On This Day

Tracy

Reminds me of those old yugo movie posters with mis-spelled names : "Merilin Munro" or "Klint Istvud" :p

"Skaifoli"

If they had trondersk (norwegian dialect Trondheim area) movie posters it would be called "Sjyfaill" , lmao

RichardTheBruce

July 7th (Double-O7)

1930: Peter Porteous is born--London, England.

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

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Friday 7 July, 1944

Sorted out clothes of I.’s that need cleaning, carrying them away in my arms. I. is off abroad for a few days. New uniforms and equipment lying about. He has a private army of 300 men. When I came home from the Admiralty the evening was lovely so, tired though I was, I went to the park.

The grass smelt fresh, the trees were heavy with leaf and I walked to the bandstand and stood for a long time watching and listening. An alert was on as usual. Small clusters of people sat on iron chairs round the bandstand or outside the enclosure under the trees – people of all sorts and kinds, young and old, soldiers and civilians.

The scene was so strange, moving and so unreal – the white bandstand, the charming civilised elegant waltzes, the Americans lolling about, the uniforms, the drone of the pilotless plane, the beauty of the evening, war and peace all mixed up inextricably.

1958: The first James Bond comic strip Casino Royale begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 13 December 1958. 1-138 ) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

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




https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24115/lot/188/










Swedish Semic Comic 1972
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759

Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
(High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)

Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
Højt spil i Monte Carlo" [High Stakes in Monte Carlo]

1968: Test footage of Lazenby and Rigg prompts nervous United Artists executives to pursue a return of Connery.

1973: Fawcett Gold Medal publishes Roger Moore's James Bond Diary in paperback.

1977: Roger Moore does a quick commercial for Nationwide Insurance.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1147445081407815681

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me Royal Premiere at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London.

1982: Variety reports potential Moore replacements as James Brolin and Michael Billington.
1983: Octopussy released in The Netherlands.
1983: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Icebreaker.
Cover by Bill Botten (in the style of Richard Chopping).

JAMES BOND, like Sherlock Holmes before
him, has become a myth of the twentieth
century. Predictably, when John
Gardner (under copyright licence) first
brought Bond into the 1980s with a new
consciousness of health and ecology, a
change of car and a passing nod at femin-
ism, his book, Licence Renewed, went straight
to No. 1 on the bestseller lists on both sides
of the Atlantic. Fleming himself 'would not
be displeased', the Daily Telegraph said. A
second updated Bond adventure, For Special
Services, enjoyed an even greater success,
remaining for months on end on bestseller
lists in America.

Now, indestructible as ever, Bond is back
in a third assignment from John Gardner --
a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort
with Bond's opposite numbers from the
United States, the Soviet Union and Israel
in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland.
Yet if resurgent fascism is the common
enemy, who is really to be feared? Can
SMERSH be trusted to resist the temptation
to seek revenge on Bond? Is it the breezy
American or the voluptuous Israeli who is
acting as double agent? Are the Finns
merely using Bond to break the K.G.B.'s
stranglehold on their tenuous national
autonomy?

Never has Bond encountered such an
unnervingly deceitful bunch of collabor-
ators or been subject to such a bewildering
series of potentially lethal shocks.

James Bond adventures
written under licence from Glidrose,
Ian Fleming's copyright holders, by
JOHN GARDNER.

Licence Renewed

Remarkably successful re-creation of
everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
Telegraph

'Gardner's James Bond captures that high
old tone and discreetly updates it.' The
Times

'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
of the 1980s is not much different from the
earlier Bond...his adventures are as capti-
vating as ever.' BIRMINGHAM Post

For Special Services

'John Gardner has got the OO7 formula
down pat. But not too pat...manages to
create suspense and spring a few surprises.'
Financial Times

'Much better nonsense that the previous
Gardner resurrection of James Bond.'
Sunday Times

'Almost as good as the bestselling first one.
Great fun.' Scotsman

1989: Licence to Kill released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/licence-to-kill-en/


http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-ad-sheet-1989/


http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-programme-1989/

1989: James Bond med rett til å drepe (James Bond with the Right to Kill) released in Norway.

https://www.comics.org/issue/369729/cover/4/


http://jamesbond.no/visBoker.asp?ID=42

1989: Tid för hämnd (Time for Revenge) released in Sweden.

https://www.tradera.com/item/341511/330224852/james-bond-tid-for-hamnd

2011: Swordfish through Orion Publishing Group releases 30th anniversary hardcover editions of John Gardner’s Nobody Lives Forever and Role of Honour.

That's following Licence Renewed, For Special Services, and Icebreaker released 23 June. They anticipate paperback editions of all the Gardner Bond novels in 2012.

http://www.john-gardner.com/sites/default/files/New swordfish.png

http://www.john-gardner.com/content/orion-publishing-group-celebrates-30th-anniversary-john-gardners-james-bond-titles

RichardTheBruce

July 8th

1933: Jeff Nuttall is born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.

1959: Fleming writes a letter to Ivar (Felix) Bryce offering the rights to produce the first Bond film. In return he asks for $50,000 worth of shares in the film company. Then he will also provide a treatment, plus his ongoing services if they are desired.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 4 - The Deal Is Done

Put simply, Fleming was offering Xanadu first refusal on the character of
James Bond for movie exploitation. "And in him you have potentially a very
valuable property if you can sign him up for several years." McClory was only too
well aware of this. Why else were he and Bryce so intent on acquiring not just any
old right to make a Bond film, but the rights to the first Bond film?

Having acquired those rights, there was no reason, suggested Fleming,
why the Bond character couldn't then be sub-leased, first to Bubbell
Robinson's TV From Russia with Love, then back to Xanadu for the feature
film or later to a television series. Another ingenious Fleming proposal was that
the same thing could apply in lesser degree to various subsidiary characters like
M, Felix Leiter, etc.

One gets the impression reading this letter that Fleming was desperate for
Bryce to buy into Bond; to have someone he knew and respected owning the
film copyright to his character rather than some faceless conglomerate or
Hollywood cowboy producer. The concluding paragraph strikes a particularly
friendly note: "Sorry to send you all this food for thought but the whole thing
is getting too big for me and, before MCA finally devours me, I thought
I ought to give you a last clear think." He then added a PS: "If anything isn't
clear to you in this letter, it isn't clear to me."

Fleming's letter did the trick and within days Bryce got in touch to make
a firm offer - Xanada wanted to go ahead with the Bond film...

1963: Norman Felton writes Fleming a letter following the decision to leave the Solo television project.

Norman Felton letter dated 8 July 1963:

Dear Ian:

May I thank you for meeting with me when I was in England recently. It was deeply appreciated in view of all of the pressures on you at that time. I am hoping, incidentally, that your move to the country has worked out satisfactorily.

Your new book, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, is delightful. I am hoping that things will calm down for you in the months to come so that in due time you will be able to develop another novel to give further pleasure to your many readers throughout the world.

They tell me that there are some islands in the Pacific where one can get away from it all. They are slightly radioactive, but for anyone with the spirit of adventure, this should be no problem.

Warm regards,

Norman Felton.

1968: Roger Moore is presented with Spain's most prized Don Quixote Award, Spanish Embassy, London.

1970: Diamonds Are Forever draft screenplay finished by Richard Maibaum.
1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Bond's ordeal in a crematorium.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me UK general release. Plus Ireland.

1996: Sean Connery photographed by Trevor Leighton.

2014: Browser-based adventure game released by Youniverse Digital Limited promotes the Young Bond book Shoot to Kill by Steve Cole.

Mission 3 Pilot the Zeppelin

Mission 4 High Speed Chase

RichardTheBruce

July 9th

1943: The Allied invasion of Sicily Operation Husky, aided by misdirection created by Operation Mincemeat inspired by Fleming, executes this date.

Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books, Edward Abel Smith, 2020.
Chapter 2 - For Your Eyes Only

As of September 1942, Fleming’s remit was further expanded to
include Joint Intelligence Committee work, daily situation reports as
well as a side project of writing ideas for potential espionage operations
for NID. Fleming’s nephew Fergus described his uncle’s time in the
war as ‘one of ingenuity and daring’, producing schemes which were
‘notable for their imagination’.

On September 1939, days after war had been declared, Godfrey
issued a long-anticipated document to intelligence chiefs, written by
his personal assistant, just four months after employing him. With
another war now starting, the Allied Forces - initially consisting of
France, Poland and Britain - needed to quickly get one step ahead of
their enemy. Named the ‘Trout Memo’, Fleming’s document listed ways
for ‘bamboozling the Germans at sea’ through ‘deception, ruses de
guerre, passing on false information and so on’. A big fan of fly-fishing,
Godfrey had the memo named accordingly as he felt the document, like
a fisherman, ‘casts patiently all day. He frequently changes his venue
and his lures. If he has frightened a fish he may give the mater a rest fir
half-an-hour, but his main endeavor, is to attract fish by something he
send out from his boat’.

The Trout Memo served as a bible for espionage activity with NID,
containing fifty-one ingenious ways of ‘introducing ideas into the heads
of the Germans’ through false information. There were suggestions
such as ‘setting adrift tins of explosives disguised as food’ which had
‘instructions on the outside in many languages’ in the hope that ‘hungry
enemy sailors or submariners would pick them up, try to heat the tins,
and blow themselves up’. Other ideas devised by Fleming included
‘dropping footballs pained with luminous paint to attract submarines’
and ‘distributing messages cursing Hitler’s Reich in bottles from a
fictitious U-boat captain to cause unrest among the enemy’.

Although most of the ideas in the Trout Memo would be kicked into
the long grass as the war progressed, there was one which caught the
imagination of Charles Cholmondeley, a twenty-five-year-old secondee
in the security service from the Royale Air Force, nearly four years later.
Number 28 was headed ‘A suggestion’ and ‘not a nice one’ in which
‘A corpse is dressed as an airman, with (false) despatches in his pockets,
could be dropped on the coast, supposedly from a parachute that had
failed’. The concept was further fleshed out to explain that ‘there is no
difficulty in obtaining corpses at the Naval Hospital, but, of course, it
would have to be a fresh one’.

In April 1943, Cholmondeley borrowed the idea for what would be
one of World War II’s most infamous and successful deception plans,
Operation Mincemeat. Dropping the dead body of tramp Glyndwr
Michael dressed as a naval officer off the coast of Huelva, it was washed
ashore with papers purporting that the Allies intended to invade Greece
and Sardinia, rather than the expected target of Sicily. The Nazis fell for
the ruse spectacularly, moving troops away from Sicily, which remained
the target for the invasion named Operation Husky and was successfully
taken after the landing on 9 July 1943.

Writing the Trout Memo for Fleming had been a pleasure - although it
would be another four years before he would see the fruits of his labour
bear out in Operation Mincemeat - as this was the type of intelligence
he enjoyed. Since playing sport at school, he had not felt enjoyment like
this, and he was eager to continue challenging himself.

1964: From Russia With Love released in The Netherlands.
1966: Bond's obituary date, as printed in the on-screen version of The Standard in You Only Live Twice.

1975: Jack White is born--Detroit, Michigan.
1975: Till Death Do Us Apart comic strip begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 14 October 1975. 2898-2983) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




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


Swedish Semic Comic 1977
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3?s=comics&id=01952

Kontraspionaget Slår Till: Intrig På Balkan!
(Till Death Do Us Part)

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 45: “Till Death Do Us Part” (1978)
"Ballade på Balkan" [Trouble in the Balkan]

1987: The Living Daylights released in The Netherlands.

2002: Die Another Day principal photography is a wrap, filming today includes Madonna's role as Verity.
2006: Manning Redwood dies at age 77--Surrey, England.
(Born 16 February 1929--New York City, New York.)

Manning Redwood (1929–2006)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715197/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Mini Bio (1)
Lived in Harley street in London with his wife Kay, In 1986 they both moved to Fincham in Norfolk where they lived for many years, enjoying the quiet life. In 2004 after both their healths deteriorated, they moved to a nursing home in Surrey to be near the family. Sadly after a long illness Manning passed away at east Surrey hospital on 9th of July 2006. Cause of death, acute myocardial Infarction.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: MICHAEL J PLATTS (Stepson)

Spouse (1)
Kathleen Joan Kiernan (25 March 1991 - 9 July 2006) ( his death)

Trivia (1)

Actor Manning Redwood, who appears as General Miller in Never Say Never Again, with Sean Connery, also appeared in the Bond Franchise's next Bond Film, A View to a Kill, as Bob Connelly, one of Max Zorin's associates. Redwood has the distinction of appearing in back-to-back Bond films with different Bond actors playing both a good guy and a bad guy (Joe Don Baker appeared with two Bond actors playing a hero and a villain, but only played an ally in back to back films) However, Joe Don Baker appears in three franchise Bond films while Redwood only appears in one.

RichardTheBruce

July 10th

1958: BBC Home Service broadcasts Ian Fleming interviewing his friend Raymond Chandler.

1967: The Los Angeles Times says Sean Connery has an invite to put his footprints at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

He doesn't until 13 April 1999.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films the car chase in Bangkok, Thailand.
1977: Cary Joji Fukunaga is born--Oakland, California.

1987: Iskallt uppdrag (Ice Cold Mission) released in Sweden.

https://jamesbond007.se/eng/event/james_bond_filmerna_visas_i_hd_pa_tv4

1989: US West Hollywood premiere of Licence to Kill.

2009: Zena Marshall dies at age 84--London, England. (Born 1 January 1925--Nairobi, Kenya.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

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

Filmography

Actress (59 credits)

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

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

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

Self (3 credits)

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

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

Archive footage (9 credits)

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

Soundtrack (1 credit)

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

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #11.
Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #11

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244711011
Cover A: Dan Panosian
Cover B: Michael Dowling
Cover C: Dean Kotz
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker, Ibrahim Moustafa
Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: July 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 7/10/2019

"The Debt" continues. Lieutenant James Bond learns a new skill. A former friend helps atone for the death of another. And Bond descends into a part of war-torn London that few fresh faces emerge from unscathed. By JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Mother Panic).

RichardTheBruce

July 11th

1964: Goldfinger's nineteen-week production finishes after five final days in Andermatt, Switzerland.

1985: Agente 007 - Bersaglio mobile (Agent 007 - Moving Target) released in Italy.

1987: 鐵金剛大戰 特務飛龍 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn tèwù fēilóng; Iron King Wars Agent Flying Dragon) released in Taiwan.

2006: Casino Royale completes filming the falling house in Venice.

2017: y101FM reports that Christopher Nolan wants to do a Bond film.

Christopher Nolan plans to direct and “reinvent” a James Bond movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.y101fm.com/features/lifestyle/entertainment/5746-christopher-nolan-plans-to-direct-and-reinvent-a-james-bond-movie

Details
Written by Kevin Tocino | Published: 11 July 2017

Image Source:showfilmfirst.com

The director of Inception, Interstellar, and The Dark Knight Trilogy discusses the possibility of directing a future 007 film.

Christopher Nolan, one of the most prolific directors working today, has spoken out about the possibility of directing a James Bond film in the near future.

The English director, whose latest movie Dunkirk hits cinemas on July 20, has been linked to the spy franchise for a number of years. Speaking to Playboy recently, Nolan registered his interest in possibly taking the director’s chair on a future Bond film – but only if the series was in need of some “reinvention.”

Asked if he’d be interested in taking on the job, Nolan said: “A Bond movie, definitely. I’ve spoken to the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson over the years. I deeply love the character, and I’m always excited to see what they do with it.

“Maybe one day it would work out. You’d have to be needed, if you know what I mean. It has to need reinvention; it has to need you. And they’re getting along very well.”

2020: A Christmas in July Bond Party is scheduled in South Africa.

Christmas in July – Bond Party

See the complete article here:

https://www.seniorsplayground.co.za/events/christmas-in-july-bond-party

Christmas in July – Bond Party
Dates: July 11th 2020 (one day event)
Address: 32 R98, South Africa

Join us for our Annually Christmas in July event at Black Horse. In 2020, we present the Bond Party, dress up as your favourite Bond characters and join us for the gala event, “The Black Night”.

Includes Live music, roulette tables, Martinis, craft beer, gin, wine & Bubbly. A four-course plated meal, prepared by our chef. Only 100 tickets are available.

Be in a James Bond party for one night only!

Dress: Black Tie
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 11 July 2020

2020: A pop-up drive-in at New Westminster, British Columbia, shows Bond films for free Saturday and Sunday.

Jul
11

Key West Ford presents a Pop-
Up Drive in Movie Series -
James Bond: Skyfall
by Key West Ford

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/key-west-ford-presents-a-pop-up-drive-in-movie-series-james-bond-skyfall-tickets-112371411918

We're back with another pop-up drive in movie event!

Key West Ford with sponsor support from Galactic Entertainment, Starlight Casino and 24-7 Security Present: The New Westminster Pop-Up Drive in Movie Theatre!

We’ve come together to provide you with a FREE drive in movie theatre experience right here in New Westminster for a fun and safe night out with your entire family! Enjoy a massive concert style LED wall to bring you showings of some family favorites.

Capacity is limited to 50 vehicles maximum per movie. All attendees must have a confirmation to attend and tickets will not be available at the door.

PLEASE REMOVE ALL ROOF RACKS BEFORE ATTENDING THE EVENT. Vehicles with roof racks will be placed in the oversize vehicle section.

COVID-19 SAFETY PROCEDURES:

Patrons must stay in their vehicles at all times unless using the restroom facilities and comply with on site parking structure to maintain social distancing. We will have portable restrooms on site and hand washing stations. BRING YOUR OWN SNACKS AND DRINKS as there will be no concession provided. Guards from 24-7 security will be on site to ensure that all rules are followed.

Tickets are NO CHARGE and will be distributed via eventbrite. This event is open to enclosed vehicles only and will not be available to cyclists or walk-ins. Your ticket will get you one vehicle access to one movie and then the site will be cleared to make way for the next showing. Donations will be accepted towards the Greater Vancouver Food Banks

Massive thank you to all of the businesses, groups, and organizations for their support in putting this together including Starlight Casino, Galactic Entertainment, 24-7 Security, Fraser Health, the City of New Westminster, and Councillor Chuck Puchmayr.

Please email to ask any questions: [email protected]

Date and Time
Sat, 11 July 2020, 7:45 PM – 10:10 PM PDT

Location
Starlight Casino
350 Gifford Street
New Westminster, BC V3M 7A3
Canada

Next Bond Show:

Sun, 12 Jul 7:30 PM
Key West Ford presents a Pop-Up Drive in Movie Series - James Bond: Spectre
Starlight Casino, New Westminster

2020: National Mojito Day in the US.

Mojito Day

See the complete article here:

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/mojito-day/

Sat Jul 11th, 2020

Celebrate with us!
The Mojito is one of the most popular classic cocktails around the world! So, you will be pleased to know that you have the perfect excuse to enjoy a few Mojitos on Mojito Day!

The Mojito is a conventional Cuban highball! It consists of white rum, mint, sparkling water, lime juice, and sugar. However, there have been a lot of different variations on the classic drink, with people adding different fruits, such as strawberry and mango mojitos. Some people also enjoy sparkling mojitos, finishing off their drink with a splash of champagne! You can certainly have a lot of fun experimenting.

History Of Mojito Day
A lot of people know the Mojito as being the favorite drink of famous author Ernest Hemingway. But, where did it all begin for this tasty cocktail? The birthplace of this refreshing drink is Havana, Cuba. Nevertheless, there has been a lot of debate about the exact origin of the drink! It’s known that local South American Indians had cures for several different tropical illnesses. So, a small boarding group went to Cuba, coming back with ingredients for medicine. They included local tropical ingredients – mint, sugarcane juice, and lime – as well as a crude form of rum, which was known as aguardiente de caña. That translates to burning water! While this drink was not known as a mojito at the time, it included a combination of the ingredients that we have come to associate with the drink.

Some historians believe the cocktail’s origin owes a lot to African slaves who were working on the sugar cane fields in Cuba during the 19th century. The sugar cane juice called Guarapo is often found in mojitos, and this was popular amongst African slaves at the time.

In terms of the name mojito, there is also a lot of confusion and theories about where it stemmed from! Some people believe that it is merely a derivative of the Spanish word for ‘a little wet’ – mojadito. There are then others who think that name relates to mojo, which is a Cuban seasoning that is made from lime and used to flavor dishes.

How to celebrate Mojito Day
Of course, the best way to observe Mojito Day is by making your own version of the cocktail. We’re going to take you through how to make a Mojito.

Making your own Mojito
First of all, let’s begin by giving you a shopping list of all the ingredients you will require if you wish to make a Mojito. These are as follows…

• Rum
• Limes
• Mint Leaves
• Club Soda
• Sugar
• Ice

The first step of the Mojito recipe is to make a simple syrup. This is essentially sugar water, and it presents a great way of balancing out the limes’ sourness. So, how do you make it?

• Place one cup of water and one cup sugar in a pan
• Heat in order to dissolve the sugar
• Once the sugar has dissolved, you can remove the pan from the heat
• Add approximately 15 mint leaves and leave them to steep
• Allow the simple syrup to cool

So, now you have your simple syrup ready! The next thing you need to do is squeeze some limes. Fresh limes taste much better than lime juice. You can really tell the difference. Squeeze the limes to get the juice necessary. You will probably need to squeeze either one or two limes per Mojito.

Once you have done this, the next thing you need to do is prepare your glasses. You should add a few mint leaves to the bottom of the glass. You should then muddle them. Don’t press too hard. Be gentle whilst breaking up the mint leaves. Why is this step important? Well, it will release the flavor and essence of the mint leaves, which, of course, adds to the cocktail. You should then finish off by adding several ice cubes to the glass.

Now you have done all of the preparation. It is time to serve your Mojito. Getting the ratio of ingredients right is vital so that you have the right balance. We recommend mixing two ounces of rum with one and a half ounces of the mint-infused simple syrup you have created. You should then add one ounce of lime juice and a splash of club soda. Mix this all together and then pour it over the ice and mint leaves that you have already added to the glass. Now your cocktail is ready to serve!

This is a cocktail that is incredibly refreshing with lots of delicate flavors. You can, of course, adjust the measurements to suit yourself. Perhaps you’d prefer your Mojito a bit stronger? If so, add a bit more rum until you are satisfied. Enjoy!

Other suggestions for Mojito Day
Of course, making your own Mojito is one of the best ways to observe this day, but we have plenty of other ideas as well…

• Why not make mojito ice lollies? You can freeze the ingredients of a mojito to make refreshing cocktail lollies.
• Bake some mojito inspired cakes and treats. If you do a bit of digging online, you will see that there are some fantastic mojito cake recipes. This includes mojito drizzle loaf cake and mojito cheesecakes. Wash these down with the classic cocktail and you’re going to be in mojito heaven!
• Have a cocktail party with your friends. Mojito Day is the perfect excuse to get all of your friends around and enjoy a cocktail party!
• Make your own version of a mojito. We have given you the classic recipe for a mojito, but why not spice things up with your own creation? There have been so many exciting and delicious variations of the Mojito, so you’re bound to have lots of fun experimenting with different ingredients and flavors.

No matter how you decide to celebrate Mojito Day, make sure you drink responsibly! No getting in your car to tell your friends about your delicious creations!

RichardTheBruce

July 12th

1933: Donald Edwin Westlake is born--Brooklyn, New York.
(He dies 31 December 2008 at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.)

DONALD WESTLAKE

See the complete article here:

https://www.donaldwestlake.com/autobiography

Autobiography

Don (center) doing the interrogating.

I think I’d best treat this as an interrogation, in which I am not certain of the intent or attitude of the interrogator.

I was born Donald Edwin Westlake on July 12th, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. My mother, Lillian, maiden name Bounds, mother’s maiden name Fitzgerald, was all Irish. My father, Albert, his mother’s maiden name being Tyrrell, was half Irish. (The English snuck in, as they will.) They were all green, and I was born on Orangeman’s Day, which led to my first awareness of comedy as a consumer. I got over the unfortunate element of my birth long before my uncles did.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. One of her beliefs was that people whose initials spelled something would be successful in life. That’s why I went through grammar school as Dewdrip. However, my mother forgot Confirmation, when the obedient Catholic is burdened with yet another name. So she stuck Edmond in there, and told me that E was behind the E of Edwin, so I wasn’t DEEW, I was DEW. Perhaps it helped.

I attended three colleges, all in New York State, none to much effect. Interposed amid this schooling was two and a half years in the United States Air Force, during which I also learned very little, except a few words in German. I was a sophomore in three colleges, finally made junior in Harpur College in Binghamton, NY, and left academe forever. However, I was eventually contacted by SUNY Binghamton, the big university that Harpur College had grown up to become. It was their theory that their ex-students who did not graduate were at times interesting, and worthy to be claimed as alumni. Among those she mentioned were cartoonist Art Spiegelman and dancer Bill T. Jones, a grandfaloon I was very happy to join, which I did when SUNY Binghamton gave me a doctorate in letters in June 1996. As a doctor, I accept no co-pay.

I have one sister, one wife and two ex-wives. (You can’t have ex-sisters, but that’s all right, I’m pleased with the one I have.) The sister was named by my mother Virginia, but my mother had doped out the question of Confirmation by then–Virigina’s two and half years younger than me, still–and didn’t give here a middle name. Her Confirmation name was Olga, the only thing my mother could find that would make VOW. The usual mother-daughter dynamic being in play, my sister immediately went out and married a man whose name started with B.

My wife, severally Abigail Westlake, Abby Adams Westlake and Abby Adams, which makes her three wives right there, is a writer, of non-fiction, frequently gardening, sometimes family history. Her two published books are An Uncommon Scold and The Gardener’s Gripe Book.

Seven children lay parental claims on us. They have all reached drinking age, so they’re on their own.

Having been born in Brooklyn, I was raised first in Yonkers and then in Albany, schooled in Platttsburgh and Troy and Binghamton, and at last found Manhattan. (At least I was looking in the right state.) Abby was born in Manhattan, which makes it easier. We retain a rope looped over a butt there, but for the last decade have spent most of our time on an ex-farm upstate. It is near nothing, which is the point. Our nearest neighbor on two sides is Coach Farm, producer of a fine goat cheese I’ve eaten as far away as San Francisco. They have 750 goats up there on their side of the hill. More importantly, they have put 770 acres abutting our land into the State Land Conservancy, so it cannot be built on. I recommend everybody have Miles and Lillian Cann and Coach Farm as their neighbors.

[Below is an excerpt from Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, Vol. 13]
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New York City, 1959

I knew I was a writer when I was eleven; it took the rest of the world about ten years to begin to agree. Up till then, my audience was mainly limited to my father, who was encouraging and helpful, and ultimately influential in an important way.

Neophyte writers are always told, “write what you know,” but the fact is, kids don’t know anything. A beginning writer doesn’t write what he knows, he writes what he read in books or saw in movies. And that’s the way it was with me. I wrote gangster stories, I wrote stories about cowboys, I wrote poems about prospecting–in Alaska, so I could rhyme with “cold”–I wrote the first chapters of all kinds of novels. The short stories I mailed off to magazines, and they mailed them back in the self-addressed, stamped envelopes I had provided. And in the middle of it all, my father asked me a question which, probably more than any other single thing, decided what kind of writer I was going to be.

I was about fourteen. I’d written a science-fiction about aliens from another planet who come to Earth and hire a husband-wife team of big-game hunters to help them collect examples of every animal on Earth for their zoo back on Alpha Centauri or wherever. At the end of the story, they kidnap the hero and heroine and take them away in the spaceship because they want examples of every animal on Earth.

Now, this was a perfectly usable story. It has been written and published dozens of times, frequently with Noah’s Ark somewhere in the title, and my version was simply that story again, done with my sentences. I probably even thought I’d made it up.

So I showed it to my father. He read it and said one or two nice things about the dialogue or whatever, and then he said, “why did you write this story?”

I didn’t know what he meant. The true answer was that science-fiction magazines published that story with gonglike regularity and I wanted a story published somewhere. This truth was so implicit I didn’t even have words to describe it, and therefore there was no way to understand the question.

So he asked it a different way: “What’s the story about?” Well, it’s about these people that get taken to be in a zoo on Alpha Centauri. “No, what’s it about?” he said. “The old fairy tales that you read when you were a little boy, they all had a moral at the end. If you put a moral at the end of this story, what would it be?”

I didn’t know. I didn’t know what the moral was. I didn’t know what the story was about.

The truth was, of course, that the story wasn’t about anything. It was a very modest little trick, like a connect-the-dots thing on a restaurant place mat. There’s nothing particularly wrong with connect-the-dots things, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with this constructivist kind of writing, a little story or a great big fat novel with nothing and nobody in it except this machine that turns over and at the end this jack-in-the-box pops out. There’s nothing wrong with that.

But it isn’t what I thought I wanted to be. So that question of my father’s wriggled right down into my brain like a worm, and for quite a while it took the fun out of things. I’d be sitting there writing a story about mobsters having a shootout in a nightclub office–straight out of some recent movie–and the worm would whisper: Why are you writing this story?

Naturally, I didn’t want to listen, but I had no real choice in the matter. The question kept coming, and I had to try to figure out some way to answer it, and so, slowly and gradually, I began to find out what I was doing. And ultimately I refined the question itself down to this: What does this story mean to me that I should spend my valuable time creating it?

And that’s how I began to become a writer.

Ancram, New York – Winter, 2001
Credit: David Jennings for The New York Times

Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)

Writer | Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922799/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

FOREVER AND A DEATH

See the complete article here:

http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Forever and a Death

Donald E. Westlake
June 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78565-423-7

Cover art by Paul Mann

A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!

Read a sample chapter
http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?entry=bk144&type=excerpt

Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule—had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead—a novel he never published while he was alive.

Now, nearly a decade after Westlake’s death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project’s genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.

First publication ever!
A lost novel by MWA Grand Master Donald E. Westlake
Inspired by Westlake’s treatment for a James Bond movie that never got filmed

Acclaim for DONALD E. WESTLAKE...

"One of the great writers of the 20th Century."
— Newsweek

"Westlake’s ability to construct an action story filled with unforeseen twists and quadruple-crosses is unparalleled."
— San Francisco Chronicle

"The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the book."
— USA Today

1961: Variety says the next likely Bond is Patrick Allen.

1961: Caroline Bliss is born--Hammersmith, London, England.
1966: Tony Mockler writes in The Guardian: "How long will the spies last? ...Is the spy bubble about to burst?"
1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 discovering Osato's connections to SPECTRE.

1973: UK general release for Live and Let Die.

1974: The Hollywood Reporter reports that the second unit for The Man With the Golden Gun relocated from planned Thailand locations, due to the collapse of the Thai government and political turmoil.
1979: Moonraker released in The Netherlands.

1981: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) dies at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.
(Born 19 June 1913-–London, England.)

Ann Fleming
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.

1985: Levande måltavla (Live Target; or Living Target) released in Sweden.

1989: Licence to Kill released in Austria, The Netherlands, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

2013: Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee dies at age 53--Seaford, East Sussex, England.
(Born is born 4 May 1960--Harrow, London, England.)

Paul Bhattacharjee obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jul/18/paul-bhattacharjee

Elegant and meticulous actor whose work ranged from
Shakespeare to EastEnders

Paul Bhattacharjee as Benedick with Meera Syal as Beatrice in the RSC's Much Ado About Nothing,
directed by Iqbal Khan, at Stratford last year. Photograph: Nigel Norrington

Paul Bhattacharjee (1960–2013)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080335/

2014: Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I, reported inspiration for Ian Fleming and Goldfinger, goes under the hammer.

Aston Martin that inspired 'Goldfinger' goes up for auction

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2014-07-11-aston-martin-that-inspired-goldfinger-goes-up-for-auction/
11 July 2014 - 12:08 By AFP Relaxnews

This 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I Vantage inspired Ian Fleming as he was writing the James Bond novel Goldfinger.
Image: AFP Relaxnews ©COYS

This Saturday, July 12, the 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/5 Mk I that inspired Ian Fleming when writing his James Bond novel Goldfinger will be auctioned by Coys of Kensington at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England.

The model going under the hammer belonged to a certain Lord Phillip Ingram Cunliffe-Lister, son of Lord Swinton, who once headed up the British Security Service (MI5) and was on close terms with Winston Churchill. The vehicle's owner, who was also Ian Fleming's boss, often visited Ian Fleming's next-door neighbors in Kent.

Coys notes that the car is equipped with reinforced steel bumpers, secret hiding places, an anti-interference ignition system and a two-way radio -- exactly like the model described in Goldfinger. Long abandoned, the Aston Martin in question has now been thoroughly restored. Somewhat surprisingly, the official catalog does not list the estimated value of this unique vehicle.

It is worth noting that the 1964 film adaptation of Goldfinger actually placed Sean Connery at the wheel of an Aston Martin DB5.

The model is one of over 90 collector cars going under the hammer this Saturday, including several Rolls-Royces, Ferraris, Mercedes, Jaguars and even a 1934 Bugatti Type 57 Series I Ventoux. The latter model is expected to fetch between £275,000 and £320,000 ($470,600-$547,500).

More information: www.coys.co.uk

2015: Skyfall re-release in the UK.
2016: Sotheby's auctions an edited copy of You Only Live Twice .

Ian Fleming’s Last Notes on ‘You
Only Live Twice’ Before His Death

http://www.realclearlife.com/auctions/ian-flemings-james-bond-you-only-live-twice-last-notes/
Edited version of penultimate novel up for auction with Sotheby's on July 12


Author Ian Fleming, circa 1960 (Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

For James Bond fans, You Only Live Twice might be one of the best book-and-movie combinations in the series—and a piece of its history is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s London on July 12. The last novel Fleming published before his death, You Only Live Twice finds Bond a broken man after the death of his wife, Tracy. The spy ends up venturing to Japan for a final showdown with his arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Ironically, the book ends with an obituary of Bond written by his boss, M. With Fleming’s passing just months after the book’s publication, You Only Live Twice is a fitting tribute to the Bond creator.

Sotheby’s is offering a complete, corrected typescript of the book—with proof markings in purple from Fleming’s copyeditor and blue pen from the author himself. Fleming’s typist produced just eight copies of the script for his publisher. Pre-auction estimates put it at $30,000–$40,000.

For more on the Fleming typescript, click here.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.162.html

Take a look at the first edited page of Bond’s obituary below.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.162.html

Fleming, Ian
'YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE', CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT,
with extensive corrections and proof markings by a copy-editor in purple ball-point, the corrected text then checked by the author in blue ball-point WITH SUBSTANTIVE AUTOGRAPH REVISIONS TO APPROXIMATELY 65 PAGES, mostly single words or short phrases but including one eight-line textual addition (p.228), further textual revisions added in a second editorial hand (presumably representing additional authorial revisions made in another typescript) in red ball-point, and also with occasional editorial queries in green ink (pp.26, 192, 197), the first four pages (contents, dedication, divisional title, and first page of text) supplied in contemporary photocopy from another copy of the typescript, the remainder being carbon copy typescript, 255 pages, post quarto (260 x 206mm), March-May 1963, punch holes, held together by a prong fastener in a blue folder labelled "You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming", lacking title page, some abrasion at punch holes, light marks, tears to folder

Literature
Gilbert A12a (pp.386-87)
Catalogue Note
WORKING TYPESCRIPT OF FLEMING'S TWELFTH BOND NOVEL, THE FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE 'BLOFELD TRILOGY'. It was also the first novel to be conceived and written after the beginning of the film franchise. Fleming had become fascinated with Japan on a 1959 visit. In 1962 he returned to the country, having decided that it would be the setting of his next Bond book (his research notes from the tip were sold at auction in 2002), and he began writing the novel shortly thereafter. By April 1963 the manuscript was completed and ready to be typed. His typist, Jean Frampton (who had typed all Fleming's manuscripts from For Your Eyes Only of 1959) produced eight copies for distribution to the editorial staff at Cape. The novel was printed in December 1963.

2020: A pop-up drive-in at New Westminster, British Columbia, shows another Bond film Sunday.

Next Bond Show:

Sun, 12 Jul 7:30 PM
Key West Ford presents a Pop-Up Drive in Movie Series - James Bond: Spectre
Starlight Casino, New Westminster
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/key-west-ford-presents-a-pop-up-drive-in-movie-series-james-bond-spectre-tickets-112371704794?aff=erelpanelorg

BT3366

These daily updates often turn up new information I was unaware of like the TMWTGG unit relocating due to government turmoil. And that's the first time I'd ever seen the name Patrick Allen connected with the search for the first Bond. He looks a lot like one of the models who was on the early paperback covers.

RichardTheBruce

July 13th

1945: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

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

Friday 13 July, 1945

I. came to dinner. He is likely to be offered a new job he thinks he won’t be able to refuse. Goodbye then to Jamaica and the dreams that have sustained him during the hard work of these last years.

1965: Sean Connery and Claudine Auger appear on the cover of Look Magazine.

1977: During the blackout in New York City, Marvin Hamlisch seeks a cab. And candles.

The Music of James Bond, Jon Burlingame, 2012.

Hamlisch: "...running on the streets of New York with everybody, trying, number one, to get a cab, and number two, more important, getting votive candles from a store so that we can set Carly up on her home with candles because New York is pitch black. I'll never forget it. Everything about Bond is over the top."

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me in limited US release.

1985: Title song "A View to a Kill" released by EMI-Capitol tops the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1.

1989: Permis de tuer released in Belgium.

2010: Alan Hume dies at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.
(Born 16 October 1924--London, England.)

Alan Hume obituary
Cinematographer known for his work on the Carry On films

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/17/alan-hume-obituary
Ronald Bergan | Tue 17 Aug 2010 13.14 EDT

Alan Hume started as a camera operator on Carry On Sergeant in 1958.
Photograph: Bondstars.com

Despite, or because of, the ancient, dirty jokes, schoolboy humour, double entendres, and a string of hammy actors tele-graphing each jest with pursed lips, rolling eyes or a snigger, the Carry On films have an army of devotees. Among the most regular actors were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Sid James, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor, and behind the camera, on almost all of the 30 Carry On movies, was the cinematographer Alan Hume, who has died aged 85.

Hume started as camera operator on the very first, Carry On Sergeant (1958), soon becoming director of photography (DP) on Carry On Regardless (1961), and continuing as DP until Carry On Columbus (1992) ended the franchise. Though few would make any artistic claims for the films, they were competently shot, rapidly, on a shoestring. Because of the rapport Hume built up over a long period with the producer Peter Rogers and the director Gerald Thomas – he worked with them for years without a contract – he knew exactly what was required.

In the foreword to Hume's autobiography, A Life Through the Lens: Memoirs of a Film Cameraman (2004), Rogers explained: "I have known Alan Hume almost as long as I know myself. I've known him as a giggling camera operator and as one of the film industry's foremost lighting cameramen. I say giggling operator because when we were working on the early Carry On films, he giggled so much … that he had to leave the stage to recover. I've also known him as a non-giggling operator as, for instance, when he was shooting a scene … hanging out of a doorless helicopter and holding a handheld camera."

The latter referred to Hume's second-unit filming of the spectacular pre-credit sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), in which James Bond (the stuntman Rick Sylvester standing in for Roger Moore), chased by baddies on skis, leaps off a cliff and opens up a Union Jack parachute. It was shot high on a mountain on Baffin Island, north Canada, after weeks of waiting for the weather to clear, so it had to be done in one take. "After so many weeks of preparing and anticipating this jump, I suddenly felt the blood rush from my face," Hume wrote. "This was it, and it was a far cry from my working diet of comedy and modest-budget dramas back in London."

Hume went on to be the daring cinematographer on three more Bonds, all starring Moore and directed by John Glen: For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985), each offering the well-tried formula of gals, guns, villains and glossy locations.

Hume, who was born in London, started in films as a clapper boy at Denham Studios, his first job being on Leslie Howard's The First of the Few (1942). A few films later, he was promoted to first assistant camera operator before being called up to serve in the Royal Navy during the second world war. "I was in the photographic unit. I learned more about photography in the navy than anywhere else." Hume returned to Denham, then Pinewood, where he was assistant to the cinematographer Guy Green on David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). From 1953 to 1960, he was chief camera operator on dozens of British films, then DP mostly on the Carry Ons, with a couple of grisly horror films – Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and From Beyond the Grave (1973) – thrown in.

In 1983, Hume was given the job of DP on the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, although he fell out with the producers when he protested about what he felt was their mistreatment of the director Richard Marquand and was replaced by his assistant Alec Mills. It was one of his very few Hollywood movies.

Among Hume's best work was Andrei Konchalovsky's Runaway Train (1985), shot in freezing conditions in Canada and Iceland, on a real train. Also to be commended was his camerawork for two veteran directors of British cinema, Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, 1989; Stepping Out, 1991), and Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda, 1988).

Hume was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers in 1964, serving as president for three years. He is survived by his wife, Sheila, and three children. His eldest son, Lindsey, a film editor, died in 1967. His other sons, Martin and Simon, and a grandson, Lewis, are camera operators, while his daughter Pauline is a titles designer.

• George Alan Hume, cinematographer, born 16 October 1924; died 13 July 2010

Alan Hume (I) (1924–2010)

Cinematographer | Camera and Electrical Department | Director
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401727/

2012: Chris Cornell performs "You Know My Name" the first day of Hard Rock Calling at Hyde Park, London.

2007 performance: Personal Festival Live, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

RichardTheBruce

July 14th

1918: Fred Haggerty is born--Budapest, Austria-Hungary.
(He dies 2002 at age 83.)

Fred Haggerty
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353635/

Filmography

Actor (44 credits)

1990 Nuns on the Run - Gatekeeper

1988 London's Burning (TV Series) - Couple in Flat
- Ding Dong Merrily (1988) ... Couple in Flat
1987 Indelible Evidence (TV Series documentary) - Peter Davis
- Hate Campaign (1987) ... Peter Davis
1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) - 2nd Guard
- Freezeheat (1986) ... 2nd Guard
1984 The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Movie) - Guard 1
1980 Play for Today (TV Series) - PC Jarvis
- Murder Rap (1980) ... PC Jarvis

1979 Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Guard / Alta Guard
- Shadow (1979) ... Guard (uncredited)
- Redemption (1979) ... Alta Guard (uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Attendant (uncredited)
1978 Law & Order (TV Mini-Series) - D.C.I. Tony Simmons
- A Brief's Tale (1978) ... D.C.I. Tony Simmons
- A Villain's Tale (1978) ... D.C.I. Tony Simmons
- A Detective's Tale (1978) ... D.C.I. Tony Simmons
1977 Candleshoe - Hood (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Stromberg Henchman (uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Munich Hotel Doorman
1975 Oil Strike North (TV Series) - Friend
- Shore Leave (1975) ... Friend
1974 The Bunny Caper - 2nd Guardsman
1973 Men of Affairs (TV Series) - KGB man #2
- To Russia With... (1973) ... KGB man #2

1965-1969 The Avengers (TV Series) - Private / Agent / Driver
- The Morning After (1969) ... Private (uncredited)
- Super Secret Cypher Snatch (1968) ... Agent (uncredited)
- The Hour That Never Was (1965) ... Driver
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 2nd Guardian
- Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 2nd Guardian
1967 Quatermass and the Pit - Fleeing Man (uncredited)
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Agent
- Man from the Dead (1967) ... Agent
1967 Casino Royale - Man in Casino (uncredited)
1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
- Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
1965 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Crewman
- Sucker Bait (1965) ... Crewman
1965 The Mind of the Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Taxi driver
- A Forcing Bid (1965) ... Taxi driver
1964 The Gorgon - Constable (uncredited)
1964 Carry On Spying - Dr. Crow's Assistant (uncredited)
1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - 2nd Coolie
- A Bank Fraud (1964) ... 2nd Coolie
1964 Z Cars (TV Series) - 2nd Wilson Brother
- The Whole Truth... (1964) ... 2nd Wilson Brother
1963 From Russia with Love - Krilencu
1963 The Crimson Blade - Soldier (uncredited)
1963 Captain Sindbad
1961 Gamble for a Throne (TV Series) - Roundhead Trooper
- Death of a Dictator (1961) ... Roundhead Trooper
- South for Slaughter (1961) ... Roundhead Trooper
1961 Operation Snafu - Airman (uncredited)
1961 A Coming-Out Party - German Guard (uncredited)
1960 Tunes of Glory - Sergeant (uncredited)
1960 There Was a Crooked Man
1960 Circus of Horrors - Second Roustabout (uncredited)

1959 The Mouse That Roared - Fenwickian (uncredited)
1957 Town on Trial - Man at Dance (uncredited)
1956 Up in the World - Footballer (uncredited)
1955 The Cockleshell Heroes - Marine (uncredited)
1955 Doctor at Sea - Released Prisoner (uncredited)
1953 The Titfield Thunderbolt - Townsman (uncredited)
1953 Raiders in the Sky - RAF Officer (uncredited)
1949 Passport to Pimlico - Man in Crowd (uncredited)

Stunts (15 credits)

1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (stunts)
1988 Willow (stunts)
1985 Lifeforce (stunts)
1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
1983 Krull (stunts - uncredited)
1983 Octopussy (additional stunts - uncredited)
1981 An American Werewolf in London (stunts)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)

1979 Blake's 7 (TV Series) (stunts - 2 episodes)
- Shadow (1979) ... (stunts - uncredited)
- Redemption (1979) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
1972-1973 The Protectors (TV Series) (stunt director - 3 episodes)
- Vocal (1973) ... (stunt director - as Fred Haggarty)
- It Was All Over in Leipzig (1972) ... (stunt director - as Fred Haggarty)
- Ceremony for the Dead (1972) ... (stunt director - as Fred Haggarty)

1965 The Avengers (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- The Master Minds (1965) ... (stunt double: Harvey Hall - uncredited)
1965 Doctor Who (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- The Meddling Monk (1965) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1963 A Place to Go (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Tunes of Glory (stunt coordinator - uncredited)

Archive footage (1 credit)

2005 From Russia with Love (Video Game)
Krilencu

1939: Sid Haig is born--Fresno, California.
(He dies 21 September 2019 at age 80--Los Angeles, California.)

Sid Haig, Horror Actor
and Cult Figure, Dies at 80

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/movies/sid-haig-dead-captain-spaulding.html

Mr. Haig was a character actor with roles in more than 70
movies, including the murderous clown Captain Spaulding in
Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses.”

Sid Haig with the actors Devanny Pinn, left, and Alexis Iacono in 2013.
Credit Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

By Laura M. Holson
Sept. 23, 2019

Sid Haig, a Hollywood character actor who for more than 50 years played thugs, villains and, most famously, a psychotic clown named Captain Spaulding, died on Saturday. He was 80.

His wife, Susan L. Oberg, announced his death on the actor’s Instagram account on Monday, writing, “He adored his family, his friends and his fans. This came as a shock to all of us.” No other details were given.

Mr. Haig, who lived in Los Angeles, played bit parts in more than 350 television shows and 70 movies, notably “Jackie Brown” and the James Bond thriller “Diamonds Are Forever.” He had become a cult figure among horror fans, who reveled in his portrayal of the murderous clown who terrorized people in the 2003 Rob Zombie film “House of 1000 Corpses.” He would go on to play Captain Spaulding in two other films from the director.

Rob Zombie, a musician turned filmmaker, wrote on his Instagram account Monday of Mr. Haig’s death, “Horray for Captain Spaulding. Gone but not forgotten.” Fans, too, expressed their grief on Twitter. Mr. Haig was the recipient of numerous awards for his acting in horror movies. In August, he was awarded the Vincent Price Award for excellence in the horror genre.

“I had the greatest night of my career,” he wrote on Instagram then.

https://twitter.com/TheRealElvira/status/1176202367668088837

Mr. Haig was a hulk of a figure whose lanky, long body towered over fellow actors. He was born Sidney Eddie Mosesian on July 14, 1939, in Fresno, Calif., according to his official website. His parents were Armenian, and his father was an electrician. He took dancing lessons and acted in high school. And he loved music. In 1958, according to the website, he played drums on the song “Full House” by the T-Birds.

Soon after, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater with a school for theater arts that trained actors including Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. In his early roles in film and on television, Mr. Haig played thugs and heavies mostly. In the 1968 cult classic “Spider Baby” he played a brother who cooks a cat; he was in the 1974 blaxploitation film “Foxy Brown” with Pam Grier; and he had a small role in “Diamonds Are Forever” in 1971.

Moviemakers delighted in his characters. Quentin Tarantino cast Mr. Haig in the 1997 movie “Jackie Brown,” a homage to the actor’s appearance in “Foxy Brown.” (Ms. Grier, too, starred in “Jackie Brown.”)


From left: Bill Moseley as Otis Driftwood, Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding and Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby in “Devil’s Rejects,” directed by Rob Zombie.
Credit Gene Page/Lions Gate Films

But it was as Captain Spaulding, the psychotic clown featured in “House of 1000 Corpses,” that Mr. Haig became a cult figure among horror fans. Mr. Haig said in a 2015 interview with CryticRock.com: “When I first read the script, I knew that it had the potential to do something. I did not know that it was going to be as well accepted as it was. But I did know that it had something going for it.”

In “House of 1000 Corpses,” Captain Spaulding runs the Museum of Monsters and Madmen housed in a run-down gas station on a barren stretch of Texas. There, the clown shoots a man after being attacked. Mr. Haig reprised the role two years later in “The Devil’s Rejects.” He also acted in a number of other horror films directed by Rob Zombie, including the 2007 remake of “Halloween.”

He was back as Captain Spaulding in “3 From Hell,” a sequel to “The Devil’s Rejects,” which was released this month. “He was very cool,” Mr. Haig said of working with Rob Zombie in his interview with CrypticRock.com. “He was really laid back. He would just tell you what he was looking for and then leave you alone and let you do your job. Which is what most directors should do.”

Cassandra Peterson, known by her stage name, Elvira, said she met Mr. Haig at Rob Zombie’s wedding in 2002. But it was on the road at horror fan conventions where they forged a friendship. “He played this horrible character in Rob’s movies, and it took fans by surprise when he was sweet and took time with them,” she said. “He may not have been a big star. But in our world, he was an icon.”

Indeed Mr. Haig was a fan favorite. He made regular appearances at festivals to sign autographs or appear as Captain Spaulding, who became a recognizable villain among mainstream audiences. In June, he attended the Mad Monster Party in Phoenix where he signed autographs for fans. Earlier that month he was in Las Vegas for the Days of the Dead horror convention.

Fans often dressed up like Captain Spaulding at conventions or had tattoos inked in homage to his famous character. The adulation surprised Mr. Haig. He said on Instagram in February, “The level of commitment to put my mug into your skin for life just blows me away.”

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Laura M. Holson is an award-winning feature writer from New York. She joined The Times in 1998 and has written about Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. A movie producer once held a butter knife to her neck. @lauramholson

Sid Haig (I) (1939–2019)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354085/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (149 credits)
2020 Junction Murders (pre-production) - Bobby
2019 Tabbott's Traveling Carnivale of Terrors (pre-production) - Zeek
Abruptio (filming) - Sal
2020 Hanukkah (completed) - Judah Lazarus
2019 3 from Hell - Captain Spaulding
2019 High on the Hog - Big Daddy
2018 Cynthia - Detective Edwards
2018 Tigtone (TV Series) - Lord Festus
- Tigtone and the Pilot (2018) ... Lord Festus (voice)
2018 Suicide for Beginners - Barry
2017/II Razor - Bartender Sam
2017 Death House - Icicle Killer
2016 Don't Do It! (Short) - Robert
2015 Bone Tomahawk - Buddy
2014 Twiztid: Sick Man (Video short) - The Overseer
2013 Zombex - The Commander
2013 The Penny Dreadful Picture Show - Shopkeeper
2013 Devil in My Ride - Iggy
2013 Holliston (TV Series) - Sid Haig
- Farm Festival (2013) ... Sid Haig
2013 Hatchet III - Abbott MacMullen
2012 The Sacred - The Stranger
2012 The Lords of Salem - Dean Magnus
2012 The Inflicted - Dr. Gardner
2011 Mimesis - Alfonso Betz
2011 Creature - Chopper
2010 Chadam (TV Series) - Simkin

2009 Dark Moon Rising - Crazy Louis
2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Video) - Captain Spaulding (voice)
2009 Thirsty (Short) - Radio Evangelist (voice)
2007 Brotherhood of Blood - Pashek
2007 Halloween - Chester Chesterfield
2007 The Haunted Casino - Roy 'The Word' Donahue
2006 A Dead Calling (Video) - George
2006 Little Big Top - Seymour
2006 Night of the Living Dead 3D - Gerald Tovar, Jr.
2005 House of the Dead 2 (TV Movie) - Professor Curien
2005 The Devil's Rejects - Captain Spaulding
2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Jay
2003 House of 1000 Corpses - Captain Spaulding
2001 Rob Zombie: Feel So Numb (Video short) - Pirate

1997 Jackie Brown - Judge
1992 Boris and Natasha (TV Movie) - Colonel Gorda
1990 Genuine Risk - Curly
1990 The Forbidden Dance - Joa

1989-1990 Just the Ten of Us (TV Series) - Bob
- Comedy Tonight (1990) ... Bob
- St. Augie's Blues: Part 2 (1989) ... Bob
- St. Augie's Blues: Part 1 (1989) ... Bob
1989 The People Next Door (TV Series) - The Taskmaster
- Dream Date (1989) ... The Taskmaster
1989 Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II - Donar
1988 Warlords - The Warlord
1988 Goddess of Love (TV Movie) - Hephaestus
1988 Werewolf (TV Series) - Bud Topolski
- King of the Road (1988) ... Bud Topolski
1987 Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) - General Skull Fracture
- Hammeroid (1987) ... General Skull Fracture
1987 Ohara (TV Series) - Turk
- Take the Money and Run (1987) ... Turk
1987 Commando Squad - Iggy
1985-1986 MacGyver (TV Series) - Khalil / Khan
- To Be a Man (1986) ... Khalil
- Thief of Budapest (1985) ... Khan
1985 Amazing Stories (TV Series) - Thug
- Remote Control Man (1985) ... Thug
1985 Misfits of Science (TV Series) - Swarthy Man
- Fumble on the One (1985) ... Swarthy Man
1985 Hill Street Blues (TV Series) - Heath
- An Oy for an Oy (1985) ... Heath
1985 Wildside (TV Series) - Burnett
- Don't Keep the Home Fires Burning (1985) ... Burnett
1981-1985 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Yusef / Arnie / Mr. Fick / ...
- Reel Trouble (1985) ... Yusef
- Undersea Odyssey (1984) ... Arnie
- Bail and Bond (1982) ... Mr. Fick
- Colt's Angels (1981) ... Biker
1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Gretz
- Ship of Spies (1985) ... Gretz
1983 Automan (TV Series) - 1st Gang Member
- Automan (1983) ... 1st Gang Member
1983 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sonny Jenko
- Black Day at Bad Rock (1983) ... Sonny Jenko
1978-1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Otto / Harlen / Hakeem
- The Tallowed Image/Room and Bard (1983) ... Otto
- My Late Lover/Sanctuary (1981) ... Harlen
- Homecoming/The Sheikh (1978) ... Hakeem
1982 Forty Days of Musa Dagh - General Hekemet
1982 The Aftermath - Cutter
1982 Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series) - Tagan
- Wilmer Bass and the Serengeti Kid (1982) ... Tagan
1982 Two Guys from Muck (TV Movie) - Thug
1982 T.J. Hooker (TV Series) - Gang Leader
- Hooker's War (1982) ... Gang Leader
1982 Bret Maverick (TV Series) - The Mighty Sampson
- The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur (1982) ... The Mighty Sampson
1982 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Slocum
- Miz Tisdale on the Lam (1982) ... Slocum
1981 Galaxy of Terror - Quuhod
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash - Vince
1981 Underground Aces - Faoud
1980-1981 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Pratt / Spirot
- Time of the Hawk (1981) ... Pratt
- Flight of the War Witch (1980) ... Spirot
1981 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Hatch
- Stain of Guilt (1981) ... Hatch
1980 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Gunther Maddox
- Murder, Murder on the Wall (1980) ... Gunther Maddox

1978-1979 Jason of Star Command (TV Series) - Dragos
- Battle for Freedom (1979) ... Dragos
- Mimi's Secret (1979) ... Dragos
- Little Girl Lost (1979) ... Dragos
- Phantom Force (1979) ... Dragos
- Face to Face (1979) ... Dragos
1979 Death Car on the Freeway (TV Movie) - Maurie
1978 Tarzan and the Super 7 (TV Series) - Dragos
1978 Coming Attractions - Lone Stranger
1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Asted
- Part II (1978) ... Asted
- Part I (1978) ... Asted
1976-1978 Switch (TV Series) - Farmer / Mahmud
- Photo Finish (1978) ... Farmer
- Round Up the Usual Suspects (1976) ... Mahmud
1978 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) - Reza
- Diamond in the Rough (1978) ... Reza
1978 Police Woman (TV Series) - - Blind Terror (1978)
1977/I McNamara's Band (TV Movie) - Zoltan
1976-1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) - Texas
- Episode #2.160 (1977) ... Texas (credit only)
- Episode #2.159 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.157 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.156 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
- Episode #2.155 (1977) ... Texas
1974-1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Reid / Dell
- Spitfire (1977) ... Reid
- Cop in the Middle (1974) ... Dell
1976 Spencer's Pilots (TV Series) - Ron Sears
- The Sailplane (1976) ... Ron Sears
1976 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (TV Series) - The Genie
- Ali Baba: Part 2 (1976) ... The Genie
- Ali Baba: Part 1 (1976) ... The Genie
1976 Monster Squad (TV Series) - Chief Running Nose
- No Face (1976) ... Chief Running Nose
1976 Delvecchio (TV Series) - George Borshak / Drug Addict
- Contract for Harry (1976) ... George Borshak
- The Avenger (1976) ... Drug Addict (uncredited)
1976 Wonderbug (TV Series) - Fur Smuggler
- Keep on Schleppin (1976) ... Fur Smuggler
1976 Swashbuckler - Bald Pirate
1976 The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (TV Movie) - Vince Cooley
1975 Run, Joe, Run (TV Series) - Tolbert
- The Htchhiker (1975) ... Tolbert
1975 Who Is the Black Dahlia? (TV Movie) - Tattoo Artist
1975 Emergency! (TV Series) - Spike
- Smoke Eater (1975) ... Spike
1974 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - B.J.
- Caledonia - It's Worth a Fortune! (1974) ... B.J.
1974 Get Christie Love! (TV Series) - Nick Varga
- Pawn Ticket for Murder (1974) ... Nick Varga
1974 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - 3rd Passenger
- Nuclear Alert (1974) ... 3rd Passenger
1974 Savage Sisters - Malavasi
1974 Foxy Brown - Hays
1974 Busting - Rizzo's Bouncer
1974 Shaft (TV Series) - Higget's Bodyguard
- The Murder Machine (1974) ... Higget's Bodyguard (uncredited)
1973 The Don Is Dead - The Arab
1973 Beyond Atlantis - East Eddie
1973 Coffy - Omar
1973 Emperor of the North - Grease Tail
1973 Wonder Women - Gregorious
1973 The No Mercy Man - Pill Box
1973 Black Mama White Mama - Ruben
1972 The Woman Hunt - Silas
1972 McMillan & Wife (TV Series) - Traylor
- Terror Times Two (1972) ... Traylor (uncredited)
1972 The Big Bird Cage - Django
1972 Beware! The Blob - Zed (uncredited)
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Ward
- Operation: XW-1 (1972) ... Ward
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Charlie
- New Faces (1971) ... Charlie
1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Griffin / Merkle / Outlaw
- The Day They Hanged Kid Curry (1971) ... Griffin
- Return to Devil's Hole (1971) ... Merkle
- Alias Smith and Jones (1971) ... Outlaw
1971 The Big Doll House - Harry
1971 Hitched (TV Movie) - Comstock
1971 THX 1138 - NCH
1970 Mannix (TV Series) - Harry Kellaway
- Deja Vu (1970) ... Harry Kellaway
1966-1970 Mission: Impossible (TV Series) - Musha / Agent #1 / Goujon / ...
- Decoy (1970) ... Agent #1
- The Choice (1970) ... Goujon
- Commandante (1969) ... Major Carlos Martillo
- Doomsday (1969) ... Marko
- The Diplomat (1968) ... Grigor
1970 C.C. & Company - Crow
1970 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Peter Savage
- Break the Bank of Tacoma (1970) ... Peter Savage

1967-1970 Get Smart (TV Series) - Guard / Bruce / Turk
- Moonlighting Becomes You (1970) ... Guard
- Shock It to Me (1969) ... Bruce
- That Old Gang of Mine (1967) ... Turk
1966-1969 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Eli Crawford / Buffalo Hunter / Cawkins / ...
- MacGraw (1969) ... Eli Crawford
- A Man Called 'Smith' (1969) ... Buffalo Hunter
- Time of the Jackals (1969) ... Cawkins
- Stage Stop (1966) ... Wade Hansen
1969 Che! - Antonio
1969 Pit Stop - Hawk Sidney
1969 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Kurt
- Lucy and the Great Airport Chase (1969) ... Kurt
1968 The Flying Nun (TV Series) - Señor Quesada
- The Return of Father Lundigan (1968) ... Señor Quesada
1968 The Hell with Heroes - Crespin
1968 Death Valley Days (TV Series) - Thief / Farber
- The Indiana Girl (1968) ... Thief
- The Saga of Sadie Orchard (1968) ... Farber
1968 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Typhoon
- The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart (1968) ... Typhoon
1967 Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told - Ralph
1967 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV Series) - Hood
- The Royal Follies of 1933 (1967) ... Hood
1966-1967 Iron Horse (TV Series) - Rias / Vega
- The Return of Hode Avery (1967) ... Rias
- Town Full of Fear (1966) ... Vega
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Alex / Vito
- The Prince of Darkness Affair: Part I (1967) ... Alex
- The When in Roma Affair (1967) ... Vito
1967 Point Blank - 1st Penthouse Lobby Guard
1967 It's a Bikini World - Daddy
1967 Star Trek (TV Series) - First Lawgiver
- The Return of the Archons (1967) ... First Lawgiver
1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Brunning
- The Last of the Caesars: Absolutely (1966) ... Brunning
1966 Batman (TV Series) - Royal Apothecary
- Tut's Case Is Shut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
- The Spell of Tut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
1966 Blood Bath - Abdul the Arab
1965 Beach Ball - Drummer for Righteous Brothers (uncredited)
1965 The Lucy Show (TV Series) - The Mummy
- Lucy and the Monsters (1965) ... The Mummy
1962 The Firebrand - Diego
1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Augie the Hood
- The Case Against Eliot Ness (1962) ... Augie the Hood
1960 The Host (Short) - The Fugitive

Producer (3 credits)
2020 Hanukkah (associate producer) (completed)
2019 High on the Hog (producer)
2009 Dark Moon Rising (co-producer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)
1988 Warlords (second unit director)
1972 The Big Bird Cage (second unit director)

Soundtrack (1 credit)
2009 Dark Moon Rising (performer: "Trouble (Is Back in Town)")

1952: Writing at Goldeneye, Ian Fleming creates the opening words for his novel Casino Royale.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino
are nauseating at three in the morning.

Fay Dalton, artwork.

1964: Goldfinger films pre-titles action at night.

1973: 007 死ぬのは奴らだ (Shinu no wa yatsurada; It's Those Who Die) released in Japan.

Book cover.

1982: Variety announces Roger Moore will return as James Bond. (A week earlier they reported James Brolin and Michael Billington as contenders.)
1985: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is born--Ealing, London, England.
1989: Licence to Kill released in the UK. Ireland. US.

1989: Roger Ebert reviews Licence to Kill in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Licence to Kill

See the complete article here:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/licence-to-kill-1989

| Roger Ebert | July 14, 1989 | 9

The James Bond movies have by now taken on the discipline of a sonnet or a kabuki drama: Every film follows the same story outline so rigidly that we can predict almost to the minute such obligatory developments as

1. (1) the introduction of the villain's specialized hit man;
2. (2) the long shot that establishes the villain's incredibly luxurious secret hideout;
3. (3) the villain's fatal invitation to Bond to spend the night;
4. (4) the moment when the villain's mistress falls for Bond;
5. (5) the series of explosions destroying the secret fortress, and
6. (6) the final spectacular stunt sequence.

Connoisseurs evaluate the elements in a Bond picture as if they were movements in a symphony, or courses in a meal. There are few surprises, and the changes are evolutionary, so that the latest Bond picture is recognizable as a successor to the first, "Dr. No," in 1962. Within this framework of tradition, "Licence to Kill" nevertheless manages to spring some interesting surprises. One is that the Bond character, as played now for the second time by Timothy Dalton, has become less of a British icon and more of an international action hero. The second is that the tempo has been picked up, possibly in response to the escalating pace of the Rambo and Indiana Jones movies. The third is that the villain has fairly modest aims, for a change; he doesn't want to rule the world, he only wants to be a cocaine billionaire.

I've grown uneasy lately about the fashion of portraying drug smugglers in glamorous lifestyles; they're viewed with some of the same glamor as gangsters were, in films of the 1930s. Sure, they die in the end, but they have a lot of fun in the meantime. In "Licence to Kill," however, the use of a drug kingpin named Sanchez (Robert Davi) and his henchmen (Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae) is apparently part of an attempt to update the whole series and make it feel more contemporary.

There are still, of course, the obligatory scenes. The film begins with a sensationally unbelievable stunt sequence (Bond and friend lasso a plane, then parachute to a wedding ceremony). But then the action switches to the recognizable modern world in and around Key West, Fla., where the British agent finds himself involved in an operation to capture Sanchez and cut his pipeline of cocaine.

Like all Bond villains, Sanchez has unlimited resources and a beautiful mistress. His operation uses an underwater shark-nabbing company as its cover, and keeps a few sharks on hand so they can dine on federal agents. After Bond's friend, Felix Leiter, is mistreated by the bad guys, 007 begins a savage vendetta against Sanchez, which involves elaborate and violent stunt sequences in the air, on land, and underwater.

He is aided in his campaign by the beautiful Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell, introduced as "Miss Kennedy, my executive secretary"), and saved more than once by Sanchez' beautiful mistress, Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto). Both women are as beautiful as the historical Bond standard, but more modern - more competent, intelligent and capable, and not simply sex objects. This is no doubt part of the plan, announced before Dalton's first Bond picture, to de-emphasize the character's promiscuous sex life. Compared to his previous films, 007 is practically chaste this time.

My favorite moments in all the Bond pictures involve The Fallacy of the Talking Killer, in which the villain has Bond clearly in his power, and then, instead of killing him instantly, makes the mistake of talking just long enough for Bond to make a plan. The fallacy saves Bond's life two or three times in this movie - especially once when all that Davi has to do is slice his neck.

"Licence to Kill" ends, as all the Bond films do, with an extended chase and stunt sequence. This one involves some truly amazing stunt work, as three giant gasoline trucks speed down a twisting mountain road, while a helicopter and a light aircraft also join in the chase. There were moments when I was straining to spot the trickery, as a big semi-rig spun along tilted to one side, to miss a missile aimed by the bad guys. But the stunts all look convincing, and the effect of the closing sequence is exhilarating.

On the basis of this second performance as Bond, Dalton can have the role as long as he enjoys it. He makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary. The major difference between Dalton and the earlier Bonds is that he seems to prefer action to sex. But then so do movie audiences, these days. "Licence to Kill" is one of the best of the recent Bonds.

1992: Putnam & Sons publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Death Is Forever in the US.

2017: ChiDunnit in Canada publishes the paperback version of Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, editors David Nickle and Madeline Ashby. (Originally published 23 November 2015.)

2019: The second of two 30th Anniversary screenings of Licence to Kill at the Prince Charles Cinema, London. (Alan Church attended the earlier 14 June event.)

30th Anniversary
Screening of ‘Licence to
Kill’ at the Prince
Charles Cinema
https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/30th-anniversary-screening-of-licence-to-kill-at-the-prince-charles-cinema/
On 7 Mar, 2019 By Bond on the BoxIn Film Screenings

Licence To Kill
The Prince Charles Cinema will celebrate the
30th Anniversary of ‘Licence to Kill’ with a
special screening on Friday, 14 June, 2019.

Film: ‘Licence to Kill’ (1989)
Location: Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK

Date:
Friday, 14 June, 2019
Sunday, 14 July, 2019

Time:
6:10 – 8:33 PM || 9:00 – 11:23 PM (BST)
8:50 PM – 11:13 PM (BST)

Tickets: £7.50 – £10.00

Sunday 14 Jul 2019
8:50pm

LICENCE TO KILL
Directed by John Glen
Starring Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell
30th Anniversary
1989 | 133mins | UK | rated (15)

James Bond adventure in which 007 relinquishes his licence to
kill, disobeys his orders and goes on a mission of revenge when
his best friend's wife is killed by a drug baron. A beautiful CIA pilot
flies him to Sanchez's South American headquarters where,
disguised as a hit man, Bond is hired by the villainous drug dealer.

We're pleased to announce that on Friday 14th June, Alan
Church will be introducing both the 18:10 and 21:00
performances.
Earlier:
Alan Church was Maurice Binders (Titles designer) assistant,
optical/Titles cameraman for Licence To Kill. He was involved in
the shooting of the titles and gun barrel sequence He was also
involved on 5 other Bond films in the 80's and 90's. Prior to the
screening Alan will be talking about his experience of shooting of
the last traditional titles/gun barrel of the entire Bond series

RichardTheBruce

July 15th

1963: From Russia With Love films the final scene on location in Venice.
1967: The You Only Live Twice soundtrack debuts in the US eventually topping at #27.

1975: Bond comic The Black Ruby Caper finishes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 19 February 1975. 2781–2897) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




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




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




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

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

Tamil Star comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/

Danish 1977 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no41-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 41: “The Black Ruby Caper” (1977)
"Kodenavn: Sorte Storm"
[Codename: Black Storm]

1983: Comic strip Polestar ends its run in The Daily Express, mid-way through the story. (Began 23 May 1983. 625-719) Complete versions eventually published in non-UK media. John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

Swedish Semic Comic 1984
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

Projekt Polstjärnan
(Project Polestar -
The Paradise Plot [Part 2])

1986: The National Broadcasting Network exercises the sixty-day option on Pierce Brosnan's contract to add another season to its (previously cancelled) television show Remington Steele.

1993: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers, misspelling a main character's name on the dustjacket.

NEVER SEND
FLOWERS

When Laura March, an officer
of the British Security Service,
is murdered in Switzerland,
James Bond is sent to liaise with
the local authorities. He teams
up with the local authorities. He teams
up with the lovely and lively
Flicka von Grősse, a member
of Swiss Intelligence, and
together they discover some
curious information about
Laura's past.

In turn, they become conscious
of a link between the March
murder and four recent,
high-profile assassinations,
in Rome, London, Paris and
Washington. They also discover
a further connection between
the assassinations and the
internationally famous actor,
David Dragonpol, who has
retired early from a spectacular
career and now lives in a castle
on the Rhine, in which every
room becomes a bizarre step
into the past.

But the past is dangerous, to
Dragonpol, Bond and Flicka,
and it leads them to a deadly
game of hide and seek, following
a sinister shadow across the
world, from Athens to Milan,
to Singapore, the United States
and back to Europe for a
denouement in the most
unlikely setting of EuroDisney
outside Paris.

JOHN GARDNER was educated
in Berkshire and at St John'ss
College, Cambridge. He has had
many fascinating occupations
and was, variously, a Royal
Marine officer, a stage magician,
theater critic, reviewer and
journalist.

As well as his James Bond novels,
most recently The Man from
Barbarossa and Death is Forever,
Gardner's other fiction includes
the acclaimed Herbie Kruger
trilogy and, more recently, The
Secret Generations, The Secret
Houses and The Secret Families.

Dragonpol

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

July 15th

1963: From Russia With Love films the final scene on location in Venice.
1967: The You Only Live Twice soundtrack debuts in the US eventually topping at #27.

1975: Bond comic The Black Ruby Caper finishes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 19 February 1975. 2781–2897) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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




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




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




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

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

Tamil Star comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/

Danish 1977 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no41-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 41: “The Black Ruby Caper” (1977)
"Kodenavn: Sorte Storm"
[Codename: Black Storm]

1983: Comic strip Polestar ends its run in The Daily Express, mid-way through the story. (Began 23 May 1983. 625-719) Complete versions eventually published in non-UK media. John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

Swedish Semic Comic 1984
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

Projekt Polstjärnan
(Project Polestar -
The Paradise Plot [Part 2])

1986: The National Broadcasting Network exercises the sixty-day option on Pierce Brosnan's contract to add another season to its (previously cancelled) television show Remington Steele.

1993: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers, misspelling a main character's name on the dustjacket.

NEVER SEND
FLOWERS

When Laura March, an officer
of the British Security Service,
is murdered in Switzerland,
James Bond is sent to liaise with
the local authorities. He teams
up with the local authorities. He teams
up with the lovely and lively
Flicka von Grősse, a member
of Swiss Intelligence, and
together they discover some
curious information about
Laura's past.

In turn, they become conscious
of a link between the March
murder and four recent,
high-profile assassinations,
in Rome, London, Paris and
Washington. They also discover
a further connection between
the assassinations and the
internationally famous actor,
David Dragonpol, who has
retired early from a spectacular
career and now lives in a castle
on the Rhine, in which every
room becomes a bizarre step
into the past.

But the past is dangerous, to
Dragonpol, Bond and Flicka,
and it leads them to a deadly
game of hide and seek, following
a sinister shadow across the
world, from Athens to Milan,
to Singapore, the United States
and back to Europe for a
denouement in the most
unlikely setting of EuroDisney
outside Paris.

JOHN GARDNER was educated
in Berkshire and at St John'ss
College, Cambridge. He has had
many fascinating occupations
and was, variously, a Royal
Marine officer, a stage magician,
theater critic, reviewer and
journalist.

As well as his James Bond novels,
most recently The Man from
Barbarossa and Death is Forever,
Gardner's other fiction includes
the acclaimed Herbie Kruger
trilogy and, more recently, The
Secret Generations, The Secret
Houses and The Secret Families.

15 July 1993. A great day. There'd be no @Dragonpol as my username without first the publication of John Gardner's Never Send Flowers (1993). Forever one of my favourite James Bond Continuation novels!

RichardTheBruce

July 16th

1963: Ian Fleming responds to Norman Felton's letter of 8 July, in part on the Solo project.

July 16, 1963

My near Norman,

Very many thanks for your letter and it was
very pleasant to see you over here although briefly
and so frustratingly for you.

Your Pacific islands sound very enticing, it would
certainly be nice to see some sun as ever since you
charming Americans started your long range weather
forecasting we have had nothing but rain. You might
ask them to lay off.

With best regards and I do hope Solo gets off the
pad in due course.

Yours ever,

Ian

1987: 鐵金剛大戰 特務飛龍 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn tèwù fēilóng; Iron King Wars Agent Flying Dragon) is released in Hong Kong.

2000: Q the Music offers a live medley from Piz Gloria--appropriately featuring music from On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Live rebroadcast for a limited time.

OHMSS Medley Trailer
Q The Music Show - James Bond Concert Spectacular

https://www.facebook.com/QTheMusicShow/videos/2368439073411730/
July 15, 2019 ·

Coming Tuesday 16 July 2000 London Time:

FULL 20 minute medley from On Her Majesty's Secret Service performed LIVE at Piz Gloria.

The video re-run will be broadcast "live" at 2000 and then taken down shortly afterwards - don't miss it!
https://www.facebook.com/QTheMusicShow/videos/ohmss-medley-trailer

Video will be shown here:
http://thelondonshowband.acemlna.com/lt.php…

Features:

• This Never Happened To The Other Fella
• Try
• Ski Chase
• Over And Out
• Battle At Piz Gloria
• Blofeld's Plot
• Gumbold's Safe

2010: Activision press release announces James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2010/07/16/james-bond-007-blood-stone-announced/

Award winning artist Joss Stone goes
undercover in Activision's James Bond
007: Blood Stone (DS version by n-Space)

See the complete article here:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/137509-award-winning-artist-joss-stone-goes-undercover-in-activision-s-j

16 July, 2010 by rawmeatcowboy

Santa Monica, CA – July 16, 2010 – Award winning artist Joss Stone is set to debut as the newest Bond girl in Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) James Bond 007: Blood Stone, an original Bond experience from legendary screenwriter Bruce Feirstein. In addition to stepping into a leading role, Grammy and BRIT Award winner Joss Stone will create original music for the game, luring players into an explosive third-person action adventure where they will unravel an international conspiracy across exotic locales. Players will experience full-throttle, behind-the-wheel action on land and sea while using the most high tech gadgetry known to James Bond 007, the world’s most skilled secret agent.

“James Bond 007: Blood Stone captures the cinematic intensity of a Bond film by immersing players in an intriguing conspiracy that will require them to think and act like James Bond,” said David Pokress, Head of Marketing for Licensed Properties, Activision Publishing. “In addition, the game will feature a diverse array of multi-player modes and debut strategic objective-based gameplay that will allow Xbox 360, PS3™ and PC players to battle as teams of spies and mercenaries through authentic Bond locales.”

James Bond 007: Blood Stone features the likeness and voice talent of Daniel Craig, Joss Stone and Judi Dench and features an epic, original story developed by legendary screenwriter Bruce Feirstein. Players can engage in cover-based firefights, lethal hand-to-hand combat and speed their way through explosive adrenaline-fueled driving sequences as they embark on a global chase leading to action on land and sea through Athens, Istanbul, Monaco and Bangkok. Gamers can also feel what it is like to be a 00 agent, as they take the battle online in several robust 16-person multi-player modes that require skill, teamwork and strategy as players compete in matches that will have spies battling mercenaries.

Joss Stone provides an original musical track to the game titled, “I’ll Take it All” written and performed by her and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. The song will be featured exclusively in James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

The James Bond 007: Blood Stone video game is being developed by critically acclaimed developer Bizarre Creations for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC under license from EON Productions Ltd and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM). Additionally, an original Nintendo DS™ game is being developed from the ground up by n-Space. For more information about the game, visit www.007.com.

"I'll Take It All" performed by Jess Stone and Dave Stewart and The Eurythmics


Blood Stone. 20:29 worth

2013: Science Daily says the CIA mined 007 for ideas.

A close Bond: How the CIA exploited 007 for gadget ideas
and public relations

See the complete article here:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130716075931.htm

Date: July 16, 2013
Source: University of Warwick
Summary:
The real-life CIA copied outlandish gadgets from Goldfinger and From Russia With Love, according to an analysis of declassified letters and interviews revealing the bond between Ian Fleming and Allen Dulles.

FULL STORY
The real-life CIA copied outlandish gadgets from Goldfinger and From Russia With Love, according to a University of Warwick analysis of declassified letters and interviews revealing the bond between Ian Fleming and Allen Dulles.

However the relationship between the former CIA director and the spy thriller writer went far deeper than raiding the novels for technological inspiration.

Through Dulles, the agency actively leaned on the British author to paint it in more positive light at a time when US film-makers, authors and journalists were silent about the activities of the CIA, fearful to even mention it by name.

Dr Christopher Moran from the University of Warwick has trawled through declassified letters and media reports from the 1950 and 60s for the study, Ian Fleming and the Public Profile of the CIA, published in the Journal of Cold War Studies.

He said: "There was a surprising two-way influence between the CIA and the James Bond novels during the Cold War, stemming from the mutual admiration between Allen Dulles and Ian Fleming.

"This ranged from the copying of devices, such as the poison-tipped dagger shoe in From Russia With Love, to the agency using the 007 novels to improve its public profile.

"It's even more striking that this was going on at time when mentioning the CIA was strictly off-limits for the US media and cultural establishment, whereas Fleming, as a British author, could say what he liked.

"For a long time, the James Bond books had a monopoly on the CIA's public image and the agency used this to its advantage."

Declassified letters between Allen Dulles and Ian Fleming reveal the former CIA boss's strong affection for the Bond novels -- he even persuaded the author not to pension off 007 in 1963.

And in a rediscovered 1964 edition of Life Magazine, Dulles describes his meeting with the 'brilliant and witty' Fleming in London in 1959 where the author told him that the CIA was not doing enough in the area of 'special devices'.

On his return to the US, Dulles urged CIA technical staff to replicate as many of Bond's devices as they could.

The article details how the CIA successfully copied Rosa Klebb's infamous spring-loaded poison knife shoe from the film From Russia with Love.

But it had less luck with the homing beacon device used in Goldfinger to track the villain's car -- the CIA version had 'too many bugs in it', Dulles said, and stopped working when the enemy entered a crowded city.

The letters between Dulles and Fleming also show how the CIA tapped into James Bond for public relations support, with the author agreeing to include a number of glowing references to the CIA in his later novels. He did this out of respect for Dulles, a close friend, but the effect was to promote the image of the CIA. In return, Dulles rhapsodised about Fleming in the American press, even saying on one occasion that his organisation "could do with a few James Bonds."

Dr Moran said: "The early 007 novels, written in the 1950s, introduce millions of readers to the CIA for the first time through the character of its agent Felix Leiter.

"Although Fleming's portrayal of the CIA is largely favourable, readers are left in no doubt that the British intelligence services are the superior outfit.

"In Live and Let Die, for example, Leiter comes across as a bit of a bungler, unable to blend in with the locals and forced to rely on paid informants.

"But in the later books, as the friendship between Dulles and Fleming deepens, a far rosier picture of the CIA emerges.

"For example, in Thunderball, Bond's boss 'M' dispenses with his characteristic economy of words to speak enthusiastically about the way the CIA is selflessly putting itself in the service of freedom.

"And Allen Dulles is even the subject of several honourable mentions in the later books.

"It really does come across as a bit of a mutual appreciation society."

Story Source:
Materials provided by University of Warwick. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.

Journal Reference:
Christopher Moran. Ian Fleming and the Public Profile of the CIA. Journal of Cold War Studies, 2013; 15 (1): 119 DOI: 10.1162/JCWS_a_00310

Cite This Page:
University of Warwick. "A close Bond: How the CIA exploited 007 for gadget ideas and public relations." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 July 2013. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130716075931.htm>.

Thunderfinger

I wonder who Agent Flying Dragon is?

RichardTheBruce

July 17th

1922: Tetsurô Tamba is born--Tokyo, Japan.
(He dies 24 September 2006 at age 84--Tokyo, Japan.)

Tetsuro Tamba
Japanese actor whose life was a journey from kitsch to cult
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/06/guardianobituaries.japan
Ronald Bergan | Wed 6 Dec 2006 04.17 EST

The Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba, who has died aged 84, was a recognisable face to that large group of film fans from the west who are followers of Asian genre movies. He was seen in every conceivable kind of film - disaster, gangster, samurai, war and horror, as well as a number of art films.

In an acting career that began in 1954, Tamba made more than 200 films; he admitted that he never refused a role, never memorised a script - and never sat through an entire film that he appeared in. One of his most well-known roles internationally was in Lewis Gilbert's You Only Live Twice (1967), the fifth blockbusting James Bond movie starring Sean Connery. Tamba played Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese secret service, who helps Bond save the world from destruction. The character is the mirror of Bond-san: he has a witty and sarcastic sense of humour, dresses smartly, is in perfect physical condition and has a taste for beautiful women. When Bond makes contact with him, he uses the password, "I love you."

One of the best exchanges between them is when they are being bathed by Tanaka's women. Tanaka: "You know what it is about you that fascinates them, don't you? It's the hair on your chest. All Japanese men have beautiful bare skin." Bond: "Japanese proverb say 'Bird never make nest in bare tree.'"

Gilbert also directed Tamba in The Seventh Dawn (1964). In the Malaya of 1945, he and William Holden are two pals who fought the Japanese together during the war but are now on opposing sides - Holden, an imperialist rubber plantation owner, and Tamba a communist guerilla. In another English-language film, Tamba played an ideological baddie in Bridge to the Sun (1961), as a militaristic diplomat at odds with a friend who married an American girl (Carroll Baker) before Pearl Harbor.

He was born Shozaburo Tanba (he is sometimes credited as Tetsuro Tanba) in Tokyo, the son of the emperor's personal doctor. After some years under contract to Shintoho studios, he went freelance in 1959 and began starring in films, mostly yakusa, jidai-geki (period) movies and gore spectacles. For example, he was the unheeded professor who predicts The Last Days of Planet Earth (1974). But he also worked with some of Japan's best directors, including Shohei Imamura - Pigs and Battleships (1961), 11'09.01-September 11 (2002), Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri, 1962), Kwaidan (1964), Kinji Fukasaku (Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, 1972) and Juzo Itami (A Taxing Woman Returns, 1988).

Towards the end of his life, Tamba made a few films for Takashi Miike: The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), and Gozu, 2003, in the former as a stern grandfather. He also had a cameo role as a harsh art critic in Teruo Ishii's Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001). In the 1980s, while appearing in around seven films a year, Tamba became leader of Dai Reien Kai (Great Spirit World), a spiritual cult movement, for which he made several propaganda videos based upon his theories of the afterlife. He is survived by his son, the actor Yoshitaka Tanba.

· Tetsuro Tamba (Shozaburo Tanba), actor, born July 17 1922; died September 25 2006

Tetsuro Tamba
https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tetsuro-tamba/credits/176543/

Actor (24 Credits)

The Twilight Samurai (Movie) Tozaemon Iguchi 2003
11'09"01: September 11 (Movie) Bonze 2002
The Happiness Of The Katakuris (Movie) Jinpei Katakuri 2001
Tokyo Pop (Movie) Dota 1988
Onimasa (Movie) The Big Boss 1982
The Bushido Blade (Movie) Lord Yamato 1982

Hunter In The Dark (Movie) Okitsugu Tanuma 1979
Message From Space (Movie) Noguchi 1978
Karate Bearfighter (Movie) 1977
Tidal Wave (Movie) Prime Minister Yamato 1975
Prophecies Of Nostradamus (Movie) 1974
Under The Fluttering Military Flag (Movie) 1972
The Five Man Army (Movie) Samurai 1970
The Scandalous Adventures Of Buraikan (Movie) Soshun 1970

Goyokin (Movie) Rokugo Tatewaki 1969
Black Lizard (Movie) Show Dancer 1968
Portrait Of Chieko (Movie) Kotaro Takamura 1967
You Only Live Twice (Movie) Tiger Tanaka 1967
Kwaidan (Movie) 1964
Samurai From Nowhere (Movie) Gunjuro Ohba 1964
The Seventh Dawn (Movie) Ng 1964
Harakiri (Movie) Hikokuro Omodaka 1962
The Diplomat's Mansion (Movie) 1961
Bridge To The Sun (Movie) Jiro 1961

Tetsurô Tanba (1922–2006)

Actor (334 Credits)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848533/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

1944: Catherine Schell is born--Budapest, Hungary.

1959: Laurence Evans from MCA offers advice to Fleming on Bond film deals.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

...Fleming changed his mind yet again and phoned
[Laurence] Evans to tell him the deal with Bryce was done and that he would no longer
be seeking his representation in the matter. But Evans was evidently uneasy
about the status of Xanadu and his client's interest in it and wrote to
Fleming on 17 July offering to have an unofficial look at the proposed terms.
"I am not interested so much with your ultimate remuneration from this
project as with the certainty or otherwise of the film being made." Clearly
Evans was anxious about the viability of Xanadu mounting a Bond film and
with the pending American TV version of From Russia With Love was sure
there would be renewed interest in Bond film rights. "It would be a great
pity if our hands were tied by arrangements which were not clearly defined
and suitably rewarding."

1963: From Russia With Love films the helicopter assault on Bond and Tatiana.
1963: Jonathan Cape's Michael Howard writes Richard Chopping regarding Fleming's opinion for elements of the eventual You Only Live Twice dust cover.

Michael Howard to Richard Chopping:

I have had a talk with Ian about the ideas for the ingredients
of this design. He is very much in favour of the toad ...
but with a suitable array of oriental embellishrangment,
i.e. toad plus Japanese flower arrangements, which he thinks
should be sitting in a suitable piece of Japanese pottery, perhaps
ornamented with a dragon motif. If you could manage a
pink dragonfly sitting on the flowers, and perhaps just one
epicanthic eye peering through them he thinks that
will be just splendid!

1965: The Saturday Evening Post features Sean Connery and The James Bond Cult.

1968: Roger Moore is photographed drinking a martini.

1977: BBC2 for the Open University airs its documentary Mass Communication and Society, an in-depth record of The Spy Who Loved Me film production. Eight parts.

007magazine.co.uk/news_tswlm40-2.htm

1990: Putnam publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Brokenclaw in the US. Hyphenated.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the stealth barge action. Pierce Brosnan splits his lip on a stuntman's helmet, receives eight stitches.

2004: Francis Patrick (Pat) Roach dies at age 67-- Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
(Born 19 May 1937--Birmingham, England.)

Pat Roach

See the complete article here:

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

Born Francis Patrick Roach, 19 May 1937, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Died 17 July 2004 (aged 67), Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
Nationality - British
Occupation - Actor, wrestler, author, businessman
Years active - 1960–2004
Height - 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)[1][2]
Television - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Spouse(s) - Doreen Harris (m. 1957)
Children - 2

Francis Patrick Roach (19 May 1937 – 17 July 2004) was an English actor, and professional wrestler. During an acting career between the 1970s and the 1990s he appeared in multiple films, usually cast as a support player strongman villain. He appeared in the Indiana Jones cinema, as the West Country bricklayer Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in the 1980s British television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and in the role of Petty Officer Edgar Evans in the television production The Last Place on Earth.

Early life
Roach was born and brought up in Birmingham, West Midlands, the son of Francis "Frank" Roach (born 1905). He was National Judo Champion in 1960, and Midland Area Black Belt Champion in 1962.

Sports career

Roach boxed as an amateur before becoming professional as a protege of Jack Solomons.

He began his professional wrestling career under the name of "Judo" Pat Roach. After his acting career had begun, he continued to wrestle under the name of "Bomber" Pat Roach, having previously been billed as "Big" Pat Roach before receiving affectionate cheering from the audience. He was trained by Alf Kent, his first official wrestling match was against George Selko in 1960. Roach held both the British and European heavyweight championships at one time.

Acting career
Roach made his acting debut as the red-bearded bouncer in the Korova Milkbar in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. He worked on another Kubrick film, Barry Lyndon, where he played a hand-to-hand brawler named Toole who engages Ryan O'Neal in fistfight. Roach went on to play a number of strong-man supporting character roles in films in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, including the nonspeaking role of Hephaestus in Clash of the Titans alongside Laurence Olivier.

He later appeared as Atlas in the story of Perseus and the Gorgon in Clash of the Titans. He also appeared as a SPECTRE-backed assassin in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, and as bandit-warlord Lord Brytag in the sword-and-sorcery film Red Sonja. He appeared as the skull-helmeted General Kael in the film Willow; the evil wizard Thoth-Amon in Conan the Destroyer and as the Celtic chieftain in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

In an alternative from playing strongman villains, in 1985 he played Petty Officer Edgar Evans in the Central TV miniseries The Last Place on Earth about Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole. Roach was turned down as Darth Vader in Star Wars; however, its director, George Lucas, subsequently cast him as several burly villains in the Indiana Jones film series in the 1980s. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he played two roles: the first being a giant Sherpa who fights Jones in the bar in Nepal, the second being a German Luftwaffe mechanic who fistfights with Jones before being killed by an aircraft's propeller blades on the airstrip in Egypt. In the next film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Roach played a Thuggee guard in a mine who fights with Jones before being killed in a rock crusher. His final appearance in the series was as a Gestapo officer in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, he appears only briefly as the character's fight with Jones was cut because director Steven Spielberg considered the scene "too long" and served as a subplot.

Roach played the character of Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in the comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen Pet, as a West Country bricklayer who appeared in all four of the full length series.

Personal life

Roach's grave in Bromsgrove

Roach married Doreen Harris in 1957, the marriage producing a son and a daughter.

In the 1990s Roach owned and managed a scrapyard in Saltley, Birmingham, he also ran a gym on Gravelly Hill North, Erdington, in North-East Birmingham.

Roach died on 17 July 2004 of esophageal cancer. His body was buried in Bromsgrove Cemetery, Worcestershire.

Pat Roach (I) (1937–2004)

Actor | Stunts
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730053/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2006: James Bond 'Ultimate Edition' DVD Boxed Set Releases.

2018: Final day to object to settlement of a class action suit on the labeling of James Bond DVD/Blu-ray box sets.

James Bond Complete Boxed Sets Class Action Settlement

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/closed-settlements/839004-james-bond-complete-boxed-sets-class-action-settlement/

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #9.

JAMES BOND 007 #9

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532509011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Khoi Pham
Cover C: Kano
Cover D: Eric Gapstur
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Eric Gapstur
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: July 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 7/17/2019

"THE HEIST"
Plan is set. Clock gets tight. Goldfinger bets big.

The modern 007 epic continues from GREG PAK (Batman/Superman, Hulkverines) and ERIC GAPSTUR (The Flash: Season Zero).

Revelator

This is the best obituary of Tetsurô Tamba.

Another blog collects some choice Tamba anecdotes:

TETSURO TAMBA (1922-2006)
LEGENDS OF...

Tamba was once stopped by the police for driving too fast. When asked to show his driver’s license, he explained hastily “I don’t need a license. I am a G-Man!” Tamba was then starring in the action TV show G-MAN 75…

Tamba once showed up for work at a Japanese studio. He was told that he wasn’t scheduled to shoot anything that day. It turns out he was supposed to be at a rival film company instead. I’d like to think the speeding incident happened that same day as he hurried to the other location.

While working on his brief but memorable late night TV talk show TAMBA CLUB, the elderly Tamba would sometimes ask members of the female staff in the most polite way possible, “I’m sorry but…did I f*** you?”

Tamba once bragged during an interview about having sex with a beautiful girl. The interviewer recognized the name and told Tamba that she was actually a he. His response, “I didn’t know that.”

RichardTheBruce

July 18th

1913: Eric Pohlmann is born--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
(He dies 25 July 1979 at age 66--Bad Reichenall, Bavaria, Germany.)

Eric Pohlmann

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

Born - Erich Pollak, 18 July 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died - 25 July 1979 (aged 66), Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Years active - 1948–1979
Spouse(s) - Liselotte Goettinger (1939–1968; her death; 2 children)

Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain.

Early life
Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.

In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, Odette and Carve Her Name With Pride), into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he was now known, as butler.

Career
After the war, he began a career on the London stage. Among other roles he played "Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s, Pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. He was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Orientals; he also played King George I, King George II in Disney's Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and King George III twice.

One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reed's classic The Third Man (1949). He also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare (1954), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Expresso Bongo (1960). He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge (1952), Mogambo (1953), Lust For Life (1956) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor - The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) and The House of the Seven Hawks (1959).

He displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying (1964) and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975).

Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann regularly returned to his homeland to play numerous character roles in German and Austrian film and television productions. He had guest roles in the popular crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick, and also appeared in television plays for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, often under the direction of Franz Josef Wild [de]. In addition to The Defence Counsel (1961) with Barbara Rütting and Carl Heinz Schroth, he appeared in Der Kleine Lord (1962) with Albrecht Schoenhals and Michael Ande, as well as The Dreyfus Affair (1968) with Karl Michael Vogler and Bernhard Wicki. In 1962, Pohlmann also appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel.

Pohlmann's greatest success in German TV drama came in 1970 with an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman In White, one of the most successful television productions of the year which gained over 9 million viewers. Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun and Helmut Käutner. The mini-series has a cult following to this day.

Pohlmann was a regular on British television, taking the role of "Inspector Goron" in the 1952-1954 TV series Colonel March of Scotland Yard with Boris Karloff, and appearing as a guest star in such series as The Saint, The Champions, The Avengers, Danger Man, Department S, Jason King and Paul Temple.

In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváth's play Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods). The film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall. He was 66.

In 2006, the Turner Classic Movies "31 Days of Oscar" festival was based on the theme of "360 Degrees of Oscar" (based on the game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon") in which TCM chooses an actor who has played a significant role in Oscar history, and builds its entire schedule around him. They chose Eric Pohlmann.

He also appeared on stage (Henry Cecil's Settled Out Of Court is a production this editor remembers seeing him in).

Filmography

List of acting performances in film, theatre, and television
Year Title Role Notes

1949 Portrait from Life - Search group leader
1949 Marry Me! - Mr. Cinelli Uncredited
1949 The Third Man - Waiter at Smolka's Uncredited
1949 Children of Chance - Sergeant

1950 Chance of a Lifetime - Xenobian
1950 Cairo Road - Ship's Captain
1950 State Secret - Cable Car conductor
1950 Blackout - Otto Ford
1950 The Clouded Yellow - Greek taxidermist
1950 Highly Dangerous - Joe - the bartender
1950 Traveller's Joy - Gustafsen
1951 The Long Dark Hall - Mr. Polaris (the mystery witness)
1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Louis, the proprietor
1951 There Is Another Sun - Markie
1952 His Excellency - Dobrieda
1952 The Woman's Angle - Steffano
1952 Emergency Call - Flash Harry
1952 Penny Princess - Monsieur Paul Uncredited
1952 Venetian Bird - Gostini
1952 Monsoon - Molac
1952 The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Goin
1952 Moulin Rouge - Picard Uncredited
1952 The Gambler and the Lady - Arturo Colonna
1953 The Beggar's Opera - Inn Keeper
1953 Mogambo - Leon Boltchak
1953 Blood Orange - Mr. Mercedes
1953 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue - King George I
1953 36 Hours - Slossen, the smuggler
1954 They Who Dare - Captain Papadapoulos
1954 Knave of Hearts - Boarding House Proprietor Uncredited
1954 Flame and the Flesh - Marina Proprietor
1954 Forbidden Cargo - Steven Lasovich
1954 The Belles of St Trinian's - The Sultan of Makyad
1955 The Glass Cage - Henri Sapolio
1955 A Prize of Gold - Fischer
1955 Break in the Circle - Emile
1955 The Constant Husband - Papa Sopranelli
1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - M. Ballard
1955 The Adventures of Quentin Durward - Gluckmeister
1956 The Gelignite Gang - Mr. Popoulos ("Populace")
1956 Reach for the Sky - Adjutant of Prison Camp
1956 Lust for Life - Colbert
1956 High Terrace - Otto Kellner
1956 House of Secrets - Gratz
1956 Zarak - Tobacco seller Uncredited
1956 Anastasia - Von Drivnitz Uncredited
1957 The Counterfeit Plan - Frank Wandelman
1957 Interpol - Etienne Fayala
1957 Let's Be Happy - Customs Official
1957 Fire Down Below - Hotel Owner
1957 Across the Bridge - Police Sergeant
1957 Not Wanted on Voyage - Pedro
1957 Barnacle Bill - Liberamanian Consul
1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Sawyer
1958 I Accuse! - Bertillon
1958 The Duke Wore Jeans - Bastini - Prime Minister
1958 Nor the Moon by Night - Anton Boryslawski
1958 The Man Inside - Tristao
1958 Further Up the Creek - President
1958 Mark of the Phoenix - Duser
1959 Three Crooked Men - Masters
1959 John Paul Jones - King George III
1959 Alive and Kicking - Captain
1959 The House of the Seven Hawks - Captain Rohner
1959 Upstairs and Downstairs - Mario
1959 Expresso Bongo - Leon

1960 Life Is a Circus - Rickenbeck
1960 Sands of the Desert - Scrobin
1960 Surprise Package - Chief of Police Stefan Miralis
1960 Man Who Couldn't Walk - The Consul General
1960 No Kidding - King
1960 Passport to China - Ivono Kong
1960 Snowball - Editor
1961 The Singer Not the Song - Presidente
1961 Carry On Regardless - Sinister Man
1961 The Kitchen - Mr. Marango
1962 The Puzzle of the Red Orchid - Kerkie Minelli
1962 Village of Daughters - Marcio (A Father)
1962 Mrs. Gibbons' Boys - Morelli
1962 The Devil's Agent - Bloch
1963 Cairo - Nicodemos
1963 Follow the Boys - Italian Farmer
1963 55 Days at Peking - Baron von Meck
1963 Shadow of Fear - Henry Spiroulos
1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1963 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - King George III
1963 The Sicilians - Inspector Bressin
1964 Hot Enough for June - Galushka
1964 Carry On Spying - The Fat Man
1964 Night Train to Paris - Krogh
1965 Joey Boy - Antonio (Italian farmer)
1965 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - Italian Mayor
1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1966 Where the Spies Are - Farouk
1967 Heißes Pflaster Köln - Benno Trooger
1967 The Mini-Affair - World Banker
1968 Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt [de] - Alter General
1968 Inspector Clouseau - Bergesch

1970 Foreign Exchange - Borensko TV film
1971 The Woman in White [de] - Count Fosco TV miniseries
1971 The Horsemen - Merchant in Kandahar
1973 Tiffany Jones - Jabal
1975 The Return of the Pink Panther - Fat Man
1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Iwan Pederenko
1976 Duett zu dritt
1979 Ashanti - Zeda El-Kabir
1979 Tales from the Vienna Woods - Mister

1980 Maria - Nur die Nacht war ihr Zeuge

Eric Pohlmann (1913–1979)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688384/

1930: Burt Kwouk is born--Warrington, Cheshire, England.
(He dies 24 May 2016 at age 85--Hampstead, London, England.)

Burt Kwouk obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/24/burt-kwouk-obituary

Actor best known for his roles in the Pink Panther films and the
BBC’s Last of the Summer Wine
Ronald Bergan | Tue 24 May 2016 12.24 EDT

Burt Kwouk, right, was a regular co-star with Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films,
including Return of the Pink Panther, 1975. Photograph: SNAP/Rex/Shutterstock

Anna May Wong, the first of the few Chinese actors to gain Hollywood stardom, explained why she retired from the screen: “I was so tired of the parts I had to play. Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain? And so crude a villain – murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass. We are not like that. How should we be, with a civilisation that is so many times older than that of the west?” Burt Kwouk, who has died aged 85, felt the same way but, as he remarked: “I look at it this way – if I don’t do it, someone else will. So why don’t I go in, get some money and try to elevate it a bit, if I can?”

Kwouk, mostly seen in British films and TV, did manage to elevate many of his roles, finally transcending stereotypes such as his celebrated Cato, the foil to Peter Sellers’ bungling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies, to become a national treasure, this status being consecrated in 2002 by his joining the cast of the BBC’s longest running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.

Kwouk was born in Warrington, Lancashire, “because my mother happened to be there at the time,” but at 10 months old was taken back to the family home in Shanghai. There he remained until he was 17, when his well-off parents sent him to the US to study politics and economics. However, before he was able to graduate his parents lost all their money in the 1949 revolution, and he returned to Shanghai. A few years later, Kwouk took advantage of his dual nationality and returned to Britain, where he took various menial jobs before his girlfriend “nagged me into acting”. Capitalising on his oriental looks, he started getting roles mostly as villainous or comic Chinese or Japanese characters.

One of his first TV appearances was a comic one, in a Hancock’s Half Hour (1957), as a Japanese man presenting two bowls of rice to Tony Hancock, who has won a lifetime’s supply in a newspaper competition. A year later, Kwouk was fortunate, so early in his career, to have one of his better film roles in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, set in China but shot in Wales. Kwouk, one of the few genuine Chinese people in the cast, played Li, who helps Ingrid Bergman, as the English Christian missionary Gladys Aylward, escape from the Japanese with 100 children. After a long and arduous journey, he is shot and killed by Japanese soldiers when he tries to distract them from the children.

He was soon cast in a couple of Hammer Horror films, The Terror of the Tongs, as one of evil Christopher Lee’s hatchet men, and Visa to Canton (both 1961). Kwouk was subsequently to play the sidekick of Lee’s Fu Manchu in The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) and The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969). But in The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu (1980), Sax Rohmer’s master criminal was played by Sellers, with Kwouk as his manservant. It was a best-forgotten, dismal ending to Sellers’ career, but it did give him and Kwouk a last chance to work together.

Their first chance had come 16 years before in A Shot in the Dark (1964), the second of Blake Edwards’s slapstick comedies featuring Sellers as the extraordinarily maladroit Inspector Clouseau, who seemed unable to cross a room without breaking something. Kwouk played Clouseau’s Chinese “houseboy”, whose sole function was to ambush his master with kung fu attacks at the most unexpected moments from the most unsuspected places. These brilliantly choreographed running and jumping gags, which always resulted in the destruction of Clouseau’s apartment and Cato coming off worst, were the highlights of all the Pink Panther films, which included The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).

“Peter and I fell about laughing so much that very often we were unable to complete the day’s work as scheduled, which the producers hated,” Kwouk recalled. “Cato and I are very different. He never stands still. I only move when I have to.” The death of Sellers in 1980 didn’t prevent Edwards from making The Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) by piecing together out-takes and clips from the previous films in the series. Kwouk was seen as Cato, bravely being interviewed about his boss, and again in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), this time as proprietor of the Clouseau museum. Kwouk’s protracted association with the Pink Panther series ended with Son of the Pink Panther (1993), in which, in various disguises, he attacks villains on behalf of Roberto Benigni in the title role.

Kwouk also appeared in three James Bond movies: Goldfinger (1964), as a nuclear scientist sent to oversee the bomb that China has given to Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) to blow up Fort Knox, but who is later double-crossed and shot; Casino Royale (1967), as a Chinese general; and You Only Live Twice (1967), as one of Blofeld’s gang of Spectre henchmen.

His other roles varied from Chairman Peng of the People’s Republic in Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) to a corrupt Laotian general who’s hoping to save up enough money to buy a Holiday Inn in the US in Air America (1990), to the trustworthy contact in Paris of Jet Li’s Chinese cop in the formulaic martial arts thriller Kiss of the Dragon (2001).

Parallel to his film career, Kwouk made a niche for himself on British television in series including The Saint (1965-68), It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1977-78), Doctor Who (1982), and as himself in The Kenny Everett Show (1983-84) and The Harry Hill Show (1997-2000). But the role that revealed his underused talents as a dramatic actor was Major Yamauchi, the strict but honourable commandant of a women’s POW camp in Tenko (1981-84).

In contrast was his Mr Entwistle, a philosophical electrical handyman from Hull in Last of the Summer Wine, a part specially written for him by Roy Clarke. “It is a very pleasant and easygoing programme, a lovely gentle comic show,” Kwouk remarked. “There is no one charging around, and even the slapstick is quite gentle – certainly more gentle than I am used to.”

Kwouk’s voice was almost as famous as his face. It can be heard in the video game Fire Warrior, narrating the English version of the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (1976-78), the bizarre “interactive” gambling show Banzai! (2001-04) and in many TV commercials.

Kwouk was appointed OBE in 2011 for services to drama.

He is survived by Caroline Tebbs, whom he married in 1961, and their son Christopher.

• Burt Kwouk, actor, born 18 July 1930; died 24 May 2016

https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/person/223941

Films | Year | Film | Role

1958 Windom's Way (villager)
1959 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Li)
1959 Upstairs and Downstairs (Chinese restaurant proprietor)

1960 Expresso Bongo ([Soho youth])
1960 The Terror of the Tongs (Ming)
1960 Visa to Canton (Jimmy)
1962 Satan Never Sleeps (Ah Wong)
1962 The Sinister Man (Captain Feng)
1963 The Cool Mikado ([art teacher])
1964 Goldfinger (Mr Ling)
1965 A Shot in the Dark (Kato)
1965 Curse of the Fly (Tai)
1966 Our Man in Marrakesh (export analysis manager)
1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu (Feng)
1966 The Sandwich Man (ice cream salesman)
1967 Casino Royale ([Chinese Army officer at auction])
1967 You Only Live Twice (SPECTRE No 3)
1968 Nobody Runs Forever (Pham Chinh)
1969 The Most Dangerous Man in the World (Chang Shou)

1970 Deep End (hot dog stand man)
1972 Die Folterkammer des Doktor Fu Manchu (henchman)
1975 Girls Come First (Sashimi)
1976 Return of the Pink Panther (Cato)
1977 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Cato)
1977 The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It (Chinese delegate)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (Cato)

1982 Trail of the Pink Panther (Cato)
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther (Cato)

1990 I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (Fu King owner)
1992 Carry On Columbus (Wang)
1993 Leon the Pig Farmer (art collector)

2004 Fat Slags (Dalai Lama)

Burt Kwouk (1930–2016)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0477297/

1963: El satánico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Argentina.

1979: Moonraker released in South Africa.

1983: People Weekly celebrates Bond's Babes.

1988: Licence to Kill filming begins at Churubusco Studios, Mexico City.

2006: Casino Royale films the final action of the chase across the airport, completing principal photography.

2015: Glu Mobile releases menu-based role-playing game James Bond: World of Espionage as a free app for the Android and iOS platforms.

2019: Albert David Hedison Jr. dies at age 92--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 20 May 1927--Providence, Rhode Island.)

David Hedison, Actor in
'Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea’ and ‘The Fly’, Dies at 92

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/david-hedison-dead-dies-the-fly-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-1203275257/
Mackenzie Nichols, Staff Writer


David Hedison, a film, television, and theater actor known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the sci-fi adventure television series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” and as the crazed scientist turned human insect in the first iteration of the film “The Fly,” died on July 18. He was 92, and the family said in a statement that he “died peacefully” with his daughters at his side.

“Even in our deep sadness, we are comforted by the memory of our wonderful father. He loved us all dearly and expressed that love every day. He was adored by so many, all of whom benefited from his warm and generous heart. Our dad brought joy and humor wherever he went and did so with great style,” said the family in a statement.

David Hedison, born Al Hedison, was from Providence, R.I. and studied at Brown University where he grew fond of the theater, becoming a part of the university’s theater production group “Sock and Buskin Players.” He then moved to New York, studying with Sanford Meisner at “The Neighborhood Playhouse” as well as Lee Strasberg of “The Actor’s Studio.” In the 1950s, he appeared in “Much Ado About Nothing” and “A Month in the Country,” working with Uta Hagen and Michael Redgrave on productions by Clifford Odets and Christopher Fry, among others.

Shortly after “A Month in the Country,” Hedison first hit the big screen with his role in the 1957 film “The Enemy Below” and in the 1958 film “Son of Robin Hood.” He also played André Delambre in “The Fly,” (1958) which became a cult phenomenon and sparked a remake in 1986 with Jeff Goldblum reprising the role. Hedison then signed with Twentieth Century Fox in 1959 and changed his first name to David, his given middle name. In 1964, he hit his big television break as Captain Lee Crane in producer Irwin Allen’s “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” which ran until 1968.

He also joined Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die” as well as Timothy Dalton in 1989 with “License to Kill,” becoming the first actor to play CIA agent Felix Leiter twice. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on shows such as “Another World,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat,” “Who’s the Boss” and “The Colbys.”

According to family members, Hedison joked during his final days that “instead of RIP he preferred SRO ‘Standing Room Only.'” They said that he was “tall and strikingly handsome,” and “a true actor through and through.”

Hedison’s wife, Bridget, a production associate on “Dynasty” and an assistant to producer on “The Colbys,” died in 2016. He is survived by two daughters; Serena and Alexandra, an actress and director who is married to Jodie Foster.

Donations may be made to the Actor’s Fund.

http://david-hedison.com/wp/filmography/
Filmography

Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (2017) Interviewee #2
Superman and the Secret Planet (Video) (2013) ….. Jor El
The Reality Trap (2005) …. Morgan Jameson
“The Young and the Restless” …. Arthur Hendricks / … (50 episodes, 2004)
… aka “Y&R” – USA (promotional abbreviation)
– Episode #1.8018 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8017 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8015 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8014 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
– Episode #1.8012 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
(45 more)
Spectres (2004) …. William
… aka “Soul Survivor” – USA (cable TV title)
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001) …. Daniel Alexander
… aka “Megiddo” – USA (short title)
Mach 2 (2001) …. Senator Stuart Davis

Fugitive Mind (1999) (V) …. Senator Davis
“Another World” (1964) TV series …. Spencer Harrison (1991-1996, 1999) (unknown episodes)
Sheng zhan feng yun (1990) …. US Ambassador
… aka “Undeclared War” – Hong Kong (English title)

Licence to Kill (1989) …. Felix Leiter
“Murder, She Wrote” …. Mitch Payne / … (3 episodes, 1986-1989)
– Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 2 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Casper
– Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 1 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Caspar
– The Perfect Foil (1986) TV episode …. Mitch Payne
“The Law and Harry McGraw” …. Blake Devaroe (1 episode, 1987)
– Mr. Chapman, I Presume? (1987) TV episode …. Blake Devaroe
“Who’s the Boss?” …. Jim Ratcliff (1 episode, 1987)
– Mona (1987) TV episode …. Jim Ratcliff
“The Colbys” …. Lord Roger Langdon / … (9 episodes, 1985-1987)
– Devil’s Advocate (1987) TV episode …. Roger Langdon
– The Honeymoon (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
– My Father’s House (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
– Burden of Proof (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
– The Trial (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
(4 more)
“Hotel” …. Dr. Howard Bentley / … (2 episodes, 1985-1987)
– Pitfalls (1987) TV episode …. Dr. Howard Bentley
– Distortions (1985) TV episode …. Jack Fitzpatrick
Smart Alec (1986) …. Frank Wheeler
… aka “Hollywood Dreaming” – USA (alternative title)
“Trapper John, M.D.” …. Miles Warner (1 episode, 1985)
– The Second Best Man (1985) TV episode …. Miles Warner
“The A-Team” …. David Vaun (1 episode, 1985)
– Mind Games (1985) TV episode …. David Vaun
“Crazy Like a Fox” …. Ed Galvin (1 episode, 1985)
– Eye in the Sky (1985) TV episode …. Ed Galvin
“A.D.” …. Porcius Festus (5 episodes, 1985)
– Part 5 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 4 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 3 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 2 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
– Part 1 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
“Knight Rider” …. Theodore Cooper (1 episode, 1985)
– Knight in Retreat (1985) TV episode …. Theodore Cooper
“Double Trouble” …. David Burke (2 episodes, 1985)
– The Day of the Rose (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
– September Song (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
“Finder of Lost Loves” …. Neil Palmer (1 episode, 1985)
– Haunted Memories (1985) TV episode …. Neil Palmer
“Simon & Simon” …. Austin Tyler (2 episodes, 1985)
– Simon Without Simon: Part 2 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
– Simon Without Simon: Part 1 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
“The Love Boat” …. Cliff Jacobs / … (7 episodes, 1977-1985)
– Love on the Line/Don’t Call Me Gopher/Her Honor, the Mayor (1985) TV episode …. Barry Singer
– Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 1 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
– Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 2 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
– April in Boston/Saving Grace/Breaks of Life (1982) TV episode …. Bradford York
– Lady from Sunshine Gardens/Eye of the Beholder/Bugged (1981) TV episode …. Allan Christensen
(2 more)
“The Fall Guy” …. Jordan Stevens / … (3 episodes, 1982-1985)
– Her Bodyguard (1985) TV episode …. Monte Sorrenson
– Undersea Odyssey (1984) TV episode …. Milo
– The Snow Job (1982) TV episode …. Jordan Stevens
“Partners in Crime” …. Davidson (1 episode, 1984)
– Fantasyland (1984) TV episode …. Davidson
The Naked Face (1984) …. Dr. Peter Hadley
“Fantasy Island” …. Captain John Day / … (6 episodes, 1978-1984)
– Don Juan’s Last Affair/Final Adieu (1984) TV episode …. Daniel Garman
– Everybody Goes to Gilley’s/Face of Fire (1982) TV episode …. Phillip Camden
– Show Me a Hero/Slam Dunk (1981) TV episode …. Captain John Day
– Man-Beast/Ole Island Oprey (1981) TV episode …. David Tabori
– The Chateau/White Lightning (1981) TV episode …. Karl Dixon/Claude Duncan
(1 more)
Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983) (TV) …. Carson
“Dynasty” …. Sam Dexter (2 episodes, 1983)
– The Vote (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
– The Downstairs Bride (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
“Amanda’s” …. David (1 episode, 1983)
… aka “Amanda’s by the Sea” – USA (alternative title)
– All in a Day’s Work (1983) TV episode …. David
“Matt Houston” …. Pierre Cerdan (1 episode, 1982)
– Recipe for Murder (1982) TV episode …. Pierre Cerdan
“T.J. Hooker” …. Saxon (1 episode, 1982)
– The Protectors (1982) TV episode …. Saxon
“Hart to Hart” …. Miles Wiatt (1 episode, 1982)
– Hart of Diamonds (1982) TV episode …. Miles Wiatt
The Awakening of Cassie (1982)
“Nero Wolfe” …. Phillip Corrigan (1 episode, 1981)
– Murder by the Book (1981) TV episode …. Phillip Corrigan
“Charlie’s Angels” …. Carter Gillis / … (2 episodes, 1978-1981)
– He Married an Angel (1981) TV episode …. John Thornwood

– Angels in the Stretch (1978) TV episode …. Carter Gillis
“Benson” …. John Taylor (1 episode, 1979)
– Pilot (1979) TV episode …. John Taylor
The Power Within (1979) (TV) …. Danton
“Greatest Heroes of the Bible” …. Ashpenaz (1 episode, 1979)
– Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar (1979) TV episode …. Ashpenaz
ffolkes (1979) …. King
… aka “North Sea Hijack” – UK (original title)
… aka “Assault Force” – USA (TV title)
“Flying High” (1 episode, 1978)
– High Rollers (1978) TV episode
Colorado C.I. (1978) (TV) …. David Royce
“Project U.F.O.” …. Frederick Flanagan (1 episode, 1978)
… aka “Project Blue Book” – USA (alternative title)
– Sighting 4011: The Dollhouse Incident (1978) TV episode …. Frederick Flanagan
“The Bob Newhart Show” …. Steve Darnell (1 episode, 1978)
– It Didn’t Happen One Night (1978) TV episode …. Steve Darnell
“The New Adventures of Wonder Woman” …. Evan Robley (1 episode, 1977)
… aka “Wonder Woman” – USA (original title)
… aka “The New Original Wonder Woman” – USA (first episodes title)
– The Queen and the Thief (1977) TV episode …. Evan Robley
Murder in Peyton Place (1977) (TV) …. Steven Cord
“Barnaby Jones” …. Paul Nugent (1 episode, 1977)
– The Deadly Charade (1977) TV episode …. Paul Nugent
“Gibbsville” (1 episode, 1977)
– The Grand Gesture (1977) TV episode
“Family” …. Peter Towne (2 episodes, 1976)
– Coming of Age (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
– Coming Apart (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
“Ellery Queen” …. Roger Woods (1 episode, 1976)
– The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer (1976) TV episode …. Roger Woods
“Bronk” …. Lyle Brewster (1 episode, 1975)
– Betrayal (1975) TV episode …. Lyle Brewster
“Cannon” …. Bell / … (3 episodes, 1973-1975)
– The Star (1975) TV episode …. David Farnum
– Night Flight to Murder (1973) TV episode …. John Sandler
– The Dead Samaritan (1973) TV episode …. Bell
The Art of Crime (1975) (TV) …. Parker Sharon
The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) (TV) …. Dr. Wes Dolan
Adventures of the Queen (1975) (TV) …. Doctor Peter Brooks
For the Use of the Hall (1975) (TV) …. Allen
“The ABC Afternoon Playbreak” …. Clay (1 episode, 1974)
… aka “ABC Matinee Today” – USA (alternative title)
– Can I Save My Children? (1974) TV episode …. Clay
“The Manhunter” …. Jeffrey Donnenfield (1 episode, 1974)
– The Man Who Thought He Was Dillinger (1974) TV episode …. Jeffrey Donnenfield
The Compliment (1974) (TV) …. Steve Barker
“Wide World Mystery” …. Herbert Kasson (1 episode, 1974)
– Murder Impossible (1974) TV episode …. Herbert Kasson
“Medical Center” …. Dave (1 episode, 1974)
– Dark Warning (1974) TV episode …. Dave
“Shaft” …. Gil Kirkwood (1 episode, 1974)
– The Capricorn Murders (1974) TV episode …. Gil Kirkwood
“The New Perry Mason” …. Calvin (1 episode, 1973)
– The Case of the Frenzied Feminist (1973) TV episode …. Calvin
The Cat Creature (1973) (TV) …. Prof. Roger Edmonds
Live and Let Die (1973) …. Felix Leiter
… aka “Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
Crime Club (1973) (TV) …. Nick Kelton
“The F.B.I.” …. Lou Forrester (2 episodes, 1972-1973)
– A Gathering of Sharks (1973) TV episode
– The Buyer (1972) TV episode …. Lou Forrester
The Man in the Wood (1973) (TV) …. Edmund hardy
“BBC Play of the Month” …. John Buchanan (1 episode, 1972)
– Summer and Smoke (1972) TV episode …. John Buchanan
“ITV Saturday Night Theatre” …. Bill Kromin (1 episode, 1972)
– A Man About a Dog (1972) TV episode …. Bill Kromin
A Man About a Dog (1972) (TV) …. Bill Kronin
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971) (TV) …. Kit Shaeffer
Kemek (1970) …. Nick

“Love, American Style” …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”) (1 episode, 1969)
– Love and the Bachelor/Love and the Other Love/Love and the Positive Man (1969) TV episode …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”)
“Journey to the Unknown” …. William Searle (1 episode, 1968)
– Somewhere in a Crowd (1968) TV episode …. William Searle
“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” …. Captain Crane / … (110 episodes, 1964-1968)
– No Way Back (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– The Death Clock (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– The Edge of Doom (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– Attack! (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
– Flaming Ice (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
(105 more)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) …. Philip
… aka “George Stevens Presents The Greatest Story Ever Told” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
“The Farmer’s Daughter” …. Richard Barden (1 episode, 1964)
– The Mink Machine (1964) TV episode …. Richard Barden
“The Saint” …. Bill Harvey (1 episode, 1964)
– Luella (1964) TV episode …. Bill Harvey
“Perry Mason” …. Damion White (1 episode, 1962)
– The Case of the Dodging Domino (1962) TV episode …. Damion White
“Bus Stop” …. Max Hendricks (1 episode, 1961)
– Call Back Yesterday (1961) TV episode …. Max Hendricks
Marines, Let’s Go (1961) …. Pfc. Dave Chatfield
“Hong Kong” …. Roger Ames (1 episode, 1961)
– Lesson in Fear (1961) TV episode …. Roger Ames
The Lost World (1960) …. Ed Malone
… aka “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World” – USA (complete title)

“Five Fingers” …. Victor Sebastian (5 episodes, 1959)
– Final Dream (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– The Temple of the Swinging Doll (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– The Emerald Curtain (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– The Men with Triangle Heads (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
– Station Break (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) (uncredited) …. Narrator
… aka “Leo McCarey’s Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!” – USA (complete title)
The Son of Robin Hood (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Jamie
The Fly (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Andre Delambre
The Enemy Below (1957) (as Al Hedison) …. Lt. Ware (Executive Officer [XO])
“Star Tonight” (1 episode, 1956)
– The Mirthmaker (1956) TV episode (as Al Hedison)
“Kraft Theatre” (1 episode, 1955)
… aka “Kraft Television Theatre” – USA (original title)
… aka “Kraft Mystery Theatre” – USA (new title)
– Eleven O’Clock Flight (1955) TV episode (as Al Hedison)

As Himself
Atomic Recall (2007) (V) (special thanks)
On the Set with John Glen (2006) (V) …. Himself
“SoapTalk” …. Himself (2 episodes, 2004)
– Episode dated 23 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 18 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood’s Scariest Insect (2000) (TV) …. Himself
Inside ‘Licence to Kill’ (1999) (V) …. Himself
To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill (1997) (TV) …. Himself
… aka “Hollywood Aliens & Monsters” – USA (original title)
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) (TV) …. Himself
ABC’s Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978) (TV) …. Himself
“The Hollywood Palace” …. Himself (1 episode, 1967)
– Episode #5.3 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
“Dream Girl of ’67” …. Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
– Episode dated 7 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 6 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 5 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 4 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
– Episode dated 3 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
“The Hollywood Squares” …. Guest Appearance (5 episodes, 1967)
– Episode #1.93 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.92 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.91 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.90 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
– Episode #1.89 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance

Archive Footage
The 16th Annual Soap Opera Awards (2000) (TV) …. Spencer Harrison
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
The Horror Show (1979)

RichardTheBruce

July 19th

1966: Lucrezia Lante della Rovere is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.

1988: Licence to Kill films Felix Leiter disagreeing with something that eats him.
1989: Licencia para matar (Catalan tite, Llicència per matar) released in Spain.

Not to be confused with this 1975 film. Or 1965 film.

2016: Garry Trent Marshall dies at age 81--Burbank, California.
(Born 13 November 1934--The Bronx, New York City, New York.)

Garry Marshall (I) (1934–2016)

Writer | Producer | Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005190/

Far left.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Kill Chain #1.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #1 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017801011
Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Cover B: Juan Doe
Cover C: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Publication Date: July 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 7/19

When a counterespionage operation in Rotterdam goes catastrophically wrong,

James Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of a plot to smash NATO. Someone is assassinating allied agents, and 007 is the next target in the kill chain. Having kept the peace for decades, the old alliance is collapsing, pitting MI6 against its former ally - the CIA! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the return of writer Andy Diggle (James Bond: Hammerhead, The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One) and artist Luca Casalanguida (James Bond: Hammerhead) as they plot the return of James Bond's oldest and deadliest foe: SMERSH!

RichardTheBruce

July 20th

1938: Diana Rigg is born--Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.

1960: Ian Fleming writes a letter to Richard Chopping soliciting book cover art for Thunderball.

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.

1965: 007 contra Goldfinger released in Colombia.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 stealing a moon buggy.

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

2006: Principal photography is a wrap for Casino Royale.
2006: Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reports Chris Cornell is working on the Bond title song.

RichardTheBruce

July 21st

1975: Goldfinger re-released in Spain.

1977: 鐵金剛勇破 海底城 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò hǎidǐ chéng; Iron King Underwater City) released in Hong Kong.
1978: Lewis Gilbert in The San Bernardino Sun says the next Bond film will have Bond and Drax but little else from Moonraker.

THE SUN-TELEGRAM

Can James Bond beat the Brazilian
bureaucracy ?

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780721.1.51&e=
Fri., July 21, 1978
By EDGAR MILLER Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil

Much of James Bond's next muItimillion dollar spy movie will take place in Brazil if nature and the Brazilian government decide to cooperate. One of the main scenes in Brazil, says English director Lewis Gilbert, would be at Iguazu Falls on the Brazil-Paraguay border. But a severe drought in southern Brazil has left the normally spectacular falls a barren cliff with only a tiny stream of water. Gilbert, whose last James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me," grossed, he claims, more than $100 million, says filming of the Brazilian part of "Moonraker" will begin In January and that by that time, he hopes summer rains will have filled the Parana River with water again. The other problem the production company is facing is Brazilian bureaucracy. The scripts of all movies filmed in Brazil must be approved in advance by the government. So far, the "Moonraker" script is languishing on some bureaucrat's desk in Brasilia. "I don't think we'll have any real problem with the Brazilians," Gilbert says. '"This is the most fantastic advertising that Brazil could have." He said that Brazilian authorities apparently are concerned that foreign movie producers might show the seamier side of Brazilian life. "But they don't have to worry because we only show the beautiful part," Gilbert says. "James Bond is a creature of luxury and he doesn't hang around in favelas." Favelas are Brazilian slums.

Gilbert says tourism in Egypt jumped tremendously after "The Spy Who Loved Me," much of which was filmed there. Other scenes from "Moonraker" will be filmed in Paris, Venice, San Francisco and Guatemala. The movie will have little in common with the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, Gilbert says, except for Bond, to be played by Roger Moore, beautiful girls and the villain, Hugo Drax. As for plot, Gilbert would only say it will deal with space, noting the whole concept of space has changed since Fleming wrote the book. Carnival scenes from Rio's famous pre-Lenten celebration were filmed earlier this year. "We'll use them for backdrops and re-create our own carnival for Bond," Gilbert says. The famous Bond escapades are a "top secret" but Gilbert promises they will "top anything up to now." Cost of the production will be considerably more than the $15 million the previous Bond movie cost, Gilbert says. It will be Gilbert's third Bond movie and his 31st film.

1988: Licence to Kill films OO7 attacking Q.
1989: 007 ja lupa tappaa (007 and Permission to Kill; or Swedish: 007 och rätten att döda, 007 and the Right to Kill) released in Finland.

https://007travelers.blogspot.com/2016/09/007-item-james-bond-007-007-ja-lupa.html

2012: BBC Radio 4 airs its third Bond radio drama: From Russia With Love. Toby Stephens returns.

2018: Macario “Mac” Gómez Quibus dies at age 92--Olesa de Montserrat, Spain.
(Born 8 March 1926--Reus, Spain.)

https://www.cinematerial.com/artists/mac-macario-gomez-quibus-i565

RichardTheBruce

July 22nd

1940: The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) begins work that lasts until 15 January 1946, preceding MI6.

The real "James Bond Girls"

See the complete article here:

https://findery.com/Chung123/notes/the-real-james-bond-girls

Before MI6 replaced it after WW II, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) operated 22 July 1940 – 15 January 1946 at 64 Baker.

Vera Atkins was the French Section head 1941-45 in charge of sending secret agents to the French Resistance.

37 of her agents were women. 14 died while in captivity. Several moms who were secret agent women were captured from betrayal and tortured.

The military status of women in WW II was never immediately recognized and Vera fought hard to ensure those executed at concentration camps were given Killed In Action status and memorialized. Three women would receive the George Cross: Odette Sansom, Violette Szabo, and Noor Inayat Khan. The latter two were executed.

Secret agent women often were wireless operators transmitting messages back to London from various underground networks in France. Some saw gun battles and hand-to-hand combat. Most parachuted into France. Some boated. A few had landing fields.

They all were trained in weaponry and spy gadgetry. Below is a mini-camera spies often carried.

They also had silencers, a pen that could shoot one bullet, coins with daggers, pencils with spikes, fake train fog alert devices with explosives, silk maps with escape routes, compass maps, kid-sized portable motorcycles, piano wire garrote and other accessories along with their radio.

They had to move often to maintain secrecy from safe house to safe house.

SOE inspired M in James Bond films. French Section head Vera Atkins is widely believed to be Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond books. She managed 400 secret agents.

But "James Bond girls" are a far cry from the real thing.

Many of Vera Atkins' secret agent women maintained their secrecy while enduring torture for weeks and months, and 12 were executed at concentration camps.

Two women Noor Inayat Khan and Odette Sansom were the Gestapo's most wanted. They had leading roles like James Bond. Secret agent women included moms who had kids. Survival rates were barely 1 in 2.

Now THAT would make an interesting James Bond film.

Vera May Atkins, CBE

1974: Claudio Santamaria is born--Rome, Italy.
1974: The Man with the Golden Gun films OO7 and Goodnight escaping explosions on Scaramanga's island.

1989: 鐵金剛勇戰 殺人狂魔 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn shārén kuáng mó; Iron King Fighting Murderer) released in Taiwan.

2011: Linda Christian dies at age 87--Palm Desert, California.
(Born 13 November 1923--Tampico, Mexico.)



2015: A new Spectre trailer comes available.

SPECTRE THE BEST JAMES BOND
TRAILER EVER

See the complete article here:

http://www.movieviral.com/2015/07/22/spectre-the-best-james-bond-trailer-ever/

by James Murphy | 22 July 2015

SPECTRE TRAILER ANALYSIS

Well, it’s here. ‘Finally’ as Christoph (‘honestly not Blofeld at all’) Waltz’s baddie might say. The trailer for SPECTRE.

The film is released in October. It is Produced by EON PRODUCTIONS; Distributed by SONY PICTURES /MGM and is Directed by Academy Award winner SAM MENDES. It stars DANIEL CRAIG as JAMES BOND. Recently wrapped on principal photography; the film is now in the post-production /editing stages.

MEANTIME: WATCH THE TRAILER. IT IS AMAZING!

The piece speaks for itself. So sit back, relax, sip that Martini and BEHOLD the BRILLIANT trailer
for SPECTRE!


But we cannot resist a few leading comments. In depth ANALYSIS. For Screen and Country, you understand.

This is CLASSIC Bond
Instantly. ALL the aesthetics of a Sean Connery/Roger Moore era feast, fused with the fidelity to the Ian Fleming novels and emotional maturity of the Timothy Dalton films. All built directly, it seems, on the continuity within the last three films, via neat dash of ret-con: rewarding fans whilst keeping things relatively self-contained.

There’s EVEN a HINT of the theme to ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE. Now, that COULD just be trailer score. But I’ll bet Thomas Newman will FINALLY be the Bond composer to re-work THAT tune in a film, alongside the traditional Bond theme.

DANIEL CRAIG looks perfect: calculating, cool, commanding. Decent haircut. Worked out but not hulking. Brooding still but newly buoyant, smiling stride in step. He helps set a timeless tone whilst avoiding pastiche.

The WOMEN
Strong. Beautiful. Complex. Everything they should be in the modern Bond film, whilst retaining a glamour and femininity that ensures 007 never feels redundant. There is a real spark between Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci. Lea Seydoux is divine.

GADGETS
The car is a proper Aston Martin, with ACTUAL defence measures. That’s right. No more nods and winks with tagged on machine guns in a vintage model or mere glove compartments containing medical devices. This is a proper James Bond car that can do impossible things whilst keeping one wheel in reality (they stop short of invisibility). Notice also: a Q BRANCH scene! IE gadgets being built in the background!

STUNTS /ACTION
Truly SPECT(RE)ACULAR. The rooftop action across Mexico City feels exotic and urgent. Snow-based scenes in Austria have adventurous, atmospherics. Killings look brutal yet quick, thereby retaining the punchy realism, whilst keeping it all 12A/ PG-13.

LOCATIONS
London is prominent. Cf: IAN FLEMING’S MOONRAKER. It IS an exotic location: if in doubt, just VISIT the place! We also get: Austrian snow; Mexican sun; remarkable Rome and a romantic train ride. Short of going underwater or into space (again), it’s difficult to think of anywhere else this movie could possibly take you.

VILLAINS

There is a pervasive sense of menace. You FEEL Bond is hopelessly outnumbered. The organisation: SPECTRE, of the title, is the main nemesis here. But also a shadowy figurehead, played by Christoph Waltz.

Waltz is BORN to play this part. The official character name is Oberhauser. HE IS NOT BLOFELD. But LOOK at his SUIT! THEN tell yourself it’s not Blofeld, Bond’s arch-nemesis. Yep. Told you so.

Like all good villains, this ‘not Blofeld’ has an imposing henchman (Mr. Hinx, played by Dave Bautista, who impressed us all in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY). Also featuring: Jasper Christensen’s Mr. White; previously a ‘big bad’ himself in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE).

PLOT /TONE/PREDICTIONS/LAST WORDS
A BRILLIANT trailer: shows glimpses of everything yet gives away ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! One is left satisfied and oddly NOT seeking any further information until the release in October. Yet still very curious and hyped.

What little DO we know in terms of substantial plot points? This time it’s personal. AGAIN. Bond is clearly in trouble at Mi6. AGAIN. And his past is under scrutiny. AGAIN. That’s not a complaint: those beats simply ‘work’ in the Craig era and it seems they are being brought full circle into the bigger picture of traditional Bond fantasy.

We don’t know what the ‘macguffin’ is here (in SKYFALL it was a missing list of agents and then the life of Judi Dench’s M). But it seems that Lea Seydoux’s Madeline Swann holds the key to the plot that Bond must decode. He must locate and protect her in order to take down the evil organisation known as SPECTRE. So begins a personal and dangerous quest, linked to Bond’s previous ‘pain’.

Quibbles? THAT WHITE TUXEDO! Fix it in post-production. NOW! Looks awful on Craig and if they needed a nod to old school Bond costumes: why not put him in his Royal Navy Commander’s uniform?

But on the whole: PERFECT. Ms. Broccoli and Mr. Mendes appear to have topped SKYFALL. A BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANT, BLOCKBUSTING BOND. And that’s just the TRAILER!

2017: Funko announces its licence for James Bond.

RichardTheBruce

July 23rd

1921: Robert James Brown is born--Swanage, Dorset, England.
(He dies 11 November 2003 at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England.)

Robert Brown (British actor)

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

Filmography

Altogether, Robert Brown starred in five James Bond films.

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) – Admiral Hargreaves (possibly the same character as M he played in subsequent films)
Octopussy (1983) – M
A View to a Kill (1985) – M
The Living Daylights (1987) – M
Licence to Kill (1989) – M

Other films:
The Third Man (1949) – Policeman in sewer (coincidentally Bernard Lee is also in this film) (uncredited)

Out of True (1951) – Dr. Dale
The Dark Man (1951) – Policeman at Hospital (uncredited)
Cloudburst (1951) – Carter
Death of an Angel (1952) – Jim Pollard (uncredited)
Derby Day (1952) – Foster – Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
Ivanhoe (1952) – Castle Guard (uncredited)
Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952) – Bill Jordan
The Gambler and the Lady (1952) – John – Waiter at Max's Dive (uncredited)
Noose for a Lady (1953) – Jonas Rigg
The Large Rope (1954) – Mick Jordan
Passage Home (1955) – Shane
The Dark Avenger (1955) – First French Knight
Helen of Troy (1956) – Polydorus
Lost (1956) – Farmer with Shotgun (uncredited)
The Man Who Never Was (1956) – French (uncredited)
A Hill in Korea (1956) – Private O'Brien
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) – Steve Ryan
The Steel Bayonet (1957) – Company Sergeant Major Gill
The Abominable Snowman (1957) – Ed Shelley
Campbell's Kingdom (1957) – Ben Creasy
Passport to Shame (1958) – Mike
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) – First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
Ben-Hur (1959) – Rowing Overseer (uncredited)

Sink the Bismarck! (1960) – unnamed officer aboard HMS King George V (uncredited)
The Challenge (1960) – Bob Crowther
Sands of the Desert (1960) – 1st Tourist
A Story of David (1961) – Jashobeam
The 300 Spartans (1962) – Pentheus
Live Now, Pay Later (1962) – (unconfirmed)
Billy Budd (1962) – Arnold Talbot
Mystery Submarine (1963) – Coxswain Drage
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) – Sam Farley
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) – Guard
Clash by Night (1963) – Mawsley
Operation Crossbow (1965) – Air Commodore
One Million Years B.C. (1966) – Akhoba
Un hombre solo (1969)
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969) – Tarragon (English version, voice, uncredited)

Private Road (1971) – Mr Halpern
Fun and Games (1971) – Ralph
Wreck Raisers (1972) – Cox'n
Demons of the Mind (1972) – Fischinger
Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) – Otba
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) – Pharisee
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) – Briggs
The Passage (1979) – Major

Lion of the Desert (1981) – Al Fadeel
Jugando con la muerte (1982) – 2nd bodyguard

Robert Brown

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1963: Lotte Lenya finishes filming with the scene riding in a taxi next to Red Grant.

1977: Title song "Nobody Does It Better" charts in the US, eventually reaches #2.

1980: Roger Moore signs a one-picture contract to do For Your Eyes Only.
1983: Octopussy released in Sweden.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Colombia.
1987: The New York Museum of Modern Art end its 007 exhibition (started 5 June) and a total fourteen screenings of Bond films. Producer Broccoli previously presented 35mm prints of each with the promise of future films.

1998: John Richard Hopkins dies at age 67--Woodland Hills, California.
(Born 27 January 1931--London, England.)

John Hopkins (writer)

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For other people named John Hopkins, see John Hopkins (disambiguation).

John Hopkins
Born John Richard Hopkins, 27 January 1931, London, England, UK
Died 23 July 1998 (aged 67), Woodland Hills, California, US
Nationality British
Other names John R. Hopkins
Occupation Writer
Years active 1957–1995
Spouse(s) Prudence Balchin (1954–69, div.)
Shirley Knight (1969–1998)
Children 1

John Richard Hopkins (sometimes credited as John R. Hopkins; 27 January 1931 – 23 July 1998) was an English film, stage, and television writer.

Biography
Born in southwest London, Hopkins was educated at Raynes Park County Grammar School, did National Service in the Army from 1950-1951. He read English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and joined BBC Television as a studio manager on graduation.

Hopkins began his writing career in radio, writing episodes of the BBC serial Mrs Dale's Diary for eighteen months. An attempt to become a trainee television director at the commercial television franchise holder Granada Television was unsuccessful. The company did accept his first play, Break Up (1958), about the end of the marriage of a young couple, although it was only shown in the Granada region. He established himself as a writer beginning when his then father-in-law Nigel Balchin asked him to try to adapt his novels for television, Adaptations of both The Small Back Room (for Sunday Night Theatre) and Mine Own Executioner were broadcast in April and August 1959 respectively.[2][3] Hopkins then adapted Margery Allingham's novels about the private detective Albert Campion into Campion featuring two six-part serials, Dancers in Mourning (1959) and Death of a Ghost (1960). Hopkins followed with a series based on Rosamund Lehmann's The Weather in the Streets (1961). He wrote his own thriller series, A Chance of Thunder in 1961.

Hopkins wrote over fifty episodes of the BBC police drama Z-Cars, remaining with the series for 2​1⁄2, serving as the series' script editor for a time. One episode featured Judi Dench in the role of a delinquent. This character inspired Hopkins to write what is probably his best remembered work for the small screen, the four-part play sequence Talking to a Stranger (1966) directed by Christopher Morahan, with whom he had developed a rapport while working with him on Z-Cars. Starring Dench, and Michael Bryant, as the adult children of characters played by Maurice Denham, and Margery Mason, Talking to a Stranger was transmitted as part of BBC2's Theatre 625 anthology series. The plays told the story of one bleak weekend from the viewpoints of the four individuals. It won the British Directors' Guild Writers' Award and an Emmy in 1968 after the sequence was shown on American televison. Critic George Melly described in The Observer as "[t]he first authentic masterpiece written directly for television". Two Wednesday Plays from this period by Hopkins were Fable from January 1965 and Horror of Darkness broadcast the following March. The former imagines an inverted South African apartheid in Britain[6] (which was postponed by the BBC in case it affected a by-election), while the latter is a rare exploration of homosexuality in the 1960s. Hour of Darkness featured Glenda Jackson and Nicol Williamson in the lead roles.

Hopkins made his feature film debut with the screenplay he co-wrote with director Roy Ward Baker Two Left Feet (1963), a lightweight comedy-drama with Michael Crawford. He received co-screenwriter credit with Richard Maibaum for the fourth James Bond film James Bond movie Thunderball (1965). He co-wrote the screenplay for Leslie Thomas' boys-in-uniform comedy The Virgin Soldiers (1969) and worked on the screenplay for the film adaptation of Man of La Mancha (1972), although he was removed from this project by United Artists when the studio discovered his draft omitted most of the songs from the musical. His screenplay for Murder by Decree (1979) places Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. The film was directed by Bob Clark and featured Christopher Plummer as Holmes and James Mason as Watson.

Hopkins wrote his first stage play, This Story of Yours, in 1968. Though it had poor reviews when it was staged at the Royal Court. One audience member who was impressed by the play was Sean Connery who chose it as a personal film project which became The Offence (1973). Connery not only produced the film under a deal with United Artists when he returned to the role of James Bond role, but also acted in the film version, directed by Sidney Lumet. Hopkins' plays for the stage included Next of Kin, which was produced at London's National Theatre in 1974 with Harold Pinter directing.

His play, Find Your Way Home (1970) was produced in London and then on Broadway where it won a "Best Actor" Tony Award for Michael Moriarty.

Hopkins adapted Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1973) for television, it starred Edith Evans and Philip Madoc, and he wrote the two-part television screenplay, Divorce His; Divorce Hers (1973), which starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. His later television work also includes the Play for Today A Story to Frighten the Children (1976), and the serial adaptation of John le Carré's novel Smiley's People (1982), starring Alec Guinness, both for the BBC; and the Cold War espionage thriller Codename: Kyril (1988) for ITV. Hopkins' six-play cycle, Fathers and Families (1977), again directed by Christopher Morahan, was unsuccessful.

Hopkins died at his home in Woodland Hills, California, United States, in July 1998, following an accident in which he slipped, hit his head and fell unconscious into his swimming pool, where he drowned.

Private life
In 1954, Hopkins married Prudence Anne Balchin, a daughter of author Nigel Balchin. They divorced in 1969.

In 1969, he married the American actress Shirley Knight; the couple had one daughter, Sophie. His stepdaughter from his marriage to Knight is actress Kaitlin Hopkins, whom he raised.

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2011: Linda Christian dies at age 87--Palm Desert, California.
(Born 13 November 1923--Tampico, Mexico.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linda Christian (I) (1923–2011)

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Filmography

Actress (36 credits)

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

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

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

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

Valerie Mathis and CIA Agent Jimmy Bond

Diego Rivera painting.

RichardTheBruce

July 24th

1947: Anthony and David Meyer are born--Watford, Hertfordshire, England.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 helping Marie get something off her chest.

https://www.deviantart.com/dubyascott/art/Bond-Girls-Marie-777532966

1980: Peter Sellers dies at age 54--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
(Born: 8 September 1925--Portsmouth, England.)

Peter Sellers Dies at 54

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by Roger Ebert | July 24, 1980

Peter Sellers is dead at 54, a victim of the heart disease that first struck him in 1964 and continued to haunt him during his most productive years as an international star.

His death in London at 6:28 p.m. Chicago time Wednesday came after a massive heart attack. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland, and their daughter Victoria, who is 15. But Mr. Sellers never regained consciousness after the attack that struck him Tuesday in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel.

"Mr. Sellers' death was entirely due to natural causes," a spokesman for Middlesex Hospital said. "His heart just faded away. His condition deteriorated very rapidly."

An emergency team of 10 specialists was at his bedside when he died, but they were helpless.

Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of "Romance of the Pink Panther," which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's "Being There," which won him an Academy Award nomination.

His latest film, "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu," opens in Chicago on Aug. 8. In it, as in so many of his films, Mr. Sellers plays six different roles. That was one of his trademarks after such early successes as "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), in which he played the entire population of the mythical Duchy of Grand Fenwick, and "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), in which he played three roles.

His multiple roles were masks, Mr. Sellers liked to claim, describing himself as basically a character actor: "As far as I'm aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever. I have no character to offer the public. When I look at myself I just see a person who strangely lacks what I consider to be the ingredients for a personality. If you asked me to play myself, I wouldn't know what to do." But as the characters he played in more than 50 major movies, Mr. Sellers became one of the busiest and most popular movie stars of the 1960s and '70s. His widest audiences came for the Inspector Clouseau pictures, which began with "The Pink Panther" in 1963 and continued through "Revenge of the Pink Panther" in 1978.

His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959), "Lolita" (1962), "Waltz of the Toreadors" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Party" (1968) and "Being There."

I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of "Revenge of the Pink Panther." Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original "Pink Panther," but came later: "I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant concierge in a hotel I used to stay at in Paris. He was a master of dealing with American tourists. He'd talk to them in a strange accent that wasn't French but sounded French to an English-speaker."

In Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Mr. Sellers said, he created Strangelove's most famous characteristic - a mechanical hand with an automatic Nazi salute - during the process of filming.

"The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand," he said. "Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the actors breaking up the first time my hand goes out of control . . ." If Mr. Sellers was correct in saying that he had no personality of his own to portray, then perhaps his performance in "Being There" was his most autobiographical. He played Chauncey, a strange, middle-aged man raised entirely in isolation, with television as his only source of information on how to behave. The character's utter simplicity and transparency led statesmen to imagine they had discovered great depths in him. It was a virtuoso performance, made all the more difficult because Mr. Sellers had to sustain a single note throughout the movie.

Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio "Goon Show," memories of which were recreated in Richard Lester's famous 1960 short subject, "The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film."

He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a "hopeless romantic" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in love with Sophia Loren while they were filming "The Millionairess" together. Loren turned down his proposal of marriage.

In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria.

In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were divorced in 1974. He and Liza Minnelli announced they would be married, but the romance cooled and he married actress Lynne Frederick in 1977. Mr. Sellers had his second major heart attack, and was fitted with a pacemaker in 1977. In May of this year, he collapsed in Dublin while making a commercial, but recovered to visit the Cannes Film Festival, where he looked unwell.

Filmmaker Blake Edwards, who directed the Clouseau movies, said Wednesday, "One lived with the realization that Peter could go at any time. But he was a very courageous man who refused to let his heart problems interfere with his personal life."

Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 "Pink Panther" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.

"Of course not," Mr. Sellers said.

"I understand you've had some heart attacks . . ." the reporter began, before Mr. Sellers interrupted him with gallows humor: "Yes, but I plan to give them up. I'm down to two a day."

PETER SELLERS
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Filmography

1982
– Trail of the Pink Panther

1980
-The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1979
-Being There
-The Prisoner of Zenda

1978
–Revenge of the Pink Panther

1978
-Kingdom of Gifts (voice)

1977
-Best of British Film Comedy
-To See Such Fun

1976
-Best of the Muppet Show
-Murder by Death
-The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1974
-The Great McGonagall
-Soft Beds, Hard Battles
-The Return of the Pink Panther

1973
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
– The Blockhouse
– Ghost in the Noonday Sun
– The Optimists
– Undercovers Hero

1972
-Does It Hurt?
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

1970
-There’s a Girl in My Soup
– A Day at the Beach
– Hoffman
– Simon Simon

1969
-The Magic Christian

1968
– I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
– The Party

1967
– The Bobo
– Woman Times Seven
– Casino Royale
– Alice in Wonderland
– With Love, Sophia

1966
– After the Fox
– Caccia alla volpe
– The Wrong Box

1965
– What’s New, Pussycat

1964
– Dr. Strangelove
-The World of Henry Orient
– Carol for Another Christmas
– The Pink Panther
– A Shot in the Dark

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1981: A three-day James Bond Weekend begins in Century City, California.
George Lazenby and Hervé Villechaize in attendance.
1986: The New York Times prints Stephen Farber's piece, "'Remington Steele' Gets Reprieve".

'REMINGTON STEELE' GETS REPRIEVE

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/24/arts/remington-steele-gets-reprieve.html
By STEPHEN FARBER and SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMESJULY 24, 1986
July 24, 1986, Page 00024

NBC has reinstated its romantic detective series ''Remington Steele'' just two months after canceling it.

''Usually a cancellation is the final word,'' said Michael Gleason, the executive producer and co-creator of the series. ''It is tough to make a network change its mind.''

There was, however, a precedent to cite. Two years ago, CBS, responding to viewer protests, revived the defunct ''Cagney and Lacey,'' and the revamped series scored a resounding success. The producers of ''Remington Steele'' argued that their show also deserved another chance.

NBC said it was swayed by the number of protests from fans of the series, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist as a pair of elegant, bantering sleuths. ''We got over 10,000 angry letters and phone calls since the cancellation,'' said Warren Littlefield, NBC's senior vice president in charge of series. ''There were even pickets outside our building. We're still getting 200 to 300 letters a day, and that's a very strong response. We rarely have that kind of interaction with the audience.''

In addition, the show's ratings improved in summer reruns; the series had moved from the mid-40's during the main season to the top 20 in the last month. ''I attribute that rise to the fact that the loyal audience for the show had simply not had enough time to discover it in its new time period on Saturday night,'' said Tom Palmieri, vice president of operations at MTM Enterprises, the company that produces the show for NBC. Midseason

''Remington Steele'' had never been a smash in the ratings, but it had performed respectably during its first three seasons and, as in the case of another MTM series with mediocre ratings, ''St. Elsewhere,'' demographic surveys showed that it was watched by the 18- to 49-year-old audience that appeals to advertisers. But last season the show's ratings began to plummet.

Mr. Littlefield attributed the decline to competition from ABC's successful new series ''Moonlighting,'' which also featured a pair of sophisticated, sparring detectives. Although ''Moonlighting'' was shown at 9 P.M. and ''Remington Steele'' at 10, he said, he felt the popularity of ''Moonlighting'' cut the number of viewers watching NBC on Tuesday nights. Earlier this year, the network moved ''Remington Steele'' from Tuesday to Saturday night, but its ratings did not improve. In May, NBC scuttled the series.

''Remington Steele'' has now been ordered as a midseason replacement series for next season. Six episodes will be shot and the network will then evaluate the ratings before deciding whether to order more.

One last complication remains to be resolved. Exactly when the show goes on the air depends on whether Mr. Brosnan also stars in the next James Bond movie, ''The Living Daylights.'' He has been mentioned as the most likely successor to Roger Moore in the popular series, but United Artists has not yet named a new Bond. A studio spokesman said a casting announcement would be made shortly.

Mr. Brosnan's contract with MTM runs two more years, but MTM and NBC have told the actor they will delay production to allow him to play Bond.

Mr. Gleason pointed out that this would benefit the series as well as Mr. Brosnan. ''Obviously, it would enhance the show if we could promote it by saying we have James Bond as Remington Steele,'' Mr. Gleason said. ''Now we're waiting for UA to make their decision. They keep telling us they'll let us know tomorrow. This is like sweating out the renewals for the fall series all over again.''

1989: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Win, Lose or Die.

WIN, LOSE
OR DIE

JOHN GARDNER'S eighth novel
featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.

The London Gazette announcement was
brief:

'BOND, JAMES,
Commander RNVR,
Relieved of current liaison
duties at the Foreign Office.
Promoted to the substantive
rank of Captain and returned
to active service forthwith.'

The return of James Bond to the Royal
Navy marks the intriguing backdrop to
John Gardner's thrilling new adventure
featuring Ian Fleming's celebrated hero.

Bond takes a refresher course and keeps
up his flying hours by doing a conversion
course on Sea Harriers. And eventually he
learns that his mission is to serve in the
Royal Navy's major aircraft carrier, HMS
Invincible as minder to a phalanx of top
brass British, American and -- in this era of
glasnost -- Russian admirals, who are on
board for a NATO exercise.

But why? Can a thrilling hi-jack by
airborne troops (using hang-gliders) on a
Japanese tanker, some time before, be
connected?

As ever, John Gardner is adept at piling
on the tension. Bond is never far from the
action or from the beautiful Russian naval
attaché with whom he joins forces. WIN,
LOSE OR DIE shows James Bond -- and
John Gardner -- on top form.

JOHN GARDNER'S last book was a
novelisation of the new James Bond film,
Licence to Kill (Coronet 1989). His
previous James Bond novel, Scorpius, was
published by Hodder & Stoughton in
1988.

2009: Titan Books re-releases the James Bond comic strip The Girl Machine.
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

2010: The James Bond 007: Blood Stone intro reveals the Joss Stone song "I'll Take It All".

2015: Social Compassion in Legislation releases a public service announcement with spokesman Pierce Brosnan.

2017: An official announcement confirms details for BOND 25 and a US release date of 8 November 2019.

RichardTheBruce

July 25th

1963: Ian Fleming comments on death to Hilary Bray.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 14 - Kent and Wiltshire

Halfway through July, after four years of building, waiting and frustration,
the Flemings finally moved into their new house at Sevenhampton. The
first names in the visitors’ book were Raymond O’Neill and his wife
Georgina. But even now the work was incomplete. The grounds were full
of workmen who infuriated Ann by retreating into their huts whenever it
rained. She tried to show an example by scurrying into the garden during
cloudbursts and weeding ostentatiously. Ian’s spirits were hardly boosted
by news of the death of another close friend, Hugo Putman, on July 25. In
a note to Hilary Bray, he adopted unfamiliar shooting parlance: “Friends
dwindle rapidly at our age, and Duff and Hugo were a bad left and right.”

1964: A day after three typescripts of The Man with the Golden Gun are complete, Ian Fleming's secretary confirms to the typist one copy plus a list of corrections will go back to the author.

FLEMING, Ian The Man With the Golden Gun: Author's
Corrected Typescript
FLEMING, Ian

See the complete article here:

https://www.jonkers.co.uk/rare-book/8622/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-author-s-corrected-typescript/ian-fleming

The Man With the Golden Gun: Author's Corrected Typescript
1964.
182 numbered pages of typed foolscap, five further preliminary pages and a single sheet of suggested (later adopted) corrections by Kingsley Amis, all bound in a cloth folder. Authorial revisions in Fleming's hand to approximately 80 pages with further editorial revisions in green and black ink. Fleming's corrections are mainly quite significant, rewriting entire sentences, adding or removing paragraphs etc.

The corrected typescript, used as the setting copy for Fleming's last Bond novel.
Fleming wrote The Man with the Golden Gun at his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, in the early months of 1964, as was his custom. Fleming's original text was completed by April and, as had become routine in the preparation of his books, he had 'clean' copies typed up for editing. The text was sent in stages, and on 24 July, three typescripts extending to 182 pages, with initial sub editor corrections, were returned. The following day, Fleming's secretary wrote to the typist, "I've sent one typescript to Mr. Fleming and will do a list of your corrections for him." This is that typescript.

Fleming made some (presumably light) revisions and sent the typescript to his friend and Cape reader, William Plomer, with the instructions that it was "unrevised" and not to show it to anyone else other than Michael Howard, director of Cape. Plomer wrote to Howard that he "much enjoyed the book as it is" but Fleming was unsatisfied with the novel as it stood and asked for the typescript to be returned to him, stating that he "would personally like to take it back to Jamaica and paint the lily next year". It would appear that Fleming began this process immediately as much of the more substantial alterations have the effect of tightening the prose. He revises some key moments, such as the description of Scaramanga's "golden gun" (p.26), but the most telling change is the addition of a paragraph to the very end of the novel, which gives a vivid insight into Fleming's troubled state of mind in his final weeks:

"At the same time, he knew, deep down, that love from Mary Goodnight, or from any other woman, was not enough for him. It would be like taking 'a room with a view'. For James Bond, the same view would always pall."

The visit to Jamaica was never to happen. Fleming's health, which had been poor for some time, went into rapid decline and he died on 12 August. This typescript therefore almost certainly contains Fleming's last ever work on James Bond. In Fleming's absence, Kingsley Amis, fellow Cape author and keen student of the Bond oeuvre, was brought in to tidy up the editing process, and this typescript, including Fleming's final changes, as well as Amis's suggestions, was then sent to the printer for publication.

Stock ID: 35909

1966: You Only Live Twice moves cast and crew to Japan.

1979: Eric Pohlmann dies at age 65--Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany.
(Born 18 July 1913--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.)

Eric Pohlmann

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

Born - Erich Pollak, 18 July 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died - 25 July 1979 (aged 66), Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Years active - 1948–1979
Spouse(s) - Liselotte Goettinger (1939–1968; her death; 2 children)

Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain.

Early life
Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.

In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, Odette and Carve Her Name With Pride), into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he was now known, as butler.

Career
After the war, he began a career on the London stage. Among other roles he played "Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s, Pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. He was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Orientals; he also played King George I, King George II in Disney's Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and King George III twice.

One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reed's classic The Third Man (1949). He also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare (1954), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Expresso Bongo (1960). He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge (1952), Mogambo (1953), Lust For Life (1956) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor - The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) and The House of the Seven Hawks (1959).

He displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying (1964) and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975).

Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann regularly returned to his homeland to play numerous character roles in German and Austrian film and television productions. He had guest roles in the popular crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick, and also appeared in television plays for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, often under the direction of Franz Josef Wild [de]. In addition to The Defence Counsel (1961) with Barbara Rütting and Carl Heinz Schroth, he appeared in Der Kleine Lord (1962) with Albrecht Schoenhals and Michael Ande, as well as The Dreyfus Affair (1968) with Karl Michael Vogler and Bernhard Wicki. In 1962, Pohlmann also appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel.

Pohlmann's greatest success in German TV drama came in 1970 with an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman In White, one of the most successful television productions of the year which gained over 9 million viewers. Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun and Helmut Käutner. The mini-series has a cult following to this day.

Pohlmann was a regular on British television, taking the role of "Inspector Goron" in the 1952-1954 TV series Colonel March of Scotland Yard with Boris Karloff, and appearing as a guest star in such series as The Saint, The Champions, The Avengers, Danger Man, Department S, Jason King and Paul Temple.

In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváth's play Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods). The film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall. He was 66.

In 2006, the Turner Classic Movies "31 Days of Oscar" festival was based on the theme of "360 Degrees of Oscar" (based on the game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon") in which TCM chooses an actor who has played a significant role in Oscar history, and builds its entire schedule around him. They chose Eric Pohlmann.

He also appeared on stage (Henry Cecil's Settled Out Of Court is a production this editor remembers seeing him in).

Filmography

List of acting performances in film, theatre, and television
Year Title Role Notes

1949 Portrait from Life - Search group leader
1949 Marry Me! - Mr. Cinelli Uncredited
1949 The Third Man - Waiter at Smolka's Uncredited
1949 Children of Chance - Sergeant

1950 Chance of a Lifetime - Xenobian
1950 Cairo Road - Ship's Captain
1950 State Secret - Cable Car conductor
1950 Blackout - Otto Ford
1950 The Clouded Yellow - Greek taxidermist
1950 Highly Dangerous - Joe - the bartender
1950 Traveller's Joy - Gustafsen
1951 The Long Dark Hall - Mr. Polaris (the mystery witness)
1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Louis, the proprietor
1951 There Is Another Sun - Markie
1952 His Excellency - Dobrieda
1952 The Woman's Angle - Steffano
1952 Emergency Call - Flash Harry
1952 Penny Princess - Monsieur Paul Uncredited
1952 Venetian Bird - Gostini
1952 Monsoon - Molac
1952 The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Goin
1952 Moulin Rouge - Picard Uncredited
1952 The Gambler and the Lady - Arturo Colonna
1953 The Beggar's Opera - Inn Keeper
1953 Mogambo - Leon Boltchak
1953 Blood Orange - Mr. Mercedes
1953 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue - King George I
1953 36 Hours - Slossen, the smuggler
1954 They Who Dare - Captain Papadapoulos
1954 Knave of Hearts - Boarding House Proprietor Uncredited
1954 Flame and the Flesh - Marina Proprietor
1954 Forbidden Cargo - Steven Lasovich
1954 The Belles of St Trinian's - The Sultan of Makyad
1955 The Glass Cage - Henri Sapolio
1955 A Prize of Gold - Fischer
1955 Break in the Circle - Emile
1955 The Constant Husband - Papa Sopranelli
1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - M. Ballard
1955 The Adventures of Quentin Durward - Gluckmeister
1956 The Gelignite Gang - Mr. Popoulos ("Populace")
1956 Reach for the Sky - Adjutant of Prison Camp
1956 Lust for Life - Colbert
1956 High Terrace - Otto Kellner
1956 House of Secrets - Gratz
1956 Zarak - Tobacco seller Uncredited
1956 Anastasia - Von Drivnitz Uncredited
1957 The Counterfeit Plan - Frank Wandelman
1957 Interpol - Etienne Fayala
1957 Let's Be Happy - Customs Official
1957 Fire Down Below - Hotel Owner
1957 Across the Bridge - Police Sergeant
1957 Not Wanted on Voyage - Pedro
1957 Barnacle Bill - Liberamanian Consul
1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Sawyer
1958 I Accuse! - Bertillon
1958 The Duke Wore Jeans - Bastini - Prime Minister
1958 Nor the Moon by Night - Anton Boryslawski
1958 The Man Inside - Tristao
1958 Further Up the Creek - President
1958 Mark of the Phoenix - Duser
1959 Three Crooked Men - Masters
1959 John Paul Jones - King George III
1959 Alive and Kicking - Captain
1959 The House of the Seven Hawks - Captain Rohner
1959 Upstairs and Downstairs - Mario
1959 Expresso Bongo - Leon

1960 Life Is a Circus - Rickenbeck
1960 Sands of the Desert - Scrobin
1960 Surprise Package - Chief of Police Stefan Miralis
1960 Man Who Couldn't Walk - The Consul General
1960 No Kidding - King
1960 Passport to China - Ivono Kong
1960 Snowball - Editor
1961 The Singer Not the Song - Presidente
1961 Carry On Regardless - Sinister Man
1961 The Kitchen - Mr. Marango
1962 The Puzzle of the Red Orchid - Kerkie Minelli
1962 Village of Daughters - Marcio (A Father)
1962 Mrs. Gibbons' Boys - Morelli
1962 The Devil's Agent - Bloch
1963 Cairo - Nicodemos
1963 Follow the Boys - Italian Farmer
1963 55 Days at Peking - Baron von Meck
1963 Shadow of Fear - Henry Spiroulos
1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1963 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - King George III
1963 The Sicilians - Inspector Bressin
1964 Hot Enough for June - Galushka
1964 Carry On Spying - The Fat Man
1964 Night Train to Paris - Krogh
1965 Joey Boy - Antonio (Italian farmer)
1965 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - Italian Mayor
1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld Voice, Uncredited
1966 Where the Spies Are - Farouk
1967 Heißes Pflaster Köln - Benno Trooger
1967 The Mini-Affair - World Banker
1968 Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt [de] - Alter General
1968 Inspector Clouseau - Bergesch

1970 Foreign Exchange - Borensko TV film
1971 The Woman in White [de] - Count Fosco TV miniseries
1971 The Horsemen - Merchant in Kandahar
1973 Tiffany Jones - Jabal
1975 The Return of the Pink Panther - Fat Man
1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Iwan Pederenko
1976 Duett zu dritt
1979 Ashanti - Zeda El-Kabir
1979 Tales from the Vienna Woods - Mister

1980 Maria - Nur die Nacht war ihr Zeuge

Eric Pohlmann (1913–1979)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688384/

2015: BBC Radio 4 airs its fifth James Bond radio drama: Diamonds Are Forever. Toby Stephens.

jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Diamonds_are_Forever_(radio_drama)

2019: Variety reports Aston Martin showing off Bond cars.

Aston Martin shows off all its 007 cars in Bond 25
There's a couple of plot pointers if you look hard enough

See the complete article here:

https://www.esquireme.com/content/37329-aston-martin-shows-off-all-its-007-cars-in-bond-25

25 July 2019 | Thomas Shambler

There's been a lot of nods and winks toward which cars James Bond will be
throwing about in Bond 25 lately.

The ones we've been teased with include the chop-top Land Rover, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the classic DB5, and an absolutely mad-looking Aston concept called the Valhalla.

Now, all Bond's Aston Martins for the new film have been lined up for inspection:

Let's do this school photo style. From left: Aston Martin V8 Vantage; stripped down DB5; normal DB5; Aston Martin V8 Vantage; DB5; DB5 with a pod on top, used by a stunt driver who does the actual driving while actors inside do the actual acting; and Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

They're all huddled around the Aston Martin Valhalla, either consciously or unconsciously echoing that scene at the end of Hereditary in the treehouse where the nude cult members bow to Paimon. A spoiler? Maybe. Just maybe.

Given that original DB5s go for north of a million quid these days, these are likely to be very, very faithfully recreated facsimiles. Then again, very, very faithfully recreated facsimiles can be pretty spicy too. Aston Martin's own recreations of the classic DB5 with Bond's gadgets and modifications will set you back £2.75 million, and there will only be 25 such 'continuation' models made.

2020: Q the Music strikes up the band in Manchester.

Q The Music Show - James Bond Tribute Band
James Bond Concert & Event Entertainment

https://qthemusicshow.com/manchester

Longfield suite, Prestwich, Manchester -
25 July 2020
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Saturday 25th July 2020 - 7:30pm
Guest Compere: Caroline Munro – The Spy Who Loved Me

When our thoughts turned to Sir Roger Moore's Memorial event at Pinewood Studios, one of our
first calls was to Q The Music. They helped make a wonderful day an extraordinary day.'
SIR ROGER MOORE'S OFFICE 2017

‘They did John Barry proud’
GEORGE LAZENBY 2019

'This band are simply stunning. It's hard to imagine this music being served better.'
THE TIMES March 2019

'A fabulously entertaining evening. The James Bond Concert Spectacular lived up to its name in
every regard.'
007 MAGAZINE March 2019

The popular Q The Music Show is coming to Manchester to the Longfield Suite and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. This show has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians. The show will be compered by the lovely Caroline Munro who played Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Featuring all the songs from the 007 movies, you can hear the greats like Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, Goldeneye and Licence To Kill amongst all the others. With top musicians and an informative compere – who appeared in the films herself, this show has everything you could want for a fabulous night out – and one that you will be talking about for years to come.

Formed in 2004, Q The Music Show have established a worldwide reputation for their authentic covers, orchestral sound and fabulous hair-raising vocalists. The show has been popular abroad at events in Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Guernsey, Prague and many others. In 2019, the show made its debut on the West End, selling out the Adelphi Theatre and receiving critical acclaim in The Times.

In 2017 they were asked to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s official memorial event in front of Royalty and the who’s who of the British film industry including Sir Michael Caine, Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams.

Don’t miss this superb evening as…Nobody Does It Better!

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“Magnificent performance”
Philipp Plein Group, Milan Fashion Show

“Hugely entertaining revue by charismatic musicians”
Ajay Chowdhury, The James Bond International Fan Club

“The best performance of the theme songs we ever witnessed”
Martijn Mulder, On The Tracks Of 007 Fan Club

“Some songs actually sound even better than the originals!”
Lee Pfeiffer, The Essential James Bond

“Amazing”
Caroline Munro, The Spy Who Loved Me

“The best in the business”
Madeline Smith, Live And Let Die

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2020: London Walks has a pub type scheduled.

“Bond, James Bond” – The London of 007 & Ian Fleming
Marble Arch Underground station, London (exit 2, the Park Lane exit)
Guided by Justin

See the complete article here:

https://www.walks.com/our-walks/bond-james-bond-the-london-of-007-ian-fleming/

Walk Times
Day Walk Type Start Time End Time
25 July 2020 Pub 7.15 pm 9.15 pm Summer

“Shaken not stirred” … Ahhhhh how those words have become intertwined over the years with a do-or-die world of magnificently malevolent villains, seductively sensuous sirens and reckless romances in exotic locations. This Tour du Jour walk goes there. We visit, indeed inspect, the sites that played an important role in the life of Ian Fleming. His place of birth, his clubs and his shops. As for 007 himself, much of what made the man – the gun, the gas-guzzler, the gambling and the grooming all took place around Mayfair and St James’. If he existed that is. Maybe he did. Maybe he does. Want to find out what personalities and events in Fleming’s life inspired the characters and plots of Bond? Curious about how relevant 007 is post-Cold War? Keen to hear more about their superhuman capability to absorb ridiculous amounts of alcohol and tobacco? Then leave your weapon at home and come and find out. Tux not compulsory. Meet Justin – who bears a remarkable resemblance to the gentleman in question (James Bond, NOT Oddjob) – just there, just outside exit 2 of Marble Arch Tube. N.B. the walk takes about two hours and ends just off St. James’s Street, a couple of minutes’ walk from Green Park Tube.

JAMES BOND’S LONDON – THE PRACTICALS
The meeting point for the “Bond, James Bond” – The London of 007 & Ian Fleming walk is just outside exit 2 (the Park Lane exit) of Marble Arch Tube. The walk is guided by Justin.

We pub walk with 007 on the following Saturdays: April 4, May 2, June 6, July 25, September 19 and October 17. The meeting time for the “Bond, James Bond” – London of 007 pub walk is 7.15 pm.

RichardTheBruce

July 26th

1939: The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve appoints Ian Fleming as Lieutenant-Commander. Special Branch.

1967: Casino Royale released in Mexico.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films the lift fight between Bond and Peter Franks.
1979: Moonraker released in Australia.

1987: Timothy Dalton tells the LA Times he was first approached for the Bond role in the 1970s to potentially follow Sean Connery.

2006: Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announce Chris Cornell to perform the title song "You Know My Name", written by Cornell and David Arnold.
2012: Madonna performs her "Die Another Day"/"Beautiful Killer" mashup during the MDNA Tour, Paris, France.

Thunderfinger

1987: Timothy Dalton tells the LA Times he was first approached for the Bond role in the 1970s to potentially follow Sean Connery.

So if this is the version of the story that is true, he was first wanted for LALD. In that case, fitting that he got to do LTK instead at a later point.

RichardTheBruce

July 27th

1922: Adolfo Celi is born--Messina, Sicily, Italy.
(He dies 19 February 1986 at age 63--Siena, Tuscany, Italy.)

Adolfo Celi Dies at 64; An Actor and Director

See the complete article here:

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

AP FEB. 20, 1986

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

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

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

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

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

Adolfo Celi (1922–1986)

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

Filmography

Actor (103 credits)

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

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

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

Director (4 credits)

1969 Alibi

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

Writer (2 credits)

1969 Alibi (screenplay) / (story)

1950 Caiçara (story and screenplay)

Producer (1 credit)

1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá (producer)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

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

1963: The Dr. No soundtrack enters US charts eventually reaching #82.
1966: At a press conference in Japan Sean Connery comments--"Japanese women are just not sexy."
1968: Maria Grazia Cucinotta is born--Messina, Sicily, Italy.

1988: Licence to Kill films a barroom brawl at the Barrelhead Bar in Key West, Florida.

2012: BBC's short film Happy & Glorious, directed by Danny Boyle, showcases Craig as Bond with the Queen. It's used to open the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

2017: GQ proposes Bourne better than Bond.

Why Bourne is better than Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/bourne-vs-bond

By Helen O Hara
27 July 2016

James Bond is a right-wing imperialist but Jason Bourne is a thorn to his masters’s foot. Isn’t that worth cheering?

This week sees the return of Jason Bourne to cinemas, and thank goodness. After last year’s ridiculous, overblown Spectre, we need Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass’ particular brand of spy story back in cinemas. Because while James Bond has been around a little longer, Jason Bourne’s cinematic outings have been better on average and far more politically daring.

The fact is that Bourne is a superior character to Bond. He’s a better spy, for those of you who care about the thriller aspect to these films. Bourne wears carefully generic clothes, disappears in a crowd and lives under the radar for long periods with great success. He doesn’t, say, pause in Tangiers to pick up some designer duds before buying first-class train tickets to go visit his supervillain opponent, as Bond did in Spectre. He has multiple identities and uses them, rather than announcing himself publicly anyplace that sells a vodka martini. Bourne is capable of honest-to-goodness sneakiness.

He’s also a better person. He’s a one-woman sort of guy, who settled down with Bourne Identity’s Marie (Franke Potente) and has remained apparently single since she was killed in action. Women are not disposable, as in Bond; even supporting characters like Julia Stiles’ analyst or Joan Allen’s CIA director keep cropping up in repeated films. Only Judi Dench’s M had the same distinction in the Bond series, and of course she died for her trouble. Bourne doesn’t quip over the bodies of his foes, like the sociopathic Bond. Most importantly, Bourne is tormented by his own dark past – and in The Bourne Supremacy (the best of the series) his entire drive is not towards his enemies, but towards a woman he wronged, and to whom he wishes to offer some sort of restitution. Now that’s a value worth celebrating.

Fans love the fantasy element to Bond, what with the cars and the money and the girls and the gambling and the travel and the gadgets and the power – but the obsession with those things makes him a terrible human being. It’s no coincidence that the most lauded recent Bond movies were reinventions with more than a dash of Bourne: since Casino Royale, they’ve borrowed everything from Greengrass’ shaky-cam action style to Bourne stunt coordinator Dan Bradley to a sudden willingness to pause the action for moments of introspection. But even Daniel Craig’s Bond couldn’t keep it low-key for long, so soon he was back to normal, wearing suits that cost as much as your car and driving cars that cost as much as your house. Craig hasn’t had to contend with a double-taking pigeon yet like Roger Moore, but it’s only a matter of time in Bond’s boom-and-bust cycle between ridiculous overstatement and (temporary, always temporary) seriousness of purpose.

Even when Bond is at his grittiest and Bourne at his silliest (cough cough Legacy – even if Damon didn’t appear) there will always be a gulf between the characters. Bond is obsessed with fitting in, with being a part of the system. He moves in corridors of power, he poses on rooftops in Whitehall and appears before Parliament. Paul Greengrass once described him as an “right-wing imperialist”, and no matter how the incarnations twist to show a more human side, that’s what he remains. Bourne, however, is a thorn to his masters’s foot and a bramble to his hand, more likely to uncover dirty tricks than carry them out anymore. And in these days of all days, isn’t that worth cheering?

2017: GQ reports a shortlist of directors for BOND 25, specifically Denis Villeneuve, David MacKenzie, Yann Demange.

The Next James Bond Movie Now Has 3 Possible Directors

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq.com.au/entertainment/film-tv/the-next-james-bond-movie-now-has-3-possible-directors/news-story/399a15b6435e6a021bec416741a14273

Scott Melsow | 27 July 2017

And their renditions of Daniel Craig's last mission as
007 could all look very different.

We compare the three directors that have reportedly been
shortlisted to carry this 007 over the finish line.

Earlier this week, Sony announced that the next James Bond movie will arrive in theaters on November 8, 2019. It’s not much to go on—the announcement didn’t include the director, the title, or even the actor who will play 007. But it is a ticking clock—and as James Bond himself would tell you, you don't want to run out of time on one of those.

Fortunately, details on the as-yet-untitled Bond 25 are already trickling in.

Deadline reports that Craig will likely return to play Bond one more time. (The report also suggests that after the Daniel Craig era ends, the next 007 reboot might be spearheaded by Christopher Nolan or Edgar Wright, which is damn interesting.)

For now, however, it looks like Bond 25 will be one last outing for Craig. And three directors have reportedly been shortlisted to carry this 007 over the finish line: Denis Villeneuve, David MacKenzie, and Yann Demange. Let’s take a look at each of them.

Denis Villeneuve
What you know him from: Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival
https://youtu.be/3_T6vZ8HxbA

Denis Villeneuve is turning out to be one of the most in-demand directors in Hollywood. Last year, Arrival scored Villeneuve his first Oscar nominations for both Best Director and Best Picture. In October, his Blade Runner 2049 will serve as a belated sequel to one of the most acclaimed sci-fi movies in history. And then there are the persistent reports about Villeneuve helming a new adaptation of Dune, which is based on one of the most acclaimed sci-fi novels in history.

So it’s no surprise that Villeneuve is on a shortlist of directors who might be able to breathe some new life into Craig’s 007. The bigger question is when he’d find the time to do it.

What his Bond 25 might look like: Foggy, morally ambiguous, kickass score. James Bond fights a giant spider.

David MacKenzie
What you know him from: Starred Up, Hell or High Water
https://youtu.be/J2SsOOkdIrE

Like Villeneuve, MacKenzie’s star rose just last year, when his Hell or High Water scored a dark-horse Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. And though MacKenzie’s directing credits stretch back for more than a decade, it’s the feature he did before Hell or High Water that might be the biggest litmus test for what his 007 could look like: Starred Up, a smart and brutal U.K. prison drama.

What his Bond 25 might look like: Rural, physical, disproportionate number of mustaches.

Yann Demange
What you know him from: Dead Set, ’71
https://youtu.be/Qyzj6gsg1Z8

Yann Demange has the lowest profile of the directors rumored to be taking over the 007 franchise, but Variety reports that he’s currently the frontrunner for the job.

The Paris-born Demange helmed every episode of Dead Set—a clever mashup of Big Brother and zombie horror, created by Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame—and ’71, a tense war thriller about a British soldier who ends up separated from the rest of his troop during a riot in Belfast.

Unfortunately, ’71 is Demange’s only feature to date, so we don’t have a lot to go on—but next January sees the release of his crime drama White Boy Rick, which stars an ensemble cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Bruce Dern.

What his Bond 25 might look like: Tense, darkly lit, full of actual espionage

--

RichardTheBruce

July 28th

1964: Goldfinger's last day for Honor Blackman includes publicity shots, dialogue recording.

1978: 007 ja Kultasormi (007 and Goldfinger; or Swedish 007 och Guldfinger) re-released in Finland.

Swedish

1991: The New York Times prints "'Casino Royale' Is an LP Bond With a Gilt Edge" by Richard Panek.

'Casino Royale' Is an LP Bond With a Gilt Edge

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/28/movies/casino-royale-is-an-lp-bond-with-a-gilt-edge.html

By Richard Panek | July 28, 1991

As vinyl verges on extinction, one album has emerged as the prime specimen of the species. Of all the millions of recordings released in the 114 years since Thomas Edison asked, "What hath God wrought?" this album has come closest to achieving the potential of a vanishing medium. It represents "the paradigm," says one audiophile, "the paramount, if you will."

It is . . . the original soundtrack of the 1967 movie "Casino Royale."

This unlikely choice -- a jaunty Burt Bacharach score for a James Bond spoof -- makes sense only if one disregards traditional criteria for liking an album. Collectors of "Casino Royale" aren't necessarily interested in the music. "Some people enjoy it," says one rare-record dealer, shrugging. "Some people can't stand it."

What interests audiophiles is the quality of sound. They swap stories about the legendary recording session in London, spend hundreds of dollars for a pristine copy if and when they can find one, and then, like oenophiles who wouldn't dream of opening a 1945 Lafite-Rothschild, often refuse to listen to it. So volatile is the market for this LP that any nugget of news that enhances its considerable mystique can affect the price -- and some significant new information, about the deteriorating condition of the master tape, indicates that the price is about to rise dramatically.

The "Casino Royale" movie is memorable mostly as an artifact of its era. The producer, Charles K. Feldman, who had bought the rights to Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel before the movie series became a hit, conceived of "Casino Royale" as the film that would out-Bond Bond. He threw $12 million, five credited directors and a host of uncredited screenwriters at the material. He assembled a cast that included Peter Sellers, David Niven and Woody Allen -- but not Sean Connery -- as only three of the movie's various James Bonds. And he hired the hottest movie composer of the time, Mr. Bacharach, who in turn enlisted Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass to play the title cut.

The soundtrack, like everything else about the movie, was over the top. "The legend is that the original master tape had 'mad' levels on it," says Harry Pearson, editor and publisher of the audiophile bible Absolute Sound and, by general consensus, the person most responsible for creating the "Casino Royale" cult.

Mr. Pearson explains that a sound engineer usually adjusts recording levels so that when musicians are playing their loudest, the meters on the console reach zero. "Once the meters pass zero, it means that you're saturating the tape and running the risk of distortion," he says. "On 'Casino,' they used a supposedly very fancy grade of tape, and the engineers really pushed it, so the meters were typically running deep into the red -- plus one, plus two, plus three, plus four." As a result, he says, the record has an "extremely wide dynamic range" -- higher highs and lower lows.

"They weren't afraid to push the medium to the limits of the recording process," Mr. Pearson adds. "It can lead to disaster, but in the case of 'Casino,' it doesn't. There's no saturation, no distortion. The record is as clean as a whistle."

For this reason, ever since the album's release, audiophiles have valued "Casino Royale" as a test for stereo equipment. "The better your system gets," says Mr. Pearson, "the more you get out of that album."

"The Look of Love" provides several such tests. Dusty Springfield recorded her vocal in a "tiny isolation booth, so on a really good system, you can hear her voice emerging from what sounds like a little hole in space," Mr. Pearson says. "She's not part of of the general orchestral acoustic, and once your system gets to a certain point, you can hear that."

The song also features a sudden saxophone dip and rise that, on less sophisticated equipment, sounds like two or three distinct instruments, and a serrated gourd called a guirot, whose every notch will sound, under ideal conditions, Mr. Pearson says, "like a tooth on a comb. A normal sound system simply can't reproduce this series of very quick transients" -- stiff sound waves -- "at a very soft level. Just cannot do it."

Mr. Pearson founded the Absolute Sound in 1973 when he was still an environmental reporter for Newsday, and he tries to apply objective reporting to the subjective experience of listening to music. "Whenever we get a piece of equipment that we think is setting new records," he says, "out comes 'Casino.' "

Mr. Pearson has often cited the record in the Absolute Sound, which has a circulation of 35,000. It is these references that have contributed to the soundtrack's cult status. Other albums are rarer than "Casino Royale," with prices as high as $10,000, and even Mr. Pearson has to admit that "there are better-sounding records. But I don't think there's one quite as useful overall."

Today a pristine copy of "Casino Royale" can fetch upwards of $400. "I've seen scratched-up copies go for $100 to $125," says Ron Saja, manager of Footlight Records, a Manhattan rare-record store that specializes in movie and stage recordings. Footlight has sold "Casino Royale" for as much as $195, though the current price would be $150 -- if the shop had one in stock. "Amazing," Mr. Bacharach said when he heard how valuable "Casino Royale" has become, in an interview with the Absolute Sound several years ago. "I don't even have a copy."

Collectors, however, take pride in buying copies for a song. Frank Doris, technical director for the Absolute Sound, remembers finding his first "Casino" in a bin at a record convention. "Eighteen dollars!" he shouted, losing his collector's cool. To which the unwitting dealer replied, "And not a penny less!"

Those who appreciate the music of "Casino Royale" but don't have the luck or the cash to buy the album can take solace from the recent release of the soundtrack on compact disk (Varese Sarabande VSD-5265). Tom Null, the label's executive vice-president and supervisor of the CD release, has his own "Casino Royale" story: used-record store, five years ago, two bucks. Even so, Mr. Null says, Varese Sarabande didn't send out advance copies of the CD for review "because the preconceived, closed minds of audiophiles made it a foregone lost battle. I knew they're going to say" -- here he slows his voice to an academic drone and repeats a frequent criticism of compact disks in general -- 'The digital transfer added a brightness to the treble.' "

The problem, he says, was with the master tape -- the one audiophiles have spun legends around for decades. Mr. Null knows all the legends, too, and he says he was as surprised as anyone when he played the tape and heard "a certain brightness."

"Vinyl masked and rounded off the brightness," he says. So for the CD transfer he had to choose between being faithful to the master tape and risking the wrath of audiophiles, or masking the treble and misrepresenting the music.

"I said, 'Better to be faithful,' " he says. Mr. Null calls the CD "a tiny bit too bright," but he says the sound is "exactly as the producers mixed it onto the tape."

Whatever its merits, the CD release has sparked a new "Casino Royale" legend only now starting to make the rounds -- that Varese Sarabande inadvertently destroyed the master tape during the transfer. Mr. Null has heard that rumor, too, and he attributes it to a loss of iron oxide that is inevitable when rewinding analog tapes, especially at high speeds. "It might have been done better" using a slower, more expensive process, he says, but he adds, "The significance would have been if there had been a way to avoid it."

In any event, he continues, the master tape had suffered damage even before Varese Sarabande licensed it -- a similar loss of iron oxide, apparently during an earlier transfer for a foreign pressing. Mr. Null says he located and listened to a copy of that record, and the damage was already evident -- barely audible, but unmistakable.

For audiophiles, this effectively ends speculation about a reissue of the LP. Mr. Pearson, for one, had once fantasized about reissuing "Casino Royale" on vinyl as a benefit for the Absolute Sound.

"As soon as this gets around," says Mr. Doris, technical director of the Absolute Sound, "you know what's going to happen to the price of the records."

Mr. Pearson laughs at first, but then he sobers.

"The vinyl they used in those days is pretty good, so copies, with a little bit of care -- a record-cleaning machine, a properly tracking stylus -- should last. I mean, longer than the average thing.

"But now," he says, "once they're gone, they're gone."

Correction: Aug. 11, 1991
An article in the Arts and Leisure section on July 28 about the soundtrack recording of "Casino Royale" misstated the first words recorded by Thomas A. Edison for a phonograph. They were, "Mary had a little lamb." The question "What hath God wrought?" was the first message tapped out by Samuel F. B. Morse on the telegraph.
A version of this article appears in print on July 28, 1991
, Section 2, Page 15 of the National edition with the headline: 'Casino Royale' Is an LP Bond With a Gilt Edge. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

2019: Bond in Motion's final date for Hockenheim, Germany.

Bond In Motion Goes On Tour
With Formula 1
https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/bond-in-motion-goes-on-tour-with-formula-1.htm
June 26, 2019 by David Leigh
Bond cars to appear at six of the remaining F1 Grand
Prix races in Europe.

An exclusive touring version of the Bond In Motion exhibition will visit six selected European Formula 1 Grand Prix this year starting in Austria and culminating in Italy for the final race of the season. The exhibition will showcase 12 cars which span the six decades of Bond history from Goldfinger’s 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III to SPECTRE’s Aston Martin DB10.

Starting on 28 June at the Formula 1 MyWorld Grosser Preis Von Österreich 2019 Grand Prix the exhibition will also visit Silverstone (UK, 12-14 July), Hockenheim (Germany, 26-28 July), Budapest (Hungary, 2-4 August), Spa (Belgium, 30 August – 1 September) and Monza (Italy, 6-8 September).

F1 ticket holders will gain exclusive free entry to the exhibition when they pre book via EventWorld www.eventworld.com/en/

RichardTheBruce

July 29th

1953: Ian Fleming responds to publisher Jonathan Cape's comments on American publisher Macmillan.

'Yes, the royalties accepted from Macmillans were very modest
but then they have given me a present of $750 which is
rather more, I guess, than I shall recoup on the English
edition. If it is a success in America you will be surprised
how tough I shall be over "Live and Let Die"!'

1965: El regreso del agente 007 (The Return of Agent 007) released in Mexico.

1967: Official statement says Sean Connery is leaving the OO7 role.

1982: Harold Sakata (Tosh Togo) dies at age 62--Honolulu, Hawaii.
(Born 1 July 1920--Holualoa, 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.

1983: David Niven dies at age 73--Château-d'Œx, Switzerland.
(Born 1 March 1910--Belgravia, London, England.)

Actor David Niven's Dashing Life Ends at 73

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-david-niven-19830730-snap-story.html
By Michael Seiler and Times Staff Writer | Jul 30, 1983 | 12:00 AM


Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven in "The Bishop's Wife." (File photo)

David Niven, whose clipped accent and thin mustache made him the personification of the British gentleman in more than 90 films spread over nearly half a century, died Friday in his mountain chalet in Chateau D'Oex, Switzerland.

Niven was 73 and moved to the Swiss Alps three weeks ago from his home in southern France.

"My uncle died peacefully and without pain," said his nephew Michael Wrangdah. "His last gesture a few minutes before he died had been to give the thumbs-up sign."

The Oscar-winning actor died after a months-long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a debilitating nerve and muscle disorder commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease.

He had lost some of his power of speech and the use of his left hand, his wife told newsmen last March.

To generations of English-speaking peoples he was more than a first-rate film actor. Niven authored several books, including two well-received autobiographical memoirs, "The Moon's a Balloon" and "Bring on the Empty Horses," which confirmed Niven's reputation as a raconteur.

More than that, the books attested to the fact that Niven—a man of considerable charm, wit and sophistication—had an extraordinary life, filled with such entertainment industry giants as Darryl F. Zanuck, Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart, and political figures such as Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy.

James David Graham Niven was born March 1, 1910, in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the son of an army reserve lieutenant who was to die five years later during the World War I Gallipoli campaign.

Niven's widowed, financially strapped mother moved to England and young David bounced around from school to school. He was, quite possibly, "a thoroughly poisonous little boy," Niven said later in explaining his expulsion from one school. He finally ended up at Sandhurst, Britain's equivalent of West Point.

Young Niven's military career was relatively brief and undistinguished. He served three years as a lieutenant in a Scottish infantry regiment, two of them on the hot, dusty island of Malta where he did little more than polish his skills in rugby and polo—on horses borrowed from other officers because young Niven had little money of his own.

Niven disliked the army—he had gone to Sandhurst for lack of anything more promising to do—and the future of a junior officer in the peacetime army seemed dim.

The frustrations came to a head when Niven insulted a general and, rather than face court martial, resigned his commission in 1932.

Niven sailed off to Canada to visit friends, then went on to New York City where other friends, capitalizing on the end of Prohibition, hired him as a wholesale liquor salesman. But Niven flopped at that, and was little more successful at his next try—promoting a sort of rodeo-equestrian show in Atlantic City.

The unemployed but always-charming Niven drifted west to California, helped, as always, by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He saw his first movie studio—Fox—when members of Loretta Young's family sneaked him past the guards under a rug on the floor of her limousine.

He was suitably impressed—"I just gaped and gaped and wondered if I could ever be a part of it," Niven wrote much later in "The Moon's a Balloon." Encouraged by his friends, Niven signed on at Central Casting on Western Avenue.

They listed him, back in 1935, as "English type, No. 2008. Niven, David."

Niven was on his way—slowly.

A chance meeting with old military friends on a British cruiser in Santa Barbara Bay led to a hangover and an introduction to director Frank Lloyd, who later signed him as an extra in the original "Mutiny on the Bounty"—Niven's first film appearance.

Lloyd passed him on to another leading director of the period, Edmund Goulding, who had Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer do a screen test, which got Niven nowhere. Another screen test of sorts—an appearance at Paramount before an imperially silent Mae West—was also in vain. (Nearly 40 years later, however, Miss West recanted and told a reporter that "Niven has charm where other men only have cologne.")

Third Man Out
Yet another screen test ended in failure when newcomers Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland both got contracts with Paramount after appearing opposite Claudette Colbert. But Niven, the third man tried out that day, got nothing.

There were occasional jobs as a $2.50-a-day extra—the first one was as a spray-painted "Mexican" in a low-budget cowboy flick—but for a while it looked as if Niven wasn't going to make it, despite his charm and growing circle of friends.

Nothing seemed to work. Not even luck.

One day Niven found himself playing polo against a team headed by powerful studio boss Zanuck. Niven, who was, of course, hopeful of impressing the film magnate, was instead chagrined when his borrowed mount bit Zanuck on the buttocks.

And then the immigration authorities intervened, pointing out that Niven's visitor's permit had long since expired. Niven was forced to take off for the Mexican border, hiring out as a gun bearer for rich U.S. tourists hunting in the hills around the then small, dusty border town of Mexicali.

At last, Niven got lucky when the legendary Samuel Goldwyn viewed his initial screen test, liked what he saw, and signed Niven to a 7-year contract starting at $100 a week.

"I won't put you in a Goldwyn picture until you've learned your job," Goldwyn told Niven. "Now you have a base. Go out and tell the studios you're under contract to Goldwyn, do anything they offer you, get experience, work hard, and in a year or so, if you're any good, I'll give you a role."

Fluffed His Only Line
Niven did just that—but in his own inimitable style. Goldwyn sent him to Gilmore Brown's workshop at the Pasadena Playhouse, then Los Angeles' premier showcase theater. Niven was given a one-line part in a play and, with a celebrity audience on hand for his opening night, managed to drink a bit too much backstage in an effort to calm his nerves. He made a shambles of what little he had to do. Brown banished him from the theater, but Niven's career prospered anyway.

Most of the parts were small at first. In Howard Hawks' production of "The Barbary Coast" (1935), Niven played a Cockney sailor who was tossed out of a San Francisco brothel into a muddy street. He was signed the next year to play a bit part in the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy opus "Rose-Marie," but after filming his brief scene he left the studio, only to find out months later that his part had been re-shot with another actor.

The roles quickly got more meaty. Niven played an officer and friend of Flynn in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), Capt. Clyde Lockert in "Dodsworth" (1936) and Fritz von Tarlenheim in "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937). In 1938, Niven appeared in the classic "The Dawn Patrol" and the following year gained co-star status for the first time in "Bachelor Mother" with Ginger Rogers. Later in 1939, he played opposite Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as the devoted but unloved Edgar Linton, Miss Oberon's husband in "Wuthering Heights."

Despite the early frustrations, only four years after arriving in Hollywood, the one-time British officer had become a genuine star, critically well received and an actor of increasing capability. Life outside the studios also was happy. Niven dated Hollywood's most beautiful women, shared a beach house (called "Cirrhosis by the Sea") and caroused with Flynn, and was a friend of the industry's most talented stars and directors—people like Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Fred Astaire, Ronald Colman and William Wyler. And he was a frequent guest of William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon.

But then World War II intervened.
Though he had long ago resigned his commission and probably would not have been drafted into service, Niven left Los Angeles soon after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, and after several false starts managed to return to England and gain a commission in an infantry regiment. He was assigned to a training battalion and, he claimed much later, out of infinite boredom volunteered for the newly formed commando units.

Niven, never at a loss for friends throughout his life, made a new one in Churchill, who occasionally invited him to his estate on weekends. On first meeting him, Churchill growled, "Young man, you did a very find thing to give up a most promising career to fight for your country."

But the, according to Niven's account, the soon-to-be prime minister added, "Mark you, had you not done so, it would have been despicable."

Niven saw action in Europe after the Normandy invasion and married an English girl, Primula Rollo, who was to bear him two sons. Niven rose from the rank of captain to lieutenant colonel during the war, and took time off to do a film overseas—"The Way Ahead" (1944), a glorification of the British infantryman.

The film, a government-backed propaganda effort, was directed by Carol Reed and written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov. Ustinov, then a private in the army, doubled as Niven's orderly when they moved into London's Ritz Hotel to work on the movie.


David Niven, left, and Kim Hunter in "Stairway to Heaven. (File photo)

Niven did another film in England—"Stairway to the Stars" (1946)—and then returned to Hollywood, "thinking I was God's gift to the movies," he told an interviewer 20 years later. "I went to Sam Goldwyn, said I was being underpaid, and asked how soon I could get out of my contract. 'The minute you reach the street,' he told me."

It was a difficult time for Niven. His wife died in an accident at the age of 25 and his Broadway debut in 1951 as Gloria Swanson's lover in the unsuccessful "Nina" was a failure.

"I took a good look at myself," he said later, "still wandering vaguely about with a cup of tea in one hand and a duchess in the other. I was fast approaching that nervous no-man's land where actors feel down the backs of their necks the hot, sticky breath of leading men in their early 20s, while in front they see a solid phalanx of well-established character actors blocking their path. That is no place to hang around very long with a cup of fast-cooling tea and an aging duchess."

Later in the 1950s, life picked up for Niven when he married a young Swedish model, Hjordis Tersmeden. They were to adopt two girls. And then—with Dick Powell and Charles Boyer—he started the hugely successful television firm, Four Star Productions.

There was no fourth star, by the way, because, according to Niven, most of Hollywood was frightened by the power of the film studio bosses. But the production company was an incredible success. "Four Star Playhouse" begat "Zane Grey Theater" which in turn spawned "The Rifleman," which spun off "Wanted Dead or Alive," starring an unknown named Steve McQueen.

It went on that way through the late 1950s and early 1960s—Four Star in one year had 14 TV series on the air, including two of Niven's own—"The David Niven Show" and "The Rogues." And Niven was suddenly one of the richest men in Hollywood. He decided to take his money and his family to Europe—permanently.

Niven explained the move in "The Moon's a Balloon." Taxes were eating him up, he said; the smog, the freeways and nasty gossip columnists were all bothering him. But, more fundamentally, "Hollywood had completely changed. The old camaraderie of pioneers in a one-generation business still controlled by the people who created it was gone . . . the scent of fear was attacking to smog-filled lungs of the professional film makers, already resigned to the fact that their audience was brainwashed by television. . . . The pipe dream was gone—the lovely joke was over. . . . It was time to go."

Niven and his family moved to a chalet in Switzerland and, later, a villa overlooking the sea at Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera, where he was to live a luxurious existence to his death.

It was an expensive life style—skiing the best slopes, tiger-hunting in India and entertaining his next-door neighbors, Princess Grace and Prince Ranier of Monaco—and Niven managed it by working a good deal of the time on films, both good and bad.

He turned down the role of Humbert Humbert in "Lolita" because he feared it would tarnish his gentlemanly image, but he had a long list of successes.


Shirley MacLaine, David Niven and Cantinflas in "Around the World in 80 Days." (File photo)

There was "The Bishop's Wife" (1947), "The Moon Is Blue" (1953), "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956), "Bonjour Tristesse" (1958), "Separate Tables" (1958), "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (1960), "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) and "The Pink Panther" (1963), to name some of the better ones.

Niven liked to say his career was composed of playing officers, dukes and crooks, but he won an Academy Award as best actor in one of them, "Separate Tables," in which he portrayed a retired British officer.

"I always thank Deborah Kerr and Wendy Hiller," he told an interviewer in 1978. "They won the Oscar for me. They had to cry in the picture, which they did so beautifully that when I spoke, the camera panned to them sobbing . . . and I got the award."

He liked to refer to himself as "a displaced Cary Grant," and he was like that almost to the end—witty, classy, charming.

Like the time a few years ago when an interviewer asked him this old stock question: What is your philosophy of life?

"Life to me, I guess, is a sort of super Grand National Steeplechase, with all sorts of hurdles to jump over and places to fall down," Niven replied. "The trick is not to worry about winning, but to get around the course as best you can without doing any damage to the other riders and certainly not to the other horses."

Or, in another interview, in 1978, when he acknowledged that the ranks of his friends were thinning rapidly:

"We have to face it," Niven said. "An awful lot of my age group has been called up already. So many chums have gone, Cooper, Gable, Bogart. To say nothing of men of my own vintage—Errol Flynn and Ty Power. But there's no way they're going to get me off. I just won't go. I'll kick and scream and make a terrible fuss."

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Filmography

Actor (113 credits)

1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Sir Charles Litton
1983 Better Late Than Never - Nick Cartland
1982 Trail of the Pink Panther - Sir Charles Litton
1980 The Sea Wolves - Colonel W. H. Grice
1980 Rough Cut - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

1979 A Man Called Intrepid (TV Mini-Series) - Sir William Stephenson
1979 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Ivan
1979 Escape to Athena - Professor Blake
1978 Death on the Nile - Colonel Race
1977 Candleshoe - Priory
1976 Murder by Death - Dick Charleston
1976 No Deposit, No Return - J.W. Osborne
1975 The Remarkable Rocket (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1975 Paper Tiger - 'Major' Bradbury
1974 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - The Ghost - Sir Simon de Canterville
1974 Old Dracula - Count Dracula
1972 King, Queen, Knave - Charles Dreyer
1971 The Statue - Alex Bolt

1969 The Brain - Colonel Carol Matthews
1969 The Extraordinary Seaman - Lt. Commander Finchhaven, R.N.
1968 Before Winter Comes - Major Burnside
1968 The Impossible Years - Jonathan Kingsley
1968 Prudence and the Pill - Gerald Hardcastle
1967 Eye of the Devil - Philippe de Montfaucon
1967 Casino Royale - Sir James Bond
1966 Where the Spies Are - Dr. Jason Love
1965 Lady L - Dicky, Lord Lendale
1964-1965 The Rogues (TV Series) - Alec Fleming - 30 episodes
1964 Bedtime Story - Lawrence Jameson
1963 The Pink Panther - Sir Charles Lytton
1963 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Harvey Cleeve
- Who Killed Billy Jo? (1963) ... Harvey Cleeve (as David Niven the World's Greatest Juggler)
1963 55 Days at Peking - Sir Arthur Robertson
1962 Conquered City - Maj. Peter Whitfield
1962 Guns of Darkness - Tom Jordan
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Lama Who Remembers Lady Chatterley's Lover (uncredited)
1961 The Best of Enemies - Maj. Richardson
1961 The Guns of Navarone - Cpl. John Anthony Miller
1960 Please Don't Eat the Daisies - Laurence Mackay
1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV Series) - Marcus Dodds
- The Trench Coat (1960) ... Marcus Dodds
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1959 Happy Anniversary - Chris Walters
1959 Ask Any Girl - Miles Doughton
1957-1959 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) - Cameo / Milo Brant / Allen Raikes
- Checkmate (1959) ... Cameo (uncredited)
- The Accuser (1958) ... Milo Brant
- Village of Fear (1957) ... Allen Raikes
1958 Separate Tables - Major Angus Pollock
1958 Frances Farmer Presents (TV Series) - B.G. Bruno
- Happy Go Lovely (1958) ... B.G. Bruno
1957-1958 Goodyear Theatre (TV Series) - Charles Enright / 'Jeffrey Collins' / Paul Evans / ...
- Decision by Terror (1958) ... Charles Enright
- Taps for Jeffrey (1958) ... 'Jeffrey Collins'
- Episode #1.11 (1957) ... Paul Evans
- The Tinhorn (1957) ... Jeff Carleton
- Danger by Night (1957) ... Alan Kevin
1957-1958 Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) - 6 episodes
1958 Bonjour Tristesse - Raymond
1957 The Return of Phileas Fogg (Short) - Phileas Fogg
1957 My Man Godfrey - Godfrey Smith
1957 Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series)
- Taming of the Shrew (1957)
1957 The Little Hut - Henry Brittingham-Brett
1957 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! - Dr. Alan Coles
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Phileas Fogg
1956 The Silken Affair - Roger Tweakham
1952-1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) - 33 episodes
1956 The Birds and the Bees - Colonel Patrick Henry Harris
1956 The Star and the Story (TV Series) - Johnny
- The Thin Line (1956) ... Johnny
1955 The King's Thief - James - Duke of Brampton
1954 Court Martial - Carrington
1954 Tonight's the Night - Jasper O'Leary
1954 The Love Lottery - Rex Allerton
1953 The Moon Is Blue - David Slater
1952-1953 Hollywood Opening Night (TV Series)
- Uncle Fred Flits By (1953)
- Sword Play (1952)
1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - Sheffield
- The Sheffield Story (1952) ... Sheffield
1952 Celanese Theatre (TV Series) - Alan Squier
- The Petrified Forest (1952) ... Alan Squier
1952 Chesterfield Presents (TV Series)
- A Moment of Memory (1952)
1952 Betty Crocker Star Matinee (TV Series)
- The Willow and I (1952)
1951 The Lady Says No - Bill Shelby
1951 Island Rescue - Maj. Valentine Moreland
1951 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
- Not a Chance (1951)
1951 Soldiers Three - Capt. Pindenny
1951 Happy Go Lovely - B.G. Bruno
1950 The Fighting Pimpernel - Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
1950 Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV Series) - Arthur Carstairs
- Portrait of Lydia (1950) ... Arthur Carstairs
1950 The Toast of New Orleans - Jacques Riboudeaux

1949 A Kiss for Corliss - Kenneth Marquis
1949 A Kiss in the Dark - Eric Phillips
1948 Enchantment - General Sir Roland Dane
1948 Bonnie Prince Charlie - Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1947 The Bishop's Wife - Henry Brougham
1947 The Other Love - Dr. Anthony Stanton
1946 Magnificent Doll - Aaron Burr
1946 The Perfect Marriage - Dale Williams
1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Peter Carter
1944 The Way Ahead - Lt. Jim Perry
1942 Spitfire - Geoffrey Crisp

1939 Raffles - Raffles
1939 Eternally Yours - Tony aka The Great Arturo
1939 The Real Glory - Lieut. Terence McCool
1939 Bachelor Mother - David Merlin
1939 Wuthering Heights - Edgar
1938 The Dawn Patrol - Scott
1938 Three Blind Mice - Steve Harrington
1938 Four Men and a Prayer - Christopher Leigh
1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife - Albert De Regnier
1937 Dinner at the Ritz - Paul de Brack
1937 The Prisoner of Zenda - Fritz von Tarlenheim
1937 We Have Our Moments - Joe Gilling
1936 Beloved Enemy - Gerald Preston
1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Capt. Randall
1936 Thank You, Jeeves! - Bertie Wooster
1936 Dodsworth - Captain Lockert
1936 Palm Springs - George Britell
1936 Rose-Marie - Teddy (as David Nivens)
1935 Splendor - Clancey Lorrimore
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty - Able-Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
1935 A Feather in Her Hat - Leo Cartwright
1935 Barbary Coast - Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)
1935 Without Regret - Bill Gage
1935 Hop-a-Long Cassidy - Mexican Bandit (uncredited)
1934 Cleopatra - Slave (uncredited)
1933 Eyes of Fate - Man at Race Course (uncredited)
1932 There Goes the Bride - Bit Role (uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1957 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Village of Fear (1957) ... (producer - uncredited)
1952-1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) (producer - 28 episodes)

Soundtrack (3 credits)

1956 Around the World in 80 Days (performer: "Have Courage to Say No" - uncredited)

1949 Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- David Niven (1949) ... (performer: "Way Up North")
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1938 The Dawn Patrol (performer: "Plum and Apple" - uncredited)

Director (1 credit)

1958-1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Wayfarers (1960)
- The Vaunted (1958)

On the set of The Sea Wolves.

1986: Timothy Dalton signs a contract.
1987: Dah Smrti (Breath of Death) released in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

NEW JAMES BOND -- MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER!

2008: Announcement reveals Jack White & Alicia Keys to collaborate on title song "Another Way to Die"--a duet.

2011: Daniel Craig confirms a plan to use India locations for BOND 23 and pre-titles train action.

2020: Scheduled release for Dynamite Entertainment's James Bond: Origin: Volume 1
(Parker Signed Edition Hardcover).

JAMES BOND ORIGIN HC VOL 01 PARKER SGN ED
DYNAMITE

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At last, the definitive account of James Bond's exploits during World War II!

MARCH, 1941: Seventeen-year-old James Bond is a restless student in Scotland, an orphan, eager to strike out and make his mark on the world. But a visit by an old family friend coincides with THE CLYDEBANK BLITZ, the most devastating German attack on Scotland during the War. James will fight through hell to survive, coming out the other side determined to make a difference. He'll find his calling in a new British government service, secret in nature...

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I remember Dah Smrti was running in Zagreb when I was there in 88.