On This Day

RichardTheBruce

December 30th

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obituary: Jack Lord

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

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

Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

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

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

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

1949 Project X - John Bates

Producer (3 credits)

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

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

1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

Director (2 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

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

1965: Thunderball premieres in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (UK general release follows 13 March 1966.)

1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.

Concept art

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

VCD

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

Later video marketing.

1989: 007 살 인 면 허 (Sahl-een myun-huh; Murder Licence) released in the Republic of Korea.

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

1999 New Year Honours

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012: Skyfall reaches £100 million ($161.6 million) in the UK (a first for a film there), plus the landmark 1 billion (US) dollar point for worldwide box-office.
2016: Game over--shutdown of the Glu Mobile servers brings an end to James Bond: World of Espionage.

Thunderfinger

So Lord is the original Jack Ryan.

RichardTheBruce

I had that exact thought @Thunderfinger.

RichardTheBruce

December 31st

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

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

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 21 - The Court Case That Killed Ian Fleming

But most probably the reason for the rushed settlement was the fact that
McClory's case was incontrovertible. [Peter] Carter-Ruck felt victory was in large
measure due to William Mars-Jones' opening speech, which lasted a total of
28 hours and 8 minutes, and placed all the evidence before the court.
Concluding his brief, Mars-Jones felt it pertinent, in relation to the conduct
of Fleming and Bryce towards McClory, to quote Macmillan, then Prime
Minister, " What greater moral crime can there be than to deceive those
naturally inclined to trust you, those who work with you, serve with ou and
are your colleagues?"

If Bryce and Fleming were hoping McClory would fall down in the
witness box, they were sadly mistaken. With all of Fleming's connections--
Eton, Sandhurst, naval intelligence, everyone figured McClory, an Irishman
in an English court, didn't stand a chance. But he showed incredible
command of the hundreds of letters in the case, which he'd committed to
memory, and was indeed able to demonstrate that his partnership with Bryce
in Xanadu had endured to include the Bond film. Fleming and Bryce had
underestimated their foe. As Whittingham's son Jonathan later observed,
"Fleming et al never believed that Kevin had either the nerve or the financial
muscle to dare go the whole course. They were dead wrong." Now they were
to pay the consequences.

McClory's victory and revenge over the men who had sidelined him was
considerable. Fleming would keep ownership of the Thunderball novel, but
his publishers were to add the message: "Based on a screen treatment by
Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author" to the title page of all
future editions. It's there still today, McClory, in return was awarded the film
and television rights to the book, as well as the copyright to all existing
related scripts and treatments.

The wording of the Deed of Assignment, executed on 31 December
1963, is worthy of note and would prove highly significant in years to come.
Fleming, Bryce and Jonathan Cape assigned to McClory "all the copyright in
the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel in
films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." Fleming also
granted McClory "the exclusive right to use the character James Bond as a
character in any such scripts or films of Thunderball.

In addition McClory got his own court costs paid (thought to be in the
region of £17,500) was awarded damages. In his book, You Only Live
Once: Memories of Ian Fleming, Bryce explained how he forfeited a
murderous slice of his personal assets to pay all the court costs.

After the trial, McClory celebrated his victory at a nearby pub with Bobo
and friend and fellow Irishman Peter O'Toole. "Now I can look forward to
making the best james Bond film ever produced," he told reporters. he also
revealed the main reason why he brought the court action: "To wipe out the
thought of anyone in the profession that I was trying to cash-in on the name
of James Bond.

1965: For Thunderball the Los Angeles Times reports on 24 hour schedules at the Paramount Theater. Plus midnight and 2:30 midnight showtimes at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.

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

2002: 007 어나더데이 (007 Uh-nah-duh-day-ee; 007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.

2008: Donald Edwin Westlake dies at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.
(Born 12 July 1933--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)

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!

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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

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

RichardTheBruce

Annual thanks go to @SirHilaryBray for starting this thread. And many thanks go to corrections from @Thunderfinger and others, plus the many corrections and additions from @BondOnThisDay. Very important and appreciated.

RichardTheBruce

January 1st

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

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

Filmography

Actress (59 credits)

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

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

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

Self (3 credits)

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

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

Archive footage (9 credits)

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

Soundtrack (1 credit)

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

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

1941: Simón Andreu is born--Sa Pobla, Balearic Islands, Spain.

1961: Ian Fleming returns to his Goldeneye estate and begins writing the ninth Bond novel. In failing health, he uses a screenplay from a 1958 project as its basis.
1962: The Dr. No production hands out a draft shooting schedule to the crew.
1965: Agente 007 - Missione Goldfinger (Agent 007 - Goldfinger Mission) released in Italy.

Not to be confused with.

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

1968: This month Marvel Comics publishes Strange Tales Vol 1 #164 with the first of an eventual three appearances by James Bond.

Strange Tales Vol 1 164

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Strange Tales Vol 1 #164

Published January, 1968
Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee
Cover Artist Dan Adkins
"Nightmare" Writer Jim Lawrence
Penciler Dan Adkins
Letterer Al Kurzrok
Editor Stan Lee
"When Comes.. The Black Noon!"
Writer Jim Steranko
Penciler Jim Steranko
Inker Bill Everett
Letterer Art Simek
Editor Stan Lee

"Ain't you heard... Nick Fury's got more lives
than a cat! "
-- Nick Fury

Appearing in "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"

Featured Characters: Nick Fury Nick Fury
Supporting Characters: S.H.I.E.L.D., Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Sam
Antagonists: Yellow Claw (robot), Fritz Voltzman (robot)
Other Characters: Suwan (robot), Slim, James Bond (First appearance)
Locations: New York City, Manhattan, S.H.I.E.L.D. Barbershop Headquarters
Items: Ultimate Annihilator, Revive Chamber and the Self-Regenerating Cell, Amplifier, Code-a-Graph key, Transparent Car, Spectre-Suit, Image Distorter, Frigi-Wep (First appearance), Voltzman's cane
Vehicles: Sky Dragon (First appearance), Transparent Car

Synopsis for "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"

At the instant the Claw fired The Ultimate Annihilator at Fury, Suwan teleports him thru "Hyper-Dimensional Space" to the underground lair. She then teleports him to the S.H.I.E.L.D. barber shop, where he collapses. In his lair, The Claw tests the Ultimate Annihilator by destroying a satellite in orbit. Mad with power, he plots "the dawn of a new age...and age of vengeance...of darkness and death". S.H.I.E.L.D. medics give Fury the once-over in a "Revive Chamber", then warn him that any further stimulation could cause blackouts, blindness or death! Telling them to keep it confidential, Fury follows a tip, using the transparent car and a "Spectre-Suit" (to make him invisible) to trail a Claw agent. During a faked traffic accident, Fury sneaks into the trunk of the agent's car, getting out at their destination and getting the drop on The Claw & Von Voltzmann. But he discovers he's onboard "The Sky Dragon", a huge airship miles above the city! Captured, Fury is tied underneath the Ultimate Annihilator, as The Claw prepares to use it to destroy New York City!

James Bond (Earth-616)

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History

By most opinions the very definition of a modern day spy and counter-espionage agent, James Bond has been mentioned more often than seen in the Marvel Universe, often in comparison -- at times disparagingly, at other times complimentary -- to the likes of Nick Fury and other elite members of S.H.I.E.L.D. and its various counterparts around the world.

He was briefly seen in New York City, attempting to enter a barber shop that was actually the secret entrance to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s then-operative New York headquarters. Nick Fury had moments earlier unexpectedly materialized inside the shop, and so the agents on guard as barbers rather hastily told the agent that they were closed. Bond's response to their brisk dismissal was remarking that they were treating him like he was an enemy spy.

Years later, James Bond and his date were among a large group of odd characters gathered at the Laughing Horse saloon, standing at the bar beside an off-duty police detective in a yellow trench coat.

Trivia

Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #3 implies that James Bond may be the father of Clive Reston ("an MI-6 agent with a 00 license to kill, and Clive took after his father's [...] love of terrible puns") and descendant of Sherlock Holmes ("a private detective, from whom Clive inherited deductive reasoning talent and a habit for smoking a meerschaum pipe"). However, it wasn't explicitly stated, due to licensing right.

Captain America Vol 1 #401 (second appearance)

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

Video marketing.

1976: Daily Variety reports on Kevin McClory and the agreement he signed in 1965 for his involvement in the Thunderball production that returned film and television rights to the property after ten years. And that he can produce Bond films, starting today.
1977: Dr. No re-release in the UK.

1981: For Your Eyes Only films at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from today through February. Delivery of snow is needed for the street scenes.

1992: This month Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr #1 "The Beginning", sourced from the first episode of the cartoon series with Scumlord and Jaws.
Mario Capaldi, artist. T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton, writers (adaptation).
Colin Fawcett, ink. Mario Capaldi and Colin Fawcett, cover.

James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) #1

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https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=84041

James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) 1
Published Jan 1992 by Marvel.
Cover pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett. The Beginning, script by T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton (adaptation), pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett.

007's nephew arrives at Warfield Academy where he becomes the target of S.C.U.M. agents after his Aston Martin. Based on the TV episode of the same title aired 09-30-1991.

36 pgs

1995: Dark Horse Comics publishes James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1.
Gary Caldwell. artist. Don McGregor, writer. Christopher Moeller, cover.

James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1

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https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-430/James-Bond-007-Quasimodo-Gambit-1

In the tropical paradise of Jamaica, things are not as picturesque as the travel brochures would suggest. Sent to stop a notorious arms dealer called Rifle, James Bond once again finds more than he bargained for. Rifle's clients turn out to be Elias Hazlewood and the Disciples of the Heavenly Way, a successful televangelist operation. Among the Way's membership is Maximillian "Quasimodo" Steel, a reformed mercenary. He's got a plan to stop the Beast and further God's cause. That is, unless James Bond can stop him first.

Creators
Writer: Don McGregor
Artist: Gary Caldwell
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Editor: Edward Martin III
Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 01, 1995

https://www.comicsroyale.com/dark-horse/ahm32p61rdhoqun5o2e7zkzfkgx9t3


https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-23008-BD-James-Bond-007-The-Quasimodo-Gambit-Dark-Horse-1995.html

1996: This month Topps Comics publishes James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 (Special Limited Convention Preview Edition, black and white), and #1 of three where #2 and #3 remain unpublished.
Claude St. Aubin, pencils. Rick Magyar, ink. Don McGregor, writer. Brian Stelfreeze, cover.

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=135691


https://steemit.com/comics/@cryplectibles/adapted-into-comic-books-goldeneye-from-1996

1997: This month Playboy magazine publishes an abridged version of the Raymond Benson short story "Blast From the Past". The complete story is later included in The Union Trilogy anthology.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/review-blast-from-the-past?id=04353

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

Video marketing.

1998: Zajtrajsok nikdy nezomiera released in Slovakia.

Video marketing.

1999: This month Playboy magazine publishes Raymond Benson's short story "Midsummer Night's Doom".

https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2016/01/raymond-bensons-james-bond.html?m=0

2000: 縱橫天下 (Zònghéng tiānxià; Across the World) released in Taiwan.

2003: Cyril Shaps dies at age 79--Harrow, London, England.
(Born 13 October 1923--London, England.)

Cyril Shaps (1923–2003)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788670/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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

https://www.tanea.gr/2002/12/31/lifearts/culture/007-me-eylogies-mpoys/

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



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

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

RichardTheBruce

January 2nd

1937: Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby is born in Erdington, Birmingham, England.

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

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

1991: Untitled screenplay for a third Dalton mission dated this day. Credited to William Osborne, William Davies, Al Ruggerio, Michael G. Wilson. OO7 investigates a stolen British stealth fighter traveling to Vancouver, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, China, Libya.

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

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

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

Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans

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https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/world/seoul-journal-the-power-of-film-a-bond-that-unites-koreans.html

By JAMES BROOKE - JAN. 2, 2003

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82

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By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first Flashman novel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

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Writer

Filmography

Writer (10 credits)

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

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

Self (1 credit)

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

Archive footage (1 credit)

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

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2008: Quantum of Solace filming begins.

2021: The Great Game Treasure Hunts present a Virus Safe Outdoor James Bond Westminster London Treasure Hunt.

Jan
02

Virus Safe Outdoor James Bond
Westminster London Treasure
Hunt

by The Great Game Treasure Hunts

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The James Bond Treasure Hunt is a themed treasure hunt around the Westminster London area. Can you break the code and be a secret agent?

About this Event
The Great Game Treasure Hunt James Bond London is a unique outdoor treasure hunt. Perfect to do whilst isolating, in order to get outdoors and exercise during these times, especially when you're stuck for something to do! NHS guidelines say it safe to go on walks outside and are encouraging exercise that doesn't involve close face to face contact with strangers. If you can't go to the gym, cinema or theatre, why not try a safe treasure hunt?

If you want to skip the pub at the end you can as your discount won't expire and you can use it in the future when things go back to normal.

This hunt does have a clue in the National Gallary. Please check with the National Gallery about getting entry passes on their website for the day of your hunt, due to covid. This clue can be skipped if you want to still play however during covid.

The James Bond hunt includes two parts:

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Firstly a secret agent mission to work out who is the spy. With this correct information you can obtain 20% off in the restaurant at the end (must purchase two courses), you will also debrief yourself to find out which rank you have achieved.

You are given an agent mission, compass, wristbands and clues to find your way along the route. If you are successful you will reveal where the treasure is - a great restaurant! At the restaurant you will receive discount off your bill.

Secondly, answer the James Bond trivia to successfully lead you around the area and to some famous spots from the films. Finally, you will reach a great restaurant with a bar at the end.

• Start: Parliament Square.
• Length: 2.2 miles, 3 hours.
• Treasure: Stylish modern restaurant with bar (20% off total food & drink bill - must purchase two courses).
• Route Info: This winding route takes in some of the famous sites from the films.

Important info:
Due to opening times for access to one clue this hunt must be started no later than 4pm.

£14.99 – £24.99

Date and Time
Sat, January 2, 2021
10:00 AM – 11:00 PM GMT

Location
Parliament Square
Great St George Street
London
SW1A 0AA
United Kingdom

RichardTheBruce

January 3rd

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

Dana Broccoli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dana Broccoli (1922–2004)

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Filmography

Actress (5 credits)

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

1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)

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

Thanks (26 credits)

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

Self (19 credits)

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

HiArchive footage (4 credits)

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

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

Sir George Martin obituary

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/09/george-martin-obituary[/center]

The ‘fifth Beatle’, a talented musician and producer who oversaw
landmark albums and helped the band to stretch the boundaries
of sound recording
Adam Sweeting | Wed 9 Mar 2016 01.25 EST | Last modified on Tue 14 Feb 2017 12.58 EST

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Martin (I) (1926–2016)

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Filmography

Music department (31 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack (31 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

1956 Smiley (producer: "Smiley")

Composer (10 credits)

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway

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

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

Actor (2 credits)

2017 MIRA Protocol (Short) - Esteban

1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street - Producer

Producer (2 credits)

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

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

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

The strange tale of the man who armed James Bond

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joie Chitwood
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Joie Chitwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joie Chitwood (I) (1912–1988)

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Filmography

[bStunts[/b] (5 credits)

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

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

Actor (4 credits)

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

1968 Fireball Jungle (uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

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

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

Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Protests of the time.

2006: Casino Royale principle photography commences.
2008: Quantum of Solace main unit filming kicks off at Pinewood (originally scheduled for 10 December 2007).

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

Christoph Waltz will appear in two
more James Bond films as long as
Daniel Craig returns as 007

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christoph-waltz-will-appear-in-two-more-james-bond-films-as-long-as-daniel-craig-returns-as-007-a6794351.html

'Christoph could make a brilliant ongoing man for Bond to battle like in the old days'
Jack Shepherd - @JackJShepherd - Sunday 3 January 2016 10:03


Christoph Waltz makes his debut as Franz Oberhauser ( Spectre )

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

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

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

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

2019: Planned production start date for BOND 25 with director Danny Boyle. 25 October release date, same year.
(Update: changed to a March production start; director Cary Fukunaga; 14 February 2020 release date. Then April 2020 release date. Then November 2020 release. Then April 2021 release.)

2021: After falling ill Christmas eve, Tanya Roberts is incorrectly reported as deceased.

RichardTheBruce

January 4th

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

January 4 — James Bond Born (1900)

See the complete article her:

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

January 3, 2018

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

References:

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

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

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

http://jamesbondradio.com/talking-ornithology-and-espionage-with-the-real-james-bond-author-jim-wright/

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

Michael France, screenwriter and
Beach Theatre owner, dies

See the complete article here:

https://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/michael-france-screenwriter-and-beach-theatre-owner-dies/2115065

The screenwriter was one of the region's most successful movie industry figures.
By Steve Persall | Published April 14 2013
Updated April 14 2013



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael France (I) (1962–2013)

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

Filmography

Writer (7 credits)

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

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

Trivia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1984: The Hollywood Reporter reports David Bowie was considered for the Max Zorin role that eventually went to Christopher Walken.

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

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

Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/09/obituaries/richard-maibaum-screenwriter-for-james-bond-films-dies-at-81.html

By ELEANOR BLAU | JAN. 9, 1991

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

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

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

A Sleuth With Humor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Maibaum (1909–1991)

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Filmography

Writer (52 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Producer (14 credits)

1973 Jarrett (TV Movie) (producer)

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

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

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

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1956 Zarak (associate director - uncredited)

1949 The Great Gatsby (second unit director)

Self (4 credits)

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

Archive footage (6 credits)

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

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

Video marketing.

1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the Philippines.

2000: The World Is Not enough released in the Philippines.
2004: Jeff Nuttall dies at age 70--Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.
(Born 8 July 1933--Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.)

Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638346/

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2007: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Double or Die in paperback.

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

Activision's James Bond games disappear from
Steam and Xbox 360

See the complete article here:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/activisions-james-bond-games-disappear-from-steam-and-xbox-360/1100-6402017/

PC versions of Activision's James Bond games have been removed from digital sale on Steam,
Xbox 360 Games on Demand and Activision's own web store.
By Martin Gaston | January 4, 2013

Activision's suite of James Bond games have all disappeared from Steam, Xbox 360 and Activision's own digital store. Spotted by Neogamr.net, 007 Legends and James Bond 007: Blood Stone, from now-defunct studios Eurocom and Bizarre Creations, and the Treyarch-helmed Quantum of Solace are no longer available to purchase from Steam.

There are no results in Activision's own store, either. On the consoles, the Xbox 360 Games on Demand version of GoldenEye 007: Reloaded has also been pulled. The game is still available to buy on the PlayStation 3, but it is not clear if the game will remain listed on the PlayStation Store when the marketplace is refreshed this week.

One reason for games being pulled from digital sale can be down to licensing agreements expiring, as happened with GTA: Vice City on Steam recently. Activision obtained the gaming rights to the then-lucrative Bond license from EA in 2006, in a deal with MGM and EON that was scheduled to last until 2014. It is possible that Activision has pulled the plug on this arrangement.

The last Bond game, Eurocom's 007 Legends, was derided by critics and failed to make an impact on the sales charts, despite being timed to coincide with the release of uber-blockbuster Skyfall. The studio's previous game, the lukewarm 2010 remake of the classic GoldenEye 007, also failed to capture hearts and wallets and the Derby-based studio was closed at the end of 2012.

https://www.gamespot.com/videos/007-legends-skyfall-dlc-trailer/2300-6399775/

2020: Victoria Leigh Blum (Tanya Roberts) dies at age 65--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 15 October 1955-- The Bronx, New York City, New York.)

RichardTheBruce

January 5th

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

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

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

Video marketing.

1978: Roger Moore signs a contract for his fourth mission as OO7.

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

Obituaries

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/05/obituaries/richard-hughes-77-is-dead-australian-covered-the-wars.html

By WILLIAM G. BLAIRJAN. 5, 1984
...

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

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

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

A Model for Novels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversation With Richard Hughes

See the complete article here:

https://www.timbowden.com.au/2012/01/28/conversation-with-richard-hughes/

By timbowden On January 28, 2012
CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD HUGHES | With Tim Bowden

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Hughes, Ian Fleming in Japan



You Only Live twice (Dikko Henderson) | The Honourable Schoolboy (Old Craw)

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

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

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

2007: 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

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

2020: National Bird Day in the US.

RichardTheBruce

January 6th

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

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

Not to be confused with

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

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3834/pg3834.html

ISHAK
Thy dawn, O Master of the world, thy dawn;
The hour the lilies open on the lawn,
The hour the grey wings pass beyond the mountains,
The hour of silence, when we hear the fountains,
The hour that dreams are brighter and winds colder,
The hour that young love wakes on a white shoulder,
O Master of the world, the Persian Dawn.

That hour, O Master, shall be bright for thee:
Thy merchants chase the morning down the sea,
The braves who fight thy war unsheathe the sabre,
The slaves who work thy mines are lashed to labour,
For thee the waggons of the world are drawn—
The ebony of night, the red of dawn!

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4th8r737&view=1up&seq=88

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Holness (1928–2012)

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

Filmography

Actor (6 credits)

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

1984 The Chain - Newsreader

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

Self (37 credits)

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

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

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

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

Trivia

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

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

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

2012: Skyfall films M's funeral.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #3 comic, continuing VARGR.
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181803011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: January 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: January 6

Bond is on his way to break up a small, agile drug-trafficking operation in Berlin. The truth about what he's walking into is bigger, scarier and much more lethal. Berlin is about to catch fire, and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the "VARGR" storyline, the debut chapter of the ongoing James Bond saga as written by industry legend Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters!

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

James Bond is about to be a Brooklynite

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

James Bond is Brooklyn bound.

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

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

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

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

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

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

BT3366

Was that John Cleese Schweppes commercial on the LTK VHS at the time? I feel like I've seen it before.

Interesting that was almost a decade before he was involved in the series, although the commercial reminds me more of Inspector Clouseau, especially the films where the assassins are trying to kill Clouseau. Cleese could've been an interesting successor for Peter Sellers after seeing that.

RichardTheBruce

Yes that's been confirmed by other posters in the past, @BT3366, your memory serves.

RichardTheBruce

January 7th

1924: Albert Geoffrey Bayldon is born--Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
(He dies 10 May 2017 at age 93--Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.)

Geoffrey Bayldon

See the complete article here:

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

Geoffrey Bayldon in 2009

Born Albert Geoffrey Bayldon | 7 January 1924 | Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died 10 May 2017 (aged 93) | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Occupation Actor | Years active 1952–2010
Partner(s) Alan Rowe

Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle (1970–71). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch (1995).

Early life
Bayldon was born in Leeds and attended Bridlington School and Hull College of Architecture.[6] Following service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he appeared in amateur theatricals and then trained at the Old Vic Theatre School.

Career

Bayldon enjoyed a substantial stage career, including work in the West End and for the RSC. He made several film appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, including King Rat (1965), To Sir, with Love (1967), Casino Royale (as Q) (1967), the Envy segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), the Marc Bolan/T. Rex film Born to Boogie (1972), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), as well as the film versions of Steptoe and Son, Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973) as the vicar, and Porridge (1979) as the Prison Governor.

Bayldon also appeared in several horror films; Dracula and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed for Hammer Films and The House That Dripped Blood, Asylum and Tales from the Crypt for Amicus. In 2004, after many years of successful television work he appeared in the film Ladies in Lavender.

He appeared in Doctor Who with a guest appearance as Organon in The Creature from the Pit (1979) opposite Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. Subsequently, he played an alternative First Doctor in two audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series by Big Finish Productions in the Doctor Who Unbound series: Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005). In 1963, Bayldon had been one of the first actors offered the role of the Doctor.

Bayldon's other television roles include, ITV Play of the Week (1957, 1959, 1964, 1967), The Avengers (1961 and 1967), Z-Cars (1963, 1968), Theatre 625 (1964–1968), The Wednesday Play (1968, 1969), ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1970, 1972), Space: 1999 (1976), The Tomorrow People (1976), Tales of the Unexpected (1980, 1983), Blott on the Landscape (1985), Star Cops (1987), Rumpole of the Bailey (1987), The Chronicles of Narnia (1989).[14] He later took part in a number of BBC Schools programmes,[15] where he displayed a number of otherwise unexploited talents (such as singing). In 1993, he played Simplicio in the Open University video Newton's Revolution.

In 1986, Bayldon provided the vocals on Paul Hardcastle's The Wizard which was also used (without the vocal) as the theme for BBC1's Top of the Pops.

Among his later television appearances were the Five game show Fort Boyard (1998–2001), Waking the Dead (2004), Heartbeat (2004) and Casualty (2006, after previous appearances in 1991, 1997 and 2004).[14] His final television appearances, before his retirement, were New Tricks (2007) and My Family (2010).

Death
Bayldon died on 10 May 2017, aged 93, from undisclosed causes.[20] His partner of many years, fellow actor Alan Rowe, had predeceased him in 2000.

Geoffrey Bayldon (1924–2017)

Actor

Trivia (9)

• He played the Doctor in two Doctor Who (1963) Unbound audio plays, "Auld Mortality" (2003) and "A Storm Of Angels" (2005).
• He served in the Royal Air Force prior to training to be an actor.
• Has said in an interview he was offered the role of the first Doctor Who (played by William Hartnell). This is at odds with most documents of the official history of the series, which have stated that Hartnell was the third choice after Cyril Cusack and Leslie French. Bayldon was considered for several roles in the series, including Sir Robert Muir in Doctor Who: Black Orchid: Part One (1982), Lord President Borusa in Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity: Part One (1983)and Lord Ravensworth in Doctor Who: The Mark of The Rani Part One (1985).
• Appeared as a butler in the rock and roll movie Born to Boogie (1972) featuring Marc Bolan and T. Rex, and directed by Ringo Starr, due to their fondness for his TV series Catweazle (1970).
• At the age of 80 in 2004, he became the oldest actor to ever play the Doctor Who (1963) character the Doctor, which he did (for the second time) in the Big Finish audio drama "A Storm of Angels".
• He was considered for the roles of Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstrong, Sir Percy Heseltine and the Fatherly Guard in Lifeforce (1985).
• He died only seven days after his Casino Royale (1967) co-star Daliah Lavi.
• Trained as an R.A.F.air-crew radio operator during the war but by the time his training was complete there were sufficient crews so he worked in orderly rooms and helped with entertainment.
• He was the long-term partner of fellow actor Alan Rowe, who died in 2000.

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

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 22 - Bond Goes Head To Head

It wasn't long before stories began emerging in the press about who would
play 007 in McClory's renegade Bond film, which was ready to go before
cameras in March 1964, the same month as Goldfnger. Two names mentioned
were the Australian actor Rod Taylor, recent star of Hitchcock's The Birds, and
Laurence harvey, who'd made his name in the kitchen sink drama Room at the
Top before moving on to Hollywood and films like The Alamo and The
Manchurian Candidate. Harvey seemed the favourite and on 7 January revealed
that he had been asked and was considering the offer. "I think the script is
marvellous and I would be delighted to portray Bond."

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

1973: Richard Maibaum finishes the first draft of the screenplay for The Man with the Golden Gun.

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1976: Producer Kevin McClory announces in Variety his planned film James Bond of the Secret Service, to begin filming in the Bahamas with the involvement of Len Deighton and Sean Connery.

1981: 문 레이커 (Moon-ray-ee-kuh) released in South Korea.

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

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

July 1984.

January 1985.

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

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

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

2015: Khan Bonfils dies at age 43--London, England.
(Born 1 January 1972--Vietnam.)

Khan Bonfils

See the complete article here:

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

Kan (Khan) Bonfils (1972[1] – January 5, 2015) was a Danish actor and performer. He was born in Vietnam and adopted by a Danish family when he was 5 years old. He grew up in Denmark and later moved to London to fulfil his dream. He trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He was a trained Martial Artist and studied the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu from Austin Goh, and was also a practitioner of Yin Style Ba Gua Zhang in London since 2008.

His film credits include Jedi Master Saesee Tiin (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Body Armour (2007) and Traveller (2013).

His other film credits include Tomb Raider 2, Batman Begins, and the James Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Skyfall (2012).

Bonfils also performed in the West End: Miss Saigon at Drury Lane, Theatre Royal London and The King & I at London Palladium where he performed the lead with Elaine Paige.

Bonfils also had a brief modelling career, before starting acting, modelling for Michiko Kochino, Hermes, Oswald Boateng and more.

On 5 January 2015, Bonfils was rehearsing an upcoming stage production of Dante's Inferno when he collapsed. He could not be resuscitated, and was pronounced dead by paramedics. He was 42 years old.

Filmography
His film credits include:

• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - Satoshi Isagura (uncredited)
• Shadow Run (1998) - Baz
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) - Saesee Tiin
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) - Reiss' Guard
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - Creepy
• Batman Begins (2005) - League of Shadows Warrior #3
• Body Armour (2007) - Ozu
• Tribe (2011) - Tolui
• Skyfall (2012) - Silva's henchman
• Traveller (2013) - Tolui
• Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper (2016) - JK (final film role)

Khan Bonfils (1972–2015)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094416/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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

007 Times 2? Idris Elba Poses for
'Awks' Selfie with Daniel Craig at
2019 Golden Globes

https://people.com/movies/golden-globes-2019-idris-elba-daniel-craig-bond-selfie/

As shared by Mr. Idris Elba.

2020: Michael Apted dies at age 79.
(Born 10 February 1941--Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, South East England.)

Michael Apted, director and Seven Up
documentarian, dies at 79

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/08/michael-apted-director-seven-up-dies-79

British director made films Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World is
Not Enough, and the long-running Up documentary series

Michael Apted Photograph: Vince Bucci/Getty Images

Benjamin Lee | Fri 8 Jan 2021

The British director Michael Apted has died at the age of 79.

The film-maker and documentarian was known for films such as Gorillas in the Mist and Coal Miner’s Daughter, as well as his long-running series of Up documentaries.

His death has been confirmed by his agency to the Hollywood Reporter. No further details are yet known.

Apted’s career started in the 1960s on the small screen, and in 1964, he assisted on the the show Seven Up! as part of the current affairs show World in Action. He helped the director Paul Almond interview 14 seven-year-old children, and continued to independently revisit them every seven years over the course of their lives. The most recent, 63 Up, was released in 2019 and the director referred to it as “the most important thing I have ever done”. The series as a whole won the Peabody award in 2012.

“The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society,” Apted said in an interview last year. “The class system needed a kick up the backside.”

In promotion for the most recent installment, Apted expressed a desire to continue in another seven years’ time, saying he would continue as long as he “can breathe and speak”.

In the 1970s, Apted made his big-screen debut, directing the second world war drama The Triple Echo, starring Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. But he saw see his first major film success in 1980 with Coal Miner’s Daughter, a Loretta Lynn biopic starring Sissy Spacek. It was nominated for seven Oscars, winni

Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/Allstar/UNIVERSAL

Apted went on to direct Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, a film that also picked up five Oscar nominations; Nell, which scored an Oscar nomination for Jodie Foster; the Kate Winslet drama Enigma; the Jennifer Lopez thriller Enough and, most recently, the action film Unlocked starring Noomi Rapace.

“What I like about women at the center of films is that I find that a woman character brings a lot of emotion to a story, whatever a story is,” he said in a 2017 interview. “Whether it’s a woman with gorillas or a country music singer, a woman’s emotional life – at least on the surface – is more dramatic than a man’s.”

He also directed the James Bond adventure The World is Not Enough and the fantasy sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Apted has been remembered by his peers on Twitter, including Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids.

“So very very sad to hear of the passing of Michael Apted,” Feig wrote. “He was always so kind to me and I was such a great admirer of his work.”

Gale Anne Hurd, producer of Aliens and The Terminator, tweeted: “Another legendary filmmaker gone … a brilliant documentarian and a wonderful colleague. Do yourself a favor and check out his terrific filmography.”

Apted is survived by his wife, Paige Simpson, sons Jim and John, and daughter Lily Mellis.

Michael Apted (1941–2021)

Director | Producer | Additional Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000776/

RichardTheBruce

January 8th

1920: Douglas Wilmer is born--Brentford, London, England.
(He dies 31 March 2016 at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.)

Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016)

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

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

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

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







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

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

Swedish Semic Comic 1976 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3

Man Lever Bara Två Gånger - Djävulens Trädgård
(You Only Live Twice - "Devil Garden")

Swedish Semic Comic 1967

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

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no12-1967/

James Bond 007 no. 39 (1977)
"Djævelens urtegård ..."
The Devil's Garden"

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no39-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 12/1967
"Djævelens urtegård ..." "The Devil's garden"

1971: 007 카지노 로얄 (Kah-gee-no low-yal; Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.

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

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

Anthony Dawson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

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

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writer (2 credits)

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

1992: Dali Bensallah is born--Rennes, France.

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

RichardTheBruce

January 9th

1943: Scott Walker is born--Hamilton, Ohio.
(He dies 22 March 2019 at age 76--London, England.)

Scott Walker, Pop Singer Who
Turned Experimental, Dies at 76

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/scott-walker-dead.html


Scott Walker with the Scottish pop singer Lulu during an awards ceremony in the late 1960s. Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, his group, the Walker Brothers, had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts.
Credit Ballard/Hulton Archive

By Richard Sandomir | March 26, 2019

Scott Walker, who with his American pop group, the Walker Brothers, became a teenage idol in Britain in the 1960s, but who later immersed himself in experimental music that influenced artists like David Bowie and Radiohead, died on Friday in London. He was 76.

His record label, 4AD, said the cause was cancer. He had been living in England since the 1960s.

The Walker Brothers arrived in England in early 1965, reversing the earlier British invasion of America. There, the group — made up of Mr. Walker (his real name was Noel Scott Engel), a dramatic baritone who played bass; John Maus, a guitarist and vocalist; and Gary Leeds, the drummer, all of whom used the surname Walker — found the success that had eluded them in the United States.

Though their popularity never reached Beatlemania levels, their fans, like those of the Beatles, would scream during their performances — and, in one harrowing incident, turned over a van taking them from a concert in Dublin.

Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, the Walker Brothers had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts: “Make It Easy on Yourself,” a ballad by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,” which had first been recorded by Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons. Both songs also rose to the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

Mr. Walker left the group in 1967 to start a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase. In one iteration he recorded songs by the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel. But his most critical period was a retreat into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize: ominous and clangorous, existential and electronic, with big blocks of sound, his baritone voice now used to almost operatic effect. For many years, he did not appear in concert.

Reviewing a recording on which Mr. Walker collaborated with the metal band Sunn O))) in 2014, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described his music as “intricate puzzles of shock, indiscretion, non-resolution, theatrical uses of text and extended technique, often with a 40-piece orchestra.” He added that Mr. Walker was always looking for a “whoops factor”— “a moment of incomprehension from the listener.”

In a message on Twitter, Thom Yorke, the lead singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, wrote that Mr. Walker had shown him “how I could use my voice and words.”

“Met him once at Meltdown,” he added, referring to the annual music and art festival in England, “such a kind gentle outsider.”

Noel Scott Engel was born on Jan 9, 1943, in Hamilton, Ohio, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati, the only child of Noel and Elizabeth Marie (Fortier) Engel. His father was an oil company geologist whose job took the family to various cities. When Scott was about 6 his parents divorced, and he went to live in Denver with his mother.

They subsequently moved to New York, where in the mid-1950s Scott, still a schoolboy, began his entertainment career. He had small roles in the Broadway musicals “Plain and Fancy” and “Pipe Dream” and recorded singles, including “When Is a Boy a Man?” (1957), as Scotty Engel — hoping, without success, to break through as a teenage idol. Many of those songs were later released in the compilation album “Looking Back With Scott Walker” (1968).


Mr. Walker performing on television in an undated photo. After leaving the Walker Brothers in 1967, he began a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase, eventually retreating into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize.
Credit David Redfern/Redferns

Around 1960 he and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where he attended high school and the Chouinard Art Institute. He also played in various music groups, worked as a session bassist and, in 1964, formed the Walker Brothers with Mr. Maus (who had already been using John Walker as a pseudonym). They played at the Whisky a Go Go and other clubs along the Sunset Strip.

Although the best-known songs of his Walker Brothers period did not portend how radical his music would become, Mr. Walker began to demonstrate a willingness to free himself from the conventions of pop and rock as early as 1967, when he began releasing a series of solo albums — “Scott,” “Scott 2,” Scott 3” and “Scott 4.” He did so again on “Nite Flights” (1978), an album made during a brief reunion of the Walker Brothers.

Along the way, he found an admirer in David Bowie. Mr. Bowie, a transcendent musical experimenter, was in a relationship with a woman who had dated Mr. Walker and kept his albums. Mr. Bowie listened to the music and became so enamored that he later took the role of executive producer of “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” (2007), a documentary directed by Stephen Kijak.

“I like the way he can paint a picture with what he says,” Mr. Bowie said in the film. “I had no idea what he was singing about. And I didn’t care.”

Mr. Walker, who worked on his albums slowly and meticulously, continued his musical evolution with “Climate of Hunter” (1984). With “Tilt” (1995) and “The Drift” (2006), he drew closer to matching his ambition to his creative visions — and to those that crept into his mind while he slept.

“I have a very nightmarish imagination,” he said in the documentary, which focuses on the recording of “The Drift.” He added: “I’ve had bad dreams all my life. Everything in my life is big, it’s out of proportion.”

“Clara,” a song on “The Drift,” reimagines the executions of Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, at the hands of Italian partisans in 1945. (It was inspired by newsreels Mr. Walker had seen as a child.) Another song, “Jesse,” imagines a conversation between Elvis Presley and Jesse, his stillborn twin brother, as a vehicle to write about the destruction of the World Trade Center.

In a plaintive, eerie vocal reminiscent of Mr. Bowie, Mr. Walker sings:

Fame is a tall, tall tower
A building left in the night
Jesse, are you listening?
It casts ruins in shadows
Under Memphis moonlight
Jesse, are you listening?

Howard Kaylan, a founding member of the Turtles, said in a 2013 interview that he had been listening to Mr. Walker since the 1960s. He was a fan of the Walker Brothers, he said, but thought of Mr. Walker’s solo music as the work of genius.

“My jaw hit the ground when I heard ‘Tilt,’ ” Mr. Kaylan told the newspaper Record Collector News. “And by the time he got to ‘Drift,’ I understood what he was doing: He is doing the most conventional pop music I ever heard. He is just doing it as if he was observing it from outer space and then trying to tell you what he saw as an alien.”

Mr. Walker’s survivors include his partner, Beverly; his daughter, Lee; and a granddaughter. Mr. Maus died in 2011.

Some of Mr. Walker’s lyrics were published last year in the book Sundog, with an introduction by the Irish novelist Eimear McBride, who compared Mr. Walker to James Joyce.

“Walker’s work, as Joyce’s before it, is a complex synesthesia of thought, feeling, the doings of the physical world and the weight of foreign objects slowly ground together down into diamond,” Ms. McBride wrote. “This is not art for the passive. It does not impart comfort or ease. Tempests will not be reconciled by the final bars, and no one is going home any more.”
A version of this article appears in print on March 27, 2019, on Page B14 of the New York edition with the headline: Scott Walker, 76, Pop Idol Who Turned Experimental.

Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", Soundtrack version


Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye end titles

Scott Walker cover, "The Look of Love"

1965: Goldfinger general release in the US.

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the shootout at Piz Gloria.

1972: The RMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire and sinks in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, ending plans to use it as "the Floating College".

1998: Το αύριο ποτέ δεν πεθαίνει (To avrio pote den pethainei, or The Tomorrow Never Dies) released in Greece.

2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Egypt.
2003: Die Another Day released in the Netherlands.

2012: Producers announce Thomas Newman will score Skyfall.

Skyfall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack

Development
Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced on 9 January 2012 that Thomas Newman, frequent collaborator of Skyfall director Sam Mendes, would score Skyfall. On describing how the job became his, Newman said, "I very shyly gave [Mendes] a call or emailed him and said, just so you know, I’d be overjoyed to do it, but would never want to be presumptuous. He emailed me back, saying I was just about to call you, let’s meet for lunch!" Newman took over musical duties for the film from David Arnold who was busy directing the musical aspects of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies. However, Arnold later commented that the reason behind the selection of Newman had been because of his past work with Mendes.Newman's collaborator J. A. C. Redford did the orchestration.

On 6 October 2012, the album's track list was revealed featuring the running times of each track. The first preview of the score was released a few days later on 9 October 2012, while the soundtrack itself was released less than a month later by Sony Classical. This was the second time the label had released a Bond soundtrack, with the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album.

Unlike most other Bond soundtracks, the soundtrack album to Skyfall does not contain the title song performed by Adele. This marks only the second time that this has happened, the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album. Despite this, at the producer's insistence Newman added an interpolation of "Skyfall" in the track "Komodo Dragon", used in a scene where Bond enters a casino in Macau.

The CD booklet mentions that the score contains interpolations of the "James Bond Theme", written by Monty Norman. Arnold's arrangement of the "James Bond Theme" (which appears on the Casino Royale soundtrack as "The Name's Bond…James Bond") plays over Skyfall's end titles (which begin with the film's gun barrel sequence); however, the track does not appear on the soundtrack album. Newman's arrangement of the theme plays over the reveal of Bond's Aston Martin and his escape with M to Scotland; the track appears on the album as "Breadcrumbs."

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #3.

JAMES BOND 007 #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532503011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
UPC: 725130275325 03011
Cover B: Philip Tan
UPC: 725130275325 03021
Cover C: Kris Anka
UPC: 725130275325 03031
Cover D: Marc Laming
UPC: 725130275325 03041
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Marc Laming
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 1/9/2019

ODD JOB continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
Northern Australia: Agent 007 infiltrates an illegal outpost, to prevent a uranium dealer's negotiations with terrorists. Or, that WOULD be his mission, if not for the interference of a (seemingly ever-present) Korean secret agent. Will James Bond stay on target, or will his fury towards John Lee overtake his priorities?

RichardTheBruce

January 10th

1908: Bernard Lee is born--Brentford, Middlesex, England.
(He dies 16 January 1981 at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.)

Obituaries

BERNARD LEE IS DEAD;
BRITISH ACTOR HAD ROLES
IN JAMES BOND MOVIES

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/obituaries/bernard-lee-is-dead-british-actor-had-roles-in-james-bond-movies.html
Jan. 18, 1981

Bernard Lee, a British character actor who appeared in more than 100 films and was perhaps best known as the spy chief ''M'' in James Bond movies, died of cancer Friday at a London hospital. He was 73 years old.

Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.

Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''

Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.

He appeared in all 12 Bond thrillers from the first, Dr. No, with Sean Connery, in 1962, to the latest, Moonraker, with Roger Moore, in 1979. His illness prevented his planned appearance in the 13th movie, For Your Eyes Only, which is yet to be released.

Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.

Bernard Lee (I) (1908–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496866/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (150 credits)

1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Sergeant Ben

1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
1979 Moonraker - M
1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
- Seawrack (1978) ... Man
1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
- The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
- Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
- What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
- Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
- Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
- The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
- The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
- The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
- Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
- Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
- Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
- Silver (1973) ... James Cable
1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
Francis Cumberland
1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
- Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
1971 Danger Point - Captain
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
- Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
- Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
- Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
- The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
- Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
- Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
- The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
- Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
- Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
- The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
- Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
- The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
- Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
- Flight of a Tiger (1966)
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
- The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
- Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
- The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
- Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
- Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
- Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
- The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
- Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
- The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
1965 Thunderball - 'M'
1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
- Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
- After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
- The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
- Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
- Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
- The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
- Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
- Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
- Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
- Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
- Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
- Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
- Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
- Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
1962 Dr. No - M.
1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)

1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
- Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
- The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
- In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
- Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
- Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
- Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
- All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
- The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
- The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
- A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
1951 White Corridors - Burgess
1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
1950 Odette - Jack
1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
1941 Once a Crook - Duke
1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar

1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
1934 The Double Event - Dennison

Writer (1 credit)

1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)

Self (4 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself

1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 4 November 1980 (1980) ... Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhV9A9R2no
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPVQw0hvt4

1966: Bond comic strip The Man with the Golden Gun begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 9 September 1966. 1-209) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence writer.
They go on to adapt five more Fleming titles, plus Colonel Sun and 20 original Bond adventures.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tmwtgg.php3?id=0559








Swedish Semic Comic 1987 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1987.php3

Mannen Med Dengyllene Pistolen
(The Man With The Golden Gun - Part 1) | (The Man With The Golden Gun - Part 2)

Swedish Semic Comic 1968 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1968.php3

Manden Med Den Gyllene Pistole
(The Man With The Golden Gun)

Danish 1977 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no40-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 40:
“The Man with the Golden Gun” (pt. 1) + “The Living Daylights” (1977)
"Hjernevasket" [Brainwashed] + "Spionen fra Øst" [The Spy from the East]

Danish 1976 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no35-1976/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 35: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1976)
"Manden med den gyldne pistol"

Danish 1968 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no15-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 15: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1968)
Manden med den gyldne pistol

1977: ABC-TV premiere of The Man With the Golden Gun.

Television-friendly titles.

2003: 007 - Um Novo Dia Para Morrer (007 - A New Day to Die) released in Brazil.

2003: 007 어 나 더 데이 (007 Uh-nah-duh-day-ee; 007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.

https://movie.daum.net/moviedb/main?movieId=3766

2003: 007 - Morre Noutro Dia (007 - Die Another Day) released in Portugal.

2013: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces Skyfall's 5 Oscar nominations, includes Best Song.
2015: Spectre completes filming at the 3S Cable Car and ICE Q Restaurant at Sölden, Austria.

2016: Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards goes to Sam Smith for "Writing's on the Wall".

2021: Classic Cinema, Lido Cinema and Cameo Cinema venues in Australia begin showing official James Bond films every Wednesday and Sunday at 7:00 PM AEST through 31 March 2021.
Anticipating the release of No Time To Die.

https://www.classiccinemas.com.au/events/bondathon

https://www.lidocinemas.com.au/events/bondathon

https://www.cameocinemas.com.au/events/bondathon

RichardTheBruce

January 11th

1966: Principle photography begins for Casino Royale.

1978: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes the James Bond comic Convención en Bahía Sangrienta (Convention in Bloody Bay, or The Man With the Golden Gun) in Argenita. Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

1990: The Hollywood Walk of Fame honors Albert R. Broccoli with a star.

1999: Principal photography for The World Is Not Enough begins at Pinewood Studios.

2000: Chapter III Records releases a second soundtrack album for Tomorrow Never Dies.

The original soundtrack release occurred before the actual score of the film was completed. Chapter III Records removed the theme songs, Moby's Bond theme remake, "Station Break". Added: new music tracks plus an interview with composer David Arnold.

2002: Die Another Day begins filming at Pinewood Studios.

2012: MGM and EON Productions announce the 9 November 2012 release date for BOND 23. Sam Mendes directing. John Logan assisting with the script.
2015: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg dies at age 83--Rocca di Papa, Italy.
(Born 29 September 1931-- Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.)

Anita Ekberg - obituary

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11338898/Anita-Ekberg-obituary.html
Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress who found fame cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Fellini’s La Dolce Vita

Anita Ekberg in Back from Eternity (1956) Photo: Allstar Picture Library
8:35PM GMT 11 Jan 2015

Anita Ekberg, who has died aged 83, was the statuesque former Miss Sweden who became a global film sensation after cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). Although demure and innocent by today’s standards, the scene caused a scandal and made the 29-year-old Swede a household name.

Some gossip columnists sniffily nicknamed her “The Iceberg” due to her Scandinavian roots, yet her dramatic décolletage, glowering good looks and vivacious delivery proved an enticing and popular combination with cinema audiences of the Sixties.

Director Frank Tashlin, who directed her in the 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust – the pun was intended – claimed that Anita Ekberg’s appeal lay in “the immaturity of the American male: this breast fetish. There’s nothing more hysterical to me than big-breasted women, like walking, leaning towers.”

Anita Ekberg was indeed a teetering tower. She was 5ft 7in tall and possessed a considerable bust, of which she once said: “It’s not cellular obesity, it’s womanliness.” Yet in the same year that Tashlin had typecast her, Ekberg showed that she could really act, if given the opportunity, when she played Hélène Kuragin, the unfaithful wife of Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda) in King Vidor’s epic War and Peace. However, she was fully aware that her allure was centred on her physicality. “I have a mirror,” she said in the late Sixties, “I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t know I am beautiful.”

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29 1931 in Malmö, Sweden, one of a large family (she had seven siblings). As a youngster she had no desire to be famous. She wanted to marry and settle down to a conventional life. A childhood pleasure was to draw and fashion clothes.

Out walking one day, a talent scout spotted her and persuaded her to enter the Miss Universe contest. Winning as Miss Sweden, she gained a trip to Hollywood. A screen test did not bring much work and she returned home disheartened. However, she was determined to make good as an actress and began saving for a return trip.

Her break came when Bob Hope chose her to accompany him on a Christmas tour of American air force bases in Greenland in 1954. Studio moguls soon heard about the roars of approval for Anita and offered her a contract. She had small uncredited roles in films such as The Mississippi Gambler, Abbott and Costello go to Mars and The Golden Blade, before winning supporting parts in Artists and Models (1955) and Blood Alley (1955; playing a Chinese girl). Her first lead came in Back from Eternity (1956). By this time she was being touted as “Paramount’s Marilyn Monroe”.

Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita (Kobal Collection)

She moved to London in the mid-Fifties but was lonely and hardly left her hotel. Having refused dozens of invitations to premieres, something impelled her to finally accept one offer. Her escort turned out to be Anthony Steel, a matinee idol alumnus of the “Rank School”. They were married in 1956.

In her first British film, Zarak (1956), she met her match in Victor Mature. Playing a native dancer, with a few spangles and bangles judiciously placed, who falls in love with Mature’s hulking Zarak Khan. The film left audiences wondering who had the bigger chest. She teamed up again with Mature the following year for the thriller Interpol.

At this time her marriage to Steel was rarely out of the headlines, with reports of drunken driving, rows and violent recriminations. Eventually the union completely soured and they divorced after three years.

Anita Ekberg with her first husband Anthony Steel (REX)

She did not have time to mourn the marriage. Her performance in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita the following year made her a star. Shot in Rome at a time when the Italian obsession with celebrity was at its height, she played the starlet Sylvia opposite Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering paparazzo journalist. The part fixed her in audience’s minds as the European blonde “sex bomb” – stylish, sensual, shallow and ephemeral.

In the film’s most famous scene, she splashes with abandon in the Trevi Fountain, her black low-necked dress trailing in the frothy waters, cooing: “Marcello, come here.” In fact the scene had been shot in February and Mastroianni was doped up on vodka. “I was freezing,” she recalled. “They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn’t feel my legs any more.”

Following the success of Fellini’s masterpiece, Anita Ekberg appeared opposite Bob Hope in Call Me Bwana and Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (both 1963). She was also considered for the part of Honey Ryder in Dr No but lost out to Ursula Andress. When she did appear in a Bond film, it was both unwitting and unflattering: in From Russia with Love (1963) Sean Connery shoots a spy escaping through a gigantic Call Me Bwana poster featuring Anita Ekberg’s face. “She should have kept her mouth shut,” says Bond.

Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain (Alamy)

Anita Ekberg’s on-screen persona – a freewheeling man-eater from overseas – soon spilt over into her private life. Sinatra was one of the many leading men she was rumoured to have taken as a lover, along with Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Tyrone Power and Gary Cooper.

She often played characters possessed of an untethered and wild spirit. As a “war lady” in The Mongols (1961) she indulged in torture and sado-masochism, striding in thigh-high boots among the slave girls cracking a bullwhip. For “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”, Fellini’s episode in the portmanteau feature Boccaccio '70 (1962), she was once again the sex object, this time as the model featured on a “Drink More Milk” billboard poster who is brought to life to trap a puritanical doctor. Thus Fellini followed Tashlin in using her abilities for erotic satire.

In 1963 Ekberg married Rik Van Nutter (who later played Felix Leiter in Thunderball). They lived in Spain and Switzerland and in 1969 became entrepreneurs. “Rick and I have gone into the shipping business. We found a cargo ship and we’re in business with the captain,” she said (the couple also bought a Chinese junk). “Ours is a good marriage. There are so many good times in marriage, that the bad times are really unimportant. Anyway, I learnt from my parents that difficulties are there to be overcome.”

As with all sex symbols, age diminished her currency. By the end of the Sixties she was complaining about the lack of available roles. “I should be able to get work myself on the strength of my acting. I shouldn’t have to sleep with producers to get parts. It’s depressing to see parts going to actresses who can’t act their way out of a wet paper bag but who are friendly with producers,” she observed. “My life has changed quite a bit, of course. The Ferrari’s gone – now I have a Mini Moke.”

The downward spiral continued throughout the Seventies. She made films but they were more often than not B-movies with salacious titles such as The French Sex Murders (1972) and The Killer Nun (1979). Her scenes for Valley of the Dancing Widows (1975) were left on the cutting room floor. At home things also began to disintegrate: she accused Van Nutter of cheating her over a car-hire business they owned. The couple divorced in 1975.

Anita Ekberg in 2010 (AFP)

Two years later, her house was robbed, with the thieves stealing fur coats, jewels and silver, the fruits of her once-famous career. “My last 10 years have brought nothing but bad luck,” she stated.

After a second robbery in 2011, she appealed to the Fellini Foundation for financial help. It was a sad sign of decline from the Amazonian actress who had five decades earlier threatened paparazzi with a bow and arrow.

Her final years were spent living in semi-reclusion in a run-down Italian villa outside Rome, where her only companions were two great Danes.

Anita Ekberg, born September 29 1931, died January 11 2015

Anita Ekberg (1931–2015)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001179/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (65 credits)

2002 Beauty Centre (TV Series) - Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Ottobre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Settembre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Agosto (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Maggio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Aprile (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Febbraio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Gennaio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti

1998 Le nain rouge - Paola Bendoni
1996 Bámbola - Mamma Greta
1996 Witness Run (TV Movie)
1992 Cattive ragazze - Milli
1992 Dov'era Lei a quell'Ora? - Anita Ekberg
1992 Ambrogio - Clarice
1991 Il conte Max - Marika

1988 Quando ancora non c'erano i Beatles (TV Mini-Series) - La pianista
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... La pianista
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... La pianista
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... La pianista
1987 Intervista - Anita Ekberg
1986 The Seduction of Angela - Signora Rocchi
1982 Cicciabomba - Baronessa Judith von Kemp
1980 S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert - Dr. Else Biebling

1979 Killer Nun - Sister Gertrude
1979 Gold of the Amazon Women (TV Movie) - Queen Na-Eela
1975 Das Tal der tanzenden Witwen (scenes deleted)
1974 Anno Schmidt (Short)
1974 Northeast of Seoul - Katherine
1972 Deadly Trackers - Jane
1972 The French Sex Murders - Madame Colette
1970 Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (as Anita Edberg)
1970 The Conjugal Debt - Ines
1970 The Divorce - Flavia

1969 Death Knocks Twice - Sophia Ferretti
1969 A Candidate for a Killing - Jacqueline Monnard
1969 Fangs of the Living Dead - Malenka / Sylvia Morel
1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium - Performer
1968 Crónica de un atraco - Bessie
1967 Woman Times Seven - Claudie (segment "Snow")
1967 The Glass Sphinx - Paulette
1967 The Cobra - Lou
1966 Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? - Olga, la baronessa
1966 Way... Way Out - Anna Soblova
1966 Come imparai ad amare le donne - Margaret Joyce
1965 The Alphabet Murders - Amanda Beatrice Cross
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Lolita Young
1964 Love Factory - Alberchiaria
1963 4 for Texas - Elya Carlson
1963 Call Me Bwana - Luba
1962 Boccaccio '70 - Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
1961 The Mongols - Hulina
1961 A porte chiuse - Olga Duvovich
1960 Little Girls and High Finance
1960 Le tre eccetera del colonnello - Georgina
1960 The Dam on the Yellow River - Miss Dorothy Simmons
1960 La Dolce Vita - Sylvia

1959 Sheba and the Gladiator - Zenobia - Queen of Palmira
1958 The Man Inside - Trudie Hall
1958 Screaming Mimi - Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange
1958 Paris Holiday - Zara
1957 Valerie - Valerie Horvat
1957 Pickup Alley - Gina Broger
1956 Hollywood or Bust - Anita Ekberg
1956 Zarak - Salma
1956 Man in the Vault - Flo Randall
1956 Back from Eternity - Rena
1956 War and Peace - Helene Kuragina
1955 Artists and Models - Anita
1955 Blood Alley - Wei Ling
1955 Casablanca (TV Series) - Katrina Jorgenson
- Who Holds Tomorrow? (1955) ... Katrina Jorgenson
1953 Private Secretary (TV Series) - The Hubby Killer
- The Hubby Killer (1953) ... The Hubby Killer
1953 The Golden Blade - Handmaiden (uncredited)
1953 Take Me to Town - Dancehall Girl (uncredited)
1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars - Venusian Guard
1953 The Mississippi Gambler - Maid of Honor (uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

2003 Lost in Translation (film clip: "La Dolce vita" courtesy of - as Ms. Anita Ekberg)

2015: Rome officials ban (= limit) the filming of a car chase in the city.

Rome bans James Bond car chase

See the complete article here:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-bans-james-bond-car-chase.html

11 Jan, 2015

Culture officials fear damage to Quattro Fontane fountains

Rome’s cultural heritage officials have blocked plans to film a high-speed car chase at the Quattro Fontane intersection as part of the new James Bond movie being filmed in the Italian capital.

Producers of Spectre, the 24th edition in the Bond series, had hoped to shoot a sequence in which 007, played by British actor Daniel Craig, would race through Rome in a night-time car chase.

However city officials have refused to authorise the scene planned at the Quattro Fontane crossroads between Via del Quirinale and Via XX Settembre, over concerns that the 16th-century fountains are too fragile to risk being hit by a speeding Aston Martin.

Instead the city has suggested that the filmmakers recreate the sequence using post-production special effects. The fountains are currently undergoing a €320,000 restoration due for completion in late February.

Filming in Rome begins on 19 February and is expected to last throughout March. The most dramatic scene will feature 007 landing by parachute onto the 15th-century Ponte Sisto pedestrian bridge between Campo de' Fiori and Trastevere.

Bond will also appear in a number of high-speed car chases on Borgo Vittorio near the Vatican, on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II between Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori, and on the Lungotevere along the river Tiber.

The movie is being directed by Britain's Sam Mendes – who was behind the most recent Bond film Skyfall – and is due for release on 6 November.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #4.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #4 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272204011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: January 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130252722 04011
ON SALE DATE: 1/11

Bond finds himself at the mercy of Malfakhar, a Yemeni smuggler and black marketeer. But both men are mere pawns in a far greater game, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. As the Hammerhead weapon is deployed and the true identity of the criminal mastermind Kraken is finally revealed, 007 makes a last desperate bid to prevent nuclear war!

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #1.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025458001011
Cover A: Mike Perkins
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: January 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
UPC: 725130254580 01011
ON SALE DATE: 1/11

From superstar creative team James Robinson (Starman, Red Sonja) and Aaron Campbell (The Shadow, Uncanny) comes the Bond spin-off highlighting 007's American counterpart!

Felix Leiter finds himself in Japan, tracking down a beautiful, Russian spy from his past. But when the mission takes a turn for the worse, he will discover that there are more deadly schemes afoot in Tokyo and beyond!

2021: Last day for Bollinger Champagne Brut Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition offer.

BOLLINGER
CHAMPAGNE BRUT

Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition

See the complete article here:

https://www.glugulp.com/bollinger-champagne-brut-special-cuvee-limited-edition-007-gift-pack-en

Bottle 0,75 L in box[/b]
EUR 75.00
Vat included
Dosage Brut
Cuvèe Assemblage
Grapes Pinot Noir 60%, Chardonnay 25%, Meunier 15%
Winery area A.O.C. Champagne
Particularity Limited Edition
Winery category Maisons
Alcohol 12% Vol.
Product Code BLS007B1

In celebration of over 40 years of partnership as the Official Champagne of 007 and the upcoming film No Time To Die, Champagne Bollinger has produced a limited edition gift box that brings together three icons: Bollinger’s signature Special Cuvée, the Aston Martin DB5 and the legendary British secret agent, James Bond.

Honouring the most perfect of partnerships, the limited edition gift box features the silhouette of James Bond alongside his Aston Martin DB5. The colourway of the gift box echoes the silver birch finish of the DB5. The Bollinger lettering and logos are depicted in gold and the iconic Special Cuvée bottle has been adapted to feature a black and gold neck collar with a 007 blazon.

Champagne Bollinger worked with celebrated photographer Greg Williams, for the soon to be released Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition campaign, featuring his signature cinematic style that also appears in the No Time To Die campaign.

Bond, Bollinger and Aston Martin all return in No Time To Die.
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The Special Cuvée represents the best expression of the Bollinger style. The entire know-how of the Maison Bollinger embodies every year a top Champagne, with style and persistent qualities, in unique assemblages - balanced in their roundness, vinousity and elegange.

The Maison Bollinger bases its diversity and qualitative choices on this wine and it is willing to be tested. The assemblage is 60% Pinot Noir (35% from Ay), granting vinousity and complexity, 25% Chardonnay, adding fineness and elegance, as well as 15% Meunier, bringing freshness and elegance.

The grapes comes from their 80% from Grand and Premier Crus territories; for Pinot Noir: Ay, Tauxeries, Verzenay and Louvois; for Chardonnay: Le Mesnil s/Oger, Oger, Cuis and Grauves. To maintain quality and style, the maison adds 5 to 10% vins de reserve, which firstly fermented in oak barrels and later conserved according to cru, vine and vintage, fro 5 to 12 years in magnum with cork caps.

The Special Cuvée rests on yeasts for at least 3 years before disgorging: this is a longer period than the time requested by the guidelines (15 months). It also rests in the cave for at least 3 months before shipping.

RichardTheBruce

January 12th

1937: Shirley Eaton is born--Edgware, Middlesex, England.

1996: Επιχείρηση Χρυσά Μάτια (Epiheirisi Hrysa Matia, Enterprise Golden Eyes) released in Greece.

1996: Agente 007 - GoldenEye released in Italy.

2002: BBC News reports "Pierce Brosnan agrees to a fifth 007 film".

Brosnan agrees to fifth 007 film

See the complete article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1753809.stm

Saturday, 12 January, 2002, 07:56 GMT

Bond is to drive an Aston Martin again in the new film

Actor Pierce Brosnan has extended his contract to play James Bond for a fifth time.

The Irish performer told reporters at the launch of his fourth 007 adventure he was keen to make one more film, but admitted it would probably be his last.

The 20th James Bond movie - as yet untitled - starts shooting officially at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire on Monday before taking in locations including Hawaii, Iceland, Spain and London.

The movie marks the 40th anniversary of the series that began in 1962 with Dr No, starring Sean Connery.

Sean Connery starred in many classic Bond films

Brosnan, 48, said he was delighted to be continuing in the role.

"I will do another one. Time has gone by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday I was sitting here for GoldenEye," he said.

But he said he might be too old for a sixth appearance as the British spy.

"It takes stamina to play this role. I would like to get off the stage with grace.

"I am honouring my contract here but it would be wonderful to do another one. After that, I do not know."

The 20th film will be directed by Lee Tamahori, whose previous successes include Along Came a Spider and The Edge.

Swordfish star Halle Berry and newcomer Rosamund Pike will be Brosnan's glamorous female co-stars.

Berry, who also worked on X-Men, said it a dream come true to be playing opposite 007.

Halle Berry is tipped for an Oscar for Monsters Ball

She said: "I hope I will fit in and do as fine a job as the women before me."

Pike, who has never starred in a movie before, admitted she was not keen on Bond when she was growing up, but said she was looking forward to an "electrifying" experience.

British actor Toby Stevens will play the villainous bad guy.

Other stars returning include Dame Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny and John Cleese in the role of Q following the death of Desmond Llewelyn.

Bond will once again drive an Aston Martin, after a deal with the manufacturer.

The V12 Vanquish will be the fourth Aston Martin that Bond has driven since the association began in 1964 with the film Goldfinger - when the DB5 was fitted with ejector seats and rockets.

Award
Co-producer Barbara Broccoli is the daughter of Cubby Broccoli, the producer who originally brought Ian Fleming's spy to the big screen, and who died in 1996.

Broccoli and fellow producer Michael G Wilson, will receive a special award from the London Film Critics' Circle.

The award will be presented at the Circle's 22nd awards ceremony on 13 February.

It is being given to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the James Bond films, and the organisers say they expect some familiar Bond faces to be among the guests at the event.

2011: Ian Fleming International Airport (formerly Boscobel Aerodrome) in Jamaica, a $300 million renovation, is officially re-opened by Prime Minister Bruce Golding plus Lucy Fleming, Fleming's niece. A 10 minute drive from Golden Eye (sic) Resort.

2011: The Telegraph prints Tim Robey's article "Sam Mendes may have problems directing new James Bond movie."

Sam Mendes may have problems directing new James
Bond movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/8255072/Sam-Mendes-may-have-problems-directing-new-Bond-movie.html

Director could have to battle for his 'vision' if past Bond films are a guide, says
Tim Robey.
By Tim Robey, Film Critic | 2:05PM GMT 12 Jan 2011

It's a full year since Sam Mendes was first put in the frame as a potential Bond director, in which time MGM’s financial woes derailed the production schedule, allowing 007’s more possessive fans to forget their immediate beef and prematurely mourn the whole franchise.

Now it’s back on, but they’re still not happy about the (reconfirmed) Mendes appointment. “It’ll be all middlebrow and safe!” seems to be the standard assumption. The Bond they want is gleeful, sly and viscerally over-the-top, qualities it’s fair to say haven’t been much in evidence in Mendes’s movies to date.

Bond, though, is simply not a director’s franchise. Fans on message boards love to rail against the last one, Quantum of Solace, and throw a lot of blame at Marc Forster, the Swiss helmer of Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland and other literary Oscar-bait, whose face-value credentials for the job were every bit as elusive as those of Mendes.

The argument goes that you need a real action-director’s pair of hands, and that Martin Campbell, who rebooted the series twice with GoldenEye and Casino Royale, is the right type of guy. Directors with artistic pretensions tackle Bond at their peril and everyone else’s.

Because their names carry unexpected pedigree for the task of a mass-market blockbuster, Forster, and now Mendes, become convenient stooges for what’s actually a producer’s logistical nightmare – and responsibility.

It’s about marshalling an army of second unit/assistant directors, stunt co-ordinators and effects technicians. In the Brosnan years, people such as Roger Spottiswoode and Michael Apted may have had the helm, but most of the standout set-pieces were famously masterminded by Vic Armstrong and his team.

Sure, directors of Bond movies have their work cut out to get the actors and story into shape, but they have less autonomy to foist any particular vision of their own on to the screen than in most other franchises this side of Police Academy. You could pick apart the auteur theory on the evidence of editor-turned-director John Glen, who directed the last three Roger Moore instalments, then made the terrific first Timothy Dalton one, The Living Daylights, and then followed it up with surely the nadir of the entire series, Licence To Kill.

This proves my point: who directs a Bond movie has almost nothing to do with how good it is. (A further dent in the just-use-Martin-Campbell argument is available to anyone who’s actually tried to watch GoldenEye lately, Famke Janssen’s ace villainess honourably excepted.)

So imagining that Mendes will somehow attempt to turn Bond into Revolutionary Road II or The Cherry Orchard: Dawn Inferno is a mug’s game. He won’t be allowed.

Whether his instalment is praised or pilloried will be down to the entire creative team, the script, the editing, effects, production design, score, and the harmony of all those elements, as it always is – and, as usual, it'll be mainly the producers', not Mendes's, concern to foster that harmony.

Oh, and the casting. Rumours are abroad that Simon Russell Beale is currently being considered for a role. He’d love to be a baddie. I’d love him to be a baddie. The petition starts here.

RichardTheBruce

January 13th

1925: Count Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees is born--Cairo, Egypt.
(He dies 23 June 2012 at age 87--Stornoway, Scotland.)

https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=10262

Obituary: Robin de la Lanne-
Mirrlees; title-loving prince who
found peace on isle of Great
Bernera

https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robin-de-la-lanne-mirrlees-title-loving-prince-who-found-peace-on-isle-of-great-bernera-1-2382350
Published: 00:00 Friday 29 June 2012

Born: 13 January, 1925, in Cairo. Died: 23 June, 2012, in Stornoway, aged 87.

COUNT Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees was the dashing figure whose colourful career lay at odds with his decision to adopt self-imposed exile on the island of Great Bernera, off Lewis. He encompassed lives as an army captain, herald, laird, count and prince, as well as aiding Ian Fleming in writing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in which he is cast as the main character.

This fluent linguist, international heraldic figure, one-time Lloyds’ “name”, property owner and castle restorer became revered in the Western Isles as a benevolent laird, who swapped a Paris flat for a croft, and was known to the 350 islanders on Great Bernera simply as “Robin”.

In spite of holding a Yugoslav royal title, attending the Queen as a herald at her coronation and being in direct descent of Louis Philippe I of France, he latterly became anti-monarchist. In a reference to his own princely title, he remarked, “Any old fool can be a prince, and in my case legitimately”, adding, “I’m quite a man of the people really”.

Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees was born Robin Grinnell-Milne in Cairo, son of Captain Duncan Gribbell-Milne, a Great War pilot, and the Countess Frances de la Lanne. He initially changed his name when his mother later married another Great War hero, Major-General William Mirrlees. His second change of name occurred two decades ago.

Learned and outgoing, he was a born networker, whose godfather was the 11th Duke of Argyll. Educated at the English School of Cairo, in Paris and Merton College, Oxford, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and saw service in India. Passionate about heraldry, his career began in 1952 at the College of Arms in London as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, being promoted to Richmond Herald. In later years, he was a regular at Edinburgh meetings of the Heraldry Society of Scotland.

In his 15 years at England’s centre of heraldry, he corresponded with Fleming, then researching On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Bond’s cover role was based on Mirrlees, the fictional spy having the title Sable Basilisk Pursuivant, suggested by Robin. Villain Stavro Blofeld also bears the “deformity” of having no ear lobes.

Robin too was lobeless. His friendship with Fleming resulted in a jointly written book, Sable Basilisk (1965), centring on Bond’s “genealogy”, with 007’s coat-of-arms on the cover and motto: “The World Is Not Enough”.

Critics accused Count Robin of basking in “flummery” – and he did love titles. That of count came through his mother’s line, recognised in 1964 by the Republic of San Marino. His claim to his princedom emanated in 1967 from the exiled King Peter II of Yugoslavia, his “Prince of Coronata” covering islands off Dalmatia. Further titles followed: in 1975, he was recognised as Baron of Inchdrewer and Laird of Bernera. He was also a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.

In 2005, he began to assert his princely title, informing friends: “Maybe it will help me find a princess at my age”. His only marriage, at 45 to a nurse half his age, lasted less than a week.

Robin proved a generous and witty host, enormously enjoying good company and stimulating conversation. In the early 1970s he restored Inchdrewer Castle near Banff, but never occupied the place. His purchase sight unseen in 1962 of Great Bernera off Lewis and his croft home there made him an adopted islander. He refused to raise rents, and donated land for community use. Three years ago when in a care home on Great Bernera, he and the only other resident faced being made to move by Western Isles Council; the pair retained their residency through becoming “tenants”.

The Lloyds crash of the early 1990s almost ruined him but Count Robin paid off more than £2 million in debts after “a property clear-out”. He lost his house in Holland Park, London, chateau in France, flats in Paris and Switzerland, and Ratzenegg Castle in Austria, yet good humouredly, joined the Lottery syndicate on his beloved Bernera.

He is survived by Patrick de la Lanne,, his natural son through his relationship with Margarethe, Duchess of Wurttemberg; and three grandchildren.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robin-de-la-lanne-mirrlees-title-loving-prince-who-found-peace-on-isle-of-great-bernera-1-2382350

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

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

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

Thursday 13 January, 1944

Ian dined and talked about his plans for the future, whether to take a newspaper job with the Daily Telegraph and go on hustling and bustling all his life, or whether to live in a cottage, take off his collar and tie, and write a novel or two. Then pros and cons of marriage. I said he would be happier married and shouldn’t leave it too long – not after 40. He is worn out almost every time I see him and wants to talk about cottages, seashores, Tahiti, long naked holidays on coral islands and marriage.

1948: The Gleaner in Jamaica announces the arrival of Fleming and (still married) Lady Ann Rothermere the day prior. With photo.

https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1948-01-13/page-12/

1965: Variety reports Elsa Martinelli was considered for a role.

1972: 007: Los diamantes son eternos (007 - The Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Mexico.

1977: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes James Bond comic Clínica Peligrosa (Fear Face). Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me sinks the Atlantis model near Goulding Cay, Nassau, the Bahamas.

2000: Jeden svet nestací (One World Is Not Enough) released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Video marketing.

2012: Journalists post an image of Daniel Craig at the Four Seasons (doubling for Shanghai) on the web--the first leak of Skyfall filming.

2015: Spectre finishes two days of filming around the Sölden Glacier and tunnel, Austria.

2020: Producers confirm Hans Zimmer is scoring No Time To Die, and the departure of Dan Romer over creative differences.

Hans Zimmer confirmed as new ‘No
Time to Die’ Bond film composer

See the complete article here:

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/zimmer/hans-hired-no-time-to-die-james-bond-score/

By Sian Moore | 14 January 2020, 11:01

Hans Zimmer to score the latest Bond instalment No Time To Die. Picture: Getty / YouTube / Eon Productions

The legendary film composer will be taking over from Dan Romer as
a last-minute replacement – just three months before the Bond
movie is set to be released.

The score to the new Bond film No Time To Die will now be produced by Hans Zimmer.

Zimmer, who has been drafted in as a last-minute replacement, is taking the reins from composer Dan Romer who was originally set to score the film.

The announcement was confirmed yesterday (13 January) by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, in an official statement on the movie’s website.

Director of the latest instalment, Cary Joji Fukunaga, said: “I’m beyond excited that Hans is scoring No Time To Die. The music of Bond has always been iconic and I’ve already witnessed Hans adding his touch of genius to the Bond legacy.”

According to Variety, the Beasts of No Nation composer was dismissed over “creative differences” with the film’s production company, Eon Productions, last month.

We’re sure the score to the highly-anticipated action movie is in safe hands with Zimmer, whose track record in cinematic music includes the instantly recognisable sounds of the Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator and The Da Vinci Code.

But taking on this job is no small task, especially considering Zimmer is already scoring three big movies this year – Wonder Woman 1984, Dune and Top Gun: Maverick.

Zimmer is an 11-time Oscar nominee, who won the Best Score award in 1994 for The Lion King.

Back in 2015 we spoke to Daniel Craig, ahead of the release of Spectre, about the importance of music throughout the Bond franchise – particularly when it comes to those iconic motifs.

“It’s so emotive that sound, and if you use it at the right point in the movie then everyone remembers, ‘Yes, we’re in a Bond movie.’”

We’re excited to see what Zimmer produces in this latest instalment – especially considering he’s got less than three months to do it.

2021: Electric Dreams adds the Scalextric C4202 - James Bond Aston Martin DB5 ‘No Time To Die’ model slot car to their catalog.

Scalextric C4202 - James Bond Aston Martin DB5 ‘No Time To Die’

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The 25th and latest Bond film sees 007 once again back behind the wheel of the iconic Aston Martin DB5. The car looks as resplendent as ever in the famous Silver Birch shade and in his tuxedo Bond looks as dapper as ever!

In the 25th installment of the franchise, No Time To Die, Bond relies once more on the faithful DB5 to escape an army of henchmen while in Italy. And now you can recreate that excitement at home with your own James Bond model slot car!

2021: The Music of James Bond & More performance at Bruchsal, Germany, 7:30 pm. Later shows at Limburg, Offenbach am Main, Wienheim, Itzehoe, Wolfsburg, Osterode am Harz, Helmstedt, Marl, Solingen, Potsdam, Saafeld, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Roderberg, Idar-Oberstein, Euskirchen, Rheda Wiedenbruck, Iserlohn, Castrop_Rauzell, Papenberg, Koln, Borken, Saarbrucken, Sinsheim, Zwickau, Erfert, Halberstadt, Neumarkt, Fulda, Aschaffenburg, Hereford, Lingen/EMS, Bremen, Neumunster, Hannover, Gifhorn, Shwerin, Salzwedel, Halle/Saale, Saalfeld, Kaiserslautern, Bruschal, Nurtingen, Radolfzell, Waldshut Tiengen, Koblenz, Bensheim, Mutterstadt, Karlsruhe, Neumarkt, Schwerin, Papenburg, Goppingen, Schwabbish Gmund, Rheda Weidenbruck, Euskirchen, Kamp Lintfort, Siegen, Itzehoe, Peine. Last scheduled performance 23 March 2022 at Neumünster.

The Music of James Bond & More Tickets

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https://www.viagogo.co.uk/Concert-Tickets/Other-Concerts/The-Music-of-James-Bond+More-Tickets

RichardTheBruce

January 14th

1947: Stuart Baird is born--Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.

1956: Ian Fleming starts his novel From Russia With Love at Goldeneye.

1962: EON's crew arrives in Jamaica, to start filming 2 days later. Monty Norman and wife--actress-singer Diana Coupland--also arrive on island this date.
1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Volume 3.

1964: The Los Angeles Times reports Guy Hamilton is hired to direct the next Bond film Dr. Goldfinger.
1965: James Bond 007 - Goldfinger released in West Germany.

1972: Diamonds Are Forever released in Ireland.
1974: ABC-TV network premiere of From Russia with Love.

1985: A View to a Kill completes principal photography with OO7 and May Day at the mine.

2000: 007 - Il mondo non basta released in Italy.

2000: Dünya Yetmez (World Not Enough) released in Turkey.

Video marketing.

2002: Scheduled start to filming Die Another Day.

2020: The No Time To Die film production announces (American) brother-sister team Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell as creators of the title theme.

RichardTheBruce

January 15th

1913: Aston Martin Ltd. is incorporated.

Aston martin History and Company Founders

https://myautoworld.com/astonmartin/cars/history/historic-1915/historic-1915.html

http://cdn.astonmartin.com/magazine/issue-21/archive/am20/feature-timeline.html
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1931: Derek Meddings is born--Pancras, London, England.
(He dies 10 September 1995 at age 64--London, England.)

OBITUARY: Derek Meddings

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-derek-meddings-1600979.html
Cy Young | Thursday 14 September 1995

The work of Derek Meddings thrilled millions of moviegoers, yet only a small percentage could actually name the man responsible for the special effects of the James Bond films of the 1970s and Hollywood blockbusters like Superman (1978). Within the industry, the reverse was true: American film-makers came to Pinewood Studios because of the international reputation of British technicians, and Meddings was one of the best.

His father had been a carpenter at Denham Studios and his mother variously Merle Oberon's stand-in and Alex Korda's secretary, but it was not until the late 1940s that Derek was able to use his art school training to get a job there, lettering credit titles. The first break came when he met the special effects man Les Bowie on a commercial, and joined his matte painting department.

During the Fifties Bowie and his new recruit created Transylvanian landscapes for Hammer Films, where limited budgets necessitated a "string and cardboard" invention that proved useful when Meddings was hired for Gerry Anderson's earliest television puppet shows. From painting cut-out backgrounds of ranch houses and picket fences on Four Feather Falls (a western format), Meddings moved on to design the models for Stingray (1965) with Reg Hill, and was then given a free hand on what has since become a cult series, Thunderbirds.

Drawing on the lessons in ingenuity from his years with Ron Bowie, he applied simple logic to the problem of tracking alongside the futuristic vehicles on take-off and landing; camera and Thunderbird remained stationary, while the background of trees and runway moved backwards on a continuous belt which rotated under the miniature set, on the same principle as an escalator. In 1966 Anderson and Meddings hit the big screen with the full- length cinema feature Thunderbirds are Go!, and then made the crossover to adult, live action, science fiction with Doppelganger (1969, aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) about a rogue planet that was a mirror of the earth. Meddings worked again with Anderson on Captain Scarlet (1967) and UFO (1970, another live action venture) until he impressed Cubby Broccoli with some miniature effects done for Live and Let Die, which launched Roger Moore as James Bond in 1973.

Once Broccoli realised the economic advantages of building detailed models instead of expensive full-size constructions, Meddings was encouraged to come up with ideas on the next Bond, The Man With the Golden Gun (1974). However, he was not entirely finished with "string and cardboard" - or, at least, wire and fibreglass. In 1975 John Dark and Kevin Connor decided that their prehistoric adventure The Land That Time Forgot could do without the stop-frame animation and matte superimpositions of Hammer's One Million Years BC - instead they would build prop monsters that could be photographed in the same frame as the actors. It was not Meddings's fault that a low budget meant that the pterodactyls' wings never moved in flight.

He was on safer ground the following year with Aces High. For this First World War aviation drama there was no model work. Authentic fighters and bombers of the period were restored to flying trim by the specialists Doug and Tony Bianchi, and Meddings's principal job was to rig the planes for the combat sequences.

On the release of Aces High, I compiled a programme in Granada television's series Clapperboard about the making of the film, and Meddings was one of our interviewees. Like most backroom professionals in the film business he was modest, quietly spoken, matter-of-fact, and took pleasure in explaining his craft; how the stab of gunfire was simulated by the flashing of a strobe light in the muzzle of a biplane's machine-gun, and how a canister placed discreetly between the underside of a wing and the fuselage would be detonated by the pilot, to leave a dramatic smoke trail as the aircraft spiralled out of a dogfight. Meddings became a friend of Clapperboard, and came back on several occasions to demonstrate the tricks of his trade.

He returned to the world of James Bond for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and came to admire the production designer, Ken Adam, greatly. Adam had the luxury of working on the 007 Stage at Pinewood, which had been purpose- built to accommodate his design for the interior of a supertanker; but Meddings probably had more fun, because he got to spend four months on location in the Bahamas, where he supervised the design and construction of a miniature supertanker for exterior sequences. "Miniature" is a comparative term, since the oil tanker was over 60ft in length; it had to be of a scale to gobble up three equally authentic-looking nuclear submarines and - being filmed on the real ocean - would have to achieve a convincing amount of water displacement.

Meddings's other masterpiece of special effects on The Spy Who Loved Me was the Lotus Esprit which converted into a submersible. For this he cleverly intercut full-size body shells with one-quarter scale miniatures. On screen, nobody could see the join and Meddings won a Grand Prix award from UNIATED for his work on the movie - incidentally, carried out in shark- infested waters.

Riding high, Meddings was persuaded to create the all- important models shots for Superman. Pinewood was again the main venue, and one of the principal sequences filmed there was the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, in an earthquake. For increased realism, Meddings opted to shoot on the backlot against a genuine sky rather than inside a stage against a blue screen. A 60ft span of bridge was constructed, over which the actor Christopher Reeve was suspended by wires; below, a miniature school bus and several automobiles were made to collide as Superman dived to the rescue. The ice planet of Krypton, a crazy jigsaw of plaster and fibreglass, was built on F Stage. Its disintegration was filmed with a camera mounted on a special arm, the LOUMA, that could tack along the 20ft-deep gullies of the collapsing set. Having made audiences believe that a man could fly, Meddings received an Oscar.

For the next Bond epic, Moonraker (1979), Meddings returned to first principles. Using a technique almost as old as the cinematograph itself, he did all the optical effects for the climactic battle "in the camera"; a process of winding back the film and exposing it again and again, until the required composite image of astronauts, space station and escape pods was obtained.

Ever versatile, Meddings designed the bizarre weapons employed in the sword and sorcery adventure Krull (1983), as well as directing second- unit action in Italy, before lending his talents to Neil Jordan's supernatural comedy High Spirits (1988). When the director Tim Burton visited Meddings at the Irish location to discuss working on Batman (1989), it was not only his track record with 007 and Superman that counted - it emerged that Burton was a fan of Thunderbirds, and Meddings reckoned that was really why he got the job.

The resulting collaboration was another feather in the cap of the Magic Camera Company, the comprehensive visual effects facility that Meddings had established at Lee International Studios in Shepperton. From this base of operations, Meddings also supplied the necessary expertise to Supergirl (1984) and Santa Claus - the Movie (1985); while for the internationally cast production The Never Ending Story II (1990), a tale of magic and dragons, he set up an outfit in Germany.

At the time of his death, Derek Meddings was engaged in post-production on the new James Bond picture, Goldeneye, on which his sons Mark and Elliott also worked.

Derek Meddings, film special effects technician: born London 15 January 1931; twice married (six children); died London 10 September 1995.

Derek Meddings

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575439/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Special effects (20 credits)

2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) (special effects - 2015)

1993 Germinal (special effects coordinator)
1991 Hudson Hawk (special effects supervisor)
1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)
1988 Apprentice to Murder (special effects)
1987 Mio in the Land of Faraway (special effects)
1983 Banzaï (special effects cameraman) / (special effects supervisor)
1981 Invaders from the Deep (director of special effects)

1976 Aces High (special effects)
1974 Invasion: UFO (special effects coordinator)
1974 The Land That Time Forgot (special effects supervisor)
1974 Doctor Who (TV Series) (special effects - 1 episode)
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part One (1974) ... (special effects - uncredited)
1973 Live and Let Die (special effects)
UFO (TV Series) (special effects - 21 episodes, 1970 - 1973) (special effects director - 5 episodes, 1970 - 1971)
1972 Fear Is the Key (special effects)
1972 Z.P.G. (special effects)

Thunderbirds (TV Series) (supervising special effects director - 31 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (special effects director - 1 episode, 1965)
- Give or Take a Million (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Ricochet (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Lord Parker's 'Oliday (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Alias Mr. Hackenbacker (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Path of Destruction (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) (special effects director - 39 episodes)
- Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... (special effects director)
- Marineville Traitor (1965) ... (special effects director)
- Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... (special effects director)
- The Golden Sea (1965) ... (special effects director)
- The Master Plan (1965) ... (special effects director)
1962-1963 Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (special effects - 6 episodes)
- Space Magnet (1963) ... (special effects)
- Hypnotic Sphere (1963) ... (special effects)
- The Fire Fighters (1963) ... (special effects)
- Planet of Platonia (1963) ... (special effects)
- The Doomed Planet (1962) ... (special effects)
1961 Supercar (TV Series) (special effects)

Visual effects (26 credits)

1995 GoldenEye (miniature effects supervisor)
1994 The NeverEnding Story III (visual effects supervisor)
1991 Cape Fear (miniature special effects supervisor: The Magic Camera Company)
1991 Hudson Hawk (supervisor: visual effects and miniatures, The Magic Camera Company)
1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (special visual effects)

1989 Batman (special visual effects)
1985 Spies Like Us (visual effects supervisor)
1985 Santa Claus: The Movie (director of miniature effects) / (director of visual effects)
1984 Supergirl (special visual effects)
1983 Krull (visual effects supervisor)
1983 Superman III (additional model effects - uncredited)
1981 Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (TV Movie) (supervising director of visual effects)
1981 [n]For Your Eyes Only[/b] (visual effects supervisor)

1980 Superman II (director of miniature effects & additional flying sequences)
1979 Moonraker (visual effects supervisor)
1978 Superman (model effects director & creator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (special visual effects)
1976 Shout at the Devil (models and special effects)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (miniatures)
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) (visual effects supervisor - 5 episodes)
- Computer Affair (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Flight Path (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Survival (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Exposed (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Identified (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)

1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (visual effects director - 1 episode)
- A Case for the Bishop (1969) ... (visual effects director)
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (visual effects director)
1968 Joe 90 (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 1 episode)
- Hi-Jacked (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
1968 Thunderbird 6 (visual effects director)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 20 episodes, 1967 - 1968) (visual effects supervisor - 8 episodes, 1967)
- The Inquisition (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Attack on Cloudbase (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Traitor (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Inferno (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
1966 Thunderbirds Are GO (visual effects director)

Actor (1 credit)

1985 Spies Like Us - Dr. Stinson

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)

Thanks (1 credit)

1995 GoldenEye (dedicatee)

1952: This morning Ian Fleming begins writing Casino Royale at Goldeneye.

1964: Goldfinger films the aerial view of the Fountainbleu Hotel, Miami.
1967: The Los Angeles Times estimates the You Only Live Twice set to be 126 feet tall, concealing a sixty-six foot rocket.
1968: The last original Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes airs.

1976: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 15 October 1975. 2984-3060) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1016


Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

En Enkel, Acapulco! (The Torch-Time Affair)
[And Simple, Aculpulco!]

Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no47-1979/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 47: “The Torch-Time Affair” (1979)
"En enkelt Acapulco" [One-way to Acapulco]

1998: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Argentina.

2020: GQ associates James Bond with Dry January.

Even James Bond is doing Dry
January, apparently

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/james-bond-heineken-advert

By Thomas Barrie | 15 January 2020

Still sneering at the non-drinkers this month? Get over yourself. The world’s most famous spy has been spotted in a new advert for nonalcoholic Heineken

“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to Dry... January.”

No? Bear with us, because long-time James Bond drinks sponsor Heineken has co-opted Daniel Craig to star in a new advert, in which the famously heavy-drinking MI6 man turns down a cocktail in favour of a nonalcoholic beer.

The jokes write themselves (something something dry Martini?). It’s a welcome change for a character branded an alcoholic not only by Craig, but also the world’s most redundant study, which was carried out by the University Of Otago and published in the Medical Journal Of Australia in 2018. Its findings? That 007 is, yes, a complete lush, noting that during one flight in Quantum Of Solace, he consumed 24 units of alcohol – the equivalent of eight pints.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1214913750073040902

So it’s perhaps no wonder the idea of Bond laying off booze after a heavy Christmas period captures the imagination. The advert itself is a bit odd; for some reason, Bond watches a slightly shady-looking bartender – perhaps played by a cousin of ur-villain Mark Strong – make him a whole double Martini before giving it back and pointing silently at Heineken 0.0 on ice.

“Oh,” stutters the bartender, clearly thrown by Bond’s new-found puritanism. After all, the 20-second spot is about as believable as Oliver Reed ordering a lemonade down the pub. But in a world where even Keith Richards has second thoughts about his ongoing liver abuse, anything is possible.

A side note: what on earth has the man served Bond? A Martini, shaken not stirred, sure, but then... with two massive ice cubes plopped in it. That’s not right. GQ’s pet theory is that Bond is so freaked out by the waiter’s concoction that he decides on the spot that he’s “not drinking”, and that a beer will have to do instead.

Either way, all Bond says is, “I’m working.” A missed opportunity for a pun, perhaps, given the character’s heroic past efforts (“Christmas only comes once a year,” anyone?) but we’ll let it slide – the spluttering rage the advert will no doubt spark on anti-snowflake Twitter is all the entertainment we need. Meanwhile, Heineken will continue to rake in the views and Bond can enjoy improved sleep and mental health while lowering his risk of heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver and cancer. Everybody wins!

Update: As of 15 January, Heineken has released its full-length advert, playing heavily on the fact that Daniel Craig and James Bond are very much different characters and, perhaps, Mr Craig isn’t quite up for running after speeding cars through exotic locations when not on the job. “Once James Bond, always James Bond,” it announces, perhaps to the chagrin of Craig himself, who has been pretty open about his wishes not to be defined by the role for his entire career. And as for the booze? At the end of this ad, Bond/Craig picks up a bottle as before – but it’s been re-edited to show him enjoying a normal Heineken. All is as it should be, so now we can rest easy and look forward to Billie Eilish’s newly announced No Time To Die track.

RichardTheBruce

January 16th

1946: Kabir Bedi is born--Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan).

1949: Caroline Munro is born--Windsor, Berkshire, England.

1962: Fifth draft of the screenplay complete, Dr. No filming begins on location in Jamaica. Exteriors of Crab Key and Kingston, in the vicinity of the Fleming Goldeneye estate (and he was a frequent visitor with guests). Scenes filmed at Oracabessa, the Palisadoes strip, plus Port Royal in St. Andrew.
1966: The Los Angeles Times reports director Terence Young saying he intends to divert from Bond films.

1970: In geheime dienst van Hare Majesteit (In Secret Service of Her Majesty. Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1971: Bond comic strip The Golden Ghost ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 21 August 1970. 1394–1519) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no23-1972/

"Det gyldne spøgelse" [The Golden Ghost]

1976: Bond comic strip Hot-Shot begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 17 January 1976. 3061-3178) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, artist.

Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Dödsstrålen (Hot-Shot)
[The Ray of Death]

Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no46-1978/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 46: “Hot-Shot” (1978)

"Dødsstrålen" [= The Death Ray]

1981: Bernard Lee dies at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.
(Born 10 January 1908--Brentford, Middlesex, England.)

Obituaries

BERNARD LEE IS DEAD;
BRITISH ACTOR HAD ROLES
IN JAMES BOND MOVIES

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/obituaries/bernard-lee-is-dead-british-actor-had-roles-in-james-bond-movies.html
Jan. 18, 1981

Bernard Lee, a British character actor who appeared in more than 100 films and was perhaps best known as the spy chief ''M'' in James Bond movies, died of cancer Friday at a London hospital. He was 73 years old.

Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.

Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''

Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.

He appeared in all 12 Bond thrillers from the first, Dr. No, with Sean Connery, in 1962, to the latest, Moonraker, with Roger Moore, in 1979. His illness prevented his planned appearance in the 13th movie, For Your Eyes Only, which is yet to be released.

Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.

Bernard Lee (I) (1908–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496866/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (150 credits)

1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Sergeant Ben

1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
1979 Moonraker - M
1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
- Seawrack (1978) ... Man
1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
- The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
- Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
- What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
- Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
- Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
- The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
- The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
- The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
- Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
- Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
- Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
- Silver (1973) ... James Cable
1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
Francis Cumberland
1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
- Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
1971 Danger Point - Captain
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
- Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
- Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
- Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
- The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
- Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
- Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
- The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
- Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
- Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
- The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
- Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
- The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
- Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
- Flight of a Tiger (1966)
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
- The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
- Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
- The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
- Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
- Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
- Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
- The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
- Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
- The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
1965 Thunderball - 'M'
1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
- Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
- After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
- The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
- Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
- Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
- The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
- Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
- Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
- Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
- Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
- Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
- Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
- Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
- Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
1962 Dr. No - M.
1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)

1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
- Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
- The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
- In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
- Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
- Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
- Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
- All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
- The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
- The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
- A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
1951 White Corridors - Burgess
1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
1950 Odette - Jack
1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
1941 Once a Crook - Duke
1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar

1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
1934 The Double Event - Dennison

Writer (1 credit)

1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)

Self (4 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself

1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 4 November 1980 (1980) ... Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhV9A9R2no
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPVQw0hvt4

1984: Nunca digas nunca jamás released in Spain.

1995: First day of GoldenEye filming at EON Studios with OO7 and Zukovsky.
1998: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in Brazil.

1998: 007: El mañana nunca muere released in Mexico.

1998: Jutro nie umiera nigdy released in Poland.

https://uml.lodz.pl/kalendarz/wydarzenie/letni-kinematograf-rozrywkowy-jutro-nie-umiera-nigdy-id3656/2017/08/1/

2003: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Argentina.

2008: Mythbusters airs their James Bond Special: Part 1.

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2011: National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, New Forest in England, launches the Bond In Motion exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Bond films.

James Bond's cars on display at Beaulieu
The world's biggest display of James Bond cars, bikes and planes is on show at Beaulieu

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motoring/james-bonds-cars-display-beaulieu
by Julian Rendell | 16 January 2012

Lotus Esprit became a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me

The world’s biggest-ever collection of Bond cars, bikes and planes is going on show at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic action movie.

At least 50 vehicles, including the Lotus Esprit S1 submarine driven underwater in the Roger Moore movie The Spy Who Loved Me, an Aston Martin DB5 of the type that starred in Goldfinger and Thunderball and the BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough, feature in the exhibition ‘Bond In Motion’.

‘This is a really fitting celebration in an important year for Bond movies. It marks the 50th anniversary of the start of filming of the first Bond movie Dr No and In October we will release the latest movie, starring Daniel Craig,’ says Eon Productions, which makes the Bond films.

The exhibition has largely been assembled from two major collections — one owned by the charitable US-based Ian Fleming Foundation and another owned by Eon Productions. Although other exhibits come from private collections around the world.

The DB5, for example, is on loan from the Dutch National Motor Museum. It is one of two replicas built to promote Thunderball, but never used in filming.

Other DB5s are scheduled to take its place as the exhibition carries on throughout the year.

‘We came up with the idea for the exhibition late in 2010, knowing the importance of 2012,’ says Meg Simmonds, archivist for Eon productions.

Interestingly, Dr No is the only Bond movie for which no cars exist and no-one knows what happened to them after filming.

In the early days, props were disposed-of as soon as filming was finished, simply because there was nowhere to store them. Bond movie owner Cubby Broccoli famously growled: ‘I’m not in the warehousing business.’

But times change and since the Goldeneye movie of 1995, Eon has been keeping the cars and other action props in its own collection, stored in the east of England.

From Eon’s collection comes the Cagiva 600 W16 that features in the dramatic opening sequence of Goldeneye, in which the bike hurtles off a cliff allowing Bond to catch-up with a plane and jump in the cockpit. Filmed seven times, only two bikes are thought to have survived.

Other stars at the show include an AMC Hornet of the type that performed an amazing barrel roll jump in 1974’s The Man With the Golden Gun. Bond jumps the red hatchback 40ft — a shot completed in one clean take, even though legendary stuntman ‘Bumps’ Willard had never attempted the jump before. The car on show is a showroom vehicle used in a city chase.

Daniel Craig’s Aston DBS, which was famously rolled at Millbrook test track for Casino Royale is also on show, complete with smashed up bodywork and cracked glass.

Modified with an air cannon to initiate the roll, the DBS flipped through seven and three-quarter turns, with stuntman Adam Kirley at the wheel, to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Other star machinery includes the Renault 11 from View To A Kill, Citroen 2CV from For Your Eyes Only, Bede BD5 microjet from Octopussy and ‘Little Nellie’, the Wallis WA 116 autogyro from You Only Live Twice, the latter still owned by Ken Wallis.

Aston Martin DB5, the most iconic of all Bond cars


Aston Martin DBS was rolled at Millbrook in Bedfordshire


Wallis WA Autogyro, A.K.A. "Little Nellie"


AMC Hornet which performed a barrel roll in The Man With The Golden Gun


Citroen 2CV from For Your Eyes Only


Ken Wallis and the WA-116 autogyro he flew in You Only Life Twice [sic]


Destroyed Aston Martin DBS from Casino Royale


The World is Not Enough's BMW Z8


Hovercraft as featured in Die Another Day

2015: Spectre completes the three-day build of a wooden structure to be filmed at Obertilliach, Austria.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #5.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244705011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Mike McKone
Cover C: Michael Walsh
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 1/16/2019

"Rocket Sea" continues, by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger). Bond and his squad commander a German bomber plane, to sink a Nazi cruiser. And aside from not knowing how to fly the bomber, or how to drop bombs from it, all should go as planned...

RichardTheBruce

January 17th

1962: The Gleaner reports that filming of Dr. No started the 16th at Palisadoes airport. Also noted are local casting, includes the beautiful 1961 Miss Jamaica 1961: Marguerite LeWars.
1963: Agente 007 - Licenza di uccidere (Agent 007 - Licence to Kill) released in Italy.

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1966: 007 Contra a Chantagem Atômica (007 Against Atomic Blackmail) released in Brazil.

1998: 007 네버 다이 (007 Nay-buh dah-ee) released in the Republic of Korea.

2003: Baska Gün Öl (Die Another Day) released in Turkey.

2009: 007／慰めの報酬 (007/Remuneration for Comfort) limited release in Japan.

2011: Title and cover art for Jeffrey Deaver's Bond novel revealed at The InterContinental, Dubai.

James Bond: Jeffery Deaver unveils his 21st Century spy

By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News
25 May 2011

Jeffery Deaver was accompanied by "Bond girl" model Chesca Miles at the launch

Thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who unveiled his James Bond novel Carte Blanche on Wednesday, has admitted that he gives Ian Fleming's superspy a tough time in the 21st Century.

At a launch event planned with the precision of an MI6 operation, the American author received the first copy of the book from a team of Royal Marines who abseiled from the roof of London's St Pancras station.

Deaver's novel, which is set in the present day, is published on Thursday.

The book's release coincides with the anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. The writer who created the original Bond novels in the 1950s would have been 103 on Saturday 28 May.

His niece, actress Lucy Fleming, told the launch event that her uncle would have been pleased by the way that Deaver "has kicked his dear old James Bond into the 21st Century".

Spy app

Carte Blanche was not "a pastiche", Deaver told the BBC.

"I took Ian Fleming's iconic character and made him younger - and the poor guy ends up in a Jeffery Deaver novel. I write rollercoasters, which means he doesn't get a minute's rest."

Earlier, the 61-year-old author had arrived at the launch event, at a champagne bar at St Pancras International, in a red Bentley with 007 emblazoned on the bonnet.

He was flanked by a female stunt rider on a 1960s BSA motor-bike.

The author arrived at the launch event in a Bentley,
which is the car of choice for his 21st Century Bond

Deaver is not the first writer to take on the Bond legacy. Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner are among other authors to have written officially-sanctioned Bond novels since creator Ian Fleming's death in 1964.

But he is the first to set Fleming's character in 2011. In Carte Blanche, Bond has served in the Royal Naval Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan, before joining the secret service.

In an early chapter he uses a mobile phone application to eavesdrop on a target in Serbia.

"In the movies he got a bit gadget-oriented," said Deaver. "Fleming actually gave him relatively few gadgets - and I went back to that. Nowadays my BlackBerry has more capacity than the best computer in the mid-1950s."

Who would have thought
that the dreams and
aspirations of a young
boy so many years ago
would come full circle in
the way that they have?

Jeffery Deaver

Deaver was eight years old when he read his first James Bond novel. A self-confessed "Bond addict", he wrote his first unpublished novel aged 11 about "a British agent who sneaks into Russia to steal a Soviet bomber".

Eighteen months ago, Deaver - whose 28 novels have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide - accepted the offer to carry on the Bond legacy.

Deaver said: "Who would have thought that the dreams and aspirations of a young boy so many years ago would come full circle in the way that they have?"

But why does he think the publishing industry loves bringing back famous characters like James Bond, Dracula, Peter Pan and - later this year - Sherlock Holmes?

"The industry has always known that this is a market-driven business - business is the dirty little word that nobody wants to mention - but it is business.

"Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mozart, Beethoven - they wrote on commission, it was a business to them.

Books are no different, and we are beholden to the audience to give them something they want.

2012: Naomie Harris denies her Skyfall character is Miss Moneypenny.
2018: Dynamite's James Bond: The Body #1 goes on sale.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419001011
Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action
Publication Date: January 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 1/17

PART ONE - THE BODY

As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them.

From writer Ales Kot (Secret Avengers, Zero) comes a James Bond story that explores the secret agent in ways that we have yet to experience!

RichardTheBruce

January 18th

1936: Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
(Born 30 December 1865--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.)

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


...

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

The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling
·007

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

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

1940: A memorandum notes Commander Ian Fleming considering misdirection involving U-boats.

Letters in bottles and leaky U-boats: Ian Fleming’s ideas factory

https://sites.durham.ac.uk/writersandpropaganda/2019/01/27/letters-in-bottles-and-leaky-u-boats-ian-flemings-ideas-factory/
Posted on 27th January 2019 by PWE Propagandist
Document of the month: FO 898/6/64-5

Guy Woodward traces the involvement of the creator of 007 in covert wartime propaganda

This is a memo dated 18 January 1940 – it reports on a recent meeting of the ‘Consultative Committee’ of the Department of Publicity in Enemy Countries. This department was part of Electra House, a secret body under the control of the Foreign Office, responsible for clandestine propaganda in the early stages of the war – before the foundation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in July 1940 and the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) in September 1941.

The meeting discussed a number of ‘sibs’ – rumours invented to spread misinformation – but also makes a series of references to Lieutenant Ian Fleming, later creator of James Bond, then serving in the British Naval Intelligence Department (NID).

We read first about a mysterious plan involving a ‘letter from a U-Boat Commander in a bottle’:

It is unclear what the first plan involved – there are no other references in the archive to letters in bottles – but we can speculate that moves were afoot to produce a fake letter from a U-boat commander to be thrown into the sea, which would mislead its intended German recipients (the cross marked beside the proposal suggests that this was never enacted anyway). The second plan is more straightforward, involving the dissemination of propaganda material to Germany via containers dropped at sea. Ian Fleming’s assertion that sailors on naval patrol ‘will like’ doing this is striking however, an expression of adventurousness and derring-do at odds with the cold formality of many of these departmental records – and indicative of the approach he took to his own role.[1]

Indeed, the plans cited here are very much milder than some of the schemes which Fleming hatched in the early stages of the war. In For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond (2008) Ben Macintyre writes that ‘Some of Fleming’s ideas were run-of-the-mill, some were fantastical and impractical, and some, in the opinion of his colleagues, were simply mad.’[2] These included:

scuttling cement barges in the Danube at its most narrow
point in order to block the waterway for German shipping;
forging Reichsmarks to disrupt the German economy;
dropping an observer (possibly Fleming himself) on the island
of Heligoland to monitor the shipping outside Kiel; luring
German secret agents to Monte Carlo and capturing them; and
floating a radio ship in the North Sea to broadcast depressing
hand/or irritating propaganda to the Germans.[3]

Although Fleming would later dismiss such plans as ‘nonsense’ and ‘romantic Red Indian daydreams’, the fact that they were considered indicates the operational leeway afforded naval intelligence, before the foundation of SOE and before the fall of France and consequent Battle of the Atlantic dictated other naval priorities. Through Fleming, NID continued to be involved in the formulation of propaganda, however.

Fleming had been recruited in May 1939 by Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence and widely credited as inspiration for ‘M’ in the James Bond novels. Working from the ‘ideas factory’ – room 39 in the Admiralty – Fleming developed his schemes and liaised officially and unofficially with a wide circle of military personnel, agents and propagandists.[4]

The PWE’s Sefton Delmer had known Fleming as a journalist before the war, and recalls in his memoir Black Boomerang, being introduced by his friend to Godfrey, who was excited by the potential of ‘black’ radio stations as a means of attacking the morale of U-boat crews. Both Godfrey and Fleming proved enthusiastic supporters of Delmer’s methods.

Delmer explains this naval enthusiasm (as opposed to the frequent hostility of the army and RAF to propaganda activities) with reference to the fact that the Royal Navy had been engaged in all-out war from the beginning of the conflict in 1939, when army and air force remained engaged in the phoney war. He notes that the navy were also unique among the services in having direct contact with the enemy from the beginning of the war, as they captured German prisoners at sea. Interrogations of these prisoners provided valuable intelligence material, later used by Delmer’s propagandists in crafting black propaganda such as the Soldatensender Calais radio station, intended to undermine the morale of U-boat crews.[5]

Fleming’s linguistic skills even enabled him to make direct contributions to such outlets, voicing commentaries on special programmes aimed at sailors of the Kriegsmarine broadcast by the BBC German Service and telling a friend ‘You may have heard my austere tones […] telling the Germans that all their U-boats leak.’[6]

Many connections can of course be drawn between Fleming’s wartime activities and his later creation of British secret agent 007 – the ability to conceive a compelling scenario and a predilection for imaginative and unorthodox methods are certainly clear assets in the fields of propaganda and of popular fiction. Delmer, whose name appears in a passing reference in Fleming’s Diamonds are Forever (1956) certainly suggested that his friend had drawn on his involvement with the PWE, writing that:

I sometimes wonder whether he did not pick up something for his thriller writing from our ‘black’ propaganda technique in return. For our first clandestine radio ‘Gustav Siegfried Eins’ and later our counterfeit German soldiers radio ‘Soldatensender Calais’ we used the most meticulous minutiae, taking care to get them exactly right , street numbers, technical terms, nicknames, and what have you, so that the deception itself would gain acceptance through their accuracy.[7]

Notes
All archival material is Crown Copyright and is held in The National Archives. Quotations which appear here have been transcribed by members of the project team.

[1] The RAF were notably sceptical about the value of dropping propaganda leaflets from the air and were often reluctant to facilitate drops over enemy territory. See Tim Brooks, British Propaganda to France, 1940-1944: Machinery, Method and Message, (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), p. 37 and David Garnett, The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945, (London: St Ermin’s Press, 2002), p. 188.

[2] Ben Macintyre, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond, (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), p. 27.

[3] Macintyre, p. 28.

[4] Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995), p. 102.

[5] Sefton Delmer, Black Boomerang: An Autobiography: Volume Two, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1962), p. 70.

[6] Lycett, p. 133.

[7] See https://www.psywar.org/delmer/2030/1001.

1969: David Michael Bautista is born--Washington, District of Columbia.

1971: Bond comic strip Fear Face begins its comic strip run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 20 April 1971. 1520–1596) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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



https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1003


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



Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Trollkarlen + Stålspionen
("Magician + Steel Spy" - Fear Face & When The Wizard Awakes)

Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3

Stålspionen
(Steel Spy - Fear Face)

Danish 1973 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no25-1973/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 25: “Fear Face” (1973)
"Stålspionen" [The Steel Spy]

1984: Mai dire mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies second unit filming begins, handled by Vic Armstrong, involves pre-titles action at the Peyresourde Airport, French Pyrenees.

1998: James Villiers dies at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England.
(Born 29 September 1933--London, England.)

Obituary: James Villiers

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-james-villiers-1139946.html
Tom Vallance | Wednesday 21 January 1998 01:02

James Michael Hyde Villiers, actor: born London 29 September 1933; married 1966 Patricia Donovan (marriage dissolved 1984), 1994 Lucy Jex; died Arundel, West Sussex 18 January 1998.

One of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains, James Villiers was often cast in such roles in his early years. He was also the most English of actors, and not surprisingly his career was liberally sprinkled with the works of Shaw, Coward, Wilde and dramatists of the Restoration.

His film career flourished in the Sixties when he was a particular favourite of the director Joseph Losey, while his work in the theatre spans over 40 years. On television he achieved particular success and recognition with his portrayal of Charles II (to whom he bore a strong resemblance) in the series The First Churchills.

Born in London in 1933, Villiers (pronounced Villers) was proud of his aristocratic lineage (his family tree goes back to the Duke of Rockingham). He was brought up in Shropshire and later at Ormeley Lodge in Richmond, more recently the home of James Goldsmith, and educated at Wellington College. He had, however, become stage-struck as a child (his brother John recalls Villiers as a boy begging Colchester Repertory to take him on in any capacity whatever and being heartbroken when they refused) and at prep school he gained a reputation as their best actor.

After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he formed lifelong friendships with fellow students and cricket enthusiasts Peter O'Toole and Ronald Fraser, he made his stage debut at the Summer Theatre in Frinton as William Blore in Agatha Christie's thriller Ten Little Niggers (1953), and the following year made his first West End appearance with the Shakespeare Memorial Company in Toad of Toad Hall.

In 1955 he started a two-year period with the Old Vic Company, his roles including Trebonius in Julius Caesar and Bushy in Richard II. He made his Broadway debut in the latter role in 1956 during the Old Vic tour of the United States and Canada, then spent a year with the English Stage Company. In 1960 he made his film debut in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (which also marked the screen debuts of Alan Bates and Albert Finney), and the following year made his first thriller (in a rare heroic role), The Clue of the New Pin (1961).

He first worked with Losey on The Damned (1961), and for the same director played in Eve (1962) and as an officer in the finely acted pacifist piece King and Country (1964). In Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) he was the friend who ambiguously gives John Fraser a kiss, in Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) Villiers and Wendy Craig were the parents of a disturbed child left in the care of Bette Davis at her most neurotic, and in George Sidney's Half a Sixpence (1968) he was the snobbish father of the society girl Kipps (Tommy Steele) hopes to marry.

Other films included Nothing But the Best (1963), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Let Him Have It (1991). His many television appearances included Pygmalion (as Professor Higgins), Lady Windermere's Fan, Fortunes of War and most recently Dance to the Music of Time. Stage successes include the thriller Write Me a Murder (1962), a superbly droll and highly acclaimed performance as Victor Prynne in John Gielgud's 1972 revival of Coward's Private Lives, starring Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, a forceful Earl of Warwick in John Clements's 1974 production of Saint Joan, and prominent roles in such classics as Pirandello's Henry IV (with Rex Harrison), The Way of the World and The Last of Mrs Cheyney.

A few years ago he created the role of Lord Thurlow in Nicholas Hytner's staging for the National Theatre of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, and most recently was featured as Mr Brownlow in the hit revival of Oliver! at the London Palladium.

James Villiers (1933–1998)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898376/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2015: June Randall dies at age 87.
(Born 26 June 1927--London, England.)

June Randall

See the complete article here:

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

June Randall (26 June 1927 – 18 January 2015) was a British script supervisor whose career spanned over five decades and more than 100 film and television productions. She was most noted for being director Stanley Kubrick's "continuity girl" on A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining and for her work on five of the James Bond films: The Spy Who Loved Me, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, and GoldenEye.

Biography
Randall was born on 26 June 1927 in London, England. When World War II began in 1939, Randall, then aged twelve, was sent to Australia aboard the MS Batory. She returned to England four years later. ] Soon thereafter, Randall sought employment at Gainsborough Pictures in the hopes of meeting actor James Mason after seeing him in an advert for his film The Wicked Lady. She did not get to meet Mason, but did manage to secure a job as secretary to the studio's Head of Production, Betty Box. Wishing to be on the studio floor, however, Randall took the lower-paying job of assistant continuity girl (now script supervisor). In this capacity, she worked on such films as Dear Murderer and Ken Annakin's Miranda.

Over the next two decades, Randall monitored continuity on such films as Hell in Korea, X: The Unknown, Quatermass 2, Tony Richardson's groundbreaking Look Back in Anger, Circus of Horrors, The Long and the Short and the Tall, Roy Ward Baker's The Anniversary, and Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out. She also began working in television, including 35 episodes of The Avengers and 22 episodes of The Saint. It was on the latter that Randall met actor Roger Moore, who nicknamed her "Randy" and with whom Randall remained friends for the rest of her life. Randall and Moore later worked together on two of Moore's outings as secret agent James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me and A View to a Kill. Although the latter was Moore's last film as Bond, Randall continued with the franchise, working with Timothy Dalton on The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill and Pierce Brosnan on GoldenEye.

Randall also had a long-standing partnership with director Stanley Kubrick, whom she met during pre-production of his film A Clockwork Orange in 1970[ She agreed to work with Kubrick not only on that film, but on Barry Lyndon and The Shining, as well, despite the director's notorious compulsiveness and perfectionism. Other films on which Randall supervised continuity include the cult genre favorites Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter and Flash Gordon, Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning Gandhi, Michael Mann's crime thriller Manhunter, and David Fincher's Alien³. She retired in 2001 and died in London on 18 January 2015, at the age of 87.

June Randall (1927–2015)

Script and Continuity Department | Additional Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0709625/

2017: Professor Jeremy Black proposes James Bond is more of a feminist than you might think.

Dr. No means no: Why James
Bond is more of a feminist than
you might think

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/dr-no-means-no-james-bond-feminist-might-think/
Jeremy Black Professor of History at the University of Exeter
18 January 2017 • 9:46am

The Bond of the films doesn't always bear resemblance to the Bond of Ian Fleming's novels

When Judi Dench accused James Bond of being a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" at the beginning of GoldenEye, she was reflecting conventional wisdom about 007. Bond girls were cardboard cut-out fantasy figures: stunning, acquiescent and up for a little danger. In the course of his films, Bond used his club-land charm to seduce 58 of them, inviting feminists to condemn him as a woman-hater who wants his ‘girls’ to iron shirts, leap into bed with him and then look grateful. Bond, we've been told, wallows in a "sewer of misogyny”.

The critics may have a point – if the 007 cinematic opus before Daniel Craig’s arrival on the scene is the case for the prosecution. But before the Bond films were Ian Fleming’s books, written in the 1950s and 1960s; a pre-pill age when Britain was a socially-disapproving place and sexual freedom was frowned upon. I've spent a large chunk of the last two years studying Fleming's words, as research for a book on the subject – and what I've found is that while Bond may have pre-war manners, his attitudes to women were, in many ways, very modern.

Throughout Fleming's series, Bond admires female partners who are not only as sexually liberated and demanding as him, but independent, resourceful and tough enough to help him defeat villains. These are women who are not constrained or defined by the search for matrimony and motherhood – women, in other words, who buck the social norms of the time they live in. Far from misogynistic in attitude, Bond was ahead of his time.

On close inspection, it's a theme that crops up repeatedly. For example, in the books, 007 rails against the victimisation of women and the depiction of sexually-liberated women as ‘tarts’ or whores.

Here's Fleming on Bond's admiration of Dominetta Vitali, the mistress of arch villain Emilio Largo in Thunderball: "'Whore', ‘tart’, 'prostitute' were not words Bond used about women unless they were professional streetwalkers or the inmates of a brothel. This was an independent, a girl of authority and character. She might like the rich, gay life, but so far as Bond was concerned, that was the right kind of girl. She might sleep with men, obviously did, but it would be on her terms and not on theirs.”

Halle Berry as Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson Credit: Film still

Tellingly, some of the female characters Bond most admires are not only sexually adventurous but independent of men. The improbably-named Pussy Galore, for example, is the resourceful leader of a lesbian motorcycle gang, “who had never met a man before.” In Goldfinger, she helps Bond foil a plot to gas the guards at Fort Knox. Fleming says of Ms Galore, whom he eventually seduces: “[Bond] was amused by the uncompromising attitude that said to Goldfinger and to the room ‘All men and bastards and cheats. Don’t try any masculine hocus on me’.”

That's not to say Bond wasn't a quintessential tough-guy. The books describe a character who is the very image of physicality, sharpness and resolution – all necessary qualities if you are single-handedly defeating the world’s super-villains. Of course, these attributes can be read as those of a “school boy bully”. In 1958, Paul Johnson described Bond as having “the mechanical two-dimensional sex longing of a frustrated adolescent’; while William Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the Times, writes that Bond is a “high technology killer, a sadistic womaniser and a pseudo sophisticate.”

In my book The World of James Bond, published later this year, I draw a distinction between the hardened war-hero type Fleming created and the priapic caricature he became in many of the films.

Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable. It is central to the image of Bond’s sexuality that he gives, as well as receives, pleasure – and the women he sleeps are not beyond setting the sexual pace.

To use Goldfinger as the example again: in a scene that didn't make the film, Jill Masterston accompanies Bond on the Silver Meteor train from Miami to New York. Fleming writes:

“She had woken him twice more in the night with soft demanding caresses, saying nothing, just reaching for his hard, lean body. The next day she had twice pulled down the roller blinds to shut out the hard light and had taken him by the hand and said ‘Love me, James’….. Neither had had regrets.”

Fleming’s own private life was far from conventional. His wife Ann had an affair with Hugh Gaitskell, then leader of the Labour party, and from 1955 Fleming had his own lover. His commitment to living in the West Indies was in part linked to his sex life.

We should also note that in the books, Bond is disgusted with villains’ sadistic behaviour towards women. He dislikes the very attitudes 007’s critics have sometimes attributed to him. Fleming actually contrasts the mechanistic megalomania of many of the villains and the sadistic evil of their agents with Bond’s sensuality.

In Goldfinger 007 feels disgust reading a passage in a SMERSH manual which says: “A drunken woman can also usually be handled by using the thumb and forefinger to grab the lower lip. By pinching hard and twisting, as the pull is made, the woman will come along.”

Bond’s reputation as a Paleolithic sexist has not been helped by quotes from Fleming’s works, frequently taken out of context.

One Bond remark often taken as evidence against him is in the short story "Quantum of Solace", in which 007 contends that if he married he would marry an air hostess. He could then have “a pretty girl always tucking you up and bringing you drinks and hot meals and asking if you had everything you waned. And they’re always smiling and wanting to please. If I don’t marry an air hostess, there’ll be nothing for it but marry a Japanese. They seem to have the right ideas too.”

"Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable"

Jeremy Black

A clear case for the prosecution: unconstructed sexism with a dose of racism thrown in. But read on.

Fleming writes that Bond deliberately made such as provocative remark “to outrage the Governor into a discussion of some human topic. Bond had no intention of marrying anyone. If he did, it would certainly not be an insipid slave.”

This is not to say that Bond is a new man who in our day would be happy to work part time and share parenting duties. His attitude to same-sex relationships, between men, is hostile and derogatory. In a Miami restaurant in Goldfinger, the manager is described as “a pansified Italian”, while at the start of the novel From Russia, with Love, Bond advocates the recruitment of gays to hunt gay spies.

In many ways Bond is old fashioned, with old fashioned prejudices: the last of the club-land heroes who adheres to an older established code and set of values. With a martini ‘shaken but not stirred’ in one hand, and a Walther PPK concealed on his person, he is possibly too flamboyant for the modern mode of espionage. And beware the Russian honey-trap: there is also no doubt that Bond is an admirer of a well-turned ankle.

But Fleming’s Bond is more complex and interesting character in the books than in many of the films. He is certainly not the misogynistic dinosaur described by Judi Dench’s M. Is James Bond a feminist? Perhaps that's stretching it a bit. But he's far from the monster we're led to believe either.

Professor Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the
University of Exeter. His book The World of James Bond, is to
be published by Rowman and Littlefield this year

RichardTheBruce

January 19th

1922: Ken Graham Hughes is born--Liverpool, England.
(He dies 28 April 2001 at age 79--Los Angeles, California.)

Ken Hughes

See the complete article here:

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

Born - Kenneth Graham Hughes, 19 January 1922, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Died - 28 April 2001 (aged 79), Los Angeles, California, United States

Kenneth Graham Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001)[2] was an English film director, writer and producer. He was the co-writer and director of the children's film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). He has been called "a filmmaker whose output was consistently interesting and entertaining, and deserved more critical attention than it has received."

Early Life and Career
Hughes was born in Yates St, Toxteth, Liverpool. His family moved to London soon after. Hughes won an amateur film contest at age 14 and worked as a projectionist. When he was sixteen he went to work for the BBC as a technician and became a sound engineer.

In 1941 he began making documentaries and short features; he also made training films for the Ministry of Defence. Hughes eventually returned to the BBC where he made documentaries.

Director
Hughes's first film as director was the "B" movie Wide Boy (1952). He did a short feature, The Drayton Case (1953), which became the first of Anglo-Amalgamated's Scotland Yard film series (1953-61), and several of the later installments including The Dark Stairway (1953) and Murder Anonymous (1955). He did Black 13 (1954) then made The House Across the Lake (1954) for Hammer Films, based on Hughes' own novel.

He made The Brain Machine (1955), Little Red Monkey (1955), and Confession (1955). Timeslip (1955) was science fiction. He was one of several writers on The Flying Eye (1955) and Portrait of Alison (1955).

Hughes received notice for Joe MacBeth (1955) a modernised re-telling of Macbeth set among American gangsters of the 1930s, but shot at Shepperton Studios in Surrey. He shared an Emmy Award in 1959 for writing the television play Eddie (for Alcoa Theatre) which starred Mickey Rooney.

The later 1950s
Hughes made some films for Columbia: Wicked as They Come (1956), and The Long Haul (1957). He wrote High Flight (1957) made by Warwick Films, producers Albert Broccoli and Irving Allen, who released through Columbia. For British TV he wrote episodes of Solo for Canary (1958).

For Warwick Films, he directed two films with Anthony Newley, Jazz Boat (1960) and In the Nick (1960). Warwick liked his work and hired Hughes to direct The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) with Peter Finch. It was well received, and was Hughes favourite among his films because he did not make any concessions in its production.

Career peak
Hughes wrote and directed The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), based on Hughes' television play Sammy which had been broadcast by the BBC in 1958. Anthony Newley was the title lead in both playing a confidence trickster and gambler. He directed episodes of the TV series Espionage (1964).

He replaced Bryan Forbes, who in turn had replaced Henry Hathaway as director of Of Human Bondage (1964), starring Laurence Harvey and Kim Novak. It was financed by Seven Arts who used Hughes on the Tony Curtis comedy Drop Dead Darling (1965). Hughes also wrote episodes for the TV series An Enemy of the State (1965). He was subsequently one of several directors who worked on the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967).

He co-wrote and directed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) for producer Broccoli. Although it was a success at the box-office, it received a negative response from critics who objected to its sentimentality. It was a project he did not enjoy working on. "The film made a lot of money, but that doesn't really make me feel any better about it. On the other hand, I've made pictures that got awards at Berlin and places, and didn't make any money, and that doesn't make me feel any better either".

Irving Allen produced Cromwell (1970), a dream project of Hughes who called it the "best thing I've ever done". It starred Richard Harris in the title role and Alec Guinness as Charles I, but was not a financial success. It meant he was unable to raise funds for a proposed film of Ten Days That Shook the World.

In 1969 Hughes sold his company, Ken Hughes Productions, to Constellation Investments for the issue at par of 300,000 of 6 percent convertible unsecured loan stock. The stock was deposited by the vendors as security for warranties that profits of Ken Hughes Productions during the next ten years will exceed £500,000 after corporations tax and be available to Constellation.

Later career
Hughes directed The Internecine Project (1974) for British Lion and Alfie Darling (1975), a sequel to Alfie (1966); they both flopped He wrote and directed episodes of Oil Strike North (1975).

Hughes sold his production company for £300,000 in 1969, but encountered financial difficulties in the 1970s.[12] In July 1975 he declared bankruptcy. He told the London Bankruptcy Court he earned £44,177 in 1968 and £47,960 in 1969 but nothing in 1970. "The film industry collapsed," said Hughes. "It has not recovered yet." He had debts of £32,277 and had to sell his house to pay creditors. Hughes attributed his financial situation to paying maintenance to two wives and an inability to reduce expenses. ("But I am afraid it was too late by then. The time for me to do do was in 1969 or 1970.") He was also hit by a tax bill. At one stage, claims against him reached £48,000.

He worked in the United States for the first time directing Mae West in her last film, Sextette (1978).

His final film was the slasher movie Night School (1981), the film debut of Rachel Ward.

Personal life and death
Hughes had three marriages, to two women. From 1946 to 1957, he was married to Charlotte Epstein. From 1970 to 1976, he was married to Cherry Price, with whom he had a daughter Melinda, an opera singer. The marriage was dissolved in 1976, and Hughes remarried his first wife in 1982. They were married when Hughes died from complications from Alzheimer's Disease. He had been living in a nursing home in Panorama City in Los Angeles.

Critical appraisal

Filmink magazine did a profile on Hughes which argued "he was a very 'ups and downs' kind of guy with a solid overall average: the maker of a genuine classic (Trials of Oscar Wilde), a handful of terrific movies (Long Haul, Joe MacBeth, Wide Boy) and some films that have splendid things in them (Small World of Sammy Lee, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and yes, Casino Royale). He also made movies that were dull (Cromwell), dire (Alfie Darling), disappointing (Timeslip) and in one case, beyond belief (Sextette). He clearly worked best when attached to a feisty little production company with strong Hollywood links."

Filmography
Sammy (1952) - writer
Wide Boy (1952) - director
The Drayton Case (1953) - director, writer
The Missing Man (1953) - writer, director
The Candlelight Murder (1953) - writer, director
Black 13 (1953) - director, writer
The Dark Stairway (1953) aka The Greek Street Murder - director, writer
The Blazing Caravan (1954) (short) - writer, director
Passenger to Tokyo (1954) (short) - director
The Strange Case of Blondie (1954) (short) - writer, director
The House Across the Lake (1954) aka Heat Wave - director, writer
The Brain Machine (1955) - director, writer
Little Red Monkey (1955) aka Case of the Red Monkey - director, writer
Night Plane to Amsterdam (1955) - director
Confession (a.k.a., The Deadliest Sin, 1955) - director, writer
Timeslip (a.k.a. The Atomic Man, 1955) - director
The Flying Eye (1955) - writer
Joe MacBeth (1955) - director, writer
Postmark for Danger (1955) aka Portrait of Alisonr - writer
Murder Anonymous (1955) (short) - director
Wicked As They Come (1956) aka Portrait in Smoke - director, writer
Town on Trial (1957) - writer
The Long Haul (1957) - director, writer
High Flight (1957) - writer
Sammy (1958) - producer, writer, director
Solo for Canary (1958) - writer
Alcoa Theatre (1958) - writer episode "Eddie"

Jazz Boat (1960) - director, writer
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - director, writer
In the Nick (1960) - director, writer
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) - director, writer
Espionage (1964) - writer, director
Of Human Bondage (1964) - director
An Enemy of the State (1965) - writer
Drop Dead Darling (1966) aka Arrivederci, Baby! - director, producer, writer
Casino Royale (1967) - director, writer
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - director, writer
Shark! (1969) - writer

Cromwell (1970) - director, writer
Sammy (1972) - writer
Menace (1973) - writer
Colditz (1974) - writer
The Internecine Project (1974) - director
Fall of Eagles (1974) - writer
Dial M for Murder (1974) - writer
Alfie Darling (1975) - director, writer
Oil Strike North: Deadline (1975) - episode "Deadline" - writer
Sextette (1978) - director

Night School (1981) - director

Novels
The Long Echo (1955)

Ken Hughes

Writer | Director | Producer
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1967


Casino Royale, 1967


Sextette, 1978

1941: Putter Smith is born--Bell, California.

1960: Jack Whittingham reports to Ivar Bryce the progress he's making with Kevin McClory on a Thunderball screenplay.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

..."We are both working in the dark so far as Ian Fleming is concerned--and Bond is very much his personal creation. Thus they needed to get together with Ian to discuss their first draft. I know he will be very helpful at this much more detailed stage, and it would encourage us enormously if we felt we were all still pulling at the same rope."

1981: The For Your Eyes Only production crew at Metoria, Greece, feels of the wrath of monks who place laundry and other eyesores on their dwellings to disrupt filming. A show of displeasure, potentially over to small a stipend paid to them by the producers. Filming continues nonetheless.

1995: GoldenEye films Valentin.

2000: Radioactive/MCA releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough by David Arnold in Japan. 68 minutes in length.

2015: To capitalize on Fleming and Bond material becoming public domain in Canada, Independent Toronto publisher ChiZine Publications announces Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond. An anthology of short stories, available only in Canada.

2016: Titan Books publishes James Bond: Spectre: The Complete Comic Strip Collection.

2017: Anthony Horowitz announces on Twitter he's writing a second Bond novel due out October 2018.

RichardTheBruce

January 20th

1923: John McClusky is born--Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.
(He dies 5 September 2006 at age 83--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.)

James Bond comic
strip artist John
McLusky has died
aged 83

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08-Sep-2006 • Bond News

John McLusky, best known for his long tenure as James Bond comic strip artist, has died at the age of 83. He passed away on Tuesday 5th September 2006.

Four years before Sean Connery would bring 007 to the silver screen with Dr No, Daily Express readers in the UK got their first sight of James Bond in 1958. The face John McLusky gave to Bond would be many people's first and lasting image of 007, including composer John Barry.

Above: John McLusky's representation of James Bond 007.

Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale would also become the starting point for the newspaper series, with the first strip published in the Daily Express on July 7th 1958. Staff writer Anthony Hearne adapted the novel, and John McLusky was brought in to illustrate.

Initially sticking closely to Fleming's source material, the strips created by Hearne and McLusky were an instant success and boosted sales of the newspaper. The punchy, fast-paced style and daily "cliff-hangers" suited Bond's adventures perfectly.

McLusky teamed up with writer Henry Gammidge for the following seven years, recreating Fleming's novels and short stories in the graphic form almost chronologically (except for a one-off partnership of writer Peter O'Donnell with McLusky for 1960's Dr. No adaptation).

Thirteen adventures since the Express began publishing Bond strips back in 1958, Gammidge and McLusky stepped aside for the new team of Jim Lawrence and Yaroslav Horak as writer and artist respectively. In 1981, series writer Lawrence was then paired with the original strip artist John McLusky returning for a further four adventures.

As well as his long run as James Bond comic strip artist, McLusky also drew strips such as "Secret Agent 13" for Fleetway's "June" and illustrations for "Look and Learn", and also worked for 15 years on "TV Comic" with strips such as "Orlando", "Laurel & Hardy" and "Pink Panther". In the early 1980's he worked on Thames TV series "Hattytown". He the retired but was lured back in to action in 1986 when Gerald Lip, the Express strip Editor, asked him to draw the last James Bond strips, which he did for three years. He then regularly lectured in the History of Art and was also a Punch and Judy Professor and Puppeteer. He spent his final years taking it easy at his home due to heath reasons but enjoyed reading, meeting his friends and listening to his favourite Jazz collections.

John McLusky will be best remembered for giving to the world "the face of James Bond", and with Titan Books republishing the original strip adventures, fans old and new can enjoy his timeless work again.

Click here to read more about John McLusky's artwork and the James Bond comic strip series.
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John McLusky

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

Born: 20 January 1923, Glasgow
Died: 5 September 2006 (aged 83)
Nationality: British
Projects involved in
First: James Bond (Daily Express)
Last: James Bond (Daily Express)

John McLusky (20 January 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a comics artist best known as the original artist of the comic strip featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Biography
McLusky began illustrating the comic strip adaptation of James Bond for the Daily Express. From 1958 to 1966, McLusky adapted 13 of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels or short stories. After Yaroslav Horak had taken over the James Bond strip, McLusky drew Secret Agent 13 for Fleetway. For the magazine TV Comic McLusky illustrated several strips over 15 years, notably Look and Learn and strip adaptations for Laurel & Hardy, and the Pink Panther. In 1982 McLusky returned to illustrate the James Bond strip, collaborating with writer Jim Lawrence to illustrate 4 new original James Bond stories.

James Bond strips
Casino Royale Anthony Hern July 7, 1958 - December 13, 1958 1-138
Live and Let Die Henry Gammidge December 15, 1958 - March 28, 1959 139-225
Moonraker Henry Gammidge March 30, 1959 - August 8, 1959 226-339
Diamonds Are Forever Henry Gammidge August 10, 1959 - January 30, 1960 340-487
From Russia with Love Henry Gammidge February 1, 1960 - May 21, 1960 488-583
Dr. No Peter O'Donnell May 23, 1960 - October 1, 1960 584-697
Goldfinger Henry Gammidge October 3, 1960 - April 1, 1961 698-849
Risico Henry Gammidge April 3, 1961 - June 24, 1961 850-921
From A View To A Kill Henry Gammidge June 26, 1961 - September 9, 1961 922-987
For Your Eyes Only Henry Gammidge September 11, 1961 - December 9, 1961 988-1065
Thunderball Henry Gammidge December 11, 1961 - February 10, 1962 1066-1128
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Henry Gammidge June 29, 1964 - May 15, 1965 1-274
You Only Live Twice Henry Gammidge May 17, 1965 - January 8, 1966 275-475

Other work
The Paradise Plot (1981-1982)
Deathmask (1982–1983)
Flittermouse (1983)
Polestar (1983)
The Scent Of Danger (1984)

Further reading:


https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mclusky_john.htm

UK Comics Wiki
https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky_(1923-2006)

1958: Ian Fleming comments on Jamaica.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2015.
1950 Doctor Jamaica

As well as finding a trip to Jamaica hugely restorative, [Noël] Coward also
found it creatively invigorating. After one visit he wrote in his diary
that ‘it has been a lovely holiday - I feel well and full of ideas and, as
usual, I am grateful to dear Jamaica.’ On another occasion, he noted:
‘this place has a strange and very potent magic for me. I also seem to
be cable to do more work here in less time than anywhere else.’ Ann,
too, recommended Jamaica to her aspiring novelist brother Hugo as
‘healing, beneficial and inspiring’. Fleming agreed. ‘Here there is
peace and that wonderful vacuum of days that makes one work,’ he
noted while writing Goldfinger. Not only Coward, but ‘other still more
famous writers, let alone painters, have been stimulated by Jamaica’.
he later wrote. ‘I suppose it is the peace and silence and cut-offness
from the madding world that urges people to create here.’

1964: Goldfinger principal photography begins at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida. Director Hamilton plus Broccoli, Adam, and cinematographer Ted Moore. Only Cec Linder of the main cast is present in Miami. Connery is filming elsewhere in the US.

1980: ITV broadcast of Live and Let Die attracts 23.5 million viewers, a record for the UK.
1983: The New York Times airs producer Broccoli’s concerns for how Never Say Never Again could spoil the Bond character as “a troubled, middle-aged operative” and affect future box office of the franchise. He proposed his target audience (12-22) didn't want character development.
1984: Never Say Never Again released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/nsna-dk-ad-sheet-1984/

1984: James Bond 007 - Sag niemals nie (James Bond 007 - Never Say Never) released in West Germany.

2000: Vse in še svet (Everything and the World) released in Slovenia.

2006: Swiss businessman pays $1.9 million (£1.1 million) for a 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe used to promote Goldfinger and Thunderball. To be shipped "back to Switzerland".

James Bond car sells for $1.9 million

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/22/content_514435.htm
(Reuters) Updated: 2006-01-22 11:08

A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.

People inspect a James Bond's 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on
auction at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Arizona
January 20, 2006. [Reuters]

The 45-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, placed his bids over the telephone through friend and car dealer Beat Roos to win the gadget-packed 007 car used in such classics as Goldfinger and Thunderball. Both men live in Bern, Switzerland.

"His instructions were to bring the car back to Switzerland," Roos said.

The winner, who was bidding in his first auction, will add the car to a collection of some dozen vehicles that includes classic Aston Martins and Porsches.

Auction officials had estimated that Bond's vehicle could fetch between $1.5 million and $2.5 million.

Two other classics cars also were sold, with bidders paying $565,000 for gangster Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac sedan and $195,000 for country music singer Hank Williams Jr.'s 1964 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, officials said.

All three vehicles had been at the Smoky Mountain Car Museum in Tennessee.

The sale, presented by Canada's RM Auctions, is one of five held by different companies in the Phoenix area through the end of the month. More than $100 million is expected to be spent on vehicles of all makes and sizes.

2020: Land Rover promotes the introduction of its Defender model in No Time To Die.

2020 Land Rover Defender Makes Film Debut in New James Bond Movie

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Monday, 20 January, 2020

The all-new redesigned 2020 Land Rover Defender has been unveiled, and it's already aiming to impress with a big-screen debut in the latest James Bond movie, "No Time to Die."

Debuting later this year, the 25th Bond film will prominently feature the Land Rover Defender in exciting action sequences. In the video above, you can get a quick behind the scenes look with Stunt Coordinator Lee Morrison and Stunt Drive Jessica Hawkins. The pair take the Land Rover Defender through its paces with an array of off-roading and high-performance challengers.

You can see the 2020 Land Rover Defender in full action when No Time to Die hits theaters this April.

About the 2020 Land Rover Defender Near Birmingham
The Land Rover Defender nameplate has been around for decades, building up a sterling reputation for all-terrain capability along the way. The purpose-built off-road machine was a favorite among off-road enthusiasts and car collectors the world over. Now, Land Rover has completely redesigned its all-terrain machine for the first time in its history.

The 2020 Land Rover Defender is a major shift, ditching the archaic body-on-frame and solid axles of old in favor of a more refined unibody construction with independent suspension. But that doesn't mean the new Land Rover Defender lacks capability. By the contrary, Land Rover has fitted the new model with advanced technology and clever engineering that result in what the brand is calling the most capable Land Rover vehicle ever produced.

We here at Land Rover Troy near Bloomfield and Royal Oak are happy to provide more information about the 2020 Land Rover as we get closer to its launch date and arrival at dealerships. Stop by to discuss the exciting new model and chat about placing an order.

New 2020 Land Rover Defender 30m Jump in Upcoming 007 James Bond Film

2021: The Bond for a Day experience is offered at St. James' Court, London.

Bond for a Day!

Wed Jan 20 2021 at 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC+00:00

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Bond for a Day! You are going behind the scenes of the world’s most successful movie franchise…and playing the leading role! This incredible experience makes the dreams of every James Bond fan come true, including a splash of original Floris and his preferred tipple of a Vespa [sic] at one of Ian Fleming’s favorite London hotel bars. As you immerse yourself into the cloak and dagger world of espionage, you’ll pick-up some handy counter surveillance skills too. It wouldn’t be a day in the life of Bond without a visit to ‘Q’, so you’ll also have a session booked at our select London gun club for some target practice using the preferred 007 weapons, such as the Walter PPK. During this exhilarating day you will learn the real stories behind the world of 007, as we take you through the London scenes where Bond was born and immortalized in celluloid.

St. James' Court, A Taj Hotel, London, United Kingdom

RichardTheBruce

January 21st

1922: Aristotle (Telly) Savalas is born--Garden City, Long Island, New York.
(He dies 22 January 1994 at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.)

Obituary: Telly Savalas

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-telly-savalas-1409252.html
David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02

Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.

IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.

Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'

Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.

A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.

Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.

The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.

After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).

Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickless, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.

Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.

The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.

Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.

The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.

However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).

In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'

He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).

Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.

Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'

Telly Savalas (1922–1994)

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Filmography

Actor (132 credits)

1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
- Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
- Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak

1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
- Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
- My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
- Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper

1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
- Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
- In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
...
1977 Capricorn One - Albain
1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
1975 The Hitman
1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
- Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
- Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
- Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
1970 Violent City - Al Weber
1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
- The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
- The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
- Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
- Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
- Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
- Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
- May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
- Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
- Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
- How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
- To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
- Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
- Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
- Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
- Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
- The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
- The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
- My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
- A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
- The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
- A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
- Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
- 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
- The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
1963 Love Is a Ball
Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
- Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
- Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
- A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
- The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
- The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
- The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
- The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
- Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
- In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
- A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
- Escort (1961) ... Ben
1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
- Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
- Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
- The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
- Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
- Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- Operation North Star (1960)
1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
- Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
- Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
- Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
- To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
- 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
- Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
- House of Cards (1959)
- And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
- Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
- The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
- Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton

Soundtrack (12 credits)

2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")

2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")

1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")

1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")

1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")

Director (3 credits)

1985 Beyond Reason

1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
- In Full Command (1978)
- Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
- Over the Water (1975)
- I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
- The Betrayal (1974)

1959 Report to New York (TV Series)

Writer (1 credit)

1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)

"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend", Telly Savalas


"If", Telly Savalas.


Who Loves Ya, Baby 1976 - Greek Dance

1942: Fleming forms a unit of commandos, known as No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit (30AU), composed of specialist intelligence troops.
1942: Michael Gregg Wilson is born--New York City, New York.

1976: Maiden flight of Air France's Concorde, by the first plane delivered in 1975. The route from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport through Dakar to Rio is the same route used by the arriving Concorde in Moonraker. The two weekly Air France flights from Paris to Rio continued through 1982.

1983: Octopussy filming finishes, for a June release.

1998: Jack Lord dies at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii.
(Born 30 December 1920--New York City, New York.)

Obituary: Jack Lord

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Tom Vallance | Friday 23 January 1998 01:02

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

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Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

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

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

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

1949 Project X - John Bates

Producer (3 credits)

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

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

1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

Director (2 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

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

2013: 007：大破天幕杀机 (007: Dàpò tiānmù shājī, or 007: Skyscraper) released in China.

2013: BBC News reports on the China release of Skyfall and censorship.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-21115987

Censored Bond film Skyfall
opens in China

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-21115987

Published 21 January 2013

Skyfall is already the biggest grossing film internationally of all time

The latest James Bond film, Skyfall, has finally opened in China after a two-
month delay, with some key scenes removed by Chinese censors.

A scene in which Bond kills a security guard in Shanghai has been cut, as have references to prostitution in Macau.

Subtitles have also been changed to hide references to torture by the Chinese security forces.

China routinely censors foreign films to remove content deemed to be morally or politically damaging.

The authorities also limit the number of imported films that can be screened in cinemas, partly to protect the domestic entertainment industry.

Skyfall was released internationally in 2012 and has become one of the biggest grossing films of all time, taking more than $1bn (£630m) at the box office.

The Chinese release was probably delayed to give domestic films a better chance of box office success, says the BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai.

Much of the film is set in China, in part to appeal to Chinese cinema-goers.

But capturing the lucrative Chinese market comes at a price, says our correspondent, with movie companies who champion free speech at home having to make compromises to pass the Chinese censors.

The changes made to Skyfall are however minor compared to some other films, he adds. In addition, a pirated version of the film has been available in China for weeks so many people will have seen the full version anyway.

2019: Nick Finlayson dies at age 63. (Born 31 July 1955.)

Nick Finlayson

22nd January 2019
The special effects technician who served on 10 Bond films passed away this month
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-nick-finlayson

Nick Finlayson

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278014/

Filmography

Special effects (43 credits)

2019 Spider-Man: Far from Home (senior special effects technician)
2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu (senior special effects technician)
2019 The Kid Who Would Be King (special effects lead senior technician)
2018 Mary Poppins Returns (senior special effects technician)
2017/I Life (senior special effects technician)
2016 Assassin's Creed (senior special effects technician)
2016 Ben-Hur (senior special effects technician)
2016 The Legend of Tarzan (senior special effects technician)
2014 Fury (senior special effects technician)
2014 Edge of Tomorrow (senior special effects technician)
2013 World War Z (senior special effects technician)
2012 Skyfall (senior effects technician)
2012 Wrath of the Titans (senior special effects technician)
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (senior special effects technician)
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (senior special effects technician)
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (senior special effects technician)

2008 Quantum of Solace (senior special effects technician)
2008 The Dark Knight (senior special effects technician)
2007 Fred Claus (senior special effects technician)
2007 Hannibal Rising (special effects lead technician)
2006 Casino Royale (senior special effects technician)
2005 Batman Begins (special effects senior technician)
2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (senior special effects technician)
2002 Die Another Day (workshop supervisor)
2002 Below (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (special effects technician)
2000 102 Dalmatians (special effects senior technician)

1999 The World is Not Enough (special effects workshop supervisor)
1999 The Mummy (senior special effects technician)
1998 Firestorm (senior special effects technician)
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
1997 The Fifth Element (special effects technician)
1995 GoldenEye (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
1993 Cliffhanger (uncredited)
1992 Far and Away (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
1991 Highlander II: The Quickening (senior special effects technician)
1989 Licence to Kill (special effects technician)
1988 Willow (senior special effects technician)
1987 The Living Daylights (special effects technician - uncredited)
1986 Aliens (senior special effects technician)
1985 A View to a Kill (special effects technician - uncredited)
1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall (aircraft subcontractor)
1980 Hopscotch (special effects assistant - uncredited)

Visual effects (2 credits)

1990 Memphis Belle (modeller and technician: model unit)

1983-1985 Terrahawks (TV Series) (HOD model workshop - 26 episodes)

Art department (1 credit)

1985 Lifeforce (modeller)

Self (7 credits)
2002 The Bond Essentials (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
2002 Die Another Day: Shaken and Stirred on Ice (Video documentary short) - Himself
2002 5th Gear (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Episode #2.7 (2002) ... Himself
2000 The World Is Not Enough: James Bond Down River (TV Special documentary) - Himself
1999 The Making of 'The World Is Not Enough' (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
1999 The Bond Cocktail (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1999 Comme au cinéma (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Episode dated 18 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself

2020: Esquire explains the departure of Danny Boyle from No Time To Die and entrance of Cary Fukunaga.

This is why Danny Boyle quit latest Bond film 'No Time To
Die'
The director and producers just couldn't see eye-to-eye on James Bond's fate

See the complete article here:

https://www.esquireme.com/why-danny-boyle-quit-no-time-to-die-james-bond

21 January 2020 | Esquire Editors


James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson have
discussed the departure of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle from the
latest movie No Time to Die.

It's no secret that the trio shared conflicting visions for Daniel Craig's 007 swansong, but in a recent interview with Variety, the producing pair weighed in on the topic in further detail.

Reflecting on how their opposing plans slowly became apparent, Broccoli explained: "It was hard on both sides because we had mutual respect and admiration, but better to know [the differences] before you embark on a project.

"We worked together well for a number of months, but there came a point when we were discussing the kind of film that we wanted to make, and we both came to the conclusion we were not aligned."

The producer then admitted movies are "very hard to make [even] when you're all on the same page", so Boyle's difference of creative opinion rendered the task impossible in the end.


Luckily for fans, Boyle's exit hasn't dampened No Time to Die, as replacement director Cary Fukunaga has apparently done a fine job with the material.

"He's made an emotionally engaging film," Broccoli promised. "It's epic both in the emotional scale and on the landscape scale."

2021: The No Time To Die release date moves from April to October this year.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1352416833815633922

2021: Rémy Julienne dies at age 90--Montargis, France.
(Born 17 April 1930--Cepoy, France.)

RichardTheBruce

January 22nd

1950: Pamela Salem is born--Mumbai, India.

1964: Variety reports Kevin McClory's statements his Bramwell Film Productions Ltd. based in the Bahamas scouted for actresses in Rome.

1977: Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds finishes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 5 November 1976. 3313 - 3437) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


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



Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Dödligt Kommando
("Fatal Command" - Ape Of Diamonds)

Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no48-1979/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 48: “Ape of Diamonds” (1979)
"Dødelig kommando" [=Deadly Command]

1977: Bond comic strips end in the Daily Express, but begin anew 30 January in the Sunday Express with the title When the Wizard Awakes. Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

1994: Telly Savalas dies at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.
(Born 21 January 1922--Garden City, Long Island, New York.)

Obituary: Telly Savalas

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-telly-savalas-1409252.html
David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02

Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.

IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.

Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'

Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.

A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.

Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.

The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.

After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).

Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickless, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.

Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.

The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.

Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.

The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.

However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).

In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'

He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).

Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.

Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'

Telly Savalas (1922–1994)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001699/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (132 credits)

1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
- Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
- Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak

1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
- Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
- My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
- Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper

1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
- Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
- In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
...
1977 Capricorn One - Albain
1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
1975 The Hitman
1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
- Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
- Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
- Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
1970 Violent City - Al Weber
1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
- The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
- The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
- Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
- Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
- Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
- Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
- May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
- Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
- Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
- How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
- To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
- Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
- Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
- Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
- Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
- The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
- The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
- My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
- A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
- The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
- A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
- Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
- 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
- The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
1963 Love Is a Ball
Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
- Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
- Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
- A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
- The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
- The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
- The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
- The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
- Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
- In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
- A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
- Escort (1961) ... Ben
1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
- Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
- Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
- The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
- Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
- Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- Operation North Star (1960)
1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
- Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
- Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
- Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
- To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
- 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
- Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
- House of Cards (1959)
- And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
- Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
- The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
- Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton

Soundtrack (12 credits)

2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")

2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")

1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")

1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")

1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")

Director (3 credits)

1985 Beyond Reason

1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
- In Full Command (1978)
- Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
- Over the Water (1975)
- I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
- The Betrayal (1974)

1959 Report to New York (TV Series)

Writer (1 credit)

1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)

"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend", Telly Savalas


"If", Telly Savalas.


Who Loves Ya, Baby 1976 - Greek Dance

1995: The Press meets the new Bond cast at EON Studios, Leavesden.

http://pbfiles.net/goldeneye/ge-press02.html

1998: 新铁金刚之明日帝国 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī míngrì dìguó; New Iron King Kong Tomorrow Empire) released in Hong Kong.

2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Kuwait.
2008: Bond fans notice the domain name of quantumofsolace.com as registered by Sony Pictures this date, leaking the title ahead of its 24 January press conference and official announcement.

2020: Last day for submission to the No Time To Die Fan Art Competition as organized by Talenthouse.
Winners to be selected 11 March.

As James Bond returns for his 25th adventure, EON Productions, MGM, Universal Pictures International and United Artists Releasing would like young creators to make their own mark on the iconic visual history of the James Bond franchise. Be inspired by all the content on this hub, and submit your artwork to the brief below!

Submissions:
https://007.talenthouse.com/i/design-artwork-inspired-by-daniel-craigs-bond-films/submissions

One Example

https://007.talenthouse.com/i/1746/submission/409006/ed072730

2020: The Independent reports on why Daniel Craig came back for No Time To Die, and why he almost didn't.

No Time to Die: Daniel Craig almost quit Bond over
health concerns

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/daniel-craig-no-time-die-health-james-bond-25-release-date-trailer-a9296016.html

Actor explains what ultimately prompted his decision to return as 007
Jacob Stolworthy | @Jacob_Stol | Wednesday 22 January 2020

Daniel Craig has opened up about why he almost quit as James Bond before deciding to return for one final film.

The actor, who said he’d rather “slash his wrists” than return as the British spy after filming 2015’s Spectre, will appear in No Time to Die, which almost shut down production after Danny Boyle quit as director.

It was unknown for some time whether Craig would return – and the actor has revealed this is because of an injury he suffered on Spectre.

“I finished that movie with a broken leg,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

“I had to question myself – was I physically capable of doing [another Bond film] or did I want to do another one? Because that phone call to your wife saying ‘I’ve broken my leg’ is not pleasant.”

It was producer Barbara Broccoli that convinced Craig to play 007 once more.

“He felt at the end of the last movie he’d kind of done it,” she added.

“I said to him, ‘I don’t think you have, I think there’s still more of the story of your Bond to tell.’ Fortunately, he came around to agree with that.”

Craig confirmed in the interview that this was his final Bond film.

“This is going to be my last James Bond adventure,” he said. ”This is it – it’s over.”

No Time to Die – which is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga – will be released on 1 April. Billie Eilish will sing the theme song.

RichardTheBruce

January 23rd

1942: Willy Bogner is born--Munich, Germany.
1944: Maggie Wright is born--London, England.

1962: Tonight plus two more nights Monty Norman supervises the music for the Dr. No scene at Puss Feller's nightclub. Bond, Leiter, Quarrel, and that photographer in attendance.
1962: David Arnold is born--Luton, England.
1964: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover prepares a document regarding Harry Saltzman's request to use military aircraft (and intent to portray the FBI in a positive light) in the latest Bond film production.

Opening the “James Bond File”

See the complete article here:

mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/01/opening-the-james-bond-file/

Nick Redfern January 8, 2016

Have you ever wondered how government agencies react to seeing their employees portrayed in big-bucks movies? It’s an intriguing question. And so is the answer. In 2015, under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI declassified its file on the creator of the world’s most famous secret-agent: James Bond, 007. We’re talking about none other than author Ian Fleming. The 25-page file makes for eye-opening, interesting, and entertaining reading.
https://vault.fbi.gov/ian-fleming/

An FBI document dated January 23, 1964 – and prepared by J. Edgar Hoover himself, for the Los Angeles and Miami offices of the FBI – states that one Harry Saltzman “…today contacted a representative of the Department of Defense in Washington requesting the use of military aircraft in connection with a movie based on the Pocket Book entitled quote Goldfinger unquote by Ian Fleming. Stated FBI would be depicted in movie in favorable manner.” And who, you may ask, was Harry Saltzman? None other than one of the leading figures in the production of such James Bond movies as Dr. No, From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, Live And Let Die, and The Man With The Golden Gun.

Ian Fleming and Harry Saltzman

The dossier on Fleming and his work continues: “Bufiles contain no derogatory information concerning Saltzman. Fleming is writer of paperback novels concerning spy stories in which his fictional character, James Bond, is the star, and they are generally filled with sex and bizarre situations. Los Angeles is instructed to advise the Bureau regarding any information in their possession regarding this proposed movie.”

Hoover added: “Miami is instructed to contact Saltzman who is residing at the Fontainebleau Hotel and vigorously protest any mention of FBI or portrayal of its agents in his proposed movie. You should bring forcefully to his attention the provisions of Public Law Six Seventy which prohibits the use of the words quote Federal Bureau of Investigation unquote or its initials in any manner without my written permission.” Clearly, Hoover was far from happy with the plans for Goldfinger.

1973: Geoffrey Holder and 16 dancers begin rehearsing Baron Samedi’s Dance of Death.

1984: Ποτέ μην ξαναπείς ποτέ (James Bond, praktor 007: Pote min xanapeis pote; translated--Never Ever Again) released in Greece.

2013: Film fans in mainland China complain of censor cuts to Skyfall.

Includes:

• hitman Patrice killing a Chinese security guard in Shanghai.
• mention of prostitution in Macau.
• the villain Silva speaking of torture as a prisoner of the Chinese.

2013: Hollywood buzz for the 2013 Oscars says a tribute to James Bond's 50th anniversary in film may assemble all six OO7 actors on stage.
2015: Canada considers their 50-year view on the copyrights to Ian Fleming material and writing new Bond novels.

Copyright quirk leaves James Bond up for grabs in
Canada

See the complete article here:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/copyright-change-leaves-james-bond-up-for-grabs-in-canada/article22606770/

Ian Bailey | Published January 23, 2015

A man takes photographs beside a display of James Bond books on display at the "For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond" exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, Wednesday April 16, 2008. MATT DUNHAM/AP

Master spy James Bond, one of pop culture's most iconic figures, is now available for dangerous assignments from Canadian writers, thanks to a copyright quirk that allows the writing and publication in Canada of original material based on Bond creator Ian Fleming's work. As of Jan. 1, the original writings of Fleming, a former British naval intelligence agent who published 12 novels and nine stories featuring 007 between 1952 and 1966, have entered the public domain. That's because Canada's view of copyright is that it extends for 50 years after the death of a writer.

Fleming died in 1964, but Bond has lived on in films featuring such actors as Sean Connery and, most recently, Daniel Craig, who's now working on a 24th Bond film, Spectre, due for release in November. But Bond has also lived on in about two dozen novels by authors sanctioned by Fleming's estate: William Boyd, Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner, who wrote 14 Bond novels, have sent Bond on assignment.

Some novels have been set in the present day and others during the Cold War. The latest is a 1950s-set Bond novel, based on unpublished material by Fleming, due next fall from screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, perhaps best known as the creator and lead writer of the British TV series Foyle's War. Horowitz's work has Bond taking on the Russians against the backdrop of a Formula 1 race in Germany.

Now, some Canadian writers, mindful of the 2015 copyright changes, are musing about the prospect of taking 007 for a spin with the consensus among two leading authors that Bond would best work in the past.

Linwood Barclay of Oakville, Ont., says he would relish writing a Bond novel set in Canada in the 1970s. "That's a good time period," said Barclay, author of several bestselling mysteries and thrillers that have sold in 40 countries and been optioned for film and TV production. "[Canada] just came out of the Centennial. You had FLQ stuff going on. You had a lot of stuff happening," he said in an interview.

Barclay said he has a lot on his plate, but has been a fan of the character since he saw the Bond film Thunderball in 1965. "If someone was to say, 'Hey, are you interested in this?' I would probably, at the very least, think about it and I'd find some way to squeeze it in," he said.

Peter Robinson, author of the popular Inspector Banks series set in Britain that have also been adapted for TV, said he would "love to have a go" at writing 007. In an e-mail exchange with The Globe, Robinson said he has read all of the Bond novels, including the post-Fleming works, and has been a fan of the character since 1962 when he first saw Ursula Andress walk out of the sea in Dr. No, the first Bond film.

Robinson, who splits his time between Toronto and North Yorkshire, said he would be more interested in picking up where Fleming left off, exploring the character as a Cold War spy living in a late-1960s world, than bringing him into the present day. Bond is a "man of action in a very specific arena," he said.

However, he doubts that any Canadian writer would try a Bond novel unless the book could be distributed and sold outside Canada. "There wouldn't be much point. Canada has a terrible track record when it comes to buying its own genre fiction, and I doubt that the sales generated by such an undertaking would be adequate compensation for the time and effort that went into it."

In an e-mail exchange, Giles Blunt, author of the popular John Cardinal mystery novels set in small-town Northern Ontario and a scriptwriter on such TV series as Law & Order, said it would not be appealing to spend the year he requires to write a novel using someone else's characters. "In addition, you have to hit all those well-known bases: the martini, the casino, the babe, the megalomaniac, the astounding weapon etc. It seems far too restrictive an endeavour to be any fun."

But noted Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, says checking through that list might be appealing to some authors. "It would provide some people with a kind of literary corset they could put around themselves when they write," she said. "There are other people who would hate that, who would feel they could not do that."

Ms. Heller said, in an interview, that she has been mindful of the looming public domain access to 007 with the arrival of 2015. "But Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, said that "none of my clients have rung me after midnight on Jan. 1 to say: 'Whoopee. I can now do a James Bond story.'"

The challenge, in her view, would be making Bond a living, breathing, appealingly complicated character beyond the "construct" Fleming created. "I could see a way of making it appealing if you went the Mad Men route – you could make it something quite sophisticated," she said. "A sophisticated, early-sixties take on something going on in Canada. There's a lot you could use."

Representatives of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., which manages issues around the Fleming works, did not respond to requests for comment on the copyright situation.

2018: Tom Hanks reveals he's never been asked to appear in a Bond film.

Tom Hanks has never been approached for
James Bond role

Hollywood legend Tom Hanks has admitted he would love to star in a James Bond movie but has never been approached for a role.
https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/tom-hanks-never-approached-james-bond-role-1123978.html
23 January 2018

Tom Hanks has never been asked to star in a James Bond movie.

Tom Hanks

The 61-year-old multi-Academy Award winner has been working in Hollywood for four decades and has worked with a number of legendary actors and filmmakers, but there is one franchise for which Hanks hasn't even been approached for a role.

Speaking to Time Out London magazine, Hanks has admitted he would love to join the 007 family and would be up for playing a villain, in a departure from his usual good guy roles.

He said: "That'd be a treat. No one's asked me to be in any of those.

"I might have to hold out to play the guy who says 'before I kill you, Mr. Bond, perhaps you'd like a tour of my installation?'"

...

Surely he expected to go Full Bond.