On This Day

RichardTheBruce

June 15th

1959: In a letter responding to Ernest L. Cuneo's film outline, Ian Fleming suggests an organization called SPECTRE--vice SMERSH--be used to avoid the politics of the Soviets as the enemy. ("‘Since the film will take about two years to produce, and peace might conceivably break out in the meantime..."). It also identifies a beautiful double agent named Fatima Blush.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 3 - Enter SPECTRE

Despite Fleming's glowing appreciate of Cuneo's work, he saw problems
with it, too, like the lack of a heroine for his hero to dally romantically with.
Cuneo had suggested one of the female entertainers could turn out to be CIA.
"Love interest easy to insert," he wrote, offhandedely.

In a fascinating memorandum dated 15 June, Fleming suggested instead a new character, a beautiful double agent under M's control that assists the
enemy spy. Her name - Fatima Blush. It's from her that Bond learns details
of the spy plot. In the underwater finale Fatima would be on the enemy side
and Fleming wrote: "Her appearance in tight-fitting black rubber suiting will
make the audiences swoon." As the battle progresses the spy finds Fatima
sabotaging his aqualung and realises that she's a double agent. In the ensuing
fight Bond kills him just as he is turning of the valve in Fatima's oxygen
tanks. "The curtain goes down as Bond and Fatima kiss through their
snorkels," Fleming envisaged, adding, "My imagination has slightly run riot
over this last scene but you see the point." Perhaps too much. At the [future] trial
McClory stated that he thought Fleming's idea of a hero and heroine kissing
though their snorkels "infantile." Indeed when the passage was described in
court there were bursts of laughter.

After the memo neither the name nor the character of Fatima Blush
reappeared in any of the subsequent treatments or screenplays relating to
Thunderball, nor the novel or the 1965 film. Fleming too never reused it. But
it was too good a name to ignore and McClory resurrected it for the black widow
SPECTRE assassin played by Barbara Carrera in Never Say Never Again, thus
becoming one of the few bona-fide Fleming contributions to the film.

By far Fleming's biggest criticism was with Cuneo's use of Communists as
the principal villains. "It might be very unwise," he wrote, "to point directly at
Russia as the enemy. Since the film will take about two years to produce, and
peace might conceivably break out in the meantime, this should be avoided."
So what to put in their place? Fleming's suggestion turnout to be the most
significant contribution to the entire Thunderball story-line, and one of the
most important for the future of the Bond legend - the creation of super
villains SPECTRE.

1964: Goldfinger films the villain's arrival at Fort Knox.

2001: German DVD premiere of the 1967 Casino Royale.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment release James Bond #7.

JAMES BOND #7

https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181807011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: June 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 6/15

After World War Two, army intelligence groups created ghost cells called "stay-behinds" across Europe in the event of a Warsaw Pact surge. "EIDOLON" is the story of a SPECTRE stay-behind structure - ghost cells of SPECTRE loyalists acting as sleepers until the time is right for a SPECTRE reformation and resurgence. The time is now.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Vol. 1 VAGR hardcover edition.

JAMES BOND VOL. 1: VARGR HARDCOVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Hardcovers
Cover: Jason Masters
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Publication Date: June 2016
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 168 pages
ON SALE DATE: 6/15

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).

• "We are officially spoiled when it comes to the adventures of Agent 007, for casual and diehard fans of the character alike." - Ain't It Cool News
• "Tense and fast-moving." - Comic Book Resources
• "This debut from Dynamite Entertainment is everything I could have wanted." - Newsarama"An amazing interpretation of the James Bond characters and his world in a way that feels like it's an ode to both Fleming's writing and the film adaptations." - Multiversity Comics"A slick, action-packed action thriller... Bloody entertaining." - Big Comic Page"The art team of Jason Masters and Guy Majors steals the show." - Geek Tyrant"Strong action pieces... full of pace and movement." - Comic Crusaders"This is classic Bond here. Odd, strong henchmen, brutal fighting, lots of bodies, and a maniacal mastermind leaving Bond in a deathtrap..." - Bleeding Cool
• Wonderfully highlight(s) character and motivations for 007 and his foes." - Comic Buzz

2018: Film and Furniture gives detail to an immersive James Bond museum opening July in the Alps.

Immersive, minimalist mountaintop James
Bond museum
https://filmandfurniture.com/2018/06/immersive-minimalist-mountaintop-james-bond-museum-in-the-austrian-alps/
Feature By Film and Furniture
15 Jun 2018

A museum like no other opens in Soelden, Austria this July. Set 10,000 feet up Gaislachkogl Mountain sits the new stunning, immersive James Bond Museum – 007 Elements.
007 Elements – The James Bond Museum. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

Snowy landscapes and ski chases are an integral feature of Bond movies: Soelden’s striking architectural jewel the Ice Q restaurant was the real live location for the Hoffer [sic] Klinik in Spectre (2015). Accessed by cable car, the new series of multi-sensory galleries and cinematic installations that make up 007 Elements allow visitors to experience the Bond world of luxury and intrigue.

The “Briefing Room” at 007 Elements. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

The jaw dropping space was designed by Neil Callow (art director on Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and the forthcoming Bond 25 ), Tino Schaedler (head of design at Optimist Inc.) in collaboration with Austrian architect Johann Obermoser and the team at Arch Omo Architektur, who designed the Ice Q.

The “Tech Lab” at 007 Elements. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

Built inside the mountain itself, each room of the museum allows visitors to explore different elements of the film – the characters, gadgets, music and locations.

“Our aim with 007 Elements is to tell the story of the making of 007 films in an ultra-modern, emotive and engaging way.” says the Museum.“Visitors are taken on a multi-sensory journey, with emotive soundscapes, dramatic programmed lighting, and high-quality visual projections.

“The structure of the storytelling, the rhythm of the spaces within the building, and the movement between light and shadow was designed to give visitors an experience closer to a movie than a traditional museum.”

A real spectacle!

2020: Waterstones shops begin reopening.

https://www.waterstones.com/help/coronavirus-updates/2104

2020: ZSL London Zoo reopening.

https://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/news/zsl-london-zoo-ready-to-reopen

2020: AntikBar gallery reopening.

https://antikbarposters.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/covid-19-coronavirus-update-gallery-re-opening-on-15-june/

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RichardTheBruce

June 16th

1920: Geoffrey Jenkins is born--Pretoria, South Africa.
(He dies 7 November 2001--Durban, South Africa.)

Geoffrey Jenkins

See the complete article here:

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

Geoffrey Ernest Jenkins[1] (16 June 1920 – 7 November 2001) was a South African journalist, novelist and screenwriter. His wife Eve Palmer, with whom he collaborated on several works, wrote numerous non-fiction works about Southern Africa.

Early life
Jenkins was either born in Port Elizabeth South Africa or Pretoria to Ernest Jenkins, an editor, and Daisy Jenkins. At age 17, he wrote and had published A Century of History, which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the Potchefstroom centenary celebrations. Smuts also wrote the book's introduction.

Jenkins subsequently won the Lord Kemsley Commonwealth Journalistic Scholarship,[5] which took him to Fleet Street, where he spent World War II as a war correspondent.

While working for the Sunday Times, he became friends with author Ian Fleming, creator of the British secret agent James Bond. Fleming later praised Jenkins' writing, saying "Geoffrey Jenkins has the supreme gift of originality... A Twist of Sand is a literate, imaginative first novel in the tradition of high and original adventure".

After the war Jenkins settled in Rhodesia, where he met his wife, author Eve Palmer (1916–1998). They married on 17 March 1950.[2] They had a son named David (born c. 1953).

Jenkins was briefly editor of the newspaper The Umtali Advertiser then became a reporter at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.

Writing
Early novels
While working for The Star, he wrote his first novel, A Twist of Sand (1959), which was subsequently translated into 23 languages and became a motion picture in 1968 starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman. He kept his newspaper job until he had published his third novel.

Jenkins' 1966 novel Hunter-Killer was a sequel to A Twist of Sand. Hunter-Killer opens with the protagonist, Geoffrey Peace RN, faking his own death and funeral at sea, only to clamber aboard a submarine.

James Bond
After Ian Fleming's death, Glidrose Productions commissioned Jenkins to write a James Bond novel in 1966. Jenkins claimed that he and Fleming together developed a diamond-smuggling storyline in 1957. After a long period of negotiation, during which Ann Fleming (Ian's widow) raised several objections to the idea of a continuation novel, Jenkins finished the manuscript for Glidrose entitled Per Fine Ounce, but it was rejected. The novel is believed lost, except for 18 pages now in the hands of Jenkins' son David. Two pages have been released to the public and were exclusively published by the James Bond website MI6-HQ.com. Ian Fleming Publications (formerly Glidrose) allegedly returned their copies of the manuscript after rejecting it.

Later works
Jenkins did colour photography for his wife's non-fiction work Trees of Southern Africa (1972). The couple travelled over 100,000 miles to research this three volume work. They subsequently collaborated on the 1978 travel book The Companion Guide to South Africa. Helene Moore of the Knight Ridder syndicate believed that it was "impossible to cram everything pertinent into one guidebook and do a thorough job of it," but felt that the authors have chosen "the right solution." Moore claimed that the over four-hundred page book gave the authors sufficient space "for single-minded reporting on what to see at the bottom of this exotic continent - plus plenty of space for history, legend and all the personal commentary that enriches any travel book. Good reading even if you're not headed that way."

Later years and death
Jenkins published his final novel A Daystar of Fear in 1993. Jenkins moved from Pretoria to his son David's home in Durban. According to an obituary, he was planning to write a sequel to Scend of the Sea shortly before his death in 2001.

Film adaptations
Three of his novels have been filmed. A Twist of Sand (1968) co-starred Honor Blackman and Richard Johnson, director Terence Young's original choice for James Bond. Dirty Games (1989), based on In Harm's Way, co-starred Jan-Michael Vincent.

The River of Diamonds (1990) had been set for production in the 1960s. During the 1980s Brian Clemens wrote a script. Sylvester Stallone - who asked for US$9M and a share of the profits - and Tom Selleck - who asked for US$1.5M and a share of the profits - were approached to star, but asked too much money which the production couldn't afford. A journal describes this as South Africa's "most ambitious film project" with what was at the time to have been the biggest budget financed by a South African producer estimated to have been between two and three million Rand.

Works

Novels
A Twist of Sand (1959)
The Watering-Place of Good Peace (1960; revised 1974)
A Grue of Ice (1962) published in the U.S. as The Disappearing Island
The River of Diamonds (1964)
Hunter-Killer (1966)
Scend of the Sea (1971) published in the U.S. as The Hollow Sea
A Cleft of Stars (1973)
A Bridge of Magpies (1974)
South Trap (1979) published in paperback as Southtrap
A Ravel of Waters (1981)
The Unripe Gold (1983)
Fireprint (1984)
In Harm's Way (1986)
Hold Down a Shadow (1989)
A Hive of Dead Men (1991)
A Daystar of Fear (1993)

Unpublished
Per Fine Ounce (circa 1966)
A Kiss of Thorns
Disquietly to His Grave
A Gate of Blood
A Knot of Fire

Non-fiction
A Century of History: The Story of Potchefstroom (1939; 2nd edition 1971)
The Companion Guide to South Africa (1978), with Eve Palmer

Photography only
Palmer, Eve; Pitman, Norah (1972). Trees of Southern Africa. colour photography by Geoffrey Jenkins and others. A. A. Balkema. (3 vols.)

Unproduced screenplay
Fifth Paw of the Lion (1966, Columbia Pictures, Charles H. Schneer Productions)

Real and imagined.

1942: William P. Cartlidge is born--England.
1942: Billy Mitchell is born. (He dies 1999--England).

Billy J. Mitchell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_J._Mitchell

Born June 16, 1942
Died 1999 (aged 56–57)
Hertfordshire, U.K.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1976–1999

Billy J. Mitchell (June 16, 1942 – 1999) was an American character actor based in the United Kingdom. He was known for portraying North American characters in British-based productions like Superman (1978), Top Secret! (1984), and GoldenEye (1995).

Mitchell died in 1999 aged 56 or 57 in England. He never married and had no children.

Filmography
Carry On England (1976) – Gunner Childs
Superman (1978) – 1st Editor (Daily Planet)
Ragtime (1981) – Delmas' Assistant No. 2
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) – Keir Santage (Red Seven) (uncredited)
The Lonely Lady (1983) – Gross
Never Say Never Again (1983) – Captain Pederson
Top Secret! (1984) – Martin
Morons from Outer Space (1985) – Alaska Space Monitoring Unit Commander (uncredited)
Rustler's Rhapsody (1985) – Town Doctor
Death Wish 3 (1985) – Fraker's Lawyer
Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Cop No. 1
Bird (1988) – Prince
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – Forensic No. 2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) – Dr. Mulbray
Bullseye! (1990) – Elmer, Tourist
Malcolm X (1992) – Man No. 1
GoldenEye (1995) – Admiral Chuck Farrell
What Rats Won't Do (1998) – Diner on Boat
A Year and a Day (2005) – Band Leader (final film role)

Billy J. Mitchell (1942–1999)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593165/

1989: Premiere of Licence to Kill in Dublin, Ireland.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the fight scene in the bicycle shop.

2013: ITV Granada broadcasts A Caribbean Mystery (Agatha Christie's Marple episode) with appearances by Ian Fleming and James Bond via contributions from writer Charlie Higson.

A Caribbean Mystery (Agatha Christie's Marple episode)

https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/A_Caribbean_Mystery_(Agatha_Christie%27s_Marple_episode)
Directed by: Charles Palmer
Written by: Charlie Higson
Adapted from: A Caribbean Mystery
Starring: Julia McKenzie
Production Company: ITV
Network: ITV
Aired: 16 June 2013
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Preceded by: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Followed by: Greenshaw's Folly

A Caribbean Mystery is the first episode of the sixth series of Agatha Christie's Marple. It was broadcast on ITV by Granada Television on 16 June 2013. The screenplay was written by Charlie Higson and the episode was directed by Charles Palmer. It was an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name.

Synopsis
After a period of ill health, Miss Marple leaves St. Mary Mead for the tropical Caribbean paradise of St Honoré, where an English couple - Tim and Molly Kendall - run a quaint little resort called the Golden Palms. Among the many guests, which include the innocuous Hillingdons, their unseemly American friends the Dysons, and gruff business tycoon Jason Rafiel, is garrulous Major Palgrave, who is friendly to all - much to everyone's chagrin. When Palgrave launches into his infamous storytelling routine one evening, only Miss Marple takes enough interest to listen. Talk quickly turns to murder, and Palgrave coyly asks her if she'd like to see a photograph of a serial killer. But before he can pull it out, he sees something - or someone - and quickly changes the subject. After a night of excessive drink and entertainment, including a voodoo show, Palgrave is found dead in his room the next morning - the cause of death being a heart attack. Sensing his death is no coincidence, Miss Marple takes it upon herself to unravel the secrets of the guests of St. Honoré, intent on finding the one person with a secret worth killing for. But more victims will be claimed, and one suspect will slowly lose their grip on sanity altogether before this Caribbean mystery will be solved.

Cast
Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Pippa Bennett-Warner as Victoria
Charity Wakefield as Molly Kendall
Robert Webb as Tim Kendall
Warren Brown as Jackson
Alastair Mackenzie as Colonel Hillingdon
Hermione Norris as Evelyn Hillingdon
Charles Mesure as Greg Dyson
MyAnna Buring as Lucky Dyson
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Errol
Antony Sher as Rafiel
Montserrat Lombard as Esther Walters
Oliver Ford Davies as Major Palgrave
Daniel Rigby as Canon Prescott
Andrea Dondolo as Mama Zogbe
Joe Vaz as Sergeant Weston
Anele Matoti as Inspector Daventry
Jeremy Crutchley as Ian Fleming
Charlie Higson as James Bond

Filming Locations
Rather than filming in the Caribbean the episode was made in Cape Town, South Africa.

Charlie Higson's licence to
rewrite Agatha Christie

See the complete article here:

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/407947/Charlie-Higson-s-licence-to-rewrite-Agatha-Christie

JAMES BOND and Miss Marple don’t seem like natural bedfellows until you meet Charlie Higson. The Fast Show comedian, children’s author and actor was intent, he says, in “bringing together two great literary families”, which is exactly what he has done in adapting Agatha’s Christie’s Caribbean Mystery.
By David Stephenson | Sun, Jun 16, 2013

Charlie Higson as James Bond and Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple

Higson has put the superspy – or rather, his real-life inspiration – into this episode. He plays an American birdwatcher called called James Bond, whose name Ian Fleming chose for 007.

He says: “One of the first things the production wanted when they approached me was to put historical figures into Marple, to root them in time.

“Because it was set in the Caribbean they thought it would be interesting to have our two great literary estates come together in the form of Ian Fleming, who had his house Golden Eye out there, where he wrote all the James Bond books, and Christie.”

Higson, the author of the Young Bond books wasn’t daunted: “No, not in that way. I think people go to Christie for the plots, those very intricately worked out mysteries, for the sleight of hand of hiding things from you and how she pulls off those tricks.

You tinker with Christie
at your peril. She has
sold billions of books.
The people who tune
into these shows know
what they want to watch.
Charlie Higson

“The simple characterisation in that respect supplies a need, which is why she remains so popular today. It is a closed world with very rigid structures and her vocabulary is fairly simple. It’s all there to function the plot. Agatha Christie was always one of those books that children started reading when they gave up on children’s books.”

SO BOND... how was that achieved? “As we know Fleming got the name of Bond from the American ornithologist of the same name. It was on Fleming’s bookshelf at the time. He simply looked up. So I came up with the idea of putting Ian Fleming there and him meeting James Bond doing a talk on birds to people at the resort and that’s where we see him. So we made it that everyone who was at the ornithology lecture had a cast-iron alibi.”

Did the Christie estate demand any changes? “No, all they wanted was that I keep the murder or murderers and that the victims remain the same as they do in the Caribbean Mystery book. You can play around with the rest of it.

“You tinker with Christie at your peril. She has sold billions of books. The people who tune into these shows know what they want to watch.”

He added: “What you do know when you read the book is that no one says anything unless there’s a reason for it. It’s that mechanical.”

He agrees the adaptation is blessed with a strikingly good cast. “I couldn’t believe that I got Antony Sher. I thought this is going to make my terrible lines really good!” Joining Sher are Julia McKenzie’s Miss Marple, Warren Brown, Oliver Ford Davies, Myanna Buring and Hermione Norris. I defy you to pick out the killer in the first 10 minutes, it’s that good.

In a trick of television the Caribbean was actually South Africa. “The problem with shooting in the Caribbean is that there’s no infrastructure. There’s really no film and TV industry there so you have to take all your equipment and crew with you.”

He adds: “There was even CGI in there. Did you know there are no palm trees in South Africa?” You will be comforted to know however that it rained the whole time he was there. “It hammered it down for those three days I was there. We had to build an emergency roof over the area where I made my speech as James Bond. There was thunder, lightning, the whole thing.

“At one point the set nearly collapsed. We were shooting with Antony and Julia and one of them said: ‘This is about to collapse!’ Up went the scaffolding poles to save it. You see none of it in the finished product.”

HIS CAMEO was well received. “Well, apart from everyone trying to prop up the roof in this gale. I’m standing there at the back, trying to do my lines and then I realised that no one was paying attention to me at all.

“It’s always the way in the filming. It’s incredibly stressful. I was sitting at home hoping everything is going well then they say: ‘Come and do this James Bond thing.’ You arrive and they say: ‘Rewrite this, change that.’ The marvels of filming. Hopefully it will all look like a wonderful tropical evening.”

Agatha Christie’s Marple, ITV, tonight, 9pm

RichardTheBruce

June 17th

1950: Lee Tamahori is born--Wellington, New Zealand.

1965: The London Evening Standard reports CBS television in the US and $30 million fails to buy the Bond franchise from EON. Maybe due to tax issues and tax problems and division of ownership between the producers.
1967: You Only Live Twice released in Japan.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films the pre-credit sequence.

1993: Corgi Toys sponsors The World's Biggest Little Motor Show, its second tour of full-scale/model Bond vehicles.

2012: George Daniel Leech dies at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.
(Born 6 December 1921--London, England.)

George Leech: Stuntman and actor
best known for his work on the Bond
films franchise

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-leech-stuntman-and-actor-best-known-for-his-work-on-the-bond-films-franchise-8008516.html
Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00

The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".

Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.

Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.

George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.

When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.

Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.

His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).

After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).

When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."

One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.

Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.

Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.

Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.

George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.

George Leech (I) (1921–2012)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498543/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Stunts (34)

1985 No Surrender (stunt coordinator)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt double: Willoughby Gray - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (TV Movie) (stunts)
1983 Never Say Never Again (additional stunts - uncredited)
1983 Octopussy (explosion stunt - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt team)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts: attacker on dock - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Game for Vultures (stunt coordinator)
1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Superman (stunts: Man in burglar's office - uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- When the Heat Cools Off (1978) ... (stunt double - uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt driver: Lotus Esprit - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 A Bridge Too Far (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (stunts - uncredited)
1976 The Eagle Has Landed (stunts - uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Brannigan (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Puppet on a Chain (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Kelly's Heroes (stunts - uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt double: Joseph Wiseman - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)

1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (36 credits)

1985 Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) - 1st. Warder
- Hors de Combat (1985) ... 1st. Warder
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)
1980 ffolkes - Magnussen

1978 Superman - Man in Office (uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Asylum Policeman (uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese - Stone (uncredited)
1978 People Like Us (TV Mini-Series) - 2nd Thief
- Hungry Men Are Angry Men (1978) ... 2nd Thief
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cortina Gunman #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Traumer (uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Mr. Stutterstutt
1975 Brannigan - Man in Bar (uncredited)
1971 Puppet on a Chain - Thug (uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 4th Guardian / First Corridor Guard
- Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 4th Guardian (as George Leach)
- The General (1967) ... First Corridor Guard
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Second Guard
- Brainwash (1967) ... Second Guard
1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
- Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Chauffeur / Production Assistant
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Marcia (1963) ... Production Assistant (uncredited)
1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
1966 The Spies (TV Series) - Karl
- I Don't Even Volunteer (1966) ... Karl
1965 Thunderball - Largo's Crewman (uncredited)
1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Manchu Minion (uncredited)
1965 Coast of Skeletons - Carlo Seton
1964 Mozambique - Carl
1964 Scene Nun, Take One (Short)
1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Ship Attacker (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - Man in Bulletproof Vest at 'Q' Division (uncredited)
1964 Carry On Spying - Waiter (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
1962 Billy Budd - Marine (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Jake
1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - War Room Officer (uncredited)

1959 Hot Money Girl - Man In Fight (uncredited)
1956 Port Afrique - Second Arab
1956 Private's Progress - German Soldier (uncredited)
1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
- Teddy Gang (1956)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (film extra - uncredited)

1947 Odd Man Out (stand-in: Mr. Mason - uncredited)

Self (5 credits)

2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Hyderfoil Crewman

30 Years of James Bond, 3/5, George Leech at 4:35

RichardTheBruce

June 18th

1942: James Paul McCartney is born--Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

1959: Lord Ridley writes to Ian Fleming suggesting the Seychelles as a location for adventure.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 11 - Emotional Turmoil

For all the build-up, the CBS programmes were never produced. When
Ship Kelly discovered that Ian was negotiating another television series
with CBS through Hubell Robinson, he took umbrage. He imagined Paley
was going behind his back to deal with Ian. Although Paley appeared to
be unaware of Robinson’s initiative, he immediately put a stop to it.
According to Ship’s wife, Kay-Kay, now remarried as Mrs Douglas Auch-
incloss, Paley considered his friendship with Ship more important than
any television series. In the mutual relationships the casino project was
abandoned. Only the omnibus edition of James Bond’s adventures sur-
vived.

It was all rather anticlimactic when Ian began to edit his Seychelles
pieces. A search for photographs took him to the North of England where
Lord Richard Percy, brother of the Duke of Northumberland, was professor
of zoology at Newcastle University. Percy had visited the Seychelles with
his friend Lord Ridley in 1955 and had taken some photographs. (Percy
and Ridley had been near contemporaries at Eton, though of a slightly
later vintage than Ian.) Ridley wrote to Ian on 18 June suggesting that the
Seychelles might provide an interesting backdrop for a James Bond novel.
Ian had already thought of that, replying, “I have mentioned your
suggestion to James Bond. He was in fact sent there briefly during Mak-
arlo’s exile. He was sent to fix up the security arrangements and to foil a
Greek commando attempt at rescue. While he was there he was involved
in a subsidiary adventure featuring a bizarre fish called the Hildebrand
Rarity; and I hope that one day M. will allow me to have access to the
relevant files.

Ian was referring to the fact that on his travels he had started to write a
series of five short stories which he completed in Jamaica the following
spring and which were published as a collected in April 1960. In ‘The
Hildebrand Rarity’ James Bond enjoys the usual luxury of a week’s leave
in the Seychelles, where he meets a boorish American millionaire called
Milton Krest who is cruising through the islands collecting rare species of
animals and fish for his tax-dodge charity, the Krest Foundation. Ian drew
on his own recent experiences in Jamaica as well as the Seychelles to flesh out
the detail. For example, in order to capture the Hildebrand Rarity, an
unusual striped fish, Krest is prepared to poison the sea. Reflecting Ian’s
own love of the ocean, Bond shows an ecological awareness ahead of his
time in seeking to halt this unequal struggle between the evil of technology
and the beauty of nature.

1960: Barbara Broccoli is born--Los Angeles, California.
1963: Pedro Armendáriz dies at age 51--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 9 May 1912--Mexico City, Mexico.)

Pedro Armendáriz

See the complete article here:

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

Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings, May 9, 1912 - Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Died June 18, 1963 (age 51) - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death Suicide by gunshot
Burial place Panteón Jardín, Mexico City
Occupation Actor
Years active 1935–1963
Spouse(s) Carmelita Bohr
(m. 1938; his death 1963)
Children 2, including Pedro Jr.

Pedro Armendáriz (born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings; May 9, 1912 – June 18, 1963) was a Mexican film actor who made films in both Mexico and the United States. With Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s.

Early life
Armendáriz was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García Conde (Mexican) and Adela Hastings (American). He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín. Armendáriz and his younger brother Francisco lived with their uncle Henry Hastings, Sr. in Laredo, Texas after their mother died. He later studied in California. He started in the world of acting by participating in the stage plays performed by the theater group at the University of California, where he continued a career in law. He graduated with an engineering degree from the California Polytechnic State University.

Career

Armendáriz with Harry Carey Jr. and John Wayne in 3 Godfathers in 1949.

When Armendáriz finished his studies, he moved to Mexico where he worked for the railroad, as a tour guide and as a journalist for the bilingual magazine México Real. He was discovered by film director Miguel Zacarías when Armendáriz recited a soliloquy from Hamlet to an American tourist. His meeting with the director Emilio Fernández was providential, whereupon the actor and director began working in numerous films: Soy puro mexicano (1942), Flor silvestre (1942) and specially María Candelaria (1943) were the first films of intense common path. Under the guidance of Emilio Fernández, Pedro Armendáriz developed the film personality traits of strong nationalist; often, he played tough and manly men, indigenous, peasants and revolutionaries. Amendáriz repeatedly portrayed Pancho Villa and played opposite actresses such as Dolores del Río and María Félix.

With Dolores del Río, Amendáriz formed one of the most legendary couples of the Mexican cinema. María Candelaria provided Armendáriz with international visibility. The film was awarded the Palm d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Other prominent titles where Armendáriz appeared with Dolores del Río were Las Abandonadas (1944), Bugambilia (1944) and La Malquerida (1949). Maria Felix was his other partner in such films as Enamorada (1946) or Maclovia (1948).[1]

In the late 40s, he made the jump to Hollywood by the hand of John Ford. Armendáriz was a favorite of Ford, appearing in three of his films: The Fugitive (1947), Fort Apache and 3 Godfathers (both 1948).

Armendáriz with Lana Turner in Diane in 1956.

Besides his career in the Mexican cinema, Armendáriz made a remarkable career in Hollywood and Europe. His other prominent films in Hollywood were: We Were Strangers (1949, directed by John Huston), The Torch (1950), Border River (1954), The Conqueror (1956) and Diane (1956), among others. In Europe, highlighted his participation in the film Lucrèce Borgia (1953), filmed in France. In Mexico, his participation highlighted such notable films such as El Bruto (1953, directed by Luis Buñuel), La Cucaracha (1959) and La Bandida (1962).

Armendáriz's last appearance was in the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love (1963), as Bond's ally, Kerim Bey. Armendáriz was terminally ill with cancer during the filming of From Russia with Love, and towards the end of shooting he was too ill to perform his part; his final scenes were performed by his double, director Terence Young. Armendáriz died four months before the release of the film.

Personal life

Armendáriz was married to actress Carmelita Bohr (née Pardo) by whom he had one son and daughter. Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. also became an actor and appeared in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989); his daughter Carmen Armendáriz became a TV producer.

Illness and death
In 1956, Armendáriz had a role in the film The Conqueror produced by Howard Hughes. Filmed in the state of Utah at the time when the US government was doing above-ground nuclear testing in neighboring Nevada, within 25 years 91 of the 220 people involved in the production were afflicted with cancer, 46 of whom died.

Armendáriz began to suffer pain in his hips; years later it was discovered that he had neck cancer. He learned his condition was terminal while at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and, reportedly, endured great pain to film From Russia with Love (he visibly limps in most scenes) in order to assure his family financial resources.

On June 18, 1963, Armendáriz committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a gun he had smuggled into the hospital. He was 51 years old. He is buried in the Panteón Jardín cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.

Pedro Armendáriz (1912–1963)

Actor | Producer
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1964: Goldfinger films Oddjob and Kisch and Bond and the bomb.

1973: Apple Records releases the single "Live and Let Die" in the US. (B-side: "I Lie Around".)

1973: Bond comic strip Die with My Boots On ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 1 March 1973. 2173–2256) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1009


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

https://www.popoptiq.com/die-with-my-boots-on/




Swedish Semic Press 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

Droghandlarna (Die With My Boots On)

Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-30-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 30: “Die With My Boots On” (1974)

1982: Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens dies at age 66--Vienna, Austria.
(Born 13 December 1915--Solin, Munich, Germany.)

CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
UPI | JUNE 19, 1982

Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.

Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.

His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners

Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.

A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.

With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''

Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

Curd Jürgens (1915–1982)

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Filmography

Actor (169 credits)

1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander

1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
- Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
- Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
1975 Second Spring - Fox
1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
- Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
- The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
- The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
1973 Occupation (TV Series)
1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
- Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
- Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
- Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
- Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks

1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
- Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
- Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
- The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
- Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
- The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun

1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
1957 Les espions - Alex
1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
1954 Orient Express - Bate
1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
1954 Circus of Love - Toni
1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor

1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)

Director (6 credits)

1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
- Immer die Bigelows (1966)
- Flug nach Ankara (1966)
- Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
- Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
1951 Gangsterpremiere
1950 Prämien auf den Tod

Soundtrack (4 credits)

1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)

RichardTheBruce

June 19th

1913: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) is born--London, England.
(She dies 12 July 1981 at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.)

Ann Fleming

See the complete article here:

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

Fleming in 1957

Born Ann Charteris, 19 June 1913, Westminster, London, England
Died 12 July 1981 (aged 68), Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, England
Nationality British
Known for Hostess

Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris, 19 June 1913 – 12 July 1981), previously known as Lady O'Neill and Viscountess Rothermere, was a British socialite. She married firstly Lord O'Neill, secondly Lord Rothermere, and finally the writer Ian Fleming. She also had affairs with the Labour Party politicians Roy Jenkins and Hugh Gaitskell.

Life
Fleming was born to Frances Lucy Tennant (1887–1925) and Captain Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967) in Westminster, London on 19 June 1913. She was the eldest daughter and her grandfather was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. She learnt to value conversation and friendship from her grandmother, Mary Constance Charteris, Countess of Wemyss,[1] who had her own hedonistic past, having been one of The Souls.

She was educated by governesses after an unsuccessful term at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She had a good understanding of literature but her future was to be a debutante and she quickly married Lord O'Neill who was both an aristocrat and a financier in 1932. She had two children before beginning an affair with the influential Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1936.

Harmsworth was the heir to Lord Rothermere, who owned the Daily Mail. Her husband went to war and Ann appeared with Harmsworth as well as having an affair with Ian Fleming, then a stockbroker, who became an assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. In 1940, Harmsworth became Lord Rothermere. Her husband was killed in action in 1944 and she married Lord Rothermere in 1945.

The couple entertained and their social circle included the painter Lucian Freud (who painted her portrait), the choreographer Frederick Ashton and the artist Francis Bacon. Meanwhile, Ian Fleming left the navy and became a journalist with The Sunday Times. He had built Goldeneye on land in Jamaica and he had demanded three-month vacations from his employer to enjoy his holiday home. The two spent three months of every year together in Jamaica;[4] her new husband thought she was in Jamaica to visit Noël Coward.

In 1951 she was divorced by Lord Rothermere, and the following year she married Fleming. They had one child, Caspar. Ann was pregnant with her son when they married; he was born on 12 August 1952. Anxiety over his forthcoming marriage is said to be the reason that Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Ann had a £100,000 divorce settlement and Fleming sought additional sources of revenue to add to his salary from The Sunday Times. The book and its sequels were immediate successes.

The Flemings bought a house in London, where they entertained. They later rebuilt Warneford Place at Sevenhampton, near Swindon, renaming it Sevenhampton Place and moving there in 1963. Her husband was not keen on the socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell, and she had affairs with Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins.

Her son Caspar died in London in October 1975 from an overdose of narcotics. Ann Fleming died at Sevenhampton Place on 12 July 1981. Both were buried alongside Ian at the church of St James in Sevenhampton.

1916: George Pravda is born--Prague, Czechia.
(He dies 1 May 1985 at age 68--London, England.)

George Pravda (1918–1985)
Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695590/

1921: Louis Jourdan is born--Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
(He dies 14 February 2015 at age 93--Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California.)

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

See the complete article here:

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)

Actor | Soundtrack | Production Manager
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431139/

1952: Virginia Hey is born--Coogee, New South Wales, Australia.

1963: From Russia With Love films the Orient Express train fight.
1967: Roger Ebert reviews You Only Live Twice.

You Only Live Twice

See the complete article here:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/you-only-live-twice-1967

| Roger Ebert June 19, 1967 |
Remember those neat gadgets M was always dreaming up for James Bond? Their beauty was that they were well designed and terribly complicated, like Swiss astronomical watches, and they had a great many functions. Probably the best two were the briefcase in "From Russia with Love" and that custom car in "Goldfinger."

The great thing about these gadgets was that after M explained them to 007, they just sat around for a long time looking like briefcases and cars. Their tricks were spread through the film, and always came as a surprise when they finally were sprung. Suspense! Timing! Humor! As when the Chinese spy ejected himself from the driver's seat.

The gadgets were symptomatic of what made the first three Bond films such perfect representatives of the sex-and-sadism spy genre. It was as if the director had gone over every line of the script with a design engineer at his elbow and lovingly worked all the functions of the gadgetry into all the folds of the plot so that everything held together in a subtle way.

A great deal of money was spent on the fifth Bond epic in an attempt to duplicate this mystique, but in "You Only Live Twice" the formula fails to work its magic. Like its predecessor "Thunderball," another below-par entry, this one is top-heavy with gadgets but weak on plotting and getting everything to work at the same time.

For example, we're given another of those delicious scenes we've grown to love, in which Bond has a new gadget explained, to him. This time it's a lightweight one-man helicopter that can fire machine-gun bullets, missiles, rockets and flames. So far, so good. But instead of working the helicopter into the plot, the film immediately demonstrates all these goodies.

Bond takes off. Four helicopters attack him, naturally. He shoots one down with the machine-gun, one with the rockets, one with the missiles, and he incinerates the fourth with his flame-thrower. Just like that.

Same goes for the other stock ingredients. The girls (breathtaking Japanese lovelies) are beautiful and sexy as always, but they don't really emerge as characters the way Pussy Galore did. They're just there, decorating the place, running around in bikinis and, worst of all, not presenting much of a threat to old 007 most of the time.

Connery labors mightily. There is still the same Bond grin, still the cool humor under fire, still the slight element of satire. But when he puts on his cute little helmet and is strapped into his helicopter, somehow the whole illusion falls apart and what we're left with is a million-dollar playpen in which everything works but nothing does anything.

1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 3 December 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/




https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010


http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.com/2012/10/on-james-bond-omnibus-volume-004-by-jim.html


India

Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet
("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)

Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
"Jagten på det sorte guld" [The Hunt for the Black Gold]




https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/titan_tgm.php3?s=comics&id=02182

1988: Teru Shimada dies at age 83--Encino, California.
(Born 17 November 1905--Mito, Japan.)

Teru Shimada

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

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

Filmography

Actor (74 credits)

1975 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - Shige Ishikawa
- The Wolf Boy (1975) ... Shige Ishikawa
1975 Barnaby Jones (TV Series) - Hidekei Ito
- The Deadly Conspiracy: Part 2 (1975) ... Hidekei Ito
1971 To Rome with Love (TV Series) - Mr. Okada
- Bonsai (1971) ... Mr. Okada
1970 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shigato
- The Reunion (1970) ... Shigato
1970 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Mr. Orokumu
- Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 2 (1970) ... Mr. Orokumu
1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
1970 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Osaki
- Mr. Osaki's Tree (1970) ... Mr. Osaki

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

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

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

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

Self (2 credits)

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

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #8.

JAMES BOND 007 #8

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532508011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Khoi Pham
Cover C: Steve Lieber
Cover D: Eric Gapstur
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Eric Gapstur
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: June 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 6/19/2019

You think you know Goldfinger. But you don't know THIS Goldfinger. Go inside the mind of the most ruthless sociopath in the world, courtesy of GREG PAK (World War Hulk, Weapon X) and ERIC GAPSTUR (Batman Beyond, The Flash: Year Zero).

2020: National Martini Day in the US.

This year the Bombay Club is temporarily closed, they recommend the Empire Bar at Broussard's.

I'm sure they make fine martinis. A couple other items on their menu piqued my interest.

https://broussards.com/menu/empire-bar/
Cocktails Through The Decades

1920: Bee’s Knees
Gordon’s Gin, Yellow Chartreuse, Lemon, Honey-Sage Syrup

1930: Dorothy Lamour
Bacardi Superior, Grapefruit, Blood Orange Solerno,
Blueberry-Pomegranate Grenadine

1940: Isadora Duncan
Knob Creek Bourbon, Blackberries, Lemon, Honey-Sage Syrup

1950: Big Hopper
Crème De Menthe Dark, Crème De Menthe Light, Creme Cacao Dark, Crème De Cacao Light, Heavy Whipping Cream

1960: Georgia On My Mind
Jim Beam, Regan Orange Bitters, Angostura Bitters,
Peach Syrup, Luxardo Cherry

1970: Another Tequila Sunrise
Tres Agave Blanco, Campari, Lime, Pineapple

1980: Risky Business
Gordon Gin, Blood Orange Solerno, Benedictine, Pineapple, Lime, Grenadine, Rhubarb Bitters

1990: Mr Big Blues
Wheatly Vodka, Triple Sec, Lemon, White Cranberry, Blueberries

2000: Millennial Mule
Jim Beam, Lime, Ginger Beer, Peach Bitters

2010: Rougarou
Tres Agave Blanco, Bitterman Grapefruit Syrup, Lime, Sparkling Wine

2020: Broussard's Smile
Delacour Brandy, Blood Orange Solerno, Lemon,
Ginger, Angostura Bitters

Wine By The Glass

BT3366

I don't think I've ever read that Ebert review. He made a lot of mistakes about the series (M demonstrating the gadgets) but the review was pretty much dead-on.

Thunderfinger

BT3366 wrote: »

I don't think I've ever read that Ebert review. He made a lot of mistakes about the series (M demonstrating the gadgets) but the review was pretty much dead-on.

He did once, in LALD.

RichardTheBruce

June 20th

1915: Terence Young is born--Shanghai, China.
(He dies 7 September 1994 at age 79--Cannes, France.)

Obituary: Terence Young

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terence-young-1449081.html

David Shipman | Friday 16 September 1994 00:02

Terence Young, film director, producer, screenwriter; born Shanghai 20 June 1915; married (one son, two daughters); died Cannes 7 September 1994.

THE British cinema - as opposed to the British film industry - first began to consider its responsibilities during the Second World War. The quantity and vitality of British movies produced between 1945 and 1950 is astonishing, with the serious variety attracting large audiences as never before. Between them, the benevolent flour- milling mogul Arthur Rank and the creative Hungarian paterfamilias Alexander Korda encouraged new talents, none of whom was more promising than Terence Young.

Young's first two films as director, for Rank, came out early in 1948, proving him anxious to work well outside the British mainstream. One Hour With You, with a typically playful script by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, imagined the misfortunes of Patricia Roc wooed by the tenor Nino Martini while stranded in Italy. Corridor of Mirrors gave even more meaning to the words bizarre, baroque - as Eric Portman, at his most magniloquent, brooded over a Renaissance painting in his dark mansion, convinced that he and his mistress, Edana Romney, are reincarnations of the lovers in it.

Earlier Young had worked as screenwriter on some interesting films with the director Brian Desmond Hurst: On the Night of the Fire (1939), a fugitive-from-justice tale, heavily influenced by Marcel Carne, with Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard; Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a wartime love affair between a Polish airman, Anton Walbrook, and an American journalist, Sally Gray, with the 'Warsaw Concerto' thrown in as a bonus; Hungry Hill (1946), Daphne du Maurier's chronicle of an Irish family with Margaret Lockwood as its matriarch; and Theirs is the Glory (1946), a semi-documentary account of the failure of the Battle of Arnhem. During service with the Armoured Guards Division Young was given leave to work with Clive Brook on the screenplay for On Approval (1944), based on Frederick Lonsdale's comedy and as directed by Brook, with himself, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver, a happy version of a filmed play.

Young's first job with Rank was to hack a screenplay out of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane, which he was scheduled to direct with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; but Rank got cold feet at the last minute and transferred him to a comedy with Granger, Woman Hater, for which he brought Edwige Feuillere across from France. Young's other film that year, They Were Not Divided, was a project dear to his heart, as it followed two Welsh Guardsmen, Edward Underdown and the American Ralph Clanton, from square- bashing to D-Day and beyond.

In 1954 he directed That Lady, the story of the romance of the one-eyed Princess of Eboli which scandalised the court of Philip II; he blamed its failure on the fact that that he had asked for Laurence Olivier and Ava Gardner, but had been given Gilbert Roland and Olivia de Havillland. With Zoltan Korda he co-directed Storm Over the Nile (1955), with Laurence Harvey and Anthony Steel, a remake of 1939 The Four Feathers, with footage from that stretched out for CinemaScope.

Young had already experienced his most important career move. Two American producers, Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, taking advantage of US tax concessions for working abroad, came to Britain with Alan Ladd to make The Red Beret (1953), in which Ladd was an American officer who does a T. E. Lawrence-like stint in the ranks of the British regiment. They had admired Young's work on his war movies and though he won no kudos for this one it was popular. He stayed with their company, Warwick, establishing himself as a director of transatlantic action movies.

He broke away for another personal project, Serious Charge (1959), in which a vengeful teddy boy, Andrew Ray, accuses a vicar, Anthony Quayle, of sexual assault. He then accepted the challenge of bringing four of Roland Petit's ballets to the wide screen in Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre (1960), or Black Tights. Maurice Chevalier introduced these diverse pleasures, including Moira Shearer and Petit in Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyd Charisse as a merry widow and Zizi Jeanmaire with him in Carmen.

Its success was not unqualified, and Young went on to co-direct, with Ferdinando Baldi, Orazi E Curiazi (1961), with Alan Ladd decidedly ill-at-ease as Horatio at the bridge. Cut, dubbed and retitled Duel of Champions, it got a few bookings some years later.

By that time Young's career had soared. Broccoli had teamed up with Harry Saltzman to film Dr No (1963), one of Ian Fleming's thrillers about a British secret service agent, James Bond. Saltzman, the American backer of such films as Look Back in Anger, had been looking for something more evidently popular. Apart from the two of them nobody believed in it, including the distributor, United Artists, who imposed budget restrictions; half a dozen actors turned down the role before it was accepted by the little-known and unlikely Sean Connery. (Young had previously directed Connery in 1957 in a small role in Action of the Tiger.) The notices were mediocre and Fleming was privately contemptuous, but the film went on to knock the box-office for six. With an injection of humour and Connery splendidly easing himself into the role, From Russia with Love (1963) and then Thunderball (1965) proved that Young was a first-rate action director and that the public couldn't get enough of 007.

When Young abandoned Bond, it was with mixed results. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) was an attempt by Marcel Hellman to duplicate the success of Tom Jones. But Warner Bros then put Young in charge of an adaptation of a long-running play, Wait Until Dark (1967), with Audrey Hepburn menaced by thugs, including a scarey Alan Arkin - and that is surely one of the best thrillers of the decade.

Young followed it with an Italian version of Conrad, L'Avventurio or The Rover (1967), which has been little seen despite the presence of Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and Mayerling (1968) with James Mason and Ava Gardner under-used as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve as the lovers. Several other co-productions with either France or Italy included The Valachi Papers (1972), a Mafia tale with Charles Bronson.

Young's long-delayed first Hollywood film, The Klansman (1974), with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, was scathingly received - one reason why Paramount pulled the plug on The Jackpot, also with Burton, during production. But that company invited Young back for Bloodline (1979), based on a Sidney Sheldon bestseller which managed to combine a plot about company greed with one about the making of porn movies. Audrey Hepburn and James Mason headed the cast, and after the dreadful notices, she commented that she had made it both because the locations didn't take her far from her family and because she liked the director.

Young attracted Olivier to Inchon (1980) and The Jigsaw Man (1983), in which he respectively played General MacArthur and an admiral involved with Michael Caine, a former head of MI6 who had defected. The former, financed by the Rev Sun Myung Moon to an estimated dollars 100m, took peanuts in the US and has never been seen in Britain; the second ran into financial difficulties during filming and went direct to video.

This is a sad ending to an extraordinary career. No one would class Young with his contemporaries David Lean and Carol Reed, but he was one among others embraced by Hollywood: Michael Anderson, J. Lee Thompson, Ronald Neame, Ken Annakin and Lewis Gilbert. They gave Hollywood some excellent films and the American film industry liked them because they thought in commercial terms.

Terence Young
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950109/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Director (40 credits)

1988 Run for Your Life
1983 The Jigsaw Man
1981 Inchon
1980 Long Days (unconfirmed, uncredited)

1979 Bloodline
1975 Jackpot
1974 The Klansman
1973 The Amazons
1972 The Valachi Papers
1971 Red Sun
1970 Cold Sweat

1969 The Christmas Tree
1968 Mayerling
1967 Wait Until Dark
1967 The Rover
1966 Triple Cross
1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1965 Thunderball
1965 The Secret Agents
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1963 From Russia with Love
1962 Dr. No
1961 Duel of Champions (english version)
1961 Black Tights
1960 Playgirl After Dark

1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Dark as the Night (1959)
1959 Serious Charge
1958 Tank Force
1957 Action of the Tiger
1956 Zarak
1956 Safari
1955 Storm Over the Nile
1955 That Lady
1953 Paratrooper
1952 The Frightened Bride
1951 Valley of the Eagles
1950 They Were Not Divided

1948 Woman Hater
1948 One Night with You
1948 Corridor of Mirrors

Writer (17 credits)

1977 Foxbat (additional script material)
1973 The Amazons
1969 The Christmas Tree (writer)
1968 Mayerling (screenplay)
1966 Mission to Tokyo (adaptation)
1962 Dr. No (uncredited)

1958 Tank Force [aka No Time to Die] (written by)
1951 Valley of the Eagles (written by)
1950 They Were Not Divided

1949 The Bad Lord Byron (writer - uncredited)
1947 Hungry Hill (screenplay)
1944 On Approval (uncredited)
1943 A Letter from Ulster (Documentary short) (screenplay - as Shaun Terence Young)
1942 Secret Mission (original story - as Shaun Terence Young)
1941 Suicide Squadron (original story) / (screenplay)
1940 A Call for Arms! (Short) (story)

1939 The Fugitive (adaptation) / (scenario)

Miscellaneous Crew (4 credits)

1977 Foxbat (script consultant)
1969 Birds, Orphans and Fools (presenter)
1964 Goldfinger (director: pre-production - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: Pedro Armendáriz - uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1984 Where Is Parsifal? (executive producer)
1964 Goldfinger (associate producer: pre-production - uncredited)
Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
1988 Chicken and Duck Talk (assistant director)

Editorial department (1 credit)

1980 Long Days (supervising editor)

Thanks (2 credits)

2009 Frankenpimp (special thanks)
1949 The Bad Lord Byron (producers gratefully acknowledge the contributions to the screenplay made by)

Self (13 credits)

2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself - Interviewee[/u]
1992 Le divan (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Terence Young (1992) ... Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1988 Sacrée soirée (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 17 February 1988 (1988) ... Himself
1982 Ciné parade (TV Series documentary) = Himself
- L'usine à rêves (1982) ... Himself
1974 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) - Himself
- On location with "The Klansman" (1974) ... Himself
1968 Vienna: The Years Remembered (Documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
1968 Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 2 December 1968 (1968) ... Himself
1968 L'invité du dimanche (TV Series) - Himself
- Edwige Feuillère (1968) ... Himself
1965 A Child's Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car (TV Short) - Himself
1964 Thunderball: Production Footage (Short) - Himself

Archive footage (14 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Special documentary) - Himself
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
1995 The 67th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself (Memorial Tribute)
1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
- Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself

1961: On the advice of Arthur Krim, Broccoli and Saltzman give their Bond movie pitch to David Picker in New York. They get a six-picture deal with United Artists, the first is bankrolled for $1 million.
(Compare to Columbia's offer of $400,000.)
1964: Chris Cornell is born--Seattle, Washington.
(He dies 18 May 2017 at age 52--Detroit, Michigan.)

Chris Cornell obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/18/chris-cornell-obituary

Lead singer of rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, and one of
the trailblazers of Seattle’s grunge scene
Adam Sweeting | Thu 18 May 2017 13.29 EDT

Chris Cornell on stage just hours before his death - video report

As the lead singer of the Seattle-based band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, who has been found dead at the age of 52, had been one of the trailblazers of the city’s grunge movement in the late 1980s and 90s. Having achieved stardom with that band, he went on to further great success with Audioslave in the new millennium, while also developing a flourishing solo career. At the time of his death, Cornell was in the middle of a tour with Soundgarden, who had re-formed in 2010 after a 13-year hiatus, and had just performed at the Fox theatre in Detroit.

Chris Cornell:
rock star who
kicked down the
boundaries of sound
Alexis Petridis

The group was started in 1984 by Cornell, along with guitarist Kim Thayil and bass player Hiro Yamamoto, with Matt Cameron becoming their full-time drummer in 1986. After releasing a single, Hunted Down (1987) on the Seattle-based Sub Pop label, and a debut album, Ultramega OK (1988), for the independent SST, Yamamoto left the band, and was briefly replaced by Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, before Ben Shepherd joined on bass. Soundgarden signed to A&M records, and their second release for that label, Badmotorfinger (1991), became a multi-platinum seller in the US, also reaching the Top 40 in the UK. The singles from that album, Outshined and Rusty Cage, received heavy play on alternative radio stations and MTV, and Badmotorfinger earned a Grammy nomination in 1992.

An invitation to open for Guns N’ Roses on their Use Your Illusion tour (1991-93) introduced Soundgarden to huge new audiences in both the US and Europe, as did an opening slot with the heavy metal band Skid Row in 1992. “Our big moment of truth was when we were offered a slot opening up for Skid Row and we didn’t know what to do with that,” Cornell told the music journalist Pete Makowski in 2011. “Was that good or bad? And what happened was we toured with them and their audience all bought Soundgarden records.”

A berth on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour alongside Ministry, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and fellow Seattleites Pearl Jam framed Soundgarden as one of the rising names in American alternative rock. (In 1990 Cornell had joined with members of Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, in tribute to the late Andy Wood of another Seattle band, Mother Love Bone. They released an eponymous album in 1991, and last year reunited for a 25th-anniversary tour.) Cornell also had a solo cameo performance in Cameron Crowe’s 1992 Seattle-based romcom Singles, with his gentle acoustic track Seasons.

Soundgarden’s next album, Superunknown (1994), duly topped the US chart (and reached No 4 in the UK), and went on to sell 5m copies in the States alone. After extensive international touring, Soundgarden started work on their fifth album, Down on the Upside, though Cornell’s desire to lighten the group’s dark, metallic sound with acoustic instruments triggered arguments with his bandmates. When it was released in 1996, it was acclaimed by reviewers but sales fell far short of its predecessor’s. After a further marathon bout of touring, the group announced they were splitting in April 1997.

Cornell released his first solo album, Euphoria Morning, in 1999. This found him exploring a mix of rock, pop and psychedelia, allowing him to use different facets of his impressive vocal range beyond a heavy-rock roar, though again critical enthusiasm did not translate into huge sales. But his solo career was put on hold when he formed Audioslave in 2001, with former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford, who had been recommended Cornell by the producer Rick Rubin.

Over the next five years they recorded three albums, Audioslave (2002), Out of Exile (2005) and Revelations (2006). The first of these was by far the most successful, selling 3m albums in the States and spinning off five hit singles including Cochise, Like a Stone and I Am the Highway. The release of Revelations (which reached No 2 on the US charts and 12 in Britain) was preceded by the appearance of two of its tracks, Wide Awake and Shape of Things to Come, in Michael Mann’s film Miami Vice (2006).

Cornell quit Audioslave in early 2007. This was a significant period in his career, since he had been suffering from problems with drug and alcohol abuse during his later years with Soundgarden, and had made a strenuous effort to overcome them. “It was really hard to recover from, just mentally,” he recalled. “I think Audioslave suffered from that because my feet hadn’t hit the ground yet. I was sober but I don’t think my brain was clear … It took me five years of sobriety to even get certain memories back.”

Born Christopher Boyle in Seattle, to Ed Boyle, a pharmacist, and Karen (nee Cornell), an accountant, Chris had three younger sisters and two older brothers. After his parents’ divorce, when Chris was a teenager, he and his siblings took their mother’s maiden name. He attended a Catholic elementary school, Christ the King, then Shorewood high school, but left education at 16, and worked various jobs (including sous-chef at Ray’s Boathouse restaurant).

In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview he said: “I went from being a daily drug user at 13 to having bad drug experiences and quitting drugs by the time I was 14 and then not having any friends until the time I was 16.” He eventually found his feet as a musician, and it was while performing with the Shemps, a covers band, that he met Thayil and Yamamoto, with whom he subsequently formed Soundgarden.

In 2006, Cornell composed and recorded "You Know My Name", the theme song for the James Bond movie Casino Royale. He put out his second solo effort, Carry On, in 2007, and promoted it with a campaign of touring, both in his own right and as a support act to Aerosmith.

In 2009 he released his next album, Scream, on which he collaborated with the producer Timbaland. It reached No 10 on the US album chart, Cornell’s highest solo chart placing. In 2011 he released the live album Songbook, a document of his solo acoustic Songbook tour on which he played songs from all phases of his career as well as versions of Led Zeppelin’s Thank You and John Lennon’s Imagine. “I felt like I can’t really call myself a musician or entertainer if I can’t pick up a guitar by myself and hold someone’s attention,” he explained of his decision to perform solo.

By now he was working with the reformed Soundgarden, who released the compilation Telephantasm: A Retrospective (2010). Their first new song to go public was Live to Rise, which featured in the 2012 movie The Avengers, and later that year they followed up with an album of new material, King Animal (it reached No 5 in the US and 21 in Britain). Cornell’s most recent solo album was Higher Truth (2015), a mellow, melodic work, which entered the US Top 20.

He is survived by his wife, Vicky Karayiannis, whom he married in 2004, their son, Christopher Nicholas, their daughter, Toni, and by a daughter, Lillian, from his first marriage, to Susan Silver, which ended in divorce.

• Chris Cornell (Christopher John Boyle), singer, songwriter and musician, born 20 July 1964; died 17 May 2017

Note: most sources confirm his death as on 18 May 2017.

Chris Cornell(I) (1964–2017)

Soundtrack | Actor | Composer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180225/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1969: George Lazenby completes his last day of filming as James Bond.

1984: Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson finish their A View to a Kill screenplay. Eleven revisions follow.
1985: 鐵金剛勇破 爆炸黨 (Iron King Breaking Through) released in Hong Kong.

1992: James Bond Jr's action video game released by Eurocom for Super Nintendo. The original Nintendo Entertainment System variant had released in September 1991. The only Bond game published by T·HQ.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic The Body #6.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419006011
Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ale? Kot
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action
Publication Date: June 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 6/20/2018

A pub. A meeting between old friends. But is it just what it seems? All threads of The Body converge, and Bond has to face the consequence of his actions.

https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR180961

2018: A screen-used brooch worn by Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny goes to auction at Surrey.

Screen-used Moneypenny brooch on auction
14 June, 2018
http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/screen-used-moneypenny-brooch-auction

2019: The Guardian celebrates 10 "best smells".

Ten of the best smells

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview32

Fri 20 Jun 2008 19.09 EDT

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Nothing smells nicer than Paradise. As Satan approaches Eden, he gets a whiff of "balmy spoils". He is compared to a sailor off the coast of Mozambique, who catches at "Sabean odours from the spicy shore / Of Araby the blest". And for a little while, the fiend pauses and sniffs the beneficial air.

"The Odour" by George Herbert

The conceit of "The Odour" is that religious consolation is like a pomander. The poet hankers for the "spiciness" of holy perfume. Religious devotion is "as Amber-greese" (a richly smelling secretion of the sperm whale), which "leaves a rich scent / Unto the taster".

Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

In beautiful Georgian Bath, one of the fashionable doctors assures Smollett's protagonist, Matthew Bramble, of the benefits of "the stercoraceous flavour" of the whiff in the Pump-room and describes with delight his "uncommon satisfaction from hanging over the stale contents of a close-stool, while his servant stirred it about under his nose".

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

In the "Mutabilitie Cantos" of this great poem we enter the Temple of Venus, which swims with perfume, with frankincense, and "odours rising from the altar's flame . . . And all the ground was strewed with flowers as fresh as May." No wonder you feel giddy with "joy and amorous desire".

Justine by Lawrence Durrell

The colours and smells of Alexandria (often combined) produce a kind of sensual rapture in the narrator. "Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet-smelling brick-dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water . . . The smell of the sweat-lathered Berberinis ... " You may not have smelled this yourself, but you think that he has.

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

This could also compete as one of the 10 best opening sentences of a novel. "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three o'clock in the morning." In 1953, British readers of Fleming's first Bond novel had not escaped austerity and had no idea what a casino smelt like. But the reek of sin and glamour comes right off the page.

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust

It was Proust who most memorably recorded how a smell can detonate a hidden memory. We all remember the taste of that madeleine, but its slight perfume matters just as much. "The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls," Proust wrote, "bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."

Flush by Virginia Woolf

A story about Elizabeth Barrett Browning told from the point of view of her dog: "He smelt the swooning smells that lie in the gutters; the bitter smells that corrode iron railings; the fuming, heady smells that rise from basements ... smells that lay far beyond the range of the human nose."

"The Thought Fox" by Ted Hughes

Here smell stands for inspiration, something wild and undeniable. "With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox / It enters the dark hole of the head." When this poem was first published, few readers knew what this smell was. Nowadays, any city resident with a garden will have caught this "sharp hot stink".

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

A man with super-sensitive smell who grows up in 18th-century Paris, a super-smelly city: "The stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlours stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets . . . and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber-pots." No wonder he becomes a perfume-maker.

Thunderfinger

There is that Iron King again. Is it Bond?

RichardTheBruce

I meant to give you the entire list, @Thunderfinger.

Yes, I take Iron King as Bond. AKA New Iron King, New Iron King Kong, and New Rail King Kong. Makes sense to me, I guess.

Iron King Mysterious island
Iron King Spynet
Iron king wars Cheat
Iron King Fighting Devil party
Iron King Rocket Ridge
Iron King Snow mountain fort
Iron King Diamond party

Iron King Mafia
Iron king wars Golden Gunman
Iron King Underwater city
Iron King Space city
Iron King Hailong Gang
Iron King Explosion party
Iron King Fighting Madman

Iron king wars Agent Flying Dragon
Iron King Fighting Murderer

New Rail King Kong Golden eyes
New Iron King Tomorrow Empire
New Rail King Kong Dark sun crisis
New Rail King Kong Killer

New Iron King Kong: Bazaar Royal Casino
New Rail King Kong: Quantum killer
New Iron King Kong: Outrageous City
007: Ghost Party
007: Battle of Life and Death

Thunderfinger

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

I meant to give you the entire list, @Thunderfinger.

Yes, I take Iron King as Bond. AKA New Iron King, New Iron King Kong, and New Rail King Kong. Makes sense to me, I guess.

Iron King Mysterious island
Iron King Spynet
Iron king wars Cheat
Iron King Fighting Devil party
Iron King Rocket Ridge
Iron King Snow mountain fort
Iron King Diamond party

Iron King Mafia
Iron king wars Golden Gunman
Iron King Underwater city
Iron King Space city
Iron King Hailong Gang
Iron King Explosion party
Iron King Fighting Madman

Iron king wars Agent Flying Dragon
Iron King Fighting Murderer

New Rail King Kong Golden eyes
New Iron King Tomorrow Empire
New Rail King Kong Dark sun crisis
New Rail King Kong Killer

New Iron King Kong: Bazaar Royal Casino
New Rail King Kong: Quantum killer
New Iron King Kong: Outrageous City
007: Ghost Party
007: Battle of Life and Death

Fantastic titles. Explosion Party!

BT3366

Thunderfinger wrote: »

BT3366 wrote: »

I don't think I've ever read that Ebert review. He made a lot of mistakes about the series (M demonstrating the gadgets) but the review was pretty much dead-on.

He did once, in LALD.

Actually, that was Moneypenny who brought if to him and M just chastised Bond for thinking he was using Q branch to repair his personal watch until Bond demonstrated the magnetic field.

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

June 20th

1984: Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson finish their A View to a Kill screenplay. Eleven revisions follow.

11 revisions and they came up with that film? Could've use another 11

RichardTheBruce

June 21st

1938: Don Black, future OBE, is born--London, England.

1959: Albert Romolo Broccoli marries Dana Notol Wilson. Cary Grant as best man.

1962: Ian Fleming types a letter to twelve-year-old Terry Wing.

FLEMING (IAN)

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20753/lot/322/
Typed letter signed ("Ian Fleming"), to Terry Wing, replying to a fan letter from a twelve-year-old schoolboy and answering some of his questions ("...you are right in thinking that Dr. No is the sequel to From Russia With Love..."): confirming that he does indeed do a lot of travelling ("...one can't really write truthfully about places one hasn't seen for one's self, having been in Naval Intelligence during the war, I do know something about spies and spying..."), telling him about his car ("...I am at present driving a Ford Thunderbird which I have had for two years, but I am in the process of changing to a very new model, the Studebaker Avanti, with a top speed of 174 and acceleration from 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds..."), complimenting him on his pluck ("...So far as your future is concerned I shouldn't bother to try and emulate James Bond. You are already an adventurous chap with plenty of guts or you wouldn't be writing to authors out of the blue at the age of 12 and a bit!..."), and "As a prize for your enterprise (bad English that!)" sending a signed copy of his last but one book, 1 page, engraved heading, light coffee-staining on the reverse just showing through, but overall in sound and attractive condition, 4to, 4 Old Mitre Court, Fleet Street, 21 June 1962
Footnotes

'I SHOULDN'T BOTHER TO TRY AND EMULATE JAMES BOND. YOU ARE ALREADY AN ADVENTUROUS CHAP' – a delightfully revealing letter in which Ian Fleming compliments a schoolboy admirer and gives him details of his own glamorous lifestyle of travel and fast cars, letting slip the admission that he does "know something about spies and spying". The first of the Bond films, Dr No, was to appear that autumn.

1962: The first recording of The James Bond Theme--Cine-Tele Sound (CTS) Studios, Kensington Gardens Square, London's Baywater District.

1965: Thunderball films Bond chased by Lippe and Fiona Volpe. Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire, England.

1980: Casino Royale re-released in Finland.
1985: A View to a Kill released in Ireland.

2005: The American Film Institute declares the 22nd greatest film quote of all time as "Bond. James Bond."
Plus the 90th: "A martini. Shaken, not stirred" .

AFI'S 100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME
afi.com/100years/quotes.aspx

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes is a list of the 100 top film quotes of all time.

A jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists, critics and historians. Selection criteria included choosing quotes from American films which circulate through popular culture, become part of the national lexicon and evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.

The television special AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes originally aired on CBS on June 21, 2005.

1 "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.."
Rhett Butler Clark Gable Gone with the Wind 1939
2 "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
Vito Corleone Marlon Brando The Godfather 1972
3 "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."
Terry Malloy Marlon Brando On the Waterfront 1954
4 "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
5 "Here's looking at you, kid."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942

6 "Go ahead, make my day."
Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact 1983
7 "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
8 "May the Force be with you."
Han Solo Harrison Ford Star Wars 1977
9 "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
Margo Channing Bette Davis All About Eve 1950
10 "You talkin' to me?"
Travis Bickle Robert De Niro Taxi Driver 1976

11 "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Captain Strother Martin Cool Hand Luke 1967
12 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now 1979
13 "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Oliver Barrett IV Ryan O'Neal Love Story 1970
14 "The stuff that dreams are made of."
Sam Spade Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941
15 "E.T. phone home."
E.T. Pat Welsh E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982

16 "They call me Mister Tibbs!"
Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night 1967
17 "Rosebud."
Charles Foster Kane Orson Welles Citizen Kane 1941
18 "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
Arthur "Cody" Jarrett James Cagney White Heat 1949
19 "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Howard Beale Peter Finch Network 1976
20 "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942

21 "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
Dr. Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs 1991
22 "Bond. James Bond."
James Bond Sean Connery Dr. No 1962[/u]
23 "There's no place like home."
Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
24 "I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
25 "Show me the money!"
Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr. Jerry Maguire 1996

26 "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
Lady Lou Mae West She Done Him Wrong 1933
27 "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
"Ratso" Rizzo Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy 1969
28 "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
Ilsa Lund Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942
29 "You can't handle the truth!"
Col. Nathan R. Jessup Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men 1992
30 "I want to be alone."
Grusinskaya Greta Garbo Grand Hotel 1932

31 "After all, tomorrow is another day!"
Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
32 "Round up the usual suspects."
Capt. Louis Renault Claude Rains Casablanca 1942
33 "I'll have what she's having."
Customer Estelle Reiner When Harry Met Sally... 1989
34 "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
Marie "Slim" Browning Lauren Bacall To Have and Have Not 1944
35 "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Martin Brody Roy Scheider Jaws 1975

36 "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
"Gold Hat" Alfonso Bedoya The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
37 "I'll be back."
The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator 1984
38 "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
Lou Gehrig Gary Cooper The Pride of the Yankees 1942
39 "If you build it, he will come."
Shoeless Joe Jackson Ray Liotta (voice) Field of Dreams 1989
40 "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Forrest Gump Tom Hanks Forrest Gump 1994

41 "We rob banks."
Clyde Barrow Warren Beatty Bonnie and Clyde 1967
42 "Plastics."
Mr. Maguire Walter Brooke The Graduate 1967
43 "We'll always have Paris."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
44 "I see dead people."
Cole Sear Haley Joel Osment The Sixth Sense 1999
45 "Stella! Hey, Stella!"
Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

46 "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
Charlotte Vale Bette Davis Now, Voyager 1942
47 "Shane. Shane. Come back!"
Joey Starrett Brandon De Wilde Shane 1953
48 "Well, nobody's perfect."
Osgood Fielding III Joe E. Brown Some Like It Hot 1959
49 "It's alive! It's alive!"
Henry Frankenstein Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
50 "Houston, we have a problem."
Jim Lovell Tom Hanks Apollo 13 1995

51 "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry 1971
52 "You had me at 'hello.'"
Dorothy Boyd Renée Zellweger Jerry Maguire 1996
53 "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."
Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding Groucho Marx Animal Crackers 1930
54 "There's no crying in baseball!"
Jimmy Dugan Tom Hanks A League of Their Own 1992
55 "La-dee-da, la-dee-da."
Annie Hall Diane Keaton Annie Hall 1977

56 "A boy's best friend is his mother."
Norman Bates Anthony Perkins Psycho 1960
57 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas Wall Street 1987
58 "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Michael Corleone Al Pacino The Godfather Part II 1974
59 "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
60 "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Oliver Oliver Hardy Sons of the Desert 1933

61 "Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
Tony Montana Al Pacino Scarface 1983
62 "What a dump."
Rosa Moline Bette Davis Beyond the Forest 1949
63 "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
Benjamin Braddock Dustin Hoffman The Graduate 1967
64 "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
President Merkin Muffley Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
65 "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939

66 "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."
George Taylor Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes 1968
67 "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
68 "Here's Johnny!"
Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson The Shining 1980
69 "They're here!"
Carol Anne Freeling Heather O'Rourke Poltergeist 1982
70 "Is it safe?"
Dr. Christian Szell Laurence Olivier Marathon Man 1976

71 "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin Al Jolson The Jazz Singer 1927
72 "No wire hangers, ever!"
Joan Crawford Faye Dunaway Mommie Dearest 1981
73 "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"
Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello Edward G. Robinson Little Caesar 1931
74 "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
Lawrence Walsh Joe Mantell Chinatown 1974
75 "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

76 "Hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
77 "Soylent Green is people!"
Det. Robert Thorn Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973
78 "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
Dave Bowman Keir Dullea 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
79 Striker: "Surely you can't be serious."
Rumack: "I am serious … and don't call me Shirley."
Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen Airplane! 1980
80 "Yo, Adrian!"
Rocky Balboa Sylvester Stallone Rocky 1976

81 "Hello, gorgeous."
Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 1968
82 "Toga! Toga!"
John "Bluto" Blutarsky John Belushi National Lampoon's Animal House 1978
83 "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
Count Dracula Bela Lugosi Dracula 1931
84 "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Carl Denham Robert Armstrong King Kong 1933
85 "My precious."
Gollum Andy Serkis The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002

86 "Attica! Attica!"
Sonny Wortzik Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon 1975
87 "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
Julian Marsh Warner Baxter 42nd Street 1933
88 "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!"
Ethel Thayer Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond 1981
89 "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."
Knute Rockne Pat O'Brien Knute Rockne, All American 1940
90 "A martini. Shaken, not stirred."
James Bond Sean Connery Goldfinger 1964[/u]

91 "Who's on first?"
Dexter Bud Abbott The Naughty Nineties 1945
92 "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
Carl Spackler Bill Murray Caddyshack 1980
93 "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Mame Dennis Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame 1958
94 "I feel the need—the need for speed!"
Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Lt.jg Nick "Goose"
Bradshaw Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards Top Gun 1986
95 "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
John Keating Robin Williams Dead Poets Society 1989

96 "Snap out of it!"
Loretta Castorini Cher Moonstruck 1987
97 "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."
George M. Cohan James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
98 "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Johnny Castle Patrick Swayze Dirty Dancing 1987
99 "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!"
Wicked Witch of the West Margaret Hamilton The Wizard of Oz 1939
100 "I'm the King of the World!"
Jack Dawson Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic 1997

2015: Spectre begins Tangier filming.
2016: Dynamite publishes the hardcover collection of Vargr (Issues #1 to 6).
Jason Masters, artist/cover. Warren Ellis, writer.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #6.
Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025458006011
Cover A: Mike Perkins
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: June 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
UPC: 725130254580 06011
ON SALE DATE: 6/21

The thrilling series conclusion! Tiger and Felix have cornered their prey, the North Korean agent responsible for the bio-weapons - but Alena Davoff, Felix's former lover, is still at large, and Felix is dead-set on investigating!

He must figure out if Alena is still working for her former Russian handlers... or if she's gone rogue?

2019: The Independent repeats some opinions for the worst male writing about women.

Bad fiction: The worst
male writing about
women, according to
Reddit

See the complete article here:

https://www.indy100.com/article/sexism-male-writing-women-novels-books-sex-erotica-8965871

Posted Friday 21 June 2019 07:00 by Joe Sommerlad in ents

Ian Fleming was a popular choice for his descriptions of Bond girls in his many 007 novels
BEN STANSALL/AFP/GETTY

A thread on Reddit has asked readers for their favourite examples of bad male writing about women - and the results are pretty cringeworthy indeed.

Some of the 20th century's most acclaimed and widely read novelists came off badly in the excerpts chosen, with the science fiction genre found to be a repeat offender when it comes to the queasy objectification of space age femme fatales.

The great Philip K Dick was damned for the phrase "her breasts pulsed with resentment" while Frank Herbert's suggestion in Heretics of Dune (1984) that "not even the stiffest robe" could conceal a character's "ample breasts" fell foul of the internet literati.

Here are the best (or rather, most appalling) quotes from their selections.
1. Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796)

She had torn open her habit, and her bosom was half exposed. The weapon's point rested upon her left breast: And Oh! that was such a breast! The Moonbeams darting full upon it enabled the Monk to observe its dazzling whiteness. His eye dwelt with insatiable avidity upon the beauteous orb.

2. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

'Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic,' said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs.

'Awfully.' But there was an expression of pain in Bernard's eyes. 'Like meat,' he was thinking.

3. Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (1954)

Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message. Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew her forearms together so that the valley between her breasts deepened. The message was unmistakable.

4. Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (1959)

For my own amusement sometimes I like to think of her part by part... One breast is smaller than the other, like junior and senior; her pelvic bones are not well covered, she is a little gaunt there. But her body looks gentle and pretty.

5. John Updike, Rabbit, Run (1960)

Standing there trying to get the waist of the skirt suit to link at her side, the tops of her breasts, swollen with untaken milk, pushing above her bra, she does have a plumpness, a fullness that call to him...

She stands by the edge of the bed, baggy in nakedness, and goes off into the bathroom to do her duty. There’s that in women repels him: handle themselves like an old envelope. Tubes into tubes, wash away men’s dirt—insulting, really. Faucets cry.

6. Stephen King, The Dark Tower: Gunslinger (1982)

A full-grown one, blond, dirty, and sensual, watched with a speculative curiosity as she drew water from the groaning pump beside the building. She caught the gunslinger's eye, pinched her nipples between her fingers, dropped him a wink, and then went back to pumping.

7. Michel Houellebecq, Platform (2001)

She turned on the overhead light and contemplated her body in the mirror. Her breasts were as firm as ever, they hadn't changed since she was seventeen. Her arse was amazingly round too, without a trace of fat; unquestionably she had a beautiful body.

8. George RR Martin, A Dance with Dragons (2011)

'Fuck yourself, you beardless boy.'

'I'd sooner fuck you.' One quick slash unlaced her jerkin...

She was sopping wet when he entered her. 'Damn you,' she said. 'Damn you damn you damn you.' He sucked her nipples till she cried out half in pain and half in pleasure.

9. Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers (2015)

Her mouth was intensely ovoid, an almond mouth, of citrus crescents. And under that sling, her breasts were like young fawns, sheep frolicking in hyssop – Psalms were about to pour out of me.

10. Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)

His eyes ran over the robe, resting a moment on the slight prominence of her breasts, dropping then to the bronzed carves and ankles, up to the smooth kneecaps. She had a body like a young girl's. She certainly didn't look like the mother of two.

Revelator

More like "The most objectifying male writing about women." But writing that objectifies is not necessarily bad prose.

RichardTheBruce

June 22nd

1906: Billy Wilder is born--Sucha Beskidzka, Poland. (He dies 27 March 2002--Beverly Hills, California.)

Hollywood mourns loss of icon from golden era /
6-time Oscar winner shaped careers as director

See the complete article here:

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-icon-from-golden-era-2859144.php

By Edward Guthmann Published 4:00 am PST, Friday, March 29, 2002

Billy Wilder, the witty, puckish director of such Hollywood classics as
"Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard," died of pneumonia
Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 95.

One of the last remaining greats of Hollywood's golden era, Wilder was a master director whose films, which also include "The Apartment," "Double Indemnity" and "Sabrina," are models of intelligence, humor and tight, economic storytelling.

Although he directed his last film, "Buddy Buddy," in 1981, Wilder continued to go to his Beverly Hills office almost daily into his 90s -- answering mail and phone calls, reading the trade papers, maintaining his extensive art collection. In recent years, he suffered from poor eyesight and cancer. In April he was hospitalized with a urinary infection.

Wilder was born in Austria in 1906, came to the United States in 1934 and quickly learned the moxie, energy and rhythms of American speech -- proving the maxim that foreigners are often the best observers of the country they adopt as their own.

"There are few filmmakers who don't crave being compared to him," wrote director Cameron Crowe in his 1999 book Conversations with Billy Wilder. "His is a tough-minded romanticism and elegance; the lack of sentimentality has left him forever relevant as an artist."

One of the most honored of Hollywood directors, Wilder was nominated for 21 Oscars and won six, two for directing "The Lost Weekend" (1945) and "The Apartment" (1960), two for producing those films and one for writing "Sunset Boulevard." He directed the late Jack Lemmon in seven movies ("He Was My Everyman") gave signature roles to Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard," Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity, " and directed three men to Oscars: Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend"), William Holden ("Stalag 17") and Walter Matthau ("The Fortune Cookie").

INTERVIEWED FREUD
Originally a journalist -- he interviewed Sigmund Freud, who kicked him out of his home -- Wilder broke into filmmaking as a screenwriter in Berlin, fled Hitler in 1933 and directed his first film, "Mauvaise Graine" (Bad Seed), in Paris in 1934.

"People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke," Wilder once said. "But at the UFA building, the MGM of Berlin, the elevator boy was suddenly in a storm trooper's uniform. I had a new Graham-Paige American car and a new apartment furnished in Bauhaus, and I sold everything for a few hundred dollars. . . . I was on the train to Paris the day after the Reichstag fire," he said in an interview years ago.

LONG CAREER AS FILMMAKER
Although he hadn't directed a film since "Buddy Buddy" in 1981 -- and chafed at a system that turned its back on aging directors -- Wilder logged one of the longest careers of any filmmaker in the first century of cinema. Best known as a writer and director of comedy, he was also adept at romance ("Sabrina"), film noir suspense ("Double Indemnity"), courtroom thriller ("Witness for the Prosecution") and social satire ("One, Two, Three").

Wilder had a shrewd, penetrating eye for human vanity and greed, and he converted that view into screenplays that often portrayed people as the helpless victims of their own worst impulses: the faded movie goddess-turned- murderess in "Sunset Boulevard," the bored wife who cons an insurance man into bumping off her husband in "Double Indemnity," the sad-sack accountant who offers his flat to philandering executives and their paramours in "The Apartment."

CO-WROTE SCRIPTS
He wrote most of his scripts with a collaborator, at first with Charles Brackett and later with I.A.L. Diamond, and said that he had turned to directing only because he grew tired of directors fouling up his scripts. At one point, filmmaker Mitchell Leisen hired a police officer to keep Wilder off the set of a film he had written.

Underneath the wily, irascible exterior was a melancholic soul who lost his father at 22 and whose mother, stepfather and grandmother all died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Wilder overcame those tragedies with hard work, stoicism, a brilliant, trenchant wit and a happy, 52-year marriage to his second wife, Audrey.

Late in his life, Wilder longed to make "Schindler's List" as a memorial to his mother, but found that Steven Spielberg already owned the rights to the story. "We spoke about it," Wilder said in Crowe's book. "He was a gentleman, of course, and we acknowledged each other's strong desires. In the end, he could not give it up."

TRIALS OF A DIRECTOR
Directing, Wilder said, "is a very important job, because you commit yourself. . . . Unlike the director of a play, you cannot change it anymore, that's it. You choose the best of what you have, and it's in the picture.

"If a young man (says) he would like to be a director, he sees only the glory of it. He does not see the trouble, the fights, the things he has to swallow. . . . You feel like a very small, small man."

And yet, it was one measure of Wilder's genius that every attempt to reinterpret his work was disappointing. Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of "Sabrina" was trounced by critics, and the Broadway musicals that were made from "Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" (renamed "Sugar" for the stage) were doomed to pale when stacked against their source.

"His movies are a worldwide language of love, intelligence and sparkling wit," Crowe said of his mentor yesterday. "To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived, all roads lead to Billy Wilder."

When Crowe asked Wilder whether he had advice for future filmmakers, he laughed and said:

I am not anchored there at some observatory, you know. I think that we're living in very, very important and interesting times. . . . But we're not even close to having an assured peace in this world.

"I don't know. I'm just very curious. That's the one thing that keeps me alive, is curiosity."

Wilder is survived by his wife, Audrey; his daughter, Victoria; and one grandchild.

BILLY WILDER FILMOGRAPHY
. -- AS WRITER

-- "People on Sunday," 1929
-- "Emil and the Detectives," 1931
-- "Adorable," 1933
-- "One Exciting Adventure," 1934
-- "Music in the Air," 1934
-- "Lottery Lover," 1935
-- "Champagne Waltz," 1937
-- "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," 1938
-- "Midnight," 1939
-- "What a Life," 1939
-- "Ninotchka," 1939
-- "Rhythm of the River," 1940
-- "Arise My Love," 1940
-- "Hold Back the Dawn," 1941
-- "Ball of Fire," 1942
-- "A Song Is Born," 1948

"Casino Royale," 1967.

-- AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

-- "The Major and the Minor," 1942
-- "Five Graves to Cairo," 1943
-- "Double Indemnity," 1944
-- "The Lost Weekend," 1945
-- "The Emperor Waltz," 1948
-- "A Foreign Affair," 1948
-- "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
-- "Ace in the Hole (also known as 'The Big Carnival')," 1951
-- "Stalag 17," 1953
-- "Sabrina," 1954
-- "The Seven Year Itch," 1955
-- "The Spirit of St. Louis," 1957
-- "Love in the Afternoon," 1957
-- "Witness for the Prosecution," 1958
-- "Some Like It Hot," 1959
-- "The Apartment," 1960
-- "One, Two, Three," 1961
-- "Irma la Douce," 1963
-- "Kiss Me, Stupid," 1964
-- "The Fortune Cookie," 1966
-- "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1970
-- "Avanti! "1972
-- "The Front Page," 1974
-- "Fedora," 1978
-- "Buddy Buddy," 1981.

Source: Associated Press

Billy Wilder) (I) (1906–2002

Writer | Director | Producer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1937: Chris Blackwell is born--Westminster, London, England.

1943: Klaus Maria Brandauer is born--Bad Aussee, Styria, Austria.

1963: The Saturday Evening Post publishes Geoffrey Bocca's article “The Spectacular Cult of Ian Fleming".

1964: Denmark re-release of Dr. No.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny as an immigration official.

1987: Warner Brothers Records releases the single "The Living Daylights" performed by the Norwegian group a-ha, their collaboration with composer John Barry.

2011: Daniel Craig at 43 weds Rachel Weisz, 41, in New York.

2015: Spectre finishes filming at Vauxhall bridge, the River Thames and Westminster Bridge.

http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptlondon/vauxhallbridge.htm


https://londonist.com/2016/08/secrets-of-westminster-bridge

2018: Zurich helicopters evacuate Piz Gloria after a cable car malfunction.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Tourists airlifted from James Bond mountain

See the complete article here:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/tourists-airlifted-from-james-bond-mountain-jt5v5kpgk"]https://thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/tourists-airlifted-from-james-bond-mountain-jt5v5kpgk

June 22 2018, 12:01am, The Times

Piz Gloria, on the 2,970m summit of the Schilthorn in the Bernese Oberland,
was the setting for Blofeld’s lair in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

Zurich Helicopters had to airlift about 400 people off the Swiss mountain that featured in the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service after a cable car broke down. The tourists were on the 2,970m (9,744ft) Schilthorn, home of the Piz Gloria revolving restaurant, which was Blofeld’s lair in the George Lazenby film. A technical fault disabled a gondola below where they were, the Schilthorn AG company, which operates the cable car, said. The guests were taken in another cable car to a nearby ridge, where four helicopters ferried them down the mountain to the ski station of Mürren.
(Reuters)

2019: James Bond and the Spies of Mayfair. Michael Duncan. London.

Jun
22
James Bond and the Spies of
Mayfair
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-bond-and-the-spies-of-mayfair-tickets-60412082164
by Michael Duncan, Footprints of
London

£9 – £35
Date and Time
Sat, 22 June 2019
10:30 – 12:00 BST

Location
Marble Arch
London
W1K 7AA.
United Kingdom

Refund Policy
Refunds up to 1 day before event

Description

Join Michael as he looks at the spies of Mayfair.

For Bond fans we will explore Ian Fleming's Mayfair: where he was born, where he gambled and drank and how he got the inspiration for his greatest creation, James Bond.

But not all the spies of Mayfair are fictional. One of Britain's greatest traitors fled the country from here, a Russian spy was murdered and real spies still scheme and plot.

Reviews on Tripadvisor:

"Michael Duncan's Spies of Mayfair walk on Saturday was superb: intelligently conceived, well researched and genuinely fascinating. It's a must for all Cold War fiends Footprints of London are such a great organisation, offering something different at an excellent price. We've done two of their walks now and are looking forward to trying more."

"I loved this walk and the information provided. I have lived and worked in London all of my working life and had no idea I had walked in the footprints of some of England's most notorious spies. Highly recommended in this mixture of very busy and very quiet streets."

"This is a really fun and interesting walk. Michael is very knowledgeable, we learned a lot - not only about the spies and Mayfair, but also history and other interesting facts. I recommend it to anyone!"

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186338-d3742632-r239630796-Footprints_of_London-London_England.html#

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL WITH THE EXACT MEETING PLACE AT MARBLE ARCH TUBE CONFIRMED WHEN THE TICKETS ARE ORDERED.

RichardTheBruce

June 23rd

1959: Ian Fleming writes a letter of thanks to Doctor G.R.C.D. Gibson, Leicester, in response to an invitation for James Bond to join the Aston Martin Owners Club.

FLEMING (IAN)

Typed letter signed ("Ian Fleming"), to Doctor G.R.C.D. Gibson, of Leicester, thanking him for his "splendid letter" and invitation for James Bond to join the Aston Martin Owners Club: "Since neither Bond nor his biographer are owners of an Aston Martin, I can do no more than pass your invitation on to the head of Admin. at the Secret Service from whose transport pool the DB III was drawn"; and disagreeing with his penultimate paragraph "couched though it is in such graphic language" ("...Pussy only needed the right man to come along and perform the laying on of hands in order to cure her psycho-pathological malady..."); and telling him that he has in mind a story with motor racing as its background, although not quite along the lines he suggests ("...I will try and get around to it in due course and shall not be surprised if I then receive a sheaf of acid complaints from experts such as yourself..."); he ends by thanking him again "for cheering up my morning at the office"; with autograph salutation and subscription, 1 page, printed heading, 4to, Kemsley House, London, 23 June 1959

Footnotes
ʻPUSSY ONLY NEEDED THE RIGHT MAN TO COME ALONG' – FLEMING ON JAMES BOND'S ASTON MARTIN AND PUSSY GALORE, AS FEATURED IN GOLDFINGER. The novel had come out on 23 March 1959. In the book, Bond drives what Fleming describes as an Aston Martin DB III, but which the purist Dr Gibson thinks should be called the "Mark III". The unrepentant Fleming however thinks this "reads a bit too stuffily". When the film came out in 1964, the DB III was to be updated to a DB5.

Fleming did indeed sketch a story with motor racing as its background. This was a treatment for an unfilmed episode of a television series, Murder on Wheels and is set in the Nürburgring, with Bond fighting a Russian plot to kill Stirling Moss. The Fleming estate has recently granted Anthony Horowitz access to the script. He has used it as the basis for his Bond novel, Trigger Mortis, published on 8 September this year. By coincidence, or otherwise, the book is set two weeks after the events described in Goldfinger and features Pussy Galore.

1963: Ian Fleming walks on location in Turkey during the filming of From Russia With Love.

https://jakemcmillan.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/ian-flemings-secret-cameo-in-from-russia-with-love/

1966: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Octopussy and The Living Daylights, with stories "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights".

OCTOPUSSY
AND
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

From Jamaica, paradise of sunshine
and exotic fish, to Berlin, cold grim
city of stealth, James Bond pursues
two strangely heroic enemies of the
Secret Service. The first is a dying
major whose dwindling hoard of gold
conceals an act of treachery, and the
second an assassin whose identity
disturbs Bond's deadly aim.

These two stories, written in I96I and
I962, were among those composed by
Ian Fleming while he was writing the
incomparable series of James Bond
thrillers. The first collection of stories
appeared in 1959 as For Your Eyes
Only; a further collection which he
had planned to publish was never
completed.

1967: The New York Times crossword puzzle, 42 across. An Ian Fleming creation. Starts with "D". Four letters.

New York Times, Friday, June 23, 1967
https://www.xwordinfo.com/PS?date=6/23/1967

1969: Comic strip The Harpies ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 10 October 1968. 816-1037)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54569


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


Swedish Semic Comics 1978
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

Fågelkvinnorna ("Bird Women" - The Harpies)

Swedish Semic Comics 1989
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358

Fågelkvinnorna
("Bird Women" - The Harpies)
(Part 1) - (Part 2)

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 19: “The Harpies” (1970)
"Fuglekvinderne" [= The Bird Women]

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service wraps up production, 58 days over schedule.

1984: A View to a Kill begins Second Unit filming in Iceland.

2016: The Guardian asks 007 questions. Ten, actually.

Ian Fleming

007 questions: how well do you know the James Bond books? – quiz

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/23/007-how-well-do-you-know-the-james-bond-books-quiz-ian-fleming

On this day 50 years ago, Ian Fleming’s 14th and final Bond book, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, was published. How much do you know about Ian Fleming in print?

Thu 23 Jun 2016 07.00 EDT

Guns and girls ... Michael Gillette‘s Bond girl book covers, from Penguin’s James Bond centenary collection. Composite: Penguin Books

1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

"Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

"Three measures of Bombay, one of vodka, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add an olive."

"Three measures of vodka, one of gin, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of orange peel."

"Three measures of Beefeater, one of vodka, half a measure of Pimms. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large chunk of onion."

2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

Scottish and English

English and French

Scottish and French

Scottish and Swiss

3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

183

279

352

469

4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

Gala Bland

Viv Michel

Domino Vitali

Mary Goodnight

5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

An enchanting femme fatale

An octopus, named Pussy

A ship

A particularly odd curse word

6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

Diamonds Are Forever - Fleming's fourth Bond book

From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

Dr No - Fleming's sixth Bond book

Thunderball - Fleming's ninth Bond book

7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

Thunderball

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

Quantum of Solace

8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

The Hildebrand Rarity

The Spy Who Loved Me

9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

Boothroyd

Bigby

Blanche

B

10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Francisco Scaramanga

Le Chiffre

Sir Hugo Drax

Answers

1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

"Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

Scottish and Swiss

3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

352

4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

Gala Brand

There is a Gala Brand, however, in Moonraker.
5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

An octopus, named Pussy

6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

"Quantum of Solace"

8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

The Spy Who Loved Me

9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

Boothroyd

10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

Francisco Scaramanga

Thunderfinger

@RichardTheBruce , the correct translation would be "The Bird Women".

RichardTheBruce

June 24th

1939: Michael Gothard is born--Hendon, Middlesex, England.
(He dies 2 December 1992 at age 53--London, England.)

Michael Gothard

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

as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981

Born Michael Alan Gothard, 24 June 1939, London, England
Died 2 December 1992 (aged 53), Hampstead, London, England
Years active 1961–1992

Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

Early life
Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but he never felt comfortable doing that job. He said: "I was as stiff as a board and I couldn’t overcome my sense of the ridiculous. I was a clothes hanger, an object, not a person."

Career
He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making. After landing the lead role, he was encouraged to take up the profession. He attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job. He was involved working in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. His first television role was in an episode of Out of the Unknown in 1966 called "The Machine Stops". He was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968. He then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers).

His performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts. In the film, Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes from the police ever seen. The film also starred Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the biggest thing that ever happened. He had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful. Here is a kid who really threw himself into the picture wholeheartedly. Do you remember the scene where he appears to be walking up the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I’d say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy. I ain't either one.' But the kid agreed to do it, without a double—he was that driven. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) came up with the idea of using an overhead cable to give that illusion of his walking up the cliff."

He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. His performance as a young disillusioned hippie in Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972) contrasted with the rest of his career. He also played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.

He had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s. He became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an effort to make the character more menacing. His later appearances included supporting roles in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror extravaganza, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in the 1988 TV movie, Jack the Ripper, with Michael Caine. He appeared with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight in a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (a.k.a. Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.[4] His last few roles were in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992, where he briefly acted opposite Marlon Brando. It was directed by his For Your Eyes Only director John Glen, but was a box office failure.

Glen had actually cast Gothard in the role beneath Brando with the intention of moving Gothard into the role of Tomás de Torquemada, Brando's character, in case Brando did not show up for filming. Brando did indeed miss the first day of filming, and Gothard took over this role for the day's shooting. However, Tom Selleck told the director that without Brando, he would quit the film. Word apparently got out, for Brando was on the set the next day, and assumed the role of Torquemada, with Glen reshooting the scene. Glen described Gothard as "a very good" and "captivating" actor, as well as a friend.

His final role was in David Wickes's Frankenstein, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.

Death
Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992. He was fifty-three years old.[7][8]

Filmography

Herostratus (1967) as Max
Up the Junction (1968) as Terry
Michael Kohlhaas-Der Rebell (1969) as John
Scream and Scream Again (1970) as Keith
The Last Valley (1971) as Hansen
The Devils (1971) as Father Barre
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) as Albie
La Vallée (1972) as Olivier
The Three Musketeers (1973) as John Felton
The Four Musketeers (1974) as John Felton
King Arthur, the Young Warlord (1975) as Kai
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) as Atmir
For Your Eyes Only (1981) as Emile Leopold Locque
Lifeforce (1985) as Dr Bukovsky
Going Undercover (1988) (aka Yellow Pages) as Strett
Gioco al massacro (1989) as Zabo
Destroying Angel (1990) as "the Hitman"
The Serpent of Death (1990) as Xaros
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) as Inquisitor's Spy
Frankenstein (1992) as Boatswain (final film role)

Television
Out of the Unknown (1966) as Kuno
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1966) as Grady, in "The Excavation"
The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1967) as Mordaunt
Armchair Theatre (1969) as Brian, in "The Story-Teller"
Fraud Squad (1969) as Jacky Joyce, in "Run For Your Money"
Department S (1969) as Weber, in "Les Fleurs du Mal"
Randall and Hopkirk (1970) as Perrin, in "When the Spirit Moves You"
Paul Temple (1970) as Ivan, in "Games People Play"
Menace (1970) as Pip, in "Nine Bean Rows"
Arthur of the Britons (1972–1973) as Kai
Warrior Queen (1978) as Volthan
The Professionals (1979) as Kodai, in "Stopover"
A Tale of Two Cities (1980) (Michael E. Briant version) as Gaspard
Shoestring (1981) as Harry, in "The Mayfly Dance"
ITV Playhouse (1981) as Dieter, in "The Perfect House"
Ivanhoe (1982) as Athelstane
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984) as Terry Marvin, in "The Sweet Scent of Death"
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1984) as Karl Portillo, in "Our Man in Tegernsee"
Lytton's Diary (1985) as Jake Cutler, in "Daddy's Girls"
Minder (1985) as Sergei, in "From Fulham, With Love"
Jack the Ripper (1988) as George Lusk
Capital City (1989) as Stefan in "Twelve Degrees Capricorn"

Michael Gothard

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331788/

1961: Bond comic strip Risico ends its run in The Daily Express. (Began 3 April 3 1961. 850-921)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

http://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/risico-comic-strip.html





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


Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

Risicologan! (Risico)

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

Risico-Ligan (Risico)

Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no10-1967/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 10: “Risico” (1967)
"Risico - de hensynsløse smuglere ..."

Danish 1976 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no50-1979/

James Bond 007 no. 50: “Live and Let Die” (1979)
"Lev og lad dø"

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2015/04/

1967: Billboard Magazine runs an ad declaring the You Only Live Twice soundtrack as Album of the Year.

1969: Bond comic strip River of Death begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 29 November 1969. 1038–1174.) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://comicsbulletin.com/james-bond-omnibus-volume-003/



Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

Dödens Flod (The Dead River - River Of Death)

Swedish Semic Comic 1970 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3?s=comics&id=01728

Dödens Flod (The Dead River - River Of Death)


Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-21-1971/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 21: “River of Death” (1971)
"Dødens flod"

1974: The Man with the Golden Gun production returns to Pinewood Studios for 8 weeks of studio filming.

1981: For Your Eyes Only premieres at the Odeon Leicester Square Theatre, London.

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1983: Octopussy released in South Africa.

2018: The search for a missing Aston Martin DB5 continues.

New hope in mystery of James Bond's
missing Aston Martin

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/24/new-hope-mystery-james-bonds-missing-aston-martin/

Sean Connery, who played James Bond, standing with the Aston Martin DB5 used in Goldfinger
Credit: Rex Features

Patrick Sawer, Senior Reporter Natasha Moufarrige | 24 June 2018 • 7:00am

It is a mystery worthy of the pen of Ian Fleming himself, featuring a high stakes theft, shady middle men and a 20-year-hunt for the dastardly individuals responsible.

When the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 featured in the James Bond film Goldfinger was stolen from a Florida airport hangar in 1997 there were fears it would never be seen again.

For years the search for the car used by Sean Connery in his role as Fleming’s 007, the spy with a licence to kill, proved fruitless.

But now hopes have risen that it may yet be recovered, after a tip was received giving details of the Aston Martin’s current whereabouts.

Its location, according to those supplying the information, is classic espionage territory - the Middle East.


Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger, with the Aston Martin DB5
Credit: Cine Text / Allstar/ Sportsphoto Agency

Art Recovery International (ARI), which was hired by an unspecified insurance firm to help track down the stolen Aston Martin, have been told it is being held at a specific location in the region.

A six figure sum is being offered for information leading to its safe return.

Christopher Marinello, the chief executive of ARI, told The Sunday Telegraph: “I have been given a specific tip, but we are working on it. We want to reach out to collector car community and vast array of mechanics to let them know we are very serious about recovering it.”

Naturally, Art Recovery are wary of the possibility the vehicle is simply one similar to the actual Aston Martin used in the Bond film.

“As there are many Aston Martins, it is very important that we get a shot of the chassis number, dp/216/1. This is what we are looking for, as it is very specific to the vehicle,” said Mr Marinello. “It is quite possible the potential in the Middle East is a mere look alike, which is why it is crucial we retain a close up of the chassis number.”

The stolen Aston Martin was one of two used in the filming of Goldfinger, with another deployed for the scenes featuring Connery behind the wheel.

Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger (1964)
Credit: CAP/MFS/Capital Pictures

ARI say it is estimated by some auction houses that the missing DB5 could now be worth between £7 and £10 million, given its iconic status as a 007 vehicle.

The DB5, which following the release of Goldfinger in September 1964 became known as "the most famous car in the world", was designed for Aston Martin by the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera and named after Sir David Brown, the luxury car manufacturer's owner from 1947 to 1972.

The car’s rightful owner bought it at auction for $250,000 in 1986, but in June 1997 thieves managed to remove it from the hangar at Boca Raton and squirrel it away.

For the filming of Goldfinger the car had been modified to include an array of Bond gadgets, including machine guns, tyre-shredding blades and oil, smoke and water emitters.

As a result it was so heavy that when thieves broke into the hangar they had to drag it out by its axles, leaving telltale tyre marks leading up to where it was thought to have been loaded onto a waiting cargo plane.

Police investigating the theft drew a blank, paving the way for years of speculation as to its fate.

RichardTheBruce

June 25th

1945: Carly Simon is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.

1950: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea moves south and invades the Republic of Korea, beginning 3 years of combat followed by an armistice that continues today.

1963: Norman Felton meets Fleming in London and learns that due to health issues, pressure from producers Broccoli and Saltzman, plus the Thunderball McClory legal suit he is leaving the "Solo" project.
1965: Thunderball films Blofeld electrocuting SPECTRE #11.

1976: The Hollywood Reporter reports on Kevin McClory's suit delaying filming for The Spy Who Loved me.
1979: The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents a James Bond exhibit ending 30 June.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the UK.

2015: Daniel Patrick Macnee dies at age 93--Rancho Mirage, California.
(Born 6 February 1922--Paddington, London, England.)

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)

2019: Bryan Marshall dies at age 81--Australia.
(Born 19 May 1938--Battersea, London, England.)

Bryan Marshall obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/04/bryan-marshall-obituary

Character actor admired for his role in the London gangster film
The Long Good Friday

Bryan Marshall as Captain Wentworth in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, 1971.
Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

Anthony Hayward | Published on Thu 4 Jul 2019 12.56 EDT

The actor Bryan Marshall, who has died aged 81, was a solid character actor who brought integrity and realism to the parts he played on screen in Britain throughout the 1960s and 70s. Many will remember him best for his pivotal role as the duplicitous Councillor Harris in the classic film The Long Good Friday (1979), which made a massive impact at the box office with its brutal tale of a London gangland boss, Harold Shand, played by Bob Hoskins, seeing his empire being threatened by rivals from the IRA.

The drama, written by Barrie Keeffe and directed by John Mackenzie, brilliantly captures the dreary London of the 70s as it approaches a new decade of aspiration and docklands regeneration. Shand sees the development opportunities and Harris is on his payroll. For much of the film, Marshall is a silent presence, but that changes when his character gets drunk at a dinner with potential American mafia investors.

Describing himself as a self-made man who rose from the gutter, he tries to sell the idea of developing “a magnificent, high in the sky hotel, something to be proud of”, but is too loud for their liking. When it emerges that he had a hand in the IRA’s attempt to take Shand’s empire, Harris ends up being shot and killed.

Earlier, Marshall had put himself on the radar of James Bond fans when he was seen in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as Commander Talbot, captain of a British nuclear submarine captured by a supertanker. It brought another grisly end for the actor when Talbot was killed by a grenade while storming the ship’s control room after Roger Moore’s 007 freed him and his crew.

Bryan Marshall, right, and Andrew Keir in the film Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.
Photograph: Hammer Film/Allstar/Studiocanal

Marshall’s talent was largely lost to British film and TV producers and directors after he moved to Australia in 1983, although he made a few returns to his homeland and was seen in Australian soaps broadcast in Britain.

He was born in Battersea, south London, and on leaving the local Salesian college went through jobs in an insurance office and as a sales rep while acting with amateur companies. His ambition to act full-time was realised after he trained at Rada (1961-63). He found work in repertory theatres before coming to the attention of a nationwide audience during a six-month run as the fictional Brentwich United’s awkward club captain Jack Birkett in the BBC football soap United!, from its first episode in 1965 until 1966.

Marshall returned to soap in 1971 with a one-off role in Coronation Street as Trevor Parkin, who attended a horticultural lecture given by Albert Tatlock and upstaged the host by showing greater knowledge of the subject. In between, on television he played Captain Dobbin in Vanity Fair (1967), Detective Sergeant Peach in Spindoe (1968), Gilbert Markham in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968), Dr John Graham Bretton in Villette (1970) and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion (1971).

He showed that he could carry a drama himself when he starred in two 1972 Play for Today productions – as the striking Cornish clay miner Manuel Stocker in Stocker’s Copper and Bill Huntley in Better Than the Movies – as well as Commander Alan Glenn in the third series (1976) of Warship, the property developer Ray Campion in the thriller serial The Mourning Brooch (1979) and the air freight business’s chief pilot Tony Blair (before the future prime minister found fame) in Buccaneer (1980). He was back in soap as Clive Lawson for the first two runs (1974-75) of the afternoon serial Rooms, in which he and Sylvia Kay played the owners renting out bedsits in their London house.

Bryan Marshall, left, in The Long Good Friday, 1980, the role for which he is most remembered.
Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

Another pivotal role for Marshall came in the film Quatermass and the Pit (1967), a big-screen remake of the writer Nigel Kneale’s third sci-fi serial for TV about a scientist confronting alien forces. He played Potter, a bomb squad captain identifying an unexploded device unearthed during an archaeological dig as a German V-missile. It was his fourth appearance in a Hammer Films production. Earlier he was the Russian villager Vasily in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966), played Tom in The Witches (1966) and was Dominic in The Viking Queen (1967).

After moving to Australia in 1983, Marshall remained a prolific screen actor. Among many appearances in television dramas, he starred in Golden Pennies (1985) as a pioneering Englishman seeking his fortune in an 1850s gold-rush mining area, and played Duncan Stewart, Australian ambassador to a fictional south-east Asian country, in the first two series of Embassy (1990-91).

His soap roles included Piet Koonig in A Country Practice (1983), Dr Jonathan Edmonds in Prisoner (retitled Prisoner: Cell Block H in Britain, 1984), Gerard Singer in Neighbours (1987) and Ron Hawkins in The Flying Doctors (1988), and he took two parts in Home and Away – John Simpson (1998) and Trevor Bardwell (2003). In 1989 Marshall hosted the first series of Australia’s Most Wanted, featuring real-life unsolved crimes.

There were occasional returns to Britain for roles that included DSI Don Roberts in two 1997 episodes of Thief Takers and a vet with a drink problem in Heartbeat in 1998.

Marshall is survived by his wife, Vicki, and their three sons, Sean, Paul and Joshua.

• Bryan Marshall, actor, born 19 May 1938; died 25 June 2019

Bryan Marshall (I) (1938–2019)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550789/

RichardTheBruce

June 26th

1904: László Löwenstein (Peter Lorre) is born-- Ružomberok, Slovakia.
(He dies 23 March 1964--Los Angeles, California.)

Peter Lorre Dies in Hollywood; Symbol of Film Horror Was 59; Actor Who Made Debut in ‘M’ Also Portrayed ‘Mr. Moto’ —Movie Favorite 30 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/24/peter-lorre-dies-in-hollywood.html
MARCH 24, 1964
March 24, 1964, Page 35 The New York Times Archives

HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (UPI) —Peter Lorre, whose mild manner and sinister voice sent shivers up the spines of moviegoers for three decades, died of a stroke today. His age was 59.

When Peter Lorre squinted his baleful brown eyes and took a slow sinister puff on a cigarette, moviegoers throughout the world squirmed in their seats.

On the screen, the actor seemed to be the image of subsurface malevolence, and his pale, almost pasty, moonface seemed to conceal a homicidal maniac with a temporary but firm grip on himself.

From the time of his debut in the German produced “M” in 1931, through scores of Hollywood and television films, Mr. Lorre, a short (5 foot 5 inches), pudgy man, was able to dominate the screen with his own particular brand of evil.

Occasionally, he varied his roles and played humorous parts, but he was never at his best in those parts, and he always returned to the role of the sinister and smart bad man.

As one critic put it, Mr. Lorre made a reputation “by being as mean and as murderous as the Hays office [then the industry's censorship panel] would permit.” Others described him as “one of the cinema's most versatile murderers,” the “gentle‐fiend,” and a “homicidal virtuoso.”

After the terror years of Lon Chaney, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff became Hollywood's stalwarts of horror movies.

Mr. Lorre was born in Rosenburg, Hungary, on June 26, 1904. He went to school in Vienna for a while but ran away at 17 to join a touring German theatrical troupe. With the exception of a short period as a clerk in a bank, he remained an actor for the rest of his life.

After the usual tour in bit parts on the German stage, the producer Fritz Lang saw him as the perfect actor for the role of a pathological killer of little girls in “M.”

Mr. Lorre's portrayal in the film is ranked among the greatest criminal characterizations on the screen, and the film made Mr. Lorre and Mr. Lang famous.

Although he was fluent in several European languages and had made a number of films on the Continent, Mr. Lorre spoke no English when he went to Britain for a role in a film.

However, when he encountered Alfred Hitchcock, Mr. Lorre let the director do all the talking, and by smiling and nodding, convinced him that his English was adequate.

Mr. Hitchcock gave the actor a role in “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” after the one‐way interview, and Mr. Lorre later commented that it was two weeks before Mr. Hitchcock learned that he spoke no English.

By the time the film was completed, Mr. Lorre's English was nearly perfect, and in 1934 he went to Hollywood.

In his first years in Hollywood, Mr. Lorre was cast in the type of roles that had already made him famous. He was an insane doctor in “Mad Love,” and played the seriously disturbed student in Dostoevski's “Crime and Punishment.”

One of his most distinctive features was the soft, nasal quality of his voice, tinged with a European accent, which he used with chilling effectiveness.

In many of the roles, Mr. Lorre seemed to be a man of two sides, a quiet gentle man and a raving maniac.

In one film, “Island of Doomed Men,” which is not considered among his best, Mr. Lorre played a prison warden who equally enjoyed listening to Chopin and flogging prisoners.

In a series of movies, Mr. Lorre appeared as the larcenous sidekick of the late Sydney Greenstreet, a film bad man with a booming laugh that neatly complemented Mr. Lorre's nervous giggle.

Together with Humphrey Bogart, they appeared in “The Maltese Falcon,” and “Casablanca,” screen classics of the early nineteen‐forties.

Mr. Lorre also portrayed the Japanese detective “Mr. Moto” in a series of movies, but soon returned to more sinister roles.

In Hollywood, Mr, Lorre was known as a quiet, almost shy man, with a deadpan sense of humor. He had been . bothered with heart trouble in recent years, but managed to keep up a fairly busy working schedule.

Most recently, he had appeared in a number of “humorous” horror pictures. His latest film was “Muscle Beach Party,” and he recently completed a Jerry Lewis picture, “The Patsy.”

Among his other films were “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “Confidential Agent,” “Mask of Dimitrios,” “Beat the Devil” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”

During the nineteen‐fifties and sixties he made frequent television appearances. He also sought more comic performances after the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1949 had warned parents to send children to bed before he appeared on a late variety show.

But Mr. Lorre had a thoroughly professional attitude toward his career.

“What do I care if I'm a villain?” he once asked. “I’ll be anything they want me to be—ghoul, goon or clown—as long as it's necessary.”

With only a few exceptions, Hollywood found it necessary—and Mr. Lorre found it profitable—for him to remain sinister.

Early in his career, Mr. Lorre worked with Bertolt. Brecht and later was considered an expert on the works of the German playwright.

An avid reader of books in several languages, Mr. Lorre was also a fan of Los Angeles's professional baseball and football teams.

The actor married three times; Cecilia Lvovsky in 1934, Karen Verne in 1945 and Annemaire Stoldt in 1953: The first two marriages ended in divorce.

A spokesman for his studio, American International Pictures, said that Mr. Lorre and his wife were separated. They have a 10‐year‐old daughter, Kathryn.

Peter Lorre (I) (1904–1964)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

1964 The Patsy - Morgan Heywood
1964 Muscle Beach Party - Mr. Strangdour
1963 The Comedy of Terrors - Felix Gillie
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Frederick Bergen
- The End of the World, Baby (1963) ... Frederick Bergen
1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - The Gypsy
- 5: Part 1 (1963) ... The Gypsy
1963 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Archie Lefferts
- Diamond Fever (1963) ... Archie Lefferts
1963 The Raven - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
1962 Route 66 (TV Series) - Peter Lorre
- Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing (1962) ... Peter Lorre
1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon - Ahmed
1962 Tales of Terror - Montresor (segment "The Black Cat")
1961 The Gertrude Berg Show (TV Series) - Professor Kestner
- The Trouble with Crayton (1961) ... Professor Kestner
- First Test (1961) ... Professor Kestner
1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Comm. Lucius Emery
1961 The Best of the Post (TV Series) - Baron
- The Baron Loved His Wife (1961) ... Baron
1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Alonzo Pace Graham
- The Human Touch (1961) ... Alonzo Pace Graham
1960 Rawhide (TV Series) - Victor Laurier
- Incident of the Slavemaster (1960) ... Victor Laurier
1955-1960 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - King Zurium / Boris - Chief Spy / Mad Scientist / ... - 7 episodes
1960 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Alexander Portlass
- The Alexander Portlass Story (1960) ... Alexander Portlass
1956-1960 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Café Owner / Tenzing / Dr. Ostrow / ...
1960 Scent of Mystery - Smiley
1957-1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Carlos / Tomas Salgado
- Man from the South (1960) ... Carlos
- The Diplomatic Corpse (1957) ... Tomas Salgado

1959 Five Fingers (TV Series) - The Colonel
- Thin Ice (1959) ... The Colonel
1959 The Big Circus - Skeeter
1958 The Milton Berle Show (TV Series) - Guest
- Episode #1.11 (1958) ... Guest
1955-1958 Studio 57 (TV Series)
Heitzer / Mr. Grover
- The Queen's Bracelet (1958)
- The Finishers (1956) ... Heitzer
- Young Couples Only (1955) ... Mr. Grover
1957 Collector's Item: The Left Fist of David (TV Movie) - Mr. Munsey
1957 Hell Ship Mutiny - Commissioner Lamoret
1957 The Sad Sack - Abdul
1957 The Story of Mankind - Nero
1957 Silk Stockings - Brankov
1954-1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Benny Kellerman / Mr. Ho / Normie / ...
- A Taste for Crime (1957) ... Benny Kellerman
- The Man Who Lost His Head (1956) ... Mr. Ho
- The Fifth Wheel (1956) ... Normie
- A Promise to Murder (1955) ... Mr. Vorhees
- Casino Royale (1954) ... Le Chiffre
1957 The Buster Keaton Story - Kurt Bergner
1956 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) - Moyzisch
- Operation Cicero (1956) ... Moyzisch
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Japanese Steward - S.S. Carnatic
1956 Congo Crossing - Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas - Peter Lorre (uncredited)
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) - Willy
- No. 5 Checked Out (1956) ... Willy
1955 The Star and the Story (TV Series) - Inspector Andre Mondeau
- The Blue Landscape (1955) ... Inspector Andre Mondeau
1955 The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (TV Series) - Ambrose Dodson
- The Sure Cure (1955) ... Ambrose Dodson
1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Poffy
- Reunion in Vienna (1955) ... Poffy
1955 The Best of Broadway (TV Series) - Dr. Herman Einstein
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1955) ... Dr. Herman Einstein
1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -Conseil
1954 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
- The Pipe (1954)
1953 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- The Vanishing Point (1953)
1953 Beat the Devil - Julius O'Hara
1952 Suspense (TV Series)
- The Tortured Hand (1952)
1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Pratt
- The Taste (1952) ... Richard Pratt
1951 Der Verlorene - Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister
1950 Double Confession - Paynter
1950 Quicksand - Nick

1949 Rope of Sand - Toady
1948 Casbah - Slimane
1947 My Favorite Brunette - Kismet
1946 The Beast with Five Fingers - Hilary Cummins
1946 The Chase - Gino
1946 The Verdict - Victor Emmric
1946 Black Angel - Marko
1946 Three Strangers - Johnny West
1945 Confidential Agent - Contreras
1945 Hotel Berlin - Johannes Koenig
1944 Hollywood Canteen - Peter Lorre
1944 The Conspirators - Jan Bernazsky
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace - Dr. Einstein
1944 The Mask of Dimitrios - Cornelius Leyden
1944 Passage to Marseille - Marius
1943 The Cross of Lorraine - Sergeant Berger
1943 Background to Danger - Nikolai Zaleshoff
1943 The Constant Nymph - Fritz Bercovy
1942 Casablanca - Ugarte
1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You - Dr. Arthur Lorencz
1942 Invisible Agent - Baron Ikito
1942 All Through the Night - Pepi
1941 The Maltese Falcon - Joel Cairo
1941 They Met in Bombay - Captain Chang
1941 Mr. District Attorney - Paul Hyde
1941 The Face Behind the Mask - Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
1940 You'll Find Out - Karl Fenninger
1940 Stranger on the Third Floor - The Stranger
1940 Island of Doomed Men - Stephen Danel
1940 I Was an Adventuress - Polo
1940 Strange Cargo - M'sieu Pig

1939 Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation - Mr. Moto
1939 Mr. Moto in Danger Island - Mr. Moto
1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Mr. Moto
1938 Mysterious Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
1938 I'll Give a Million - Louie 'The Dope' Monteau
1938 Mr. Moto Takes a Chance - Mr. Moto
1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble - Mr. Moto
1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
1937 Lancer Spy - Maj. Sigfried Gruning
1937 Think Fast, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! - Prof. Sturm
1936 Crack-Up - Colonel Gimpy
1936 Secret Agent - The General
1935 Crime and Punishment - Roderick Raskolnikov
1935 Mad Love - Doctor Gogol
1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Abbott
1933 High and Low - Le mendiant
1933 Unsichtbare Gegner - Henry Pless
1933 Les requins du pétrole - Henry Pless
1933 Was Frauen träumen - Otto Fuessli
1932 F.P.1 Doesn't Answer - Bildreporter Johnny
1932 Stupéfiants - Le bossu
1932 Dope - Hunchback
1932 Schuß im Morgengrauen - Klotz
1932 Fünf von der Jazzband - Car thief
1931 A Man's a Man - Galy Gay - a packer
1931 Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. - Redakteur Stix
1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo - Pawlitschek
1931 M - Hans Beckert
1930 The White Devil
1929 Die verschwundene Frau - Patient of a Dentist (uncredited)

Soundtrack (5 credits)

1963 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Peter Lorre/Joanie Sommers Show (1963) ... (performer: "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Murdered Dear Old Dad)" - uncredited)
1957 Silk Stockings (performer: "Too Bad (We Can't Go Back to Moscow)", "Red Blues", "Siberia" - uncredited)
1936 One in a Million ("Horror Boys of Hollywood" (1936))
1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo (performer: "Jawohl, Herr Kapitän")
1931 M (performer: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)

Writer (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene (novel) / (screenplay)

Director (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1995 49/95: Tausendjahrekino (Documentary short) (voice)

Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre in the 1954 television version of Casino Royale

1950: Corinne Cléry is born--Paris, France.
1951: Robert Davi is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.
1954: US publisher Macmillan releases 4,000 copies of Casino Royale to poor sales.

1959: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's seventh Bond novel Goldfinger. Richard Chopping cover.

'Gilt-edged Bond.' SUNDAY TIMES
'In a class of its own.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Mr. Fleming is the best thriller writer since
Buchan.' EVENING STANDARD

'Sound writing and a sophisticated mind.'
THE TIMES

'James Bond is having it good again.'
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'With his forked tongue sticking right
through his cheeek, he remains maniacally
readable.' OBSERVER

'Only Fleming could have got away with it
. . . . outrageously improbably, wickedly
funny, wildly exciting.'
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

'Mr. Fleming is still in a class by himself.'
OXFORD MAIL

and, for the two million citizens who play
golf, this acclamation from Henry Longhurst
in the SUNDAY TIMES:
'As a rabid fan of Ian Fleming and the
adventures of his Secret Service hero, I am
delighted to find that the second of the
latter's skirmishes with villainous Mr.
Goldfinger takes place on the golf course
. . . The account of the match add materially
to the fictional literature of golf.'

James Bond's most recent adventure was
DOCTOR NO
'Ian Fleming first attracted me for three
qualities which I thought, perhaps wrongly,
almost unique in English writers . . escape
from the mandarin English . . daring . . an
acute sense of place.' Raymond Chandler in
THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Fleming, by reason of his cool and analyti-
cal intelligence, his informed use of technical
facts, his plausibility, sense of pace, brilliant
descriptive powers and superb imagination,
provides sheer entertainment such as I, who
must read many novels, am seldom lucky
enough to find.' SPECTATOR
'Sex, sadism and snobbery. NEW STATESMAN
'Absolutely compelling.' TABLET

Jacket design by Richard Chopping

1961: Comic strip From A View To A Kill begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 9 September 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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



http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=989


https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/




Swedish Semic Comic 1976
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

Dödligt Uppdrag ("Fatal Commission" - From A View To A Kill)

Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no43-1978/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 43: “From a View to a Kill” (1978)
Dødelig opgave" [= Deadly Assignment]

Danish 1968 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no13-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 13: “From a View to a Kill” (1968)
Dødelig mission [Deadly Mission]

1962: Bert Rhodes finishes orchestrating the remainder of Monty Norman's score for Dr No at CTS Studios, London. Norman splits his £500 fee. (None of it is included in the released soundtrack album.)
1963: Terence Young films Rosa Klebb inspecting Red Grant for fitness.

1979: ITV airs the My Name is Bond… James Bond – Moonraker TV Special in the UK.
1979: London Royal Premiere of Moonraker at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the US.

Title cards, 11x14 inch displayed in sets of eight.

1982: Charles Joseph Russhon, United States Air Force retired, Lieutenant Colonel, dies at at age 71--New York City, New York. (Born 23 March 1911.)

Through Airmen's Eyes: The
Airman and James Bond

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/109829/through-airmens-eyes-the-airman-and-james-bond/
By Rachel Arroyo, Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs / Published January 19, 2013


(U.S. Air Force graphic/Robin Meredith/courtesy photo)
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Sean Connery feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon was the military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Sean Connery’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Claudine Auger, a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and former Miss France Monde, during the production of “Thunderball.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Claire Russhon, wife of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses in the Aston Martin DB5 made famous in the films. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Martine Beswick, an English actress cast as a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and “From Russia With Love,” during the production of “Thunderball.” Sean Connery sits in the foreground. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Sean Connery is welcomed to the TWA Ambassadors Club during the production of “Thunderball.” Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and friend of Sean Connery’s, is to his right. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


This photograph from a 1945 article published in the “San Francisco Examiner” features Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon as a captain (center) after his return from Japan in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russhon was one of the first Americans on the ground in both locations within 24 hours of the bombs being dropped on both. One of the original Air Commandos, Russhon worked as a military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. (Photo by the "San Francisco Examiner" courtesy of Christian Russhon)


American cartoonist Milton Caniff poses with his “Steve Canyon” comic strip featuring “Charlie Vanilla,” a character inspired by his friend Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The signed photograph features a circled “Charlie Vanilla,” aka Russhon, and says “this guy keeps turning up!” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon (left), military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the original Air Commandos, chats with Major General (ret) Johnny Alison, one of the fathers of Air Force special operations, and Brigadier General J. Jackson. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)


Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses with Sean Connery during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon took Connery in tow when he arrived in New York, and they remained friends until Russhon passed away in 1982, Russhon’s wife, Claire Russhon, said. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- (Editor's Note:This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)

Quartermaster "Q" supplied Skyfall's 50-year anniversary James Bond with a radio and a Walther PPK handgun, but Sean Connery's 007 relied on an Special Operations Airman for some of the bigger stuff.

Retired Lt. Col. Charles Russhon, one of the founding air commandos assigned to the China-Burma-India theater in World War II, was a military adviser to the Bond films in the 1960s and 1970s.

Among the gadgets Russhon procured for filmmakers were the Bell-Textron Jet Pack and the Fulton Skyhook, both featured in the 1965 "Thunderball," as well as the explosives that were used to blow up the Disco Volante ship.

He arranged for exterior access to Fort Knox, Ky., coordinated filming locations in Istanbul, Turkey, and facilitated film participation by Air Force pararescuemen in "Thunderball."

"Roger Moore called him 'Mr. Fixit' because he seemed to be able to do or get anything in New York City," Russhon's wife, Claire, wrote in an email. "For example, suspending traffic on FDR Drive for a Bond chase scene (and that isn't done in one take)."

As special associate to the producers, Russhon, a native New Yorker, researched new technologies, locations and permissions for whatever the scripts required, she said.

Russhon, who passed away in 1982, worked on "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," and "Live and Let Die."

"Mr. Fix-It"
Christian Russhon remembers his father's business card read "catalyst -- agent that brings others together."

For him, there was never a dull moment, he said.

"He was larger than life," Christian said.

The film crew commemorated the colonel's penchant for life on the set of "Goldfinger" in which they promoted him to the rank of general. In the film, a banner hung on the Fort Knox airplane hangar reads "Welcome, General Russhon."

Christian Russhon said he also remembers seeing his dad on film in "Thunderball" in which he appeared as an Air Force officer at a conference with other agents. According to the International Movie Database, Russhon is sitting to the right of "M" in the scene.

Russhon's connections with movers and shakers made him the right man for the Bond job after his retirement from active-duty service in the Air Force. His acquaintance with film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli predated Broccoli's work on the Bond films, Claire Russhon said. He was available when Broccoli needed a man stateside to work on the films.

Russhon relied on his acquaintance with President John F. Kennedy's press secretary Pierre Salinger for access to film at Fort Knox in "Goldfinger."

He worked with his military connections to get approval for filming in Turkey in "From Russia with Love" and to arrange for pararescuemen conducting a water training jump to be featured in "Thunderball."

He was also there for a young Sean Connery when he arrived in New York City, Claire Russhon said.

"Connery was a stranger in New York, and Charles took him in tow."

When Connery was at odds with the producers, Russhon would serve as the go-between, she said.

"Despite his reputation with the girls, Sean was a man's man," she said. "They kept in touch long after working together, and Sean called me when Charles died."

Christian Russhon, who has also worked in the film industry for 30 years, remembers Sean Connery stopping by their New York apartment all the time.

"I called him Uncle Sean," he said.

The BSA Lightning motorcycle from "Thunderball," complete with rockets, also left an impression on young Christian Russhon. The motorcycle was gifted to his dad who gave it to his godson. Christian was not old enough to drive yet, so he missed out on the BSA Lightning, he recalled.

Some real spy work

Russhon not only had the connections, but he had the credentials to advise Bond filmmakers. He conducted his own top secret special operations work with the 1st Air Commando Group during World War II.

The group, led by co-commanders and then lieutenant colonels John Alison and Philip Cochran, assisted one of the fathers of irregular warfare, British Army Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate, and his ground forces, the "Chindits," as they penetrated the Burmese jungles in the fight against the Japanese.

Their mission was to provide air support to British ground forces through infiltration and exfiltration, combat resupply and medical evacuations in hostile territory using a wide variety of aircraft flying low-level, long-range missions.

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Russhon worked as a sound engineer for NBC in New York City and for Hollywood-based Republic Pictures, which specialized in Westerns.

Claire Russhon said her husband's deep patriotism and education at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N.Y., motivated him to join the U.S. Army Air Corps following the attack.

As a young lieutenant, he was sent to Burma where he led the 10th Combat Camera Unit, a small group of cameramen supporting the 1st Air Commando Group.

Alison and Cochran built a rapport with Russhon based on his exemplary work as a cameraman. He later became permanently attached to the Group, said Air Force Special Operations Command historian William Landau.

"They became fast friends," Claire Russhon said. "Gen. John Alison was later best man at our wedding."

Russhon became critical to mission success in the days leading up to Operation Thursday when he was cleared by Cochran to defy Wingate's orders and conduct last minute photo reconnaissance of the three landing strips Allied forces were to use during the mission, Landau said.

Operation Thursday, a mission in which gliders were used to drop the Chindits deep behind Japanese enemy lines, marks the first time in military history that airpower was the backbone of an invasion, Landau said.

"The photo reconnaissance was used to survey and select the landing sights," he said. "By cutting it off, Wingate basically left himself open to the possibility of a nasty surprise upon landing."

Russhon got in the air with his camera. The first airstrip, Broadway, was clear. Chowringhee airstrip was clear. Piccadilly, which was to be used in the first night of operations, was strewn with teak logs locals had dragged out to the clearing to dry, he said.

"Russhon was so taken aback, he actually forgot to photograph the area," Landau said. The pilot doubled back.

He rushed to develop about 30 photographs at the nearest base of operations and had them delivered to Cochran, Alison and Wingate.

"(Russhon's photo reconnaissance) not only saved many lives. It saved the operation itself," Landau said. "If they had landed with logs and debris at Piccadilly, the mission had the potential of being a catastrophic failure."

Russhon received the British Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in August 1945. An excerpt from the citation reads: "This officer has displayed exemplary keenness and devotion to duty and was personally commended by General Wingate for his courageous action."

Russhon continued to serve as a photographer through the end of World War II.

After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was among the first Americans on location documenting the destruction.

A 1945 article from the San Francisco Examiner interviewed Russhon about being on the ground in both cities within 24 hours after each bomb dropped.

"A strange, rusty-looking haze hung over Nagasaki when I flew above the city at 3,000 feet the day after it was hit by the atomic bomb," Charles Russhon told the Examiner. "It was unlike anything I've ever run into before or since. I got out of there in one hell of a hurry."

Following his active-duty career with the Air Force, Russhon entered the Air Force Reserve and began his work bringing life to Ian Fleming's Bond on the big screen.

Claire Russhon said her husband enjoyed working on all of the Bond films but that one of the most interesting was "You Only Live Twice," because it required him to return to Japan where he recalled some of his World War II experiences.

"In preparing for the Bond filming, there was a reception for the Japanese officials at which a gentleman greeted Charles and said 'you have gained weight,'" she said. "It was a Japanese general who explained that he was on the welcoming committee at Atsugi Air Base, (Japan,) when that first plane arrived (after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and Charles stepped off."

Russhon's legacy is extensive. Not only has he been immortalized on screen in the Bond films, but friend and celebrated American cartoonist Milton Caniff crafted "Charlie Vanilla" from his "Steve Canyon" comic strip after his person.

The "Charlie Vanilla" character was a mister fix-it with an affinity for vanilla ice cream who always managed to save the day, Claire Russhon said.

"The ice cream cone was fashioned after Charles's addiction to chocolate ice cream, but Caniff decided that 'Vanilla,' with the dangling vowel sounded more ominous," she said.

Beyond the life he breathed into Bond by supplying filmmakers with the cool gadgets and locations viewers remember when they watch classic movies like "Goldfinger," Russhon is immortalized in Air Commando history through his photos and his leadership.

"I get a sense of adventure. I get a sense of cunning," the AFSOC historian said. "To me, he embodied what an Air Commando more or less should be. He was fearless."

(Editor's note: This article was completed with research assistance from the Air Force Special Operations Command Historian)

1986: Jonathan Cape publishes the John Gardner Bond novel Nobody Lives For Ever.

2018: Richard Jay Potash (Ricky Jay) is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
(He dies 24 November 2018--Los Angeles, California.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Trivia

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

Filmography

Actor (41 credits)

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

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

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

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

Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)

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

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

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

1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)

Music department (1 credit)

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

2019: BOND 25 reveals a behind the scenes teaser.

RichardTheBruce

June 27th

1922: Peter Bayliss is born--Kingston upon Thames, London, England.
(He dies 29 July 2002 at age 80--London, England.)

Peter Bayliss

See the complete article here:

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

Peter Bayliss (27 June 1922 – 29 July 2002) was an English actor. Bayliss was born in Kingston upon Thames and trained at the Italia Conti Academy and the John Gielgud Company. More than six feet tall, with a voice to match, he supplemented it with a barrage of wheezings, croakings, mutterings and, as the opera singer in Frontiers of Farce (Old Vic, 1977), garglings.[1] In 1956 he appeared on stage in "The Matchmaker" at the Royale Theatre in New York and in 1960 he appeared in "Ross" at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London. His 20 films ranged from The Red Shoes (1948) to Darling (1965). He acted in more than 40 television productions including Please Sir! (he played the part of Mr Dunstable, Dennis Dunstable's father), The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy and The Bill, plus dramas like Bye, Bye Columbus (1990), Merlin (1998) and The Arabian Nights (1999). On radio he was particularly good in Jacobean adaptations, playing characters with names such as Sir Moth-Interest[2] and Walter Whorehound.[3] He appeared in more than 100 theatre productions. He made several films for the Children's Film Unit in his later years.

Selected filmography
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) - Aide to Mithridates (uncredited)
The Red Shoes (1948) - Evans - Lord Oldham's Chauffuer (uncredited)
The Frightened Man (1952) - Bilton
Jet Storm (1959) - Bentley
From Russia with Love (1963) - Commissar Benz
Darling (1965) - Lord Grant
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) - Professor (uncredited)
Pretty Polly (1967) - Critch
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968) - Victor
House of Cards (1968) - Edmond Rosier
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969) - Mr. Justice Squeezum
Arthur? Arthur! (1969) - Dr. Hubble
The Magic Christian (1969) - Pompous Toff
Please Sir! (1971) - Mr. Dunstable
Vampira (1974) - Maltravers
Mr. Selkie (1979) - Mr. Selkie
Bullshot (1983) - Chairman of the Institute
Mister Skeeter (1984) - title role
School for Vandals (1986) - Sir Oswald Kane
Hard Road (1988) - Hitch-Hiker
Emily's Ghost (1992) - Rev. Dodsworth
Don't Get Me Started (1994) - Father (voice, uncredited)
The Ugly Duckling (1997) - The Actor Manager (voice)
Merlin (1998) - 2nd Physician
Alice in Wonderland (1999) - Mr. Dodo

Peter Bayliss (I) (1922–2002)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063101/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1963: Dr. No released in Toronto, Canada.

1973: Live and Let Die released in the US.

http://www.the007dossier.com/page/Live-and-Let-Die-Movie-Posters

1974: The Man with the Golden Gun cast and crew return to London for interiors. That's after location filming at Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau (China).
1979: Moonraker general release in the UK.

1984: A fire on the set of the Ridley Scott film Legend severely damages the 007 Stage.

1985: 007 - Na Mira dos Assassinos (007 - The Assassins' Sight) released in Brazil.

Eventual DVD release.

1995: GoldenEye films the destruction of the satellite.
1996: Alberto Romolo "Cubby" Broccoli dies at age 87-- Beverly Hills, California.
(Born 5 April 1909--Queens, New York.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733431/Albert-Cubby-Broccoli.html

Albert "Cubby" Broccoli

Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the film producer, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 87, was the driving force behind the phenomenally successful James Bond films, 17 of which he either produced or co-produced.[/b]
2:36PM BST 29 Jun 1996

Photo: REUTERS

A vast, unhurried man with the deeply shadowed eyes of a perpetual jet-setter, Broccoli, ensconced in the calm of his Mayfair office, could remind visitors of one of James Bond's sensual, cat-stroking adversaries.

But he was noted by the profession for his geniality, and for the fatherly interest he took in his productions. Despite the enormous riches he accumulated from putting Ian Fleming's books on screen, Broccoli was almost believed when he said: "I have always felt that Bond is bigger than all of us."

In 1960 he formed Eon (standing for "Everything or Nothing") Film Productions in London with the Canadian Harry Saltzman, who held an expiring option on the film rights to all Fleming's Bond books except Casino Royale.

Broccoli and Saltzman agreed that the film industry should be international in scope, but their working methods were contrasting. While Saltzman revelled in his tough image, Broccoli became known as one of the industry's nice guys. As Michael Caine said, "Cubby is Harry's sense of proportion. They're like two policemen: Cubby gives you a cigarette and Harry knocks it out of your mouth."

Their break came in 1962 when they persuaded United Artists to provide backing for Dr No, and made the inspired casting of Sean Connery - who, they thought, had the right walk - as Bond. An immediate hit, the film was followed by From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

By then the partners were pounds 4 million the richer. Their partnership, which was always combative, endured until 1975, when Saltzman sold his share and Broccoli became the undisputed chief of the Bond industry. As such he took an unusually involved approach, embroiling himself in every stage of a film's development.

"Bond is the only script written by a committee," he said. "I sit down with the writer, director and executive producer and we decide what we want in the script. The final decision," he added, "is made by me."

Albert Romolo Broccoli, always known as "Cubby", was born in New York on April 5 1909, the son of Italian immigrants. His father was a bricklayer. With no idea what he would do with his life, young Cubby helped an uncle who ran a market garden in Long Island. He would later claim that this uncle brought the first broccoli seeds to America and gave his name to the well-known vegetable. Etymologists think otherwise.

After a spell managing a coffin-factory, Broccoli was alerted by a holiday in Hollywood to his desire for a career in films and he moved out to the west. Not an immediate success, he worked as a street-corner Christmas tree hawker and as a salesman of hairdressing products in San Francisco, where he lived in one room with only a rat for company.

"I really looked forward to seeing that rat. I fed him. He became a friend. Then one day I won a few dollars at the races. That was it: I said goodbye to the rat and made for LA." He became a teaboy at 20th Century Fox studios and soon progressed to the post of assistant director.

During the Second World War, Broccoli served in the navy. Afterwards he worked in Hollywood as an agent and then settled in London. In 1951 he formed Warwick Film Productions with Irving Allen and produced a large number of competent pictures with tough characters and lots of action. These include The Red Beret (1953), Safari (1956) and The Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959).

Although generally jovial and given to dishing up spaghetti for cast and crew, Broccoli could be stern. In 1970 he explained why the contract of George Lazenby, who played Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), had not been renewed. "Our parting was not by mutual desire," he said, "but by our desire. I wouldn't use him again. He's a pain in the arse."

Broccoli returned to Hollywood in 1977, for tax reasons. In 1982 he was honoured at the Oscar ceremony with the prestigious Irving G Thalberg award. He was appointed OBE in 1987.

Extremely skilful at negotiating a fair share for himself from the Bond films, Broccoli amassed an estimated pounds 100 million.

He married, in 1959, Dana Wilson; Cary Grant was best man. They had two daughters.

2018: Wanda's Book Reviews notes an Agatha Christie connection.

Wanda's Book Reviews

Did Agatha Christie influence
Ian Fleming?

http://wandapedersen39.booklikes.com/post/1769680/did-agatha-christie-influence-ian-fleming
2:47 pm 27 June 2018

This is a frequent enough question that Google filled it in for me when I asked! Here is a quote from a website that provides some info:

A character by the name of James Bond appeared in a 1934 short story, "Rajah's Emerald", which was published in the Agatha Christie anthology, The Listerdale Mystery. The Bond character from this short story is not a spy or action hero, but he does deal with an adventure that has to do with a stolen emerald, hence the title, and pines for the heart of a young woman named Grace. Was 007 creator Ian Fleming humoring readers when he named his classic protagonist, James Bond? According to the www.007magazine.co.uk:

"Ian Fleming's wry sense of humor has been well-documented over the years, making it highly possible that he may very well have hoaxed everyone and have also been influenced by Agatha Christie's writings, as her books were bestsellers during his formative years."

It's point five on this web page:
https://patch.com/connecticut/middletown-ct/five-rare-things-about-james-bond-007-you-most-likelyfe20ae95eb

Interesting, yes?

BTW, the link in the actual article is misspelled and doesn't work. Even when you spell it correctly, it only goes to a generic page for the magazine, nothing specific to this question. WP

RichardTheBruce

June 28th

1961: Variety comments on Broccoli and Saltzman.

Variety declares:

"A.R. (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman have joined forces in a production setup. As a start, they have acquired screen rights to all the Ian Fleming yarns on James Bond, and plan to put the first into production in Britain this fall. Initial one will be ‘From Russia With Love.’”

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films a cheeky scene with Tiffany Case.

1984: 深入虎穴 勇闖龍潭 (Deep Into the Tiger's Den) released in Hong Kong.

Later DVD.

1986: Sotheby's Entertainment Memorabilia Auction sells an Aston Martin DB5 (BMT216A) from Goldfinger for $275,000.

2012: Phaedros (Paul) Stassinos dies at age --Limassol, Cyprus.
(Born: 1930--Pano Platres, Cyprus.)

Paul Stassino

See the complete article here:

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

Phaedros Stassinos (1930 – 28 June 2012) was a Greek Cypriot actor whose international stage name was Paul Stassino.

Paul Stassino in Thunderball
(1965)

Early life
Stassino was born in Platres and grew up in nearby Limassol, but spent most of his acting career in England. He had moved there at the age of 18 to study law. Without telling his parents, he got a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career
He appeared in many British films, in British TV dramas such as Danger Man and The Saint. He appeared in Coronation Street in 1968, as Hungarian demolition contractor Miklos Zadic who had a brief relationship with Emily Nugent (played by Eileen Derbyshire).

Possibly his best known performance was when he played two parts, Major François Derval and Angelo Palazzi, in the James Bond film Thunderball.

Other roles include "Le Pirate" in That Riviera Touch, and the first officer of the Colombian ship Paloma in Tiger Bay.

In 1972 he moved to Athens, where he worked as a director in the casino in Athens, and then because of his great love for his island, he moved to his birthplace in Cyprus where he worked in the Public Theatre in Nicosia as an actor and as a director, where after he retired he moved to his beloved Limassol. He died on 28 June 2012 in Limassol and was buried in the cemetery of Limassol Sfalagiotisa.

Personal life
He was married twice and had three children Julian Stassino, Alex Stassino, and Elvi Stassinou.

Filmography
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) - Yani Katsias
Interpol (1957) - Customs Inspector
Miracle in Soho (1957) - Paulo
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) - Barman
The Great Van Robbery (1959) - Toni
The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959) - Nick Morelli
Tiger Bay (1959) - 'POLOMA' 1st. Officer
The Bandit of Zhobe (1959) - Hatti

The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) - Lt. Silver
Moment of Danger (1960) - Juan Montoya
Sands of the Desert (1960) - Pilot
The Criminal (1960) - Alfredo Fanucci
Exodus (1960) - Driver-guide on Cyprus
Man Detained (1961) - James Helder
The Secret Partner (1961) - Man in Soho Street
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) - Stefano - The Barber
Echo of Barbara (1961) - Caledonia
Sammy Going South (1963) - Spyros Dracandopolous
Stolen Hours (1963) - Dalporto
The Long Ships (1964) - Raschid
The Moon-Spinners (1964) - Lambis
The High Bright Sun (1965) - Alkis
Thunderball (1965) - François Derval / Angelo Palazzi
Where the Spies Are (1965) - Simmias
That Riviera Touch (1966) - Le Pirate
Sands of Beersheba (1966) - Salim
The Magus (1968) - Meli

You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) - Gunner major (uncredited)
A Touch of the Other (1970) - Connelly
Die Screaming, Marianne (1971) - Portuguese Police Detective
Escape to Athena (1979) - Zeno's Man (final film role)

Paul Stassino (1930–2012)

Actor | Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823728/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2013: Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville returns to Stoke Park for its first James Bond Golf Day.

2015: Spectre films at the Millennium Bridge, Southbank, London.

RichardTheBruce

June 29th

1943: Soon-Tek Oh is born--Mokpo, Republic of Korea.
(He dies 4 April 2018 at age 85--Los Angeles, California.)

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/187375/summary

Short obit from a Korean source.

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3046619

Pioneering actor Oh Soon-tek is dead at 85
Apr 07,2018
이미지뷰

Actor Oh Soon-tek, one of the first Korean actors to be noticed in Hollywood, passed away due to a chronic disease at the age of 85 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Oh was an ambitious college student who, after graduating with a degree in political science at Yonsei University in 1959, flew to Los Angeles to study international relations. However, after arriving in California, he changed his studies to acting and playwriting at the University of California Los Angeles, and then went on to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York.

Oh made his acting debut in the Broadway play “Rashomon” in 1964, and got his big break in 1974 as the of role Lieutenant Hip in the film “The Man with the Golden Gun,” which was part of the James Bond movie series. Soon after, the actor appeared in numerous movies including well-known films “Good Guys Wear Black” (1978), “Beverly Hills Ninja” (1997) and the hit Walt Disney animation “Mulan” (1998).

In 2001, Oh came back to Korea to work as a professor at the Korea National University of Arts as well as a jury member for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

By Sung Ji-eun

Soon-Tek Oh (1932–2018)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644902/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1963: From Russia With Love films Rosa Klebb briefing Tatiana Romanova.
1964: Comic strip On Her Majesty's Secret Service debuts in The Daily Express. (Ends 15 May 1965. 1-274)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

http://rooschristoph.blogspot.com/2018/06/james-bond-comics.html



http://www.007magazine.co.uk/bloodysnow/snow03.htm


https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=870830



http://jamesbondcomicart.co.uk/james-bond-originals-for-sale/






1988 Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3?s=comics&id=02331

I Hennes Majestäts Hemliga Tjänst Del
(O.H.M.S.S. - Part 1)

Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no33-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 33: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1975)
"I Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste"

Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no11-1967/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 11: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1967)
"I Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste"

1979: Moonraker general release in the US.

1979: The New York Times prints Vincent Canby's positive review of Moonraker.

Screen: 'Moonraker' Puts Bond in
Orbit:Old, Old Friends

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/29/archives/screen-moonraker-puts-bond-in-orbitold-old-friends.html

By Vincent Canby | June 29, 1979

AT a time when everything is being either inflated or devalued it's comforting to know that at least one commodity maintains its hard currency. That's James Bond, who, by all rights, should be an antique, as emblematic of the 60's as the Beatles and flowerpower, but who goes blithely on as if time has had a stop.

Moonraker which opens today at the Rivoli and other theaters, is the 11th in the remarkable series that began in 1963 [correction: 1962] with Dr. No and it's one of the most bouyant Bond films of all. It looks as if it cost an unconscionable amount of money to make, though it has nothing on its mind except dizzying entertainment, which is not something to dismiss quickly in such a dreary, disappointing movie season.

What's it about? That's a silly question, though I suppose one might answer that it's about sleight of hands—those of all the people who worked on it. They include the indefatigable producer, Albert R. Broccoli (also known as Cubby), Lewis Gilbert, who directed it, Christopher Wood, who wrote the screenplay, Ken Adam, the production designer, and all of those far from little people who are responsible for the extraordinary tricks that persuade us to suspend our disbelief.

Mr. Wood's screenplay begins when a United States space-shuttle craft mysteriously disappears as it's being ferried to England on the back of a Boeing 747. The fiend behind this remarkable theft is a French-accented American aeronautics tycoon named Drax (Michael Lonsdale), an eccentric fellow who lives in California in a transplanted French chateau and who surrounds himself with astronauts, all of whom are between the ages of 18 and 25, beautiful and female.

The space-shuttle craft, called Moonraker, was actually built by Drax's company, so the mystery that James Bond (Roger Moore) must solve is why Drax would feel the need to hijack his own product. The trail leads from London to California to Venice to Rio de Janeiro and, after that, to Drax's jungle hideaway that takes in bits and pieces of settings filmed in Guatemala and Argentina as well as Brazil. Among other things Moonraker deals in creative geography. The climactic duel occurs in the only location left—outer space.

Moonraker, like all of the better Bond pictures, returns us to a kind of film making that I most closely associate with the 15-part serials of my youth. Our astonishment depends on the ingenuity by which the writers and directors disentangle Bond from the impossible situations into which he seems to fall every seven minutes.

Moonraker begins with one of the funniest and most dangerous (as well as most beautifully photographed and edited) sequences Bond has ever faced. He's booted out of an airplane without a parachute and must do mortal combat, during a swooping, soaring free-fall, with an adversary who, luckily, does have a parachute. There are also a high-speed chase through Venetian canals (with one gondola a disguised Hovercraft), another chase on the Amazon, a fight on the roof of the funicular that goes to the top of Rio's Sugar Loaf mountain, and a final confrontation in space that is as handsome as anything in "Star Wars."

What's it about? It's about movie making of the kind Georges Méliès pioneered in films like "Voyage to the Moon" (1902) and "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" (1907). It's the unimaginable most satisfactorily imagined.

Almost everyone connected with the movie is in top form, even Mr. Moore who has a tendency to facetiousness when left to his own devices. Here he's as ageless, resourceful and graceful as the character he inhabits. Mr. Lonsdale is sometimes uncomfortably wooden and square, but then he's not supposed to be a barrel of laughs. Lois Chiles is lovely as Bond's Central Intelligence Agency vis-à-vis, who's just one of the sexually tireless Bond's conquests. Richard Kiel reappears as Bond's thug-enemy, the gigantic Jaws, who, you may be happy to learn, undergoes the kind of character transformation that means he'll probably turn up in yet another Bond film. Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, as, respectively, "M" and Miss Moneypenny, also are on hand.

Welcome back to old friends. Moonraker, which has been rated PG ("parental guidance suggested"), includes some suggestive situations and comically overstated violence.

Old, Old Friends

MOONRAKER, directed by Lewis Gilbert; screenplay by Christopher Wood; director of photography, Jean Tournier; film editor, John Glen; music by John Barry; lyrics by Hal David; produced by Albert R. Broccoli; released by United Artists; at the Rivoli, Gemini I, 86th Street East, Bay Cinema and other theaters. Running time: 126 minutes. This film is rated PG.
James Bond . . . . . Roger Moore
Holly Goodhead . . . . . Lois Chiles
Drax . . . . . Michael Lonsdale
Jaws . . . . . Richard
Dufour . . . . . Corinne Clery
"M" . . . . . Bernard Lee
Frederick Gray . . . . . Geoffrey Keen
"Q" . . . . . Desmond Llewelyn
Moneypenny . . . . . Lois Maxwell
Manuela . . . . . Emily Bolton
Chang . . . . . Toshiro SugaDolly . . . . . Blanche Ravalec

1982: Michael Brennan dies at age 69--Chichester, East Sussex, England.
(Born 25 September 1912--London, England.)

Michael Brennan (Actor)

See the complete article here:

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

in Ambush in Leopard Street (1962)

Born Bernard O'Leary, 25 September 1912, London, England
Died 29 June 1982 (aged 69), Chichester, Sussex, England
Occupation Actor
Spouse Mary Hignett

Michael Brennan (25 September 1912 – 29 June 1982) was an English film and television actor.

Born in London, Brennan was married to actress Mary Hignett. He appeared in such films as Tom Brown's Schooldays, Ivanhoe, Thunderball, Tom Jones, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders and Doomwatch. On television, he made guest appearances on All Creatures Great and Small (which featured his wife) and Dixon of Dock Green.

Partial filmography
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941) - Camp Guard with Lantern (uncredited)
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) - Jim
Captain Boycott (1947) - Jim O'Rourke (uncredited)
Brighton Rock (1947) - Crabbe (uncredited)
Blanche Fury (1948) - Farmer
Escape (1948) - Truck Driver (uncredited)
My Brother's Keeper (1948) - Police Constable at Roadblock (uncredited)
Noose (1948) - Ropey (uncredited)
The Brass Monkey (1948) - Wilks
Cardboard Cavalier (1949) - Brother Barebones
For Them That Trespass (1949) - Det. Insp. Benstead
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949) - Sergeant

Morning Departure (1950) - C.P.O. Barlow
They Were Not Divided (1950) - Smoke O'Connor
Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) - (uncredited)
Waterfront (1950) - Engineer
Blackout (1950) - Mickey Garston
No Trace (1950) - Mike Fenton
The Clouded Yellow (1950) - Superintendent Ross
Circle of Danger (1951) - Bert Oakshott
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) - Black Bart
Emergency Call (1952) - Police Constable
Ivanhoe (1952) - Baldwin
Something Money Can't Buy (1952) - Fairground boss
Made in Heaven (1952) - Sgt. Marne
Personal Affair (1953) - Police Officer (uncredited)
It's a Grand Life (1953) - Sgt. Maj. O'Reilly
Trouble in Store (1953) - Davis
Up to His Neck (1954) - CPO Brazier
See How They Run (1955) - Sgt. Maj. Towers
Up in the World (1956) - Prison Warder
Not Wanted on Voyage (1957) - Chief Steward
Just My Luck (1957) - Masseur
The Naked Truth (1957) - 2nd Irishman (uncredited)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958) - Tom - Coach Driver (uncredited)
Law and Disorder (1958) - Bent - Warder Ext. Prison
The Big Money (1958) - Bluey
The 39 Steps (1959) - Detective on Train (uncredited)

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) - Walters (uncredited)
Watch Your Stern (1960) - Security guard
Johnny Nobody (1961) - Supt. Lynch
On the Fiddle (1961) - Soldier at Army Meat Van (uncredited)
Ambush in Leopard Street (1962) - Harry
The Devil's Agent (1962) - Horvat
Live Now, Pay Later (1963) - Bailiff
The Girl Hunters (1963) - Policeman
Tom Jones (1963) - Jailer at Newgate (uncredited)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) - The Turnkey
Thunderball (1965) - Janni
Death Is a Woman (1966) - Bonelli
The Deadly Affair (1966) - Wolfe the Barman (uncredited)
Three Hats for Lisa (1966) - Police Sergeant
Just like a Woman (1967) - Commissionaire
Woman Times Seven (1967) - (segment "At The Opera")
Cuckoo Patrol (1967) - Superman No.1
The Great Pony Raid (1968) - Butch

Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Landlord
Fright (1971) - Sergeant
Doomwatch (1972) - Tom Straker
Up the Front (1972) - M.P.
Nothing But the Night (1972) - Deck Hand

Michael Brennan(I) (1912–1982)

Actor | Stunts
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107357/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

1985: The soundtrack for A View to a Kill composed by John Barry charts in the US. Eventually reaches #33.
1985: 鐵金剛勇戰 大狂魔 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn dà kuáng mó; Iron King Fighting Madman) released in Taiwan.

Later video releases.

1987: The London Royal Premiere of The Living Daylights at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

2012: Skyfall confirms Danny Kleinman as titles designer.
2013: Bond World 007 Grand Opening in Switzerland.

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

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/news_bond_world_007.htm

RichardTheBruce

June 30th

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Wednesday 30 June, 1943

I. dined yesterday, well and in good spirits and questioning me about the office. [After the death of Russell’s husband, Gilbert, in 1942, Fleming got her a job in the Admiralty’s propaganda division.] He says: you mustn’t do too much – and pities and admonishes me. But I tell him not to pity me, that he has saved my life, or given me a new one, that I am engrossed in the work and as happy as I could be under the circumstances.

We talked a lot about the Admiralty. He has various very significant jobs and is an important person. The work is the work that would suit him. I knew him first when he was 23, a clerk at Reuters and starting out – or dashing out – into the world, a life. That is more than 11 years ago.

1978: Salainen agentti 007 Istanbulissa (Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul) re-released in Finland.
(Swedish title Den hemliga agenten 007 i Istanbul, or The Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul.)

Original 1963 poster.

1987: General release of The Living Daylights in the UK.

2016: Joe Powell dies at age 94--London England.
(Born 21 March 1922--Shepherd's Bush, London, England.)

Joe Powell, stuntman – obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/27/joe-powell-stuntman--obituary/

Joe Powell, doubling for Sean Connery on the set of The Man Who Would be King
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Joe Powell, who has died aged 94, was known as the “daddy of British stuntmen” for the gut-wrenchingly high-risk feats he performed in classic adventure films such as Where Eagles Dare and The Guns of Navarone.

For The Man Who Would Be King, John Huston’s adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story filmed in the Atlas mountains, Powell, “doubling” for Sean Connery, had to plunge 100 ft from a collapsed rope bridge into a perilous ravine: if he had missed the target area covered with boxes to cushion his fall, he would have plummeted a further 2,000 ft. The co-star Michael Caine walked away saying: “I’m not going to watch this one.” Huston was delighted, saying it was “the darnedest stunt I ever saw”.

Joe Powell falls through the air in The Man who Would be King
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

During the course of his career Powell suffered a few broken ribs, and a broken hip after a horse fell on him, but he did not allow himself to be unduly troubled by nerves. “The thing is,” he explained, “you don’t have time to be scared – if you stop to think about what you are doing you wouldn’t do it… I didn’t have any training so when I performed a stunt the audience were literally seeing someone fall off a cliff – it made it more realistic.”

Joe Powell in the 1950s
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Joseph Augustus Powell was born on March 21 1922 at the Shepherd and Flock public house, Shepherd’s Bush, where his father, Joseph, a former quartermaster sergeant in the Life Guards, was the landlord. Joe was brought up in Camden where his father had the tenancy of a pub called the Camden Head, then in Chelsea where, after the death of his father, his mother Ada (neé Blunt) ran the Prince of Wales in Dover Street.

Joe was one of five siblings; his only brother, Eddie, also became a stuntman. Whiling away his spare time while his parents were running the pub, he joined first the Cubs and then the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers Cadet Corps. He enjoyed soldiering, and soon after the outbreak of war, when he was still only 17, he joined the Grenadier Guards. To break the monotony of drill and PT he took up boxing with the regimental team, but as the war progressed he was selected for No 4 Special Service (Commando) unit, taking part in the 1942 raid on Dieppe, during which he was briefly knocked out, and in the D-Day invasion.

No 4 Commando: Joe Powell is on the far left Credit: Penelope Reiffer

With the war in Europe over, Powell was sent to Germany, where he learnt to ride. He had little idea of what he was going to do apart from vague thoughts of becoming a professional boxer. But in 1946 a chance meeting at a bus stop with the actor Dennis Price led to Powell visiting the studios where Price was filming a Napoleonic-era musical with Stewart Granger called The Magic Bow.

Powell was struck by how comically unrealistic Napoleon’s “crack soldiers” were and determined that here might be an opening. “I’m going into the film industry,” he told his friends, “to bring realism into action films.”

Demobbed in the rank of sergeant, he managed to get a job as an extra at Pinewood. He was sparring at the Polytechnic Boxing Club in Regent Street and through a friendship there he ended up as a founding partner in a stunt team set up by Captain Jock Easton MC, who was just out of the SAS.

For Powell’s first big stunt, in The Small Voice, filmed at Ealing Studios, he played a motorcycle policeman pursuing a criminal gang in a car. He had to simulate being shot at, swerving off the road at 40 mph and crashing into a tree. The stunt was so lifelike that the prop man assumed Powell really had been injured.

Joe Powell takes to the air in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Powell appeared in nearly 100 films, including Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), Moby Dick (1956), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). It was not unusual for him to be blown up, machine-gunned or otherwise “killed” multiple times in one picture, as when he played German soldiers in Where Eagles Dare (1968). He always insisted that he had not trained to be a stuntman, though one special skill he had was falling from heights.

As well as the rope bridge fall in The Man Who Would Be King, there was a dramatic plunge 90 ft down from the side of a sinking ship (Titanic) in A Night to Remember in 1958, filmed in Glasgow docks. Then in 1961 for The Guns of Navarone he took the role of a German shot by Gregory Peck and dropping 90 ft from a cave into the sea by the island of Rhodes. It went without a hitch, though he was heavily bruised.

Joe Powell during the filming of Zulu
Credit: Penelope Reiffer

Living through a golden age of films with military themes, Powell applied his own Army experience to his projects. In 1964 he took on a rare acting role in one such film, as Sgt Windridge, in Cy Endfield’s Zulu. The film contained some unusual stunts; Powell also trained the Zulus and helped choreograph the battle scenes.

In 1962 he worked on The Longest Day, the film based on Cornelius Ryan’s book about D-Day, which depicted events in which he had been involved. Visiting the set one day with the producer Darryl Zanuck, Lord Lovat was heard to say: “There’s Powell, one of my sergeants.”

Powell appeared in three Bond films and the spoof Casino Royale. In 1969, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, he stood in for Telly Savalas as the criminal mastermind Blofeld in a terrifying bobsleigh chase.

Joe Powell playing chess with Anthony Quinn Credit: Penelope Reiffer

In retirement Powell kept up his keep-fit enthusiasm. Looking back on his career he was particularly proud of the fact that he had helped stunt performers to gain acceptance into Equity, the actors’ union. He had a lifelong love of the sea and was in the crew of the replica ship Mayflower II when it sailed to America in 1957.

He was twice married, first to Marguerite, known as “Clem”; she died of cancer. His second wife, Juliet, also died, and he is survived by four sons and a daughter; another daughter predeceased him.

Joe Powell, born March 21 1922, died June 30 2016

Filmography

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694170/
Stunts (60 credits)
1986 Half Moon Street (stunt arranger)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt arranger - uncredited)
1984 Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce (fight arranger)
1984 Top Secret! (stunt arranger)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1980 Flash Gordon (stunts - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

1979 The Passage (stunt arranger)
1978 Caravans (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Death on the Nile (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Golden Rendezvous (stunt arranger)
1977 Van der Valk (TV Series) (stunt arranger - 2 episodes)
- In Hazard (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
- Man of Iron (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
1977 Valentino (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Squeeze (stunts - uncredited)
1976 At the Earth's Core (stunt arranger - uncredited)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1974 The Odessa File (stunts - uncredited)
1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunt adviser) / (stunt arranger)
1973 The MacKintosh Man (stunts - uncredited)
1973 A Warm December (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Fear Is the Key (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Young Winston (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War (stunts - uncredited)
1970 The Last Grenade (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Hell Boats (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: Blofeld - uncredited)
1969 Mosquito Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Great Catherine (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Attack on the Iron Coast (stunts - uncredited)
1967 The Dirty Dozen (stunts)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunt rigger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Africa: Texas Style (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Khartoum (stunts - uncredited)
1966 Cast a Giant Shadow (stunts - uncredited)
1965 The Heroes of Telemark (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (stunts - uncredited)
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited)
1965 Mister Moses (stunts - uncredited)
1964 633 Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Zulu (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1963 Cleopatra (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunts - uncredited)
1962 The Longest Day (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Billy Budd (stunts - uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)

1957 The Steel Bayonet (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Tarzan and the Lost Safari (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1956 Zarak (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Moby Dick (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Alexander the Great (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)
1953 The Master of Ballantrae (stunts - uncredited)
1952 The Crimson Pirate (stunts - uncredited)
1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (stunts - uncredited)
1950 Waterfront Women (stunts - uncredited)

1949 The Spider and the Fly (stunt performer - uncredited)
1948 The Hideout (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (14 credits)
1977 Golden Rendezvous - Male Nurse
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Taxi Passenger
1975 Oil Strike North (TV Series) - Mate
- The Floating Bomb (1975) ... Mate
1974 11 Harrowhouse - Hickey
1971 The Last Valley - Kaas (uncredited)

1967 The Avengers (TV Series) - Martin
- From Venus with Love (1967) ... Martin (uncredited)
1965 The Heroes of Telemark - Quisling (uncredited)
1965 The Brigand of Kandahar - Colour Sergeant
1964 Zulu - Sgt. Windridge
1963 Captain Sindbad
1962 The World's Greatest Sinner - Follower

1957 The Abominable Snowman - Yeti (uncredited)
1953 Laughing Anne - Pierre
1949 Cardboard Cavalier - Rider (uncredited)

Casting department (4 credits)
1965 Genghis Khan (extras casting - uncredited)
1963 55 Days at Peking (extras casting - uncredited)
1960 The World of Suzie Wong (extras casting - uncredited)

1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (extras casting - uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
1984 Top Secret! (second unit director)

Self (2 credits)
2002 The Making of 'Zulu': Roll of Honour (Video documentary short) - Himself
2002 The Making of 'Zulu':...and Snappeth the Spear in Sunder (Video documentary short) - Himself

2006: Casino Royale films Vesper dumped underwater. Bond follows.

RichardTheBruce

July 1st

1920: Harold Sakata (Tosh Togo) is born--Holualoa, Hawaii.
(He dies 29 July 1982 at age 62--Honolulu, Hawaii.)

Archives | 1982

HAROLD T. SAKATA

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/31/obituaries/harold-t-sakata.html

AP JULY 31, 1982

Harold T. Sakata, an actor best known for his sinister characterization of the killer bodyguard Oddjob in the James Bond movie ''Goldfinger,'' died Thursday. He was 62 years old.[/b]
Mr. Sakata, who won an Olympic silver medal in London in 1948 for weightlifting, was a top-card professional wrestler under the name Tosh Togo before achieving fame as an actor.

The eldest of 10 children born on Hawaii Island, Mr. Sakata worked in the plantation fields and as a stevedore when he was young. He never finished high school.

In the early 1960's, the producer Harry Saltzman and the director Guy Hamilton discovered Mr. Sakata when they saw him wrestling on television in London.

Mr. Sakata also appeared in a series of cold-remedy commercials for national television, in the television series ''Sarge,'' and as a guest on such shows as ''Hawaii Five-O'' and ''Police Woman.''

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Filmography

Actor (32 credits)

1982 Invaders of the Lost Gold - Tobachi
1982 Ninja Strikes Back - Sakata
1981 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (TV Series) - Ku Long
- The Roller Disco Karate Kaper (1981) ... Ku Long

1979 Highcliffe Manor (TV Series) - Cheng
- Stark Terror (1979) ... Cheng
- Sex & Violence (1979) ... Cheng
- The Blacke Death (1979) ... Cheng
1979 The Billion Dollar Threat (TV Movie) - Oriental Man
1978 Goin' Coconuts - Ito
1978 Death Dimension - The Pig (as Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata)
1978 The Amazing Spider-Man (TV Series) - Matsu
- Escort to Danger (1978) ... Matsu
1978 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - John Doe
- The Competitive Edge (1978) ... John Doe
1978 Police Woman (TV Series) - Lee's Killer
- The Human Rights of Tiki Kim (1978) ... Lee's Killer
1977 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Master Sensei Tobi
- Touch of Death (1977) ... Master Sensei Tobi
1977 Record City - Gucci
1977 The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington - Wong (as Harold Odd Job Sakata)
1976 Broken House
1976 Mako: The Jaws of Death - Pete (as Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata)
1976 The Blue Knight (TV Series) - Car smasher
- Everybody Needs a Little Attention (1976) ... Car smasher
1974 The Wrestler - Odd Job
1974 Impulse - Karate Pete
1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shibata Hood
- I'm a Family Crook - Don't Shoot! (1972) ... Shibata Hood
1971-1972 Sarge (TV Series) - Takichi / Kenji Takichi / Kenji (9 episodes)
1971 Jamison's Kids (TV Movie)
1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
- Episode #5.4 (1971) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)
1970 The Phynx - Oddjob (as Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata)
1967 The Jerry Lewis Show (TV Series) - Assassin
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Assassin
1967 Gilligan's Island (TV Series) - Ramoo
- The Hunter (1967) ... Ramoo
1966 Dimension 5 - Big Buddha
1966 Seventeenth Heaven (uncredited)
1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower - Martin
1966 Balearic Caper - Direttore del museo
1966 4 Schlüssel - Odd Job (uncredited)
1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ching
- Jungle of Fear (1965) ... Ching
1964 Goldfinger - Oddjob (as Harold Sakata {Tosh Togo})

Thanks (1 credit)

1978 Flying High (TV Series) (thanks - 1 episode)
- A Hairy Yak Plays Musical Chairs Eagerly (1978) ... (thanks)

Self (2 credits)

1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #5.7 (1971) ... Himself (uncredited)
1969-1971 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) - Himself / Himself - Guest
- Episode dated 16 February 1971 (1971) ... Himself
- Episode dated 7 March 1969 (1969) ... Himself - Guest

Archive footage (21 credits)

2015 No Small Parts (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- James Bond Henchmen Part 1: Harold Sakata (2015) ... Himself
2015 Heineken's the Chase (Short) - Oddjob
2012 Top Gear (TV Series) - Odd Job
- 50 Years of Bond Cars (2012) ... Odd Job (uncredited)
2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Odd Job (uncredited)

2006 Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) - Oddjob
- Wetten, dass..? aus Düsseldorf (2006) ... Oddjob
2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself (uncredited)
2002 Bond Girls Are Forever (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob (uncredited)
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Himself

1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob (uncredited)
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself / Oddjob
1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) - Himself

1983 Bonds Are Forever (Video documentary) - Oddjob / Himself
1983 James Bond: The First 21 Years (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob
1982 The 54th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Oddjob (For Your Eyes Only musical segment)

1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Oddjob
1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
- Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself
1964 Goldfinger Original Promotional Featurette (Video short) - Oddjob / Himself

Personal Details

Other Works: TV commercial for Vicks Formula 44 (1964)
Publicity Listings: 1 Portrayal | 4 Articles | See more »
Alternate Names: Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata | Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata | Harold Odd Job Sakata | Tosh Togo | Harold Sakata {Tosh Togo}
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Trivia (6)

Won a silver medal in light-heavyweight weight-lifting at the 1948 summer Olympics. He pursued a successful career as a professional wrestler before moving into acting.

Weighed 284 lbs at the time of Goldfinger (1964).

Sakata apparently liked his role in the movie Goldfinger (1964) so much that he took "Oddjob" as an informal middle name.

In the rehearsals at the Golf Club where he is to throw his hat at the statue, with the head subsequently falling off, after three attempts the special effects crew could not "arrange" the head to fall off correctly. On the fourth take he told the special effects team to just stand still - then he threw his iron-brimmed hat at the statues neck and successful severed the head at the neck on the "first" attempt - to the amazement of all!.

Father: Tamotsu Sakata.

As a professional wrestler. he was one of the great heels in the ring. On screen he is best remembered for playing "Oddjob" in "Goldfinger" (1964) which is regarded as one of the great villains of the movies. Out of the ring, or off camera, he is remembered as being charming and friendly.

1955: Nick Finlayson is born.
(He dies 21 January 2019.)

Nick Finlayson

See the complete article here:

http://www.bafta.org/heritage/in-memory-of/nick-finlayson

Special Effects Technician
31 July 1955 to 21 January 2019

A British special effects technician who worked on ten James Bond films from A View To A Kill (1985) through to Skyfall (2012), Finlayson was affectionately nicknamed ‘The real Q’. He honed his craft on Gerry Anderson’s Terrahawks (1983-1985) and worked on films including The Dark Knight (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Detective Pikachu (2019).

Nick Finlayson

Special Effects | Visual Effects | Art Department
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1962: This month Fury magazine publishes an Ian Fleming novelette "A Nice View For Killing".

"A Nice View For Killing" in Fury -
July 1962 Ian Fleming contributor

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About the item
IAN FLEMING'S James Bond story "A NICE VIEW FOR KILLING", in Fury magazine - July 1962 issue, includes artwork that appears nowhere else. VERY RARE AND MUST HAVE FOR THE IAN FLEMING/JAMES BOND COLLECTOR Magazine has almost no wear to spine, no cover tears, no creasing to front cover, no subscription label, no missing pages, no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, slight color cover rubbing, no dust soiling to covers, hint of edge wear. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond magazine appearances up for sale.

1981: Marvel Comics publishes Super Special Issue #19 For Your Eyes Only. Later it's reissued as a two-parter.
Howard Chaykin and Vince Colletta, artists. Larry Hama, writer.

Super Special Issue #19 For Your Eyes Only

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/marvel-comics-super-special-19-for-your-eyes-only/4000-20924/
Creators
Christie Scheele colorist
Dennis O'Neil editor
Diana Albers letterer
Howard Chaykin cover, inker, penciler
Janice Chiang letterer
Jean Simek letterer
Larry Hama writer
Vince Colletta artist

1983: Octopussy released in Ireland.
1983: 鐵金剛勇破 爆炸黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò bàozhà dǎng; Iron King Explosion Party) released in Hong Kong.
1985: Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonneis is born--Passy, Paris, France.
1989: This month Eclipse Comics releases movie tie-in Licence to Kill.
Mike Grell, artist. Richard Ashford, writer.

James Bond 007: Licence to Kill

https://totalec]lipse.blog/2018/08/03/1989-james-bond-007-licence-to-kill/
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James Bond 007: Licence to Kill (1989) by Mike Grell, Richard Ashford, Chuck Austen, Tom Yeates, Stan Woch et al.

1991: This month Eclipse Comics releases Permission to Die #1.
Mike Grell, Dameon Willich, artists.

James Bond 007 Permission to Die #1

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=135651
Published Jul 1991 by Eclipse.

Story and cover by Mike Grell. Part 1 of 3. Art by Mike Grell and Dameon Willich. A brilliant inventor has a way to get satellites into orbit at a fraction of the current cost. Hes willing to sell it to the British government, but only if they can free his niece from behind the Iron Curtain. The job of course falls to James Bond. Making his way through Hungary, his contact is head of a band of gypsies. Unfortunately, they have a traitor in their midst. 48 pages. Full color.

Characters James Bond; Edaine Gayla
Genre adventure
Pencils Mike Grell; Dameon Willich
Inks Mike Grell; Dameon Willich
Colors Julia Lacquement
Letters Wayne Truman
Characters James Bond; Miss Moneypenny; M, Boothroyd; Vavra; Luludi; Janos
Synopsis Bond is sent to Hungary for a scientist's niece, in exchange for plans to a satellite launch system.

1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr. #7 "Sure as Eggs Is Eggs".
Featuring Scumlord and Jaws.

James Bond, Jr. Vol 1 #7 "Sure as Eggs is Eggs"

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond,_Jr._Vol_1_7
Published July, 1992
Cover Artist Mario Capaldi
Writer Dan Abnett
Penciler Mario Capaldi
Inker Bambos Georgiou
Colourist Sophie Heath
Letterer Stuart Bartlett

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/2752981/james-bond-jr-7

Sure as Eggs is Eggs
The Scumlord uses a cat burglar to steal the Faberge Eggs, a key to Anglo-Russian relations.

1992: Dark Horse Comics/acme release Serpent's Tooth #1.
Paul Gulacy, artist. Doug Moench, writer.

James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #1

https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-079/James-Bond-007-Serpents-Tooth-1

The martinis will be shaken, not stirred, as Dark Horse proudly presents a spectacular new James Bond series based on the popular Ian Fleming characters! A nuclear arsenal disappears! Unexplained phenomena is South America! Dinosaurs! Bond! What more can we give you? Well, maybe the team born to do this book: Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy! Don't miss out on one of the books of the summer. First in a series of new James Bond books from Dark Horse Comics and Acme Press.

Creators
Writer: Doug Moench
Artist: Paul Gulacy
Letterer: Pat Brosseau
Colorist: Steve Oliff
Editor: Jerry Prosser
Cover Artist: Paul Gulacy
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: July 01, 1992
Format: FC

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1994: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: Shattered Helix #2.
David Jackson, artist. Simon Jowett, writer.

James Bond 007: Shattered Helix #2

https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/53-335/James-Bond-007-Shattered-Helix-2

Cerberus has penetrated the secret laboratory in the heart of the Antarctic. Its goal -- the deadliest disease known to man, perfect for its goals of global blackmail and mayhem!

James Bond is hot on its heels, aided by beautiful biologist Serena Mountjoy. But to stop Cerberus in this caper, he must make his way through Bullock, a murderous monster of a man with bulletproof body armor surgically grafted into his skin!

Creators
Writer: Simon Jowett
Artist: David Jackson
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Colorist: David Lloyd
Editor: Dick Hansom
Designer: Scott Fuentes
Cover Artist: David Lloyd
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: July 01, 1994
Format: FC

2014: The New York Times crossword puzzle. Crossword Clue: 48 across. Four letters.
Movie that introduced the line "Bond, James Bond".

Solution:

https://nyxcrossword.com/2014/07/0701-14-new-york-times-crossword.html
48. Movie that introduced the line “Bond, James Bond” : DR NO

“Dr. No” may have been the first film in the wildly successful James Bond franchise, but it was the sixth novel in the series of books penned by Ian Fleming. Fleming was inspired to write the story after reading the Fu Manchu tales by Sax Rohmer. If you’ve read the Rohmer books or seen the films, you’ll recognize the similarities between the characters Dr. No and Fu Manchu.

RichardTheBruce

July 2nd

1959: Ian Fleming writes a letter to Ivar Bryce pressing him to make an offer on Bond film rights.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 4 - The Deal Is Done

Early in July 1959 much was beginning to happen in the world of James
Bond. As Fleming described it to Bryce, "Conflicting bids for and interests
in part or whole of the James Bond sausage have been coming thick and
fast." American television executive Hubbell Robinson had made a firm bid
of $10,000 for a 90-minute TV version of From Russia with Love, and also
wanted an option on a television series with a maximum of 44 episodes, "for
a fat fee," wrote Fleming. Another American producer had offered a similar
proposal, plus movie rights. And there was an offer of £20,000 and 15% of
the profits on a British TV series. In desperation Fleming appointed MCA
as his agents for all film, television and dramatic rights. In charge of those
was the highly influential Laurence Evans, who also represented Alec
Guinness and Ingrid Bergman. "So I'm in good company," boasted Fleming.

Fleming accepted the From Russia with Love bid (although the programme
would never be made), but was deliberately stalling on everything else, only too
acutely aware of Xanadu's Bond film proposal. In a letter to [Ivan] Bryce, dated 2 July,
he urged his friend to hurry up and make a definite offer or he would be forced
to accept the other bids. "Xanadu will of course get a most favoured treatment
if and when they express a firm interest." Influence no doubt by the powerful
MCA, Fleming was out to get the best possible deal. If the From Russia with
Love TV spectacular and Xanadu's Bond film were successes all past and future
Bond material would acquire a greatly enhanced value. "And I am urged by
MCA not to mortgage the future, expect at a worthwhile price." Fleming then
tempered his greed by saying, "I fear I must think of all these considerations
since James Bond is my entire stock-in trade and I have not got the energy to
create a new character."

1967: Casino Royale released in Brazil.

1973: United Artists Label releases the Live and Let Die soundtrack composed by George Martin.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films Andrea Anders seducing OO7.

1981: Alleen voor je ogen (Only For Your Eyes; French Rien que pour vos yeux/Just For Your Eyes) released in Belgium.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in The Netherlands.
1983: 007/オクトパシー (007/ Okutopashī) released in Japan.

RichardTheBruce

July 3rd

1958: Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson is born--Frome, Eastern Somerset, England.

1959: Andreas Wisniewski is born--West Berlin, West Germany.

1972: Jack Whittingham dies at age 61--Valletta, Malta.
(Born 2 August 1910--Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.)

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

The Name’s Whittingham, Jack Whittingham

See the complete article here:

http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2008/07/names-whittingham-jack-whittingham.html

EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE

With Sebastian Faulks’ Devil May Care sitting pretty atop British bestseller lists, espionage fiction seems to be all the rage. There is, however, another book, also featuring iconic British secret agent James Bond, that’s had an evolution almost as complex as one of Ian Fleming’s plots. That book is of course the revised second edition of Robert Sellers’ The Battle for Bond, a controversial work detailing the legal wrangling over the rights to Thunderball (1961).

The first edition, which contained a foreword by Raymond Benson (who was the last Bond writer prior to Faulks), was withdrawn from sale shortly after its 2007 release due to legal action from the Fleming family and estate. There a few copies of this collector’s item knocking around, but you’ll need a big checkbook to secure one. If you haven’t done so yet, though, I am pleased to report that Sellers and the independent publisher Tomahawk Press have finally released the second edition, sans the sections that caused the Fleming estate to complain. This revision features a foreword Len Deighton, who concentrates in his essay on long-ago charges of plagiarism leveled against author Fleming. This is a topic that should be familiar those of you who pay attention to the Rap Sheet, since we recalled the case in an obituary of Kevin McClory, the Thunderball collaborator who died in 2006. That case’s resolution included a provision stipulating that all future editions of the novel Thunderball include the writing credit “based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming.”

Very little has been written about the relatively enigmatic Whittingham. But earlier this week the London Times carried a longish report focusing on his daughter, Sylvan Whittingham Mason, who apparently provided much of the background mosaic for Seller’s book. As writer Giles Hattersley explains:

Like a latterday Ms. Moneypenny, she holds the secrets of James Bond. Her name is Whittingham. Sylvan Whittingham.

Is she Ian Fleming’s daughter? God, no. Fleming’s name is anathema here. Her father was Jack Whittingham, a celebrated screenwriter of the 1950s and 1960s. It was Jack, she claims, who gave us Bond as we know him.

In 1959, Whittingham’s father had been brought in by the film producer Kevin McClory to work on an original screenplay based on Fleming’s famous secret agent. (Fleming had had an earlier bash at writing his own, but forgot to put any action in it.)

The problem of how to film Bond had rumbled on for years. What passed for steely cool in the books would come off as charmless froideur on screen. But man-about-town Jack turned out to be the fire to Fleming’s ice. In a tobacco-stained study at his Surrey home, the dashing, hard-drinking ladies’ man produced a thrilling tale called Thunderball. And he injected Fleming’s uptight gentleman spy with quippy humour, arch sexuality and plenty of action. Rather like Jack, in fact.

“I always say that Daddy was an honourable man,” says Whittingham, now 64, in a voice that seems to come courtesy of Diana Rigg. “Except when it came to women, of course.” She smiles.

“But he was a marvellous writer and they’d had real trouble with Fleming’s novels. The violent, sadistic, colder, misogynistic Bond of the books didn’t work on the big screen. The audience, back then, didn’t want it. There was no humour, no charm. Daddy turned Bond into the suave hero they needed.”

This is a fascinating article, really, detailing the playboy similarities between Bond, Fleming, and Wittingham. In the Times, Mason quite clearly credits her father (who died in 1972) with molding 007 into the man who could support a successful long-running film franchise.

... Jack had been toughened by a Bond-like life of fast cars and faster women. Born the son of a Yorkshire wool merchant, he had oozed confidence as a young man and made a splash with the ladies when he went up to Oxford.

“He met Betty Offield there, heir to the Wrigley’s gum fortune,” says Sylvan. “They fell in love and she invited him over to America to stay. They used to go shark-fishing off her island in California. Later, he bought a solitaire diamond ring and went to Chicago to propose--but by the time he got there, she’d fallen for somebody else.

“In a bar, drowning his sorrows, he met a female gangster called Texas Guinan--a glamorous blonde--who took him on. She sent him all over town with deliveries for her, probably drugs. He became her pet for a while, before he sold the ring so he could afford to get home.”

After a stint in Iceland during the war--where he was permanently sloshed and would often fall down on parade--Jack returned to England and his wife, Margot, whom he had married in 1942. He was never faithful. “My mother was stunningly beautiful, with a frightened-rabbit look in her eyes, which were violet. She was a lost soul: mental problems, breakdowns, depression,” Sylvan says.

Posted by Ali Karim at 11:53 AM

1977: The Sunday Times Magazine prints "Image of the Week: Bond Rides Again."

Background here.

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ENLARGED MODEL: 'JAMES
BOND'S NEW GUN', DESIGNED
BY DAVID COLLINS AND
FLORIS VAN DEN BROECKE
FOR GRANADA PUBLISHING
LTD., 1977

Estimate: 3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

ENLARGED MODEL: 'JAMES BOND'S NEW GUN', DESIGNED BY DAVID COLLINS AND FLORIS VAN DEN BROECKE FOR GRANADA PUBLISHING LTD., 1977

painted wood, plastic laminated ply

engraved COLLINS & BROECKE 9mm / ABIS, the grip with different coloured faux-mother of pearl to each side

together with a group of sample book covers (some duplicates); a facsimile of the original design; a group of transparencies with repro-graphic work; an exhibition poster; copies of The Sunday Times Magazine featuring the gun and other related articles; six mounted blow-ups of contact sheets showing the gun in production, please see illustrated below

210cm. long, 129cm. high; 6ft. 1¼in., 4ft. 3in.

Condition Report
Provenance
Commissioned by Stephen Abis, Art Director at Granada Publishing as a prop for a series of paperback covers to be issued in 1977.

Literature

• 'Be a James Bond Cover Girl', Daily Mirror, 8 June 1977, p.26;
• 'Image of the Week: Bond Rides Again', The Sunday Times Magazine, 3 July 1977, p.20-21;
• 'Bond's New Birds: But the Gun's a Phoney', Sunday People, 17 July 1977, p.9.

Exhibited

• London, Middlesex Polytechnic, 'The Gun Job', 28 February 1977.

Catalogue Note
This extraordinary prop by graphic designer and lecturer David Collins was a commission from Granada Publishing. Collins, who worked with fellow designer Floris van den Broecke, was given a brief by the publisher, titled 'Girl and Gun', which detailed the need for a prop gun for use in photographic shoots for the covers of new editions of Bond titles. The ‘gun’ needed to be oversized, flexible and suitable for use with live models as well as appropriate for shop display and book promotion. The design was based on a hybrid of various guns which according to reportage at the time was deliberate. Ian Fleming's Estate had cover approval and insisted that it should not be based entirely on a particular weapon, to avoid specific endorsement, so the model incorporated details from both the 9mm Beretta and the Colt 45. The prop for 'Girl and Gun' was delivered to Granada on the 28th of March 1977 and this date is engraved on the piece (M28277). The total bill was £1590. ‘James Bond’s new gun’, with various glamorously dressed models, was used on nine separate covers, in photographic shoots by Beverley le Barrow, for paperbacks published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

As advised, the sale proceeds of the present lot will go to Royal Trinity Hospice.

Royal Trinity Hospice is the local hospice and the only dedicated provider of end of life care in south west and central London; providing skilled, compassionate care and support to people with progressive, life-limiting illnesses and those close to them.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Ireland.
1987: The Living Daylights released in Ireland.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the Eurocopter AS355 Ecureuil 2 pursuing the BMW R 1200 through the Vietnam marketplace.

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2017: Joe Robinson dies at age 90--Brighton, East Sussex, England.
(Born 31 May 1927--Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.)

Joe Robinson (actor)

See the complete article here:

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

Joe Robinson as Thor in Thor and the Amazon Women

Born Joseph Robinson, 31 May 1927, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Died 3 July 2017 (aged 90), Brighton, East Sussex, England
Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation Actor, stuntman
Years active 1952–1971

Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler, as were his father Joseph and his grandfather John. His brother, Doug Robinson, is also an actor and stuntman.

Career
Professional wrestling
Robinson initially embarked on a career in wrestling as 'Tiger Joe Robinson' and won the European Heavyweight Championship in 1952. At the same time, he was also interested in acting and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After injuring his back wrestling in Paris he decided to concentrate on acting. Joe Robinson's daughter Polly Robinson (Hardy-Stewart) has also continued the family's success in martial arts by winning the junior Judo championships in the 1980s.

Acting
Robinson's first role came in the keep-fit documentary Fit as a Fiddle and in the same year, 1952, he followed it up with a part as Harry 'Muscles' Green in the musical Wish You Were Here in the West End of London.

He made his film debut in 1955's A Kid for Two Farthings, in which he wrestled Primo Carnera. His film and television career really took off in the 1960s and in 1962 he appeared in British classic The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner alongside appearances in The Saint and The Avengers in 1963. With his younger brother Doug and Honor Blackman, he co-authored Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence in 1965 (Joe was also a judo champion and black belt at karate). The year after he appeared in an episode of the sitcom Pardon the Expression which referenced this book. During this time he was also a popular stunt-arranger, working on several James Bond films and in 1960 was invited to Rome where he appeared in five muscle-bound Italian epics, including Taur the Mighty (1963), Thor and the Amazon Women (1963) and Ursus and the Tartar Princess (1961). Other notable big-screen appearances include 1961's Carry On Regardless, of the British institution the Carry Ons. According to the book Tarzan of the Movies by Gabe Essoe, Robinson played the role of Tarzan in obscure Italian-made films (Taur, il re della forza bruta and Le gladiatrici); the use of the Tarzan character, however, was unauthorised and the character's name had to be changed to Thaur before the film was allowed for public release. His final big-screen appearance was in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he plays diamond smuggler Peter Franks. Robinson claimed that he was a contender for the Red Grant role in From Russia with Love. Though he did not get it, Connery recommended him for the role in Diamonds are Forever. Robinson also claimed he turned down the role of the Rank Organisation's Gongman.

Retirement
He retired from acting, and lived in Brighton where he opened a martial arts centre. He conducted classes in Wadō-ryū style karate and Judo. In 1998 he hit the headlines after fighting off a gang of eight muggers single-handed. The 70-year-old was alighting from a bus in Cape Town when the gang struck with baseball bats and knives. 6 ft 2 ins Joe overpowered two with flying kicks, karate-chopped another in the chest and broke the arm of a fourth - the rest fled.

Reminiscing about his career in the Daily Mail recently, Robinson spoke on the subject of Laurence Olivier's alleged homosexuality saying 'my kids used to play with his kids at school and I taught him judo ... I have no idea if he was a homosexual... but he did once tell me I had lovely shoulders'.

Death
Robinson died at the age of 90 on 3 July 2017, in Brighton, East Sussex.
Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1955 A Kid for Two Farthings Sam Heppner
1956 Die ganze Welt singt nur Amore Max, der Athlet
1956 Pasaporte al infierno Pete Archer
1957 Fighting Mad Muscles Tanner
1957 The Flesh Is Weak Lofty
1958 The Strange Awakening Sven
1958 Sea Fury Hendrik
1958 Murder Reported Jim

1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Corinthian Uncredited
1960 The Bulldog Breed Tall Sailor
1961 Carry On Regardless Dynamite Dan
1961 Erik the Conqueror Garian Uncredited
1961 Barabbas Bearded Gladiator
1961 Tartar Invasion Ursus
1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Roach
1963 Taur, il re della forza bruta Taur
1963 Doctor in Distress Sonja's Boyfriend
1963 Thor and the Amazon Women Thor

1971 Diamonds Are Forever Peter Franks (final film role)

2020: Earl Cameron dies at age 102.
(Born 8 August 1917--Pembroke Parish, Bermuda.)

Earl Cameron (actor)

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Earl Cameron
CBE

Cameron in 2017

Born Earlston J. Cameron, 8 August 1917, Pembroke, Bermuda
Died 3 July 2020 (aged 102)
Occupation Actor
Years active 1951–2013
Spouse(s) Audrey J. P. Godowski
(m. 1959; died 1994)
[1][2]
Barbara Cameron (m. 1994)

Earlston J. Cameron, CBE (8 August 1917 – 3 July 2020), known as Earl Cameron, was a British actor, born in Bermuda and a long-time resident in England. Along with Cy Grant, he is known as one of the first black actors to break the "colour bar" in the United Kingdom.

With his appearance in 1951's Pool of London, Cameron became one of the first black actors to take up a starring role in a British film after Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney and Elisabeth Welch in the 1930s.

According to Screenonline, "Earl Cameron brought a breath of fresh air to the British film industry's stuffy depictions of race relations. Often cast as a sensitive outsider, Cameron gave his characters a grace and moral authority that often surpassed the films' compromised liberal agendas." He also had repeated appearances on many British science fiction programmes of the 1960s, including Doctor Who, The Prisoner, and The Andromeda Breakthrough.

Early career
Cameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda. As a young man, he joined the British Merchant Navy, and sailed mostly between New York and South America.

When the Second World War broke out he found himself stranded in London, arriving on the ship The Eastern Prince on 29 October 1939. As he himself put it in an interview: "I arrived in London on 29 October 1939. I got involved with a young lady and you know the rest. The ship left without me, and the girl walked out too."

In 1941, a friend named Harry Crossman gave Cameron a ticket to see a revival of Chu Chin Chow at the Palace Theatre. Crossman and five other black actors had bit parts in the West End production. Cameron, who was working at the kitchen of the Strand Corner House at the time, was fed up with menial jobs and asked Crossman if he could get him on the show. At first he told Cameron that all of the parts were cast, but two or three weeks later, when one of the actors did not show up, Crossman arranged a meeting with the director Robert Atkins, who cast Cameron on the spot.

According to Cameron, he had a less difficult time than other black actors because his Bermudian accent sounded American to British ears. For example, the following year, he landed a speaking role as Joseph, the chauffeur in the American play The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood.

In 1945 and 1946 he took on the role of one of the Dukes in the singing trio "The Duchess and Two Dukes", which toured with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) to play to British armed forces personnel in India in 1945, and the Netherlands in 1946. In 1946 Cameron returned to Bermuda for five months but decided to return to work as an actor in the UK. He then took a job on the London stage as an understudy in the play Deep Are the Roots. Written by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow, this play was staged at the Wyndham's Theatre in London for six months (featuring Gordon Heath) and then went on tour. It was during this tour that Cameron first met, and worked alongside, Patrick McGoohan during a production of that play in Coventry. (In 2012, Cameron participated alongside local actors in Bermuda in a reading of Deep Are the Roots, which the Bermuda Sun described as a play "dear to Earl's heart, for it not only gave him his first break in the West End as Britain's first black actor, but he also met his first wife when he travelled on tour with the production."

He understudied in Deep are the Roots with fellow understudy Ida Shepley, a well known singer. As Cameron was having problems with his diction at the time she introduced him to a very good voice coach named Amanda Ira Aldridge. Miss Aldridge was the daughter of Ira Aldridge, a legendary black Shakespearian American actor of the 19th century. Cameron's breakthrough acting role was in Pool of London, a 1951 film directed by Basil Dearden, set in post-war London involving racial prejudice, romance and a diamond robbery. He won much critical acclaim for his role in the film, which is considered "the first major role for a black actor in a British mainstream film".

Film career
His next major film role following his work in Pool of London was in the 1955 film Simba. In this drama about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, Cameron played the role of Peter Karanja, a doctor trying to reconcile his admiration for Western civilisation with his Kikuyu heritage. That same year Cameron played the Mau Mau general Jeroge in Safari.

From the 1950s to the present day, Cameron has had major parts in many films, including: The Heart Within (1957), in which he played a character Victor Conway in a crime movie again set in the London docklands; and Sapphire (1959) in which he played Dr Robbins, the brother of a murdered girl; and The Message (1976) – the story of the Prophet Muhammad, where he played the King of Abyssinia.

Other film appearances have included: Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), in which he played Tate; Flame in the Streets (1961), in which he played Gabriel Gomez; Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963), in which he played Mang; Guns at Batasi (1964), in which he played Captain Abraham; and Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), in which he played Sergeant Seth Hawkins; A Warm December (1973), in which he acted with Sidney Poitier and played the part of an African ambassador to the UK.

Cameron was strongly considered for the role of Quarrel in Dr. No (1962) by both director Terence Young and co-producer Albert R. Broccoli, whom he knew from his Warwick Films work; however, Harry Saltzman did not think him suitable for the role and cast American John Kitzmiller. They asked Cameron back to the James Bond series for Thunderball (1965), in which he played Bond's Caribbean assistant Pinder. Cameron also acted alongside Thunderball lead Sean Connery in Cuba, in which he played Colonel Levya.

His most recent film appearances include a major role in The Interpreter (2005), playing the fictitious dictator Edmond Zuwanie. Cameron's performance was universally praised. The Baltimore Sun wrote: "Earl Cameron is magnificent as the slimy old fraud of a dictator..." and Rolling Stone described his appearance as "subtle and menacing". Philip French in The Observer referred to "that fine Caribbean actor Earl Cameron". In 2006 he appeared in a cameo as a portrait artist in the film The Queen (directed by Stephen Frears), alongside Helen Mirren. In 2010 he appeared as "Elderly Bald Man" in the film Inception. In 2013 he appeared as "Grandad" in the short film Up on the Roof.

TV career
Cameron has had roles in a wide range of TV shows but one of his earliest major roles was a starring part in the BBC 1960 TV drama The Dark Man, in which he played a West Indian cab driver in the UK. The show examined the reactions and prejudices he faced in his work. In 1956 he had a smaller part in another BBC drama exploring racism in the workplace, A Man From The Sun, in which he appeared as community leader Joseph Brent, the cast also featuring Errol John, Cy Grant, Colin Douglas and Nadia Cattouse.

Cameron appeared in a range of popular television shows including series Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US) alongside series star Patrick McGoohan. Cameron worked with McGoohan again in 1967 when he appeared in the TV series The Prisoner as the Haitian supervisor in the episode "The Schizoid Man".

His other television work includes Emergency – Ward 10, The Zoo Gang, Crown Court (two different stories, each three episodes long, in 1973), Jackanory (a BBC children's series in which he read five of the Brer Rabbit stories in 1971), Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor Who – The Tenth Planet (the first Black Actor to portray an astronaut on any film or TV series in the world), Neverwhere, Waking the Dead, Kavanagh QC, Babyfather, EastEnders (a small role as a Mr Lambert), Dalziel and Pascoe, and Lovejoy.

He also appeared in a number of other one-off TV dramas, including: Television Playhouse (1957); A World Inside BBC (1962); ITV Play of the Week (two stories – The Gentle Assassin (1962) and I Can Walk Where I Like Can't I? (1964); the BBC's Wind Versus Polygamy (1968); ITV's A Fear of Strangers (1964), in which he played Ramsay, a black saxophonist and small-time criminal who is detained by the police on suspicion of murder and is also racially abused by a Chief Inspector Dyke (played by Stanley Baker); Festival: the Respectful Prostitute (1964); ITV Play of the Week – The Death of Bessie Smith (1965); Theatre 625: The Minister (1965); The Great Kandinsky (1994); and two episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre (Anything You Say 1969 and another in 1971). In 1996 he appeared on BBC2 as The Abbott in Neverwhere, an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman.

Following the death of Olaf Pooley on 14 July 2015, Cameron became the oldest living actor to have appeared in Doctor Who, and on 8 August 2017 he became the third "Doctor Who" actor to reach the age of 100 (after Zohra Sehgal and Olaf Pooley).

Personal life
Since 1963[14] Cameron has been a practitioner of Baháʼí, joining the faith at the time of the first Baháʼí World Congress, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The Baháʼí community held a reception in London in 2007 to honour his 90th birthday. He currently lives in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, in England.[20] He is married to Barbara Cameron. His first wife, Audrey Cameron, died in 1994. He has six children.

Cameron died on 3 July 2020, at the age of 102.[22]

Honours

• He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
• The Earl Cameron Theatre in Hamilton, Bermuda was named in his honour at a ceremony he attended there in December 2012.
• The University of Warwick awarded Cameron an honorary doctorate in January 2013.

Filmography
1951 Pool of London - Johnny Lambert
1951 There Is Another Sun - Ginger Jones
1952 Emergency Call - George Robinson
1955 Simba - Karanja
1955 The Woman for Joe - Lemmie
1955 Safari Jeroge (Njoroge)
1956 Odongo Hassan -
1957 The Heart Within - Victor Conway
1957 The Mark of the Hawk - Prosecutor
1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959 Sapphire - Dr. Robbins

1960 Tarzan the Magnificent - Tate
1961 No Kidding - Black father
1961 Flame in the Streets - Gabriel Gomez
1963 Tarzan's Three Challenges - Mang
1964 Guns at Batasi - Captain Abraham
1965 Thunderball - Pinder
1966 The Sandwich Man - Bus Conductor
1967 Battle Beneath the Earth - Sgt. Seth Hawkins
1968 Two a Penny - Verger
1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing - Jane's father

1972 Six Days of Justice - Maynard
1973 A Warm December -
1976 Mohammad, Messenger of God - Najashi
1979 Cuba - Col. Leyva

2001 Revelation - Cardinal Chisamba
2005 The Interpreter - Edmond Zuwanie
2006 The Queen - Portrait Artist

2010 Inception - Elderly Bald Man

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RichardTheBruce

July 3rd updated for Mr. Cameron's passing.


July 4th

1963: Dr. No released in Australia.

Daybills

1966: You Only Live Twice filming begins with Bond and Ling and the Murphy bed at Pinewood Studios.

1981: 007 ユア・アイズ・オンリー (Yua aizu onrī, or Your Eyes Only) released in Japan.

1985: A View to a Kill released in The Netherlands.

2005: Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records release the the first single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" from Kanye West's second album Late Registration. It heavily samples and mixes the song "Diamonds Are Forever". And wins a Grammy.

2006: Casino Royale films at Black Park, Buckinghamshire, doubling for Mbale, Uganda.

RichardTheBruce

July 5th

1942: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming attends a course on espionage at Camp X (Special Training School No. 103) near Whitby, Lake Ontario, Canada. Possibly staying across the street from St. James-Bond United Church.

1973: Live and Let Die Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

1985: A View to a Kill released in Canada.
1985: Daily Variety reports A View to a Kill filming contributed an estimated $4 million to San Francisco's economy.
1986: Screen International reports Jeroen Krabbé drops Michael Cimino's The Sicilian to take the Koskov role in the next Bond film.

2008: Edinburgh’s City Arts Centre hosts a Fleming Centenary exhibition of Bond-Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design. Through 14 September.

Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design

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https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/10974-bond-bound-ian-fleming-and-the-art-of-cover-design/

David Pollock | 7 August 2008

Of human bond-age
Gentleman shpy David Pollock goesh undercover to inveshtigate the makings of an icon at touring
exshibition Bond Bound

It’s strange, considering how conservative a character James Bond is, that his presentation and marketing seems to fall so readily in step with the times. From Sean Connery throughout the smooth, swinging 60s, to the more cartoonishly lurid 70s and early-80s of Roger Moore, the smug, yuppified era of Timothy Dalton, the laddish yet indefinably metrosexual Pierce Brosnan and now Daniel Craig’s more broadly-defined revisionist take on the character, Bond remains the same, but always strikingly different.

Of course, that’s the Bond we’re most familiar with; the movie icon. This cinematic character is one stage removed again from the original Bond, though – the rakish gentleman spy whom Ian Fleming defined over 12 novels and two short story collections between 1953 and 1966.

As explicitly stated in the subtitle of the City Art Centre’s new Bond Bound exhibition (‘Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design’), this Bond is supposed to be the one we come to know more about here, but it’s still hard to end up leaving the show without an image of Connery’s sly grin plastered across the memory.

Clearly aware that it’s not as engaging for a viewer to look at a book cover as it is to be dazzled by a large movie poster, the curators have chosen to show a broad spectrum of visual representations of the character. So the first images we see upon entering the exhibition are three international posters for the latest Casino Royale film, featuring Craig in his finest GQ Man pose, all unhooked bowtie, tousled hair and pout.

Across from these hang a selection of posters from the clearly heavily trailed From Russia With Love (1963), the sequel to the character’s hugely successful cinematic debut Dr No. ‘James Bond est de retour,’ they blast over eye-catchingly bright colours and images of slinky girls. ‘James Bond is back.’

And there’s that grin of Connery’s which remains hard to clear from the mind. This was the period when Bond stopped being a popular character in pulp novels and became an icon.

Period artefacts fill out the show, including a manuscript of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service which has been annotated by the late Fleming, and a rather wonderful letter to the author from Hugh Hefner. The Playboy publisher, in typical ‘one thing on his mind’ mode, asserts that, ‘Ursula Andress (Dr No’s original Bond girl) is going to be difficult to beat for sex interest.’

Also featured are an extensive set of illustrations by John Burningham from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fleming’s only children’s book, and a couple of pages from the forthcoming comic adaptation of Charlie Higson’s Young Bond book Double or Die by Judge Dredd artist Kev Walker.

After such a selection, the rear room’s rows of original book covers from editions printed around the world over the last five decades feel like something of an anticlimax, or at least a part of the show to be pored over rather than blown away by. In truth, Bond Bound itself doesn’t offer a wealth of new knowledge to even a casual fan of the character, but it does demonstrate how first impressions are important to the continued success of such a legend.

Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design is at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, until Sun 14 Sep.

Published by Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation:
Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design,
Bill Smith, Henry Chancellor, Alan Powers, Kate Grimond Selina S, 2008.

https://literary007.com/2013/10/09/bond-bound-ian-fleming-and-the-art-of-cover-design/

2009: The True Story episode "James Bond" takes a look at Fleming's real world influences.

The Real Story (2003– )
James Bond

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1402999/
TV-PG | 47min | Documentary, History | Episode aired 5 July 2009
Season 1 | Episode 2

Take a look at Ian Fleming and the real-life story behind James Bond.

Director: Russell England
Writer: Mark Radice
Stars: Corey Johnson, Paul McGann, Jonathan Edwards |

Cast (in credits order)
Corey Johnson ... Self - Narrator (voice)
Paul McGann ... Self - Narrator (voice)
Jonathan Edwards ... Reenactor
Caroline Delisser ... Reenactor
Brian Burnage ... Reenactor
Paul Esser ... Reenactor
(alphabetically:)
Ken Adam ... Self - Production Designer for the James Bond Films, 1962-1979 (as Sir Ken Adam)
Henry Chancellor ... Self - Author and Historian
Paul Cornish ... Self - Senior Curator, Imperial War Museum
Iain Dalzel-Job ... Self - Patrick Dalzel-Job's son
Ian Fleming ... Self (archive footage)
Lucy Fleming ... Self - Ian Fleming's Niece
Kathleen Kinmonth Warren ... Self - Admiral Godfrey's daughter
Margy Kinmonth ... Self - Admiral Godfrey's granddaughter
Ben Macintyre ... Self - Author, 'For Your Eyes Only' and 'Agent ZigZag'
John Pearson ... Self - Fleming's assistant at The Sunday Times
K.H. Wallis ... Self - Gyrocopter Designer and Pilot (as Ken Wallis)

2015: Spectre closes 128 days of principal photography.
2017: The Omega Seamaster Diver 300 M Co-Axial 41mm Commander's watch is introduced via the Tate Britain Museum, London. Production limited to 7007. Plus 7 of a Gold edition.

https://omegawatches.com/news/the-commander-s-watch-is-launched-in-london

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 Black Box.
Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

JAMES BOND #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652205011
Cover A: Dominic Reardon
Cover B: Jason Masters
Cover C: Patrick Zircher
Writer: Benjamin Percy
Art: Rapha Lobosco
Publication Date: July 2017
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 7/5

James Bond #5, "The Suicide Forest"
In the so-called "Suicide Forest" of Japan, near the base of Mt. Fuji, James Bond finds himself hunted by No Name, the nightmarish assassin. After narrowly escaping, 007 and Selah Sax find themselves on board a bullet train bound for the headquarters of Saga Genji -- in a race against Felix Leiter and the Americans for the "black box" of information that could compromise their nations.

RichardTheBruce

July 6th

1961: Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman establish Eon Productions.
1963: From Russia With Love films the boat chase. Earlier that day, a helicopter carrying director Terence Young, art director Michael White, and a cameraman crashes in Argyll, Scotland, and sinks into 40–50 feet (12–15 meters) of water. Director Young resumes filming the same day.
1964: Goldfinger films in Switzerland.

1971: Louis Armstrong dies at age 69--New York City, New York.
(Born 4 August 1901--New Orleans, Louisiana.)

Louis Armstrong
Biography

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Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. He was raised by his mother Mayann in a neighborhood so dangerous it was called “The Battlefield.” He only had a fifth-grade education, dropping out of school early to go to work. An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money to purchase his first cornet.

On New Year’s Eve 1912, he was arrested and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There, under the tutelage of Peter Davis, he learned how to properly play the cornet, eventually becoming the leader of the Waif’s Home Brass Band. Released from the Waif’s Home in 1914, Armstrong set his sights on becoming a professional musician. Mentored by the city’s top cornetist, Joe “King” Oliver, Armstrong soon became one of the most in-demand cornetists in town, eventually working steadily on Mississippi riverboats.

In 1922, King Oliver sent for Armstrong to join his band in Chicago. Armstrong and Oliver became the talk of the town with their intricate two-cornet breaks and started making records together in 1923. By that point, Armstrong began dating the pianist in the band, Lillian Hardin. In 1924, Armstrong married Hardin, who urged Armstrong to leave Oliver and try to make it on his own. A year in New York with Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra proved unsatisfying so Armstrong returned to Chicago in 1925 and began making records under his own name for the first time.

HOTTER THAN THAT
The records by Louis Armstrong and His Five–and later, Hot Seven–are the most influential in jazz. Armstrong’s improvised solos transformed jazz from an ensemble-based music into a soloist’s art, while his expressive vocals incorporated innovative bursts of scat singing and an underlying swing feel. By the end of the decade, the popularity of the Hot Fives and Sevens was enough to send Armstrong back to New York, where he appeared in the popular Broadway revue, “Hot Chocolates.” He soon began touring and never really stopped until his death in 1971.

The 1930s also found Armstrong achieving great popularity on radio, in films, and with his recordings. He performed in Europe for the first time in 1932 and returned in 1933, staying for over a year because of a damaged lip. Back in America in 1935, Armstrong hired Joe Glaser as his manager and began fronting a big band, recording pop songs for Decca, and appearing regularly in movies. He began touring the country in the 1940s.

"MY WHOLE
LIFE, MY
WHOLE SOUL,
MY WHOLE
SPIRIT IS TO
BLOW THAT
HORN."

In 1947, the waning popularity of the big bands forced Armstrong to begin fronting a small group, Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Personnel changed over the years but this remained Armstrong’s main performing vehicle for the rest of his career. He had a string of pop hits beginning in 1949 and started making regular overseas tours, where his popularity was so great, he was dubbed “Ambassador Satch.”

In America, Armstrong had been a great Civil Rights pioneer for his race, breaking down numerous barriers as a young man. In the 1950s, he was sometimes criticized for his onstage persona and called an “Uncle Tom” but he silenced critics by speaking out against the government’s handling of the “Little Rock Nine” high school integration crisis in 1957.

Armstrong continued touring the world and making records with songs like “Blueberry Hill” (1949), “Mack the Knife” (1955) and “Hello, Dolly! (1964),” the latter knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop charts at the height of Beatlemania.

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY
The many years of constant touring eventually wore down Armstrong, who had his first heart attack in 1959 and returned to intensive care at Beth Israel Hospital for heart and kidney trouble in 1968. Doctors advised him not to play but Armstrong continued to practice every day in his Corona, Queens home, where he had lived with his fourth wife, Lucille, since 1943. He returned to performing in 1970 but it was too much, too soon and he passed away in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a few months after his final engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (first recording for Louis Armstrong), Gennett Studios, Richmond, Indiana, 1923.

And his last. 1969.

1973: Live and Let Die general release in the US.

Lobby Card set of 8
https://legendsofsfandfantasyart.blogspot.com/2016/01/live-and-let-die-1973.html

1979: Moonraker released in Ireland.

1980: Learning other actors were recently screen-tested, Roger Moore declares he's done with the Bond role.
1980: Eva Green is born--Paris, France.
1985: 007 美しき獲物たち (007 Utsukushikiemonotachi; 007 Beautiful Prey) released in Japan.

2012: Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style opens at the Barbican Centre, London, continues through 5 September. Following cities are Dubai, Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, Rotterdam, Moscow, Melbourne, Shanghai, Toronto.