage) as the delusional Father Rolfe in Peter Luke’s Hadrian VII at Birmingham Repertory Theatre and, later, the Mermaid Theatre, London, proved to be McCowen’s breakthrough performance. It earned him an Evening Standard drama award and a Tony nomination on Broadway.

In 1970, he returned to Birmingham to play Hamlet and was back in the West End and on Broadway the following year for a second Tony nomination as Philip in the Royal Court’s transfer of Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist.

With the National Theatre in 1973, his Alceste was “alive in every way in every moment” in John Dexter’s “dream come true” production (The Stage) of Tony Harrison’s robustly witty adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope.

He reunited with Dexter to create the role of the psychiatrist Dysart in Peter Shaffer’s Equus in 1973 and again the following year for “an apparently perfect” Professor Higgins to Diana Rigg’s Eliza in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at the Albery Theatre, London. In 1975, the pair reprised The Misanthrope on Broadway (earning McCowen a third Tony nomination) and subsequently at the Old Vic.

His later stage career was marked by a variety that embraced Antony to Dorothy Tutin’s Cleopatra in 1977 for Toby Robertson’s Prospect Theatre Company and a superlative Frank – the timid researcher thwarted in his attempts to find a cure for the common cold – in Brian Thompson’s Tishoo (Wyndham’s Theatre, London, 1979).

Writing in the Guardian, critic Michael Billington described McCowen’s performance as Adolf Hitler in Christopher Hampton’s The Portage to San Cristobal of AH at the Mermaid Theatre in 1982 as “one of the greatest pieces of acting I have ever seen”. The Stage’s Peter Hepple considered it “the very stuff of great theatre”.

In 1986, he was seen as Henry Harcourt Reilly in TS Eliot’s The Cocktail Party, the inaugural production of director John Dexter and producer Eddie Kulukundis’ New Theatre Company, at London’s Phoenix Theatre.

At the National Theatre in 1987 he portrayed Vladimir in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a glorious clown and was seen alongside Scofield and Eileen Atkins as a veteran crime reporter in danger of being ousted in Jeffrey Archer’s pressroom drama Exclusive at the Strand Theatre in 1989. The following year he lent Uncle Jack, the missionary priest sent home from Uganda under a cloud, a sense of seemingly harmless disorientation in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre.

Notable late appearances included the pedantic English professor Michael imprisoned in Beirut in Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Hampstead and Vaudeville theatres; it also marked his Broadway swansong), and a commanding Prospero memorably teamed with Simon Russell Beale’s Ariel in The Tempest, directed by Sam Mendes, for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1993.

He was heard in a radio broadcast of John Osborne’s never-produced screenplay The Charge of the Light Brigade, given a gala charity staging at Armoury House, London, in 2002.

Directing credits include Terence Rattigan’s While the Sun Shines (Hampstead Theatre, 1972) and Martin Crimp’s Definitely the Bahamas (Orange Tree Theatre, 1987).

McCowen’s screen debut came in 1953’s The Cruel Sea and he made his mark as Brown in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in 1962. His exquisitely underplayed comic timing was seen to delightful effect as the nephew to Maggie Smith in Travels With My Aunt (1972) and as the police inspector forced by his wife to eat rich gourmet food in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972).

He was also seen as Q in Sean Connery’s 1983 one-off comeback as James Bond, Never Say Never Again. His last screen appearance was a cameo in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York in 2002.

Television credits included the Whitehall spy-catcher title role in two series of Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1984-85), Dr Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (1986) and Sir Robert Peel in Victoria and Albert (2001).

He published two volumes of autobiography – Young Gemini (1979) and Double Bill (1980) – and was appointed an OBE in 1972 and a CBE in 1986. His partner, the actor Geoffrey Burridge, died in 1987.

Alexander Duncan McCowen was born on May 26, 1925, and died on February 6, aged 91

Alec McCowen (1925–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

2002 Gangs of New York - Reverend Raleigh (as Alec Mccowen)
2001 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) - Sir Christian Aubrey
- The Electric Vendetta (2001) ... Sir Christian Aubrey
2001 Victoria & Albert (TV Series) - Sir Robert Peel
2000 David Copperfield (TV Movie) - Mr. Jorkins
2000 Longitude (TV Movie) - Sir Frank Dyson

1999 Kavanagh QC (TV Series) - Mr. Justice Mansell
- Previous Convictions (1999) ... Mr. Justice Mansell
1998 The American (TV Movie) - Henry James (voice)
1996 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Narrator
- A Day on the Mountain (1996) ... Narrator (voice)
1995 Cruel Train (TV Movie) - Supt. Fish
1992-1994 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (TV Series short) - Narrator
- King Richard III (1994) ... Narrator (voice)
- Macbeth (1992) ... Narrator (voice)
1993 The Age of Innocence - Sillerton Jackson
1992 Screen Two (TV Series) - Father Eugene McCarthy
- Maria's Child (1992) ... Father Eugene McCarthy
1991 The War That Never Ends (TV Movie) - Thucydides

1989 Henry V - Bishop of Ely
1983-1989 Storyboard (TV Series) - Aeneas Sampson / Palfrey
- Hunted Down (1989) ... Aeneas Sampson
- The Traitor (1983) ... Palfrey
1989 Bergerac (TV Series) - Trenchard
- Trenchard's Last Case (1989) ... Trenchard
1987 Cry Freedom - Acting High Commissioner
1987 Personal Services - Wing Commander Morten
1986 The Importance of Being Earnest (TV Movie) - Dr. Chasuble
1985 The Assam Garden - Mr. Philpott
1984-1985 Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (TV Series) - Mr Palfrey - 10 episodes
1984 The Young Visiters - J. M. Barrie
1984 Squaring the Circle (TV Movie) - Rakowski
1984 The World Walk (TV Movie) - Albert Speer
1983 Forever Young - Father Vincent
1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Sir James Peele Edgerton
1983 Never Say Never Again - 'Q' Algy
1982 All for Love (TV Series) - Silcox
- A Dedicated Man (1982) ... Silcox
1981 Plays for Pleasure (TV Series) - Ralph
- The Reason of Things (1981) ... Ralph
1980 Twelfth Night (TV Movie) - Malvolio

1979 Henry V (TV Movie) - Chorus
1979 Hanover Street - Major Trumbo
1978 Stevie - Freddy
1978 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - The Count
- When the Actors Come (1978) ... The Count
1977 The Sunday Drama (TV Series) - Lampard
- The Late Wife (1977) ... Lampard
1976 Private Lives (TV Movie) - Elyot Chase
1976 Centre Play (TV Series) - Finn
- Showcase: A Man of Morality (1976) ... Finn
1974 The President's Last Tape (TV Movie) - Nicholas Hathaway, President of the United States
1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - James Addishaw
- A Point of Law (1973) ... James Addishaw
1973 Chronicle (TV Series documentary) - D.H. Lawrence
- The Mystery of the Etruscans (1973) ... D.H. Lawrence (voice)
1972 Travels with My Aunt - Henry
1972 Play for Today (TV Series) - Percy
- Triple Exposure (1972) ... Percy
1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Harry Whichelow
- The Birdwatcher (1972) ... Harry Whichelow
1972 Frenzy - Chief Inspector Tim Oxford
1970 The Hawaiians - Micah Hale
1970 Solo (TV Series) - Van Gogh
- Alec McCowen as Van Gogh (1970) ... Van Gogh

1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Harry
- The Family Reunion (1966) ... Harry
1966 The Witches - Alan Bax
1965-1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Alfred Poole / Private Secretary
- Ape and Essence (1966) ... Alfred Poole
- Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word... (1965) ... Private Secretary
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Willie
- 'Twas on a Sunday (1966) ... Willie
1965-1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Philip / Martin Luther
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1966) ... Philip
- Luther (1965) ... Martin Luther
1965 The Agony and the Ecstasy - Cardinal (uncredited)
1957-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Ralph Quantick / Brandon
- When the Wind Blows (1965) ... Ralph Quantick
- Rope (1957) ... Brandon
1965 Alexander Graham Bell (TV Series) - Alexander Graham Bell - 6 episodes
1964 Festival (TV Series) - Antipholus of Syracuse
- The Comedy of Errors (1964) ... Antipholus of Syracuse
1963 In the Cool of the Day - Dickie Bayliss
1963 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Rodway
- A Good Night's Work (1963) ... John Rodway
1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Mr. Brown
1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Tom O'Neill
- Call Me Back (1962) ... Tom O'Neill
1959-1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Roland / Victor Leach
- The Mirror Maze (1960) ... Roland
- Sunday Out of Season (1959) ... Victor Leach

1959 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Maurice Bouillet
- The Model Marriage (1959) ... Maurice Bouillet
1959 Love and Mr Lewisham (TV Series) - Mr. George Lewisham - 6 episodes
1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bottom (voice)
1952-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Edgar Perry / Alexander Wood / Johnny Pringle / ... - 6 episodes
1958 The Doctor's Dilemma - Redpenny
1958 A Night to Remember - Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Sammy Noles
- Call Me a Liar (1958) ... Sammy Noles
1958 The Little Beggars (TV Movie) - Mack Heath
1958 The Silent Enemy - Able Seaman Morgan
1957-1958 Angel Pavement (TV Series) - Turgis - 4 episodes
1957 The One That Got Away - Duty Officer, Hucknall
1957 Time Without Pity - Alec Graham
1957 The Good Companions - Albert
1957 Town on Trial - Peter Crowley (as Alec Mc Cowen)
1956 The Third Key - House Surgeon (as Alec McOwen)
1956 No Man's Land (TV Movie) - Major Richard Weston
1956 Private's Progress - 2nd Medical Orderly (uncredited)
1955 The Deep Blue Sea - Ken Thompson
1954 The Divided Heart - Reporter
1953 Escapade (TV Movie) - Daventry (as Alex McCowen)
1953 The Cruel Sea

RichardTheBruce

February 7th:

1952: Anne Rothermore finalizes her divorce and plans a March wedding with Ian Fleming.

1962: The Dr. No film crew arrives at St. Ann's Bay, Ocho Rios, north coast of Jamaica.
1964: From Russia With Love released in Ireland.

1970: Þrumufleygur (Thunderbolt) released in Iceland.

Hey--

1970: John Barry's On Her Majesty's Secret Service soundtrack charts in the US, eventually reaching #103.

1985: Matt Munro dies at age 54--Ealing, London, England. (Born 1 December 1930--London, England.)

Matt Monro, Britain's 'Cockney Como,' Dies at 54
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-02-08/news/mn-4672_1_matt-monro
February 08, 1985|BURT A. FOLKART | Times Staff Writer

Matt Monro, an East London bus driver who perfected his lyrical baritone techniques while serenading his passengers, died Thursday of liver cancer in London.

The popularizer of such hits as "Born Free" and "From Russia With Love" died in London's Cromwell Hospital after a liver transplant operation was deemed useless two weeks ago.

Likened to Perry Como because of his effortless versions of the ballads of the day, Monro, 54, had the speaking voice of a Cockney but phrased like an English troubadour. Although he once had a succession of such hit recordings as "My Kind of Girl," "Portrait of My Love," "Softly, As I Leave You" and "Yesterday," in recent years he had been out of the international arena and his appearances limited to nightclubs and cameos on British television.

Munro admitted in the late 1960s that alcohol had once been a problem but that he had overcome it. He also confessed to being an ongoing nicotine addict.

'Smoked Incessantly'

"I have smoked incessantly since I started at 9 on tea leaves," he had said. "If they're announcing, 'Ladies and Gentlemen--Matt Monro,' I'll light a cigarette because I know we've got two minutes of overture time and I can have a puff."

Monro, who was born Terence Parsons in London's middle-class East End, got his first paying job as a lorry operator. He later graduated to buses. But even as a boy, he told The Times in a 1968 interview when he was appearing in Las Vegas, he had always wanted to sing.

He took those frustrated ambitions out on his passengers who encouraged him, and he soon made his debut in small clubs.

In 1960 he recorded "Portrait of My Love" and followed it with "Walk Away." Both were popular in England and abroad but it was his agent, lyricist Don Black, who made Monro a true international star.

Monro recorded Black's lyrics to "Born Free," the theme from the film about a lioness domesticated by a British couple in Africa, and the song topped charts in Britain, America and Japan.

He also had capitalized on a recording industry oversight. One of The Beatles' most popular tunes, "Yesterday," had not been released as a single and Monro, by then called the "Cockney Como," soon filled that gap with his own version.

Favorite Among Fellow Vocalists

It stayed on Britain's Top 10 for months.

His warm, relaxed interpretations of old and new songs and his gentle phrasing made him a favorite among fellow vocalists.

Frank Sinatra once said that Monro was the only British singer he ever listened to.

Monro's hospitalization and recent illnesses were kept from the public until an exploratory operation Jan. 20 revealed that his cancer had spread too far for a liver transplant to save him.

He is survived by his wife, Mickie, and three children.

Matt Monro (1930–1985)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598448/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Soundtrack (32 credits)

2016 Cuéntame (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- La boda de cristal (2016) ... (performer: "No puedo quitar mis ojos de tí (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)")
2014/II Nightingale (performer: "The Good Life" (La Belle Vie))
2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) (performer: "From Russia With Love")
2011 Rude Tube (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Extreme Rides (2011) ... (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
2010 Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The European Grand Prix: Qualifying (2010) ... (performer: "From Russia With Love" - uncredited)
2010 From Paris with Love (performer: " They Long to Be - Close to You"))
2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Yesterday")
2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (performer: "Put on a Happy Face")

1997 Super Speedway (Documentary) (performer: "On Days Like These")
1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (performer: "Born Free")
1990 The Krays (performer: "Walk Away")

1985 The Humans and The Jinns (performer: "Yesterday")
1983 Lady Is a Tramp (TV Series) (performer: "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Title theme))
1980 The Sea Wolves (performer: "The Precious Moments")

1978 Tomorrow Never Comes (performer: "Alone am I")
1973 Three Giant Men (performer: "The Southern Star")
1972 Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3 (1972) ... (performer: "The Second Time Around", "Time After Time", "I Want to Be Happy")
1970 Hoffman (performer: "If there ever Is a next time")
1970 Satan's Harvest (performer: "Two People")

1969 Burbujas (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Sueños y pesadillas (1969) ... (performer: "Alguien cantó", "Qué tiempo tan feliz (Those Were the Days)", "Todo pasará")
1969 The Italian Job (performer: "On Days Like These")
1969 The Southern Star (performer: "The Southern Star")
1967 A Matter of Innocence (performer: "Pretty Polly")
1966 The Quiller Memorandum (performer: Theme Song - "WEDNESDAY'S CHILD")
1966 Born Free (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
1965 Go Go Mania (performer: "Pop Gear", "Walk Away" (uncredited), "For Mamma" (uncredited))
1964 Shindig! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.12 (1964) ... (performer: "My Kind of Girl', "Walk Away")
1964 The Eurovision Song Contest (TV Special) (performer: "I Love The Little Things")
1964 A Song for Europe (TV Movie) (performer: "Choose", "Its Funny How You Know", "I've Got the Moon on My Side", "Ten Out of Ten", "Beautiful, Beautiful")
1963 From Russia with Love (performer: "From Russia with Love")

1959 The Chaplin Revue (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas")
1923 The Pilgrim (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas" (1971))

Actor (2 credits)

1970 Satan's Harvest - Bates

1961 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode #15.16 (1961) ... Singer
- Episode #15.6 (1961) ... Singer

2008: BOND 22 films at (the former) Howard Air Force Base, Panama City, substituting for Haiti and Bolivia.

The National Institute of Culture of Panama subs for a Bolivian hotel. Director Marc Forster is frustrated by the limitations for filming at Panama's Fort Sherman, a former US military base, on the Colón coast. His vision of the harbour boat chase is grander than circumstances allow.

2008: BOND 22 teaser poster revealed online.

2019: Albert Finney dies at age 82--London, England.
(Born 9 May 1936--Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England.)

Albert Finney obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-obituary
Actor hailed as the new Olivier but who preferred playing
working-class heroes to classical roles
Michael Coveney | Fri 8 Feb 2019 13.04 EST

One of the new-style working-class heroes and shooting stars of the 1960s, the actor Albert Finney, who has died aged 82, enjoyed a rich and varied career that never quite fulfilled its early promise. Like Richard Burton before him and Kenneth Branagh after him, he was expected to become the new Laurence Olivier, the leader of his profession, on stage and on screen.

That this never quite happened was no fault of Finney’s. He worked intensely in two periods at the National Theatre, was an active film producer as well as occasional director, and remained a glowering, formidable presence in the movies long after he had been nominated five times for an Oscar (without ever winning). Although a stalwart company member – Peter Hall paid heartfelt tribute to his leadership and to his acting at the National – he led his life, personal and professional, at his own tempo.
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From middle age onwards – and he was only 47 when he gave one of those Oscar-nominated performances, the fruity old actor defying the blitz, Donald Wolfit-style, in Peter Yates’s The Dresser, written by Ronald Harwood – he assumed a physical bulk and serenity that bespoke a life of ease, far from the madding crowd, in good restaurants and on Irish racecourses. He never courted publicity.

His unusual, cherubic face, slightly puffy and jowly, but with high cheekbones, the face of an unmarked boxer, was always a reminder of his sensational breakthrough in two signature British films, Karel Reisz’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) – his line as the Nottingham bruiser Arthur Seaton, “What I want is a good time; the rest is all propaganda”, could serve as a professional epitaph – and Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones (1963), a lubricious historical romp that imparted a metaphorical mood of the swinging 60s.

Finney was the new roaring boy of that high-spirited, colourful decade – cheeky, northern and working-class. Born in Salford, he was the son of Albert Finney Sr, a bookmaker, and his wife, Alice (nee Hobson); as it happens, also born that day was another Lancastrian “new wave” actor, Glenda Jackson.

Young Albert attended Tootal Drive primary school and Salford grammar. He flunked his exams but played leading roles in 15 school plays and went south to London and Rada, where he was in a class that included Peter O’Toole, Tom Courtenay, Frank Finlay, John Stride and Brian Bedford. While still a student, as Troilus in a modern play, he was spotted by Kenneth Tynan – the best-known critic of the day – who proclaimed a “smouldering young Spencer Tracy ... who will soon disturb the dreams of Messrs Burton and Scofield”. And so it proved. His rise was instant and meteoric. He played Brutus, Hamlet, Henry V and Macbeth at the Birmingham Rep, and in 1956 made his London debut in the Old Vic’s production of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1958 he played opposite Charles Laughton in Jane Arden’s The Party at the Arts theatre.


Albert Finney with Diane Cilento in the film Tom Jones, 1963, directed by Tony Richardson.
Photograph: Allstar/Woodfall Film

He followed Laughton to Stratford, joining a stellar company under the direction of Glen Byam Shaw, and played Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Laughton was Bottom) and Cassio with Paul Robeson as Othello and Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. He also understudied (and went on for, to sensational effect) Olivier as Coriolanus.

But Finney was a modern actor not really destined for classical eminence. Much more his style was the insolence and daydreaming of Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall at the Cambridge theatre, though the role on film went to Tom Courtenay. At the Royal Court he took the lead roles in a satirical musical, The Lily White Boys, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and in John Osborne’s vitriolic, tumultuous Luther (the latter in the West End, later on Broadway); he made his film debut opposite Olivier in The Entertainer in 1960.

A pattern of oscillation between theatre and cinema was soon established, as he bookended his first major stint at the National, in the great Olivier company, with screen appearances in Reisz’s 1964 remake of Emlyn Williams’s psychological thriller Night Must Fall and Stanley Donen’s delightful study of a disintegrating relationship, scripted by Frederic Raphael in flash back and fast forward, Two For the Road (1967). Finney’s leading lady in the latter, Audrey Hepburn, was not the first nor last of his amorous work-and-pleasure intrigues.

His NT appearances in 1965 and 1966 were as a strutting Don Pedro in Franco Zeffirelli’s Sicilian take on Much Ado About Nothing (with Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens), the lead in John Arden’s Armstrong’s Last Goodnight, a great double of the candescent upstart Jean in Strindberg’s Miss Julie and the outrageous Harold Gorringe in Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy, topped off with the double-dealing, split-personality Chandebise in Jacques Charon’s definitive production of Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear.

Then he was off again, having founded Memorial films in 1965 with his great friend and fellow actor Michael Medwin, directing and starring in Charlie Bubbles (1968), written by his fellow Salfordian Shelagh Delaney (author of A Taste of Honey) and featuring Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli. He co-produced Lindsay Anderson’s savage public school satire If … (1968), bankrolled Mike Leigh’s first feature film, Bleak Moments (1971), and gave Stephen Frears his movie-directing debut on Gumshoe, a brilliant homage to film noir as well as a good story (written by Neville Smith) about a bingo caller (Finney) in a trenchcoat with delusions of being Humphrey Bogart. He even had time to disguise himself totally as a wispily senile Scrooge in Ronald Neame’s 1970 film, with Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley and Edith Evans as the Ghost of Christmas Past.


Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1970 film based on Dickens’s novel.
Photograph: Waterbury/Cinema Center/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

An invitation to return to the Royal Court as an associate director (1972-75) resulted in one of his blistering stage performances, opposite Rachel Roberts, in EA Whitehead’s Alpha Beta. He directed Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City and a revival of Joe Orton’s Loot, and appeared in David Storey’s Cromwell and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.

The reminiscing Krapp unspooled his old Grundig on a double bill with Billie Whitelaw’s hectic jabbering in Not I, and Finney confided in Whitelaw his lack of rapport with the playwright: “You know the way I work, I take all the different paints out of the cupboard, I mix the colours together. If they’re not right, I shove them all back and take out a new lot.” Whitelaw advised him to dispose of all the colours and retain the white, black and grey.

He was much happier unbuttoning in Peter Nichols’s sharp West End comedy Chez Nous and embodying Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet’s star-laden Murder on the Orient Express (1974). But he returned to the National under Peter Hall during the difficult transition period from the Old Vic to the South Bank.

Over six years from 1974, as striking technicians and unconvinced critics lined up to try to scupper the new building, Finney ploughed on as a bullish, tormented Hamlet, a lascivious Horner in The Country Wife, the perfect arriviste Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard and a disappointing Macbeth. The centrepiece was his heroic, muscular and glistening Tamburlaine in Peter Hall’s 1976 defiant staging of Marlowe’s two-part mighty epic, twirling an axe to deadly effect.

This performance marked Finney’s grandest, if not necessarily finest, hour on stage; he appeared briefly at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in 1977 to deliver beautifully modulated performances as Uncle Vanya and an ultra-credible woman-slaying Gary Essendine in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. Another long absence from the theatre ended with a stunning performance as a roguish Chicago hoodlum in Lyle Kessler’s Orphans at the Hampstead theatre in 1986 (and a movie version a year later) and another great turn as a Catholic priest, held hostage and deprived of his faith, in Harwood’s JJ Farr at the Phoenix theatre.

Finney was now nearly a grand old man, but without the seigneurial distinction of either Olivier or Gielgud. He was delightful and dewy-eyed, eventually, as a bald Daddy Warbucks in John Huston’s film of Annie (1982), but truly magnificent as the alcoholic British consul – “a drunk act to end all drunk acts” said one critic – in Huston’s Under the Volcano (1984), adapted from the novel by Malcolm Lowry.


Albert Finney as the detective Hercule Poirot in the film Murder on the Orient Express (1974), directed by Sidney Lumet. Photograph: Allstar/Studiocanal/EMI

That performance should have won the Oscar, perhaps, but he remained a near-miss nominee, as he had done in The Dresser (1983). On stage, the beautiful, bolshie boy had settled into ruminative, but always interesting, late middle age, notably in Harwood’s ingeniously structured Another Time (1989), in which he played a bankrupt Jewish commercial traveller and, in the second act, his own musician son, 35 years later; another Harwood play, Reflected Glory (1992), allowed him to let rip as a breezy Mancunian restaurateur confronted with a critical family play written by his own playwright brother (though it was slightly unsettling to see Finney, the brave new Turk, siding with Harwood’s contempt for “modish” contemporary theatre manners).

His last stage appearance reunited him in 1996 with his old friend Courtenay in Yasmina Reza’s Art, at Wyndham’s, a play about friendship being threatened by the purchase of a white painting for a lot of money. Courtenay was the art-loving dermatologist, Finney hilarious and exasperated as an astronautical engineer appalled by the purchase.

Harwood scripted a new film version of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version (1994), directed by Mike Figgis, but Finney was probably as unwise to assume Michael Redgrave’s mantle as the unloved classics teacher as he was to play the Ralph Richardson role of Henry James’s Dr Austin Sloper in Agnieszka Holland’s Washington Square (1997), a remake of William Wyler’s far superior The Heiress.

Finney, it seemed, was selecting his movie scripts for their surprise and eclectic qualities, rather than any urgency about fulfilling his destiny as a great actor. But he was much racier on film than on stage. He honed his gangster act as a dodgy politician in the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing (1990), bumbled irascibly as a retired track official in Matthew Warchus’s Simpatico (1999), an underrated version of a difficult Sam Shepard play, and added a touch of class (and a wayward American accent) as the small-town lawyer in Steven Soderbergh’s crusading Erin Brockovich (2000), opposite a rejuvenated, tremendous Julia Roberts, which brought his fifth and last Oscar nomination.

His best, and now often elegiac, performances materialised sporadically on television: as Maurice Allington in The Green Man (1991), adapted from a Kingsley Amis novel; as Reggie in A Rather English Marriage (1998), alongside Courtenay; and as Churchill in The Gathering Storm (2002), written by Hugh Whitemore, with Vanessa Redgrave as his wife.

In Hollywood, he clocked in for Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and the third in a superb trilogy adapted from Robert Ludlum’s spy action thrillers, starring Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass’s The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). His last movie credits came in The Bourne Legacy and the Bond film Skyfall (both 2012).

Finney, always known as Albie, was rumoured to have declined both a CBE and a knighthood. In 1957 he married the actor Jane Wenham; they had a son, Simon, and divorced in 1961. His marriage to the French actor Anouk Aimée in 1970 ended in divorce eight years later. He then had a long relationship with the actor Diana Quick – the pair were for a while feared missing up the Amazon. In 2006 he married Pene Delmage, who survives him, along with Simon.

• Albert Finney, actor, born 9 May 1936; died 7 February 2019

Entertainment & Arts
Albert Finney: Daniel Craig leads tributes to late Bond co-star

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47175279

Albert Finney (1936–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (65 credits)

2012 Skyfall - Kincade
2012 The Bourne Legacy - Dr. Albert Hirsch

2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Charles
2007 The Bourne Ultimatum - Dr. Albert Hirsch
2006 Amazing Grace - John Newton
2006 A Good Year - Uncle Henry
2005 Aspects of Love - George Dillingham
2005 Corpse Bride - Finis Everglot (voice)
2004 Ocean's Twelve - Gaspar LeMarque (uncredited)
2003 Big Fish - Ed Bloom - Senior
2001-2003 My Uncle Silas (TV Series) - Uncle Silas - 9 episodes
2002 The Gathering Storm (TV Movie) - Winston Churchill
2001 Delivering Milo - Elmore Dahl
2001 Hemingway, the Hunter of Death - Ernest Hemingway
2000 Traffic - Chief of Staff
2000 Erin Brockovich - Ed Masry

1999 Simpatico - Simms
1999 Breakfast of Champions - Kilgore Trout
1998 A Rather English Marriage (TV Movie) - Reggie Conyngham-Jervis
1997 Washington Square - Dr. Austin Sloper
1996-1997 Nostromo (TV Mini-Series) - Dr. Monygham
- Episode #1.1 (1997) ... Dr. Monygham
- Episode #1.4 (1996) ... Dr. Monygham
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Dr. Monygham
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Dr. Monygham
1996 Cold Lazarus (TV Mini-Series) - Daniel Feeld
- Episode #1.4 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
- Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
1996 Karaoke (TV Mini-Series) - Daniel Feeld
- Friday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
- Thursday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
- Wednesday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
- Tuesday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
1995 The Run of the Country - Danny's Father
1994 A Man of No Importance - Alfred Byrne
1994 The Browning Version - Andrew Crocker-Harris
1992 Rich in Love - Warren Odom
1992 The Playboys - Constable Brendan Hegarty
1990 The Green Man (TV Mini-Series) - Maurice
- Episode #1.3 (1990) ... Maurice
- Episode #1.2 (1990) ... Maurice
- Episode #1.1 (1990) ... Maurice
1990 Miller's Crossing - Leo
1990 The Image (TV Movie) - Jason Cromwell

1989 The Endless Game (TV Mini-Series) - Alec Hillsden
- Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Alec Hillsden
- Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Alec Hillsden
1987 A Simple Man (TV Movie) - Introduction
1987 Orphans - Harold
1984 The Biko Inquest (TV Movie) - Sidney Kentridge, for Biko family
1984 Under the Volcano - Geoffrey Firmin
1984 Pope John Paul II (TV Movie) - Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
1983 The Dresser - Sir
1982 Annie - Daddy Warbucks
1982 Shoot the Moon - George Dunlap
1981 Looker - Dr. Larry Roberts
1981 Wolfen - Dewey Wilson
1981 Loophole - Mike Daniels

1977 The Duellists - Fouché
1975 The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother - Man in Audience at Opera (uncredited)
1975 Forget-Me-Not-Lane (TV Movie) - Frank
1974 Murder on the Orient Express - Hercule Poirot
1974 Alpha Beta - Frank Elliot
1971 Gumshoe - Eddie Ginley
1970 Scrooge - Ebenezer Scrooge

1969 The Picasso Summer - George Smith
1968 Charlie Bubbles - Charlie Bubbles
1967 Two for the Road - Mark Wallace
1964 Night Must Fall - Danny
1963 The Victors - Russian Soldier
1963 Tom Jones - Tom Jones
1960 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Billy Fisher
- Billy Liar (1960) ... Billy Fisher
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Arthur Seaton
1960 The Entertainer - Mick Rice

1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Lysander
1959 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Tom Fletcher
- Episode #1.208 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
- Episode #1.207 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
- Episode #1.206 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
- Episode #1.204 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
1958 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Arnold
- View Friendship and Marriage (1958) ... Arnold
1957 The Claverdon Road Job (TV Movie) - PC George Grayson
1956 The Miser (TV Movie) - Cléante
1956 She Stoops to Conquer (TV Movie) - Mr. Hardcastle

Producer (12 credits)

1974 Law and Disorder (producer - uncredited)
1974 Alpha Beta (producer - uncredited)
1973 O Lucky Man! (producer - uncredited)
1971 Gumshoe (producer - uncredited)
1971 Bleak Moments (producer - uncredited)
1971 Loving Memory (producer - uncredited)
1970 NBC Experiment in Television (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- The Engagement (1970) ... (producer - uncredited)
1970 Spring and Port Wine (producer - uncredited)

1968 If.... (producer - uncredited)
1968 The Burning (Short) (producer - uncredited)
1967 Privilege (producer - uncredited)
1964 Night Must Fall (producer - uncredited)

Soundtrack (6 credits)
2005 Corpse Bride (performer: "According to Plan")

1990 The Wall: Live in Berlin (Video documentary) (performer: "The Trial")

1982 Annie (performer: "Let's Go To The Movies", "Sign", "Tomorrow (White House Version)", "Maybe (Same Effect On Everyone)", "Finale Medley: I Don't Need Anything But You/We Got Annie/Tomorrow" - uncredited)

1970 Scrooge (performer: "I Hate People", "You...You", "I Like Life", "Happiness (reprise)", "Thank You Very Much", "I'll Begin Again", "I Like Life (reprise)", "Father Christmas / Thank You Very Much (reprise)", "A Christmas Carol (reprise)" - uncredited)

1969 The Picasso Summer (performer: "Hey Ho The Wind and the Rain" - uncredited)
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ("Here Comes the Bride", uncredited)

Director (2 credits)

1984 The Biko Inquest (TV Movie)

1968 Charlie Bubbles

RichardTheBruce

February 8th

1962: Dr. No films Honey Ryder emerging from the sea at Laughing Waters, Jamaica. Botticelli's Venus.

Terence Young:

I saw some people ruin my shot, walking down the beach towards me.
We waved them and screamed, “Lie down!” They all lay down and we shot
the scene, and we forgot about them. Half an hour later Clive Reed said,
“Whatever happened to those geezers on the beach?” and I said, “You better
go see.” He came back with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, Stephen Spender,
the poet and Peter Cornell, the critic. Those were the four; it was quite
a bridge game. That was the first time Ian came on a Bond set.’

1962: The Gleaner reports on Ocho Rios area locals objecting to almost 100 production-related jobs with EON going to Kingstonians.

2002: Media reports say Madonna will sing the title theme of BOND 20, which does not yet have a title.
2008: Quantum of Solace films OO7 refusing to stay at the Bolivian Hotel.

2015: Spectre films at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #2.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #2

Cover A: Mike Perkins
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: February 2017
ON SALE DATE: 2/8

It was supposed to be an easy mission. Hot on the trail of a Russian agent in Tokyo, Felix Leiter is unwittingly drawn into the investigation of a major terrorist attack when a suicidal cultist releases a bio-weapon in Shinjuku. Now Felix and Tiger Tanaka - the Japanese James Bond - must track down the villainous cult leader responsible, and unravel the mystery behind their deadly new biological weapon...

2018: Anthony Horowitz announces the title of his second James Bond novel as Forever and a Day. To be published 31 May 2018, it will include original Fleming material.

RichardTheBruce

February 9th

1962: The Sunday Times publishes Ian Fleming's story "The Living Daylights",
causing a conflict with The Daily Express.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 13 - Heart Problems

On 9 February 1962 the new Sunday
Times colour magazine duly appeared with Ian’s story, though the overall
Reception was distinctly cool. The very next day the long-running James
Bond cartoon strip in Beavenbrook’s Daily Express was abruptly curtailed.
Less than half the current story, Thunderball, had been published. The
Friday strip had left the villain aboard a jet airliner muttering, “The Spectre
people said that five minutes more would be long enough to kill them
all. “ On Monday the artist and caption writer were told the series was
ending. They had one more strip in which to conclude the narrative. They
cobbled together the remaining picture frames, adding an abrupt final
paragraph “Giuseppe flies the stolen atom bomber to the Bahamas and
the bombs are hidden in the sea. Spectre’s ultimatum is sent to the British
and US governments – ‘£100,000,000 in gold or we explode the bombs in
your countries.’ Every agent, including Bond, searches for the bombs.
Bond finds them and the world is saved.”

1978: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes #396 Otra vez Scaramanga (Scaramanga Again), using the strips from artist Yaroslav Horak and writer Jim Lawrence.

They previously published D’Artagnan Extraordinario #350 as “El Hombre del Revolver de Oro” to adapt the 1974 film.

https://www.comicsroyale.com/editorial-columba#/tmwtgg/editorial-columba/

The Man With the Golden Gun

Originally Published: D’Artagnan Extraordinario #350 as “El Hombre del Revolver de Oro”
Story Type: Film adaptation
Writer: Alfredo Julio Grassi (under the pseudonym Fred W. Seymour)
Artist: Lito Fernandez
Translator: Clinton Rawls

Notes: Regrettably, this adaptation takes little to nothing from Ian Fleming’s posthumous novel which, while considered to be incomplete by some, does take Bond to some interesting depths as a character. Fleming also creates a compelling villain in Scaramanga as he dives headfirst into playing with American Western fiction archetypes and imagery, much as he had done in the novel Diamonds Are Forever. The film version of Scaramanga lost much of what made the novel version interesting, though the character is memorably portrayed by Christopher Lee.

This adaptation follows Guy Hamilton’s film version quite faithfully and in tightening the narrative manages to eliminate some of the film’s sillier moments and characters, along with—regrettably—some of its more memorable elements as well.

1983: Bond comic strip Flittermouse begins its run in The Daily Express (Ends 20 May 1983. 553-624)
John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1028

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=870828


Swedish Semic Comic 1984 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1984.php3
Vampyrernas Härskare (Flittermouse)
https://www.comics.org/issue/73111/cover/4/

Norwegian 1984 https://www.comics.org/issue/369589/
Vampyrenes herskere

Swedish Semic 1993 https://www.comics.org/issue/74014/#496710
Operation Xanadu; Vampyrernas härskare

1995: BOND 17 films interiors for the Janus Satellite Control Center.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Janus_Satellite_Control_Center

1996: 007: Kuldsilm released in Estonia.

1998: Nintendo releases James Bond 007 for Game Boy, a video game developed by Saffire.

Title Music

Full Play

2006: Casino Royale films the pre-title sequence and Bond's first two kills.
2012: Skyfall films OO7 and M escaping to the Scottish highlands in the Aston Martin DB5.

2020: No Time To Die 30 second TV trailer airs during the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony.

Thunderfinger

@RichardTheBruce , that TMWTGG comic is a great find. I really enjoyed that.

Btw, the magazine labeled as Finnish above is Norwegian.

BT3366

Thunderfinger wrote: »

@RichardTheBruce , that TMWTGG comic is a great find. I really enjoyed that.

Btw, the magazine labeled as Finnish above is Norwegian.

Me as well. Any other adaptations like that to be shared?

RichardTheBruce

I have to take your word as the source on that, @Thunderfinger, correction made. For the other one I actually didn't have a publish date, but was able to relate it to the "Scaramanga Again" situation. Of course I enjoyed it just as much.

Thanks, @BT3366,

the rest that are available will be shared here over time. If you choose to cut to the chase here is the link.

https://www.comicsroyale.com/editorial-columba#/nsna/editorial-columba/

RichardTheBruce

February 10th

1941: Michael David Apted is born--Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

1962: Bond comic strip Thunderball in The Daily Express (started 11 December 1961; 1066-1128 ) suddenly ends midstream, due to a dispute over Fleming's arrangement to premiere his short story "The Living Daylights" in the competition--The Sunday Times. Later resolved, and comics resume in 1964's Daily Express with On Her Majesty's Secret Service. John McLusky, illustrator. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-6-eng/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 6: “Thunderball” (1966)

1966: Thunderball premieres in Dublin, Ireland.

http://obsessional.uk/facts.htm

February 10th 1966 saw a charity premiere held at the Savoy in Dublin. Luciana Paluzzi, Molly Peters, Kevin McClory and Cubby Broccoli were amongst the guests. This was followed by a party held by McClory at the Gresham Hotel.

1995: GoldenEye starts filming its Q scenes.

2013: BAFTAs awarded to BOND 23 for Best British Film, Best Original Music. Nominations included Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Roger Deakins.
2015: Daniel Craig returns to the filming of Spectre following a knee injury.

RichardTheBruce

February 11th

1961: Carey Lowell is born--Huntington, New York.
1962: Sheryl Crow is born--Kennett, Missouri.
1966: Thunderball general release in Ireland.

1987: The Prince and Princess of Wales visit the Pinewood set of The Living Daylights.

2015: EON releases the first official photo of BOND 24.

2020: No Time to Die reveals more character posters.

RichardTheBruce

February 12th

1936: Joe Don Baker is born--Groesbeck, Texas.

1942: Maud Solveig Christina Wikström (Maud Adams) is born--Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden.

1967: Altinparmak (Goldfinger) released in Turkey.

Later paperback cover art.

1987: The Living Daylights production films the scene in Gibraltar wherein OO7 witnesses the death of OO4.

1997: BOND 18 make-up and lighting tests for Jonathan Pryce.

2005: Composer John Barry receives the BAFTA Fellowship award at The Orange British Academy Film Awards, Odeon Leicester Square, London.

2013: Skyfall released on DVD and Bluray in the US.

2014: Television mini-series Fleming premieres in the UK.

2015: A fire at Pierce Brosnan's five-mansion estate in Malibu destroys his Aston Martin Vanquish.

2015: The Spectre production shares a behind the scenes teaser of comments and footage in Austria.

RichardTheBruce

February 13th

1916: Joseph Fürst is born--Vienna, Austria.
(He dies 29 November 2005 at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)

Joseph Fürst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Furst
Joseph Fürst (13 February 1916 – 29 November 2005) was an Austrian-born international film and television actor known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia, after first appearing on the Canadian stage.

Career
Fürst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace. Many people believe his accent in this role to have been put on; this is incorrect, it is in fact his real accent. He also played the role of Schneider in the Armchair Theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", which launched Edward Woodward as the character of Callan. (The play led to the highly regarded Callan TV series.)

Fürst's notable film appearances included 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Dr Metz, and Inn of the Damned (1975).

He emigrated to Australia and starting in the mid-1970s acted in several guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He played an ongoing role in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi, who was introduced to the series as a new Italian family alongside Arianthe Galani and Harry Michaels, his character romanced wine bar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly). He also played Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1979, and was a guest on situation comedy Kingswood Country, again opposite Kennelly. He guest starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s. In 1984, he starred in the ABC TV film The Schippan Mystery.

Fürst was interviewed by Dwayne Bunney and Dallas Jones for "Loose Cannon" and spoke about his career in an interview to be an extra feature for the reconstruction of the missing Doctor Who story "The Underwater Menace". This interview took place shortly before his death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv2arY95lc

Joseph Fürst (1916–2005) Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299822/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (80 credits)

1986 Tusitala (TV Mini-Series) - Von Pilsarch
- Teller of Tales: Part Three (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
- Teller of Tales: Part Two (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
- The Teller of Tales: Part One (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
1985 The Dunera Boys (TV Mini-Series) - The Baron
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
1984 Special Squad (TV Series) - Raddich
- The Würzburg Link (1984) ... Raddich
1984 The Schippan Mystery (TV Movie) - Mathias Schippan
1982 Jonah (TV Mini-Series) - Hans Paach
- Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hans Paach
1982 A Country Practice (TV Series) - Alex Popovich
- Mates: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Mates: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Suffer Little Children: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Suffer Little Children: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
1980 Kingswood Country (TV Series) - Enzo Bertoluci
- There's No Place Like Rome (1980) ... Enzo Bertoluci
1980 Spy! (TV Series) - Colonel Malini
- The Venlo Incident (1980) ... Colonel Malini
1979-1980 Skyways (TV Series) - Poppa Fanelli / Pappa Fanelli
- Pili (1980) ... Poppa Fanelli
- Homecoming (1979) ... Pappa Fanelli

1976 The Young Doctors (TV Series) - Heinrik Smeaton (1978)
1976 Number 96 (TV Series) - Carlo Lenzi - 5 episodes
1976 Luke's Kingdom (TV Series) - Storekeeper,
- The Prisoner (1976) ... Storekeeper
- An Enemy Too Many (1976) ... Storekeeper
- Devil's Man (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Dam and the Damned (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Hypocrites (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The King's Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Surveyor (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Woman Waiting (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Man Worse Than Cormac (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Man From Home (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Bait (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Land Lovers (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Sort of Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
1975 Plugg - Judge, Fraudenheist
1975 Inn of the Damned - Lazar Straulle
1973-1975 Division 4 (TV Series) - Ernst Kaufmann / Emmanuel Czoski / Stefan Gronowski
- Check, Check, Check (1975) ... Ernst Kaufmann
- The Fanatic (1975) ... Emmanuel Czoski
- Today Is Eagle Day (1973) ... Stefan Gronowski
1974-1975 Behind the Legend (TV Series) - Ferdinand von Mueller
- Tom Roberts (1975)
- Ferdinand von Mueller (1974) ... Ferdinand von Mueller
1974 Mother's Day (TV Movie)
1974 The Evil Touch (TV Series) - Dr. Gornak
- Gornak's Prism (1974) ... Dr. Gornak
1973 ...And Millions Die! (TV Movie) - Franz Kessler
1973 Ryan (TV Series) - Eric Stahl
- Liz (1973) ... Eric Stahl
1972 The Money Game (TV Movie)
The Foreigner (voice)
1972 The Far Country (TV Series) - 5 episodes
- Episode #1.6 (1972)
- Episode #1.5 (1972)
- Episode #1.4 (1972)
- Episode #1.3 (1972)
- Episode #1.2 (1972)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Yelker
- The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Yelker (as Joseph Furst)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Dr Metz (as Joseph Furst)
1971 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Leon Mailer
- The Company of Madmen (1971) ... Leon Mailer
1971 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Josef Walczak
- Cue Murder! (1971) ... Josef Walczak
1970 Goodbye Gemini - Georgiu
1970 Sudden Terror - Local Police Sgt (as Joseph Furst)
1970 Callan (TV Series) - Sabovski
- A Village Called 'G' (1970) ... Sabovski (as Joseph Furst)
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Dr. Charles Goldsworthy
- Re-Entry Forbidden (1970) ... Dr. Charles Goldsworthy

1968-1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Dr. Rudolf Mueller / Chislenkan
- The Search (1969) ... Dr. Rudolf Mueller
- The Beginning (1968) ... Chislenkan
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - President Obotnik
- The Flag (1968) ... President Obotnik
1968 Vendetta (TV Series) - Paul Bonner
- The Anniversary Man (1968) ... Paul Bonner
1968 Hammerhead - Count Ortega
1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Zaluchin
- Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart (1968) ... Zaluchin
1967 Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) - Mr. Swyvoski
- Lucinda (1967) ... Mr. Swyvoski
1967 Theatre of Death - Karl Schiller (as Joseph Furst)
1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Schneider / Ekhart / Ex-King Gustavus III
- A Magnum for Schneider (1967) ... Schneider
- Till the Day I Die (1961) ... Ekhart
- A Heart and a Diamond (1960) ... Ex-King Gustavus III
1967 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 4 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 3 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff (as Joseph Furst)
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 2 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 1 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
1966 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Carl Mildenhoff
- An Epic in the Sand (1966) ... Carl Mildenhoff
1966 Arrivederci, Baby! - German Brasshat
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Brodzinski
- Corridors of Power (1966) ... Professor Brodzinski
1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Koplaski
- The Great Kopalski (1966) ... Koplaski
1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series)
Karel Jorovitch / Kane Luker / Dr. Ernst Zellerman
- The Russian Prisoner (1966) ... Karel Jorovitch (as Joseph Furst)
- The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Kane Luker
- The Saint Sees It Through (1963) ... Dr. Ernst Zellerman (as Joseph Furst)
1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu - Otto Lentz (as Joseph Furst)
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Colonel Bucholz
- Enemy of the State (1966) ... Colonel Bucholz
1961-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
Bertheimer / Dr. Heller / Lecherenko / ...
- Finesse in Diamonds (1965) ... Bertheimer
- The Finambulists (1963) ... Dr. Heller
- Freedom in September (1962) ... Lecherenko
- I Remember Mama (1961) ... Lars Papa Hanson
- The Poisoned Earth (1961) ... Dr. Brockmeyer
1965 McGuire, Go Home! - Dr. Andros
1964 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) -General Fitz Fromm
- The July Plot (1964) ... General Fitz Fromm
1964 The Midnight Men (TV Series) - King Alexander
- Promise to Kill (1964) ... King Alexander
- The King's Business (1964) ... King Alexander
- Time of Danger (1964) ... King Alexander
- The King Shall Die (1964) ... King Alexander
- The Man from Miditz (1964) ... King Alexander
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Von Elm
- Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... Von Elm
1963 Sergeant Cork (TV Series) - Ernst Lukas
- The Case of the Girl Upstairs (1963) ... Ernst Lukas
1963 55 Days at Peking - Capt. Hanselman (as Joseph Furst)
1963 Anna Christie (TV Movie) - Chris Christopherson
1962 Freud - Herr Jacob Koertner (as Joseph Furst)
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Glidepath (1962) ... (as Joseph Furst)
1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Doctor Korczak
- Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962) ... Doctor Korczak
1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Wilhelm
- Shadow of the Wall (1962) ... Wilhelm
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Gastin
- The Liars (1961) ... Gastin
1960-1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hauptmann Denker / Colonel von Kohl / Dr. Görtler
- Cross of Iron (1961) ... Hauptmann Denker
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Colonel von Kohl
- Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before (1960) ... Dr. Görtler
1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Koster
- Assassin (1961) ... Koster
1961 The Devil Inside - Paul Varna (as Joseph Furst)
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Judge
- The Sorcerer (1961) ... Judge (as Joseph Furst)
1961 A Coming-Out Party - Luftwaffe Interrogator (as Joseph Furst)
1960 Exodus - Avidan (as Joseph Furst)
1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Descius Heiss
- The Shop at Sly Corner (1960) ... Descius Heiss
1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Vasyl
- Violence at the Wedding (1960) ... Vasyl
1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jacob Leibmann
- The Protege (1960) ... Jacob Leibmann
1960 Skyport (TV Series) - Dr. Haltrecht
- Episode #1.44 (1960) ... Dr. Haltrecht
1960 Counter-Attack! (TV Series) - Major Heinrich Wolf
- Last Chance (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Guard Duty (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Traitor's Mark (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Secret Agent (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Sealed Orders (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Escape (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- White Flag (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf

1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor
- Echo from Afar (1959) ... Doctor
1953-1959 Encounter (TV Series) - Voller / ex-King Gustavus / Emil Thibodeau / ...
- A Leap in the Dark (1959)
- The Delicate Deal (1958) ... Voller
- A Heart and a Diamond (1958) ... ex-King Gustavus
- Chain Reaction (1958) ... Emil Thibodeau
- A Question of Discipline (1958) ... Joe Greenwood
- The Acrobats (1957)
- It's Murder in Algiers (1955) ... Kadis
- The Duke in Darkness (1954)
- Deadlier Than the Male (1954)
- A Look in the Mirror (1954)
- Flight Into Egypt (1954)
- Captain Carvallo (1953)
- Operation North Star (1953)
- Fortune My Foe (1953)
- Guilt (1953) ... Inspector
- The Vigil (1953) ... Prosecutor
- Othello (1953) ... Iago
1958-1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series)
- Mademoiselle Fifi (1959)
- The Ikon of Elijah (1958)
1957-1958 Folio (TV Series)
Doc Schwartz
- The Strong Are Lonely (1958)
- The Ottawa Man (1958) ... Doc Schwartz
- The Secret Agent (1957)
1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) - Policeman
1954-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Henry Barron / Mr. Klotsy
- The Absentee Murderer (1958) ... Henry Barron
- They Shot an Arrow (1956) ... Mr. Klotsy
- A Handful of Salt (1955)
- The Waltz (1955)
- Miracle at the Windsor (1954)
- The Bottle Imp (1954)
1955 First Performance (TV Series)
- The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Baron
- Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Baron
1955 Scope (TV Series)
- The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
1953-1955 Playbill (TV Series) - Vanluven
- The Mayerling Riddle (1955)
- Death Pulls No Strings (1955)
- Tobacco Farm (1954) ... Vanluven
- Greek Street (1953)
- Confession (1953)

Self (1 credit)

Citizen Varek (Short documentary) 1953

1970: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in Ireland.

1987: It's a wrap for the filming of The Living Daylights.

1995: BOND 17 filming of the Monaco-Monte Carlo scenes take place in England.

2002: Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson receive a special award from the London Film Critics' Circle recognizing the 40th anniversary of the James Bond films.

2017: Special effects company for BOND 25 readies a Bell UH-1D helicopter for transport from Germany to UK.

https://www.thebondbulletin.com/bond-25-bell-museum-helicopter-way-uk/

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Origin #6. Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #6

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244706011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Mirko Colak
Cover C: Sanya Anwar
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/13/2019

"Izabel" by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger).

The ongoing adventures of James Bond during World War II continue, in a standalone tale set in Lisbon. A savvy local woman knows how to survive and thrive, despite the hardships of war. But a desperate German scientist needs her help, and she becomes involved with a young British man, that's (not yet) very good at being a spy...

https://comicbookroundup.com/comic-books/reviews/dynamite-entertainment/james-bond-origin/6#&gid=1&pid=2






James Bond: Origin #6 (Cover A Cassaday)
https://forbiddenplanet.com/265027-james-bond-origin-6-cover-a-cassaday/

James Bond: Origin #6 (Cover B Colak)
https://forbiddenplanet.com/265028-james-bond-origin-6-cover-b-colak/

James Bond: Origin #6 (Cover C Anwar)
https://forbiddenplanet.com/265029-james-bond-origin-6-cover-c-anwar/

James Bond: Origin #6 (Cover D Moustafa)
https://forbiddenplanet.com/265030-james-bond-origin-6-cover-d-moustafa/

James Bond: Origin #6 (Cover E Bob Q)
https://forbiddenplanet.com/265031-james-bond-origin-6-cover-e-bob-q/

2020: BOND 25 planned release date in Germany and Portugal. (Later shifted to April 2020.)

Still, not too shabby, @j_w_pepper and others.

Release Dates

UK 31 March 2020 (London) (premiere)

Germany 2 April 2020
Spain 2 April 2020
UK 2 April 2020
Greece 2 April 2020
Netherlands 2 April 2020
Saudi Arabia 2 April 2020

Finland 3 April 2020
Ireland 3 April 2020
India 3 April 2020
Norway 3 April 2020
Poland 3 April 2020
Sweden 3 April 2020
Turkey 3 April 2020

2020: The No Time To Die title song "No Time To Die" sung by Billie Eilish comes available.

"No Time To Die", Billie Eilish
Produced by Stephen Lipson & FINNEAS

I should have known
I'd leave alone
Just goes to show
That the blood you bleed
Is just the blood you owe
We were a pair
But I saw you there
Too much to bear
You were my life, but life is far away from fair
Was I stupid to love you?
Was I reckless to help?
Was it obvious to everybody else?

[Chorus]
That I'd fallen for a lie
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die

[Verse 2]
I let it burn
You're no longer my concern
Faces from my past return
Another lesson yet to learn

[Chorus]
That I'd fallen for a lie
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die

[Refrain]
No time to die
No time to die

[Outro]
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die

Preview

RichardTheBruce

February 14th

1927: Lois Maxwell is born--Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
(She dies 29 September 2007--Fremantle, Australia.)

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

Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son.

Lois Maxwell (I) (1927–2007)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561755/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actress (88 credits)

2001 The Fourth Angel - Olivia

1998 Hard to Forget (TV Movie) - Helen Applewhite

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

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

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

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

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

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

1952: In part in reaction to his recent marriage, Ian Fleming begins writing Casino Royale at Goldeneye.
1956: Ian Fleming writes to publisher Michael Howard.

Forgive this tropic scrawl.
I'm sitting in the shade gazing out
across the Carribean and it is heroic
that I am writing at all.

1964: James Bond 007 - Liebesgrüße aus Moskau (James Bond 007 - Greetings from Moscow) released in West Germany.

1973: Live and Let Die films the last scene with OO7 and Solitaire on the train.
1975: Lourdes Faberes is born--Manila, Philippines.

1989: James Bond dies at age 89--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Born 4 January 1900--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

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The birds of James Bond
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Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani2

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“The name is Bond, James Bond.”
This particular British Secret Service agent is known worldwide through numerous books, comics, videogames and, of course, films. James Bond was created by Ian Fleming and the series now outlives its creator, continuing to grow on a somewhat constant rate. Fleming’s superspy character was based on many people he met during the time he spent serving in the British Naval Intelligence Division during World War II. In his own words, James Bond “was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war”.

But what few know is where the name comes from. Actually, it was not invented by Fleming for the character; instead, it was borrowed from a real person. So who was the original James Bond and how Fleming came to know him and to borrow his name?

LICENSE TO MAP
James Bond was born in Philadelphia on 4 January 1900. After his mother’s death during his teens, in 1914, he moved with his father to England, going to Cambridge University and receiving his degree in 1922. Back in Philadelphia, after less than three years working for a banking firm, his love of natural history led him to join an expedition of the ANSP (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) to the lower Amazon River in Brazil. His father, Francis E. Bond, who led an ANSP expedition (when James was 11) to the Orinoco Delta, perhaps influenced James’ decision, as well as his interest in the natural sciences.

James Bond, in 1974. Photo taken at the ANSP
by Jerry Freilich. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

After the expedition to the Amazon, James Bond became a true ornithologist (see Box 1 for a glossary) and curator of the ANSP and started to publish many scientific papers on the South American birds. Nevertheless, he soon decided that the focus of his studies would be the Caribbean birds and this became his life’s work. He spent the next decades travelling through the Caribbean islands and studying their avifauna. The main result of his work in the region was the book “Birds of the West Indies” (1936), containing a scientific account (with descriptions, habits, geographic distribution etc.) of all the known species from the islands. The book was renamed “Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies” on its second edition (1947), but reverted to the original name on the third edition (1961). Also, from the third edition onwards, the book featured color plates of the birds (by Don R. Eckelberry) and more simplified descriptions. This made the book more similar to modern field guides, making it a must for scientists and birdwatchers alike. After the final edition (1985), Bond kept the book updated via a series of 27 supplements. He finished revising a sixth edition shortly before his death (on 14 February 1989, after a years-long fight with cancer).

Cover of the first edition of “Birds of the West Indies”,
featuring the Jamaican tody (Todus todus).

From all the islands that James Bond visited, perhaps the one that most fascinated him was Jamaica, where he realized that the native avifauna was derived from North America, and not from South America as was previously supposed. This kind of study is part of the discipline known as Biogeography and led Bond, in 1971, to establish a biogeographic boundary between the Lesser Antilles and Tobago. This line separates two zones, the West Indies and South America, each with its own type of avifauna. This later led David Lack to propose, in 1973, the name “Bond’s Line” for this boundary.

Map of the Caribbean Islands, showing
the West Indies avifaunal region, encompassed by
Bond’s Line. (Source: Bond, 1993.)

Besides the books, Bond published more than 100 scientific papers and was awarded many medals and honors throughout his career. He is known today as the father or Caribbean ornithology. What he did not expected though, was the other Bond, which appeared in Jamaica of all places, and caused him a certain deal of consternation.

GOLDENEYE

It was only in 1960–1961 that Bond discovered his fictional namesake from Ian Fleming’s novels, after several novels had already been published (the first one, “Casino Royale”, dates from 1953). This led his wife Mary to write the book “How 007 Got His Name” (published in 1966). In this book, she tells how she jokingly wrote a letter to Fleming saying that he had “brazenly taken the name of a real human being for your rascal!”

Fleming was a British novelist and spent a couple of months every year in his estate (named Goldeneye) on Oracabessa Bay, on the northern coast of Jamaica. He was interested in the Jamaican wildlife and had a growing collection of book on shells, birds, fish and flora. Also, as any keen birdwatcher on the Caribbean, Fleming used the “Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies” (he had the 2nd edition, from 1947) and was thus very familiar with the name James Bond. On his reply to Mary’s letter, he explained that he “was determined that my secret agent should be as anonymous a personality as possible. (…) At this 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.” On a later interview, Fleming explained further his choice of name: “I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ‘James Bond’ was much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers’. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure – an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.”

The Goldeneye estate, as of 2011.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

On that letter to Mary, Fleming added that in return for using the name he could offer “your James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming for any purpose he may think fit. Perhaps one day he will discover some particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion.” This never happened though. Finally, Fleming also invited the Bonds to visit him in Jamaica. This happened in 1964, when the Bonds were there researching and paid a surprise visit to Fleming. This was shortly before the novelist’s death six months later, and luckily, this one-time meeting was captured in video for a future documentary. At first, Fleming was suspicious of Bond’s identity and asked him to identify some birds. Bond, of course, passed the test with flying colors and Fleming had the happiest day of the rest of his life.

FROM JAMAICA WITH LOVE
Jamaica, despite being a rather small country, has a very diverse avifauna. There are circa 320 bird species living in Jamaica, including migrants. From these, 28 are endemic species, 12 are endangered and 14 are introduced. Some of these species have fascinated James Bond, Ian Fleming and countless other tourists and birdwatchers. Moreover, since Ian Fleming was such a keen birdwatcher, birds sometimes featured in his stories (and later in the films), and a collection of bird trivia can be found in Box 2 further below.

We will now briefly introduce some of the more interesting Jamaican birds and explore a little bit of their natural history and even folklore.

Red-Billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)
The red-billed streamertail, also known as doctor bird or scissortail hummingbird, appears in Fleming’s short story “For Your Eyes Only” (1960). The first lines of the story are: “The most beautiful bird in Jamaica, and some say the most beautiful bird in the world, is the streamer-tail or doctor humming-bird.” It is very hard to crown a “most beautiful” bird, but the red-billed streamertail is indeed remarkable. The feathers on the male’s tail (the “streamers”) are longer than their actual body and make a humming sound during flight. James Bond (the ornithologist) seems to agree; well, partially, at least: his book says that the “adult male is the most spectacular West Indian hummingbird”.

This species is the most abundant and widespread bird in Jamaica and was actually selected as the country’s national bird. Frederic G. Cassidy (1962–2000), who studied the evolution of the English language in Jamaica, says that the name doctor bird comes from the way the animals spear the flowers with their beaks to feed. Still, the term “doctor” also carries a superstitious overtone (as in “witch-doctor”) and Cassidy notes that natives referred to these hummingbirds as “god birds”.

Male (top) and female (bottom) of the
Red-Billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus). ]center]
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

Jamaican Tody (Todus todus)
The todies belong to the order Coraciiformes, a group that also includes kingfishers, rollers and bee-eaters. The Jamaican tody was at first believed to be a species of hummingbird. Later, it received the name of robin, due to its small size and round appearance. This early folk name still survives in Jamaica as robin red-breas’, an allusion to the bird’s red colored patch below the beak and a copy of the English name of another bird. Robin redbreast is the old name of the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), a totally unrelated species.

The Jamaican tody is a tiny bird that feeds on insects and fruits, nesting in excavated burrows. James Bond was especially interested in the nesting behavior of birds and studied this topic at length. He chose the Jamaican tody as the cover of the first edition of “Birds of the West Indies” (1936). It has a very small geographic distribution and its population seems to be steadily decreasing in the last decade.

The Jamaican Tody, Todus todus.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

Jamaican Poorwill (Siphonorhis americana)
Also known as Jamaican pauraque, this nocturnal bird is a species of nightjar, of the family Caprimulgidae. The family name comes from the Latin caprimulgus (goatsucker) and reflects the absurd folk “lore” that these birds sucked milk from goats.

Very little is known about the Jamaican poorwill – it had been extinct long before Bond’s studies, since 1859. It was driven to extinction by introduced rats and mongooses, alongside the usual human-caused habitat destruction. Since the birds nest on the ground, their eggs are easy prey for these introduced mammals. Nevertheless, there are some recent (1998) records of caprimulgids from the regions of the Milk River and the Hellshire Hills in the country, but they remain unconfirmed. Thus, a very small population of poorwills might still exist in these remote regions. Curiously, Bond had also previously alluded to the possibility of a surviving population of these birds on the semi-arid Hellshire Hills.

The Jamaican poorwill, Siphonorhis americana.
(Source: Rothschild, 1907.)

Jamaican Blackbird (Nesopsar nigerrimus)
The Jamaican blackbird (family Icteridae) is the only species in its genus and all of its names are rather misleading. Firstly, it is not an actual blackbird (Turdus merula, family Turdidae), which is a species of thrush. Nevertheless, the family Icteridae is popularly known as “New World blackbirds”, so we can let this one slip. As for the scientific name, the genus name comes from the Greek neso (island) and psar (starling) and, as one might guess, this bird is completely unrelated to true starlings (family Sturnidae). Finally, the specific epithet (see Salvador, 2014, for a crash course in species’ scientific names) means simply “very black”, which might not be so descriptive of a “blackbird” after all.
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The Jamaican blackbird, Nesopsar nigerrimus.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
Nevertheless, a local Jamaican popular name for this bird is “wild-pine sergeant” and is more accurate than the other names. These birds feed on insects they find in tree bark or bromeliads (locally known as “wild-pines”) and are adapted to climbing trees, similar to woodpeckers. They inhabit the montane forests of Jamaica and are arranged in pairs of birds, each pair occupying a vast territory. The severe deforestation caused by mining, forestry, charcoal production and agriculture has led to an extreme habitat loss incompatible with the blackbirds’ large territories. The species is thus considered endangered, but only some very shy efforts have been made towards its preservation.

Sad Flycatcher (Myiarchus barbirostris)
The sad flycatcher (together with the lesser Antillean pewee, Contopus latirostris) is commonly called little Tom-fool by the Jamaican people, for its habit of refusing to fly away when threatened. This flycatcher species inhabits the forests of Jamaica and, as their name imply, feed on insects. In fact, the genus name comes from the Greek muia (fly) and archos (ruler), while the specific epithet refers to the presence of rictal bristles. These bristles are modified feathers (that look like mammals’ whiskers) projecting from the beak; they not only provide tactile feedback (as whiskers do), but also supposedly protect the birds’ eyes as they consumes their wriggly insect prey.

The sad flycatcher, Myiarchus barbirostris.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

To avoid confusion, we must note here that the sad flycatcher is part of the group known as “New World flycatchers” or “tyrant flycatchers” (the family Tyrannidae). The “Old World flycatchers” belong to another family, Muscicapidae, which is only distantly related to the Tyrannidae.

Jamaican Crow (Corvus jamaicensis)
This bird is locally known as “jabbering crow” of “gabbling crow”, for it can produce a variety of jabbering sounds (besides the common “caw” of crows). Their incessant jabbering may also sound like indistinct human languages and, to the British, rather like Welsh people, which led to the birds being nicknamed “Welshmen” in a typical bout of Brit humor.

The Jamaican crows live mainly in the country’s uplands, but may come down to the lowlands during the dry season. They feed mainly on fruit and invertebrates, but may occasionally eat other birds’ eggs and nestlings.

The Jamaican crow, Corvus jamaicensis.
(Source: Internet Bird Collection, IBC155934.
Courtesy of Ken Simonite.)

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
Bond’s work with the Caribbean avifauna set the basis for ornithology in the region and most of his insights have been continuously proved accurate. As such, his influence in science shall remain relevant for a long time to come. Well, at least until humans have extinguished all the bird species in the region – unfortunately, birds live only once and Jamaica has already lost three of its endemic species. Meanwhile, the other Bond also remain a relevant figure in popular culture and imagination, with his over-the-top stories, exotic locations, strange villains, Bond girls, fancy suits, weaponized cars and a number of crazy gadgets. James Bond has thus the (somewhat dubious) honor of having his name twice immortalized in History, as a brilliant ornithologist and as a womanizing superspy. (We believe the latter is better remembered than the former though.)

But for those of you thinking that a birder’s life is much duller than a spy’s life, some words from the naturalist and writer Alexander F. Skutch (1904–2004) might change your mind or at the very least make you revisit your beliefs: “our quest of them [birds] takes us to the fairest places; to find them and uncover some of their well-guarded secrets we exert ourselves greatly and live intensely.”

REFERENCES
Avibase. (2015) Bird Checklists of the World. Jamaica. Available from: http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=jm&list=clements (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

Bond, J. (1993) A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Fifth edition (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.

Bond, M.F.W.P. (1966) How 007 Got His Name. Collins, London.

Cassidy, F.G. (2006) Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica. University of the West Indies Press, Kingston.

Clements, J.F.; Schulenberg, T.S.; Iliff, M.J.; Roberson, D.; Fredericks, T.A.; Sullivan, B.L.; Wood, C.L. (2014) The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world. Version 6.9. Available from: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

Chancellor, H. (2005) James Bond: The Man and His World. John Murray, London.

Cruz, A. (1978) Adaptive evolution in the Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus. Ornis Scandinavia 9(2): 130–137.

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). (2014) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/ (Date of access: 03/Apr/2015).

Lederer, R. & Burr, C. (2014) Latin for Bird Lovers. Timber Press, New York.

MI6-HQ. (2015) MI6 – The Home of James Bond 007. Available from: http://www.mi6-hq.com/ (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

Parker, M. (2015) Goldeneye. Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica. Pegasus Publications, Winnipeg.

Parkes, K. (1989) In Memoriam: James Bond. The Auk 106(4): 718–720.

Rothschild, W. (1907) Extinct Birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times – that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. Hutchinson & Co., London.

Salvador, R.B. (2014) Geeky nature. Journal of Geek Studies 1(1-2): 41–45.

Skutch, A.F. (1977) A Bird Watcher’s Adventures in Tropical America. University of Texas Press, Austin.

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2015: Louis Jourdan dies at age 93--Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 19 June 1921--Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.)

Louis Jourdan obituary

French film actor who found stardom with Three Coins in the
Fountain and Gigi, and whose later roles included a villain in the
James Bond movie Octopussy

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/15/louis-jourdan
Michael Freedland | Sun 15 Feb 2015 18.15 EST

Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron in Gigi, 1958. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

For audiences in the 1940s and 50s, Louis Jourdan’s incredible good looks and mellifluous Gallic purr seemed to sum up everything that was sexy and enticing about Frenchmen. As a result, he became the most sought-after French actor since Charles Boyer. Though perhaps this hampered him, stymying opportunities to extend his dramatic range, any actor who was constantly in demand by both French studios and Hollywood producers had a lot to be grateful for.

When Jourdan, who has died aged 93, played the consummate bon vivant in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (1958), he became an international celebrity. The film, which co-starred Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron, won nine Oscars, including best picture. Though the best-known of its Lerner and Loewe numbers was Chevalier’s Thank Heaven for Little Girls, the title song went to Jourdan. He later widened the breadth of his work, and in old age was still one of the most handsome men on the screen, even if the films themselves seldom amounted to much.

He was born in Marseille, one of the three sons of Henri Gendre, a hotelier who organised the Cannes film festival after the second world war, and Yvonne, from whose maiden name, Jourdan, Louis took his stage name. The family followed Henri’s work, which accounted for the ease with which he was later able to perform overseas. He was educated in France, Turkey and Britain, where he learned to speak perfect English with an accent that he was clever enough to realise he should keep superbly French.

Jourdan, who knew from early on that he was going to be an actor, studied under René Simon in Paris. Admired for his dramatic talent and a certain polish that no one could readily explain, he was cast in his film debut, Le Corsaire (1939), which starred Boyer, though the outbreak of the second world war prevented its completion. He went on to appear in L’Arlésienne (1942) before his career was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of France.

His father was arrested by the Gestapo, and Louis and his two brothers were active members of the resistance, whose work for the underground meant that he had to stay away from the studios. But it also resulted in his becoming a favourite of the resurgent French postwar film industry. At a time when many had worked on films that had served to help Marshal Pétain’s propaganda campaign – and stars such as Chevalier were being accused of collaboration – it was easy to promote a star who had actively worked against the Nazis.

In 1946, Jourdan married Berthe Frédérique (known as Quique) and went to Los Angeles, having been persuaded by the movie mogul David O Selznick that he would be able to make more of himself in Hollywood than he ever could in Paris. He shone in his first American film, The Paradine Case (1947), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Gregory Peck. This was followed by Max Ophüls’s masterly Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), based on the story by Stefan Zweig. Jourdan played the debonair, womanising pianist with whom Joan Fontaine falls hopelessly and tragically in love. He invested the performance with a vulnerability that saved his character from being simply caddish.

In Minnelli’s 1949 film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he starred as the lover of the adulterous anti-heroine, played by Jennifer Jones. He returned to France for Rue de l’Estrapade (1953) and La Mariée Est Trop Belle (The Bride Is Too Beautiful, released with the title Her Bridal Night, 1956), the latter with Brigitte Bardot, while in Italy he appeared in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), its title referring to the Trevi fountain in Rome. His image as the light romantic lead was burnished in that film, and his status as such was sealed by Gigi, which made him the No 1 pin-up of sophisticated American women.

He had a similar role in Can-Can (1960), which starred Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Chevalier. There followed continental roles in Hollywood productions: as a playboy in The VIPs (1963) and a fashion designer in Made in Paris (1966).

He had made his Broadway debut, playing a repressed gay man embarking on marriage, in an adaptation of André Gide’s The Immoralist, in 1954. The production co-starred Geraldine Page and James Dean, before Dean’s movie breakthrough. The following year, Jourdan returned to the New York stage in Tonight in Samarkand. He soon let it be known that he wanted more serious film roles and was not getting enough of them. In 1961 he took the lead in Claude Autant-Lara’s Le Comte de Monte Cristo and, in 1975, he appeared in a British TV movie production of Alexandre Dumas’s novel, this time playing De Villefort to Richard Chamberlain’s Count. Two years later, he was D’Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask on TV, again opposite Chamberlain.

He played Dracula in a 1977 BBC TV adaptation and a “charming” villain, Kamal Khan, in the James Bond adventure Octopussy (1983), but few of his later roles showed the range of his talents. Certainly, Swamp Thing (1982) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) were not the sort of movies that the Gigi star would want to be remembered for. In the mid-80s he returned to Gigi, this time in Chevalier’s role, for a touring show; he replied to the criticism that he lip-synched songs by saying: “If I sang them live, the fragile little voice I have would go.”

Jourdan’s final film appearance came as a suave villain in Peter Yates’s caper about a rare bottle of wine, Year of the Comet (1992). In 2010 he was appointed to the Légion d’Honneur.

His wife died last year. Their son, Louis Henry, died in 1981 from a drug overdose. He is survived by a nephew and a niece.

• Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre), actor, born 19 June 1921; died 14 February 2015
• This article was amended on 16 February 2015. Louis Jourdan was born in June 1921 rather than 1919, and so died at the age of 93.

Louis Jourdan (1921–2015)

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Filmography

Actor (87 credits)

1992 Year of the Comet - Philippe
1989 The Return of Swamp Thing - Dr. Anton Arcane
1988 Counterforce - Kassar
1987 Grand Larceny (TV Movie) - Charles Grand
1986 Beverly Hills Madam (TV Movie) - Douglas Corbin
1984 Cover Up (TV Series) - George LeMare
- Pilot (1984) ... George LeMare
1984 The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (TV Mini-Series)
Baron Pierre de Coubertin
- Part 2 (1984) ... Baron Pierre de Coubertin
- Part 1 (1984) ... Baron Pierre de Coubertin
1984 Hotel (TV Series) - Adam Vidocq
- Prisms (1984) ... Adam Vidocq
1983 Double Deal - Peter Sterling
1983 Octopussy - Kamal Khan
1982 Swamp Thing - Arcane
1980-1981 Vega$ (TV Series) - Nicholas Rambeau
- French Twist (1981) ... Nicholas Rambeau
- The Lido Girls (1980) ... Nicholas Rambeau
1981 Aloha Paradise (TV Series)
- Alex and Annie/Honeymoon Blues/Everything Else (1981)
1980 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) -- Dr. Paul Redmont
- Nips and Tucks (1980) ... Dr. Paul Redmont

1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Capt. Charles Girodt
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Capt. Charles Girodt
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Capt. Charles Girodt
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Capt. Charles Girodt
1979 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (TV Series) - Devil Bear / Chuck
- The Hairy Scare of the Devil Bear (1979) ... Devil Bear / Chuck (voice)
1978 Columbo (TV Series) - Paul Gerard
- Murder Under Glass (1978) ... Paul Gerard
1977 Count Dracula (TV Movie) - Count Dracula
1977 The More It Goes, the Less It Goes - Paul Tango
1977 Silver Bears - Prince Gianfranco di Siracusa
1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV Movie) - D'Artagnan
1975 Piange... il telefono - Alberto Landi
1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - De Villefort
1973 The Great American Beauty Contest (TV Movie) - Ralph Dupree
1967-1971 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Henri Dulac / Col. Lorenz Tabor / Andre Vesalian
- The Minerva Tapes (1971) ... Henri Dulac
- Wind It Up and It Betrays You (1968) ... Col. Lorenz Tabor
- Rope of Gold (1967) ... Andre Vesalian
1970 Ritual of Evil (TV Movie) - David Sorell

1969 Run a Crooked Mile (TV Movie) - Richard Stuart
1969 Fear No Evil (TV Movie) - Dr. David Sorell
1968 To Die in Paris (TV Movie) - Colonel Bertine Westrex
1968 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Mario Lompardi
- Lola in Lipstick (1968) ... Mario Lompardi
1968 A Flea in Her Ear - Henri Tournel
1967 The Young Rebel - Cardinal Acquaviva
1967 To Commit a Murder - Charles Beaulieu
1966 The Sultans - Laurent
1966 Made in Paris - Marc Fontaine
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Phillippe Dutra / Phillipe Tabor
- Clash of Cymbals (1964) ... Phillippe Dutra
- War of Nerves (1964) ... Phillipe Tabor
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Colonel Bertine
- Graffiti (1964) ... Colonel Bertine
1964 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) - Kurt Von Hecht
- A Place to Belong (1964) ... Kurt Von Hecht
1963 The V.I.P.s - Marc Champselle
1963 Irma la Douce - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1963 Mathias Sandorf - Le comte Mathias Sandorf
1962 Dark Journey - Paul Guéret
1962 Disorder - Tom
1961 The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo - Edmond Dantès / Comte de Monte Cristo
1961 Amazons of Rome - Drusco
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Mr. Manningham
- Gaslight (1960) ... Mr. Manningham
1960 Can-Can - Philipe Forrestier

1959 The Best of Everything - David Savage
1959 Kovacs on Music (TV Movie) - Singer
1958 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Angeli
- The Falling Angel (1958) ... Angel
1958 Gigi - Gaston Lachaille
1957 Dangerous Exile - Duke Philippe de Beauvais
1957 Escapade - Frank Raphaël
1957 Love in the Afternoon - Narrator (uncredited)
1956-1957 The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series) - Count Lupo-Pietro / Charles
- The Man Who Beat Lupo (1957) ... Count Lupo-Pietro
- Journey by Moonlight (1956) ... Charles
1956 Chevron Hall of Stars (TV Series)
- Secret of the Bells (1956)
1956 Her Bridal Night - Michel
1956 Julie - Lyle Benton
1956 The Swan - Dr. Nicholas Agi
1956 Celebrity Playhouse (TV Series)
- Secret of the Bells (1956)
1955 Paris Precinct (TV Series) - Insp. Beaumont - 22 episodes
1955 Climax! (TV Series) - Pierre Mendes-France
- The Escape of Mendes-France (1955) ... Pierre Mendes-France
1955 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Marc
- Passage of Arms (1955) ... Marc
1954 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cory
- Warm Clay (1954) ... Ben Cory
1954 Three Coins in the Fountain - Prince Dino di Cessi
1954 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
- Wages of Fear (1954)
1953 A String of Blue Beads (TV Movie) - Peter
1953 Rue de l'Estrapade - Henri Laurent
1953 Decameron Nights - Giovanni Boccaccio / Paganino / Giulio / ...
1952 The Happy Time - Uncle Desmond Bonnard
1951 Anne of the Indies - Captain Pierre François LaRochelle
1951 Bird of Paradise - Andre Laurence

1949 Madame Bovary - Rodolphe Boulanger
1948 No Minor Vices - Octavio Quaglini
1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman - Stefan Brand
1947 The Paradine Case - Andre Latour
1945 La vie de bohème - Rodolphe / Rodolfo
1944 Twilight - Robert de Ligny
1944 Les petites du quai aux fleurs - Francis
1943 Immortal France - Christian (uncredited)
1942 La belle aventure - André d'Éguzon
1942 L'arlésienne - Frédéri
1941 Parade en 7 nuits - Freddy Richard - le clown du cirque Romani
1941 Her First Affair - Pierre Rougemont
1940 Comedy of Happiness - Fédor
1940 Ecco la felicità - Fédor
1939 Le corsaire - Jones

Soundtrack (8 credits)

2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "The Night They Invented Champagne", "Gigi" - uncredited)

1994 That's Entertainment! III (Documentary) (performer: "Gigi" (1958) - uncredited)

1974 That's Entertainment! (Documentary) (performer: "Gigi" (1958) - uncredited)

1966 Made in Paris (performer: "Paris Lullaby")
1963 The Danny Kaye Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.8 (1963) ... (performer: "Walk Right In", "Honey")
1960 Can-Can (performer: "Live and Let Live", "You Do Something to Me", "Live and Let Live" (reprise), "It's All Right With Me" (reprise) - uncredited)

1958 Gigi (performer: "It's a Bore", "Waltz at Maxim's (She Is Not Thinking of Me)", "The Night They Invented Champagne", "Gaston's Soliloquy", "Gigi" - uncredited)

1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman (performer: "Un sospiro" - uncredited)
Hide Hide Production manager (1 credit)

1938 The Curtain Rises (assistant unit manager - as Louis Gendre)

2018: Dynamite's much-delayed comic book release of Casino Royale (once scheduled for this date, plus 17 October 2017, etc.) now stands to be published 13 March 2018.

2020: BOND 25 planned release date in the UK, US, and Turkey. (Later shifted to April 2020.)

Release Dates

UK 2 April 2020

Turkey 3 April 2020

Australia 8 April 2020
Belgium 8 April 2020
France 8 April 2020
Hungary 8 April 2020
Indonesia 8 April 2020
Iceland 8 April 2020
Latvia 8 April 2020
Slovakia 8 April 2020

Argentina 9 April 2020
Brazil 9 April 2020
Israel 9 April 2020
Italy 9 April 2020
South Korea 9 April 2020
Malaysia 9 April 2020
Portugal 9 April 2020
Russia 9 April 2020
Singapore 9 April 2020
Bulgaria 10 April 2020
Estonia 10 April 2020
Lithuania 10 April 2020
USA 10 April 2020
Hong Kong 30 April 2020

RichardTheBruce

February 15th

1951: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg (Jane Seymour) is born--Hayes, Hayes and Harlington, Middlesex, England.

1952: In part reacting to impending marriage, Ian Fleming begins writing his first Bond novel Casino Royale at Goldeneye.

1973: Live and Let Die films one of the final scenes involving OO7 and Tee Hee on the train.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Hammerhead #5 (of 6).

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #5 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272205011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: February 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/15

Kraken's trap is sprung-and M and Moneypenny are caught in its jaws! As the Royal Navy moves in to retaliate, James Bond leads a covert Special Boat Squadron unit on a suicide mission to infiltrate a nuclear reprocessing facility. But time is running out. The nukes are flying, and death is only a trigger-pull away...

2020: The BOND 25 production previously announced a delay from this date to April 2020.
2020: The Queens Hotel hosts its Diamonds are Forever Black & White Masquerade Ball.

Diamonds are Forever Black & White Masquerade Ball

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diamonds-are-forever-black-white-masquerade-ball-tickets-88905778577

Feb
15

by Sphere Events

A night of dinner and dancing at our 007 James Bond themed Black & White Masquerade Ball!

About this Event

When the world is not enough, what better way to celebrate than a night of James Bond style Casino Royale decadence, at our Black & White Masquerade ball.

Entertainment, cocktails and a few surprises will surely leave you feeling like a true British agent by the end of the night. Will you be shaken, or stirred?

Arrival at 7pm for welcome drinks, followed by a sit down meal, all in the luxury of the stunning ballroom at the Queen’s Hotel. You can even try your luck at our casino tables!

Whether you arrive in a tux, or your finest black and white, ensure to wear a mask to conceal your true 007 identity. A prize will be given to best dressed on the night!

Date/Time:

Saturday 15th of February
7pm -11:30 pm

Address:

Queen’s Hotel
Clarence Parade
Osborne Road
Southsea
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO53LJ

2020: No Time To Die airs a 30-second trailer during the NBA All-Star Game.

RichardTheBruce

February 16th

1941: Commander Ian Fleming uses a courier's passport for travel to Gibraltar to establish a secure cipher link--from London to the Goldeneye liaison office. Plus he sets up a backup office in Tangier.
1945: Jeremy Bulloch is born--Market Harborough, England.
(He dies 17 December 2020 at age 75.)

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch dies
aged 75

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/17/star-wars-actor-jeremy-bulloch-dies-aged-75

English performer played bounty hunter Boba Fett in original
trilogy
PA Media || Thu 17 Dec 2020 17.20 EST

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Jeremy Bulloch with the Boba Fett costume at a Star Wars exhibition in London in 2017.
Photograph: Pete Summers/REX/Shutterstock

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original films, has died
aged 75.

The English actor died in hospital on Thursday from “health complications following his many years living with Parkinson’s disease”, according to his agent.

Bulloch played the bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. A statement from his agent said: “We are very sad to announce the death of actor Jeremy Bulloch earlier today.

“He died peacefully, in hospital, surrounded by his family.

“Jeremy was best-known for the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.

“He had a long and happy career spanning more than 45 years. He was devoted to his wife, three sons and 10 grandchildren and they will miss him terribly. We ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time.”

Bulloch, who was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, also had roles in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983 and featured in a number of Doctor Who episodes in the 70s.

Some of Bulloch’s Star Wars co-stars paid tribute on social media.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tweeted: “Jeremy Bulloch was the quintessential English gentleman.

“A fine actor, delightful company & so kind to everyone lucky enough to meet or work with him.

“I will deeply miss him & am so grateful to have known him. RIP – DearJeremy.”

Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the original trilogy, said:

“Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, RIP Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett.”

The official Star Wars Twitter account also paid tribute, writing: “He will be remembered not only for his iconic portrayal of the legendary character, but also for his warmth and generous spirit which have become an enduring part of his rich legacy.”

Daniel Logan, who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, paid tribute to Bulloch on Instagram, writing: “RIP legend I’ll never forget all you’ve taught me! I’ll love you forever! Conventions won’t be the same without you – may the force be with you always.”

Jeremy Bulloch (1945–2020)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-original-boba-fett-and-the-empire-strikes-back-star-jeremy-bulloch-passes-away-aged-75-a181030#gs.odi7zx

Bulloch still became synonymous with the role in the years that followed, and when he gave up the convention circuit in 2014, the actor shared a touching message with his fans.

"In 1979 I was called onto the set of Empire Strikes Back to play Boba Fett, and since that day it has changed the entire direction of my life in such a wonderful way," Bulloch said. "It has been a privilege to have had the opportunity to inspire so many generations of Star Wars fans. I have had over 20 years of travelling with my wife Maureen to some amazing countries and have met so many wonderful fans. Thank you all so much and we will miss you all."

The Spy Who Loved Me

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

1965: Thunderball filming begins in Paris, France, following agreement between partners Broccoli and Saltzman plus Kevin McClory to jointly produce the Fleming novel. McClory accepts a 10 year moratorium.

1976: ABC broadcasts an edited version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service that presents the film with narration to air in two parts, over two nights.

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

Dr. Shatterhand's Botanical Garden Exclusive Event

http://archive.is/YFHi6

RichardTheBruce

February 17th

1910: Marc Lawrence is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 27 November 2005 at age 95--Palm Springs, California.)

Marc Lawrence

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

Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith, February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.

Early years
Lawrence was born in New York City, the son of a Polish Jewish mother, Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith. He participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. In 1930, he received a two-year scholarship to the repertory theater operated by Eva Le Gallienne.
Career

In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence's film debut came in 1933.

Lawrence's pock-marked complexion, brooding appearance and New York street-guy accent made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. He named Sterling Hayden, Lionel Stander, Anne Revere, Larry Parks, Karen Morley and Jeff Corey as Communists. He was blacklisted[citation needed] and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films.

Following the demise of the blacklist, he returned to America and resumed his position as a familiar and talented purveyor of gangland types. He played gangsters in two James Bond movies: 1971's Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery, and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun opposite Roger Moore. He also portrayed a henchman opposite Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) and a stereotypical Miami mob boss alongside Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise in the comedy Hot Stuff (1979).

One of his last roles was as Mr. Zeemo in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang", which aired in February 1999. Previously he played the elderly Gatherer Volnoth in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor".

His final film role was in Looney Tunes Back in Action (2003), appearing as an Acme Corporation vice president.

Lawrence directed Nightmare in the Sun (1965).

Books
In 1991 Lawrence's autobiography was published entitled Long Time No See: Confessions of a Hollywood Gangster (ISBN 0-9636700-0-X). Lawrence was also the subject of a novel, The Beautiful and the Profane (ISBN 978-1-4107-0292-0) (published in 2002).

Personal life
For much of his adult life Lawrence lived in Palm Springs, California (1971–2006).[7] Lawrence married Odessa-born novelist and screenwriter Fanya Foss; she died on December 12, 1995. They had two children, Michael and Toni.

Death
Lawrence died of heart failure on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95. He was buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, California.

Marc Lawrence (I) (1910–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492908/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2

Filmography

Actor (221 credits)

2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
2001 The Shipping News - Cousin Nolan

1999 End of Days - Old Man
1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Mr. Zeemo
- Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (1999) ... Mr. Zeemo
1998 ER (TV Series) - Mr. Newton
- Shades of Gray (1998) ... Mr. Newton
1996 Gotti (TV Movie) - Carlo Gambino
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn - Old Timer Motel Owner
1995 Four Rooms - Sam the Bellhop
1994 Metaltech: Earthsiege (Video Game) - Pilot #5 (as Marc C. Lawrence)
1992 Newsies - Kloppman
1992 Ruby - Santos Alicante
1990 Donor (TV Movie) - Ben Beloit
1990 Shannon's Deal (TV Series) - Abe the Just
- Art (1990) ... Abe the Just

1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) - Volnath
- The Vengeance Factor (1989) ... Volnath
1989 Blood Red - Michael Fazio
1986 The Big Easy - Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti
1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sam Marlini
- The Little Town with an Accent (1986) ... Sam Marlini (as Mark Lawrence)
1985 Night Train to Terror - Mr. Weiss / Dieter (segment "The Case of Claire Hansen")
1983 Savage Journey (TV Movie) - Chief Walker (uncredited)
1983 Thieves and Robbers - Don Salvatore Licuti
1982 Terror at Alcatraz (TV Movie) - Daniel Ginelli
1981 Border Pals (TV Short) - Joe Cincinnati
1980 Cataclysm - Abraham Weiss / Dieter
1980 Super Fuzz - Torpedo

1979 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Rostosky
- The Meeting (1979) ... Rostosky
1979 Swap Meet - Mr. Booth
1979 Hot Stuff - Carmine
1979 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Mr. Jones
- Going, Going, Gone (1979) ... Mr. Jones
1978 Goin' Coconuts - Webster
1978 Foul Play - Stiltskin
1978 CHiPs (TV Series) - Co-Driver
- Crack-Up (1978) ... Co-Driver
1977 A Piece of the Action - Louie
1976 Baretta (TV Series) - Linsky
- Street Edition (1976) ... Linsky
1976 Marathon Man - Erhard
1976 The Rookies (TV Series) - Roger Marsten
- Journey to Oblivion (1976) ... Roger Marsten
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Don Vincenzo / Franks
- Kiss of Death (1975) ... Don Vincenzo
- Las Vegas Roundabout (1975) ... Franks
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Rodney
1974 McCloud (TV Series) - Vito Gilardi
- The Gang That Stole Manhattan (1974) ... Vito Gilardi
1969-1974 Mannix (TV Series) - Al Stanik / Ty Webber / Angelo Palerma
- A Fine Day for Dying (1974) ... Al Stanik
- Overkill (1971) ... Ty Webber
- The Nowhere Victim (1969) ... Angelo Palerma
1973 Frasier, the Sensuous Lion - Chiarelli (as Mark Lawrence)
1973 Pigs - Zambrini
1973 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Stefano Magaddino
1972 In Pursuit of Treasure
1972 Nichols (TV Series) - Prouty
- Zachariah (1972) ... Prouty
1971 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Frankie Fury
- The Wings of an Angel (1971) ... Frankie Fury
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
1970-1971 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Ruby / Joe Grapefruit
- Lucy and Mannix Are Held Hostage (1971) ... Ruby
- Lucy and Ma Parker (1970) ... Joe Grapefruit
1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Kelso
- The Prisoner of Fender (1971) ... Kelso
1970 Dream No Evil - Undertaker
1970 Bonanza (TV Series) - Red Gaskell
- Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing (1970) ... Red Gaskell
1970 The Kremlin Letter - The Priest

1969 Il killer (TV Mini-Series)
1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Jacobs
1968 King of Kong Island - Albert Muller
1967 Custer of the West- Gold Miner
1967 Du mou dans la gâchette - Magnum
1966 7 monaci d'oro - Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
1966 Savage Pampas - Sgt. Barril
1966 The Rat Patrol (TV Series) - Abu Hassan
- The Moment of Truce Raid (1966) ... Abu Hassan
1966 Johnny Tiger - William Billie
1966 2 mafiosi contro Al Capone - Joe Minasi
1965 Mister Ed (TV Series) - Spike the Bank Robber
- The Bank Robbery (1965) ... Spike the Bank Robber
1965 Petticoat Junction (TV Series) - Barney Dawson
- Hooterville Crime Wave (1965) ... Barney Dawson
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Plato Atutle
- The Timothy Heist (1964) ... Plato Atutle
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Leo Tucci
- Tigers Are for Jungles (1964) ... Leo Tucci
1963 Johnny Cool - Johnny Colini
1960-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Lou Cagan / Mike Genna / Luigi Renaldo
- Blues for a Gone Goose (1963) ... Lou Cagan
- The Genna Brothers (1961) ... Mike Genna
- Star Witness (1960) ... Luigi Renaldo
1960-1962 The Detectives (TV Series) - Marcus Maroon / Ed Watkins / Rocco Silvano
- Three Blind Mice: Part II (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- Three Blind Mice: Part 1 (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- The Other Side (1960) ... Ed Watkins
- Life in the Balance (1960) ... Rocco Silvano
1961 Whispering Smith (TV Series) - Frankie Wisdom
- Death at Even Money (1961) ... Frankie Wisdom
1961 Lawman (TV Series) - Frank Walker
- Homecoming (1961) ... Frank Walker
1961 The Deputy (TV Series) - Alvy Burke
- The Hard Decision (1961) ... Alvy Burke
1960 Thriller (TV Series) - Dr. Emil Berland
- The Mark of the Hand (1960) ... Dr. Emil Berland (uncredited)
1958-1960 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Cougar / Gavin
- Trail of Hate (1960) ... Cougar
- The Safe Guard (1958) ... Gavin
1960 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) - Vito Doria
- Running Scared (1960) ... Vito Doria
1960 Bronco (TV Series) - Joe Russo
- Tangled Trail (1960) ... Joe Russo
1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) - Wade Migill
- Killer Instinct (1960) ... Wade Migill

1959 Shotgun Slade (TV Series) - Gideon Finch
- Mesa of Missing Men (1959) ... Gideon Finch
1959 Johnny Staccato (TV Series) - Vic Raffe
- The Unwise Men (1959) ... Vic Raffe
1959 Tightrope (TV Series) - Frankie Farrell
- Man in the Middle (1959) ... Frankie Farrell
1959 M Squad (TV Series) - Vince Cronin
- Jeopardy by Fire (1959) ... Vince Cronin
1959 Peter Gunn (TV Series) - Max Grayco
- Vendetta (1959) ... Max Grayco
1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - El Sordo / The Cajun / Scarface
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2 (1959) ... El Sordo
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1 (1959) ... El Sordo
- Child of Our Time (1959)
- Old Man (1958) ... The Cajun
- Days of Wine and Roses (1958) ... Scarface
1958 Wagon Train (TV Series) - First Mate Ferris
- Around the Horn (1958) ... First Mate Ferris
1957 Kill Her Gently - Connors
1956 Helen of Troy - Diomedes
1955 Ballata tragica - Felipe Alvaro
1955 La catena dell'odio - Braschi
1955 Suor Maria - Don Mario, proprietario del night club
1955 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Cow Nelson
- A Terrible Day (1955) ... Cow Nelson
1955 New Moon - Pierre
1954 Vacation with a Gangster - Jack Mariotti
1953 Funniest Show on Earth - Il proprietario del circo
1953 Trouble for the Legion - Serg. Schwartz
1953 Noi peccatori - Camillo
1953 Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair - Van Gould
1952 Brothers of Italy - Il capitano March - un ufficiale austriarco
1952 The Three Pirates - Van Gould
1952 La tratta delle bianche - Machedi
1952 Torment of the Past - Andrea Rossi (alias Piero)
1951 My Favorite Spy - Ben Ali
1951 Hurricane Island - Angus Macready (uncredited)

1950 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion - Frankie--Loan Shark
1950 The Desert Hawk - Samad
1950 The Asphalt Jungle - Cobby
1950 Black Hand - Caesar Xavier Serpi

1949 Tough Assignment - Vince
1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass - Harry Dean
1949 Jigsaw - Angelo Agostini
1948 Out of the Storm - Red Stubbins
1948 Key Largo - Ziggy
1947 I Walk Alone - Nick Palestro
1947 Captain from Castile - Corio
1947 Unconquered - Sioto - Medicine Man
1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout - John Mitchell
1947 Yankee Fakir - Duke
1946 Cloak and Dagger - Luigi
1946 Inside Job - Donovan
1946 The Virginian - Pete
1946 Blonde Alibi - Joe DeRita
1945 Life with Blondie - Pete, Blackie's Henchman
1945 Club Havana - Joe Reed
1945 Don't Fence Me In - Clifford Anson
1945 Flame of Barbary Coast - Joe Disko
1945 Dillinger - Doc Madison
1944 The Princess and the Pirate - Pedro
1944 Rainbow Island - Alcoa
1944 Tampico - Valdez
1943 Hit the Ice - Phil
1943 Submarine Alert - Vincent Bela
1943 Calaboose - Sluggsy Baker
1942 The Ox-Bow Incident - Jeff Farnley
1942 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge - McGaffey
1942 Eyes of the Underworld - Gordon Finch
1942 Call of the Canyon - Horace Dunston
1942 This Gun for Hire - Tommy
1942 Yokel Boy - Henchman Trigger
1942 Nazi Agent - Joe Aiello
1941 Public Enemies - Mike
1941 Sundown - Abdi Hammud
1941 A Dangerous Game - Joe
1941 Hold That Ghost - Charlie Smith
1941 Lady Scarface - Lefty Landers
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills - Pete Matthews
1941 Blossoms in the Dust - La Verne
1941 The Man Who Lost Himself - Frank DeSoto
1941 The Monster and the Girl - Sleeper
1941 Tall, Dark and Handsome - Louie
1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum - Steve McBirney
1940 The Great Profile - Tony
1940 Brigham Young - Prosecutor
1940 The Golden Fleecing - 'Happy' Dugan
1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much - Lefty Kyler
1940 Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! - Tony Luffo
1940 Johnny Apollo - Bates

1939 Invisible Stripes - Lefty
1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter - Floyd
1939 Beware Spooks! - Slick Eastman
1939 Dust Be My Destiny - Venetti
1939 Think First (Short) - Joe
1939 S.O.S. Tidal Wave - Melvin Sutter
1939 Ex-Champ - Bill Crosle - Olsen's Manager
1939 Blind Alley - Buck
1939 Code of the Streets - Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
1939 Romance of the Redwoods - Joe
1939 Sergeant Madden - 'Piggy' Ceders
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt - Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
1939 Homicide Bureau - Chuck Brown
1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu - Johnny McCoy
1938 There's That Woman Again - Stevens (uncredited)
1938 While New York Sleeps - Happy Nelson
1938 Adventure in Sahara - Poule
1938 The Spider's Web - Steve Harmon
1938 I Am the Law - Eddie Girard
1938 Convicted - Milton Militis
1938 Squadron of Honor - Lawlor
1938 Who Killed Gail Preston? - Frank Daniels
1938 Penitentiary - Jack Hawkins (uncredited)
1937 The Shadow - Kid Crow
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village - Rusty Morgan
1937 Counsel for Crime - Edwin Mitchell
1937 Life Begins with Love - Pearson (uncredited)
1937 Charlie Chan on Broadway - Thomas Mitchell
1937 A Dangerous Adventure - Calkins
1937 It Can't Last Forever - Hoodlum (uncredited)
1937 What Price Vengeance - Pete Brower
1937 San Quentin - Venetti
1937 Criminals of the Air - 'Blast' Reardon
1937 I Promise to Pay - Henchman Whitehat
1937 Motor Madness - Gus Slater
1937 Racketeers in Exile - 'Blackie' White
1936 Night Waitress - Dorn (as Marc Laurence)
1936 Charlie Chan at the Opera - Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1936 The Cowboy Star - Johnny Sampson
1936 Blackmailer - Pinky (uncredited)
1936 The Final Hour - Mike Magellon
1936 Trapped by Television - Frank Griffin (uncredited)
1936 Counterfeit - Dint Coleman
1936 Under Two Flags - Grivon (uncredited)
1936 Robin Hood of El Dorado - Manuel (uncredited)
1936 Love on a Bet - County Fair Barker (uncredited)
1936 Desire - Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
1936 Don't Gamble with Love - Gambler (uncredited)
1936 Road Gang - Pete
1935 3 Kids and a Queen - Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Dr. Socrates - Lefty Croger - a Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Little Big Shot - Doré's Henchman
1935 After the Dance - Tom - a Prisoner (uncredited)
1935 Don't Bet on Blondes - Gangster #6 (uncredited)
1935 The Arizonian - Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay (uncredited)
1935 Men of the Hour - Joe
1935 Strangers All - Communist Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
1935 Go Into Your Dance - Eddie Logan (uncredited)
1935 'G' Men - Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
1934 Million Dollar Baby - Gangster
1934 Death on the Diamond - Bookies' Doorman (uncredited)
1934 Straight Is the Way - Monk's Henchmen (uncredited)
1933 White Woman - Connors
1933 Lady for a Day - Nick - Mug at Reception (uncredited)
1933 Her First Mate - Orderly with Message (uncredited)
1933 Gambling Ship - Hood (uncredited)
1932 If I Had a Million - Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)

Director (8 credits)

1973 Pigs
1965 Nightmare in the Sun
1961-1962 Maverick (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Mr. Muldoon's Partner (1962)
- A Technical Error (1961)
1962 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Jennifer (1962)
1960-1962 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Footlights (1962)
- Vendetta on Bleecker Street (1960)
1961 Bronco (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- The Equalizer (1961)
- Prince of Darkness (1961)
1960-1961 Lawman (TV Series) (16 episodes)
- The Juror (1961)
- Conditional Surrender (1961)
- Blind Hate (1961)
- The Trial (1961)
- Whiphand (1961)
- Fugitive (1961)
- Mark of Cain (1961)
- The Inheritance (1961)
- Detweiler's Kid (1961)
- Hassayampa (1961)
- The Squatters (1961)
- The Marked Man (1961)
- The Frame-Up (1961)
- Cornered (1960)
- The Catcher (1960)
- The Post (1960)
1960 M Squad (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Man with the Ice (1960)
- The Twisted Way (1960)

Writer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (as F.A. Foss)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun

Producer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (producer)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun (producer)

1950: Prunella Gee is born--London, England.

1962: Fleming makes another visit to the Dr. No set, this time filming at Falmouth with OO7 and Honey Ryder dodging bullets behind the sand dune. (Re-filmed due to shots affected by US sailors investigating noise, gunfire.)

1971: Denise Richards is born--Downers Grove, Illinois.
1976: Rory Kinnear is born--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

1995: GoldenEye films OO7 and Natalya's escape from the Russian Military Intelligence Archive.

2004: Electronic Arts publishes its Everything or Nothing third-person shooter video game (developed by EA Redwood Shores) for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube. Represents Pierce Brosnan's final OO7 appearance. With Heidi Klum. Willem Defoe, even. Richard Kiel. Misaki Ito.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_007:_Everything_or_Nothing

2015: Spectre Assistant Director Terry Madden sustains career-ending injuries from an out of control vehicle.
2015: Spectre finishes 9 days of filming at Sölden, Austria.
2019: Christopher Nolan denies he will direct the NEXT James Bond film.

RichardTheBruce

February 18th

1915: Henry Gammidge is born--London, England. (He dies 1981--Richmond Upon Thames, Surrey, England.)

1929: Leonard Cyril (Len) Deighton is born--Marylebone, England.

1938: Sadanoyama Shinmatsu is born--Nagasaki, Japan. (He dies 27 April 2017 at age 79--Tokyo, Japan.)

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu

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

Sadanoyama celebrates his first tournament victory in May 1961

Personal information

Born Shinmatsu Sasada, February 18, 1938 - Nagasaki, Japan
Died April 27, 2017 (aged 79)
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight 129 kg (284 lb)

Career

Stable Dewanoumi
Record 591-251-61
Debut January, 1956
Highest rank Yokozuna (January, 1965)
Retired March, 1968
Championships 6 (Makuuchi)
Special Prizes Fighting Spirit, Outstanding Performance, Technique
Gold Stars 2 (Wakanohana I, Azumafuji)
* Up to date as of August 2012.

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu (佐田の山 晋松, born Shinmatsu Sasada, February 18, 1938 – April 27, 2017) was a former sumo wrestler from Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 50th yokozuna. After his retirement he was the head coach of Dewanoumi stable and served as head of the Japan Sumo Association.

Career
Born in Arikawa, Minamimatsuura District, he made his professional debut in January 1956, and reached sekitori status four years later upon promotion to the jūryō division in March 1960. He made his top makuuchi division debut in January 1961. Sadanoyama won his first tournament title in only his third tournament in the top division, from the rank of maegashira 13. The achievement of winning a tournament from the maegashira ranks is sometimes seen as a jinx on subsequent success in sumo, but Sadanoyama disproved that theory by going on to reach ōzeki in March 1962 after winning his second title, and then yokozuna in January 1965 after capturing his third championship.

Sadanoyama's handprint on a Ryōgoku monument[/img]

He made a cameo appearance in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, as himself.

Although more attention was focused on yokozuna Taihō and Kashiwado, with their rivalry referred to as the Hakuho era after a combination of their shikona, Sadanoyama in fact ended up winning more tournament championships than Kashiwado.

Sadanoyama announced his retirement suddenly in March 1968, despite having won the previous two tournaments, two days after a surprise loss to a new maegashira, the Hawaiian born Takamiyama. It has been suggested that the shock of losing to a foreigner may have prompted a premature retirement.

Retirement from sumo
Sadanoyama remained in the sumo world after his retirement, as an elder. Having married the daughter of the previous stable boss, former maegashira Dewanohana Kuniichi, he became head coach of the Dewanoumi stable. One of the most powerful heya in sumo, he produced a string of top division wrestlers, including Mienoumi, Dewanohana Yoshitaka, Washūyama, Ōnishiki, Ryōgoku, Oginishiki and Mainoumi. In February 1992 he became head of the Japan Sumo Association. He was chosen ahead of his contemporaries Taihō and Kashiwado partly because he was in better health than either of them. He changed his toshiyori name to Sakaigawa in 1996, handing over the Dewanoumi name and the day-to-day running of his stable to the former Washūyama. He did not run for re-election in 1998, after it became clear he lacked enough support, and was replaced by former ōzeki Yutakayama from the rival Tokitsukaze faction. He subsequently became head of the judging department, an unusual move for a former head of the Sumo Association. He stood down as an elder in 2003 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of sixty five.

Death
He died in a Tokyo hospital of pneumonia on April 27, 2017 at the age of 79.

Fighting style
Sadanoyama was known for employing pushing and thrusting techniques such as tsuppari (a series of rapid thrusts to the chest) and regularly won by such kimarite as oshi dashi (push out) and tsuki dashi (thrust out). However he was also good on the mawashi where he preferred a migi-yotsu (left hand outside, right hand inside) grip, and often won by yori kiri (force out) and uwatenage (overarm throw).

Career record
The Kyushu tournament was first held in 1957, and the Nagoya tournament in 1958.

Sadanoyama (1938–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1889384/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (2 credits)

1967 You Only Live Twice - Japanese Sumo Wrestler (uncredited)
1964 Kigeki ekimae okami

Trivia: A professional sumo wrestler, Sadanoyama was the 50th Yokozuna at the time of filming b]You Only Live Twice[/b.

http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/36512-dewanoumi-sakaigawa-rijicho-sadanoyama-passed-away/

1975: James Bond comic strip The Phoenix Project ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 23 September 1974. 2656–2780) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1013


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

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




https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3

Bond Blir Indragen I Projekt Fenix!
("Bond Gets In To Line On..." The Phoenix Project)

Swedish Semic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3

Projekt Fenix (The Phoenix Project)

Danish 1978 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no44-1978/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 44: “The Phoenix Project” (1978)

2002: Die Another Day films Michael G. Wilson's cameo as General Chandler.

2016: An auction at Christie's sells items from Spectre for charity.

JAMES BOND SPECTRE: THE
AUCTION

http://www.christies.com/james-bond-spectre-the-26480.aspx?saletitle=

To celebrate the release of Spectre on digital HD Blu-ray and DVD, Christie’s and EON Productions, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Twentieth Century Fox present a unique opportunity to acquire memorabilia from the 24th film in the James Bond series. Highlights include an Aston Martin DB10 with a plaque signed by Daniel Craig (the only DB10 ever to be offered for sale to the public), a prototype Omega Seamaster 300 watch worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond and other spectacular props from the film.

All proceeds from the auctions will benefit Médecins Sans Frontières and number of other charitable institutions.

Day of the Dead Costume. Price realised GBP 98,500

Spectre Aston Martin DB10. Price realised GBP 2,434,500

RichardTheBruce

February 19th

1965: Goldfinger released in France.

French Lobby Cards

1965: Thunderball films OO7's escape by jetpack.

March 2016 Aviation History

1967: Benicio Del Toro is born--San Germán, Puerto Rico.

1975: Bond comic strip The Black Ruby Caper begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 15 July 1975. 2781–2897) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1014


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


Swedish Semic 1976

Kodnamn: Svart Storm
("Codename: Black Storm" - The Black Ruby Caper)

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




Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no41-1977/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 41: “The Black Ruby Caper” (1977)





Tamil

1986: Adolfo Celi dies at age 63--Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Born 27 July 1922--Messina, Sicily, Italy.)

Obituaries

Adolfo Celi Dies at 64; An Actor and Director

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/20/obituaries/adolfo-celi-dies-at-64-an-actor-and-director.html
AP FEB. 20, 1986

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

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

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

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

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

Adolfo Celi (1922–1986)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148041/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (103 credits)

-1987 International Airport (TV Series) - Il Caposcalo - 10 episodes
1987 T.I.R. (TV Series) - Oreste
- Aki elsönek érkezik (1987) ... Oreste
1985 Il giocatore invisibile
1985 All My Friends Part 3 - Professor Sassaroli
1984 Cindy - Cinderella '80 - Prince Gherardeschi
1982 L'occhio di Giuda (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1982)
- Episode #1.2 (1982)
- Episode #1.1 (1982)
1982 All My Friends Part 2 - Professor Alfeo Sassaroli
1982 Monsignor - Vinci
1982 La sconosciuta (TV Mini-Series) - Taladis - 4 episodes
1981 Madly in Love - Gustavo VI di San Tulipe
1981 The Borgias (TV Mini-Series) - Rodrigo Borgia - 9 episodes
1980 Carnapping - Head of police in Palermo
1980 Café Express - Ispettore capo Ministero

1979 L'altro Simenon (TV Series)
1978 Le braghe del padrone - Eugenio - the president
1978 Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania - Carcamano
1978 Indagine su un delitto perfetto - Sir Harold Boyd
1977 Man of Corleone
1977 The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue (TV Movie) - James Brooke
1977 The Chosen - Dr. Kerouac
1977 Pane, burro e marmellata - Aristide Bertelli
1977 The Passengers - Boetani
1977 Che notte quella notte! - Dottore
1976 Merciless Man - Commissario Lo Gallo
1976 The Big Operator - Rifai
1976 The Next Man - Al Sharif
1976 Febbre da cavallo - Judge
1976 Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen - Commendatore Vladimiro Palese
1976 L'affittacamere - Giudice Damiani
1976 Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife - Antonio
1976 Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man - Captain
1976 Pure as a Lily - L'onorevole
1976 Sandokan (TV Mini-Series) - James Brooke - 6 episodes
1975 L'amaro caso della baronessa di Carini (TV Mini-Series) - Don Mariano D'Agrò - 4 episodes
1975 Amici miei - Professor Sassaroli
1975 Libera, My Love - Felice Valente - Libera's father
1974 Last Moments - Dr. Monforte
1974 Ten Little Indians - The General
1974 The Phantom of Liberty - Le docteur de Legendre / Doctor Pasolini
1974 The Devil Is a Woman - Father Borelli
1973 La villeggiatura - Commissioner Rizzuto
1973 Le mataf - Me Desbordes
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - General Krebs
1973 Pete, Pearl & the Pole - The Pole
1972 Joe Petrosino (TV Mini-Series) - Joe Petrosino - 4 episodes
1972 The Italian Connection - Don Vito Tressoldi
1972 The Long Arm of the Godfather - Don Carmelo
1972 Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco - Inspector Huber
1972 Who Saw Her Die? - Serafian
1972 Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? - Inspector Vezzi
1972 Eye in the Labyrinth - Frank
1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Consul
1972 Il sospetto (TV Movie) - Dott. Fritz Emmemberger
1971 Una chica casi decente - César Martín de Valdés 'Duque'
1971 Murders in the Rue Morgue - Inspector Vidocq
1971 They Have Changed Their Face - Giovanni Nosferatu
1970 Finale di partita (TV Movie)
1970 Brancaleone at the Crusades - Re Boemondo
1970 The Cop - Le commissaire principal / Chief of police
1970 Fragment of Fear - Signor Bardoni
1970 The Night of the Assassin - Hermes

1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Eric 'The Red' Redman / Eric Redman
- The Second Time Around (1969) ... Eric 'The Red' Redman
- The Great Casino Caper (1969) ... Eric Redman
1969 In Search of Gregory - Max
1969 Death Knocks Twice - Professor Max Spiegler
1969 A Man for Emmanuelle - Sandri
1969 Detective Belli - Avvocato Fontana
1969 Midas Run - General Ferranti
1969 The Archangel - Marco Tarocchi Roda
1969 Alibi - Adolfo
1968 Seven Times Seven - Warden
1968 Fantabulous Inc. - Karl Maria van Beethoven
1968 It's Your Move - Bayon / Guinet
1968 Danger: Diabolik - Ralph Valmont
1968 Death Sentence - Friar Baldwin
1967 Dirty Heroes - Luc Rollman
1967 Grand Slam - Mark Milford
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Mr. Thai - 'Beta'
1967 The Bobo - Francisco Carbonell
1967 The Honey Pot - Inspector Rizzi
1967 Master Stroke - Mr. Bernard
1966 Grand Prix - Agostini Manetta
1966 King of Hearts - Le Colonel Mac Bibenbrook (as Adolfo Celli)
1966 Pleasant Nights - Bernardozzo
1966 Target for Killing - Henry Perkins
1966 Yankee - Grande Concho
1966 El Greco - Don Miguel de las Cuevas
1965 Thunderball - Largo
1965 A Man Named John - Msgr. Radini Tedeschi
1965 Slalom - Riccardo
1965 The Agony and the Ecstasy - Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (pope Leo X)
1965 Von Ryan's Express - Battaglia
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Van Willie
1964 Beautiful Families - Professore Della Porta (segment "Amare è un po' morire")
1964 Male Companion - Benvenuto
1964 3 notti d'amore - Alberto (segment "La moglie bambina")
1964 That Man from Rio - Mário de Castro
1963 Sandokan the Great
1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá (uncredited)
1950 Caiçara - Genovês
1948 Immigrants - Il professore
1948 Guaglio - Don Pietro
1947 Natale al campo 119 - John, il sergente americano
1946 Un americano in vacanza - Tom

Director (4 credits)

1969 Alibi

1957 Grande Teatro Tupi (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Esta Noite é Nossa (1957)
1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá
1950 Caiçara

Writer (2 credits)

1969 Alibi (screenplay) / (story)

1950 Caiçara (story and screenplay)

Producer (1 credit)

1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá (producer)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1973 Lucky Luciano (voice dubbing: Charles Siragusa - uncredited)

1987: Albert R. Broccoli receives an honorary Order of the British Empire (OBE).

2015: Spectre films the funeral scene in Rome, Italy.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond in Reflections of Death, six stories in hardcover.

JAMES BOND IN “REFLECTIONS OF DEATH” OGN – Hardcover

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115010
Cover: Fay Dalton
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez
Genre: Spy Thriller, Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2020
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 128 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/19/2020
128 stunning pages of nonstop thrills and intrigue!
An ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL James Bond graphic novel, by a cavalcade of superstars!
GREG PAK (Star Wars, Darth Vader)!
ANDY DIGGLE (Daredevil, Green Arrow)!
BENJAMIN PERCY (X-Force, Wolverine)!
GAIL SIMONE (Deadpool, Wonder Woman)!
MARK RUSSELL (Red Sonja, The Flintstones)!
VITA AYALA & DANNY LORE (James Bond ongoing series)!

Six stunning stories, featuring the world's greatest spy! Moneypenny has been kidnapped, and the mystery of who has her, and what they want, will only be revealed when (if?) 007 is able to complete his incredible missions.

RichardTheBruce

February 20th

1964: El satánico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Mexico.

1964: From Russia With Love released in Norway.

Frå Moskva med kjærleg helsing (From Russia With Love), Ian Fleming,
Norwegian paperback published by Fonna, 1959
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-norwegian-books.html

1995: GoldenEye films a mini MiG helicopter (model) crashing into Severnaya Station.

2002: Casino Royale 1967 re-released in France.

2013: Activision finishes its licensed games associated with Bond.
2018: Russian premiere of ‘Casino Royale’ in Concert, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, presented by Zapomni, Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblas.

Продюсерская компания Zapomni представляет российскую премьеру киноконцерта «Джеймс Бонд: Казино Рояль», который пройдет только один раз, в Москве, 20 февраля 2018 года в Crocus City Hall.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #4.

JAMES BOND 007 #4

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532504011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Will Robson
Cover C: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover D: Stephen Mooney
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Stephen Mooney
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/20/2019

A new arc begins, by superstar GREG PAK (The Incredible Hulk, Firefly) and new interior artist STEPHEN MOONEY (Half Past Danger)!

MI6 Agent 007 and Korean operative John Lee have been forced by their governments to join forces to secure a dangerous case that may contain nuclear materials. But their current mission requires them to practice patience, guile, and possibly...singing.

RichardTheBruce

February 21st

1943: Multiple German U-boats attack the Norwegian tanker Stigstad (translation: Rising City), sinking it with a torpedo.

Survivors on a life raft, including Kevin McClory, endure two weeks across 600 miles until they make the coast of Ireland. Two die at sea, one dies later. McClory suffers frostbite and is unable to speak for over a year after the incident. He returns to the Navy and serves till war's end.

Aboard Stigstad when hit on 21 Feb 1943
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship2663.html

More detail on the vessel and crew
https://www.warsailors.com/singleships/stigstad.html

1962: Location filming in Jamaica ends and the production team departs for England and the fantastic sets Ken Adam constructed for Dr. No's base, the ventilation gauntlet, and MI6 interiors. A few planned shots delayed for weather would be made up later.

1980: D'Artagnan Extracolor releases #421 Una Carrera Frustrada [A Frustrated Race, or Diamonds Are Forever] collecting the strips of artist John McLusky and writer Henry Gammidge.

They previously published D’Artagnan Extraordinario #279 Los Diamantes Son Eternos to adapt the 1971 film.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

https://www.comicsroyale.com/editorial-columba#/diamonds/editorial-columba/
Originally Published: D’Artagnan Extraordinario #279 as Los Diamantes Son Eternos
Story Type: Film/Novel hybrid adaptation
Writer: Pedro Mazzino (under the pseudonym Pier Michele)
Artist: Lito Fernandez
Translator: Clinton Rawls

Notes: Truly one of the more interesting comics I’ve translated to date. This adventure is primarily an adaptation of Ian Fleming’s novel with characters and elements of the film version thrown into the mix to create a more literary reading experience. For example, in a particularly clever choice the comic creators change Seraffimo Spang’s Spectreville from a restored frontier boomtown to a replica of Cape Kennedy (better known now as Cape Canaveral). This is not only an appropriate space age update, but it allows the creators to substitute Spang’s locomotive for the moon buggy from Guy Hamilton’s film. As the comic progresses, the story takes some notable twists and turns from both narrative sources so surprises are certainly in store for Bond fans.

Artistic Licence: I must confess that I indulged myself in a couple of instances with this particular adaptation. For starters, in the original text when Bond is informed of Spang’s giant replica of Cape Kennedy, he immediately exclaims, “Blofeld!” I felt this ruined the reveal later in the story, particularly since this adaptation adheres so closely to Fleming’s novel, a book which predates the introduction of Blofeld in Thunderball, so I instead changed Bond’s text to something a bit more inconclusive. Finally, when Bond leaps from the lunar buggy, the original text as translated would have been something a bit closer to, “Time to get out of here!” I felt that this lacked a certain Bondian panache, particularly after such an inventive death trap, so I took the liberty of having a bit more fun with that moment.

2012: The second official BOND 23 photo release shows Judi Dench, director Sam Mendes and director of photography Roger Deakins in the MI6 bunker.

2013: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers celebrates Wing Commander Ken Wallis, creator of ‘Little Nellie’.

events.imeche.org/ViewEvent?code=l306

2015: BOND 24 films car scenes with Daniel Craig in the vicinity of the Colosseum, Rome, Italy.

2015: Taryn Simon's exhibition Simon’s Birds of the West Indies begins at the Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France.

TARYN SIMON | Birds of The West Indies
https://artmap.com/alminerech/exhibition/taryn-simon-2015?print=do


21 February – 14 March 2015

Parallel to Taryn Simon’s exhibition at Jeu de Paume, the American artist’s first monographic exhibition at a French institution, Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present in its Paris space the European premiere of Simon’s Birds of the West Indies, from February 21st until March 14th, 2015.

In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative.

Conflating Bond the ornithologist with 007, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her work Birds of the West Indies (2013–2014). In Birds of the West Indies, 2014, Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon ventured through every scene to discover those moments of chance. The result is a taxonomy not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. The artist has trained her eye away from the agents of seduction—glamour, luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. She forces the viewer’s gaze off center, against the intentions of the franchise, by focusing on the forgotten, insignificant, and overlooked.

Each bird is classified by the time code of its appearance, its location, and the year in which it flew. The taxonomy is organized by country: some locations correspond to nations we acknowledge on our maps, including Switzerland, Afghanistan, and North Korea, while others exist solely in the fictionalized rendering of James Bond’s missions, including Republic of Isthmus, San Monique, and SPECTRE Island.

Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. The birds flew freely in the background of the background, unnoticed or unrecognized until they were catalogued by Simon. Sometimes indecipherable specks hovering in the sky or perched on a building, these birds will never know, nor care, about their fame. In their new static form, the birds often resemble dust on a negative, a once common imperfection that has disappeared in the age of Photoshop. Other times, they are frozen in compositions reminiscent of genres from photographic history. Some appear as perfected and constructed still lifes while others have a snapshot quality. Many appear in an obscured, low-resolution form, as if they had been photographed by surveillance drones or hidden cameras. These visual variations are also affected by feature film’s evolution from 35 mm to high-resolution digital output.

Simon’s taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality. Bird study skins, correspondence, awards, and personal effects of James Bond the ornithologist have been collected by Simon and are displayed in vitrines alongside the photographic works. These artifacts present remnants of the real-life James Bond in his parallel existence to the fictional spy who took his name.

The James Bond film franchise relies upon an ageless, Western male hero with an inexhaustible supply of state-of-the-art weaponry, luxury vehicles, and desirable women. This illusion requires a constant process of replacements. A contract exists between the franchise and the viewer that binds both to a set of expectations. In servicing the desires of the consumer, fantasy becomes formula, and repetition is required; viewers demand something new, but only if it remains essentially the same

Taryn Simon’s film Honey Ryder (Nikki van der Zyl), 1962 documents the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, Nikki van der Zyl, an unseen and uncredited performer, provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. Invisible until now, van der Zyl further underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.

Simon’s works have been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Folkwang Museum, Essen, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013-2014), MoMA, New York (2012), Tate Modern, London (2011), Neue National Galerie, Berlin (2011), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007), Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2008), Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2004), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003). Simon is a graduate of Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) and a Guggenheim Fellow. Several books have been published providing an inventory of her works accompanied by critical texts, including essays by Salman Rushdie, Homi K. Bhabha, and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
www.galeriealminerech.com

2018: Dynamite Entertainment's James Bond The Body #2 (Part Two - The Brain) comes available for purchase.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419002011
Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Antonio Fuso
Genre: Action
Publication Date: February 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/21

PART TWO - THE BRAIN

James Bond leads the interrogation of a scientist who allowed a lethal virus to be stolen. But when the investigation takes a surprising turn, Bond begins to question whether he is enough.

img]https://www.dynamite.com/images/JamesBondBody0202011ACasalanguida.jpg[/img]

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2019: No Time To Die releases a second official poster.

2019: No Time To Die releases an IMAX poster.

RichardTheBruce

February 22nd

1938: Kätherose Derr (Karin Dor) is born--Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
(She dies 6 November 2017 at age 79--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.)

Karin Dor obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/15/karin-dor-obituary
Actor best known as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice
Ronald Bergan | Wed 15 Nov 2017 06.43 EST | Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 15.07 EST


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Karin Dor (1938–2017)

Filmography

Actress (74 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1965: Thunderball films OO7 attacked by and attacking Mme. Boitier.
1968: Casino Royale released in Colombia.

2012: Omega celebrates 50 Years of Bond.

Magazine | Classic Life

The Man With The Golden Jubilee: Omega celebrates 50 years of James Bond

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/classic-life/man-golden-jubilee-omega-celebrates-50-years-james-bond
22 February 2012

The new Omega boutique at London’s Olympic Stadium has been temporarily transformed into the secret headquarters of MI6. For the presentation of its ‘Seamaster 300 M Bond Edition’ chronometer, Omega was able to exhibit many of Q’s original props, previously unseen by the general public.

Together with Bond movie costume designer Lindy Hemming, Omega President Stephen Urquhart officially presented the Omega Seamaster 300 M Bond Edition anniversary watch.

The Oscar-winning Hemming had first placed an Omega Seamaster on Pierce Brosnan’s wrist for the 1995 film Goldeneye. Speaking today, 22 February, she commented: “For me, James Bond is a ‘blue’ type. He holds the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy, wearing the service’s traditional dark blue uniform. Thus, ‘blue’ really is the colour of the world’s most famous secret agent.”

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For this reason, the agent’s watch in that film had a blue dial and, since Goldeneye, 007 has worn an Omega.

During the presentation of the limited-edition (to 11,007 pieces) watch, selected ‘007’ props were on display, including a gold bar from Goldfinger, and Bond’s space helmet from Moonraker.


Photos: Classic Driver

2019: Cineworld reports that Production Weekly reports that the BOND 25 working title is Shatterhand.

News! The Bond 25 working title has been revealed as
Shatterhand

https://www.cineworld.ie/blog/bond-25-working-title-revealed-as-shatterhand

Sean Wilson | Posted on Friday, 22 February 2019

The working title of Daniel Craig's fifth and reportedly final James Bond movie has been revealed as Shatterhand, according to industry publication Production Weekly.

It's the 25th movie to feature Britain's most famous secret agent 007, and will be brought to the screen by True Detective director Cary Fukunaga after Danny Boyle departed the project last year.

The name Shatterhand comes from an alias used by Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Ian Fleming’s 1964 Bond novel You Only Live Twice. Does this imply that Christoph Waltz's scarred super-villain will return following his appearance in 2015's Spectre?

The title reveal comes amid reports that the film's script, originally penned by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, is being extensively rewritten by Steven Soderbergh regular Scott Z. Burns.

The start of principal photography will commence at Pinewood Studios on 6th April and the movie's release date has now been pushed back from February to 8th April 2020. The movie is said to resolve the story threads introduced in 2006's Casino Royale, which marked Craig's triumphant debut as 007. He then went on to appear in 2008's Quantum of Solace, 2012's Skyfall and the aforementioned Spectre.

What do you think the title Shatterhand means? Let us know @Cineworld.

RichardTheBruce

February 23rd

1947: Shakira Baksh (later Caine) is born--British Guiana.

1964: Ian Fleming is photographed on a beach near his Goldeneye estate.

1965: John Kitzmiller dies at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy. (Born 4 December 1913--Battle Creek, Michigan.)

Keeping a wild eye on European Cinema of the past and present

John Kitzmiller

http://www.thewildeye.co.uk/blog/performers-directors/black-actors-in-italy/john-kitzmiller/
November 25, 2010 Matt Blake Americans in Cinecitta, Black Actors in Italy 7

John Kitzmiller was one of the most prominent Afro-American actors to work in Italy during the post war period. Born in Michigan in 1913, he first came to Europe as a soldier during the liberation of Italy, winning a Victory Medal for his efforts. He fell in love with the country, deciding to stay there rather than head home once the conflict was over, and soon drifted into acting, starting his career playing a stock selection of GIs and American expats. In 1948 he had a career defining role in Alberto Lattuada’s Senza pietà, as a GI who becomes friendly with an Italian girl (played by Carla Del Poggio). As well as bringing his face to the international arthouse crowd, this was a popular film on the US university circuit, where it gained a considerable following among Afro-American students.

John Kitzmiller in Dr. No

More roles followed, although with the decline of neo-realism and the growing emphasis on using professional actors they shrunk in size. He was a trumpet player in Luci del varietà (directed by Lattuada and a young Federico Fellini), played a valet in Marino Girolami’s Canto per te (a vehicle for the famed tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano), and appeared as a selection of servants, criminals or workmen. With the resurgence of the swashbuckler and peplum in the 1950s his workrate stepped up a notch, and by the early 60s he was appearing in three or four films a year.

It was at this time that he won a further degree of international success, starring as Quarrel in the hugely succesful Dr No, where his role – most of which was shot in Jamaica – was more prominent than his lowly billing would suggest. This led to one final key role, as the titular character in Géza von Radványi’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was released in the same year as his death in 1965 from cirrhosis of the liver (caused, reputedly, by his long term alcoholism).

Kitzmiller’s importance wasn’t so much for the films he appeared in – although he certainly appeared in some important films. It was in the fact that he was a trailblazer for black actors both in Italy and in the US, at a time in which cinema was an almost entirely caucasian occupation. Given that, it’s surprising how little biographical information is available about him.

About Matt Blake
The WildEye is a blog dedicated to the wild world of Italian cinema (and, ok, sometimes I digress into discussing films from other countries as well). Peplums, comedies, dramas, spaghetti westerns... they're all covered here.

5 Comments

Tom B. | July 22, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Thanks Matt. I agree he was trailblazer in opening up roles for blacks in Italian cinema. Any fan of Italian films has heard of his name, but as you say so little biographical information is available. Thanks for posting on this unique actor in European films.

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm

A little bit more info on Mr. Kitzmiller. In a book on Fellini (Federico Fellini: his life and work by Tullio Kezich, Minna Proctor, Viviana Mazza), he’s described as: “a former chemical engineer who’d slipped accidentally into movie acting”

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

And a bit more, an obituary from a magazine called Jet, March 11th 1965.

John Kitzmiller, who became and Italian star, dies at 51.

A husky American negro who became one of Italy’s most celebrated movie actors but never played in a film produced in his native land, John Kitzmiller, 51, died in Rome after a career that spanned 20 years. Kitzmiller, of Battle Creek, Mich., and a former captain of the Engineers with the famed Negro 92nd Division of World War 2, succumbed to a liver ailment just two months after he was wed to attractive, blond Dusia Bejic, a Yugoslav in Belgrade. Kitzmiller went overseas with the division in the dark days of WW2, but he never forgot his ambition to become an actor. After the war, he decided not to go home but settled in Italy, where he made his first film, To Live in Peace. He received rave notices. There followed a string of ten movies with good roles for Kitzmiller, establishing him, along with cinema-lovely Gina Lollobrigida, as the top motion star in the 1950s in Italy, where realism and authenticity in film making are the sought after ingredients, not the colour of an actor’s skin

And, from From Sambo to Superspade by Daniel J. Leab

John Kitzmiller became an actor while on occupation duty in Italy in 1946. He was playing poker in a sidewalk cafe when he was spotted by two Italians who thought him physically perfect for a war movie they were casting

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mattblake | November 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm

And here’s another newspaper article mentioning his marriage:

John Kitzmiller's wedding article from Jet


Luciano Benetti was a little known Italian actor who turned up in a handful of cape and sword films

John Kitzmiller (I) (1913–1965)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457839/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (53 credits)

1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom

1965 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom
1965 Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV Series) - Un cliente della Citanguette
- Una vita in gioco (1965) ... Un cliente della Citanguette
1964 Biblioteca di Studio Uno (TV Mini-Series) - Sam
- La storia di Rossella O'Hara (1964) ... Sam
1964 Il ribelle di Castelmonte - Ali
1964 Indios a Nord-Ovest
1964 Night of the Vampires - John - Black Servant
1962 Tiger of the Seven Seas - Serpente - Il pianista
- Episode #1.2 (1962) ... Il pianista
1962 Dr. No - Quarrel (as John Kitzmuller: end credits)
1962 The Son of Captain Blood - Moses
1962 Blood and Defiance
1962 Mars, God of War - Afros
1961 Chiamami bugiardo (TV Movie) - Dr. Bowker
1961 La corona di fuoco - Akim
1961 Totòtruffa '62 - Ambasciatore del Katonga
1961 Revolt of the Mercenaries - Tago
1960-1961 Giallo club - Invito al poliziesco (TV Series) - Joke / Peter
- Partita a tre (1961) ... Joke
- Ultimo avviso (1960) ... Peter
1960 Il corsaro della tortue (TV Movie)
1960 Pirates of the Coast - Rock
1960 Seven in the Sun - Salvador

1959 Due selvaggi a corte - Kato
1959 Pensione Edelweiss - Bougron
1959 Lost Souls - Luca
1958 Aphrodite, Goddess of Love - Tomoro
1958 The Naked Earth - David
1957 A vent'anni è sempre festa - John Miller
1957 I misteri di Parigi - Lo Squartatore
1956 Valley of Peace - Sgt. Jim
1955 Il nostro campione - Raimondo
1954 Lacrime d'amore
1954 Acque amare - Mezzanotte
1954 Il grande addio
1954 Desiderio 'e sole - Simone
1954 Quai des blondes - Michel
1954 Non vogliamo morire - John - il timoniere
1954 Island Sinner - Abul - il pescatore negro
1954 Foreign Earth
1953 Canto per te - Angenore
1953 Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente - Nabus, lo schiavo muto
1953 Trouble for the Legion - Djalmar
1952 Delitto al luna park
1952 Ultimo perdono
1952 At Sword's Edge
1952 Wolves Hunt at Night - Le domestique noir de Miguel
1952 Massacre en dentelles - Rocky Saddler
1950 Variety Lights - Trumpet player Johnny
1950 La forza del destino - Lo scudiero moro

1949 Monastero di Santa Chiara - Il negro
1949 Lieutenant Craig: Missing - The MP
1948 Without Pity - Jerry Jackson
1947 Tombolo - Jack
1947 To Live in Peace - Joe (as Jonny Kitzmiller)

Archive footage (3 credits)

2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Quarrel
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself

1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary)

2008: Quantum of Solace films Camille in a Ford Ka trying to shoot OO7.

So beautiful.

2012: A press release announces November Skyfall IMAX screenings.

2015: Spectre night filming continues in Rome, Italy.
2018: Lewis Gilbert dies at age 97--Monaco. (Born 6 March 1920--London, England.)

Lewis Gilbert obituary

https://theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/27/lewis-gilbert-obituary
Film director whose long and varied career produced hits including Alfie and Educating Rita
Sheila Whitaker | Tue 27 Feb 2018 13.05 EST

Julie Walters and Michael Caine in a scene from
Educating Rita, 1983, directed by Lewis Gilbert.
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

The film director Lewis Gilbert, who has died aged 97, never sought the limelight: he always said he wanted his films to speak for him, and several of them, including Alfie (1966) and Educating Rita (1983), have become part of cinema history.

Alfie is the story of an amoral young man who philosophises to camera on sex, love and women as he pursues sexual encounters with one girl after another. Paramount wanted the setting moved to New York and Tony Curtis to play Alfie, but Gilbert held out for Michael Caine. Caine’s performance assured his career, and the film was nominated for five Oscars.

Alfie’s success brought Gilbert his first Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967), to be followed a decade later by The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and in 1979 by Moonraker. Lewis wryly commented that in earlier years he used to make a feature film for less than the Moonraker telephone bill.

It was Gilbert’s wife, Hylda, who brought Educating Rita to his attention and, having resisted studio pressure, this time again to move the setting to the US and to cast Dolly Parton as Rita, he finally raised the finance, despite not having any distribution deals in place, and cast Julie Walters and Caine. The film received three Oscar nominations and Hollywood studios vied to distribute it. He followed this with Shirley Valentine in 1989 with Pauline Collins as a housewife striking out for freedom in Greece.

Gilbert was what he described as an unfashionable director and considered this to have been why he survived for so long in the film industry. “I’ve never been known for any one kind of film. So, I’m really somebody like a doctor who you call in when you want the patient to live, as it were.”

Lewis Gilbert described himself as an unfashionable director.
Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian

Born in London into a vaudeville family, Gilbert began touring in an act, the Four Kemptons, with his parents when he was four. His love of theatre and film began there – he watched films, shown as part of the vaudeville programmes, from behind the screen. He went to a theatrical school when he was 12 and he also entered cinema as an actor, appearing in quota quickies, including The Price of a Song (1935) directed by Michael Powell, and Over the Moon (1939).

It was while he was appearing with Laurence Olivier in The Divorce of Lady X (1938) that Alexander Korda, the producer, offered to send him to Rada. Gilbert replied that he would rather direct and so was sent to Korda’s Denham studios in Buckinghamshire as a third assistant director. He graduated up the scale, working with Alfred Hitchcock on Jamaica Inn (1939) – “He was the man I learned the most from” – and with a variety of studios, eventually becoming a first assistant.

At the beginning of the second world war, Gilbert volunteered for the RAF and from there he went to the US Army Air Forces film unit, where he worked on documentaries with Hollywood veterans such as William Wyler, Frank Capra and William Keighley. This gave Gilbert his directing break, as Keighley, hating the British winter cold, preferred his Mayfair hotel to going out filming. During this time he met Arthur Elton, and on being invalided out in 1944 took up his offer of a job at Gaumont-British Instructional directing documentaries.

His first feature, The Little Ballerina (1947), a children’s film with Margot Fonteyn, was successful to the point where, after its Saturday morning children’s run, it was put out on a circuit release. His first major success was Emergency Call (1952, known in the US as The Hundred Hour Hunt), in which Jack Warner has a race against time to find three people with the right blood type to save a child’s life.

He co-wrote the film with Vernon Harris, who became a collaborator for more than 40 years. Gilbert followed this with Cosh Boy (1953, also known as The Slasher), featuring Joan Collins, an X film which was widely banned – “Today, you’d show it to 10-year-olds” – and Johnny on the Run (1953), the first film which he also produced.

Gilbert’s long and varied career included thrillers and a number of war movies – “The war was the single biggest influence in my life, a very traumatic time. I think it was natural in the years after the war had ended to make films that were part propaganda and part portraits of heroism.” These included Albert RN (1953), which the producers had originally wanted shot in 3D, The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) and Reach for the Sky (1955), Gilbert’s personal favourite, in which Kenneth More played the war hero Douglas Bader.

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Michael Caine in a scene from Alfie, 1966;
Gilbert resisted the studio’s idea of casting Tony Curtis in the role.
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Paramount

Then followed Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) the true story of the secret agent Violette Szabo, Sink the Bismarck! (1960), HMS Defiant (1962) and Operation: Daybreak (1975). This last Gilbert felt could never be commercial because “it was very realistic and very downbeat but it was a true picture, whilst the earlier films may almost have glamorised wartime”.

In 1959 he had an unhappy experience working with Orson Welles on Ferry to Hong Kong. Gilbert had wanted Peter Finch to play the tramp and Curt Jurgens to play the officer. Instead he got Welles as the captain. Aside from the poor script, Gilbert said, Welles hated Jurgens and every scene that involved both of them had to be shot separately. The film and the overall strategy failed.

The Greengage Summer (1961, also known as Loss of Innocence), starring More (the producers had wanted Richard Burton, but he decided on Alexander the Great instead), was a happier affair, although, during the shooting, a blight on greengage trees forced them to buy in supplies of the fruit from Harrods and stick them on to the trees.

He continued working well into his 80s, and directed Walters again on his last feature film, Before You Go (2002). Always highly professional in his work, Gilbert was also a charming, unaffected and kind man with a friendly welcome for everyone. He and Hylda loved attending festivals (especially the annual festival in Cannes, where they had a flat) and going to screenings to look at the widest possible range of new films from directors of all ages and, most importantly, happily discussing them afterwards.

In 1990, he was awarded the Michael Balcon lifetime achievement award from Bafta, and he was appointed CBE in 1997. In 2010, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, Bafta held an evening of celebration at which he was interviewed on stage by Walters. He published his autobiography, All My Flashbacks, and appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in the same year.

Hylda (nee Tafler), whom he married in 1951, died in 2005. They had two sons, John and Stephen.

• Lewis Gilbert, film director, producer and writer, born 6 March 1920; died 23 February 2018

Lewis Gilbert (II) (1920–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318150/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Director (42 credits)

2002 Before You Go

1995 Haunted
1991 Stepping Out

1989 Shirley Valentine
1985 Not Quite Paradise
1983 Educating Rita

1979 Moonraker
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
1976 Seven Nights in Japan
1975 Operation: Daybreak
1974 Paul and Michelle
1971 Friends
1970 The Adventurers

1967 You Only Live Twice
1966 Alfie
1964 The 7th Dawn
1962 Damn the Defiant!
1961 Loss of Innocence
1960 Skywatch
1960 Sink the Bismarck!

1959 Ferry to Hong Kong
1958 A Cry from the Streets
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride
1957 Paradise Lagoon
1956 Reach for the Sky
1955 Cast a Dark Shadow
1954 The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954 Harmony Lane (Short) (as Byron Gill)
1954 The Good Die Young
1953 Break to Freedom
1953 Johnny on the Run
1953 The Slasher
1952 Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952 The Hundred Hour Hunt
1951 Wall of Death
1951 Scarlet Thread
1950 Once a Sinner

1949 Under One Roof (Documentary short)
1947 The Little Ballerina
1946 Arctic Harvest (Documentary short)
1945 The Ten Year Plan (Documentary short)
1944 Sailors Do Care (Documentary short)

Writer (17 credits)

1995 Haunted

1974 Paul and Michelle (story)
1971 Friends (story)
1970 The Adventurers (screenplay)

1962 Emergency (story - uncredited)

1959 Ferry to Hong Kong (screenplay)
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride (screenplay)
1957 Paradise Lagoon (adaptation)
1956 Reach for the Sky (screenplay)
1954 The Sea Shall Not Have Them (screenplay)
1954 The Good Die Young (screenplay)
1953 The Slasher (screenplay)
1952 The Hundred Hour Hunt (written by)

1949 Under One Roof (Documentary short)
1949 Marry Me (original screenplay)
1947 The Little Ballerina (writer)
1945 The Ten Year Plan (Documentary short)

Producer (13 credits)

1995 Haunted (producer)
1991 Stepping Out (producer)

1989 Shirley Valentine (producer)
1985 Not Quite Paradise (producer)
1983 Educating Rita (producer)

1976 Seven Nights in Japan (producer)
1974 Paul and Michelle (producer)
1971 Friends (producer)
1970 The Adventurers (producer)

1966 Alfie (producer)
1960 Skywatch (producer)

1958 Carve Her Name with Pride (A Daniel M. Angel and Lewis Gilbert Production)
1953 Johnny on the Run (producer)

Actor (8 credits)

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

1940 Room for Two (uncredited)

1939 Over the Moon - Minor Role (uncredited)
1938 The Divorce of Lady X - Tom (uncredited)
1937 Good Morning, Boys - Schoolboy (uncredited)
1935 The Price of a Song - young brother of Margaret Nevern (uncredited)
1934 Death at a Broadcast - Autograph hunter (uncredited)
1934 Dick Turpin - Jem

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1949 Marry Me ("Music in September")

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

2009 Movie Connections (TV Series documentary) (archive - 1 episode)
- Shirley Valentine (2009) ... (archive)

RichardTheBruce

February 24th

1932: Michel Jean Legrand is born--Paris, France.
(He dies 26 January 2019--American Hospital of Paris, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.)

Michel Legrand obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/27/michel-legrand-obituary

French composer, jazz musician and conductor who wrote the scores for more than 250 films including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl

John Fordham | Sun 27 Jan 2019 11.16 EST

Michel Legrand in 1975. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images

The music of the composer, singer, arranger, conductor, jazz musician and producer Michel Legrand went on glowing long after many of the 250-odd films he had written soundtracks for had fallen by the wayside.

Legrand, who has died aged 86, made deadpan reference to that phenomenon when he played at Ronnie Scott’s club in London in 2011 – announcing that it was his ambition to meet “one of the 19 people who ever saw The Happy Ending”, the 1969 Hollywood film for which he wrote his classic love song What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

But if some of the film vehicles for Legrand’s artistry were outlasted by his music, several became famous, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), with Noel Harrison singing The Windmills of Your Mind, which won Legrand’s first Oscar, for best film theme song, in 1969. Another Oscar followed for The Summer of ’42 two years later – this time for best film music. Its theme, The Summer Knows, was recorded later that year by Barbra Streisand, whose 1983 film, Yentl, won him his third Oscar, again for best music.

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The famous Legrand Jazz album. Photograph: Sabine Weiss/Columbia Records

Legrand’s songwriting skills flowered in the early 1950s through intimate acquaintance with the modern chanson movement in Paris, at first as a gifted piano accompanist. After the second world war, the US was nostalgic for French culture, and when Columbia Records commissioned an English-language album of chanson classics, the young Legrand was hired to steer it – and found himself with an 8m-selling hit.

By his mid-20s, Legrand was able to call the shots as a composer and arranger on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1958, he even had more than sufficient clout to hire Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans – three of the hippest and most acclaimed young jazz musicians of the decade – to play sidemen’s roles on his Legrand Jazz session.

Michel was born in the Paris suburb of Bécon-les-Bruyères into a family with strong musical connections. His father, Raymond Legrand, was a composer, conductor and former pupil of Gabriel Fauré, and in his later years would go on to collaborate with Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. His maternal uncle on his mother Marcelle’s side was the dance-band saxophonist and bandleader Jacques Hélian.


But Raymond left home when Michel was three, and his mother Marcelle (nee Ter-Mikaëlian), struggled to provide for the boy and his older sister, Christiane. He found a consoling friend in the flat’s battered piano and it quickly emerged that he had a gift. Christiane also played the instrument, and she was similarly destined for a successful career in music, as a jazz singer.

Michel became obsessed with the music and life of Franz Schubert, and – with Nadia Boulanger among his teachers – won a raft of prizes on a variety of instruments at the Paris Conservatoire, which he began attending as a 10-year-old in 1942. But a 1947 Paris concert by the bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his big band thrilled him with the sound of jazz.

By the time he left the conservatoire in 1949 he was a budding jazz pianist with a profound knowledge of musical theory and a working knowledge of many instruments. His resourcefulness quickly found him work with chanson stars including Juliette Gréco and Zizi Jeanmaire, and in 1954 the international popularity of chanson brought his international breakthrough.

Michel Legrand playing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the mid-1970s. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns

Columbia-EMI wanted an English-language version of those evocative Parisian songs, and none of the big-name American arrangers was interested. Through a contact at the record company, the unknown Legrand was commissioned to produce it – for $200 and no royalties. The result was the bestseling album I Love Paris,. Chevalier then hired Legrand as his musical director and the resulting US tours enhanced the newcomer’s stature.
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Legrand began a solo career, with the easy-listening but sophisticated jazz albums Holiday in Rome (1955), Michel Legrand Plays Cole Porter (1957) and Legrand in Rio (1958). He also worked with the French Caribbean singer Henri Salvador, who, under the alias of Henri Cording, made some of the first French forays into rock’n’roll, with Legrand furnishing the music and the surrealist novelist, poet and jazz critic Boris Vian the lyrics. In 1958, he returned to New York to make his celebrated Legrand Jazz album – with Ben Webster joining Coltrane, Evans and Davis in the lineup.

Legrand later admitted to being anxious about Davis’s involvement. The trumpeter rarely played sessions other than his own and made a diva’s point of arriving 15 minutes late, checking out the music from the studio doorway and promptly leaving if he did not like the sound of it. But, according to Legrand, the usually taciturn Davis not only participated, but even asked the young bandleader if he had liked his contribution.

By this point, Legrand was developing a parallel career as a film composer. He scored Henri Verneuil’s 1955 crime passionel movie Les Amants du Tage (The Lovers of Lisbon), and became a significant collaborator with the new wave directors Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Reichenbach. He also composed for Jacques Demy, most notably on the innovative Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) – a reappraisal of the film musical, combining a realist perspective with a narrative in which songs replaced dialogue.

The movie’s theme song Je Ne Pourrai Jamais Vivre Sans Toi was covered – in English as I Will Wait for You – by stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli. Legrand, Demy and the film’s lead, Catherine Deneuve, collaborated on the Hollywood homage Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort, 1967), with Gene Kelly. Legrand also wrote for Gilles Grangier and Yves Allégret, and for Joseph Losey – most notably in 1971 on the Palme d’Or winner The Go-Between.

Through close relationships with the jazz-enthusiastic chanson singer Claude Nougaro and the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, Legrand not only began to develop a personal repertoire of original songs, but to consider performing them himself. He collaborated on the lyrics with other writers including Eddy Marnay and Jean Dréjac, and worked on the occasional forays into songwriting by the novelist Françoise Sagan.

In 1968, Legrand moved to Los Angeles, during which time he composed the award-winning scores to The Thomas Crown Affair and then, two years later, Summer of ’42. Legrand later said that Jewison cut the highly charged seven-and-a-half-minute chess game scene between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair to fit the music, which begins with a solo harp and ends with a big band playing a jazz waltz.

As well as the Oscars, between 1971 and 1975 Legrand won five Grammy awards, and in this period was on his way to becoming one of the US’s most popular Frenchmen. A sharp and witty raconteur, he appeared on television chatshows, and for relaxation worked at Shelly’s Manne Hole club in Los Angeles with the great double bassist Ray Brown. In the next decade, he composed for Clint Eastwood and Orson Welles, for Streisand’s Yentl, and the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983).

During this time Legrand also played a lot of jazz, making three albums with a regular trio featuring the bassist Marc-Michel Le Bévillon and the drummer André Ceccarelli, and bringing together the celebrated American saxophonists Phil Woods and Zoot Sims to join him in a septet to make the 1982 album After the Rain. He released a solo vocal album, and staged his own oratorio, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, in 1989.

Legrand’s search for new challenges found one that even he could not pull off when he directed the unsuccessful semi-autobiographical film Cinq Jours en Juin (1989), but leading a big band in the next decade found him on more secure ground – he toured widely, and accompanied Ray Charles, Diana Ross and Björk with it. Legrand composed for Jean Guidoni’s 1995 album Vertigo and participated in an award-winning show at the Casino de Paris with Guidoni the following year.

In 1997, with the playwright Didier Van Cauwelaert, he worked on Le Passe Muraille, a quirky musical adapted from a 1943 Marcel Aymé short story about an unassuming clerk who can walk through walls. The show went to Broadway as Amour five years later, and its lead singer Melissa Errico became an important muse for Legrand. They worked together for six years on the album Legrand Affair (2011).

In his later years, Legrand remained ready for surprises, even if the world was beginning to treat him as a grand old man. Stars queued up to perform his hits in a celebration at the Louvre in 2000; and the French government made him an officier de la Légion d’honneur in 2003.

When his friend Nougaro died in 2004, he recorded Legrand Nougaro, where the composer and a bespoke jazz band accompanied tapes of his friend’s voice in new performances of the Toulouse singer’s songs – including the previously unheard Mon Dernier Concert.

In 2009 Legrand came to Britain with a repertoire combining his biggest hits and a selection of jazz favourites, and a lineup including his longterm partner, the harpist Catherine Michel and the singer Alison Moyet. The following year, he conducted the Moscow Virtuosi chamber group in Russia, for the two-CD set The Music of Michel Legrand. And for his 80th birthday Christmas album the following year – Noël! Noël!! Noël!!! – Legrand was joined by Rufus Wainwright, Jamie Cullum and Iggy Pop.

“When I hit 80,” he said, “I knew that the last chapter of my work would be classical. So I wrote a piano concerto that I recorded myself, a cello concerto, a harp concerto, some sonatas. I wrote a huge ballet. I’m very proud of that. It’s a good final chapter.”

Last September, Legrand conducted orchestral arrangements of music from his soundtracks with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, against projections of the scenes they originally accompanied, at the Royal Festival Hall, in London.

He lived his last years as he had lived his earliest ones as a precocious music student in Paris – guided, as he said, by the “ambition … to live completely surrounded by music. My dream is not to miss out anything. That’s why I’ve never settled on one musical discipline. I love playing, conducting, singing and writing, and in all styles. So I turn my hand to everything – not just a bit of everything. Quite the opposite, I do all these activities at once, seriously, sincerely and with deep commitment.”

Legrand had three marriages. The first, to Christine Bouchard, a model, and second, to the actor and producer Isabelle Rondon, ended in divorce. In 2014, he married the actor Macha Méril.

He is survived by Macha and his four children, Dominique, Hervé, Benjamin and Eugénie.
• Michel Jean Legrand, composer and musician, born 24 February 1932; died 26 January 2019

Michel Legrand (I) (1932–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006166/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Composer (211 credits)

Morning Shine (pre-production)
2017-2019 William à Midi (TV Series) (10 episodes)
2019 Clara Luciani et Vladimir Cauchemar - La chanson de Delphine (Video short)
2018 I Lost Albert
2018 The Other Side of the Wind
2017 The Guardians
2017 Le Point Culture (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Le Corps Humain (2017)
2014 The Price of Fame

2009 Il était une fois... notre Terre (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- Santé, éducation (2009)
- Climat: le Grand Nord (2009)
- Les héritiers de la planète (2009)
2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2008 Disco
2006 Deadly Lessons
2005 Cavalcade
2004 Léaud de Hurle-dents (Documentary short)
2003 Yantarnye krylya
2002 And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2000 The Blue Bicycle (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- La douleur de la libération (2000)
- L'occupation et la résistance (2000)
- L'amour et la guerre (2000)

1999 La bûche
1999 Doggy Bag
1998 Madeline
1996 Il était une fois... les explorateurs (TV Series)
1996 The Ring (TV Movie)
1995 Aaron's Magic Village
1995 Les enfants de Lumière (Documentary)
1995 Les Misérables
1995 The World of Jacques Demy (Documentary)
1994 Børne 1'eren (TV Series) (segment "Vera", 2001)
1994 Il était une fois... les découvreurs (TV Series)
1994 Ready to Wear
1993 The Young Girls Turn 25 (Documentary)
1993 The Pickle
1992 Il était une fois... les Amériques (TV Series) (26 episodes)
1992 Coup de foudre (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Masques de lune (1992)
1991 Dingo
1991 Burning Shore (TV Movie)
1990 Fate
1990 Gaspard et Robinson
1990/II Eternity
1990 Flight from Paradise
1990 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (TV Movie)

1989 Cinq jours en juin
1988 The Jeweller's Shop
1988 Un coupable (TV Movie)
1988 Three Seats for the 26th
1987-1988 Il était une fois... la vie (TV Series) (26 episodes)
1988 Switching Channels
1987 La baleine blanche (TV Series)
1987 Spiral
1987 Casanova (TV Movie)
1987 Club de rencontres
1986 As Summers Die (TV Movie)
1986 You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (Short)
1986 Crossings (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
1980-1985 Anna Liza (TV Series) (1,315 episodes)
1985 Promises to Keep (TV Movie)
1985 Parking
1985 Partir, revenir
1985 Palace
1985 Hell Train
1984 Paroles et musique
1984 The Jesse Owens Story (TV Movie)
1984 Secret Places
1983 A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (TV Short documentary)
1983 Lani Hall: Never Say Never Again (Video short)
1983 Yentl
1983 Les uns et les autres (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
1983 Never Say Never Again
1983 A Love in Germany
1983 Revenge of the Humanoids
1982 Friends of the Family (Short)
1982 Once Upon a Time... Space (TV Series) (26 episodes)
1982 Best Friends
1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
1982 Le rêve d'Icare (TV Movie)
1982 Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?
1982 A Woman Called Golda (TV Movie)
1982 Bankers Also Have Souls
1981 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981 Bolero
1980 Falling in Love Again
1980 Atlantic City (music composed by)
1980 The Hunter
1980 The Mountain Men

1979 Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen
1979 Lady Oscar
1979 Je vous ferai aimer la vie
1978 Mon premier amour
1978 Firebird: Daybreak Chapter
1978 Once Upon a Time... Man (TV Series)
1978 Roads to the South
1976-1978 ABC Afterschool Specials (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1978 One Can Say It Without Getting Angry
1977 The Other Side of Midnight
1977 Gulliver's Travels
1976 The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
1976 Ode to Billy Joe
1976 The Honeymoon Trip
1976 Gable and Lombard
1975 Simon dans l'autobus (Short)
1975 Le Sauvage
1975 Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1975 Cage Without a Key (TV Movie)
1974 Our Time
1974 It's Good to Be Alive (TV Movie)
1973 The Three Musketeers
1973 Breezy
1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
1973 A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973 Cops and Robbers (as Michel LeGrand)
1973 40 Carats
1973 Story of a Love Story
1973 Le temps de vivre, le temps d'aimer (TV Mini-Series) (40 episodes)
1973/II A Doll's House
1973 The Nelson Affair
1973 Le gang des otages
1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973)
1972 The Outside Man
1972 Not Dumb, the Bird
1972 Lady Sings the Blues
1972 One is a Lonely Number
1972 Portnoy's Complaint
1972 Hearth Fires
1972 A Time for Loving
1972 The Old Maid
1971 La vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur (Short)
1971 Zoom the White Dolphin (TV Series)
1971 Brian's Song (TV Movie)
1971 A Few Hours of Sunlight
1971 Touch and Go
1971 La ville-bidon
1971 Le Mans
1971 The Go-Between
1971 Summer of '42
1971 Swashbuckler
1970 To Catch a Pebble
1970 Wuthering Heights
1970 Donkey Skin
1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 Pieces of Dreams

1969 The Picasso Summer
1969 The Happy Ending
1969 Call Me Mathilde
1969 An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte (TV Special)
1969 Castle Keep
1969 The Swimming Pool
1969 Play Dirty
1968 Ice Station Zebra
1968 The Thomas Crown Affair
1968 A Hatful of Rain (TV Movie)
1968 Sweet November
1968 How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968 The Man in the Buick
1967 1999 A.D. (Short) (as Michel LeGrand)
1967 A Matter of Innocence
1967 The Oldest Profession
1967 The Young Girls of Rochefort
1966 Derrière l'écran (TV Series)
1966/II Le misanthrope (Short)
1966 The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966 Tender Scoundrel
1966 Et la femme créa l'amour
1966 L'or et le plomb
1966 Monkey Money
1966 A Matter of Resistance
1965 Fraternelle Amazonie (Documentary)
1965 When the Pheasants Pass
1965 Code Name: Jaguar
1964 À propos d'une star (Documentary short)
1964 Soleil (Documentary short)
1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (segment "Grand escroc, Le")
1964 Band of Outsiders
1964 The Lovers of the France
1964 Agent 38-24-36
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1963 Illuminations (Documentary short)
1963 La douceur du village (Documentary)
1963 Maigret voit rouge
1963 Le joli mai (Documentary)
1963 Love Is a Ball
1963 Bay of Angels
1962 Histoire d'un petit garçon devenu grand (Short)
1962 Jouer a Paris (Documentary short)
1962 The Empire of Night
1962 Eva
1962 The Gentleman from Epsom
1962 Vivre Sa Vie
1962 Comme un poisson dans l'eau
1962 Cleo from 5 to 7
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins (segments "Envie, L'", "Paresse, La", "Luxure, La", "Gourmandise, La", "Colère, La")
1962 A Swelled Head
1961 Melancholia (Short)
1961 Nom d'une pipe (Short)
1961 The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (Short)
1961 Un coeur gros comme ça
1961 Keep Talking, Baby
1961 The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961 A Woman Is a Woman
1961 Me faire ça à moi
1961 Lola
1960 Le coeur battant
1960 The Door Slams
1960 Jack of Spades
1960 Wasteland
1960 America As Seen by a Frenchman (Documentary)

1958 L'américain se détend (Short)
1958 Sinners of Paris
1957 The Tricyclist
1957 Maurice Chevalier's Paris (TV Movie documentary)
1955 Visages de Paris (Documentary short)

Soundtrack (190 credits)
Music department (60 credits)
Actor (8 credits)
Director (3 credits)
Writer (2 credits)
Producer (1 credit)
Thanks (2 credits)
Self (98 credits)
Archive footage (6 credits)
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Le joli mai -- Trailer for Le Joli Mai

1953: Ian Fleming comments on progress writing Moonraker.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 9 - Escaping the "gab-fests"
1953-1956

24 February he reported that he had written 30,000 words of Moonraker.
there was no sex in it yet, and it “may be all right, may not”. In admitting
to Cape in early March that his first doubts about this creation were
beginning to occur, he had “a horrible feeling” that he was beginning to
parody himself. True, the logistics of writing thriller were becoming
clearer: “Readers don’t mind how fantastic one is, but they must feel that
the author believe in his fantasy.” However, Ian could see that “the future
of James Bond is going to require gar more thought than I have to far
devoted to him.” In front of him was “nothing but a vista of fantastic
adventures on more or less the same pattern, but losing freshness with
each volume”.

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 escaping from the skating rink.

1971: Tom Mankiewicz completes the Diamonds Are Forever first draft.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/diamonds-forever-007-james-bond-1694821457

2013: The 85th Academy Awards sees performances from Dame Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger") and Adele ("Skyfall"). Later in the proceedings "Skyfall" wins Best Song for Adele and Paul Epworth.

2017: Roger Becker dies at age 71.

The Chassis Guru Behind Lotus's Best Cars Has Died

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a32736/the-chassis-guru-behind-lotuss-best-cars-has-died/
Roger Becker spent 44 years at Lotus before retiring in 2010.
Feb 24, 2017 | By Travis Okulski

Lotus

During the filming of the classic Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, there was a problem: The stunt drivers couldn't get the Esprit to slide around and do what they wanted during the car chase. Roger Becker, the man who did the development driving and chassis tuning on the Esprit, was on hand during filming. He knew that the car could do what the script called for, but he also knew that the car wasn't being driven properly.

So he did it himself. And that's how Lotus's test and development driver became the Bond's stunt driver.

Sadly, Becker just passed away.

Becker worked at Lotus for 44 years and had a hand in developing basically every car the company built since 1966, when the original Elan was still in production. He worked on everything from the Esprit to the Elise and the Exige to the Evora. Becker's finger print was on basically every car the company made.

From 1988, Becker worked alongside his son, Matt (who left the company in 2014), developing cars for the English manufacturer. Together, they have a combined 70 years of experience at Lotus, which is actually longer than the company existed.

Roger Becker was 71.

Lotus Cars
about 2 years ago

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Roger Becker, formerly the Director of Vehicle Engineering at Group Lotus until his retirement in 2010.

Roger joined Lotus in 1966, working on the Elan assembly line at Cheshunt. His natural driving and engineering skills came to the attention of Lotus founder Colin Chapman and Roger was quickly moved to the vehicle development team where he worked on the Lotus Europa Twin Cam – his first Lotus car development project.

During his career at Lotus, Roger worked on the development of every Lotus car, including the Esprit, Excel, Elan, Elise, Exige S1 and S2 and the first generation Lotus Evora, helping to ensure that the essence and purity of Lotus was instilled in all Lotus cars over the years. He also worked with many of the world’s major automotive manufacturers in support of Lotus’ consultancy engineering business.

On his retirement from Lotus, following 44 years of service, a series of Lotus Elise and Lotus Exige sports cars in bespoke RGB Special Edition specification were produced. Roger, himself, owned an Elise version.

He will be remembered by all at Lotus, for not just his engineering skills and leadership, but also his passion for the Lotus brand, his humour and of course his driving skills during the shooting of the James Bond film, “The Spy Who Loved Me”.

Our thoughts are with the Becker family at this time.

2020: Gavin Robertson's "Bond - An Unauthorized Parody" begins its run at the Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia, with a 7:30 p.m. Monday night preview.

Bond- An Unauthorised Parody

http://www.bakehousetheatre.com/shows/bond-unauthorised-parody
Monday, 24 February 2020 to Saturday, 7 March 2020

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Adelaide Fringe

"Comedy at its best, clever, subtle,
intelligent, but combined with great
theatrical skills"
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Presented by:
Gavin Robertson (UK)
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At the door 30 mins before (subject to availability). Shows start ON TIME. Latecomers not admitted

Bond is back (just before the new film!). Older, unfit and someone's out to get him!

Following shows in USA, Russia & Australia, Robertson focuses on the Bond films, in this comedy cartoon adventure exploding every cliché in the book(s) - Solo!

Bond meets his greatest arch-villain yet: author Ian Fleming himself, courtesy of a time-machine, and featuring the smallest car chase (n)ever seen! It's a race against time itself! Minimum props, maximum effect!

...

"Clever, witty & inventive"
Kryztoff Raw

"Performs with a subtle authority that is compelling to watch"
The Guardian (UK)

"Robertson knows which clichés to capture... a real pleasure"
The Times

Gavin Robertson comes from a physical theatre background (Lecoq, Kemp & Gaulier), producing, creating & performing his own work for national & international touring, usually funded by Arts Council of England. He has created a diverse portfolio of productions including ‘The Six-Sided Man’, ‘Fantastical Voyage’, ‘I Am Who Am I’ and many others, infamously, ‘Thunderbirds F.A.B.’ which played in London's West End on six separate occasions between 1989 and 2002. He directed Nicholas Collett's "Your Bard" & "Spitfire Solo". Each of his shows has toured internationally, including several tours to Japan, Australia, USA, Singapore, Tunisia, Senegal, Turkey, Oman, Brazil & more. He's appeared in both Adelaide Fringe & International Festival ("Three Musketeers", and "12 Angry Men" with Bill Bailey).

Details

Theatre: Main Theatre
Pricing: Preview $19, Adults $26, Conc $21, Family $18.75, BSA $20.25, Schools $19, Artist Pass $15 (booked)/$0 (subject to availability)
Duration: 60 min

Credits:

Director: Nicholas Collett
Composer/Sound Design: Danny Bright
Stage & Lighting Design: Gavin Robertson
Lighting/Re-light: Stephen Dean
Operator: Stephen Dean

Preview(s):

Monday, 24 February 2020 - 7:30pm

Season:

Tuesday, 25 February 2020 - 7:30pm
Wednesday, 26 February 2020 - 7:30pm
Thursday, 27 February 2020 - 7:30pm
Friday, 28 February 2020 - 7:30pm
Saturday, 29 February 2020 - 7:30pm
Monday, 2 March 2020 - 7:30pm
Tuesday, 3 March 2020 - 7:30pm
Wednesday, 4 March 2020 - 7:30pm
Thursday, 5 March 2020 - 7:30pm
Friday, 6 March 2020 - 7:30pm
Saturday, 7 March 2020 - 7:30pm

RichardTheBruce

February 25th

1913: Karl-Gerhard (Gert) Fröbe is born--Oberplanitz, Saxony, Germany.
(He dies 5 September 1988 at age 75--Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.)

Gert Frobe, 75; Portrayed Goldfinger in Bond Movie

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-07/news/mn-1578_1_gert-frobe
September 07, 1988|BURT A. FOLKART | Times Staff Writer

Gert Frobe, the ginger-haired, rotund comic actor who portrayed what has been described as Ian Fleming's "kinkiest villain," Goldfinger, has died following a heart attack.

Frobe, a former violinist and cabaret performer, was 75 when he died in a Munich hospital Monday. He had suffered the attack last Wednesday, a day after he returned to the stage for the first time since a cancer operation in 1986.

Frobe was born Karl-Gerhard Frobe in Planitz in what is now East Germany. He was a natural-born comic, described by critics as Germany's version of American Danny Kaye.

In Nearly 100 Films
Frobe played in nearly 100 films, including roles in the 1961 U.S. production of "The Longest Day" and the British-produced "The Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines," filmed in 1964.

But he was best-known internationally for his role as the greedy villain "Goldfinger" who battled Sean Connery's James Bond in the 1964 film version of the Fleming thriller.

In the picture Goldfinger portrays a preposterous multimillionaire criminal who schemes to rob the U.S. Mint at Ft. Knox. Bond, of course, thwarts him.

The professional triumph Frobe managed in that film was overshadowed a year later when he was quoted in the British newspaper Daily Mail as saying: "Naturally I was a Nazi" during the Third Reich.

Frobe denied making the comment and insisted: "What I told an English reporter during an interview . . . was that during the Third Reich I had the luck to be able to help two Jewish people although I was a member of the (Nazi) party."

Despite Frobe's denial, Israel banned all of his films for months until Mario Blumenau informed the Israeli Embassy in Vienna that Frobe had indeed hidden Blumenau and his mother from the Nazis.

Frobe studied theater under Dresden actor Erich Ponto and Paul Guenther in Berlin during the early years of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

After theaters were closed by the Nazis in September, 1944, Frobe was called into the German army, where he served until the end of World War II.

'A New Danny Kaye'
In his first major role in a film, "Berlin Ballads," which opened in European cinemas in 1948, film critics wrote: "Germany has a new Danny Kaye." In it he played a character called Otto Normalverbraucher, or Otto Normal Consumer, a soldier returning to a devastated Germany from a prisoner of war camp.

Although he was trained as a classical violinist and played his first recital on German radio when he was in his teens, Frobe turned his back on music to pursue a dramatic career.

Among his other films are "The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse," "Threepenny Opera," "A High Wind in Jamaica," "Is Paris Burning?" in which he played Gen. Dietrich von Sholititz, Hitler's commandant in Paris, "And Then There Were None" and "Bloodline."

Gert Fröbe
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002085/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

1989 The Black Forest Clinic (TV Series) -Theodor Katz
- Hochzeit mit Hindernissen (1989) ... Theodor Katz
1986-1987 The Little Vampire (TV Series) - Detective Gurrmeyer
- Kein Abschied ist für immer (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Transportprobleme (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Geiermeier ist überall (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Das große Fest der Vampire (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Unruhe im Keller (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
1985 Alte Sünden rosten nicht (TV Movie) - Konsul Heimann
1984 August der Starke (TV Movie) - August der Starke
1983 Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (TV Movie) - Emanuel Striese
1983 Der Garten (TV Movie) - Mr. Hayward
1981 Banovic Strahinja - Jug Bogdan
1981 Ein sturer Bock (TV Movie)
1980 The Umbrella Coup - Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine (as Gert Froebe)

1979 Bloodline - Inspector Max Hornung
1979 Noch 'ne Oper (TV Movie) - Mann auf der Straße
1978 Der Tiefstapler - Felix von Korn
1978 Der Schimmelreiter - Tede Volkerts (Deichgraf)
1977 Death or Freedom - Graf von Buttlar
1977 The Serpent's Egg - Inspector Bauer (as Gert Froebe)
1977 Das Gesetz des Clans - Philip Brown
1976 Sonntagsgeschichten (TV Movie) - Gastwirt
1976 Death Rite - Vestar
1975 Alte Hüte aus Wien - Witziges - Spitziges - Spritziges (TV Movie)
1975 Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient - Traugott Wurster / Theodor Wurster
1975 Doctor Justice - Max Orwall / Georges Orwall (as Gert Froebe)
1975 The Man Without a Face (TV Mini-Series) - Le commissaire Sorbier
- Le secret des Templiers (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- Le rapt (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe, credit only)
- Le sang accusateur (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- La marche des spectres (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- La mort qui rampait sur les toits (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Histoires insolites (TV Series) - Joseph
- Parcelle brillante (1974) ... Joseph
1974 Shadowman - Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Ten Little Indians - Blore (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Der Räuber Hotzenplotz -Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
1973 Ludwig - Father Hoffman
1971 $ - Mr. Kessel

1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - Willi Schickel / Horst Müller (as Gert Frobe)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Baron Bomburst (as Gert Frobe)
1968 Dear Caroline - Le docteur Belhomme (as Gert Froebe)
1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools - Professor von Bulow (as Gert Frobe)
1967 I Killed Rasputin - Rasputin (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Triple Cross - Colonel Steinhager (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Is Paris Burning? - General Dietrich von Choltitz (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Crook's Honor - Paul
1966 The Upper Hand - Walter (as Gert Froebe)
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Emil Claasen
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Count Manfred Von Holstein (as Gert Frobe)
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica - Dutch Captain (as Gert Frobe)
1964 Goldfinger - Goldfinger (as Gert Frobe)
1964 Backfire - Karl Fehrman
1964 Tonio Kröger - Policeman Peterson
1964 Greed in the Sun - Castagliano dit 'La betterave' (as Gert Froebe)
1963 Banana Peel - Raymond Lachard
1963 Three Penny Opera - J.J. Peachum
1963 The Golden Patsy - Alfred Paulsen
1963 Enough Rope - Melchior Kimmel
1962 The Longest Day - Sgt. Kaffekanne
1962 The Terror of Doctor Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Lohmann
1962 Redhead - Kramer
1961 Auf Wiedersehen - Angelo Pirrone
1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse - Kommissar Lohmann
1961 Via Mala - Jonas Lauretz
1961 Der grüne Bogenschütze - Abel Bellamy
1960 Crook and the Cross - Paul Wittkowski
1960 Until Money Departs You - Jupp Grapsch
1960 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Kras
1960 Headquarters State Secret - Der Chef
1960 Between Love and Duty - Le général (as Gert Froebe)
1960 The High Life - Docteur Kölling

1959 Alt Heidelberg - Dr. Jüttner
1959 Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee - Johannes Grohmann (alias Dr. Brand)
1959 The Day It Rained - Dr. Albert Maurer
1959 Grand Hotel - Generaldirektor Preysing
1959 Duel with Death - Dag sen.
1959 Jons und Erdme - Smailus, ehem. russischer Matrose
1959 Twelve Hours by the Clock - Blanche
1959 Prisoner of the Volga - Professor
1959 The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon - Hugo
1958 Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen - Tessmann' Katja's Father
1958 The Crammer - Freddy Blei
1958 Grabenplatz 17 - Titu Goritsch
1958 It Happened in Broad Daylight - Schrott
1958 Rosemary - Bruster
1958 Wet Asphalt - Jupp
1958 Not Delivered - Hans (as Gert Froebe)
1957 Das Herz von St. Pauli - Jabowski
1957 Charmants garçons - Edmond Petersen (as Gert Froebe)
1957 The Mad Bomberg - Kommerzienrat Gustav-Eberhard Mühlberg
1957 He Who Must Die - Patriarcheas (as Gert Froebe)
1957 The Girl and the Legend - Mr. Gillis
1957 Typhoon Over Nagasaki - Ritter
1956 Waldwinter - Gerstenberg
1956 Ein Herz schlägt für Erika - Heubacher
1956 The Girl from Flanders - Rittmeister Kupfer
1955 Her Crime Was Love
1955 Das Forsthaus in Tirol - Bäuerle, Kaufmann
1955 Heroes and Sinners - Hermann (as Gert Froebe)
1955 Confidential Report - First Policeman - Munich (as Gert Frobe)
1955 Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe - Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Deltorri
1955 Special Delivery - Olaf
1954 The Eternal Waltz - Gawrinoff
1954 A Double Life - Mittelmeier
1954 They Were So Young - Lobos
1954 Das Kreuz am Jägersteig - Kobbe
1954 Morgengrauen - Bit part
1954 The Little Town Will Go to Sleep - Oskar Blume - Gelegenheitsarbeiter
1953 Hochzeit auf Reisen - Herr Mengwasser
1953 Arlette erobert Paris - Manager Edmond Duval
1953 Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht - Gondoliere
1953 A Heart's Foul Play - Briefüberbringer
1953 Salto Mortale - Jan
1953 Man on a Tightrope - Police Agent (uncredited)
1952 Der Tag vor der Hochzeit - Rundfunkreporter
1951 Decision Before Dawn - German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
1950 Die Kreuzlschreiber - Lustiger Bauernbursche (uncredited)

1949 Nach Regen scheint Sonne - Konstantin
1948 The Berliner - Otto Normalverbraucher
1948 Der Herr vom andern Stern - Extra (uncredited)

Soundtrack (5 credits)

1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Friends (Video short) (performer: "Chu-Chi Face")
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (performer: "Chu-Chi Face", "Happy Birthday" - uncredited)
1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Der Morgenchoral des Peachum", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Von der Unsicherheit der menschlichen Verhältnisse", "Denn wovon lebt der Mensch", "Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens" - uncredited)
1961 Auf Wiedersehen (performer: "Sagt, wie darf ich Euch nennen" - uncredited)
1948 The Berliner (performer: "Kopf hoch, die Sache wird schon schiefgeh'n")

Writer (2 credits)

1986 Aus familiären Gründen (TV Movie) (story)
1978 Als wär's heut' gewesen... Kleine Geschichten sind das Leben (TV Movie)

1941: Vivian Dykes comments on Ian Fleming in his diary.

Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit, Nicholas Rankin, 2012.
Chapter 5 - Doing Deals

On Monday 24 February 1941 an RAF Short Sunderland flying
boat touched down in Gibraltar harbor bringing the American
Colonel William J. Donovan on the last stages of his second
journey to Europe on behalf of the US government. This time his
brief was to investigate full the scope of ‘the economic, political
and military standpoint of the Mediterranean area’ and report
back to President Roosevelt. He had left the USA on 6 December
1940 and would not return home until mid-March 1941. In London
He had seen Winston Churchill and had been given SIS funding and
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Dykes from the Cabinet secretariat
As his escort and factotum for the trip. Together Donovan and
Dykes visited Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Turkey,
Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Malta, Gibraltar, Spain,
Portugal and Ireland, saw kings and prime ministers, dictators
and diplomats, soldiers and spies. Donovan was very interested in
commandos, the SAS, the Long Range Desert Group and all the
British organisations waging unconventional warfare or gathering
intelligence.

That Monday the two men lodged at Government House in
Gibraltar. Because Donovan needed a minor procedure for
cyst inside his eyelid, he stayed in bed and missed dinner with
Captain Alan Hillgarth and Commander Ian Fleming. The next
Day, the party set off in two cars for Madrid. In his diary for
Tuesday 25 February 1941 Vivian Dykes recorded:

’I sat with Ian Fleming much of the way. He is
a brother of Peter Fleming and was on Reuter’s staff
before the war. He told me some interesting experiences
as Reuter’s man and was a bit inclined to knock it back too much.’

1962: Actors Sean Connery, Lois Maxwell, and Bernard Lee prepare for studio filming to begin the next day.
1963: Two Bond film productions and two Bond Girls cause confusion for The Duke of Edinborough.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 22 - Bond Goes Head to Head

McClory was now in Rome choosing a suitable starlet to co-star with the
new Bond. Just days after Honor Blackman had been chosen to play Pussy
Galore in Goldfinger, McClory named Sylvia Koschina, a 29 year old Yugoslav-
born, Italian-bred actress, to star in Thunderball as Domino. He'd approached
her on the set of her latest film saying, "You're the perfect Bond type, tough,
as thought you can carry a machine gun with ease, yet lusciously attractive."
Sylvia was understandably interested.

After years making Italian movies, notably Steve Reeves Hercules epics,
Sylvia had just made her English-speaking debut in the Bond spoof Hot Enough
for June, opposite Dirk Bogarde. In the week of her public debut in Britain at
the Royal Film Performance in London's West End, critic Barry Norman
interviewed Sylvia for his newspaper column, commenting on her engaging
personality and English accent that "is not so much broken as shattered and
eccentrically put back together again." Ironically another guest that evening of 25
February was Honor Blackman. The Duke of Edinburgh was understandably
confused at being presented with two competing Bond girls and asked Honor
when she was flying off to the Bahamas. "No, that's the other James Bond
film," she corrected him. "Mine is with Sean Connery."

1966: Operatie Donder (Operation Thunder, Flemish title) released in Gent, Belgium.

1995: GoldenEye films scenes on the second-line multi-mission stealth frigate La Fayette of the French Navy.

2003: The James Bond Remastered Collection reissues the Thunderball soundtrack on CD with six bonus tracks.

The original United Artists Records 1965 releases (12 tracks, monaural and stereo) occurred before the score was actually finished, and accepted a change in the title song from "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" to "Thunderball". John Barry finished the music literally days before the film was in theaters.

Track listing

"Thunderball (Main Title)" – Tom Jones[ A ]
"Chateau Flight"[ A ]
"The Spa"
"Switching the Body"
"The Bomb"
"Cafe Martinique"
"Thunderball (Instrumental)"
"Death of Fiona"
"Bond Below Disco Volante"
"Search for Vulcan"
"007"[ B ]
"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"

CD bonus tracks

"Gunbarrel/Traction Table/Gassing the Plane/Car Chase"[ A ]
"Bond Meets Domino/Shark Tank/Lights out for Paula/For King and Country"[ A ]
"Street Chase"[ B ]
"Finding the Plane/Underwater Ballet/Bond with SPECTRE Frogmen/Leiter to the Rescue/Bond Joins Underwater Battle"[ B ]
"Underwater Mayhem/Death of Largo/End Titles"[ A ][ B ]
"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Mono Version)"

2019: Reveal of the working title Shatterhand causes a minor stir.

Everyone’s Tearing Apart The Title Of The New James Bond Movie

Back to the drawing board I guess.
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The release of a new James Bond movie is always a huge date in the Hollywood calendar, though fans have been left underwhelmed by the working title for the next film.

While we’re used to the likes of Goldfinger, Casino Royale, and Spectre, the new Bond movie is currently being called Shatterhand. Not quite GoldenEye, Shatterhand is right up there with Quantum of Solace for worst James Bond movie names.

The road to Bond 25 has been a long one. After Daniel Craig said he’d rather slash his wrists than come back for his fifth Bond movie, the lure of a £50 million paycheque has been enough to bring him back for a final round in his tuxedo.

Permission denied
The scoop comes from Production Weekly, which confirms we should start calling the movie Shatterhand instead of Bond 25. It’s important to note that this isn’t the movie’s official name yet, but there’s a definite chance that Shatterhand could be coming to cinemas soon.

If you’re already sniggering at the name Shatterhand, you aren’t the only one. The Twitterverse soon exploded with toilet jokes like a bout of diarrhea.

TWEETS [Vulgar humour follows.]

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https://twitter.com/MrKenShabby/status/1098920385561718786

Q: "Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't really go in for those any more…"#Shatterhand #Bond25 pic.twitter.com/NyZJ7JeHTI
— Sarah Blythman (@Sarah_Blythman) February 22, 2019

Although the name Shatterhand might sound ridiculous, it actually has some pretty deep roots in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. Dr. Guntram Shatterhand is an alias of the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld in 1964’s You Only Live Twice. Shatterhand is also the name of the estate where he dies.

Interestingly, the ties to Blofeld teases the return of Spectre‘s big bad, which could also be a problem. Craig wasn’t the only one who said he was done after Sam Mendes’ 2015 movie. Christoph Waltz famously played Blofeld in Spectre but said he won’t be back for Bond 25. It might’ve been easy to recast if the whole franchise was being rebooted, but expect a few Roger Moore-inspired raised eyebrows if a brand new Blofeld pops up in Shatterhand.

Sony

The plot of Cary Joji Fukunaga’s movie remains a mystery, but Shatterhand could pull from Fleming’s novel. In You Only Live Twice, Bond is assigned to assassinate Dr. Shatterhand and his wife, only to find out they are Blofeld and Irma Bunt — the people responsible for the death of his wife, Tracy.

Léa Seydoux is definitely coming back Madeleine Swann, so we could see her killed off in the opening act, then follow Craig’s Bond on one final revenge mission. Either way, production hasn’t even started yet as Bond 25/Shatterhand is due to hit cinemas on April 8, 2020.

RichardTheBruce

February 26th

1941: Commander Ian Fleming returns to London after establishing offices in Tangiers and Gibraltar in support of Operation Goldeneye.

1950: Carmen Du Sautoy is born--London, England.

1962: Dr. No filming resumes at Pinewood Studios.
1965: Time Magazine observes a “Bond market” exists “From London to Los Angeles” involving Bond clothing, jewelry, pajamas, vodka, golf clubs.

Merchandising: The Bond Market

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Friday, Feb. 26, 1965

James Bond has broken up some ambitious conspiracies in his time, but none quite so devilishly capable of realization as the one he is involved in right now. As a man of action and the good life, the dashing secret agent created by Ian Fleming has grown so popular, through twelve books and three movies, that entrepreneurs in some 70 countries are moving in to make a profit on his reputation.

From London to Los Angeles, everything from suits and trenchcoats to cuff links and toiletries is going on sale under the James...

1970: Live and Let Die films OO7 in his London flat visited by M and Moneypenny.

1995: GoldenEye films more at French frigate La Fayette.

GoldenEye "Frigate La Fayette" metal cover

1999: Documentary short "The World Is Not Enough: James Bond Down River" premieres as a television special.

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2015: La Repubblica reports "The streets of Rome bring Bond to a standstill — car hits pothole, Craig suffers head injury." The culprit: loose sanpietrini ("little St. Peters")--hand-carved cobblestone on a narrow street.

International

James Bond Meets His Match — The Roman Cobblestone

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Pedestrians cross the cobblestone Via dei Fori Imperiali in front of Rome's Colosseum.
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The headline in today's La Repubblica was, "The streets of Rome bring Bond to a standstill—car hits pothole, Craig suffers head injury."

The newspaper reported that the accident occurred while actor Daniel Craig, reprising the role of the suave British spy in the 24th James Bond thriller, Spectre, was driving one of the movie's four custom-made Aston Martins on a narrow cobblestone street near the Vatican.

Craig reportedly hit his head on the car roof when the speeding vehicle met the irresistible force of a loose sanpietrino, as the Roman cobblestones are known.

Rumor has it that Craig flew home to London after being visited by medics on the set, but the production company played down the incident. Spectre has been shooting in Rome for the past week. The Rome leg is scheduled to last 10 more days, and Craig is expected to return soon.

Meanwhile, the Bond-meets-cobblestone affair revived a long-standing controversy between the pro- and anti-sanpietrini camps. A national consumer protection association, ADOC, issued a statement asking, "Are the potholes of Rome the real enemy of James Bond? It would seem so."

ADOC President Lamberto Santini said, "The streets of Rome pose a daily danger to pedestrians, cyclists, and car and motorcycle drivers who risk serious injuries. If James Bond can be sidelined, imagine the fate of our average resident."

The object of controversy is a beveled, hand-carved cobblestone made from volcanic rock. The sanpietrini — literally, "little St. Peters" — date from the late 16th century when Pope Sixtus V had all the main streets of Rome paved with cobblestones, because at the time they were considered the best pavement for carriage transit.

But in recent decades, there are fewer and fewer sanpietrino craftsmen or workers capable of fixing Rome's high-maintenance cobblestone streets (and sidewalks), which are at best uneven, at worst a series of yawning crevices. Taxi drivers complain of the damage to their spines from bouncing on the uneven streets their entire working day, and motorcyclists stress the damage done to tires. Pedestrians are prone to tripping over the many protruding stones and breaking bones. (You will rarely see a Roman woman wearing stiletto heels in old Rome.) And when it rains, the slippery sanpietrino poses serious dangers for everyone.

The city's public works council made headlines last December when it proposed removing the cobblestones on streets and sidewalks and replacing them with smooth asphalt, which requires less maintenance.

The proposal outraged scholars who say the sanpietrino is an integral part of the Eternal City's history and identity.

While city authorities ponder the issue, the Sam Mendes-directed movie continues shooting in the old streets of Rome. The script reportedly calls for a high-speed chase along the Tiber, with one or more cars flying into the river and James Bond parachuting from a helicopter onto the Ponte Sisto, a Renaissance bridge.

Along with Craig, the movie stars Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes and Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who at 50 plays the oldest Bond girl ever.

Note: disputed by Executive Producer Robert Malerba.
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RichardTheBruce

February 27th

1962: A £1,064 legal claim served on Eon Productions by musicians Carlos Malcolm and Ernest Ranglin seeks damages regarding an agreement that they compose, arrange, and oversee the recording of Dr. No's musical score.

Carlos Malcolm And His Afro Jamaican Rhythms - Upbeat Records - 1962


Ernest Ranglin - Harmonica Twist - Island 45 RnB Mod 1962

Ernest Ranglin ‎– Wranglin' (Jazz) (Full Album) (1964)

1965: The "Goldfinger" title song charts in the US, eventually peaking at No. 8.

Shirley Bassey: 'Goldfinger' (1964) - original 45" single mono mix

1965: Thunderball films OO7 learning about Count Lippe.

1979: Moonraker principle photography finishes in France.

1999: A court rejects MGM's request for a summary judgment to block Sony's planned Bond film--opening the path to an April trial.

Studios' Fight Over James Bond to Go to Trial

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February 27, 1999 | Associated Press

A federal judge rejected Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s motion for summary judgment in a legal fight with Sony Corp. over rights to the lucrative James Bond movie franchise, clearing the way for an April trial. MGM asked the court for a summary judgment in its lawsuit accusing Sony of attempting to steal the Bond franchise. U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie, who issued a preliminary injunction last year to block Sony from working on its own Bond film, rejected the motion, said Sony attorney David Steuber. "It's a very important win for us," he said. "It's encouraging that the ball is still in the air." In a statement, MGM characterized the ruling as a victory. "We can now proceed to trial to make our preliminary injunction permanent and for a declaration of our exclusive rights to make James Bond films," said Robert Brada, MGM executive vice president and general counsel. MGM is developing a 19th Bond installment starring Pierce Brosnan that is due for release in November.

2014: Artist-photographer Taryn Simon's exhibit Birds of the West Indies opens at the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

Taryn Simon
Birds of the West Indies

February 27–April 12, 2014 | Beverly Hills
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About
Gagosian Beverly Hills is pleased to present “Birds of the West Indies,” an exhibition of new work by Taryn Simon.

In 1936, American ornithologist James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Writer Ian Fleming, an active bird watcher, appropriated the author’s name for his own now famous novels. He found the name “flat and colorless,” perfectly suited for a character intended to be “anonymous…a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the development of the Bond narrative.

Conflating Bond the ornithologist with Bond the secret agent, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her own two-part body of work, Birds of the West Indies (2013–14). The first element of the work is a photographic inventory of the women, innovative weaponry and luxury cars of Bond films made over the past fifty years. The resulting images comprise an index of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy. Testing the seductive surfaces of popular cinema, Simon continues her artistic process of revealing infrastructures of previously impervious cultural constructs. Simon also created a film that takes as its subject Nikki van der Zyl, the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, van der Zyl, an unseen and uncredited performer, provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. Invisible until now, van der Zyl further underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.

In the second element of the work, Simon casts herself as the ornithologist James Bond, identifying, photographing, and classifying all the birds that appear within the 24 films comprising the James Bond film franchise. Often the birds are incidental; they function as background for the sets they happened to fly into. Simon analyzed every scene to discover these chance occurrences. The result is a taxonomy of birds not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. In this case, the birds are categorized by locations both actual and fictional: Switzerland, Afghanistan, North Korea, as well as the mythical settings of Bond’s missions, such as the Republic of Isthmus and SPECTRE Island. Simon’s discoveries often occupy a liminal space—confined within the fictional space of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. In their new static form, the birds often resemble dust on a negative, a once common imperfection that has disappeared in the age of Photoshop. Other times, the birds are frozen in compositions reminiscent of different genres from photographic history. Some appearing as carefully conceived still lifes, while others have a snapshot quality. Many look low-res or obscured, as though photographed by surveillance drones or hidden cameras that might have been used by MI6 within the context of the films.

Simon also collected papers, correspondence, awards, study skins, and personal effects of James Bond the ornithologist, displaying them in vitrines alongside the photographic works. The character James Bond is so embedded in public consciousness that it is difficult to disengage from the fiction and view the ornithologist’s letters and effects independent of the cinema persona. In Birds of the West Indies, Simon creates a space in which fiction and reality collide and disappear, opening up a black hole that belongs to neither realm.

The fully illustrated publication Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies, which includes an essay by Daniel Baumann, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2013.

Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Public collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She was awarded the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award in 2010. Major museum exhibitions include “The Innocents,” Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2003, traveled to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and High Museum of Art, Atlanta, through 2006); “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007, traveled to Photographer's Gallery, London, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, and Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, through 2008); “Photographs and Texts,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2011, traveled to Moscow House of Photography and Helsinki Museum of Art, through 2012); “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters,” Tate Modern, London (2011, traveled to Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, through 2014); and “Birds of the West Indies,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2013).

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2018: Daniel Craig's own 2014 Centenary Edition Aston Martin Vanquish (007 of 100) goes on display at Christie’s Los Angeles gallery from today through 3 March. Anticipating an April preview and auction in New York.

Christie’s to Auction ‘James Bond’s’ Aston Martin

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A 2014 Centenary Edition Vanquish Aston Martin belonging to James Bond actor
Daniel Craig will be auctioned in April.

The midnight-blue car, aptly numbered 007, is set to be the highlight of The Exceptional Sale at Christie’s New York on 20 April. It is one of only 100 examples of the model worldwide, which were created to celebrate Aston Martin’s 100th anniversary.

It is currently estimated to fetch around $400,000-$600,000, with all proceeds set to benefit The Opportunity Network, a non-profit organisation that provides young people with career development opportunities.

Daniel Craig, who has played the debonair spy in four James Bond films, further customised the car in partnership with Aston Martin’s chief creative officer, Marek Reichman. The actor’s penchant for denim and dark colours resulted in the luxury car’s midnight-blue exterior and deep blue, hand stitched leather interior.

He said: ‘The Aston Martin Vanquish is a tour de force of automobile engineering and a distinct pleasure to drive. While I will miss it, I am keen to further the very important work of The Opportunity Network with this sale.’

In addition to taking home a truly one-of-a-kind vehicle, the winning bidder will also be offered the opportunity to visit Aston Martin’s headquarters in Warwickshire and meet with Reichman for a behind-the-scenes look at each step of the car’s manufacturing process.

The bespoke car will be on view at Christie’s Los Angeles gallery from 27 February until 3 March ahead of its preview and auction in New York.

Christie’s Exceptional Sale has garnered an aura of prestige since its inception in London in 2008. It is a highly selective and curated auction of masterpieces and cultural icons.

Becky MacGuire, the sale’s director, said Daniel Craig’s Aston Martin fits ‘perfectly’ within the sale. ‘It’s like a 21st century sculpture that comes equipped with an incredibly fine engine,’ she added.