On This Day

RichardTheBruce

February 21st

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


21 February – 14 March 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/2847-taryn-simon

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

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #2

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

PART TWO - THE BRAIN

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

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

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

2019: No Time To Die releases an IMAX poster.

2021: Synagogue Borehamwood & Elstree offers Zoomraker - a James Bond Murder Mystery online.

Zoomraker: A James Bond Murder Mystery

See the complete article here:

https://myus.theus.org.uk/events/63499/zoomraker-a-james-bond-murder-mystery/

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RichardTheBruce

February 22nd

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

Karin Dor obituary

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Karin Dor (1938–2017)

Filmography

Actress (74 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012: Omega celebrates 50 Years of Bond.

Magazine | Classic Life

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.classicdriver.com/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox/public/import/articlesv2/images/_de/7298/JamesBond_Omega_Watch_02pop.jpg?itok=oQdqg2HJ

https://www.classicdriver.com/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox/public/import/articlesv2/images/_de/7298/JamesBond_Omega_Watch_03pop.jpg?itok=TMp8ArzQ

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

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


Photos: Classic Driver

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

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

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

Sean Wilson | Posted on Friday, 22 February 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody seems to hate the
working title of the new James
Bond film - so will they keep it?

See the complete article here:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/everybody-seems-to-hate-the-working-title-of-the-new-james-bond-film-so-will-they-keep-it/MRZZ6EFGVOVOBPZMKO7RON7KSI/

23 Feb, 2019 02:35 AM
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Daniel Craig attends 'Spectre' premiere, 2015 in Beijing. Photo / Getty Images
news.com.au

James Bond fans are shaken, stirred and really quite cranky about the working title of the next installment in the long-running spy series.

James Bond fans are in uproar over the provisional title for the 25th movie in the series: Shatterhand.

The title was revealed in the industry publication Production Weekly, which also claimed that filming will begin on April 6, ahead of an April 2020 release.

The movie will be Daniel Craig's fifth and final appearance as 007. Recent regulars Naomie Harris (Moneypenny), Ben Wishaw (Q) and Ralph Fiennes (M) are also expected to reprise their roles.

Shatterhand would mark the third film in a row in which producers have opted for a grabby one-word title, after 2012's Skyfall and 2015's Spectre.

The 2020 release date will also mark the end of one of the longest running hiatuses between Bond films, beaten only by the six year-wait between 1989's The Living Daylights (Timothy Dalton's last appearance) and 1995's GoldenEye (Pierce Brosnan's first).

Fans steeped in Bond lore were quick to point out that Shatterhand was an alias used by 007's longtime nemesis, Ernst Blofeld, in the novel You Only Live Twice.

But most fans have been quick to slam the new title on social media.

RichardTheBruce

February 23rd

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

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

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

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

John Kitzmiller

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

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

John Kitzmiller in Dr. No

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

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

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

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

5 Comments

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

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

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm

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

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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mattblake | November 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm

And here’s another newspaper article mentioning his marriage:

John Kitzmiller's wedding article from Jet


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

John Kitzmiller (I) (1913–1965)

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

Filmography

Actor (53 credits)

1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom

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

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

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

Archive footage (3 credits)

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

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

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

So beautiful.

Olga Kurylenko in the launch of the new Ford Ka

2012: A press release announces November Skyfall IMAX screenings.

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

Lewis Gilbert obituary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lewis Gilbert (II) (1920–2018)

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

Filmography

Director (42 credits)

2002 Before You Go

1995 Haunted
1991 Stepping Out

1989 Shirley Valentine
1985 Not Quite Paradise
1983 Educating Rita

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

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

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

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

Writer (17 credits)

1995 Haunted

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

1962 Emergency (story - uncredited)

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

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

Producer (13 credits)

1995 Haunted (producer)
1991 Stepping Out (producer)

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

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

1966 Alfie (producer)
1960 Skywatch (producer)

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

Actor (8 credits)

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

1940 Room for Two (uncredited)

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

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1949 Marry Me ("Music in September")

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

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

RichardTheBruce

February 24th

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

Michel Legrand obituary

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

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

John Fordham | Sun 27 Jan 2019 11.16 EST

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michel Legrand (I) (1932–2019)

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

Filmography

Composer (211 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1953: Ian Fleming comments on progress writing Moonraker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2017: Roger Becker dies at age 71.

The Chassis Guru Behind Lotus's Best Cars Has Died

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

Lotus

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

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

Sadly, Becker just passed away.

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

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

Roger Becker was 71.

Lotus Cars
about 2 years ago

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

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

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

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

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

Our thoughts are with the Becker family at this time.

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

Bond- An Unauthorised Parody

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

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"Comedy at its best, clever, subtle,
intelligent, but combined with great
theatrical skills"
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Presented by:
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Bond is back (just before the new film!). Older, unfit and someone's out to get him!

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

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

...

"Clever, witty & inventive"
Kryztoff Raw

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

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

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

Details

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

Credits:

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

Preview(s):

Monday, 24 February 2020 - 7:30pm

Season:

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

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February 25th

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

Gert Frobe, 75; Portrayed Goldfinger in Bond Movie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gert Fröbe
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Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack (5 credits)

1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Friends (Video short) (performer: "Chu-Chi Face")
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (performer: "Chu-Chi Face", "Happy Birthday" - uncredited)
1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Der Morgenchoral des Peachum", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Von der Unsicherheit der menschlichen Verhältnisse", "Denn wovon lebt der Mensch", "Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens" - uncredited)
1961 Auf Wiedersehen (performer: "Sagt, wie darf ich Euch nennen" - uncredited)
1948 The Berliner (performer: "Kopf hoch, die Sache wird schon schiefgeh'n")

Writer (2 credits)

1986 Aus familiären Gründen (TV Movie) (story)
1978 Als wär's heut' gewesen... Kleine Geschichten sind das Leben (TV Movie)

1941: Vivian Dykes comments on Ian Fleming in his diary.

Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit, Nicholas Rankin, 2012.
Chapter 5 - Doing Deals

On Monday 24 February 1941 an RAF Short Sunderland flying
boat touched down in Gibraltar harbor bringing the American
Colonel William J. Donovan on the last stages of his second
journey to Europe on behalf of the US government. This time his
brief was to investigate full the scope of ‘the economic, political
and military standpoint of the Mediterranean area’ and report
back to President Roosevelt. He had left the USA on 6 December
1940 and would not return home until mid-March 1941. In London
He had seen Winston Churchill and had been given SIS funding and
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Dykes from the Cabinet secretariat
As his escort and factotum for the trip. Together Donovan and
Dykes visited Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Turkey,
Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Malta, Gibraltar, Spain,
Portugal and Ireland, saw kings and prime ministers, dictators
and diplomats, soldiers and spies. Donovan was very interested in
commandos, the SAS, the Long Range Desert Group and all the
British organisations waging unconventional warfare or gathering
intelligence.

That Monday the two men lodged at Government House in
Gibraltar. Because Donovan needed a minor procedure for
cyst inside his eyelid, he stayed in bed and missed dinner with
Captain Alan Hillgarth and Commander Ian Fleming. The next
Day, the party set off in two cars for Madrid. In his diary for
Tuesday 25 February 1941 Vivian Dykes recorded:

’I sat with Ian Fleming much of the way. He is
a brother of Peter Fleming and was on Reuter’s staff
before the war. He told me some interesting experiences
as Reuter’s man and was a bit inclined to knock it back too much.’

1962: Actors Sean Connery, Lois Maxwell, and Bernard Lee prepare for studio filming to begin the next day.
1963: Two Bond film productions and two Bond Girls cause confusion for The Duke of Edinborough.

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

McClory was now in Rome choosing a suitable starlet to co-star with the
new Bond. Just days after Honor Blackman had been chosen to play Pussy
Galore in Goldfinger, McClory named Sylvia Koschina, a 29 year old Yugoslav-
born, Italian-bred actress, to star in Thunderball as Domino. He'd approached
her on the set of her latest film saying, "You're the perfect Bond type, tough,
as thought you can carry a machine gun with ease, yet lusciously attractive."
Sylvia was understandably interested.

After years making Italian movies, notably Steve Reeves Hercules epics,
Sylvia had just made her English-speaking debut in the Bond spoof Hot Enough
for June, opposite Dirk Bogarde. In the week of her public debut in Britain at
the Royal Film Performance in London's West End, critic Barry Norman
interviewed Sylvia for his newspaper column, commenting on her engaging
personality and English accent that "is not so much broken as shattered and
eccentrically put back together again." Ironically another guest that evening of 25
February was Honor Blackman. The Duke of Edinburgh was understandably
confused at being presented with two competing Bond girls and asked Honor
when she was flying off to the Bahamas. "No, that's the other James Bond
film," she corrected him. "Mine is with Sean Connery."

1966: Operatie Donder (Operation Thunder, Flemish title) released in Gent, Belgium.

1995: GoldenEye films scenes on the second-line multi-mission stealth frigate La Fayette of the French Navy.

2003: The James Bond Remastered Collection reissues the Thunderball soundtrack on CD with six bonus tracks.

The original United Artists Records 1965 releases (12 tracks, monaural and stereo) occurred before the score was actually finished, and accepted a change in the title song from "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" to "Thunderball". John Barry finished the music literally days before the film was in theaters.

Track listing

"Thunderball (Main Title)" – Tom Jones[ A ]
"Chateau Flight"[ A ]
"The Spa"
"Switching the Body"
"The Bomb"
"Cafe Martinique"
"Thunderball (Instrumental)"
"Death of Fiona"
"Bond Below Disco Volante"
"Search for Vulcan"
"007"[ B ]
"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"

CD bonus tracks

"Gunbarrel/Traction Table/Gassing the Plane/Car Chase"[ A ]
"Bond Meets Domino/Shark Tank/Lights out for Paula/For King and Country"[ A ]
"Street Chase"[ B ]
"Finding the Plane/Underwater Ballet/Bond with SPECTRE Frogmen/Leiter to the Rescue/Bond Joins Underwater Battle"[ B ]
"Underwater Mayhem/Death of Largo/End Titles"[ A ][ B ]
"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Mono Version)"

2019: Reveal of the working title Shatterhand causes a minor stir.

Everyone’s Tearing Apart The Title Of The New James Bond Movie

Back to the drawing board I guess.
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By Tom Chapman | | 25 February 2019

Sony Pictures Releasing

The release of a new James Bond movie is always a huge date in the Hollywood calendar, though fans have been left underwhelmed by the working title for the next film.

While we’re used to the likes of Goldfinger, Casino Royale, and Spectre, the new Bond movie is currently being called Shatterhand. Not quite GoldenEye, Shatterhand is right up there with Quantum of Solace for worst James Bond movie names.

The road to Bond 25 has been a long one. After Daniel Craig said he’d rather slash his wrists than come back for his fifth Bond movie, the lure of a £50 million paycheque has been enough to bring him back for a final round in his tuxedo.

Permission denied
The scoop comes from Production Weekly, which confirms we should start calling the movie Shatterhand instead of Bond 25. It’s important to note that this isn’t the movie’s official name yet, but there’s a definite chance that Shatterhand could be coming to cinemas soon.

If you’re already sniggering at the name Shatterhand, you aren’t the only one. The Twitterverse soon exploded with toilet jokes like a bout of diarrhea.

TWEETS [Vulgar humour follows.]

https://twitter.com/TimxSaxby/status/1098991353659383809

https://twitter.com/ManOnThe100/status/1098934241704984578

https://twitter.com/HelenLOHara/status/1098943431735422976

https://twitter.com/PublicBenjamin/status/1098929263036850180

https://twitter.com/CasparSalmon/status/1098937533445099521

https://twitter.com/MrKenShabby/status/1098920385561718786

Q: "Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't really go in for those any more…"#Shatterhand #Bond25 pic.twitter.com/NyZJ7JeHTI
— Sarah Blythman (@Sarah_Blythman) February 22, 2019

Although the name Shatterhand might sound ridiculous, it actually has some pretty deep roots in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. Dr. Guntram Shatterhand is an alias of the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld in 1964’s You Only Live Twice. Shatterhand is also the name of the estate where he dies.

Interestingly, the ties to Blofeld teases the return of Spectre‘s big bad, which could also be a problem. Craig wasn’t the only one who said he was done after Sam Mendes’ 2015 movie. Christoph Waltz famously played Blofeld in Spectre but said he won’t be back for Bond 25. It might’ve been easy to recast if the whole franchise was being rebooted, but expect a few Roger Moore-inspired raised eyebrows if a brand new Blofeld pops up in Shatterhand.

Sony

The plot of Cary Joji Fukunaga’s movie remains a mystery, but Shatterhand could pull from Fleming’s novel. In You Only Live Twice, Bond is assigned to assassinate Dr. Shatterhand and his wife, only to find out they are Blofeld and Irma Bunt — the people responsible for the death of his wife, Tracy.

Léa Seydoux is definitely coming back Madeleine Swann, so we could see her killed off in the opening act, then follow Craig’s Bond on one final revenge mission. Either way, production hasn’t even started yet as Bond 25/Shatterhand is due to hit cinemas on April 8, 2020.

RichardTheBruce

February 26th

1941: Commander Ian Fleming returns to London after establishing offices in Tangiers and Gibraltar in support of Operation Goldeneye.

1950: Carmen Du Sautoy is born--London, England.

1962: Dr. No filming resumes at Pinewood Studios.
1965: Time Magazine observes a “Bond market” exists “From London to Los Angeles” involving Bond clothing, jewelry, pajamas, vodka, golf clubs.

Merchandising: The Bond Market

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833529,00.html
Friday, Feb. 26, 1965

James Bond has broken up some ambitious conspiracies in his time, but none quite so devilishly capable of realization as the one he is involved in right now. As a man of action and the good life, the dashing secret agent created by Ian Fleming has grown so popular, through twelve books and three movies, that entrepreneurs in some 70 countries are moving in to make a profit on his reputation.

From London to Los Angeles, everything from suits and trenchcoats to cuff links and toiletries is going on sale under the James...

1970: Live and Let Die films OO7 in his London flat visited by M and Moneypenny.

1995: GoldenEye films more at French frigate La Fayette.

GoldenEye "Frigate La Fayette" metal cover

1999: Documentary short "The World Is Not Enough: James Bond Down River" premieres as a television special.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918534/

2015: La Repubblica reports "The streets of Rome bring Bond to a standstill — car hits pothole, Craig suffers head injury." The culprit: loose sanpietrini ("little St. Peters")--hand-carved cobblestone on a narrow street.

International

James Bond Meets His Match — The Roman Cobblestone

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/26/389261059/james-bond-meets-his-match-the-roman-cobblestone"]https://npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/26/389261059/james-bond-meets-his-match-the-roman-cobblestone
February 26, 201512:06 PM ET | Sylvia Poggioli 2011


Pedestrians cross the cobblestone Via dei Fori Imperiali in front of Rome's Colosseum.
Gregorio Borgia/AP

The headline in today's La Repubblica was, "The streets of Rome bring Bond to a standstill—car hits pothole, Craig suffers head injury."

The newspaper reported that the accident occurred while actor Daniel Craig, reprising the role of the suave British spy in the 24th James Bond thriller, Spectre, was driving one of the movie's four custom-made Aston Martins on a narrow cobblestone street near the Vatican.

Craig reportedly hit his head on the car roof when the speeding vehicle met the irresistible force of a loose sanpietrino, as the Roman cobblestones are known.

Rumor has it that Craig flew home to London after being visited by medics on the set, but the production company played down the incident. Spectre has been shooting in Rome for the past week. The Rome leg is scheduled to last 10 more days, and Craig is expected to return soon.

Meanwhile, the Bond-meets-cobblestone affair revived a long-standing controversy between the pro- and anti-sanpietrini camps. A national consumer protection association, ADOC, issued a statement asking, "Are the potholes of Rome the real enemy of James Bond? It would seem so."

ADOC President Lamberto Santini said, "The streets of Rome pose a daily danger to pedestrians, cyclists, and car and motorcycle drivers who risk serious injuries. If James Bond can be sidelined, imagine the fate of our average resident."

The object of controversy is a beveled, hand-carved cobblestone made from volcanic rock. The sanpietrini — literally, "little St. Peters" — date from the late 16th century when Pope Sixtus V had all the main streets of Rome paved with cobblestones, because at the time they were considered the best pavement for carriage transit.

But in recent decades, there are fewer and fewer sanpietrino craftsmen or workers capable of fixing Rome's high-maintenance cobblestone streets (and sidewalks), which are at best uneven, at worst a series of yawning crevices. Taxi drivers complain of the damage to their spines from bouncing on the uneven streets their entire working day, and motorcyclists stress the damage done to tires. Pedestrians are prone to tripping over the many protruding stones and breaking bones. (You will rarely see a Roman woman wearing stiletto heels in old Rome.) And when it rains, the slippery sanpietrino poses serious dangers for everyone.

The city's public works council made headlines last December when it proposed removing the cobblestones on streets and sidewalks and replacing them with smooth asphalt, which requires less maintenance.

The proposal outraged scholars who say the sanpietrino is an integral part of the Eternal City's history and identity.

While city authorities ponder the issue, the Sam Mendes-directed movie continues shooting in the old streets of Rome. The script reportedly calls for a high-speed chase along the Tiber, with one or more cars flying into the river and James Bond parachuting from a helicopter onto the Ponte Sisto, a Renaissance bridge.

Along with Craig, the movie stars Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes and Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who at 50 plays the oldest Bond girl ever.

Note: disputed by Executive Producer Robert Malerba.
https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/03/07/news/mafia_capitale_peggio_della_spectre_quanti_intoppi_per_il_film_di_007-108951839/

RichardTheBruce

February 27th

1962: A £1,064 legal claim served on Eon Productions by musicians Carlos Malcolm and Ernest Ranglin seeks damages regarding an agreement that they compose, arrange, and oversee the recording of Dr. No's musical score.

Carlos Malcolm And His Afro Jamaican Rhythms - Upbeat Records - 1962


Ernest Ranglin - Harmonica Twist - Island 45 RnB Mod 1962

Ernest Ranglin ‎– Wranglin' (Jazz) (Full Album) (1964)

1965: The "Goldfinger" title song charts in the US, eventually peaking at No. 8.

Shirley Bassey: 'Goldfinger' (1964) - original 45" single mono mix

1965: Thunderball films OO7 learning about Count Lippe.

1979: Moonraker principle photography finishes in France.

1999: A court rejects MGM's request for a summary judgment to block Sony's planned Bond film--opening the path to an April trial.

Studios' Fight Over James Bond to Go to Trial

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/feb/27/business/fi-12167
February 27, 1999 | Associated Press

A federal judge rejected Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s motion for summary judgment in a legal fight with Sony Corp. over rights to the lucrative James Bond movie franchise, clearing the way for an April trial. MGM asked the court for a summary judgment in its lawsuit accusing Sony of attempting to steal the Bond franchise. U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie, who issued a preliminary injunction last year to block Sony from working on its own Bond film, rejected the motion, said Sony attorney David Steuber. "It's a very important win for us," he said. "It's encouraging that the ball is still in the air." In a statement, MGM characterized the ruling as a victory. "We can now proceed to trial to make our preliminary injunction permanent and for a declaration of our exclusive rights to make James Bond films," said Robert Brada, MGM executive vice president and general counsel. MGM is developing a 19th Bond installment starring Pierce Brosnan that is due for release in November.

2014: Artist-photographer Taryn Simon's exhibit Birds of the West Indies opens at the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

Taryn Simon
Birds of the West Indies

February 27–April 12, 2014 | Beverly Hills
About Exhibition https://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/taryn-simon--february-27-2014



About
Gagosian Beverly Hills is pleased to present “Birds of the West Indies,” an exhibition of new work by Taryn Simon.

In 1936, American ornithologist James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Writer Ian Fleming, an active bird watcher, appropriated the author’s name for his own now famous novels. He found the name “flat and colorless,” perfectly suited for a character intended to be “anonymous…a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the development of the Bond narrative.

Conflating Bond the ornithologist with Bond the secret agent, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her own two-part body of work, Birds of the West Indies (2013–14). The first element of the work is a photographic inventory of the women, innovative weaponry and luxury cars of Bond films made over the past fifty years. The resulting images comprise an index of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy. Testing the seductive surfaces of popular cinema, Simon continues her artistic process of revealing infrastructures of previously impervious cultural constructs. Simon also created a film that takes as its subject Nikki van der Zyl, the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, van der Zyl, an unseen and uncredited performer, provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. Invisible until now, van der Zyl further underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.

In the second element of the work, Simon casts herself as the ornithologist James Bond, identifying, photographing, and classifying all the birds that appear within the 24 films comprising the James Bond film franchise. Often the birds are incidental; they function as background for the sets they happened to fly into. Simon analyzed every scene to discover these chance occurrences. The result is a taxonomy of birds not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. In this case, the birds are categorized by locations both actual and fictional: Switzerland, Afghanistan, North Korea, as well as the mythical settings of Bond’s missions, such as the Republic of Isthmus and SPECTRE Island. Simon’s discoveries often occupy a liminal space—confined within the fictional space of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. In their new static form, the birds often resemble dust on a negative, a once common imperfection that has disappeared in the age of Photoshop. Other times, the birds are frozen in compositions reminiscent of different genres from photographic history. Some appearing as carefully conceived still lifes, while others have a snapshot quality. Many look low-res or obscured, as though photographed by surveillance drones or hidden cameras that might have been used by MI6 within the context of the films.

Simon also collected papers, correspondence, awards, study skins, and personal effects of James Bond the ornithologist, displaying them in vitrines alongside the photographic works. The character James Bond is so embedded in public consciousness that it is difficult to disengage from the fiction and view the ornithologist’s letters and effects independent of the cinema persona. In Birds of the West Indies, Simon creates a space in which fiction and reality collide and disappear, opening up a black hole that belongs to neither realm.

The fully illustrated publication Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies, which includes an essay by Daniel Baumann, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2013.

Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Public collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She was awarded the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award in 2010. Major museum exhibitions include “The Innocents,” Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2003, traveled to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and High Museum of Art, Atlanta, through 2006); “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007, traveled to Photographer's Gallery, London, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, and Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, through 2008); “Photographs and Texts,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2011, traveled to Moscow House of Photography and Helsinki Museum of Art, through 2012); “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters,” Tate Modern, London (2011, traveled to Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, through 2014); and “Birds of the West Indies,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2013).

Images https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/taryn-simon--february-27-2014/exhibition-images

Artist Info https://gagosian.com/artists/taryn-simon

Press https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/taryn-simon--february-27-2014/exhibition-press

2018: Daniel Craig's own 2014 Centenary Edition Aston Martin Vanquish (007 of 100) goes on display at Christie’s Los Angeles gallery from today through 3 March. Anticipating an April preview and auction in New York.

Christie’s to Auction ‘James Bond’s’ Aston Martin

https://www.artsandcollections.com/article/christies-to-auction-james-bonds-aston-martin
Annalisa D'Alessio
https://www.artsandcollections.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Aston-Martin-
A 2014 Centenary Edition Vanquish Aston Martin belonging to James Bond actor
Daniel Craig will be auctioned in April.

The midnight-blue car, aptly numbered 007, is set to be the highlight of The Exceptional Sale at Christie’s New York on 20 April. It is one of only 100 examples of the model worldwide, which were created to celebrate Aston Martin’s 100th anniversary.

It is currently estimated to fetch around $400,000-$600,000, with all proceeds set to benefit The Opportunity Network, a non-profit organisation that provides young people with career development opportunities.

Daniel Craig, who has played the debonair spy in four James Bond films, further customised the car in partnership with Aston Martin’s chief creative officer, Marek Reichman. The actor’s penchant for denim and dark colours resulted in the luxury car’s midnight-blue exterior and deep blue, hand stitched leather interior.

He said: ‘The Aston Martin Vanquish is a tour de force of automobile engineering and a distinct pleasure to drive. While I will miss it, I am keen to further the very important work of The Opportunity Network with this sale.’

In addition to taking home a truly one-of-a-kind vehicle, the winning bidder will also be offered the opportunity to visit Aston Martin’s headquarters in Warwickshire and meet with Reichman for a behind-the-scenes look at each step of the car’s manufacturing process.

The bespoke car will be on view at Christie’s Los Angeles gallery from 27 February until 3 March ahead of its preview and auction in New York.

Christie’s Exceptional Sale has garnered an aura of prestige since its inception in London in 2008. It is a highly selective and curated auction of masterpieces and cultural icons.

Becky MacGuire, the sale’s director, said Daniel Craig’s Aston Martin fits ‘perfectly’ within the sale. ‘It’s like a 21st century sculpture that comes equipped with an incredibly fine engine,’ she added.

RichardTheBruce

February 28th

1940: Gloria Paul is born--London, England.

1960: Ian Fleming's series of "Thrilling Cities" articles in The Sunday Times ends by covering Chicago and New York.
1962: Dr. No films OO7 in his flat.
1963: The Daily Express story "Wanted - A Girl for OO7" prompts 200 to try out for the role of Tatiana Romanova at Pinewood.
1965: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Εναντίων Χρυσοδάκτυλου (James Bond, praktor 007 enantion Hrysodaktylou, or James Bond Agent 007 Ancient Chrysodactylos, or Goldfinger) released in Greece.

https://dpikeas.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/james-bond-goldfinger/

1973: James Bond comic strip The League of Vampires ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 25 October 1972. 2066–2172) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1008


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



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

Vampyrligan (The League of Vampires)

https://www.popoptiq.com/the-league-of-vampires/




Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no32-1975/

1987: Stephanie Sigman is born--Obregon, Sonora, Mexico.

2003: La morte può attendere (Death Can Wait) released in Italy.

2010: Martin Benson dies at age 91-- Markyate, Hetfordshire, England.
(Born 10 August 1918--London, England.)

Martin Benson obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/06/martin-benson-obituary

Often cast as villains, he appeared in Goldfinger and The King and I
Gavin Gaughan
Thu 6 May 2010 13.49 EDT

Martin Benson in the 1985 TV wartime drama Arch of Triumph
Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

The actor Martin Benson, who has died aged 91, occupied a screen category filled in its time by Herbert Lom, with whom he acted on several occasions, and previously Conrad Veidt – that of the worldly, sophisticated, foreign villain. With jet-black hair, dark colouring and pronounced eyebrows on a thin face, he never seemed properly dressed without a tuxedo. As well as remaining furiously busy during six decades as an actor, he pursued several artistic disciplines.

Born into a Jewish family in London, he seemed briefly destined to become a pharmacist. As a gunner in the army during the seond world war, he organised entertainment for the troops, and produced a tour of Gaslight in aid of a fund to replace HMS Dorsetshire. By 1944, he had been promoted to captain and was posted to Alexandria, Egypt, where he built a theatre from scratch, assisted by his sergeant-major, another aspiring actor – Arthur Lowe.

Among Benson's earliest screen roles was an unbilled part for Alfred Hitchcock in Under Capricorn (1949). The King and I had its British stage premiere at Drury Lane in October 1953, with Lom as the King, and Benson as his court chancellor, Kralahome. Benson played the part again opposite Yul Brynner in the Hollywood film version in 1956. He also played the King himself in February 1955, when Lom was ill. Benson later asserted that "despite the reputation which Yul Brynner continues to enjoy, the more intelligent as well as intelligible performance came from Herbert Lom, notwithstanding a good deal less swagger".

Back in Britain and in modestly budgeted monochrome thrillers, he was on characteristic form in Soho Incident (1956) as a "big boss" running crooked boxing and horse-racing schemes. Venturing into television, Benson was among a repertory company of actors in the half-hour anthology Douglas Fairbanks Presents (1953-57), aimed at US television, shown in Britain as cinema shorts and as schedule-fillers in ITV's early days. Benson also worked on the scripts, where as many foreign settings were included as possible. Another rep company member was Christopher Lee, who called it a valuable training ground. He and Benson made up a comic double act for one segment, The Death of Michael Turbin (1953), as slow-witted east Europeans.

He was a regular, as the villainous Duke de Medici, in Sword of Freedom (1957-58). In 1958 and 1959, he played a barrister in the unscripted courtroom series The Verdict Is Yours and, in On Trial (1960), which recreated celebrated cases, Micheal MacLiammoir played Oscar Wilde, with Benson as his prosecutor, Edward Carson.

After a role in Cleopatra (1963), he was an American gangster coerced into taking a doomed car ride with the henchman Oddjob, in Goldfinger (1964). He was among a houseful of suspects in Peter Sellers's second outing as Clouseau, A Shot in the Dark (1964).

From 1960 to 1985, Martin Benson Films, based in Radlett in Hertfordshire, made more then 100 educational and training films, which Benson directed, wrote and occasionally narrated. Some were for Save the Children.

For Lew Grade's ITC series, the logical successors to the Fairbanks shows, he variously played corrupt South American ministers, Algerian majors, ruthless Turkish policemen and cigar-smoking gamblers. Submerged under green makeup, Benson played the Vogon Captain, an excruciatingly bad poet, in Douglas Adams's The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981).

Benson began painting in his stage dressing room, and in 1993 he staged an exhibition of his Shakespearean paintings at the Shakespeare Globe Centre, the subjects including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Alec Guinness.

His later credits included Alan Parker's adaptation of Angela's Ashes (1999) and a 2005 episode of Casualty.

His wife Joy, son and three daughters, two stepdaughters and one stepson survive him.

• Martin Benson, actor, born 10 August 1918; died 28 February 2010

Martin Benson (I) (1918–2010)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072578/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (158 credits)

2005 Casualty (TV Series) - Rudy Goldspink
- Aftermath (2005) ... Rudy Goldspink

1999 Angela's Ashes - Christian Brother
1998 Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series) - The Vicar
- The Only Diesel Saxophone in Captivity (1998) ... The Vicar
1992 The Camomile Lawn (TV Mini-Series) - Pauli
- Episode #1.4 (1992) ... Pauli
- Episode #1.1 (1992) ... Pauli
1989 The Bill (TV Series) - Craven
- Make My Day (1989) ... Craven
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1989 Mystery!: Campion (TV Series) - Isaac Melchizadek
- Look to the Lady: Part 1 (1989) ... Isaac Melchizadek
1988 Wyatt's Watchdogs (TV Series) - Judge Goodman
- A Clot on the Landscape (1988) ... Judge Goodman
1988 Young Toscanini - Comparsa (uncredited)
1986 The Clairvoyant (TV Series) - Browser
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Browser
1984 Arch of Triumph (TV Movie) - Goldberg
1984 The Hello Goodbye Man (TV Series) - Mr. Renwick
- Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Mr. Renwick
1982 Schoolgirl Chums (TV Movie) - Count Slansky
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Vasco
- The Way to Do It (1981) ... Vasco
1981 Sphinx - Muhammed
1981 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV Series) - Vogon Captain
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Vogon Captain
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Vogon Captain
1980 The Sea Wolves - Mr. Montero
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Schrayer
- Pews (1980) ... Schrayer
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1979 The Human Factor - Boris
1979 Meetings with Remarkable Men - Dr. Ivanov
1979 Telford's Change (TV Series) - Jacques Dupont
- Garnishee Order (1979) ... Jacques Dupont
- The Philistines Of Sussex/Situation Vacant (1979) ... Jacques Dupont
1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Elim
- One Black September (1978) ... Elim
1978 The Many Wives of Patrick (TV Series) - Sheikh Abdul
- The Sheikh of Saudi Kensington (1978) ... Sheikh Abdul
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - Villa
- Long Shot (1978) ... Villa
1977 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Ranocci
- The Hostage (1977) ... Ranocci
1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - Pharisee
- Part 2 (1977) ... Pharisee
1976 The Message - Kisra
1976 The Message - Abu-Jahal
1976 The Omen - Father Spiletto
1976 Thriller (TV Series) - Spiros Lemke
- The Next Victim (1976) ... Spiros Lemke
1974 A Little Bit of Wisdom (TV Series) - Sharkie
- The Magic Monkey of Kubla Khan (1974) ... Sharkie
1973 Tiffany Jones - Petcek - 1973 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Nicky Asteri
- The Case of the Poisoned Pawn (1973) ... Nicky Asteri
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - President
- ... With a Little Help from My Friends (1973) ... President
1972 Pope Joan - Lothair

1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Garcian
- Full Circle (1969) ... Garcian
1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Major General Hassef
- The Slight Problem with the Press (1968) ... Major General Hassef
1967 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Joseph Scharf / Eric Jan Hanussen
- The Burning Bush (1967) ... Joseph Scharf
- Firebrand (1967) ... Eric Jan Hanussen
1967 Battle Beneath the Earth - Gen. Chan Lu
1967 The Magnificent Two - President Diaz
1963-1967 The Saint (TV Series)
Inspector Yolu / Sanchez / Maj. Louis Quintana
- The Gadic Collection (1967) ... Inspector Yolu
- The Reluctant Revolution (1966) ... Sanchez
- The Work of Art (1963) ... Maj. Louis Quintana
1967 Who Is Sylvia? (TV Series)
- A Pool of Blood and a Red Carnation (1967)
1966 The Man Who Never Was (TV Series)
- If This Be Treason (1966)
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Padre Verga
- Achilles' Heel (1966) ... Padre Verga
1966 A Man Could Get Killed - Politanu
1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Rudi
- Why Aren't You Famous? (1966) ... Rudi
1965 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Rezso Kantner
- The Joel Brand Story (1965) ... Rezso Kantner
1965 The Secret of My Success - Rex Mansard
1961-1965 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Tomas Bexiga / Bernard Huntley
- Found Dead (1965) ... Tomas Bexiga
- Payment in Kind (1961) ... Bernard Huntley
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - General Ventura
- The Affair at Castelevara (1965) ... General Ventura
1964 Mozambique - Da Silva
1964 Goldfinger - Solo
1964 Behold a Pale Horse - Priest
1964 A Shot in the Dark - Maurice
1964 The Secret Door - Edmundo Vara
1963 Cleopatra - Ramos
1963 Suspense (TV Series) - John Haythorn, a Barrister
- The Uncertain Witness (1963) ... John Haythorn, a Barrister
1963 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Zervas
- Death of a Sportsman (1963) ... Zervas
1960-1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Harry Salvi / Colonel Alvarez
- The Paleto Confession (1963)
- Flight 447 Delayed (1961) ... Harry Salvi
- Act of Terror (1960) ... Colonel Alvarez
1962 The Fur Collar - Martin Benson
1962 The Verdict Is Yours (TV Series) - Prosecuting Counsel
- Regina v Derbyshire (1962) ... Prosecuting Counsel
- Braithwaite v Merton (1962)
1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Jeweller / Forked Beard
- When Champions Meet (1962) ... Jeweller
- The Pirate King (1962) ... Forked Beard
1962 Silent Evidence (TV Series) - Shufru-Ka
- Prophet of Truth (1962) ... Shufru-Ka
1962 I tre nemici - Prof. Otto Kreutz
1962 Night Creatures - Mr. Rash (innkeeper)
1962 Village of Daughters - 1st Pickpocket
1962 Satan Never Sleeps - Kuznietsky
1962 The Silent Invasion - Borge
1961 A Matter of WHO - Rahman
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Klaus Karnak / Dr. Evans - Minister
- The Sorcerer (1961) ... Klaus Karnak
- Justice (1961) ... Dr. Evans - Minister
1960-1961 The Charlie Drake Show (TV Series) - Fagin
- Jester Minute (1961)
- A Christmas Carol (1960) ... Fagin
1961 Five Golden Hours - Enrico
1961 Gorgo - Dorkin
1960 Whack-O! (TV Series) - Admiral Sir Archibald Ballard
- Episode #7.6 (1960) ... Admiral Sir Archibald Ballard
1960 Exodus - Mordekai
1960 The 3 Worlds of Gulliver - Flimnap
1960 The Gentle Trap - Ricky Barnes
1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Fawzi
- Position of Trust (1960) ... Fawzi
1960 Our House (TV Series)
- The Man Who Knew Nothing (1960)
1960 Sands of the Desert - Selim
1960 On Trial (TV Series) - Edward Carson
- Oscar Wilde (1960) ... Edward Carson
1960 An Arabian Night (TV Movie) - Wazir Al-Muin
1960 Oscar Wilde - George Alexander
1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Captain Renald
- The Boy Without a Country (1960) ... Captain Renald
1960 Once More, with Feeling! - Luigi Bardini
1960 The Army Game (TV Series) - Captain Strickley
- Bowler Hatting of Pocket (1960) ... Captain Strickley
1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Ahmed
- Mr. George (1960) ... Ahmed

1959 Dial 999 (TV Series) - Wayman
- Special Branch (1959) ... Wayman
1957-1959 Sword of Freedom (TV Series) - Duke de Medici / De Medici / Duke De Medici - 27 episodes
1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro - Ali
1959 The Third Man (TV Series) - Karsos
- An Offering of Pearls (1959) ... Karsos
1959 Make Mine a Million - Chairman (uncredited)
1958 The Verdict Is Yours (TV Series) - Counsel for the plaintiff
- The Case of the Offensive General (1958) ... Counsel for the plaintiff
1954-1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Chou / Carlos
- Strong Man Out (1958) ... Chou
- The Gamblers (1954) ... Carlos
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Piet Ritter
- Dead Man's Tale (1958) ... Piet Ritter
1958 The Two-Headed Spy - Gen. Wagner
1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Omar
- Crisis in the Desert (1958) ... Omar
1958 Desert Patrol - German Half-track Officer (uncredited)
1958 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Roberto Ricci / Ahmed
- A Bowl by Cellini (1958) ... Roberto Ricci
- The Hand of Hera Dass (1958) ... Ahmed
1958 A Woman of Mystery - Freddy
1958 The Strange World of Planet X - Smith
1957 Windom's Way - Samcar, Rebel Commander (uncredited)
1957 Thunder Over Tangier - Voss
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Tullio
- Operation Pay Day (1957) ... Tullio
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series)
- The Missing Daughter Story (1957)
1956-1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Police Chief / El Saiyid
- The Lost Portrait (1957) ... Police Chief
- The Desert Hostages (1956) ... El Saiyid
1957 The Flesh Is Weak - Angelo Giani
1957 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (TV Series) - Dimitrios
- Santa Claus in a Jeep (1957) ... Dimitrios
1957 The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (TV Series) - Hassim
- The Mortaise Fair (1957) ... Hassim
1957 Pickup Alley - Captain Varolli
1957 Doctor at Large - Maharajah of Rhanda
1957 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) - Man Using Telescope
- Jack in Paris (1957) ... Man Using Telescope
1957 Aggie (TV Series) - Sheikh Feisal
- Tarboosh (1957) ... Sheikh Feisal
1957 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series)
Novac / Legionnaire Crazy Horse / Kassar
- Mixed Blood (1957) ... Novac
- A Pony for Joe Crazy Horse (1957) ... Legionnaire Crazy Horse
- The Testimonial of a Soldier (1957) ... Kassar
1957 Istanbul - Mr. Darius
1953-1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Party Chief / Howard Geiger / First Frenchman / ... - 8 episodes
- The Man Who Wouldn't Escape (1956) ... Party Chief
- Crime à la Carte (1955) ... Howard Geiger
- Border Incident (1955) ... First Frenchman
- Street of Angels (1954) ... Inspector Sabo
- The Silent Man (1954) ... Andrew Prevna
1956 The King and I - Kralahome
1956 23 Paces to Baker Street - Pillings
1956 Spin a Dark Web - Rico Francesi
1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Dupont
- The Silent Vow (1956) ... Dupont
1955 Doctor at Sea - Head Waiter (uncredited)
1955 Passage Home - Gutierres
1954 Lovers, Happy Lovers! - Art (uncredited)
1954 West of Zanzibar - Lawyer Dhofar
1954 The Young Cyrus (TV Movie) - Astyages, King of the Medes
1954 You Know What Sailors Are - Agrarian Officer (uncredited)
1953 Escape by Night - Guillio
1953 Black 13 - Bruno
1953 Recoil - Farnborough
1953 Desert Adventure (TV Movie) - Steve
1953 Always a Bride - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1953 Wheel of Fate - Riscoe
1953 Top of the Form - Cliquot
1952 Gambler and the Lady - Tony - Pat's Dance Partner
1952 The Plate on the Wall (TV Movie) - A policeman
1952 Chevron Theatre (TV Series) - - Venture in Ivory (1952)
1952 The Man with the Gun (TV Movie) - Rico
1952 Ivanhoe - Minor Role (uncredited)
1952 Wide Boy - Rocco
1952 The Frightened Man - Alec Stone
1952 Judgment Deferred - Pierre Desportes
1951 Jack Sterling: White Hunter (Short)
1951 Mystery Junction - Steve Harding
1951 Hotel Sahara - Minor Role (uncredited)
1951 The Passing Show (TV Series)
- 1930-1939: The Days Before Yesterday (1951)
1951 Assassin for Hire - Catesby
1951 The Dark Light - Luigi
1951 Night Without Stars - White Cap
1951 The Mysterious Count (TV Movie) - Gaston
1951 Lucky Nick Cain - Sperazza
1949 The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel - Skinny Ellis
1949 Under Capricorn - Man Carrying Shrunken Head (uncredited)
1949 Trapped by the Terror - Prison Governor
1949 Third Time Lucky - Gambler in basement club (uncredited)
1948 But Not in Vain - Mark Meyer
1948 The Blind Goddess - Count Stephan Mikla
1948 The Unthinking Lobster (TV Short) - Folgoree Division type
1946 Othello - Minor Role (uncredited)
1942 Suspected Person - Minor Role (uncredited)

Writer (1 credit)\
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (story supervisor - 14 episodes, 1961) (dramatization - 1 episode, 1961)
- Eyewitness (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- Nightmare (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Tiger (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- Midnight (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Villa (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Sorcerer (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Prisoner (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Avengers (1961) ... (dramatization) / (story supervisor)
- The Confession (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- Signal Received (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Room Upstairs (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Face (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- Justice (1961) ... (story supervisor)
- The Stranger (1961) ... (story supervisor)

Self (4 credits)

2007 Parrot Fashion (Video documentary short) - Vogan Captain
2002 Reputations (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Arthur Lowe (2002) ... Himself
2001 The Omen Legacy (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1993 The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (Video documentary) - Himself

Archive footage (2 credits)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Mr.Solo

1971 The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) - Maurice in film A SHOT IN THE DARK
- Episode dated 10 December 1971 (1971) ... Maurice in film A SHOT IN THE DARK

2020: Schiffer Publishing Ltd releases Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue and Ian Fleming by Jim Wright.

Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue and Ian Fleming

by Jim Wright (Author), Hardcover, Import, 28 Feb 2020

Product details
Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd (28 February 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764359029
ISBN-13: 978-0764359026
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 1.8 x 15.2 cm

Wonderfully researched, full of surprises, and written with zip and panache.
--Matthew Gill, author of Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica

"Part biography, part adventure story, and part literary investigation that reveals the incredible true connection between Bond and Fleming for the very first time. Packed with never-before-seen photos, insightful analysis, and original interviews with Bonds colleagues, this important addition to Bond scholarship belongs on the shelf of every serious 007 fan."
-- Matthew Chernov, "James Bond Radio"

"If The Real James Bond does nothing more than convince readers that an ornithologist can be something other than proper, stodgy, or dull, it will have done a great service. This fast-paced, fun book puts the lie to the Miss Jane Hathaway stereotype, painting a portrait of a man who more than lived up to his role as reluctant namesake to the world's favorite secret agent. As an ornithologist, I feel much cooler now."
--Julie Zickefoose, author of The Bluebird Effect

A refreshingly authentic and engagingly written look at the little known ornithologist behind the iconic name. Ian Fleming could not have written better.
-- Pete Dunne, retired director of the Cape May Bird Observatory and author of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America

About the Author

Jim Wright (Allendale, New Jersey) is a prize-winning writer, blogger, and birding columnist for The [Bergen] Record in northern New Jersey. His books include The Nature of the Meadowlands, Jungle of the Maya, and Hawk Mountain. Follow his adventures on Twitter @1realjamesbond, and read his blog at realjamesbond.net.

Discussed here:
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/19372/my-new-book-the-real-james-bond#latest

2020: Shortlist reports No Time to Die is already breaking records as a Bond movie.

No Time to Die is already breaking records as a Bond
movie
You are going to have to make some time for this one.

See the complete article here:

https://www.shortlist.com/news/no-time-to-die-is-set-to-be-the-longest-james-bond-film-yet-401913

No Time to Die is already breaking records as a Bond movie
Holly Pyne | 28 February 2020

James Bond movies have always been action-packed but it seems director Cary Joji Fukunaga just couldn’t cram No Time to Die into the usual two and a half hours.

Daniel Craig’s last hurrah as the secret agent will be the longest James Bond film yet with a running time of 163 minutes (or 2 hours and 43 minutes).

This is according to US cinema chain Regal Cinemas who have just put up the movie synopsis on its website.

Spectre (2015) currently holds the title as the longest Bond film with a still lengthy running time of 2 hours and 28 minutes.

In more James Bond news, earlier this week Fukunaga revealed that No Time to Die - the 25th Bond film - will actually be set five years after Spectre so fans have a lot to be caught up on.

He also revealed some behind the scenes footage and described No Time to Die as a mission to “rediscover Bond”.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1232304240393150464

“No Time to Die is a combination of all that Bond has become,” Fukunaga explained. “We aimed to do something extraordinary with this one.

“Every Bond film has that thing. The danger but also the emotional punch. Everything that was left unsaid, will finally be said.”

No Time To Die will be out in UK cinemas from 2 April. [Delayed to September 2021]

RichardTheBruce

March 1st

1910: David Niven is born--Belgravia, London, England.
(He dies 29 July 1983 at age 73--Château-d'Œx, Switzerland.)

Actor David Niven's Dashing Life Ends at 73

See the complete article here:

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-david-niven-19830730-snap-story.html

By Michael Seiler and Times Staff Writer | Jul 30, 1983 | 12:00 AM


Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven in "The Bishop's Wife." (File photo)

David Niven, whose clipped accent and thin mustache made him the personification of the British gentleman in more than 90 films spread over nearly half a century, died Friday in his mountain chalet in Chateau D'Oex, Switzerland.

Niven was 73 and moved to the Swiss Alps three weeks ago from his home in southern France.

"My uncle died peacefully and without pain," said his nephew Michael Wrangdah. "His last gesture a few minutes before he died had been to give the thumbs-up sign."

The Oscar-winning actor died after a months-long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a debilitating nerve and muscle disorder commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease.

He had lost some of his power of speech and the use of his left hand, his wife told newsmen last March.

To generations of English-speaking peoples he was more than a first-rate film actor. Niven authored several books, including two well-received autobiographical memoirs, "The Moon's a Balloon" and "Bring on the Empty Horses," which confirmed Niven's reputation as a raconteur.

More than that, the books attested to the fact that Niven—a man of considerable charm, wit and sophistication—had an extraordinary life, filled with such entertainment industry giants as Darryl F. Zanuck, Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart, and political figures such as Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy.

James David Graham Niven was born March 1, 1910, in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the son of an army reserve lieutenant who was to die five years later during the World War I Gallipoli campaign.

Niven's widowed, financially strapped mother moved to England and young David bounced around from school to school. He was, quite possibly, "a thoroughly poisonous little boy," Niven said later in explaining his expulsion from one school. He finally ended up at Sandhurst, Britain's equivalent of West Point.

Young Niven's military career was relatively brief and undistinguished. He served three years as a lieutenant in a Scottish infantry regiment, two of them on the hot, dusty island of Malta where he did little more than polish his skills in rugby and polo—on horses borrowed from other officers because young Niven had little money of his own.

Niven disliked the army—he had gone to Sandhurst for lack of anything more promising to do—and the future of a junior officer in the peacetime army seemed dim.

The frustrations came to a head when Niven insulted a general and, rather than face court martial, resigned his commission in 1932.

Niven sailed off to Canada to visit friends, then went on to New York City where other friends, capitalizing on the end of Prohibition, hired him as a wholesale liquor salesman. But Niven flopped at that, and was little more successful at his next try—promoting a sort of rodeo-equestrian show in Atlantic City.

The unemployed but always-charming Niven drifted west to California, helped, as always, by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He saw his first movie studio—Fox—when members of Loretta Young's family sneaked him past the guards under a rug on the floor of her limousine.

He was suitably impressed—"I just gaped and gaped and wondered if I could ever be a part of it," Niven wrote much later in "The Moon's a Balloon." Encouraged by his friends, Niven signed on at Central Casting on Western Avenue.

They listed him, back in 1935, as "English type, No. 2008. Niven, David."

Niven was on his way—slowly.

A chance meeting with old military friends on a British cruiser in Santa Barbara Bay led to a hangover and an introduction to director Frank Lloyd, who later signed him as an extra in the original "Mutiny on the Bounty"—Niven's first film appearance.

Lloyd passed him on to another leading director of the period, Edmund Goulding, who had Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer do a screen test, which got Niven nowhere. Another screen test of sorts—an appearance at Paramount before an imperially silent Mae West—was also in vain. (Nearly 40 years later, however, Miss West recanted and told a reporter that "Niven has charm where other men only have cologne.")

Third Man Out
Yet another screen test ended in failure when newcomers Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland both got contracts with Paramount after appearing opposite Claudette Colbert. But Niven, the third man tried out that day, got nothing.

There were occasional jobs as a $2.50-a-day extra—the first one was as a spray-painted "Mexican" in a low-budget cowboy flick—but for a while it looked as if Niven wasn't going to make it, despite his charm and growing circle of friends.

Nothing seemed to work. Not even luck.

One day Niven found himself playing polo against a team headed by powerful studio boss Zanuck. Niven, who was, of course, hopeful of impressing the film magnate, was instead chagrined when his borrowed mount bit Zanuck on the buttocks.

And then the immigration authorities intervened, pointing out that Niven's visitor's permit had long since expired. Niven was forced to take off for the Mexican border, hiring out as a gun bearer for rich U.S. tourists hunting in the hills around the then small, dusty border town of Mexicali.

At last, Niven got lucky when the legendary Samuel Goldwyn viewed his initial screen test, liked what he saw, and signed Niven to a 7-year contract starting at $100 a week.

"I won't put you in a Goldwyn picture until you've learned your job," Goldwyn told Niven. "Now you have a base. Go out and tell the studios you're under contract to Goldwyn, do anything they offer you, get experience, work hard, and in a year or so, if you're any good, I'll give you a role."

Fluffed His Only Line
Niven did just that—but in his own inimitable style. Goldwyn sent him to Gilmore Brown's workshop at the Pasadena Playhouse, then Los Angeles' premier showcase theater. Niven was given a one-line part in a play and, with a celebrity audience on hand for his opening night, managed to drink a bit too much backstage in an effort to calm his nerves. He made a shambles of what little he had to do. Brown banished him from the theater, but Niven's career prospered anyway.

Most of the parts were small at first. In Howard Hawks' production of "The Barbary Coast" (1935), Niven played a Cockney sailor who was tossed out of a San Francisco brothel into a muddy street. He was signed the next year to play a bit part in the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy opus "Rose-Marie," but after filming his brief scene he left the studio, only to find out months later that his part had been re-shot with another actor.

The roles quickly got more meaty. Niven played an officer and friend of Flynn in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), Capt. Clyde Lockert in "Dodsworth" (1936) and Fritz von Tarlenheim in "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937). In 1938, Niven appeared in the classic "The Dawn Patrol" and the following year gained co-star status for the first time in "Bachelor Mother" with Ginger Rogers. Later in 1939, he played opposite Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as the devoted but unloved Edgar Linton, Miss Oberon's husband in "Wuthering Heights."

Despite the early frustrations, only four years after arriving in Hollywood, the one-time British officer had become a genuine star, critically well received and an actor of increasing capability. Life outside the studios also was happy. Niven dated Hollywood's most beautiful women, shared a beach house (called "Cirrhosis by the Sea") and caroused with Flynn, and was a friend of the industry's most talented stars and directors—people like Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Fred Astaire, Ronald Colman and William Wyler. And he was a frequent guest of William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon.

But then World War II intervened.
Though he had long ago resigned his commission and probably would not have been drafted into service, Niven left Los Angeles soon after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, and after several false starts managed to return to England and gain a commission in an infantry regiment. He was assigned to a training battalion and, he claimed much later, out of infinite boredom volunteered for the newly formed commando units.

Niven, never at a loss for friends throughout his life, made a new one in Churchill, who occasionally invited him to his estate on weekends. On first meeting him, Churchill growled, "Young man, you did a very find thing to give up a most promising career to fight for your country."

But the, according to Niven's account, the soon-to-be prime minister added, "Mark you, had you not done so, it would have been despicable."

Niven saw action in Europe after the Normandy invasion and married an English girl, Primula Rollo, who was to bear him two sons. Niven rose from the rank of captain to lieutenant colonel during the war, and took time off to do a film overseas—"The Way Ahead" (1944), a glorification of the British infantryman.

The film, a government-backed propaganda effort, was directed by Carol Reed and written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov. Ustinov, then a private in the army, doubled as Niven's orderly when they moved into London's Ritz Hotel to work on the movie.


David Niven, left, and Kim Hunter in "Stairway to Heaven. (File photo)

Niven did another film in England—"Stairway to the Stars" (1946)—and then returned to Hollywood, "thinking I was God's gift to the movies," he told an interviewer 20 years later. "I went to Sam Goldwyn, said I was being underpaid, and asked how soon I could get out of my contract. 'The minute you reach the street,' he told me."

It was a difficult time for Niven. His wife died in an accident at the age of 25 and his Broadway debut in 1951 as Gloria Swanson's lover in the unsuccessful "Nina" was a failure.

"I took a good look at myself," he said later, "still wandering vaguely about with a cup of tea in one hand and a duchess in the other. I was fast approaching that nervous no-man's land where actors feel down the backs of their necks the hot, sticky breath of leading men in their early 20s, while in front they see a solid phalanx of well-established character actors blocking their path. That is no place to hang around very long with a cup of fast-cooling tea and an aging duchess."

Later in the 1950s, life picked up for Niven when he married a young Swedish model, Hjordis Tersmeden. They were to adopt two girls. And then—with Dick Powell and Charles Boyer—he started the hugely successful television firm, Four Star Productions.

There was no fourth star, by the way, because, according to Niven, most of Hollywood was frightened by the power of the film studio bosses. But the production company was an incredible success. "Four Star Playhouse" begat "Zane Grey Theater" which in turn spawned "The Rifleman," which spun off "Wanted Dead or Alive," starring an unknown named Steve McQueen.

It went on that way through the late 1950s and early 1960s—Four Star in one year had 14 TV series on the air, including two of Niven's own—"The David Niven Show" and "The Rogues." And Niven was suddenly one of the richest men in Hollywood. He decided to take his money and his family to Europe—permanently.

Niven explained the move in "The Moon's a Balloon." Taxes were eating him up, he said; the smog, the freeways and nasty gossip columnists were all bothering him. But, more fundamentally, "Hollywood had completely changed. The old camaraderie of pioneers in a one-generation business still controlled by the people who created it was gone . . . the scent of fear was attacking to smog-filled lungs of the professional film makers, already resigned to the fact that their audience was brainwashed by television. . . . The pipe dream was gone—the lovely joke was over. . . . It was time to go."

Niven and his family moved to a chalet in Switzerland and, later, a villa overlooking the sea at Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera, where he was to live a luxurious existence to his death.

It was an expensive life style—skiing the best slopes, tiger-hunting in India and entertaining his next-door neighbors, Princess Grace and Prince Ranier of Monaco—and Niven managed it by working a good deal of the time on films, both good and bad.

He turned down the role of Humbert Humbert in "Lolita" because he feared it would tarnish his gentlemanly image, but he had a long list of successes.


Shirley MacLaine, David Niven and Cantinflas in "Around the World in 80 Days." (File photo)

There was "The Bishop's Wife" (1947), "The Moon Is Blue" (1953), "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956), "Bonjour Tristesse" (1958), "Separate Tables" (1958), "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (1960), "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) and "The Pink Panther" (1963), to name some of the better ones.

Niven liked to say his career was composed of playing officers, dukes and crooks, but he won an Academy Award as best actor in one of them, "Separate Tables," in which he portrayed a retired British officer.

"I always thank Deborah Kerr and Wendy Hiller," he told an interviewer in 1978. "They won the Oscar for me. They had to cry in the picture, which they did so beautifully that when I spoke, the camera panned to them sobbing . . . and I got the award."

He liked to refer to himself as "a displaced Cary Grant," and he was like that almost to the end—witty, classy, charming.

Like the time a few years ago when an interviewer asked him this old stock question: What is your philosophy of life?

"Life to me, I guess, is a sort of super Grand National Steeplechase, with all sorts of hurdles to jump over and places to fall down," Niven replied. "The trick is not to worry about winning, but to get around the course as best you can without doing any damage to the other riders and certainly not to the other horses."

Or, in another interview, in 1978, when he acknowledged that the ranks of his friends were thinning rapidly:

"We have to face it," Niven said. "An awful lot of my age group has been called up already. So many chums have gone, Cooper, Gable, Bogart. To say nothing of men of my own vintage—Errol Flynn and Ty Power. But there's no way they're going to get me off. I just won't go. I'll kick and scream and make a terrible fuss."

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Filmography

Actor (113 credits)

1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Sir Charles Litton
1983 Better Late Than Never - Nick Cartland
1982 Trail of the Pink Panther - Sir Charles Litton
1980 The Sea Wolves - Colonel W. H. Grice
1980 Rough Cut - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

1979 A Man Called Intrepid (TV Mini-Series) - Sir William Stephenson
1979 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Ivan
1979 Escape to Athena - Professor Blake
1978 Death on the Nile - Colonel Race
1977 Candleshoe - Priory
1976 Murder by Death - Dick Charleston
1976 No Deposit, No Return - J.W. Osborne
1975 The Remarkable Rocket (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1975 Paper Tiger - 'Major' Bradbury
1974 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - The Ghost - Sir Simon de Canterville
1974 Old Dracula - Count Dracula
1972 King, Queen, Knave - Charles Dreyer
1971 The Statue - Alex Bolt

1969 The Brain - Colonel Carol Matthews
1969 The Extraordinary Seaman - Lt. Commander Finchhaven, R.N.
1968 Before Winter Comes - Major Burnside
1968 The Impossible Years - Jonathan Kingsley
1968 Prudence and the Pill - Gerald Hardcastle
1967 Eye of the Devil - Philippe de Montfaucon
1967 Casino Royale - Sir James Bond
1966 Where the Spies Are - Dr. Jason Love
1965 Lady L - Dicky, Lord Lendale
1964-1965 The Rogues (TV Series) - Alec Fleming - 30 episodes
1964 Bedtime Story - Lawrence Jameson
1963 The Pink Panther - Sir Charles Lytton
1963 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Harvey Cleeve
- Who Killed Billy Jo? (1963) ... Harvey Cleeve (as David Niven the World's Greatest Juggler)
1963 55 Days at Peking - Sir Arthur Robertson
1962 Conquered City - Maj. Peter Whitfield
1962 Guns of Darkness - Tom Jordan
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Lama Who Remembers Lady Chatterley's Lover (uncredited)
1961 The Best of Enemies - Maj. Richardson
1961 The Guns of Navarone - Cpl. John Anthony Miller
1960 Please Don't Eat the Daisies - Laurence Mackay
1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV Series) - Marcus Dodds
- The Trench Coat (1960) ... Marcus Dodds
-
1959 Happy Anniversary - Chris Walters
1959 Ask Any Girl - Miles Doughton
1957-1959 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) - Cameo / Milo Brant / Allen Raikes
- Checkmate (1959) ... Cameo (uncredited)
- The Accuser (1958) ... Milo Brant
- Village of Fear (1957) ... Allen Raikes
1958 Separate Tables - Major Angus Pollock
1958 Frances Farmer Presents (TV Series) - B.G. Bruno
- Happy Go Lovely (1958) ... B.G. Bruno
1957-1958 Goodyear Theatre (TV Series) - Charles Enright / 'Jeffrey Collins' / Paul Evans / ...
- Decision by Terror (1958) ... Charles Enright
- Taps for Jeffrey (1958) ... 'Jeffrey Collins'
- Episode #1.11 (1957) ... Paul Evans
- The Tinhorn (1957) ... Jeff Carleton
- Danger by Night (1957) ... Alan Kevin
1957-1958 Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) - 6 episodes
1958 Bonjour Tristesse - Raymond
1957 The Return of Phileas Fogg (Short) - Phileas Fogg
1957 My Man Godfrey - Godfrey Smith
1957 Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series)
- Taming of the Shrew (1957)
1957 The Little Hut - Henry Brittingham-Brett
1957 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! - Dr. Alan Coles
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Phileas Fogg
1956 The Silken Affair - Roger Tweakham
1952-1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) - 33 episodes
1956 The Birds and the Bees - Colonel Patrick Henry Harris
1956 The Star and the Story (TV Series) - Johnny
- The Thin Line (1956) ... Johnny
1955 The King's Thief - James - Duke of Brampton
1954 Court Martial - Carrington
1954 Tonight's the Night - Jasper O'Leary
1954 The Love Lottery - Rex Allerton
1953 The Moon Is Blue - David Slater
1952-1953 Hollywood Opening Night (TV Series)
- Uncle Fred Flits By (1953)
- Sword Play (1952)
1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - Sheffield
- The Sheffield Story (1952) ... Sheffield
1952 Celanese Theatre (TV Series) - Alan Squier
- The Petrified Forest (1952) ... Alan Squier
1952 Chesterfield Presents (TV Series)
- A Moment of Memory (1952)
1952 Betty Crocker Star Matinee (TV Series)
- The Willow and I (1952)
1951 The Lady Says No - Bill Shelby
1951 Island Rescue - Maj. Valentine Moreland
1951 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
- Not a Chance (1951)
1951 Soldiers Three - Capt. Pindenny
1951 Happy Go Lovely - B.G. Bruno
1950 The Fighting Pimpernel - Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
1950 Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV Series) - Arthur Carstairs
- Portrait of Lydia (1950) ... Arthur Carstairs
1950 The Toast of New Orleans - Jacques Riboudeaux

1949 A Kiss for Corliss - Kenneth Marquis
1949 A Kiss in the Dark - Eric Phillips
1948 Enchantment - General Sir Roland Dane
1948 Bonnie Prince Charlie - Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1947 The Bishop's Wife - Henry Brougham
1947 The Other Love - Dr. Anthony Stanton
1946 Magnificent Doll - Aaron Burr
1946 The Perfect Marriage - Dale Williams
1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Peter Carter
1944 The Way Ahead - Lt. Jim Perry
1942 Spitfire - Geoffrey Crisp

1939 Raffles - Raffles
1939 Eternally Yours - Tony aka The Great Arturo
1939 The Real Glory - Lieut. Terence McCool
1939 Bachelor Mother - David Merlin
1939 Wuthering Heights - Edgar
1938 The Dawn Patrol - Scott
1938 Three Blind Mice - Steve Harrington
1938 Four Men and a Prayer - Christopher Leigh
1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife - Albert De Regnier
1937 Dinner at the Ritz - Paul de Brack
1937 The Prisoner of Zenda - Fritz von Tarlenheim
1937 We Have Our Moments - Joe Gilling
1936 Beloved Enemy - Gerald Preston
1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Capt. Randall
1936 Thank You, Jeeves! - Bertie Wooster
1936 Dodsworth - Captain Lockert
1936 Palm Springs - George Britell
1936 Rose-Marie - Teddy (as David Nivens)
1935 Splendor - Clancey Lorrimore
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty - Able-Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
1935 A Feather in Her Hat - Leo Cartwright
1935 Barbary Coast - Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)
1935 Without Regret - Bill Gage
1935 Hop-a-Long Cassidy - Mexican Bandit (uncredited)
1934 Cleopatra - Slave (uncredited)
1933 Eyes of Fate - Man at Race Course (uncredited)
1932 There Goes the Bride - Bit Role (uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1957 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Village of Fear (1957) ... (producer - uncredited)
1952-1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) (producer - 28 episodes)

Soundtrack (3 credits)

1956 Around the World in 80 Days (performer: "Have Courage to Say No" - uncredited)

1949 Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- David Niven (1949) ... (performer: "Way Up North")
-
1938 The Dawn Patrol (performer: "Plum and Apple" - uncredited)

Director (1 credit)

1958-1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Wayfarers (1960)
- The Vaunted (1958)

On the set of The Sea Wolves.

1946: Lana Wood is born--Santa Monica, California.

1960: This month Playboy Magazine prints the Ian Fleming story "The Hildebrand Rarity".
1960: Ian Fleming receives notice by cable that Kevin McClory is arriving that night in Jamaica, there to discuss the film project.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 12 – Film Options

Ian never hid the fact he adopted several of Whittingham and
McClory’s ideas for his book, notably the airborne hijack of the bomb,
but he claimed that he added many more of his own. For example, he
reintroduced SPECTRE (and not the Mafia) as the main villain, operating in
the Bahamas through Emilio Largo, but with a new overall chief called
Ernst Blofeld, a surname Ian appropriated from a fellow member of
Boodle’s, a Norfolk farmer called Tom Blofeld who was chairman of the
Country Gentleman’s Association. Ian also devised an ingenious new
Introductory sequence—at an upmarket health farm based on Enton Hall,
which he and Ann frequented in real life. When he could not think what
to call his fictional establishment, his guest Peter Quennell suggested
Shrublands, which was the name of his parents’ suburban house. Ian
added his usual personal name-checks. The Commissioner of Police in the
Bahamas was Harling, the Chief of Immigration Pitman, and the Deputy
Governor Roddick (after another of his St George’s golfing partners, Bunny
Roddick). As a further joke Ian had the Immigration Chief tell Bond that
the Nassau hotel, the Emerald Wave, had been full of Moral Rearmament
people. Emerald Wave was Mrs Val’s house on Cable Beach. In addition,
Largo had rented his luxury beachside villa, Palmyra, from an Englishman
called Bryce. Its similarity in name and location to the “pleasure palace”
Xanadu was unmistakable.

McClory later argued, however, that these details, particularly the health
farm sequence, were deliberately introduced by Ian to obfuscate the joint
origins of the novel. In an affidavit drawn up by Farrer and Company, the
Queen’s solicitors, Ian later felt the need to list his personal input into the
Book, starting with the very first sentence: “It was one of those days when
it seemed to James Bond that all life, as someone put it, was nothing but
a heap of six to four against.” While this may have expressed Ian’s personal
feelings at the time, it also happened to be an idea which had been put
into his head by John Beck, a former captain of the British Walker Cup
team during a recent golf game. Ian’s nineteen-point list ran from inform-
mation about danger levels on a medical traction table, which had been
imparted to him by a Mrs Reynolds, physiotherapist at London’s Princess
Beatrice Hospital, to details of the hydrofoil craft, the Disco Volante, which—
true to previous meticulous fact-finding form—were obtained from its
Italian manufacturer, Messrs. Leopoldo Rodriquez, with the assistance of
the Sunday Times Rome correspondent, Henry Thody. Althought this list
was hardly convincing, Ian also claimed he coined the title Thun-
derball[/i], which had stuck in his mind ever since he had heard it used to
describe an American atomic test in the Pacific. (Prior to that, the draft
version of the film-script had had the uninspiring appellation “Longitude
78 West”.)

When McClory received no reply to his letter to Ian of 21 January, he
determined to visit his in Jamaica—en route to the Bahamas to see Ivar, Ian
received a cable on 1 March telling him that Kevin was arriving in Montego
Bay that night. The two men had a stormy meeting at Goldeneye, McClory
clutching a copy of Whittingham’s completed film-script. Ian Later said,
though this is difficult to verify, that he had completed his book before
he even saw this document. Whittingham, for his part, claimed to have
discovered eighteen instances where Ian had drawn on this script to “build
up the plot”. According to Ian, McClory was now fighting for his future as
producer of the film. Ian tried to appease him with the emerging “party
party line”—that he and Ivar would take the script to Jules Stein, the boss of MCA,
with a recommendation that the Irishman should be the producer. (Ian’s
new agent, MCA, was also, through Universal Studios, one of the leading
film producers in the United States. In 1963, however, it was forced by anti-
trust legislation to split its business and divest itself of its agenting side.)
More convinced than ever that he was being sidelined, McClory moved on
to Nassau, where he negotiated with Bryce for a further six months to raise
the money for what he was convinced was an excellent script.

1965: Thunderball principle photography begins.
1969: Javier Bardem is born--Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.

1973: Bond comic strip Die with My Boots On begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 18 June 1973. 2173–2256) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


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



Swedish Semic Comic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_covers/x1982_2.jpg.pagespeed.ic.SOnYIp3wvf.webp

Droghandlarna
(Die With My Boots On)

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 30:
“Die With My Boots On” (1974)
["Narkohandlerne" [The Drug Dealers]]

1992: Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr #3 "Earthcracker", representing episode 2 of the cartoon series.
Mario Capaldi, artist. Cal Hamilton, writer.

James Bond, Jr. Vol 1 #3
"Earth-Cracker!"

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond,_Jr._Vol_1_3
Published March, 1992
Cover Artist Mario Capaldi
Writer Cal Hamilton
Penciler Mario Capaldi
Inker Adolfo Buylla
Colourist Euan Peters
Letterer Stuart Bartlett

http://bondfanevents.com/page/3/

Summary: Goldfinger and Odd Job kidnap a student from the Warfield Academy – Lotta Dinaro, whose father may have found the lost city of gold, El Dorado. Locations covered: London, Peru; Villains: Goldfinger and Oddjob; Action sequences: Bond and gang try to avoid a battle tank, Bond mountain climbs and survives and earthquake; Bond`s swing into action is cut short by Oddjob`s bowler; Bond, Lotta and her father swing down 200 ft and overtake the Earth-Cracker.

1993: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007 A Silent Armageddon.
John M. Burns, artist. Simon Jowett, writer.

James Bond 007: A Silent Armageddon #1

https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-421/James-Bond-007-A-Silent-Armageddon-1#prettyPhoto

Death in virtual reality. Has Bond met his match with Omega, a computer that has acquired the most valuable possession of all -- consciousness? Bond turns to help from a most unexpected source -- a thirteen-year-old girl. James Bond 007: A Silent Armageddon takes Bond to new dimensions of adventure.

Creators
Writer: Simon Jowett
Artist: John M. Burns
Letterer: Ellie de Ville
Editor: Dick Hansom & Jerry Prosser
Cover Artist: John M. Burns
Publication Date: March 01, 1993

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/asa.php3
Capsule Synopsis

Criminal organization Cerberus, is willing to kill anyone who stands in their way of controlling Omega - a computer program with the most valuable possession of all - a consciousness. Bond must baby sit a computer genius and learn the secrets of her latest development before Cerberus can attempt a second kidnapping., an attack on New York, and a final confrontation in cyberspace.

1993: Dark Horse Comics #8 includes Bond story "Light of My Death", part 1 of 4.
John Watkiss, artist. Das Petrou, writer.

Dark Horse Comics #8

https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-427/Dark-Horse-Comics-8

Dark Horse Comics introduces comicdom's newest hero, "X," a violent force against crime in the dark and gritty underbelly of the city. Also included this issue is the premiere of a new James Bond adventure, "Light of My Death", and the continuation of our "RoboCop: Invasions" and "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi" stories. "X" marks the spot on the comic racks this month.

Creators
Writer: Various
Artist: Various
Editor: Jerry Prosser & Dan Thorsland & Bob Cooper & Anina Bennett & Dick Hansom
Cover Artist: Joe Phillips & Wade Grawbadger
Genre: Short Stories / Anthologies, Action/Adventure, Science-Fiction, Star Wars
Publication Date: March 01, 1993

1995: GoldenEye films the car chase between OO7 and Xenia Onatopp.

2003: Hodder & Stoughton releases the novelization for Die Another Day by Raymond Benson in hardcover.

PIERCE BROSNAN
IS JAMES BOND IN
DIE ANOTHER DAY

RAYMOND BENSON
BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY BY
NEAL PURVIS & ROBERT WADE
DIRECT BY LEE TAMAHORI

Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry are just
two of the stars of the twentieth film
in the most successful sequence in
cinema history.

DIE ANOTHER DAY

The action-packed story begins in
the demilitarised zone between North
and South Korea with a spectacular
high-speed hovercraft chase.

From Hong Kong to Cuba to London, Bond
continues his quest to unmask a traitor and
prevent a war of catastrophic consequence
--but not without the help and hindrance
of two mysterious femmes fatales.

Hot on the trail of the principal villains,
Bond travels to Iceland where he
experiences at first hand the power
of an amazing new weapon before a
dramatic confrontation with his main
adversary back in Korea where it all
started.

Die Another Day is directed by Lee
Tamahori and been produced for Eon
Productions by Michael G. Wilson and
Barbara Broccoli, who carry on the
family tradition founded by the late
Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, who 40
years ago began the successful series
with the groundbreaking "Dr. No"

Raymond Benson is the author of Zero
Minus Ten, The Facts of Death, High Time
to Kill, Doubleshot, Never Dream of Dying,
The Man with the Red Tattoo and the
novelization of the films Tomorrow Never
Dies and The World Is Not Enough. His Bond
short stories have been published in Playboy
and TV Guide magazines. His first book,
The James Bond Bedside Companion, was
nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award
for Best Biographical/Critical Work and is
considered by 007 fans to be a definitive
work on the world of James Bond. A Director
of The Ian Fleming Foundation, he is married
and has one son, and is based in the
Chicago Area.

Hooder & Stoughton

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/dad-benson-dk-2003/

2010: Bright Lights Film Journal publishes Robert von Dassanowsk's "Casino Royale at 33: The Postmodern Epic in Spite of Itself".
2017: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #1 Black Box Part One, combining influences from the films and Bond's inner psychology from the novels. Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

JAMES BOND #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652201011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Dominic Reardon
Cover C: Jason Masters
Cover D: Goni Montes
Cover E: Moritat
Writer: Benjamin Percy
Art: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: March 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/1

Black Box Part One - Whiteout

The next epic adventure for 007 kicks off in the snowbound French Alps, where Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of an assassin who targets other assassins. This is the first puzzle piece in a larger adrenaline-fueled mystery that will send Bond across the globe to investigate a digital breach that threatens global security.

2018: The Royal Mint launches the Great British Coin Hunt collection.

RichardTheBruce

March 2nd

1945: Trumpeter Derek Roy Watkins is born--Reading, England.
(He dies 22 March 2013 at age 68--Surrey, England.)

Derek Watkins: Trumpeter who played on every Bond soundtrack

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/derek-watkins-trumpeter-who-played-on-every-bond-soundtrack-8550572.html[/center]

Brian Priestley | Wednesday 27 March 2013 01:00


Bell in 2004: his playing echoed Jelly Roll Morton ( PA )

It is rare for orchestral musicians to gain an independent reputation with the public, as opposed to the admiration they earn from their colleagues. In more popular styles, the same rules apply even more forcefully to backing musicians. The trumpeter Derek Watkins gained some recognition latterly, thanks to his enviable record of having performed on the soundtrack of every single James Bond film, playing for the first of these, Dr No (1962), at the age of 17.

He was seen playing and also speaking, along with the composer Thomas Newman, in a promotional video for the most recent entry, Skyfall. Newman noted that "When [the film's director] Sam Mendes went out on to the podium after we'd finished recording and acknowledged Derek, you should've heard the orchestra. He had to take two bows because people kept applauding him." By this stage, however, Watkins had been diagnosed with cancer and was fund-raising for the charity Sarcoma UK.

Watkins got off to an early start, being taught from the age of six by his father, who also conducted him in the Spring Gardens brass band in Reading, of which his grandfather had been a founding member. He played in his father's dance band at the local Majestic Ballroom before turning professional in his late teens. Working in leading London bands, he soon established himself as a freelance player capable of meeting the demands of Ted Heath, John Dankworth and Maynard Ferguson (during the Canadian trumpeter's period of British residence).

His ability in the role of "lead trumpet" required not only interpreting written music in a way that satisfied its composers or arrangers, but executing it with the authority that enabled his brass colleagues to show both unity of purpose and tonal blend. In this capacity he was hired for the 1970s European tours of a notoriously demanding Benny Goodman. When he toured the US as one of the key backing musicians for the singer Tom Jones, he was lauded by the local musicians whom he worked alongside. One of his American equivalents, Chuck Findley, has called Watkins "the greatest trumpet player I ever met in my life, and I have played with them all".

He was soon a fixture in the so-called "session" scene that saw top professionals being booked by the hour to play previously unseen music at a level of accuracy that had to be heard to be believed. As such, he contributed trumpet parts to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", and appeared, usually uncredited, on recordings by artists as different as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Robbie Williams, Placido Domingo, U2, Dizzy Gillespie and many others. Gillespie christened Watkins "Mister Lead".

He also worked for many European-based bands, such as those of Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland, Peter Herbolzheimer, James Last, and the famous Dutch radio ensemble, the Metropole Orchestra. Among his distinctive film soundtrack appearances the opening of Chicago (2002) and the trumpet work behind Shirley Bassey's title song for Goldfinger (1964) stand out. He was the natural choice for lead trumpet when John Altman was asked to augment the St Petersburg tank chase sequence for Goldeneye (1995) and Altman recalled Watkins' role on the rumba section of Shall We Dance (2004): "The director and producers had asked us to make the chart sound more 'over the top'. I asked Derek if he minded playing his lead part an octave higher in some spots. 'Sure, no problem!' This was the first take, and he doesn't miss one super A."

Taking on such essentially background roles meant that Watkins was unlikely to become a "name" performer, although he did make two albums in his own right. Increased Demand (1988) can be fairly described as "easy listening" in the positive sense, while Over The Rainbow (1995) has a definite jazz orientation, as does Stardust (made at the same time), which paired him with the American trumpeter Warren Vaché.

Watkins was also heard in specialised contributions to recordings by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic, when playing their versions of popular music. Not surprisingly, he was also in demand as a teacher when time permitted, becoming Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and conducting workshops when on tour in Europe or the US. In the mid-1980s he entered into a successful business partnership with the acoustician Dr Richard Smith to manufacture handmade trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns under the imprint of Smith-Watkins.

Described by all who worked with him as an unegotistical personality with an unfailing sense of humour, and the epitome of reliability, he made an impact not only on colleagues but on all who heard him. John Barry, who wrote music for the first dozen Bond films, said that Watkins "never failed to deliver the goods".

Watkins, trumpeter: born Reading 2 March 1945; married Wendy (two daughters, one son); died Claygate, Surrey 22 March 2013.

1964: The Daily Express serializes You Only Live Twice starting this date.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2016/12/daily-express-artwork-for-you-only-live.html

1965: Serialization of The Man With The Golden Gun appears in Domenica Del Corriere, illustrations by Tabet.

1966: Variety reports in the next Bond film OO7 will have “more brains and less gimmicks.” Also that Connery considered breaking a six-film contract after You Only Live Twice.
1968: Daniel Wroughton Craig is born--Chester, Cheshire, England.

1973: Live and Let Die films the final scenes for OO7.

1992: Animated series James Bond Jr. (his nephew!) airs its 65th and final episode "Thor's Thunder". Finally.
(First episode "The Beginning" aired 30 September 1991.)

"The Beginning".
IMDb Description: En route to his new school, Warfield Academy, Bond Jr. is chased by S.C.U.M. who are interested in stealing the Aston Martin DB5.


"Thor's Thunder".
IMDb Description: Captain Walker D. Plank and Skullcap are on the prowl in Norway to find Mjölnir, which gives infinite power to whoever wields it.

1999: Dusty Springfield dies at age 59--Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.
(Born 16 April 1939--Hampstead, London, England.)

Dusty Springfield

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5900498/Dusty-Springfield.html

04 Mar 1999

Dusty Springfield, who has died aged 59, was one of Britain's most successful female pop singers; she had nine Top 10 hits in the 1960s, and with her upswept hair and panda-shadowed eyes was among the emerging pop scene's most readily identifiable stars.

Photo: GETTY IMAGES

She was distinguished from her contemporaries both by her choice of material and by the quality of her voice. Dusty Springfield was a fine judge of a lyric, and favoured emotional songs written by the American teams of Burt Bacharach and Hal David and Jerry Goffin and Carole King. Their songs, rooted in the Broadway tradition, were perfectly suited to a voice often described as soulful but whose ideal setting would perhaps have been cabaret.

Usually backed by lush string arrangements, she sang with a voice that was low and sensual and made her songs sound like confessions of sins she took increasing pleasure in committing. Her voice sounded mature and smooth too, and the assurance of her performances gave her records longer life than the fizzier offerings of such rivals as Lulu and Cilla Black.

Dusty Springfield was among the first British singers to champion the sound of black America, Motown. She was much influenced by that label's girl groups, and in turn her rich voice surprised them. The singer Mary Wells believed Dusty Springfield must be black before seeing her on television, while Cliff Richard dubbed her "The White Negress".

When Motown's stars came to London to host an edition of the pop programme Ready, Steady, Go, they invited only one British guest - Dusty Springfield.

She was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in Hampstead, north London, on April 16 1939. Her father was a tax inspector and she was educated at a convent school in Ealing.

On leaving school, she worked as a shop girl before joining a cabaret act, The Lana Sisters, but with her brother soon formed a group, The Springfields. By the early 1960s, the group's folksy sound had made them one of the music scene's most popular acts, and they had even scored a rare British success in America with Silver Threads and Golden Needles.

But in 1963, with folk overtaken by the more raucous Merseybeat sound, Dusty Springfield went solo; her brother went on to write songs for The Seekers, including Georgy Girl and The Carnival is Over.

Her first release was the sprightly I Only Want To Be With You, and the single's success was assured when it was the first song to be performed on a new television programme, Top of the Pops.

The song was also a hit in America and, with the Beatles, Dusty Springfield began the "British invasion". A cover version of the same song, by The Tourists, later launched the career of Annie Lennox.

Between 1963 and 1967, Dusty Springfield had a string of hits that included I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself and I Close my Eyes and Count to Ten. Her success culminated in 1966 with her only Number One, You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, originally an Italian song to which her manager put English lyrics in 20 minutes.

By now she was almost as celebrated for her image as for her music. Her hair was a blonde and beribboned beehive, while her eyes would have won the heart of any lemur. She had taken the look from a French model she had seen in Vogue, constructing it by applying eye-liner in layers for four or five days.

At night her eyelids were powdered to prevent the make-up smearing. But though distinctive, her image was essentially something to hide behind; for all her success, she had little self-confidence.

This was not at first apparent, partly because she could stand up for her beliefs. When, in 1964, she toured South Africa, she insisted on playing to unsegregated audiences. This contravened apartheid laws, and after she had defied the authorities to perform in a black area of Cape Town she was immediately deported.

Two years later, she was booked to play a New York club and asked the jazz drummer Buddy Rich, who was also appearing, if she could rehearse with his band. Rich resented not being top of the bill himself and replied in chauvinist and intemperate language. Dusty Springfield punched him in the mouth. As she was leaving the club that night, Rich's band gave her a present - a pair of boxing gloves.

But her star was declining. Although she had had some success with a song from the soundtrack of the Bond film Casino Royale - "The Look of Love", perhaps her definitive vocal performance - her two most recent albums had flopped. She seemed out of step with the mood of popular music as it edged towards rock, psychedelia and more overt rebellion.

In 1968 she fled London for Memphis. She had long been fascinated by America - she was a considerable expert on the Civil War - and in Tennessee recorded her finest album, Dusty in Memphis (1968). It was supervised by Jerry Wexler - Ray Charles's and Aretha Franklin's producer - who gave her voice more room to breathe, unlike the British producers who had tended to bury it beneath over-elaborate arrangements.

This new sound, however, did not sell well. Although a single, the sassy Son of A Preacher Man, did reach the Top 10 in Britain, it was to be her last hit for 20 years. She had success in America with The Windmills of Your Mind, the theme to The Thomas Crown Affair (1969), but for Britain it was re-recorded by Rex Harrison's son, Noel. Her career had run aground, and with it her self-confidence. Dusty Springfield spent the next two decades in America.

She could not later recall much of that time. She had taken refuge in alcohol since a member of the Temptations had quelled her stage fright with 88 per cent proof vodka, and drink now dominated her life. She also succumbed to drugs, became fat and attempted suicide.

A comeback tour of Britain in the mid-Seventies had to be cancelled because of poor ticket sales, and when journalists did show interest in her, it was mainly in her sexuality.

Her much-publicised remark in 1970 that she was "as capable of being swayed by a woman as by a man" kept the newspapers busy, as did her friendship with Billie Jean King and her following of the women's tennis circuit.

Dusty Springfield attempted several more comebacks in the 1980s, among them a disco-influenced album made in Toronto, White Heat (1982), and a quickly dissolved musical partnership with the nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow.

She was rescued by Neil Tennant, singer with The Pet Shop Boys, who had long admired her voice. With the group she recorded What Have I Done To Deserve This (1987) and Nothing Has Been Proved, the theme to Scandal (1988), the film of the Profumo affair. Both songs were hits, as was In Private and the subsequent album, Reputations (1990).

With some of her insecurities conquered, she moved back to Britain, living in Buckinghamshire with her cats; in 1991 she won pounds 75,000 after the comedian Bobby Davro implied in a sketch that she was a drunk, which she was not.

A new generation discovered her music when Son of a Preacher Man featured in the film Pulp Fiction (1994). Then shortly afterwards she began her fight against breast cancer.

Published March 4 1999

Dusty Springfield (1939–1999)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819778/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Soundtrack (151 credits)

2019 9-1-1 (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Monsters (2019) ... (performer: "Spooky" - uncredited)
2019 The Deuce (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- They Can Never Go Home (2019) ... (performer: "No Easy Way Down", "I Can't Make It Alone")
2019 The Sara Cox Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.34 (2019) ... (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man" - uncredited)
2019 Aikuiset (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Minäminäminä (2019) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
- Kokkola (2019) ... (performer: "All Cried Out")
2019 Call the Midwife (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #8.5 (2019) ... (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'" - uncredited)
2018 First Timers (Short) (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin", "Spooky")
2018 Informer (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- November Has Come (2018) ... (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me")
2018 Castle Rock (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Romans (2018) ... (performer: "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa")
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp (performer: "Spooky")
2018 Set It Up (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You")
2018 The Bromley Boys (performer: "I Only Want To Be With You", "Middle Of Nowhere")
2018 Alex Strangelove (performer: "No Easy Way Down")
2018 Der Lehrer (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Okay, jetzt muss er weg! (2018) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be With You" - uncredited)
2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Showstoppers at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
2017 Nigella: At My Table (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3 (2017) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be With You" - uncredited)
2017/I The Babysitter (performer: "Spooky")
2017/II Til Death Do Us Part (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man")
2017 Ray Donovan (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Las Vegas (2017) ... (performer: "I Only Want To Be With You" - uncredited)
2017 Good Morning Britain (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 11 August 2017 (2017) ... (performer: "I Only Wanna Be with You" - uncredited)
2000-2017 EastEnders (TV Series) (performer - 7 episodes)
- Episode dated 27 April 2017 (2017) ... (performer: "I Only Want To Be With You")
- Episode dated 16 July 2012 (2012) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited)
- Episode dated 2 June 2006 (2006) ... (performer: "I Only Want To Be With You" - uncredited)
- Episode dated 29 August 2005 (2005) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited)
- Episode dated 26 April 2001 (2001) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited)
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2016 The Grand Tour (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Morroccan Roll (2016) ... (performer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind" - uncredited)
2016 Falling Water (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Swirl (2016) ... (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man" - uncredited)
2016 Crazyhead (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- A Very Trippy Horse (2016) ... (performer: "Spooky")
2012-2016 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built (2016) ... (performer: "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" - uncredited)
- The British Army of the Rhine (2012) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be With You", "Auf dich nur wart' ich immerzu" (German version of "I Only Want to Be With You"), "Warten und Hoffen" (German version of 'Wishin' and Jopin' ') - uncredited)
2016 Mafia III (Video Game) (performer: "Son Of A Preacher Man" - uncredited)
2016 Luke Cage (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Now You're Mine (2016) ... (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man")
2016 Mr. Robot (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd (2016) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - uncredited)
2016 Vinyl (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Rock and Roll Queen (2016) ... (performer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind")
- Pilot (2016) ... (performer: "I Only Want To Be With You")
2016 The Brontes at the BBC (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "You Don't Own Me" - uncredited)
1991-2016 Coronation Street (TV Series) (performer - 5 episodes)
- Episode #1.8855 (2016) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited)
- Episode #1.8854 (2016) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited)
- Episode #1.8689 (2015) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited)
- Episode #1.3577 (1993) ... (performer: "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself")
- Episode #1.3325 (1991) ... (performer: "I Only Want to be With You")
2015 The Adulterer (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Net als vroeger (2015) ... (performer: "I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten")
2015 Masters of Sex (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Surrogates (2015) ... (performer: "The Look of Love" - uncredited)
2015 45 Years (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You")
2014 Love & Mercy (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
2014 Godzilla (performer: "Breakfast in Bed")
2014 One Hit Wonderland (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Float On (2014) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
2013 Misfits (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #5.6 (2013) ... (performer: "Give Me Time" - uncredited)
2013 InRealLife (Documentary) (performer: "Wishin' And Hopin'")
2012 American Horror Story (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Tricks and Treats (2012) ... (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'" - uncredited)
2012 Frank-Étienne Towards Grace (Short) (performer: "Spooky")
2012 Day of the Flowers (performer: "Summer Is Over")
2012 Mad Men (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- A Little Kiss, Part 2 (2012) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - uncredited)
2012 Beatrix, Oranje onder Vuur (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- De Prijs (2012) ... (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man" - uncredited)
2011 Luther (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.1 (2011) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You")
2008-2011 Doctor Who (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- The Rebel Flesh (2011) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
- Partners in Crime (2008) ... (performer: "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" - uncredited)
2011 Hall Pass (performer: "Hits from the Bong")
2010 Toast (TV Movie) (performer: "He's Got Something", "If you go Away" (Ne me Quitte pas), "The Look Of Love", "Little By Little", "I'll Try Anything To Get You", "Yesterday when I was Young" (Hier Encore))
2010 Dancing on Ice (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #5.24 (2010) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - uncredited)
- Episode #5.14 (2010) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
2010 Heartbreaker (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man")

2009 Karaoke Revolution (Video Game) (performer: "What Have I Done To Deserve This")
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'")
2009 Waking the Dead (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Magdalene 26: Part 2 (2009) ... (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me")
- Magdalene 26: Part 1 (2009) ... (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me")
2009 Pirate Radio (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1965))
2009 Queens of British Pop (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1 (2009) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (uncredited), "I Only Want to Be with You" (uncredited), "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" (uncredited), "Baby Baby Baby (I Wanna Be Your Man)" (uncredited), "Wishin' & Hopin'", "If you go Away" (Ne me Quitte pas), "Son of a Preacher Man" (uncredited), "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" (uncredited))
2009 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (performer: "I'll Love You For A While")
2008 Life on Mars (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi (2008) ... (performer: "Just A Little Lovin'" - uncredited)
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (performer: "Spooky")
2008 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Io Che Non Vivo Senza Te)")
2008 Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.4 (2008) ... (performer: "Son of a Preacherman" - uncredited)
2007 Samantha Who? (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Virgin (2007) ... (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'" - uncredited)
2007 The Brave One (performer: "Hits from the Bong")
2007 Druckfrisch (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #5.2 (2007) ... (performer: "The Windmills of your mind")
2007 Inspector Lewis (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Old School Ties (2007) ... (performer: "If you go Away" (Ne me Quitte pas))
2007 Life on Mars (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.1 (2007) ... (performer: "Spooky")
2007 Norbit (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You")
2006 Las Vegas (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- History of Violins (2006) ... (performer: "The Look Of Love" - uncredited)
- The Story of Owe (2006) ... (performer: "The Look of Love")
2006 20 to 1 (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- World's Best Love Songs (2006) ... (performer: "The Look Of Love")
2006 Dancing with the Stars (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Round 8: Halloween Week (2006) ... ("Spooky")
- Round 1 (2006) ... ("Son of a Preacher Man")
2006 Star Stories (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Sadie Frost: My Side of the Story (2006) ... (performer: "The Look of Love" - uncredited)
2006 Infamous (performer: "Yesterday when I was Young" (Hier Encore))
2006 Viva Blackpool (TV Movie) (performer: "I Only Want to Be With You")
2006 Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", "Nothing Has Been Proved")
2006 The Gigolos (performer: "The Windmills of Your Mind")
2006 New Tricks (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Lady's Pleasure (2006) ... (performer: "Walk on By" - uncredited)
2006 SingStar Rocks! (Video Game) (performer: "Son Of A Preacher Man")
2006 Malcolm in the Middle (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Mono (2006) ... (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'")
2005 ShakespeaRe-Told (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Much Ado About Nothing (2005) ... (performer: "The Look of Love")
2005 Imagine Me & You (performer: "The Look of Love")
2005 Shopgirl (performer: "I Only Want to Be With You" (1964))
2005 Romance & Cigarettes (performer: "Piece of My Heart")
2005 Breakfast on Pluto (performer: "The Windmills of Your Mind" (1968))
2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Documentary) (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man")
2005 Medium (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- I Married a Mind Reader (2005) ... (performer: "The Look of Love")
2005 Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) ... (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man")
2004 Rory O'Shea Was Here (performer: "Look of Love")
2004 School for Seduction (performer: "The Look of Love")
2004 Blue Murder (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Lonely (2004) ... (performer: "The Look of Love")
2004 A Home at the End of the World (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'")
2004 Will & Grace (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Flip-Flop: Part 2 (2004) ... (performer: "House is Not A Home" - uncredited)
2003 Miss Match (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Who's Your Daddy? (2003) ... (performer: "The Look Of Love")
2003 In the Cut (performer: "The Look of Love")
2003 Interview (performer: "See All Her Faces")
2002 Catch Me If You Can (performer: "The Look of Love")
2002 Two Weeks Notice (performer: "The Look of Love")
2002 Crossing Jordan (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Scared Straight (2002) ... (performer: "The Look Of Love" - uncredited)
2002 S.P.U.N.G (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Vi kan väl bara kramas lite (2002) ... (performer: "I'm In Love With This Girl")
2002 Teachers (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.7 (2002) ... (performer: "The Look of Love" - uncredited)
2001 Känd från TV (performer: "I Only Want To Be with You")
2001/III Rain (performer: "Spooky")
2000 The Wedding Tackle (performer: "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten", "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
2000 Family Ties (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1 (2000) ... (performer: "The Look of Love" - uncredited)
2000 Frequency (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man")
2000 Enchanted Interlude (performer: "Spooky")
2000/I Gossip (performer: "The Look of Love")

1999 Fanny and Elvis (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me")
1999 Mad Cows (performer: "Bring Him Back")
1999 Strange Planet (performer: "The Look of Love")
1999 Wonderland (performer: "I Close My Eyes and I Count to Ten")
1999 A Walk on the Moon (performer: "Wishin' & Hopin'" (1963))
1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (performer: "Spooky")
1998 The Parent Trap (performer: "Am I The Same Girl")
1998 The Very Thought of You (performer: "I only want to be with you")
1998 Daria (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- I Don't (1998) ... (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'" - uncredited)
1996 The Associate (performer: "The Look of Love")
1996 Sleepers (performer: "Little By Little")
1996 3rd Rock from the Sun (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Post-Nasal Dick (1996) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - uncredited)
1995 Cracker (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- True Romance: Part 1 (1995) ... (performer: "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten")
1995 While You Were Sleeping (performer: "Wherever I Would Be")
1994 Priest (performer: "Anyone Who Had a Heart")
1994 Pulp Fiction (performer: "Son Of A Preacher Man")
1994 Deadly Advice (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You")
1994 No Escape (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man")
1991 Only Fools and Horses (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Three Men, a Woman, and a Baby (1991) ... (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" - uncredited)

1989 Getting It Right (performer: "Getting It Right")
1966-1989 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 4 episodes)
- Episode dated 9 March 1989 (1989) ... (performer: "Nothing Has Been Proved")
- Episode dated 19 April 1979 (1979) ... (performer: "I'm Coming Home Again")
- Episode #15.6 (1978) ... (performer: "A Love Like Yours")
- Episode #3.27 (1966) ... (performer: "Goin' Back" - uncredited)
1989 Scandal ("Nothing Has Been Proved")
1988 Buster (performer: "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself")
1987 Pet Shop Boys: What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Video short) (performer: "What Have I Done to Deserve This?")
1987 Tin Men (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin'")
1985 Wogan (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 9 August 1985 (1985) ... (performer: "Sometimes Like Butterflies" - uncredited)
1983 Baby It's You (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me")
1982 Kiss Me Goodbye (performer: "But It's A Nice Dream")
1981 Love & Money (performer: "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore")
1981 De Mike Burstyn show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #3.5 (1981) ... (performer: "Midnight", "Quiet please there's a lady on the stage", "You don't have to say you love me")
1980 The Stunt Man (performer: "Bits & Pieces")
1980 The Kenny Everett Video Cassette (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #3.4 (1980) ... (performer: "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees")

1978 Corvette Summer (performer: "Give Me the Night" - uncredited)
1976 Angels (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Concert (1976) ... (performer: "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" - uncredited)
1973 The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (TV Movie) (performer: "Six Million Dollar Man")
1973 The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (TV Movie) (performer: "Six Million Dollar Man")
1972 Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (TV Movie) (performer: "Learn to Say Goodbye")
1972 Fat City (performer: "The Look of Love")
1970 The Johnny Cash Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.18 (1970) ... (performer: "Understand Your Man", "Sugar Time")

1969 Pop Go the Sixties! (TV Movie) (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me")
1969 Music Scene (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.8 (1969) ... (performer: "A Brand New Me", "The Look of Love")
1968 The Sweet Ride (performer: "Sweet Ride")
1967 Bandstand (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 21 October 1967 (1967) ... (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me", "I Only Want To Be With You", "All I See Is You", "Little By Little", "Anything You Can Do", "My Coloring Book", "24 Hours From Tulsa", "Stay Awhile", "Manhã de Carnaval (Morning Of Carnival)", "Wishin' And Hopin'", "Middle Of Nowhere", "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", "What's It Gonna Be")
1967 Casino Royale (performer: "The Look of Love")
1967 The Corrupt Ones (performer: "The Corrupt Ones")
1966 Thank Your Lucky Stars (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #9.26 (1966) ... (performer: "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (Io Che No Vivo Senza Te)")
1965 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #18.31 (1965) ... (performer: "I Only Want to be with You")

Actress (10 credits)

1995 Dusty Springfield: Roll Away (Video short) - Dusty Springfield
1995 Dusty Springfield & Daryl Hall: Wherever Would I Be? (Video short) - Dusty Springfield
1990 Dusty Springfield: Arrested by You (Video short) - Dusty Springfield
1990 Dusty Springfield: I Want to Stay Here (Video short) - Dusty Springfield (singing voice)
1990 Dusty Springfield: Reputation (Video short) - Dusty Springfield
1989 Dusty Springfield: In Private (Video short) - Dusty Springfield
1989 Dusty Springfield: Nothing Has Been Proved (Video short) - Dusty Springfield
1987 Richard Carpenter & Dusty Springfield: Something in Your Eyes (Video short)
Dusty Springfield
1987 Pet Shop Boys: What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Video short) - Dusty Springfield
1964-1965 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode #18.31 (1965) ... Singer
- Episode #17.31 (1964) ... Singer

2011: The Daily Telegraph prints the Jeremy Duns piece "Casino Royale: discovering the lost script".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/8345119/Casino-Royale-discovering-the-lost-script.html

2012: BOND 23 prepares second unit filming of the pre-title action in Turkey.

2020: Britain's Royal Mint reveals a seven-kilogram gold coin celebrating the new James Bond film.

All that glitters: Britain unveils new seven-
kilo, £7,000 gold coin to celebrate 'No Time
To Die'

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/all-that-glitters-britain-unveils-new-seven-kilo-7000-gold-coin-to-celebrate-no-time-to-die/articleshow/74451129.cms
The coin is engraved with an image of Bond's favourite car - an Aston Martin DB5 - and its
famous BMT 216A number plate.
AFP|
Last Updated: Mar 03, 2020, 12.11 PM IST

At 185 millimetres in diameter, it is the largest coin ever made by the Royal Mint, Britain's official coin-maker.

LONDON: Britain's Royal Mint on Monday unveiled a seven-kilogram gold coin with the highest face value in its 1,100-year history in honour of the latest James Bond film.

The one-of-a-kind new coin celebrating the release next month of the 25th movie in the legendary franchise, No Time To Die, has a face value of £7,000 ($9,000, 8,000 euros).

At 185 millimetres in diameter, it is also the largest coin ever made by the Royal Mint, Britain's official coin-maker.

The piece is engraved with an image of the fictional British spy's favourite car - an Aston Martin DB5 - and its famous BMT 216A number plate surrounded by a gun barrel.

The mint did not release the price tag for the seven-kilo gold piece, but the recommended retail price of the two-kilo coin is an eye-watering £129,990.

It is part of a collection of several coins and metal bars launched to mark the release of No Time To Die, which premieres in London later this month.

The ensemble includes gold coins weighing two kilograms, one kilogram and five ounces - with face values ranging from £10 to £2,000 - as well as a number of silver and other coins.

The mint did not release the price tag for the seven-kilo gold piece, but the recommended retail price of the two-kilo coin is an eye-watering £129,990.

Meanwhile the metal bars, which will be available in gold and silver, are set to have all of the 25 official James Bond film titles engraved on them.

"The design series focuses on iconic imagery from the Bond films," designers Christian Davies and Matt Dent said in a statement.

"Finding the balance between design detail and what can be accomplished in production was a challenge, nowhere more so than the intricate spokes of the DB5's wheel," they added.

The latest installment of the British spy saga, due to start hitting cinemas around the world in early April, sees Bond drawn out of retirement in Jamaica by his old friend and CIA agent Felix Leiter.

It is expected to be actor Daniel Craig's last outing as 007, after starring in four previous films.

Thunderfinger

James Bond Jr must be the same character that Woody Allen played in Casino Royale. I wonder how he got involved with SMERSH.

RichardTheBruce

March 3rd

1942: William Cartlidge is born--England.
(He dies at age 78--Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, England.)

William P. Cartlidge

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Cartlidge

William P. Cartlidge (June 16, 1942 – March 3, 2021) was an English film and television producer.

Life and career
William P. Cartlidge was born on June 16, 1942.

Cartlidge worked on three James Bond films, each of which was directed by Lewis Gilbert. He was the first assistant director for the 1967 film You Only Live Twice, the associate producer for the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, and the associate producer for the 1979 film Moonraker.

In 2002, Cartlidge was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries at the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as the producer of Dinotopia.

Cartlidge died on March 3, 2021. He was 78 years old.

Filmography
1960s
The Young Ones (1962), second assistant director
The Punch and Judy Man (1963), second assistant director
Summer Holiday (1963), second assistant director
Girl in the Headlines (1963), assistant director
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), assistant director
Strictly for the Birds (1964), assistant director
Success Machine (1965), assistant director
Wild Goose Chase (1965), assistant director
Struggle for a Mind (1965), assistant director
Dual Control (1965), producer
Alfie (1966)
The Reptile (1966), assistant director
Born Free (1966), assistant director
The Double Man (1967), assistant director
You Only Live Twice (1967), assistant director
Duffy (1968), production manager

1970s
The Adventurers (1970), assistant director
Fragment of Fear (1970), assistant director
The Last Valley (1971), assistant director
Friends (1971), assistant director
Nearest and Dearest (1972), assistant director
Young Winston (1972), assistant director
Phase IV (1974), assistant director
That's Your Funeral (1974), assistant director
Paul and Michelle (1974), associate producer
Seven Nights in Japan (1976), associate producer
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), associate producer
Moonraker (1979), associate producer

1980s
Educating Rita (1983), co-producer
Not Quite Jerusalem (1984), co-producer
Consuming Passions (1988), producer
Dealers (1989), producer

1990s
The Playboys (1992), producer
Haunted (1995), co-producer
Incognito (1997), co-producer
The Scarlet Tunic (1997), executive producer

2000s
Dinotopia Part 1 (2002), producer
Dinotopia Part 2 (2002), producer
Dinotopia Part 3 (2002), producer

2010s
Everything or Nothing 007 (2012), cast member

William P. Cartlidge (1942–2021)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Producer | Director
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142081/

1949: Gloria Hendry is born--Winter Haven, Florida.

1963: Ian Fleming writes editor Michael Howard with a brilliant notion.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 15 - Name in Lights.

…On March he wrote to Michael
Howard with a “brilliant notion”. As he explained, he was surrounded at
Goldeneye by all sorts of reference books—about birds, fish, shells and
stars. But he had nothing to satisfy frequent requests from his guests for
information about the properties of ganga or marijuana. So Ian suggested
an expensive well-illustrated book about the “narcotic flora of the world”.
Although Cape showed little interest, Ian asked one of his regular
researchers to write to the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
and the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew for further information.

Cape was more exercised in exploiting Ian’s proven worth as a fiction
writer. By the time You Only Live Twice was published in mid-March, it had
62,000 advance orders, a 50 per cent increase on On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service the previous year and a record for the publisher. Called up to
Represent the “apparatus” in reviewing the book for the Sunday Times,
Cyril Connolly was surprisingly severe in his criticism that Bond’s advent-
tures were becoming far-fetched and called for him to return to “espionage
as an exact science”.

On reaching Sevenhampton, Ian was determined to be resolute. Taking
his cue from the epitaph recorded in Bond’s obituary in You Only Live
Twice—”I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use
my time”—he told Ann that he intended to settle down and involve
himself in the local community. Since her relative by marriage, Charles
Morrison, was standing as a Conservative in a by-election in his Devizes
constituency, Ian agree to put his name to an election address entitles
‘To Westminster With Love’. Actually penned by Ann’s niece, Sara, who
was married to Morrison, and was polished up by Ian, a member of the local
party, the notice spoke of the candidate’s licence to kill despondency in
the political world. While Ann canvassed energetically on Morrison’s
behalf, Ian’s only other contribution to the cause was to invite the secretary
of a Swindon boys’ club to Sevenhampton where he offered him £60 a year
and promised to come and talk to his charges. But nothing materialized, for
Ian now was steadily losing hope, as the iron crab tightened its hold on
his heart and his psyche. As he himself poignantly jotted in his notebook,
”I’ve always had one foot not wanting to leave the cradle, and the other
in a hurry to get to the grave. It makes a rather painful splits of one’s life.”

2005: Puffin publishes Charlie Higson's first novel in the Young Bond series--SilverFin--in the UK.

2006: Casino Royale films OO7 seducing Solange.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 Vargr comic, in print and digital.

JAMES BOND #5

https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181805011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: March 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
UPC: 725130241818 05011
ON SALE DATE: March 2

Bond is locked in a death trap in a medical lab in the middle of Berlin, London is going into meltdown as poisoned drugs are turning homes into abattoirs, and the only way to save Britain is the secret of someone or something called... VARGR. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the first James Bond comic book series in over 20 years! "Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." - Warren Ellis

2020: Concerns arise for the coronavirus as related to the release of No Time To Die.

Bond fans ask for No Time to Die delay
due to coronavirus

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51720354
3 March 2020


The founders of two of the most popular James Bond fan sites are asking the studios behind the next Bond film to delay its release due to coronavirus.

No Time to Die is due for release on 3 April but fans have asked for it to be held back to the summer "when experts expect the epidemic to have peaked".

The open letter is from the founders of MI6 Confidential and The James Bond Dossier, James Page and David Leigh.

"It is time to put public health above marketing release schedules."

The letter, titled No Time for Indecision, continued: "With a month to go before No Time to Die opens worldwide, community spread of the virus is likely to be peaking in the United States.

"There is a significant chance that cinemas will be closed, or their attendance severely reduced, by early April. Even if there are no legal restrictions on cinemas being open, to quote M in Skyfall, 'How safe do you feel?'"

Their request came as Disney cancelled plans for a red carpet gala to launch its streaming service, Disney+, in the UK.

The event, which was due to take place on Thursday 5 March, was called off "due to a number of media attendee cancellations and increasing concerns at the prospect of travelling internationally," the company explained.

Acknowledging that the decision had been made out of an "abundance of caution", it said alternative plans, including webcasts, would be put in place for interviews with actors and Disney executives.

No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond

A similar level of caution prompted Page and Leigh's open letter to the Bond producers.

They cited particular concern over the UK premiere set for 31 March, suggesting that with numbers gathering at London's Royal Albert Hall expected to top 5,000, "just one person, who may not even show symptoms, could infect the rest of the audience".

"This is not the type of publicity that anyone wants."

The pair wrote that delaying the release until the summer wouldn't be a huge hardship for the companies involved.

"It's just a movie. The health and wellbeing of fans around the world, and their families, is more important. We have all waited over four years for this film. Another few months will not damage the quality of the film and only help the box office for Daniel Craig's final hurrah."

The letter was addressed to producers EON, and the film companies MGM and Universal. The BBC has approached the various parties for comment.

Some film analysts have suggested the coronavirus could wipe $5bn off the global box office, with many of China's cinemas already closed and revenues hit in South Korea and Italy.

Meanwhile, there is concern over the viability of the 10-day South by Southwest (SXSW) festival that usually attracts more than 70,000 attendees to Austin, Texas.

Deadline reported that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has cancelled his plans to appear, due to a company-wide curb on travel prompted by the virus.

Organisers said in a statement on the festival website: "SXSW is working closely on a daily basis with local, state, and federal agencies to plan for a safe event".

The event includes music performances, film screenings and events and comedy.

RichardTheBruce

March 4th

2008: Quantum of Solace films Camille going after General Medrano.

2015: A statement issued by MGM and the Broccolis declares a James Bond musical is not being pursued--contradicting Merry Saltzman, daughter of Harry.
2019: Announced date for Cary Joji Fukunaga to begin filming BOND 25 at Pinewood Studios.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Volume 3 #4.
Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers. Eric Gapstur, artist. Limited Virgin cover by Afua Richardson.

JAMES BOND VOL. 3 #4 - AFUA
RICHARDSON LIMITED VIRGIN
COVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028697004011
Cover A: Afua Richardson "Virgin" Cover
UPC: 725130286970 04051
Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Eric Gapstur
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: March 2020
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/4/2020

In James Bond #4, Ian Fleming's classic gentleman spy is on a new adventure by writers Vita Ayala and Danny Lore, and it features a gorgeous cover from Afua Richardson! Get this Limited, "Virgin" version of Richardson's cover for your Bond collection!

2020: No Time To Die official announcements move the release date from April to November 2020.
[Later moved to April 2021. Later moved to September 2021.]

RichardTheBruce

March 5th

1962: Films the first scene with OO7 and the "Bond--James Bond” line.
1962: Simon Abkarian is born--Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France.
1966: BOAC Boeing 707 Flight 911 from Tokyo crashes into Mount Fuji 25 minutes after takeoff. No survivors.

Broccoli, Saltzman, Ken Adam, Freddie Young, and director Lewis Gilbert were scheduled for the flight, but canceled when an opportunity to watch ninja demonstrations arose.

1966: Passenger jet crashes into Mount Fuji

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/5/newsid_2515000/2515321.stm
A Boeing 707 has crashed into Mount Fuji in Japan killing all 124 people on board

Eyewitnesses said they saw pieces of the
aircraft coming away before it crashed

The BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) plane plunged into the wooded slopes of the dormant volcano, 25 minutes after taking off from Tokyo International Airport.

This was the third American-built aircraft to crash in the area in about a month. Early in February, a Japanese Boeing 727 crashed in Tokyo bay, with the loss of 133 lives. And less than 24 hours ago a DC-8 of Canadian Pacific Airlines crashed on landing at Tokyo killing all 64 people on board.

Witnesses who saw today's crash reported seeing pieces break off the Boeing in the air.

One said: "The aircraft was flying as high as Mount Fuji and I could see smoke at its tail. I heard a bang and afterwards the tail and the main fuselage broke apart and the aircraft began spinning down. Just before impact the nose and the fuselage parted."

Air currents
Two British teams of investigators are being sent to Japan to investigate the crash. An official from the United States Civil Aeronautics Board will also travel to Tokyo.

The plane had been grounded the night before the crash at Fukuoka in the south of Japan because of bad weather in the Tokyo area. It had flown on to the Japanese capital in the morning.

The crash occurred en route to its next stop, Hong Kong.

Captain Bernard Dobson, 45, from Poole in Dorset, was in command of the airliner. He has been described as a very experienced 707 pilot and had been flying these aircraft since November 1960.

Violent air currents can be experienced near Mount Fuji, which is the highest mountain in Japan.

Of the victims identified so far, 37 were American, two British, two Chinese, one Canadian, one New Zealander and 13 Japanese.

In Context
The investigation into the crash found the aircraft was trailing white vapour as it left Tokyo, then suddenly began losing altitude and parts of the aircraft began to break away.

Finally over Tarobo at an altitude of approximately 2000m, the fuselage came apart.

It is thought the pilot may have been trying to give his passengers a good view of Mount Fuji when he suddenly encountered abnormally severe turbulence, which caused the aircraft to break up.

1982: La espía que me amó (Catalan: L'espia que em va estimar, The Spy That Loved Me) re-released in Spain.

1990: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (later Spymaker: ...) starring Jason Connery airs on TNT.

Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990 TV Movie)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100567/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

This movie follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming (Jason Connery), the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies. As a womanizer and a hopeless romantic, Fleming got himself expelled from Eton and other prestigious public schools before his mother, fed up, sent him to work for Reuters, the news bureau. While covering a show-trial of British engineers in Soviet Moscow, Fleming pulled his first Bond-like escapade, almost losing his life in the process. This caught the interest of Britain's dormant yet watchful military intelligence, later to become the highly acclaimed Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.). After Fleming's recruitment into His Majesty's Service, his exploits become increasingly fantastic. It is difficult to believe that this is not fiction. This movie goes to prove, once again, that truth is stranger than fiction.
—Ras Jarborg <[email protected]>

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Robert J. Avrech

Cast

(in credits order)
Jason Connery ... Ian Fleming
Kristin Scott Thomas ... Leda St Gabriel
Joss Ackland ... Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
Patricia Hodge ... Lady Evelyn
David Warner ... Adm. Godfrey
Colin Welland ... Reuters Editor
Fiona Fullerton ... Lady Caroline
Richard Johnson ... Gen. Halmsden
Julian Firth ... Quincy
Marsha Fitzalan ... Miss Delaney
Arkie Whiteley ... Gallina
Tara MacGowran ... Daphne (as Tara McGowran)
Ingrid Held ... Countess De Turbinville
Geoffrey Chater ... Lawyer
Edita Brychta ... Maya
Christopher Benjamin ... McKinnon
Nina Marc ... Anna Skolowmoska
Cathy Underwood ... Christie
Clive Mantle ... Marine Sergeant Ellis
Victor Baring ... Judge Ulrich
Julia Verdin ... Colette (as Octavia Verdin)
Robert Longden ... Professor Whitman
Bill Wallis ... Professor Phipps
Sarah Harper ... Mlle. Carole
Nicholas Frankau ... Arthur
David Quilter ... Chute
Richard Clifford ... Roberts
Roger Davidson ... Editor
Raymond Llewellyn ... Hodge (as Ray Llewellyn)
Kate Humble ... The Red-Head (as Lauren Heston)
Sylvia Rotter ... Teletype Operator
Harriet Reynolds ... Teletype Operator
Arturo Venegas ... Lisbon Barman
Pamela Hunter ... Whore
Isabel Dinning ... Whore
Hugo Bower ... S.S. Major
Horst Jantschek ... German Guard
Leo Fenn ... Young Ian

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrée Bernard ... Charlotte (uncredited)

1998: Coronet Books publishes Raymond Benson's novel Zero Minus Ten in paperback in the UK.

2002: BOND 20 films Gustav Graves directing the fury of Icarus at OO7.

2011: Daniel Craig appears in a film short celebrating International Women's Day.

James Bond Supports
International Women's
Day (2011)

2min | Short | 5 March 2011 (UK)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1858469/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

This short film is made by 'We Are Equals' to celebrate International Women's Day. James Bond video for international women's day shows 007's feminine side. Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench team up for two-minute film highlighting the need for gender equality. 007 star Daniel Craig undergo a dramatic makeover as he puts himself, quite literally, in a woman's shoes.

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson ... (as Sam Taylor-Wood)
Writing Credits Jane Goldman

Cast (in credits order)
Judi Dench ... M / Narrator (voice)
Daniel Craig ... Self / 007 / James Bond
Produced by
Barbara Broccoli ... producer
John West ... line producer

2020: Swatch releases the original James Bond Swatch Q watch, designed by Suttirat Anne Larlarb. It's to appear in the film No Time To Die as worn by Q himself. Stocks quickly sell out.

RichardTheBruce

March 6th

1920: Lewis Gilbert is born--London, England. (He dies 23 February 2018 at age 97--Monaco.)

Lewis Gilbert obituary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lewis Gilbert (II) (1920–2018)

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

Filmography

Director (42 credits)

2002 Before You Go

1995 Haunted
1991 Stepping Out

1989 Shirley Valentine
1985 Not Quite Paradise
1983 Educating Rita

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

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

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

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

Writer (17 credits)

1995 Haunted

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

1962 Emergency (story - uncredited)

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

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

Producer (13 credits)

1995 Haunted (producer)
1991 Stepping Out (producer)

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

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

1966 Alfie (producer)
1960 Skywatch (producer)

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

Actor (8 credits)

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

1940 Room for Two (uncredited)

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

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1949 Marry Me ("Music in September")

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

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

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1963: Variety reports on Sean Connery beginning a two-week promotion of Dr. No in the US.

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

Obituaries

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

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

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

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

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

A Model for Novels

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

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

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

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

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

He Knew the Far East

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversation With Richard Hughes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Hughes, Ian Fleming in Japan

1979: Moonraker films space station exteriors.

1988: During Operation Flavius, British SAS kill three members of the Irish Republican Army in Gibraltar.

https://gosint.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/this-day-in-history-march-6-1988-operation-flavius/

1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Thailand.

2020: GQ proposes the best dressed Bond actors.

From Craig to Connery: the best-
dressed James Bond actors in 007
history

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/james-bond-actors

By Zak Maoui | 6 March 2020

GQ charts the evolution of 007's style through the actors to play James Bond

When it comes to well-dressed on-screen characters, we have our favourites: Valentino-clad Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, Steve McQueen’s Thomas Crown for his stellar Gianni Campagna three-piece suits and Marcelo Rubini for dressing like he’s just walked off a Celine catwalk.

And then there’s James Bond, who doesn’t just dress to kill, but slays. While you may think of 007 for impeccably cut suits and flashy timepieces, there's a lot more to his wardrobe. Over the years the costume department has really pulled its weight and with each new Bond (there have been seven portrayals spanning 25 films), we've been given more depth to the secret agent's wardrobe.

We've carefully surveyed each and every portrayal, from Daniel Craig to Timothy Dalton (with the exception of David Niven), to deliver Bond's finest style moments we've seen on the big screen.

Sean Connery
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Sean Connery graced our screens for the first time as Sir Ian Fleming's 007 in 1962. Marrying sartorial flare with certain arrogance, Connery's Bond is best known for his power dressing. At 6ft 2in Connery is one of the tallest actors to play 007 and with his added height, he's arguably been one of the only ones to successfully pull off a three-piece suit. Dressing for his build and knowing the rules of menswear, he wore a waistcoat under his Glen plaid, melange grey suit, which added volume to his waist, without looking stocky or overstuffed.

But while most famous for that grey Anthony Sinclair suit (or, at least, equally as famous as for that polarising terrycloth playsuit he wore in Goldfinger) Connery's wardrobe went further than just tailoring. By 1965 Connery was on to his fourth Bond, Thunderball, and the costume department had a bit of fun. Enter the Wham!-meets-The Beatles vacation look that Connery sported on location in Bahamas. Consisting of a bubblegum-pink camp-collared bowling shirt and super-short shorts that rival those of GQ Fashion Director Luke Day, Connery's beach-ready look was (and still is) a lesson in holiday style.

George Lazenby
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service was released in 1969 and we were introduced to a new Bond. George Lazenby split opinion and has been described by the Guardian film critic Derek Malcolm as “not a good actor”. But acting aside, Lazenby's Bond had a wardrobe worth talking about.
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As you would've seen on our 2012 Bond special cover (he wore a white lace jabot), Lazenby flipped Connery's Bond on his head and we were given outfits that wouldn't look amiss on Alessandro Michele's Gucci catwalk today. His wardrobe consisted of ruffle-necked dress shirts, silk stock ties, super wide-legged trousers, cream tailoring, pink Oxford shirts and rollneck jumpers, in hues of burnt orange, which were worn under three-button Dimi Major suits, a first for Bond.

Lazenby's Bond falls somewhere between the flashy peacockery of the mid-1960s and the bell-bottom wearing hippies of the early 1970s and is arguably the most opinion-splitting Bond wardrobe to date.

Roger Moore
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If Sean Connery's Bond is known for his arrogance and sharp tailoring, the late Roger Moore is known best for being the Playboy Bond who cared more about the gadgets and the girls than the missions.

For his seven-movie stint, which began in 1973, Moore brought with him his personal tailor Cyril Castle, who was situated on Conduit Street and cut a relaxed suit more in keeping with the liberated times.

Moore introduced the double-breasted suit to Bond and by his outing in Live And Let Die we were served wide lapels, snatched waists and big, open collars you're likely to see in a Dunhill collection today. Add to this a penchant for wide, patterned ties – which we're actually seeing a return to in 2020 (for extra inspo look to Harry Styles) – and grey checked sport coats, paired with bell-bottoms, and you've got a Bond that could easily blend into the crowds of eager fashion editors outside an Autumn/Winter 2020 show.

Timothy Dalton
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From 1986 to 1994, 007 was portrayed by Timothy Dalton and his wardrobe, again, was a sign of the times. Pleated, baggy trousers that were excessively full, as well as relaxed lower buttons, super-wide lapels and strong, power shoulders that rival even those we've just seen in Balenciaga's AW20 collection made up the best part of his costumes and aligned him more with Richard Gere's American Gigolo than any Bond we'd seen previously.

With Dalton came the end of the tie (although it returned later with Pierce Brosnan), which, alongside his relaxed suiting, gave us a more devil-may-care Bond.

Pierce Brosnan
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Favouring Clark Gable-approved Brioni in every one of his 007 movies, Pierce Brosnan took us back to the Connery era of Bond dressing with his classic suiting. And though you probably align Brosnan with ridiculous invisible cars and unfathomable gadgets, no Bond, past or present, has given us better summer tailoring than the Irish-American actor.

Case in point: his Brioni herringbone, three-button linen suit, with tan chorizo buttons in 1999's The World Is Not Enough, as chosen by costume designer at the time Lindy Hemming, is a masterclass in how to do relaxed summering on the Italian Rivera – lightweight, crafted in a breathable linen and complementary to any tan.

Daniel Craig
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With the current Bond, portrayed by Daniel Craig, there have been Tom Ford suits aplenty (as well as TF sunnies), Barbour field jackets and the chicest, sexiest skiwear – consisting of muscle-hugging rollnecks and super-tight salopettes – we've probably ever seen.

That said, while we fell in love with Craig's Bond we also fell for his overcoats. In Spectre, Craig donned a Tom Ford military-inspired, double-breasted Bridge coat over his black herringbone three-piece suit (again by the American designer) and a pair of Dent leather gloves, making his all-black look more latter-day Peaky Blinders than the costume of someone hellbent on saving the world.

With that in mind, and Bond 25 now being released in November [later delayed to April 2021 and September 2021], we're anticipating (and hoping for) yet more looks to die for from Craig. Until then, you'll have to look at the No Time To Die trailer for tips on how to dress like 007 himself.

2021: Nikki van der Zyl dies at age 85--London, England.
(Born 27 April 1935--Berlin, Germany.)

Nikki van der Zyl

See the complete article here:

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

Van der Zyl in 2013

Born: Monica van der Zyl - 27 April 1935 - Berlin, Germany
Died: 6 March 2021 (aged 85) - London, England, UK
Occupation Voice-over artist
Years active 1956–1980

Monica "Nikki" van der Zyl (27 April 1935 – 6 March 2021) was a German voice-over artist based in the United Kingdom, known for her dubbing work on the James Bond film franchise.

Early life
Nikki van der Zyl was born on 27 April 1935 in Berlin, the daughter of Anneliese and Rabbi Dr. Werner van der Zyl.

Career
As a voice-over artist, she provided the voice of the characters of Honey Rider (Ursula Andress) and Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson), as well as several other minor female characters, in Dr. No. Van der Zyl also provided dialogue coaching to Gert Fröbe, whose English was limited, for the movie Goldfinger and continued to work as a voice-over artist for the series until Moonraker. She worked as an artist, poet and public speaker.

In January 2013, van der Zyl published her book, For Your Ears Only, which was translated into German for a 2015 release in Germany. In November 2013, an exhibition called "Night Flight to Berlin" opened in the Museum Pankow in Berlin and ran until April 2014. The exhibition highlighted stages in van der Zyl's life from her childhood days to the Bond films and her work as a barrister and political correspondent in London.[citation needed]

On 20 September 2014, she was a special guest star at a 50th anniversary screening of Goldfinger in Braunschweig, Germany where she was awarded Honorary Membership of the James Bond Club Deutschland e.V. for her contribution to the James Bond film series.
https://www.thebondbulletin.com/goldfinger-screening-in-braunschweig-a-glamorous-anniversary-event/

Death
Van der Zyl died on 6 March 2021 in London, aged 85.

Filmography

James Bond films
Dr. No (1962; dubbed Ursula Andress, Eunice Gayson and all other female voices except Lois Maxwell, Zena Marshall, Yvonne Shima and Michel Mok)
From Russia with Love (1963; dubbed Eunice Gayson and female hotel clerk in Istanbul)
Goldfinger (1964; dubbed Shirley Eaton and Nadja Regin, was also on-set English-language vocal coach to Gert Fröbe)
Thunderball (1965; dubbed Claudine Auger)
You Only Live Twice (1967; dubbed Mie Hama)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969; dubbed Virginia North)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971; dubbed Denise Perrier)
Live and Let Die (1973; partially dubbed Jane Seymour)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974; dubbed Francoise Therry)
Moonraker (1979; dubbed Corinne Cléry and Leila Shenna)

Other films
Man in the Moon (1960, revoiced Shirley Anne Field)
The Savage Innocents (1960, revoiced Yoko Tani)
La Fayette (1961, revoiced Claudia Cardinale)
Call Me Bwana (1963, revoiced Anita Ekberg)
You Must Be Joking! (1965, revoiced Gabriella Licudi)
The Ipcress File (1965, revoiced Sue Lloyd)
She (1965, revoiced Ursula Andress)
The Blue Max (1966; revoiced Ursula Andress)
Funeral in Berlin (1966, revoiced Eva Renzi)
Modesty Blaise (1966, revoiced Monica Vitti)
One Million Years B.C. (1966, revoiced Raquel Welch)
Prehistoric Women (1967, revoiced various characters)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967, revoiced Susan Denberg)
Deadlier Than the Male (1967, revoiced Sylva Koscina)
The Jokers (1967, revoiced Gabriella Licudi)
Hannibal Brooks (1969; revoiced Karin Baal)
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969, revoiced Jacqui Chan)
Fräulein Doktor (1969, revoiced Suzy Kendall)
Scars of Dracula (1970; revoiced Jenny Hanley)
You Can't Win 'Em All (1970, revoiced Michèle Mercier)
Gawain and the Green Knight (1973, revoiced Ciaran Madden)
The Cherry Picker (1974; revoiced Lulu)

Nikki Van der Zyl

(1935–2021)
Actress | Additional Crew | Stunts
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RichardTheBruce

March 7th

1952: William Boyd CBE FRSL is born--Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana.

1962: Dr No films Miss Taro's apartment and the death of Professor Dent.

1970: Rachel Hannah Weisz is born--London, England.
1974: Tobias Menzies is born--London, England.

2000: Charles Gray dies at age 71--Brompton, London, England.
(Born 29 August 1920--Bournemouth, Dorset, England.)

Charles Gray
Actor who played a series of elegant cads - and a memorable opponent for James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/09/guardianobituaries2

Eric Shorter | Wed 8 Mar 2000 21.16 EST

The actor Charles Gray, who has died aged 71, never wanted to be loved, but he won plenty of applause for his portraits of silken arrogance, self-importance, oily malice and egotism. Among his film parts were the wily Blofeld, James Bond's antagonist in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and the chief apostle of evil in Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out (1967).

Gray endowed toffs, cads, crooks, and braggarts with hauteur and elegance. What gave them authenticity was his belief in them. The voice was commanding, though it rarely needed raising, and its tone belonged to high society.

Gray learned his powers of spoken speech as a young Shakespearian in Regent's Park, at Stratford-on-Avon and the Old Vic in the post-war heyday of Richard Burton, John Neville and Paul Rogers. The actor cut an imposing figure; and the voice and its inflections were under such control that together they served undetectably as Jack Hawkins's when that even better actor lost his voice from throat cancer.

Gray's shamelessly affected persona, which could be arrestingly camp or plain overbearing, sometimes spilled over into his private life in Kensington. Not as private as some neighbours, Gray used to entertain friends into the small hours on his apartment balcony. When asked why he cut such a self-important dash, he would protest: "I'm not in the least aristocratic in real life, old boy. I much prefer a pint at the local."

Born in Bournemouth, he spent his early adult years in an estate agent's office. By his mid-20s he felt the call of the stage; and under his real name, Donald Gray, made his first professional appearance in As You Like It (1952) for Robert Atkins in Regent's Park, playing Charles the Wrestler.

Changing his name to Charles for the next production, Cymbeline, Gray then moved to Stratford-on-Avon in walk-on parts and in 1954 joined the Old Vic. Almost immediately he created a stir as the messenger Mercadé, coming on at the end of Frith Banbury's revival of Love's Labour's Lost, with decor and costumes by Cecil Beaton.

By 1956 Gray was taking leads. One of his best was Achilles in Tyrone Guthrie's Edwardian revival of Troilus And Cressida. "Looking like a prize-fighter gone to seed, with muscle turning to flesh, a puffy, dissipated monster, alternately petting and tormenting his favourite orderly Patroclus," as Ivor Brown wrote in the Observer. Other Old Vic credits included Macduff to Paul Rogers's Macbeth, Lodovico to Richard Burton's and John Neville's Othellos, Escalus to Neville's Romeo, and Bolingbroke to Neville's Richard II. If neither his Bolingbroke nor Macduff could stir the audience, that would remain part of Gray's dramatic problem: however much we might admire his acting, he could never touch our feelings.

After a north American tour in those roles and as Achilles, Gray returned to the West End in 1958. In Wolf Mankowitz's musical Expresso Bongo (Saville 1958) he played Capt Cyril Mavors, condescending restaurateur.

In 1961 Gray was back on Broadway, this time as the Prince of Wales, later William IV, in Kean, Sartre's sardonic revision of the Alexandre Dumas play about the 19th century actor. When Peter Hall's newly formed Royal Shakespeare Company launched its contemporary season in 1962, Giles Cooper's black comedy Everything In The Garden did so well that it transferred to the West End; and Gray then took over as the aghast suburban husband who discovers in sundry pots and jars hundreds of pound notes, his wife's illicit earnings in Wimpole Street.

Back at the Old Vic later that year Gray revelled in the role of the voluptuous glutton, Sir Epicure Mammon, in Tyrone Guthrie's modern-dress revival of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist; and in 1964 he won the Clarence Derwent Award for the year's best supporting actor as the land-owning host of a party given to taunt the hero of Anouilh's Poor Bitos (Arts, Duke of York's and Broadway). Staying on in New York, Gray took the title-role in The Right Honourable Gentle man (1965), a Victorian politician and sexual hypocrite. Plenty of other stage credits followed.

Among small screen credits were Strickland in The Moon And Sixpence, rated as rivalling George Sanders in the film, the bland brother-in-law in Pinter's The Tea Party, the amorous TV personality in Fay Weldon's The Three Wives Of Felix Hull, an overbearing Randolph Churchill in Hugo Charteris's Asquith, the trouble-making judge in Blind Justice, the acerbic Sir Cathcart in Porterhouse Blue, an impoverished peer in The Upper Crust series and an imperious old buffer in Longitude.

Among film credits were Narrator in Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the satanic priest who duelled with Christopher Lee in The Devil Rides Out, the sinister butler in The Mirror Crack'd and Judge in Shock Treatment.

Charles Gray never married.

• Charles (Donald Marshall) Gray, actor, born August 29 1928; died March 7 2000

Charles Gray (I) (1928–2000)

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Filmography

Actor (135 credits)

2000 Longitude (TV Movie) - Adm. Balchen

1998 The Tichborne Claimant - Arundell
1996 Madson (TV Series) - Sir Ranald Hearnley - 5 episodes
1994 Scarlett (TV Mini-Series) - The Judge
- Episode #1.4 (1994) ... The Judge
1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Mycroft Holmes
- The Mazarin Stone (1994) ... Mycroft Holmes
- The Golden Pince-Nez (1994) ... Mycroft Holmes
1992 Tales from the Poop Deck (TV Series) - Adm. Dennis De'Ath
- Till De'Ath Do Us Part (1992) ... Adm. Dennis De'Ath
- Here Be Pirates! (1992) ... Adm. Dennis De'Ath
1991 Firestar: First Contact - Commodore Vandross
1991 The Heroic Legend of Arislan (TV Mini-Series) - Priest (Manga UK dub) - 6 episodes
1991 Performance (TV Series) - Maurice Hussey
- Absolute Hell (1991) ... Maurice Hussey
1991 Shrinks (TV Series) - Lord Rissington
- Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Lord Rissington
1990 The Paper Man (TV Mini-Series) - Prime Minister
1990 Harry and Harriet - Satan

1989 Blackeyes (TV Mini-Series) - Sebastian
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Sebastian
1989 The Nineteenth Hole (TV Series) - Colonel Westray
- Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Colonel Westray
1988 Blind Justice (TV Mini-Series) - Judge Langtry
- Crime and Punishment (1988) ... Judge Langtry
1988 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Mycroft Holmes
- The Bruce Partington Plans (1988) ... Mycroft Holmes
1988 Small World (TV Mini-Series) - Rudyard Parkinson
- Hurry Up, Please, It's Time (1988) ... Rudyard Parkinson
- Throbbing and Waiting (1988) ... Rudyard Parkinson
- What Shall We Do Tomorrow? (1988) ... Rudyard Parkinson
- Unreal Cities (1988) ... Rudyard Parkinson
1988 Hannay (TV Series) - Commander Nevil
- The Fellowship of the Black Stone (1988) ... Commander Nevil
1987 Stateside: The Epic Bestseller Which Shocked America. (Short)
1987 The New Statesman (TV Series) - Roland Gidleigh-Park
- Baa Baa Black Sheep (1987) ... Roland Gidleigh-Park
- Waste Not Want Not (1987) ... Roland Gidleigh-Park
1987 Dreams Lost, Dreams Found (TV Movie) - Jason Klein
1987 Screenplay (TV Series) - Narrator
- Cariani and the Courtesans (1987) ... Narrator
1987 Porterhouse Blue (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Cathcart D'Eath - 3 episodes
1987 The Wind in the Willows (TV Series) - The Stranger
- Unlikely Allies (1987) ... The Stranger (voice)
1987 Tickets for the Titanic (TV Series) - The Earl of Albany
- Keeping Score (1987) ... The Earl of Albany
1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) - Sir Jack Fenn
- Fit (1986) ... Sir Jack Fenn
1986 Tall Tales & Legends (TV Series) - Mr. Dent
- Casey at the Bat (1986) ... Mr. Dent
1985 Bergerac (TV Series) - Bart Bellow
- What Dreams May Come? (1985) ... Bart Bellow
1985 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Mycroft Holmes
- The Greek Interpreter (1985) ... Mycroft Holmes
1984 The Gourmet (TV Movie) - Manley Kingston
1984 A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (TV Movie) - Henry
1983 The Comedy of Errors (TV Movie) - Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
1983 An Englishman Abroad (TV Movie) - Claudius
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Sir James Chorley
1982 Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (TV Movie) - Earl Spencer
1981 Troilus & Cressida (TV Movie) - Pandarus
1981 Shock Treatment - Judge Oliver Wright
1981 Ticket to Heaven - Musician
1980 The Mirror Crack'd - Bates, The Butler
1980 We, the Accused (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Hayman Drewer
- Episode #1.5 (1980) ... Sir Hayman Drewer
1980 Heartland (TV Series) - Mr. Wheeler
- Working Arrangements (1980) ... Mr. Wheeler
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1979 Schalcken the Painter (TV Movie) - Narrator
1979 Mrs. R's Daughter (TV Movie) - Rogers
1979 The House on Garibaldi Street (TV Movie) - Gen. Lischke
1979 Ike: The War Years (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. 'Freddie' DeGuingand
- Part II (1979) ... Gen. 'Freddie' DeGuingand
- Part I (1979) ... Gen. 'Freddie' DeGuingand
1979 Hazell (TV Series) - Brownhill
- Hazell and the Deptford Virgin (1979) ... Brownhill
1979 Julius Caesar (TV Movie) - Julius Caesar
1978 Richard II (TV Movie) - Duke of York
1978 The Legacy - Karl Liebnecht
1978 The Island (TV Short) - Santander
1978 Across a Crowded Room (TV Movie)
1977 Three Dangerous Ladies - Santander (segment "The Island")
1977 Drama (TV Series) - The Producer
- Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello (1977) ... The Producer
1977 Silver Bears - Charles Cook
1977 The Sunday Drama (TV Series) - Delaforce
- The Late Wife (1977) ... Delaforce
1977 The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (TV Series) - Charles
- Cheers (1977) ... Charles
1974-1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Tailor / Her Majesty's Inspector Sharp
- Alarums and Excursions (1976) ... Tailor
- We're in This Together (1974) ... Her Majesty's Inspector Sharp
1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Mycroft Holmes
1967-1976 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Harcourt Courtly / Juggler / Mr. Beebe / ... - 10 episodes
1976 Seven Nights in Japan - Henry Hollander
1975 Mutiny (TV Movie)
1975 The Philanthropist (TV Movie) - Braham
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Criminologist - An Expert
1975 Churchill's People (TV Series) - Duke of Portland
- Mutiny (1975) ... Duke of Portland
1975 The Venturers (TV Series) - Tony Challon
- The Cannibals (1975) ... Tony Challon
1975 Thriller (TV Series) - Hilary Vance
- Murder on the Midnight Express (1975) ... Hilary Vance
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Hugo Vardon
- Firing Point (1974) ... Hugo Vardon
1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Rodzianko
- Tell the King the Sky Is Falling (1974) ... Rodzianko
1974 Twelfth Night (TV Movie) - Malvolio
1974 The Beast Must Die - Bennington
1974 Sex Through the Ages - Narrator (voice)
1974 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Mikail Zigorin
- A Time to Remember (1974) ... Mikail Zigorin
1973 Tales That Witness Madness - Nicholas (segment "Clinic Link Episodes") (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Song of Songs (TV Series) - Count Von Mertzbach
- Episode #1.2 (1973) ... Count Von Mertzbach
- Episode #1.1 (1973) ... Count Von Mertzbach
1973 The Upper Crusts (TV Series) - Lord Seacroft / Lord Seacroft Snr. - 6 episodes
1973 Theater of Blood - Solomon Psaltery (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Eugene Valmont
- The Absent-Minded Coterie (1973) ... Eugene Valmont
1972 Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series) - Sir Edwin Partridge
- Married Love (1972) ... Sir Edwin Partridge
1971 London (Short) - Tailor
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Blofeld
1968-1971 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Inspector Waugh / Knox / Bertrand Asquith / ...
- Jenkins (1971) ... Knox
- Asquith in Orbit. (1971) ... Bertrand Asquith
- Something to Hide: The Caretaker's Flat (1968) ... Inspector Waugh
- Something to Hide: The Studio (1968) ... Inspector Waugh
- Something to Hide: The First Floor (1968) ... Detective Inspector Waugh
1971 Play for Today (TV Series)
Oxlade
- Michael Regan (1971) ... Oxlade
1971 Doctor at Large (TV Series) - Man
- A Situation Full of Promise (1971) ... Man (uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Sir Anthony Skouras (voice, uncredited)
1970 Menace (TV Series) - Micky
- Nine Bean Rows (1970) ... Micky
1970 Oh in Colour (TV Series) - Various Characters
- Episode #1.4 (1970) ... Various Characters
1970 Cromwell - The Earl of Essex
1970 W. Somerset Maugham (TV Series) - The Storyteller
- The Closed Shop (1970) ... The Storyteller
1970 The Executioner - Vaughan Jones

1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short) - Antonio
1969 Mosquito Squadron - Air Commodore Hufford
1969 The File of the Golden Goose - The Owl
1969 The Nine Ages of Nakedness - Narrator (voice)
1968 The Devil Rides Out - Mocata
1966-1968 Love Story (TV Series) - Bender / John Trewardine
- The Egg on the Face of the Tiger (1968) ... Bender
- A Toy Soldier (1966) ... John Trewardine
1959-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Felix Hull / Stuart Marlowe / Philip Comely
- The Three Wives of Felix Hull (1968) ... Felix Hull
- Guest Appearance (1959) ... Stuart Marlowe
- The Big Client (1959) ... Philip Comely
1968 The Secret War of Harry Frigg - General Cox-Roberts
1967 The Man Outside - Charles Griddon
1967 You Only Live Twice - Henderson
1967 The Night of the Generals - General von Seidlitz-Gabler
1965 Mogul (TV Series) - Michael Rennane
- The Schloss Belt (1965) ... Michael Rennane
1965 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Quill / Madingley
- The Lodger (1965) ... Quill
- Time and Mr Madingley (1965) ... Madingley
1965 Masquerade - Benson
1965 Tea Party (TV Movie) - Willy
1963 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - David
- Drama '63: The Perfect Friday (1963) ... David
1963 Suspense (TV Series) - Verdon
- Personal and Private (1963) ... Verdon
1962 Lawrence of Arabia - General Allenby (voice, uncredited)
1962 Maigret (TV Series) - Mazeron
- Voices from the Past (1962) ... Mazeron
1962 Out of This World (TV Series) - Abel Jones
- The Tycoons (1962) ... Abel Jones
1960-1962 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Harry Branksome / Malcolm Turnbull / Ulysses
- A Matter of Principle (1962) ... Harry Branksome
- Any Other Business? (1961) ... Malcolm Turnbull
- Tiger at the Gates (1960) ... Ulysses
1961 Design for Murder (TV Movie) - Rex Berkely
1961 The First Gentleman (TV Movie) - Prince Regent of England
1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Zameda / Alexis Buller
- The Deputy Coyannis Story (1961) ... Zameda
- The Key (1960) ... Alexis Buller
1961 You Can't Escape (TV Movie) - Major Hargood
1960 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Tom Ramsey
- The Ant and the Grasshopper (1960) ... Tom Ramsey
1960 Man in the Moon - Leo
1960 The Entertainer - Columnist
1959-1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Dominguez / Paul Lederer / Sadik Bey
- Money to Burn (1960) ... Dominguez
- The Man in the Road (1960) ... Paul Lederer
- The Slaver (1959) ... Sadik Bey

1959 Kraft Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Lawson
- The Desperate Man (1959) ... Lawson
1959 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Sir Miles
- Who Is Gustav Varnia? (1959) ... Sir Miles
1959 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Richard Bates
- Episode #1.16 (1959) ... Richard Bates
1959 Tommy the Toreador - Gomez
1959 Follow a Star - Taciturn Man at Party (uncredited)
1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Markheim
- Markheim (1959) ... Markheim (uncredited)
1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Thal
- The Vanishing Evidence (1959) ... Thal
1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Waring
- The Small Back Room (1959) ... Waring
1959 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - Tickle
- In Camera (1959) ... Tickle
1958 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Capt. Cyril Mavors
- Expresso Bongo (1958) ... Capt. Cyril Mavors
1958 Bachelor Father (TV Series) - Frank Gibbs
- Uncle Bentley and the Matchmaker (1958) ... Frank Gibbs
1958 Heart of a Child - Fritz Heiss
1958 I Accuse! - Captain Brossard
1958 Television World Theatre (TV Series) - Capt. von Schlettow
- The Captain of Koepenick (1958) ... Capt. von Schlettow
1957 Sword of Freedom (TV Series) - Varenza / Pierre De Foix
- The Suspects (1957) ... Varenza
- Choice of Weapons (1957) ... Pierre De Foix
1957 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Sir Blaise
- The Mark (1957) ... Sir Blaise
1957 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Escalus - Prince of Verona
- Romeo and Juliet (1957) ... Escalus - Prince of Verona

Soundtrack (7 credits)

2005 Cold Case (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Creatures of the Night (2005) ... (performer: "Time Warp", "Eddie", "Super Heroes" - uncredited)
2000 Duets (writer: "Mexican Radio")

1999 Spaced (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Gatherings (1999) ... (performer: "The Time Warp")
1998 Tohuwabohu (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Best & rest 8-26: Halb hundertvier (1998) ... (performer: "The Time Warp" - uncredited)
- 9&vierzig (1998) ... (performer: "The Time Warp" - uncredited)

1989 C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (writer: "Guys Like Girls")
1981 Shock Treatment (performer: "Anyhow, Anyhow")

1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (performer: "Time Warp", "Eddie", "Super Heroes" - uncredited)

2020: Gavin Robertson's "Bond - An Unauthorized Parody" ends its run at the Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia. 7:30 p.m. show time. Runs through 7 March.

Bond- An Unauthorised Parody

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

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Adelaide Fringe

"Comedy at its best, clever, subtle,
intelligent, but combined with great
theatrical skills"
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Presented by:
Gavin Robertson (UK)
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Bond is back (just before the new film!). Older, unfit and someone's out to get him!

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

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

...

"Clever, witty & inventive"
Kryztoff Raw

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

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

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

Details

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

Credits:

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

Preview(s):

Monday, 24 February 2020 - 7:30pm

2020: Daniel Craig spoofs James Bond on Saturday Night Live.

RichardTheBruce

March 8th

1947: Carole Bayer Sager is born--New York City, New York.

"Nobody Does It Better" (Carole Bayer Sager/Marvin Hamlisch)

Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best

I wasn't lookin' but somehow you found me
I tried to hide from your love light
But like heaven above me
The spy who loved me
Is keepin' all my secrets safe tonight...

2003: ダイ・アナザー・デイ (Dai anazā Dei, Die Another Day) released in Japan.

2016: Sir George Henry Martin, CBE, dies at age 90--Colesshill, Oxordshire, England.
(Born 3 January 1926--Holloway, London.)

Sir George Martin obituary

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Martin (I) (1926–2016)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552326/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5

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)

2020: Max von Sydow dies at age 90--Provence, France.
(Born 10 April 1929--Lund, Sweden.)

Max von Sydow obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/max-von-sydow-obituary

Swedish stage and screen actor who starred in The Seventh Seal,
The Exorcist and Flash Gordon
Ronald Bergan | Mon 9 Mar 2020 12.10 EDT

Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal, 1957, directed by Ingmar Bergman.
Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock

The great Swedish film and stage actor Max von Sydow, who has died aged 90, will be remembered by different people for different roles: the title role in The Exorcist, Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his Oscar-nominated part as the slave-driven Lasse in Pelle the Conqueror, but his passport to cinema heaven will be his many remarkable performances under the direction of Ingmar Bergman.

The tall, gaunt and imposing blond Von Sydow, pronounced Suedorff, made his mark internationally in 1957 as the disillusioned 14th-century knight Antonius Block, in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.

Returning from the crusades to his plague-stricken country, he finds that he has lost his faith in God and can no longer pray. Suddenly, he is confronted by the personification of Death. Seeking more time on Earth, he challenges Death to a game of chess. Von Sydow’s portrayal of a man in spiritual turmoil demonstrated a maturity beyond his years and was to exemplify his solemn and dignified persona in further Bergman films, even extending to some of his less worthier enterprises.

Max von Sydow and Linda Blair in The Exorcist, 1973.
Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

Although it was the actor’s first film for Bergman, they had worked together at the Municipal theatre in Malmö on several plays and would continue to do so between films. From 1956 to 1958, for Bergman, Von Sydow played Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Peer in Peer Gynt, Alceste in The Misanthrope and Faust in Urfaust. In the same company were Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom, who, with Von Sydow, were to become part of the Bergman repertory company of the screen.

He was born Carl Adolph Von Sydow – later taking the name Max – to an academic family in Lund, southern Sweden. His father, Carl Wilhelm, was an ethnologist and professor of comparative folklore at the university of Lund; his mother, Maria Margareta (nee Rappe), was a school teacher.

He attended a Catholic school before doing his military service. From 1948 to 1951, Von Sydow attended the acting school at the Royal Dramatic theatre in Stockholm; while still a student there, he had small parts in two films directed by Alf Sjöberg, Only a Mother (1949) and Miss Julie (1951). After graduating, Von Sydow, who had married Christina Olin in 1951, joined the Municipal theatre in Helsingborg before moving to Malmö, which resulted in the significant meeting with Bergman.

Max von Sydow, left, and Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007

Following The Seventh Seal, Von Sydow played in six sombre films in a row for Bergman; he was quite content to play supporting roles when asked. He had a small part in Wild Strawberries (1957), and was rather peripheral in Brink of Life (1957), as Eva Dahlbeck’s husband, waiting calmly for his wife to have a baby (which she loses), but was central in The Face (1958, later known as The Magician). As Vogler, a 19th-century mesmerist and magician, Von Sydow embodies admirably the part-charlatan, part-messiah character.
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It was back to medieval Sweden in The Virgin Spring (1960), with Von Sydow as the vengeful father of a girl who has been raped and murdered. In Through a Glass Darkly (1961), he was the anguished husband of Harriet Andersson, watching his wife lapsing into insanity, and in Winter Light (1962), he was a man terrified of nuclear annihilation.

Von Sydow refused offers of work outside Sweden, even the title role in the first James Bond movie, Dr No (1962), though two decades later he played the evil genius Blofeld to Sean Connery’s Bond in Never Say Never Again, 1983. He finally gave in when George Stevens begged him to play Jesus in his 225-minute epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). However, despite Von Sydow’s charisma, the epic turned out to be Jesus Christ Superbore.

His next two Hollywood movies were not much better: The Reward (1965), in which he was an impoverished crop-dusting pilot trapped in the Mexican desert, and Hawaii (1966), as an unbending and arrogant missionary who makes no effort to understand the islanders. Von Sydow’s two sons played his son in the film, aged seven (Henrik), and 12 (Clas). The scheming German aristocrat in The Quiller Memorandum (1966) was the first of many bad Germans he would play well.

Max von Sydow in Flash Gordon, 1980.
Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex

Complex roles in four films for Bergman temporarily stopped the rot: as an artist subject to terrible nightmares and hallucinations in Hour of the Wolf (1968); as a big, gangling innocent forced to face reality in Shame (1968), a powerful parable in which he was allowed to improvise some of his dialogue for the first time; as a man whose peaceful seclusion is disturbed by a woman recovering from the car accident that killed her husband and son (Liv Ullmann), as well as a warring couple and a homicidal maniac in The Passion of Anna (1969); and as the cold cuckolded doctor husband of Bibi Andersson in The Touch (1971), Bergman’s first English-language film.

Von Sydow and Ullmann suffered beautifully as poor Swedish peasants trying to survive in 19th-century Minnesota in Jan Troell’s diptych, The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972). It was almost inevitable that Von Sydow should be cast as the Jesuit priest, Father Merrin, in William Friedkin’s pretentious shocker The Exorcist (1973) after having gone through so many metaphysical crises in Bergman films. His craggy features haunt the film and its shoddy sequel The Exorcist II – The Heretic (1977).

Max von Sydow and Julie Andrews in Hawai, 1966. Photograph: Ronald Grant

On the whole, his films tended to oscillate between the serious and the silly. Among the former were Steppenwolf (1974), in which he played Hermann Hesse’s alter ego Harry Haller, a disillusioned man going on a spiritual journey; Duet for One (1986), in which he was the callous, death-fearing psychoanalyst; and Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), where he was a prickly, antisocial artist. Allen has said that the only two actors he directed of whom he found himself in awe were Von Sydow and Geraldine Page.

On the more ridiculous side were his Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980), and King Osric in Conan the Barbarian (1982), through which he managed to keep a straight face – and there was no straighter face in films than Von Sydow’s.

He felt much more in his element in Bille August’s Pelle the Conqueror (1987), which won the best foreign film Oscar. Von Sydow elegantly captured the simple grandeur of an illiterate widowed farmer who leaves a poverty-stricken Sweden for a Danish island with his nine-year-old son, to find himself almost a slave on a farm.

Von Sydow reconnected with Bergman when he played the latter’s maternal grandfather in The Best Intentions (1992), directed by August from Bergman’s autobiographical script.

However, his portrayal of the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun in the biopic Hamsun (1996), directed by Troell, was far too sympathetic for a man who tried to rationalise his admiration for Hitler.

“Why me?” was Von Sydow’s reaction to the director Jonathan Miller, after he had been cast as Prospero in The Tempest at the Old Vic, in 1988. “Do you have to cross the river to fetch water when you have so many wonderful actors in England?” But Miller was justified in his choice because Von Sydow brought the aura of the Bergman films to the role as well as authority and warmth.
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In 1988, he directed Katinka, a simple tale about a woman stifled by a loveless marriage, which made little impact. Von Sydow was glad to have made it, but said that he would never direct again. He continued to alternate between mainstream Hollywood (he was in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, 2002), and more challenging material such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), mostly in small scene-stealing roles.

He was a sinister German doctor in Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010); a mysterious mute in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), for which he received his second Oscar nomination; Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015); and the Three-Eyed Raven in the sixth season of Game of Thrones (2016). His last film role came in Thomas Vinterberg’s Kursk (2018).

He and Olin divorced in 1979; in 1997 he married the French film-maker Catherine Brelet, and they settled in Paris (Von Sydow became a French citizen in 2002). He is survived by Brelet and their sons, Cédric and Yvan, and by Henrik and Clas, the sons of his first marriage.

• Max von Sydow (Carl Adolf von Sydow), actor; born 10 April 1929; died 8 March 2020

Max von Sydow (I) (1929–2020)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001884/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (163 credits)

Echoes of the Past (post-production) - Nikolas Andreou (aged)
2018 The Command - Vladimir Petrenko
2016 Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Video Game) - Lor San Tekka (voice)
2016 Game of Thrones (TV Series) - Three-Eyed Raven
- The Door (2016) ... Three-Eyed Raven (as Max Von Sydow)
- Oathbreaker (2016) ... Three-Eyed Raven (as Max Von Sydow)
- Home (2016) ... Three-Eyed Raven (as Max Von Sydow)
2016 The First, the Last - Le croque-mort
2015 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens - Lor San Tekka
2014 The Simpsons (TV Series) - Klaus Ziegler
- The War of Art (2014) ... Klaus Ziegler (voice)
2014/II The Letters - Father Celeste van Exem
2013 Dragons 3D (Short) - Dr. Alistair Conis
2012 Branded - Marketing Guru
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - The Renter
2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) - Esbern (voice)
2010 The Last Norwegian Troll (Short) - The Last Norwegian Troll (voice)
2010 Moomins and the Comet Chase - Narrator (French version, voice)
2010 Robin Hood - Sir Walter Loxley
2010 Shutter Island - Dr. Naehring
2010 The Wolfman - Passenger on Train (only in director's cut) (uncredited)

2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink - Dr. Dusseldorf
2009 Solomon Kane - Josiah Kane
2009 Ghostbusters (Video Game) - Vigo (voice)
2009 The Tudors (TV Series) - Cardinal Von Waldburg
- Search for a New Queen (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
- Problems in the Reformation (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
- The Northern Uprising (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
- Civil Unrest (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
2008 Un homme et son chien - Le commandant
2007 Emotional Arithmetic - Jakob Bronski
2007 Rush Hour 3 - Reynard
2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Papinou
2006 The Final Inquiry - Tiberius
2005/I Heidi - Uncle Alp
2004 Curse of the Ring (TV Movie) - Eyvind
2004 Hidden Children (TV Movie) - Valobra
2002 Les amants de Mogador
2002 Minority Report - Director Lamar Burgess
2001 Intacto - Samuel
2001 Druids - Guttuart
2001 Sleepless - Moretti
2000 Nuremberg (TV Mini-Series) - Samuel Rosenman
- Episode #1.1 (2000) ... Samuel Rosenman

1999 Snow Falling on Cedars - Nels Gudmundsson (as Max Von Sydow)
1998 What Dreams May Come - The Tracker
1998 Professione fantasma (TV Series) - Psicanalista dell'Aldilà - 11 episodes
1997 Solomon (TV Mini-Series) - David
1997 The Princess and the Pauper (TV Movie) - Epos
1997 En frusen dröm (Documentary) - S.A. Andrée (voice)
1997 Screen One (TV Series) - Admiral Chernavin
- Hostile Waters (1997) ... Admiral Chernavin
1996 Truck Stop
1996 Private Confessions (TV Movie) - Jacob
1996 Samson and Delilah (TV Mini-Series) - Narratore (voice, uncredited)
1996 Jerusalem - Vicar
1996 Hamsun - Knut Hamsun
1995 Lumière and Company (Documentary) - Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman") (uncredited)
1995 Capture - Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer (Short) - Narrator
1995 Depth Solitude (Short) - Narrator (English Version) (voice)
1995 Atlanten (Documentary) - Narrator (voice)
1995 Judge Dredd - Judge Fargo
1995 Citizen X (TV Movie) - Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
1994 Onkel Vanja (TV Movie) - Professorn
1994 Radetzkymarsch (TV Mini-Series) - Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje
- Episode #1.2 (1994) ... Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje
- Episode #1.1 (1994) ... Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje
1994 A che punto è la notte (TV Movie) - Arcivescovo di Torino
1994 Time Is Money - Joe Kaufman
1993 Needful Things - Leland Gaunt (as Max Von Sydow)
1993 Morfars resa - Simon S.L. Fromm
1993 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series) - Sigmund Freud
- Vienna, November 1908 (1993) ... Sigmund Freud
1993 Och ge oss skuggorna (TV Movie) - Eugene O'Neill
1992 The Touch - Henry Kesdi
1992 The Best Intentions - Johan Åkerblom
1991 The Best Intentions (TV Mini-Series) - Johan Åkerblom
- Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Johan Åkerblom (credit only)
- Episode #1.2 (1991) ... Johan Åkerblom
- Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Johan Åkerblom
1991 Oxen - Vicar
1991 Until the End of the World - Henry Farber
1991 Europa - Narrator (voice)
1991 A Kiss Before Dying - Thor Carlsson
1990 Awakenings - Dr. Peter Ingham (as Max Von Sydow)
1990 Father - Joe Mueller
1990 Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV Movie) - Father Siemes
1990 Una vita scellerata - Pope Clement VII
1990 The Bachelor - Von Schleheim

1989 Carl Jung: Wisdom of the Dream (TV Mini-Series documentary) - Carl Jung (voice)
1989 Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) - Szaz
1989 Ghostbusters II - Vigo (voice, uncredited)
1988 Familjen Schedblad (TV Series) - Chefredaktör Lindström
- Murveln (1988) ... Chefredaktör Lindström
1987 Pelle the Conqueror - Lassefar
1987 The Second Victory - Dr. Huber
1986 Duet for One - Dr. Louis Feldman
1986 The Wolf at the Door - August Strindberg
1986 Gösta Berlings saga (TV Mini-Series) - Melchior Sinclaire
- Del 3 (1986) ... Melchior Sinclaire
- Del 2 (1986) ... Melchior Sinclaire
- Del 1 (1986) ... Melchior Sinclaire
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters - Frederick (as Max Von Sydow)
1985 The Fascination
1985 The Last Place on Earth (TV Mini-Series) - Fridtjof Nansen
- Rejoice (1985) ... Fridtjof Nansen
- Poles Apart (1985) ... Fridtjof Nansen
- Minor Diversions (1985) ... Fridtjof Nansen
1985 The Repenter - Spinola
1985 Code Name: Emerald - Jurgen Brausch
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) - King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.4 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - The Apostle Peter - 6 episodes
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Peter Barak (as Max Von Sydow)
1984 Dune - Doctor Kynes (as Max Von Sydow)
1984 Le dernier civil (TV Movie) - Gérard Bauerle
1984 Dreamscape - Doctor Paul Novotny
1984 The Soldier's Tale - The Devil (voice)
1984 Samson and Delilah (TV Movie) - Sidka (as Max Von Sydow)
1984 The Ice Pirates (uncredited)
1983 Never Say Never Again - Blofeld (as Max Von Sydow)
1983 Strange Brew - Brewmeister Smith (as Max Von Sydow)
1983 Le cercle des passions - Carlo di Vilalfratti / Father
1982 Jugando con la muerte - Coronel O'Donnell
1982 The Flight of the Eagle - S.A. Andrée
1982 Conan the Barbarian - King Osric (as Max Von Sydow)
1981 Victory - The Germans - Major Karl Von Steiner (as Max Von Sydow)
1980 Flash Gordon - The Emperor Ming (as Max Von Sydow)
1980 Death Watch - Gerald Mortenhoe (as Max Von Sydow)

1979 Footloose - Marcello Herrighe
1979 Hurricane - Dr. Danielsson
1978 Brass Target - Shelley Martin Webber
1977 Black Journal - Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1977 March or Die - Francois Marneau
1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic - Father Merrin
1976 Voyage of the Damned - Captain Schroeder (as Max Von Sydow)
1976 The Desert of the Tartars - Captain Ortiz
1976 The Far Side of Paradise - Larsen
1976 Illustrious Corpses - Supreme Court's President
1976 Dog's Heart - Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1975 The Ultimate Warrior - Baron
1975 Three Days of the Condor - Joubert (as Max Von Sydow)
1975 Trompe l'oeil - Matthew Lawrence
1975 Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story - The Father
1974 Steppenwolf - Harry Haller
1973 The Exorcist - Father Merrin
1973 Kvartetten som sprängdes (TV Mini-Series) - Engineer Planertz
- Lyckligt slut (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
- Falska stjärnor (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
- Nya tag! (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
- Kärlek och solsken (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
1972 Embassy - Gorenko
1972 The New Land - Karl Oskar
1971 I havsbandet (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
1971 The Apple War - Roy Lindberg
1971 I själva verket är det alltid något annat som händer (TV Movie) - Anton
1971 The Touch - Andreas Vergerus
1971 The Emigrants - Karl Oskar
1971 The Night Visitor - Salem
1970 The Kremlin Letter - Colonel Kosnov

1969 The Passion of Anna - Andreas Winkelman / Himself
1969 Made in Sweden - Magnus Rud
1968 Shame - Jan Rosenberg, Evas man
1968 Black Palm Trees - Gustav Olofsson
1968 Hour of the Wolf - Johan Borg
1967 The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Movie) - Otto Frank
1966 Here Is Your Life - Smålands-Pelle
1966 The Quiller Memorandum - Oktober
1966 Hawaii - Rev. Abner Hale
1965 The Reward - Scott Swenson
1965 4 x 4 - Kvist (segment "Uppehåll i myrlandet")
1965 Uppehåll i myrlandet (Short) - Alex Kvist
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Jesus
1963 Winter Light - Jonas Persson
1962 The Mistress - The Man
1962 Wonderful Adventures of Nils - The Father
1961 Through a Glass Darkly - Martin
1960 Bröllopsdagen - Anders Frost
1960 The Virgin Spring - Töre

1958 The Magician - Albert Emanuel Vogler
1958 Rabies (TV Movie) - Bo Stensson Svenningson
1958 Spion 503 - Tysk topagent Horst
1958 Brink of Life - Harry Andersson
1957 The Minister of Uddarbo - Gustaf Ömark
1957 Wild Strawberries - Henrik Åkerman
1957 Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (TV Movie) - Jägaren
1957 The Seventh Seal - Antonius Block
1956 Rätten att älska - Bergman
1953 Ingen mans kvinna - Olof
1951 Miss Julie - Hand
1949 Only a Mother - Nils

Soundtrack (2 credits)

2016 The First, the Last (performer: "A Beautiful Life" - as Max von Sidow)

1971 The Apple War (performer: "Calle Schewens vals")

Director (1 credit)

1988 Katinka

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March 9th

1915: Ruth Kempf is born.
(She dies 9 September 2012 at age 97--Opelousas, Lousiana.)

Ruth Kempf
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447448/

Ruth Kempf was born on March 9, 1915 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Live and Let Die (1973) and J.D.'s Revenge (1976). She died on September 9, 2012 in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA.

Born: March 9, 1915 in USA
Died: September 9, 2012 (age 97) in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA

Filmography

Actress (2 credits)

1976 J.D.'s Revenge - Woman Passenger
1973 Live and Let Die - Mrs. Bell

1929: Jean Rougerie is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
(He dies 25 January 1998 at age 68--Ivry-sur-Seine, France.)

Jean Rougerie

(1929–1998)
Actor | Writer | Additional Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0745625/

Jean Rougerie was born on March 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor and writer, known for A View to a Kill (1985), American Dreamer (1984) and Gwendoline (1984). He died on January 25, 1998 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.

Born: March 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died: January 25, 1998 (age 68) in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France

1964: Goldfinger films Sean Connery's first scene--the pre-credit sequence.

1999: Roger Moore receives appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

2015: Spectre announces Stephanie Sigman's casting.

2019: BOND 25 reports continue to confirm filming locations and other details.

‘Bond 25’ Will Be Filming in
Matera, Italy in Late July; Other
Locations Include Norway,
Jamaica, & U.K.

https://thegww.com/bond-25-will-be-filming-in-matera-italy-in-late-july-other-locations-include-norway-jamaica-u-k/
By Jacob Tyler | March 9, 2019

The upcoming Bond 25 (not called Shatterhand) just got an update for filming locations. The film will be shooting in Matera, Italy in late July, as well as Norway, Jamaica, and Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom.

The Matera shoot is for the prologue action sequence, while they’ll use Norway for a frozen lake before it thaws. The latter footage will be a part of the pre-credit scenes. Principal filming will take place in Jamaica and Pinewood Studios.

Moreover, Cary Joji Fukunaga (‘True Detective,’ ‘Maniac’) will be helming Daniel Craig’s last outing as the titular character. Danny Boyle was originally going to direct the film, but creative differences drove him away from the project. Thus, Neal Purvis & Robert Wade came back to finish what they started all the way back in Casino Royale. Along with that film, they wrote all of Craig’s other ‘Bond’ movies: Quantum of Solace, Skyfall. and Spectre. Fukunaga also had his own draft of the screenplay. However, Scott Z. Burns (‘The Bourne Ultimatum,’ ‘Contagion’) was brought on for rewrites last month.

Variety recently gave an update on the script:

“Fukunaga turned in his recent draft at the beginning of the year,
and while reports surfaced that major rewrite work was done to
the script [by Burns], sources say no significant changes were
made, and the producers and Craig were excited with what
Fukunaga had delivered.”

Returning cast members include Ralph Fiennes, Lea Seydoux, Naomie Harris, and Ben Whishaw. Meanwhile, Billy Magnussen is the top choice for a CIA operative, while Rami Malek is in talks for the villain.

Further, with new a April 8, 2020 release, Bond 25 has the Easter weekend all to itself now, instead of the previous Valentine’s Day weekend date. However, who knows what will happen next, as it currently needs to meet its April deadline to begin filming.

Source: Variety and The Daily Mail

2020: Billie Eilish and and brother Finneas kick off their Where Do We Go? World Arena Tour in Miami, Florida.

Billie Eilish Releases Bond Theme ‘No Time To
Die’ And Announces BRIT Awards Performance

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/billie-eilish-no-time-to-die-bond/

Billie Eilish dropped her highly anticipated new song ‘No Time To Die’, the official theme song to the upcoming James Bond film.
Published on February 14, 2020 | By Laura Stavropoulos

‘No Time To Die’ was produced by brother and musical collaborator Finneas, alongside Stephen Lipson, and features orchestral arrangements by legendary film composer Hans Zimmer and Matt Dunkley, and guitar contribution from former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

The five-time Grammy winner also announced she will be performing ‘No Time To Die’ live for the first time at The BRIT Awards in London on 18 February 18, and will be joined by Finneas plus special guests Zimmer and Marr.

“It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way,” shared Eilish in a statement. “To be able to score the theme song to a film that is part of such a legendary series is a huge honour. James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I’m still in shock”. Finneas adds. “Writing the theme song for a Bond film is something we’ve been dreaming about doing our entire lives. There is no more iconic pairing of music and cinema than the likes of Goldfinger and Live and Let Die. We feel so so lucky to play a small role in such a legendary franchise, long live 007.”

No Time To Die comes ahead of the film’s global release, which hits theatres from 2 April in the UK and 10 April in the US [later delayed]. Eilish is officially the youngest artist in history to both write and record a James Bond theme song.

“There are a chosen few who record a Bond theme. I am a huge fan of Billie and Finneas,” said the film’s director Cary Joji Fukunaga, in a press statement.

“Their creative integrity and talent are second to none and I cannot wait for audiences to hear what they’ve brought – a fresh new perspective whose vocals will echo for generations to come.”

Last month, Eilish made Grammy history as the youngest artist to win in all four major categories, taking away five wins in total for Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album. Her brother and sole collaborator Finneas also took home an additional two Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Non Classical and Best Engineered Album, Non Classical.

Last Sunday, the duo performed a moving rendition of The Beatles’ classic ‘Yesterday’ during the In Memoriam segment at the 92nd Oscars.

Meanwhile, Eilish and Finneas are gearing up for their Where Do We Go? World Arena Tour that kicks off on 9 March in Miami, Florida.

2020: Daniel Craig in GQ gives detail for injuries sustained during filming Bond.

Daniel Craig on the many injuries
he endured during James Bond
filming

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/daniel-craig-james-bond-injuries

By Olive Pometsey | 9 March 2020

From torn ligaments to ruptured muscles, Daniel Craig tells us how the role of 007 took a toll on his body

It's not easy being Bond. Not only do you have to be slick, suave and quick witted, you also have to perform a lot of intense stunts that could potentially leave you injured. Daniel Craig is an expert on this, having endured many aches and pains over the course of his 14-year stint as Bond, in parts of the body you probably haven't even heard of.

While filming Quantum Of Solace, he tore the labrum (the connecting cartilage, for those of us without a degree in medicine) in his right shoulder while performing a stunt in an aircraft, only to then hit it again when jumping through a window and straight into a wall in Italy. “I was just nervous and overcooked it,” he explains in our April cover story. “At that point, my arm was kind of useless.”

Then, on the shoot for Skyfall, it was his legs' turn to take a hit. Not long into filming, Craig managed to rupture both of his calf muscles, which meant he had to fit rehab in a swimming pool around the shooting schedule. Ouch. Still, for Craig it was all a case of mind over matter. “It’s not about recovery, because you know you can recover. It’s about psychologically thinking that you’re going to do it again.”

While that might sound bad, it was on Spectre that Craig met his breaking point. This time his anterior cruciate ligament (a key ligament in the knee joint) that took the blow. While fighting with former professional wrestler Dave Baustista in March 2015, he literally heard it snap and had to spend the rest of the shoot wearing a knee brace, which was then removed in the editing process. “I was like, ‘Dave, throw me, for Christ’s sake,’ because he was being light with me,” he says, looking back at the incident. “So he threw me and, God bless him, he just left my knee over there.”

All future 007 hopefuls should probably start preparing for the physical toll it might take on their bodies as soon as possible.

RichardTheBruce

March 10th

1921: Cec Linder is born--Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
(He dies 10 April 1992 at age 71--Toronto, Canada.)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cec Linder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cec_Linder
Born March 10, 1921, Galicia, Poland
Died April 10, 1992 (aged 71), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Other names Cecil Linder
Occupation Actor
Years active 1955–92

Cec Linder as paleontologist Doctor Matthew Roney in the BBC Television serial
Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59)

Cec Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992) was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes.

In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59). In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bond's friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, in Goldfinger (1964). Another well-known film in which he appeared was Lolita (1962), as Doctor Keegee.

Career
Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59).

In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas The Secret Storm and The Edge of Night and in the 1980s appeared in several of the Perry Mason revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles.

Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series Seeing Things, playing Crown Attorney Spenser.

During his career, he also had guest roles in episodes of a variety of other popular British, American and Canadian television programmes, including: The Forest Rangers, Doomwatch, The Littlest Hobo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ironside, The Saint, Danger Bay, The New Avengers, The Secret Storm (as Peter Ames), and The Edge of Night as Senator Ben Travis #2.

During his early years in Canada, Linder worked as an announcer at CKGB in Timmins.

Linder appeared as Inspector Cramer in the CBC 1982 radio dramatizations of Nero Wolfe short stories.

Linder's last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series Sweating Bullets (1991).

He died the following year at home in Toronto, Ontario, of complications from emphysema.

He accumulated over 225 credits in film and television productions in a long performing career.

Cec Linder (1921–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511695/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (156 credits)

1988-1992 Street Legal (TV Series) - Gerald Rose / Judge Keil
- Children's Hour (1992) ... Gerald Rose
- Suite Sixteen (1990) ... Gerald Rose
- Elliot vs. McTavish (1988) ... Judge Keil
1991 Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop (TV Series) - - Over the Hill Gang (1991)
1991 Tropical Heat (TV Series) - Sid Grady
- Tara, Tara, Tara (1991) ... Sid Grady
- For a Song (1991) ... Sid Grady
1990 On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story (TV Movie)
1990 The Last Best Year (TV Movie) - Dr. Siegel
1990 Hitler's Daughter (TV Movie) - Trautman

1989 Danger Bay (TV Series) - Dr. Andrew Reinhardt
- Emperors New Clothes (1989) ... Dr. Andrew Reinhardt
1989 Bridge to Silence (TV Movie) - Sam
1988 Betrayal of Silence (TV Movie) - Judge Calvin
1988 Blades of Courage (TV Movie) - Stuart Carmody
1987-1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Dr. Hoffman / Older Doctor
- Animal Lovers (1988) ... Dr. Hoffman
- When This Man Dies (1987) ... Older Doctor
1987 George and Rosemary (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1985-1987 Night Heat (TV Series)
Harold McVitty / Judge Palmer / Ernest Lefcourt / ...
- These Happy Golden Years (1987) ... Harold McVitty
- Wages of Sin (1986) ... Judge Palmer
- Fire and Ice (1986) ... Ernest Lefcourt
- Ancient Madness (1985) ... Judge Norris
1987 Diamonds (TV Series) - - Domestic Spirits (1987)
1987 Fight for Life (TV Movie)
1981-1987 Seeing Things (TV Series) - Spenser / Spencer - 13 episodes
1987 Amerika (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Part VI (1987) ... Speaker of the House of Representatives (uncredited)
- Part V (1987) ... Speaker of the House of Representatives (uncredited)
- Part II (1987) ... Speaker of the House of Representatives (uncredited)
1986 All Sales Final (TV Movie) - Archie
1986 Christmas Eve (TV Movie) - Dr. Greenspan
1986 The High Price of Passion (TV Movie) - Judge
1986 Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (TV Movie)
1986 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - Benny Cyrano
- Guns at Cyrano's (1986) ... Benny Cyrano
1986 A Deadly Business (TV Movie) - Carmine Franco
1986 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - Salesman
- The Town Where No One Got Off (1986) ... Salesman
1985 Jimmy Valentine (TV Short) - Joshua Grey
1985 Perry Mason Returns (TV Movie) - Jack Welles
1985 Honeymoon - Barnes
1985 Deadly Nightmares (TV Series) - Dr. Fischer
- Murderous Feelings (1985) ... Dr. Fischer (as Cecil Linder)
1985 Seduced (TV Movie) - Executive at Exchange
1984 Heavenly Bodies - Walter Matheson
1984 The Edison Twins (TV Series) - Cavanaugh / The Imposter
- Double Trouble (1984) ... Cavanaugh / The Imposter
1984 Heartsounds (TV Movie) - Dr. Korber
1982 Little Gloria... Happy at Last (TV Mini-Series)
- Part II (1982)
- Part I (1982)
1982 Deadly Eyes - Dr. Louis Spenser
1979-1982 The Littlest Hobo (TV Series) - Sal Patelli / Hoffner
- Rex Badger P.I. (1982) ... Sal Patelli
- Stand In (1979) ... Hoffner
1981 Chairman of the Board (TV Series) - Paul Morel
1981 Standing Room Only (TV Series) - Rich Man #1
- Red Skelton's Christmas Dinner (1981) ... Rich Man #1
1980 Chairman of the Board (TV Movie)
1980 Atlantic City - President of Hospital
1980 Day of Resurrection - Dr. Latour (as Cecil Linder)
1980 F.D.R.: The Last Year (TV Movie) - Samuel Rosenman
1980 Matt and Jenny (TV Series) - Wayland King
- Sport of Kings (1980) ... Wayland King (as Cecil Linder)
1979-1980 King of Kensington (TV Series) - Alderman McCready
- Good News, Bad News (1980) ... Alderman McCready
- Diabolical Plots (1979) ... Alderman McCready
1980 The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog (TV Movie) - Eddie

1979 An American Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Auctioneer
1979 Lost and Found - Mr. Sanders (as Cecil Linder)
1979 City on Fire - Councilman Paley
1979 Something's Rotten - Alexis Alexander
1978 Drága kisfiam - Mr. George (as Cecil Linder)
1978 The Case for Barbara Pasons - Loren Bowley
1978 High-Ballin' - Policeman
1978 Drop Dead, Dearest - Chief Parker
1978 Tomorrow Never Comes - Milton
1977 Three Dangerous Ladies - Dr. Carstairs (segment "The Mannikin")
1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Baker
- Complex (1977) ... Baker
1977 Deadly Harvest - Henry the Chairman
1977 Age of Innocence - Dr. Hogarth
1977 Mannikin (Short) - Dr. Paul Carstairs
1975-1976 One Life to Live (TV Series) - Dr. Dick Thornley / Dr. Thornley
- A day after the birth of Joe & Vikki's new baby (1976) ... Dr. Thornley
- Episode #1.1926 (1976) ... Dr. Dick Thornley (credit only)
- Episode #1.1728 (1975) ... Dr. Dick Thornley
1976 The Clown Murders - The Developer
1976 Point of No Return - Professor Johns
1976 Second Wind - Graham
1975 Death Among Friends (TV Movie)
1975 S.W.A.T. (TV Series) - Blake
- The Steel-Plated Security Blanket (1975) ... Blake
1975 Thriller (TV Series) - Edgar Harrow
- Nurse Will Make It Better (1975) ... Edgar Harrow
1974 Sunday in the Country - Ackerman
1974 Why Rock the Boat? - Carmichael
1974 House of Pride (TV Series) - Andrew Pride
1974 Only God Knows - Mr. Klein
1974 To Kill the King - Stephen Van Birchard (as Cecil Linder)
1974 The Play's the Thing (TV Series)
- The Bells of Hell (1974)
1974 The Beachcombers (TV Series)
- Cliff Hanger (1974)
1973 The Thanksgiving Treasure (TV Movie) - Aaron Burkhart
1973 Police Surgeon (TV Series) - George Bartlett / Boggs
- Body Count (1973) ... George Bartlett
- Death Holds an Auction ... Boggs
1973 A Touch of Class - Wendell Thompson
1973 Mafia Junction - American Ambassador
1972 The Sloane Affair - Roy Maxwell
1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - General McCready
- Action! (1972) ... General McCready
1972 Innocent Bystanders - Mankowitz
1972 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Sen. Connell
- Deadly Dangerous Tomorrow (1972) ... Sen. Connell
1971 Famous Jury Trials (TV Series)
1970 Play for Today (TV Series) - Larry
- The Write-Off (1970) ... Larry
1970 Zabriskie Point - White-Haired Executive (uncredited)

1969 Explosion - Mr. Evans
1969 McQueen (TV Series)
- Brotherly Love (1969)
1969 The Thousand Plane Raid - U.S. Officer at Briefing (uncredited)
1968 Festival (TV Series) - Larry
- The Write-off (1968) ... Larry
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - The Official
- When Thieves Fall In (1968) ... The Official
1968 Ironside (TV Series) - Prof. Carl Anderson
- The Challenge (1968) ... Prof. Carl Anderson
1968 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Warren Windom
- Saro-Jane, You Never Whispered Again (1968) ... Warren Windom
1968 Wojeck (TV Series)
- Give Until It Hurts and Then Some (1968)
1967 Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle, or Mutilate
1967 Coronet Blue (TV Series) - Vincent Schuster
- Faces (1967) ... Vincent Schuster
1966 Little White Crimes (Short)
1966 The Shattered Silence (Short) - Mo
1966 Quentin Durgens, M.P. (TV Series) - Sherwin
1965-1966 Seaway (TV Series) - Inspector Provost / Provost - 6 episodes
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Colonel Watson
- La Belle France (1966)
- All Roads Lead to Callaghan (1966) ... Colonel Watson
1966 Hired Killer - Gastel
1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Ken Shaw
- The Hollow Man (1966) ... Ken Shaw
1966 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Van Druten
- The Mechanical Man (1966) ... Van Druten
1966 The Scribe (Short) - O'Malley (uncredited)
1963-1965 The Forest Rangers (TV Series)
Morris / O'Brien / Harry Rogers
- The White Hunter (1965) ... Morris
- The Proof (1963) ... O'Brien
- The Loner (1963) ... Harry Rogers
1965 The Saint (TV Series) - Waldo Oddington
- The Persistent Parasites (1965) ... Waldo Oddington
1965 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frederick Katzmann
- The Good Shoemaker and the Poor Fish Peddler (1965) ... Frederick Katzmann
1964 The Verdict - Joe Armstrong
1964 Moment of Truth (TV Series) - Dean Hogarth
1964 Here's Harry (TV Series)
- Harry's American Cousin (1964)
1964 Swizzlewick (TV Series) - Filch - 6 episodes
1964 Goldfinger - Felix Leiter
1964 Time of Your Life (TV Mini-Series)
- The Kids and the Kidnapers (1964)
1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) -- Joe Armstrong
- The Verdict (1964) ... Joe Armstrong
1964 The Defenders (TV Series) - Dr. Bell
- The Secret (1964) ... Dr. Bell
1962-1963 Quest (TV Series) - Uncle Jerry
- Paul Loves Libby (1963) ... Uncle Jerry
- The Morning After Mr. Roberts (1962)
1962 Lolita - Physician
1961-1962 Playdate (TV Series) - Bill / Dunlop / Joe Shelley / ...
- One Man to Beat (1962) ... Bill
- Nightmare (1962) ... Dunlop
- Private Potter (1961)
- Heir for a Shoestring (1961) ... Joe Shelley
- The Salt of the Earth (1961) ... Jimmy
1961 John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea (Short) - Toronto Globe Reporter (as Cecil Linder)
1961 Salt of the Earth (TV Movie)
1954-1961 Encounter (TV Series) - Bert Kendall / Steven / Shore / ... - 13 episodes
1961 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Phil Kadsoe
- Drama '61: Edge of Truth (1961) ... Phil Kadsoe
1960-1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Joe Hunter / Samuel Plagett
- Off Centre (1961) ... Joe Hunter
- Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs (1960) ... Samuel Plagett
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Harry
- Mr. Krane (1960) ... Harry
1960 Theatre 70 (TV Series) - Nicky
- Boy Makes Good (1960) ... Nicky
1960 Surprise Package - Legal Adviser (uncredited)
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Richard Maslyn / District Attorney Flint
- Sparrow, Sparrow (1960) ... Richard Maslyn
- Night of January 16th (1960) ... District Attorney Flint
1960 Crack in the Mirror - Murzeau
1960 Too Young to Love - Mr. Brill
1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Sloane
- Come in Razor Red (1960) ... Sloane

1959 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Dr. Wright
- The Accused (1959) ... Dr. Wright
1959 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Bannon
- The Beatniques (1959) ... Bannon
1959 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Captain Tully
- You Can't Die Twice (1959) ... Captain Tully
1959 SOS Pacific - Willy
1959 Jet Storm - Colonel Coe
1959 Subway in the Sky - Carson
1958-1959 Quatermass and the Pit (TV Mini-Series) - Dr. Matthew Roney - 6 episodes
- Hob (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Wild Hunt (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Enchanted (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- Imps and Demons (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Ghosts (1958) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Halfmen (1958) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
1958 The Man on the Assembly Line (Short)
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Jeffrey Lynton
- The Commentator (1958) ... Jeffrey Lynton
1958 Flaming Frontier - Capt. Dan Carver
1958 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
Lt.-Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg / Frank Taylor
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1958) ... Lt.-Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg
- The Land of Promise (1958) ... Frank Taylor (as Cecil Linder)
1955-1958 Folio (TV Series)
- Dark of the Moon (1958)
- A Soviet Portrait (1955)
1958 Suspicion (TV Series) - Lieutenant Green
- Someone Is After Me (1958) ... Lieutenant Green
1957 Double Verdict (Short)
1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV Series)
Kinaani / Red Stick
- The Promised Valley (1957) ... Kinaani (as Cecil Linder)
- The Search (1957) ... Red Stick (as Cecil Linder)
1955-1957 On Camera (TV Series) - Mr. Todd / Indian / Sheriff
- Black Cats Are Good Cats (1957) ... Mr. Todd (as Cecil Linder)
- Michael's Mountain (1957)
- Blackfoot Country (1956) ... Indian
- The Guests (1956) ... Sheriff
- Man in 308 (1955)
1957 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Walt Stewart
- A Matter of Guilt (1957) ... Walt Stewart
1957 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Russian Soldier
- The Hunted (1957) ... Russian Soldier
1957 The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Cannavan
- Article 94 - Homicide (1957) ... Lieutenant Cannavan
1956 Is It a Woman's World? (Short)
1956 Strike in Town: Revised (Short)
1956 It's the Law (TV Series)
- Episode #1.1 (1956)
1956 The Edge of Night (TV Series) - Senator Benjamin 'Ben' Travis #2 (1974)
1955 Strike in Town (Short)
1955 Scope (TV Series)
- Oh, Canada! (1955)
1954 Playbill (TV Series)
- Sweet Larceny (1954)
- Turn of the Road (1954)
1954 The Secret Storm (TV Series) - Peter Ames #2 (1962-1964)
1953 Space Command (TV Series) (1953)

Self (2 credits)

1979 Arthur Miller on Home Ground (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1964 A Questionable Course (Documentary short)

Archive footage (4 credits)

2015 Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet (TV Movie documentary) - Felix Leiter
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Felix Leiter (uncredited)
2002 Bond Girls Are Forever (TV Movie documentary) - Felix Leiter (uncredited)
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself / Felix Leiter

The Saint, "The Persistent Parasites" (Roger Moore, Jan Holden, Cec Linder)

1953: Paul Haggis is born--London, Ontario, Canada.

1995: GoldenEye films Onatopp’s death.

2016: Klaus Hugo (Ken) Adam dies at age 95--London, England.
(Born 5 February 1921--Berlin, Germany.)

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

See the complete article here:

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

By William Grimes | March 12, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ken Adam (I) (1921–2016)

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Filmography

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

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

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

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

Art department (19 credits)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (visual consultant)

1970 The Owl and the Pussycat (design supervisor)

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

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

Art director (9 credits)

2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)

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

Miscellaneous Crew (6 credits)

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

Camera and Electrical Department (4 credits)

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

Actor (2 credits)

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

Producer (1 credit)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (associate producer)

RichardTheBruce

March 11th

1925: Peter Roger Hunt is born--London, England.
(He dies 14 August 2002 at age 77--Santa Monica, California.)

Peter Hunt
The man who cut down 007

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/16/guardianobituaries.filmnews

Ronald Bergan - Thu 15 Aug 2002 20.16 EDT

The film editor and director Peter Hunt, who has died aged 77, was associated with the huge success of the James Bond movies, the longest-running series in the history of the cinema. He edited the first five Bond films - generally considered the best - creating a style of sharp cutting that has been emulated by many editors and directors of action movies.

He also directed one, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), mistakenly thought of as the worst of the Bond films because of George Lazenby's forgettable 007. The inexperienced Australian model carried the can for the film's comparative box-office failure, but Hunt was praised for his pacy, and seemingly effortless, direction.

Already with a decade of editing behind him, Hunt only reluctantly agreed to edit the first Bond film, Dr No (1962). "I was really not interested in doing it at all," he recalled. "But, then I thought, well, if the director is Terence Young, and I know him well enough, and I find him rather nice, maybe it will be alright." Previously, Hunt had suggested to Harry Saltzman that, in his search for an actor to portray James Bond, the producer look at the film he had just edited, the feeble army comedy On The Fiddle (1961), in which Sean Connery played a Gypsy pedlar.

The editing style of the Bond movies was established because, "if we kept the thing moving fast enough, people won't see the plot holes," what editors call "chets", or cheated editing tricks. "On Dr No, for example, there was a great deal missing from the film when we got back from shooting in Jamaica, and I had to cut it and revoice it in such a way as to make sense."

It was from then that Hunt decided to use jump cuts and quick cutting, and very few fade-ins, fade-outs and dissolves, which "destroy the tension of the film". The fight between Connery and Robert Shaw on board the Orient Express, in From Russia With Love (1963), took a total of 59 cuts in 115 seconds of film.

Born in London, Hunt learned his craft from an uncle who made government training and educational films. His first claim to fame was, in fact, appearing on a recruiting poster for the Boy Scouts Association when he was 16, and he read the lesson at Lord Baden-Powell's funeral. At 17, he joined the army, and was almost immediately shipped off to Italy, where he took part in the battle of Cassino.

After the war, he returned to work with his uncle, before becoming assistant cutter for Alexander Korda, and a fully fledged editor with Hill In Korea (1956). He worked with both Terence Young and Lewis Gilbert on a number of films prior to editing their Bond efforts.

Besides editing, Hunt directed some second-unit work on the Bond films, as well as the title sequence for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). "I had a terrible time in the cutting room on You Only Live Twice (1967), with Donald Pleasance as Blofeld. Lewis [Gilbert] had made him into a camp, mini sort of villain. If you look at the film very carefully, Pleasance doesn't walk anywhere, because he had this mincing stride. He was so short that he looked like a little elf beside Connery. I used every bit of editing imagination I could so that he could be taken seriously as a villain."

Many purist Bond fans regret that Hunt never directed another 007 movie. His determination to be more faithful to the Ian Fleming original, even down to the death of the heroine (Diana Rigg) and the scaling down of gadgetry, puts On Her Majesty's Secret Service above many subsequent films in the series. It also happened to be the best picture he directed.

There followed two overlong adventure yarns set in Africa with Roger Moore, Gold (1974) and Shout At The Devil (1976); a couple of macho movies with Charles Bronson, Death Hunt (1981) and Assassination (1986); and the dispensable Wild Geese II (1985). But the work began to dry up, a situation that depressed the normally ebullient and energetic Hunt. In 1975, he settled in southern California with his partner Nicos Kourtis, who survives him.

Peter Roger Hunt, film editor and director, born March 11 1925; died August 14 2002

Peter R. Hunt (I) (1925–2002)

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Filmography

Editor (23 credits)

1980 Night Games

1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Chain of Events (1971) ... (as Peter Hunt)

1969 Arthur? Arthur!
1966 Strange Portrait
1965 The Ipcress File (as Peter Hunt)
1964 Goldfinger (as Peter Hunt)
1963 From Russia with Love (as Peter Hunt)
1963 Call Me Bwana (as Peter Hunt)
1962 Dr. No (as Peter Hunt)
1962 Damn the Defiant! (as Peter Hunt)
1961 Operation Snafu (as Peter Hunt)
1961 Loss of Innocence (as Peter Hunt)
1960 There Was a Crooked Man
1960 Sink the Bismarck! (as Peter Hunt)

1959 Ferry to Hong Kong (as Peter Hunt)
1958 Next to No Time
1958 A Cry from the Streets (as Peter Hunt)
1957 Paradise Lagoon (as Peter Hunt)
1956 This Week (TV Series) (as Peter Hunt)
1956 Hell in Korea (as Peter Hunt)
1956 Doublecross (as Peter Hunt)
1956 The Secret Tent (as Peter Hunt)
1954 The Venusian (as Peter Hunt)

Director (15 credits)

1991 Eyes of a Witness (TV Movie)

1987 Assassination (as Peter Hunt)

1986 Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1985 Wild Geese II (as Peter Hunt)
1984 The Last Days of Pompeii (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- Part 3 (1984) ... (as Peter Hunt)
- Part 2 (1984) ... (as Peter Hunt)
- Part 1 (1984) ... (as Peter Hunt)
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983)
- The Pencil (1983)
1981 Death Hunt (as Peter Hunt)
1980 Rough Cut (uncredited)

1978 The Beasts Are on the Streets (TV Movie)
1977 Gulliver's Travels (as Peter Hunt)
1976 Shout at the Devil (as Peter Hunt)
1974 Gold (as Peter Hunt)
1972 Shirley's World (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Always Leave Them Laughing (1972)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Chain of Events (1971) ... (as Peter Hunt, directed by)
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (as Peter Hunt)

Editorial department (15 credits)

1990 Desperate Hours (supervising editor - as Peter Hunt)

1969 Arthur? Arthur! (editorial director)
1967 You Only Live Twice (supervising editor - as Peter Hunt)
1965 Thunderball (supervising editor - as Peter Hunt)

1954 Burnt Evidence (assistant editor - as Peter Hunt)
1954 Orders Are Orders (associate editor - as Peter Hunt)
1953 House of Blackmail (assistant editor - as Peter Hunt)
1952 The Paris Express (assembling editor)
1951 Cheer the Brave (assistant editor - as Peter Hunt)
1950 The Wild Heart (associate editor - uncredited)
1950 They Were Not Divided (associate editor)
1949 Badger's Green (associate editor)
1948 A Gunman Has Escaped (assistant editor - uncredited)
1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (associate editor - uncredited)
1940 The Thief of Bagdad (associate editor - uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1956-1959 This Week (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)
1957 Salute to Show Business (TV Special) (producer - as Peter Hunt)

Actor (7 credits)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Man Reflected in Universal Export Sign (uncredited)
1966 This Man Craig (TV Series) - Mechanic
- Two Thousand a Year (1966) ... Mechanic (as Peter Hunt)
1961 Deadline Midnight (TV Series) - Copytaster
- Take Over (1961) ... Copytaster (as Peter Hunt)
1960 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Harvey
- Episode #1.22 (1960) ... Harvey (as Peter Hunt)

1953-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - An artist
- No Deadly Medicine (1959) ... (as Peter Hunt)
- The Hero (1953) ... An artist (as Peter Hunt)
1955 Touch and Go - Barman (as Peter Hunt)
1954 The Six Proud Walkers (TV Series) - Customs Official
- The Twelve Apostles (1954) ... Customs Official

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (6 credits)

1983 The Jigsaw Man (second unit director - as Peter Hunt)

1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (director: title sequence - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (second unit director - as Peter Hunt)
1965 Thunderball (second unit director - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (second unit director: insert shots - uncredited)

1956 Hell in Korea (second unit director - uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crewp (1 credit)

1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (production associate - as Peter Hunt) / (title sequence - uncredited)

Sound department (1 credit)

1953 Wheel of Fate (sound editor - as Peter Hunt)

Thanks (4 credits)

2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (acknowledgment: still photographs provided by)
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (acknowledgment: still photographs provided by) / (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (acknowledgment: still photographs provided by - as Peter Hunt)
1997 Aquaphobia (Short) (special thanks)

1963: Fernando Guillén Cuervo is born--Barcelona, Spain.
1965: 鐵金剛大戰 金手指 (Tiě jīngāng dàz hàn jīn shǒuzhǐ, or Iron King versus Golden Finger) released in Hong Kong.

2002: Die Another Day films the love scene with Bond and Miranda at the Ice Palace.

RichardTheBruce

2020: GQ prints a lengthy and insightful interview with Daniel Craig on his Bond films.

Daniel Craig: ‘This is my last Bond
movie. I’ve kept my mouth shut
before and regretted it’

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/daniel-craig-no-time-to-die-interview

By Sam Knight | 11 March 2020

Quietly, broodingly, intensely, Daniel Craig muscled his way into double-oh history. And having reframed a national avatar while that nation’s self-image was shaken more than a Vodka Martini, Craig’s fifth and final mission rounds out the longest, most nuanced tenure. Now, ahead of No Time To Die, he reveals how his infamously abrasive affair with the franchise banked box office billions and rewrote the rules of Bond

Shortly before midnight, on a damp Friday last October, Daniel Craig shot his last scene as James Bond. It was a chase sequence, outside, on the backlot of Pinewood Studios, just west of London. The set was a Havana streetscape – Cadillacs and neon. The scene would have been filmed in the Caribbean in the spring if Craig hadn’t ruptured his ankle ligaments and had to undergo surgery. He was 37 and blond when he was cast as the world’s most famous spy, in 2005. He is 52 now, his hair is dirty grey and he feels twinges of arthritis. “You get tighter and tighter,” Craig told me recently. “And then you just don’t bounce.”

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So there he was, being chased down a fake Cuban alleyway in England on a dank autumnal night. He was being paid a reported £19 million. It was what it was. Every Bond shoot is its own version of chaos and the making of No Time To Die, Craig’s fifth and final film in the role, was no different. The first director, Danny Boyle, quit. Craig got injured. A set exploded. “It feels like, ‘How the f--- are we going to do this?’” Craig said. “And somehow you do.” And that was before a novel virus swept the globe, delaying the movie’s April release by seven months, to November.

About 300 people were working on the final stretch of filming at Pinewood and everyone was pretty fried. The director, Cary Fukunaga, had shot the movie’s ending – the true farewell to Craig’s Bond – a few weeks earlier. The last days were about collecting scenes that were lost or flubbed in the previous, exhausting seven months. It was just an accident of the schedule that in his very final frames as Bond – a cinematic archetype that Craig transformed for the first time since the 1960s – he was in a tuxedo, disappearing into the night. The cameras rolled and Craig ran. That bulky, desperate run. “There was smoke,” he said, “and it was like, ‘Bye. See you. I’m checking out.’”

‘So many things are going on in your head. You’ve got to forget. You’ve got to leave your ego’

Craig isn’t the type to linger on moments such as these. For the most part, he blocks them out. “You can ignore these things in life or you can sort of... It’s like family history, isn’t it?” he told me. “The story kind of gets bigger and bigger. I feel a bit like that with movie sets: this legend builds up.” Bond is fraught with legends already. More men have walked on the moon than have played the part and Craig has been Bond for the longest of all – 14 years. (Sean Connery did two comeback gigs, but his main spell lasted only five.) The films are also, insanely, a family business, which only intensifies the sense of folklore. Albert “Cubby” Broccoli made Dr No, the first film in the franchise, in 1962. Fifty-eight years and 25 movies later, the producers are his daughter, Barbara Broccoli, and stepson, Michael G Wilson, who began his Bond career on the set of Goldfinger, in 1964.

The films go toe-to-toe with Marvel: Craig’s Skyfall did around the same box office, $1.1 billion (£680m), as Iron Man 3. At the same time, they are weirdly artisanal, bound by tradition, a certain way of doing things. The offices of Eon Productions, which makes the movies, are a short walk from Buckingham Palace. The opening theme tune hasn’t changed for half a century. The stunts are largely real. The scripts are a nightmare. There is a slightly demonic, British conviction that it will all work out in the end. “There has always been an element that Bond has been on the wing and a prayer,” Sam Mendes, who directed two of Craig’s 007 movies, told me. “It is not a particularly healthy way to work.” Reckoning with any of this doesn’t actually help if you’re the frontman. Craig has spent a lot of his time as James Bond trying not to think at all. While making No Time To Die, he taped some interviews with Broccoli and Wilson about his years in the role. There was a lot that he simply couldn’t remember. “Stop f----ing thinking and just f---ing act,” Craig said once, like it was an incantation. “It’s almost that. Because so many things are going on in your head. I mean, if you start thinking... that’s it. You’ve got to sort of forget. You’ve got to leave your ego.”

All of which means, now that it’s coming to an end, Craig sometimes struggles to comprehend what has happened to him and what he has achieved. When I spent time with him last winter, Craig was warm and voluble in the extreme. He talked a mile a minute, losing threads and finding others. He apologised when answering my questions almost as often as he swore. On screen, Craig’s face – that beautiful boxer’s face, those gas-ring eyes – can have a worrying stillness, while his body moves. In real life, everything about Craig is animated, part-sprung. It’s as if he wants to occupy several spots in the room at once. He self-deprecates a lot. During one long conversation, when I told him he had managed to imbue a previously vacant character with an inner life, a sense of mortality and an unquenchable feeling of loss – in short, that he had triumphed as Bond – Craig initially misunderstood what I meant. When he realised, he spluttered apologetically for a while. “What you’re saying, it’s like, if I say it...” he hesitated. He couldn’t bear to brag. But he also knew. “It’s raised the bar,” Craig finally conceded. “It’s f---ing raised the bar.”

After the last shot at Pinewood, Craig posed with Fukunaga for a picture. His bow tie was wonky. They both looked shattered. “Typically I’m not an emotional person on sets,” Fukunaga told me. “But there was sort of a pulsing feeling to that day.” The night shoot wrapped ahead of schedule and the production crew – many of the day team had stayed on to see Craig’s final bow – gathered next to the set. Fukunaga gave a short speech. Craig struggled through his. Since having a daughter with his wife, Rachel Weisz, in 2018, he has often found himself on the edge of tears. (Craig also has an adult daughter from an earlier marriage.) “I had a whole thing kind of put together in my head that I wanted to say,” he recalled. “I couldn’t get it out.”

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Craig’s stunt double was in tears. Broccoli and Wilson looked on. “We knew it was a monumental moment,” Broccoli said. “There wasn’t a dry eye, to be honest.” A crowd went back to Craig’s trailer. He drank Campari and tonics and made Negronis for everyone else. “I was a mess,” Broccoli said. “I was a complete and utter mess.” On set, the crew hung around. “It’s night shooting – everybody usually runs off,” Wilson told me. “And they just were talking with each other and shaking hands. And it was as if they knew it had to end, but they didn’t like the idea.”

‘I don’t think I would have been OK if I’d done the last film and that had been it’

The producers were reminiscing a few weeks later in a hotel in Lower Manhattan. It was early December. That morning, Craig and the other stars of No Time To Die – Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek and Lashana Lynch – had appeared on Good Morning America to launch the trailer. Crosby Street was a parking lot of celebrities’ black SUVs. Watching the trailer on my phone, like the rest of the world, the 25th Bond movie didn’t look a whole lot different from the 24th or the 23rd. The trailer showed Bond zooming a motorbike up some picturesque steps and Malek, as the baddie, in a worrying mask. There was some evident double-crossing.

Craig, however, did seem like a new person as he prepared to step away from the franchise. He was keen to celebrate his work as Bond and even keener to look forward to whatever is coming next. “I’m really... I’m OK,” he told me. “I don’t think I would have been if I’d done the last film and that had been it. But this, I’m like...” He dusted his hands. “Let’s go. Let’s get on with it. I’m fine.”

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It was a different story with the rest of the Bond family. Craig’s films in the role have grossed more than $3bn (£2.3bn). He also changed the part in dramatic terms. In Craig’s hands, Bond aged, fell in love and wept for the first time. He lost the smirk and gained a hinterland. During the same period, Britain – which Bond, in some way, always represents – has experienced extraordinary turmoil and self-doubt, Me Too has happened and it’s very unclear who the good guys are any more. It’s just possible that Craig smashed Bond in more ways than one. The films can never go back to what they were. When I asked Broccoli how she was going to cope without Craig, it was her turn to flounder. “Honestly, I don’t know,” she replied. “I can’t... I don’t want to think about it.”

It started with a funeral. On 21 April 2004, Mary Selway, a celebrated London casting director, died of cancer. Selway had helped Craig land some important early roles; she had also told him what to do. Craig isn’t exactly a submissive person. He left home as a teenager and never looked back. “My mother would hate me saying this, but I was on my own,” Craig said. In his twenties and thirties, he was self-reliant to a fault. “The idea that people supported me... at the time, I couldn’t see it. It was ‘I’m on my own. I do my own thing.’” Craig was at the airport, on his way to India, when one of Selway’s daughters called. She asked him to help carry the coffin. He was taken aback. “It was a wake-up,” he said. “It was like, ‘Oh, right. People care.’”

Selway’s funeral was at St James’s Piccadilly, a broad, light-filled church in the West End of London. The British acting world was present. Barbara Broccoli was in charge. If you have an image of Broccoli as some old lady in a Rolls-Royce, discard it now. Broccoli was 43 at the time. She has long brown hair and a mid-Atlantic accent and you do what she says. “There’s a very slim chance that the daughter of one of the great commercial producers of the last 100 years should also be a great, great producer, but that is in fact the case,” Mendes told me. Broccoli and Craig met for the first time at the wake. She asked him to come and see her.

Broccoli had been tracking Craig as the next Bond for the previous six years. In 1998, Craig played a psychopathic priest in Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth. His character was an assassin, dispatched by Rome to kill the Queen. The role suited Craig down to the ground: a damaged, dangerous young man. He has always been interested in portraying violence on the screen. “I always thought it was more violent when you saw within the person,” he told me. “The shock. It’s like Pacino shooting the cop in Godfather. He does it and Pacino’s face... he’s never shot someone before.” In Elizabeth, Craig’s priest had to kill an informant on the beach. The script said that he should strangle and drown him in the surf. But Craig had another idea. He moved the actor out of shot and pretended to dash the man’s brains out with a rock. “I started smashing,” Craig recalled. He carried on. He broke into a sweat. “They went, ‘Cut!’ And the crew went, ‘Oh... OK!’” Like he was a crazy person. Broccoli was transfixed. In another shot of Craig, stalking through a church wearing a long cassock, she saw Bond. “I just remember getting chills all over my body,” she told me. “I just thought, ‘Oh, my God.’”

Based on everything that had gone before, it didn’t make sense to cast Craig as 007. At the time, Pierce Brosnan had made four movies and was a direct descendant of the previous Bonds: dark, raffish, untouchable. The Brosnan films tended toward the camp and the fantastical, but so had many of the others. And they made good money. In 2002, Die Another Day, which featured Madonna as a fencing instructor and Brosnan kite-surfing down a conspicuously CGI wave, cleared more than $400m (£276m). Craig was a different creature altogether: a blond, art-house thug.

‘I remember saying to the producers, “I can’t do a Connery impression.
I can’t be Pierce”’

But the Bond franchise in the early 2000s was in a moment of uncertainty. In 1997, Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery had satirised the movies from head to foot, making it harder to play them for laughs. On the morning of 9/11, Broccoli and Wilson were in London, in a script meeting for Die Another Day. It was too late to rewrite the movie, but they sensed that it would be the last of its kind. “We felt the world has changed and the nature of these films has to change,” Broccoli told me. Two years earlier, after a long legal battle, Eon and MGM Studios had obtained the rights to Casino Royale, Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, which was published in 1953. After 9/11, the story offered a chance to refresh the franchise, grounding it more strongly in both the darker original tones of the novels and the new, worrying state of the world. “It wasn’t just recasting the role,” Broccoli said. “It was a new century and a new era. It felt like we had to redefine.”

Craig was sure he was the wrong person. The first time he went to the Eon offices, with all the old posters on the walls, he convinced himself it was just an exploratory thing. “I was like, ‘This is what they do. They get people in. They’re just feeling around,’” he said. “Plus, Pierce was not leaving Bond, right?”

When it was clear that Broccoli was serious, Craig tried to talk her out of it. “I remember saying to them early on, ‘I can’t do a Sean Connery impression. I can’t be Pierce,’” he said. Broccoli persisted. Craig held out. He was 36. His film career was in great shape. He didn’t want to say yes. He was terrified of saying no. He had an image of his washed-up older self in a pub, telling strangers that he could have been Bond. He was also a private person. “I could be anonymous in the world,” he said. “It was genuinely like, ‘My life is going to get f---ed if I do this.’”

In October 2004, Brosnan revealed he had been let go. Craig continued to prevaricate. When he is out of his depth, he can be surly and difficult. “It was literally like, ‘F--- off. I don’t f---ing want this. How dare you? How dare you offer this to me?’” he said. “It’s just ludicrous. But it was all defence.”

He demanded to see a script of Casino Royale. It was a good script. His objections were falling apart. One day, on his way to another meeting at Eon, Craig put on a dress shirt, but he couldn’t find any cufflinks. He put on a jacket and his shirtsleeves stuck out. He left the house. He went to a job interview for James Bond looking like he’d gotten dressed in the dark. “I thought, ‘F--- it, I’ll just let them hang down like that,’” Craig told me. As soon as he walked into the office, Broccoli knew he wanted the part.

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Craig was a born show-off. Until his parents broke up, when he was four, they ran a pub, the Ring O’Bells, in Frodsham, a market town in Cheshire, in northwest England. As a toddler, Craig would perform for the regulars, mimicking comics he had seen on TV – Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy. “I’d get money,” he said. “I suppose I’ve been making a living out of this from a very early age.”

When his parents separated, Craig’s mother, Olivia, moved him and his sister to a flat in an inner-city neighbourhood in Liverpool, where she went to work as an art teacher. The “L7” postcode of Liverpool, where Craig was a boy in the 1970s, is associated, even now, with poverty, violence and crime. “It’s rough. It’s what she could afford,” he told me. “It was what it was.” Olivia managed to get Craig and his elder sister into a school in an affluent suburb, in the north of the city. Each morning, she would drop them there and make her way back to teach. “Walking home from school was, you know, it was dicey,” Craig said. “I’m not saying it was Brooklyn in the 1980s. But it was dicey.”

Craig was unhappy at school. He failed his exams. He was bullied. He wasn’t a wimp – he played rugby, a passion of his father’s – but he didn’t fit in. When Craig was 14, a couple of friends put him forward to play Mr Sowerberry, an undertaker, in a school production of Oliver! The part has a jolly, macabre song. The audience loved him. “I’m not saying it’s like the first time you take really good drugs,” Craig said. “But it was a body shock of emotion, of adrenaline, in a way that I’d never felt before.”

Craig got an O level in art, his mother’s subject, and drifted out of school. About ten years ago, he found out that Olivia had been admitted to Rada when she was 18 but didn’t attend. “There was no money,” he said. “She couldn’t go.” Olivia would take Craig and his sister to the Liverpool Everyman, the city’s main theatre, where he hung out backstage, but he loved acting because it was his. “My experience on stage was mine,” he said. “It was the first time in my life I had something that I could claim as my own.”

Sometimes Craig stayed with his aunt, who lived on the Wirral Peninsula, to the west of the city. As a teenager, he haunted a cheap cinema, in the seaside town of Hoylake, next to the Irish Sea, where he was often the only customer. “The movies used to arrive late,” Craig said. “They were always terrible prints. They were scratchy. But I sat in there and watched movies.” One afternoon, in the early 1980s, he went to a science fiction double bill. “I’d never heard of this movie, Blade Runner.” Craig watched the film, alone, with a carton of Kia-Ora. He leaned forward in his seat, rapt, mind blown, until the end credits rolled. “I don’t think I took a sip. I just went, ‘That’s what I want to do. That’s what I want to do. I want to do that.’ And I didn’t know what that was,” Craig said. “That was revelatory for me.”

In 1984, when he was 16, Craig auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and moved to London for the summer. A friend of his father lent him a house on Ladbroke Road, in Notting Hill. Craig performed, on and off, with the National Youth Theatre for the next six years while he went through drama school. The theatre’s director, Edward Wilson, became a mentor. Wilson and his partner, Brian Lee, a set designer, let Craig look after their house. He became the theatre’s handyman. He painted the offices. In 1991, Craig was cast to play a racist South African soldier in The Power Of One, a commercial and critical flop starring Stephen Dorff. Craig was 23. He was paid £18,000. “Which was a f---ing fortune. I mean, a fortune,” Craig told me. “I spent every single penny of it.” No one had ever told him about taxes, assuming he would never earn enough to owe any. (It took him five years to pay off the bill.)

Going for auditions in London, Craig encountered plenty of young actors who were better educated or more comfortable in their skin. But what he lacked in polish, he made up for in presence. “At the end of the day, we had to put a show on, and I can put a f---ing show on,” he said. Craig talks about acting the way other people talk about jumping out of an aeroplane. “I love that levelling. When you’re standing backstage and you’re ready to go on... You’re all looking at each other and you’re all shitting yourselves. All bets are off.” He can’t wait to be out there. “That’s the drug,” he said. “It’s a place to be able to be out of control, to be completely out of control. But yet you have to be in control.”

In 1996, Craig made a breakthrough performance appearing in Our Friends In The North, the seminal BBC television series, playing a wheeler-dealer who ends up as a vagrant. Two years later, he was in Love Is The Devil, an art-house movie about the painter Francis Bacon, playing the role of George Dyer, a burglar and a lover of Bacon. Craig was naked and covered in paint for much of the time. “He was laughing his head off,” John Maybury, the director, told me. “He’s not afraid, and that is unusual because lots of actors are quite terrified of misplacing their image or misplacing their craft.” Maybury directed cult music videos in the 1980s and 1990s. He recognised a punk spirit in Craig, “a kind of underlying panic”. Maybury couldn’t get enough of that face on screen. “Those icy-blue eyes,” he said. “Part of you wants to trust him and wants to believe in all of the nice-guy stuff. But there is something in those eyes that is quite psychotic: the navy-blue circle around the edge of the blue.”

Love Is The Devil was a surprise hit. In 2002, Sam Mendes cast Craig as a crime boss’ unbalanced son in Road To Perdition, a big-budget Prohibition-era gangster film. Craig played scenes with Paul Newman and Tom Hanks. He was on edge the whole time. It came through in the performance. “There was something very, very tightly wound,” Mendes told me. “People talk a lot about danger in performances and, truthfully, it’s very rare. But Daniel always had that.” When he heard a few years later that Craig had been chosen to play Bond, Mendes wasn’t sure it would work. “Bond was this sort of constant: this eyebrow-raising, urbane, unflappable, punchline-delivering figure,” he said. “I thought, ‘Daniel can’t do that. He’s completely connected to his emotions.’ I thought he would struggle with it.”

‘I know we can’t have Bond doing amphetamines.
But inside, I know [he’s] doing that’

After Craig agreed to play Bond, the studio insisted on a screen test. A ritual of the franchise is that all potential Bonds are asked to play the same scene, from From Russia With Love, in which the spy returns to his hotel room to find Tatiana, a Russian agent, waiting for him naked in bed. Craig hated the rigmarole, the sense of following tradition. “I can’t believe my own arrogance, really,” he said. But he studied for the part. He went back to Fleming’s novels and found a character quite distinct from the unruffled screen persona of the previous 30 years. The Bond of the books was someone Craig could relate to: cold, messed up, human. “He is really f---ing dark,” he said. In the novel Moonraker (1955), Bond tips a load of speed into his Champagne. “I think it’s more interesting,” Craig told me. “I know we can’t have him having amphetamine and speed and doing all these things. But inside, I know I’m doing that. And I wanted to inform the part and say that’s what he is. He’s kind of a f----up. Because this job would f-- you up.”

The screen test was the whole deal. A stage at Pinewood. Lights, crew, make-up. A half-day shoot. The director, Martin Campbell – who shot GoldenEye in 1995 and went on to make Casino Royale – asked Craig to walk over to a fruit bowl and toss a grape into his mouth. Craig refused. “I just went, ‘No.’ I said, ‘No, I can’t.’” The two men argued. “I’m not going to do it. You do that,” Craig said. “It was about ‘How am I going to be James Bond?’”

From then on, and during the making of Casino Royale, a strange dynamic set in. The more that Broccoli and Wilson saw of Craig on camera, the more excited they became. “You just look in those eyes and you know he’s capable of doing anything,” Broccoli said. The rest of the world, however, was basically in uproar. It’s easy to forget, 15 years later, quite how badly Craig’s casting went down in Britain – where James Bond is considered, like the royal family or the England football team, to be more or less a publicly owned piece of the national culture. It was very quickly determined that Craig was the wrong guy. No one had heard of him. If they had, it was from arty, challenging films such as Love Is The Devil or The Mother, in which he plays a carpenter who starts sleeping with a woman in her sixties.

On 14 October 2005, Craig alighted on the banks of the River Thames from a Royal Navy assault craft to be introduced to the world as the sixth James Bond. He was wearing a life jacket. He wasn’t particularly tall. One of the few things the British tabloids knew about Craig, who was married for two years in his twenties, was that he liked to party. At the press conference, he was asked whether he would prefer Sienna Miller or Kate Moss, whom he was rumoured to have slept with, as a Bond girl. (Craig declined to answer.) And then there was his hair. It seems absurd now, and the colour has faded somewhat over the years, but at his unveiling Craig was flaxen. His hair was like summer straw. Fleming’s Bond might be an enigma, but his dark hair was an immutable fact.

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Outraged fans set up websites – blondnotbond.com, danielcraigisnotbond.com – to register their displeasure. “The Name’s Bland... James Bland,” ran the front page of the Daily Mirror. There was talk of a boycott. When shooting for Casino Royale began, paparazzi stalked the set. In the Bahamas, photographers buried themselves overnight on the beach, like turtles’ eggs. “It was all-over-the-world news,” Broccoli recalled. “Everything was saying that he was not right for the role.” It got to Craig. He called Olivia. “I remember saying to my mum, ‘Can I play James Bond?’” Craig told me. “And she was like, ‘Of course you can. But I am your mother.’”

‘Daniel let us in, which makes the moments he shuts us out even more arresting’
– Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Away from the madness, though, there was lots about Casino Royale that felt right. The script, by experienced Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, who wrote Million Dollar Baby, hewed close to the Fleming original. The story focused on a high-stakes poker game, updated for the 9/11 era, in aid of terrorist financing. For a Bond movie, Casino Royale was quietly revolutionary. There was no Q dishing out gadgets, no flirting with Moneypenny and scarcely a one-liner. Early in the film, Craig drives a Ford Mondeo and is mistaken for a parking valet, ignominies unthinkable for Roger Moore. Craig bulked up for the filming and for the first time James Bond’s body became an object of fascination. His emergence from the aquamarine sea, all muscle and swimming trunks, evoked Ursula Andress and her white bikini from Dr No, 44 years earlier. Craig’s physicality spoke in other ways, too. He performed many of his own stunts. His Bond became a trier, rather than insouciant. He had a thick neck. He vomited. He ran through a wall.

More than anything, though, Craig’s Bond was capable of emotion. His scenes with M, played by Judi Dench, rang with vulnerability. “She’s Mum. It’s as simple as that,” Craig said. “He loves her as much as he has loved anybody.” (Olivia kept a picture of Dench on the fridge in Liverpool when Craig was growing up.) Bond’s relationship with Vesper Lynd, meanwhile, has the heft of a genuine love affair. He talks about getting out of the spy game. My memory of watching Casino Royale is of the wholly new feeling of wanting James Bond to be happy. Of course, he can’t be. As in the book, Vesper betrays Bond and gets killed in the end. “The bitch is dead,” Bond says. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of Fleabag, who worked on the script of No Time To Die, was struck by a new complexity in Craig’s performance. “He let us in a bit, which makes the moments he shuts us out even more arresting,” she told me. “Overall, he grounded a fantasy character in real emotion, which is what I think we hadn’t realised we’d missed among the action and the bravado.”

The premiere was at the Odeon Leicester Square, in London’s West End, in November 2006. The Queen came. The lights dimmed. The opening sequence is shot in black and white. Craig is sitting in a darkened office in Prague. There is a flashback to his first kill, a drowning in a sink, a moment of vividly performed violence for a Bond movie. The audience laughed. Then Bond shoots a rogue British agent. At the premiere, the audience laughed again. In his seat, Craig started to panic. “I went, ‘Oh...’ I was like, ‘Oh, f---k,’” he said. Then the opening credits rolled, the music played and the crowd cheered. He realised that they liked him.

When Craig described this moment to me, 13 years later, in a hotel room in New York City, he started to cry. There was an unopened bottle of Champagne and two glasses on a table by the door. “I’m sorry,” he said. “All the pressure suddenly was... Because the whole thing of ‘He’s not right’... I intellectualised all of it.” He said, “I know why they don’t like me. I know why I don’t like me. So I know why they don’t f---ing like me.”

Casino Royale was a hit around the world. It became the biggest-grossing Bond film to date. But the relief that Craig felt upon being accepted by a sceptical domestic audience was particular. Britain has a complicated attitude toward its heroes, even fictional ones. “I don’t really quite understand it,” Craig told me. “But in Britain, it really f---ing matters and we nailed it.” Craig was the first Bond actor to be nominated for a Bafta for his role as 007. He remembered all the Bond movies that came out when he was growing up as a child. “Even when they were bad, it was still an event,” he said. “You still went. For it to be good and for people to go – f--- yes.”

‘The biggest ideas are love, tragedy and loss.
That’s what I aim for’

Philip Larkin was a James Bond fan. In 1981, the poet wrote about Fleming’s novels for the Times Literary Supplement. “What strikes one most about his books today is their unambiguous archaic decency,” Larkin wrote. “England is always right; foreigners are always wrong.” During Craig’s years in the part, the world and Britain’s place in it have changed. When Casino Royale was released, Tony Blair was in Number Ten and Donald Trump was the star of The Apprentice. The risk of a financial crisis was minimal. Brexit was not a word. In 2012, Craig filmed a skit with the Queen for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London. Bond and Her Majesty strode through Buckingham Palace, corgis all around. They climbed into a helicopter and appeared to parachute down over the Olympic Stadium while the Bond theme tune dang-danged around. Craig compared the experience to swimming off a beautiful beach and staring back at the shore in wonder. “I look around and I go, ‘I can’t believe I’m here,’” he said. If you watch the footage now, everything looks so innocent and long ago.

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Craig introduced time to the Bond movies. Before him, the character, and his world, simply regenerated from film to film. The padded-leather door to M’s office swung open. In Craig’s films, which are loosely serialised, Bond ages and Britain has aged. There is such thing as doubt. England isn’t always right; foreigners aren’t always wrong.

When Casino Royale wrapped, Craig had a sense of where he thought the overall story should go. “The biggest ideas are the best,” he told me. “And the biggest ideas are love and tragedy and loss. They just are. And that’s what I instinctively want to aim for.” After the death of Vesper Lynd, he wanted Bond to shut down, lose everything and, over the course of several adventures, gradually find himself again. “I think we’ve done it with No Time To Die,” Craig said. “I think we’ve got to this place: and it was to discover his love, that he could be in love and that that was OK.”

The challenge has been to reverse-engineer that long, somewhat complex arc through speedboat chases, lethal poisonings, exploding hotels, beautiful women, a touch of skiing and world-destroying maniacs – all under the pressure of movie-release dates set years in advance. It hasn’t always worked. Quantum Of Solace, Craig’s second Bond film, begins moments after the action ends in Casino Royale, but quickly collapses into a zany plot about Bolivian water resources. “We didn’t have a script,” Craig conceded. “So we concentrated a lot on the stunts.”

He found his great collaborator in Sam Mendes. It was Craig’s idea to approach the director. Mendes said yes because of Craig. “He was the reason I did it,” Mendes told me. “I got re-interested in the franchise because of Casino Royale.” Like Craig, he was drawn to the idea of Bond’s mortality and an uncertainty about Britain’s 21st-century status. In Skyfall, their first Bond movie together, Javier Bardem, playing the cyberterrorist villain, says, “England, the empire, MI6 – you’re living in a ruin... You just don’t know it yet.”

‘We struggled to keep Trump out of this film.
But of course it is always there’

The relationship between Bond and Britain – or Britain’s male imagination, at least – has never been totally straightforward. The movies are mainly about escape: the world is endangered, then saved by a man in a dinner jacket. But both Mendes and Craig were concerned with making the franchise at least correspond to the world from which it departs. (Skyfall and Spectre were inspired by Julian Assange and the Edward Snowden NSA disclosures, respectively.) In Skyfall, Mendes told me that he was anxious to correct the “kind of nostalgic, jingoistic, pre-Cold War idea of what Britain was”, represented by the classic films. “It felt right that it was Daniel,” Mendes said, “because he seemed like a contemporary Bond and like a realist, like a person who actually walked on the street.”

During our conversations, Craig didn’t want to talk much about real-world affairs. Not because he isn’t engaged (Craig opposed Brexit and, as a US citizen, gave money to Bernie Sanders), but because once you start, it’s hard to talk about anything else. “We struggled to keep Trump out of this film,” Craig told me of No Time To Die. “But of course it is there. It’s always there, whether it’s Trump or whether it’s Brexit or whether it’s Russian influence on elections or whatever.” Like many Britons who have left home – Craig and Weisz are based in New York – he is baffled by the country’s seemingly inward turn since 2016. “There are British people working in the top industries in the world and at the top of those industries. We do that and we are good at that. And somehow we’re kind of breaking all that apart,” he told me. “Whether that’s breaking from Europe... There is a sort of nihilism, isn’t there?”

It is a stretch, but Craig sometimes sees Bond as an avatar for a kind of selfless public service that doesn’t seem to hold in our populist, polarised moment. “There’s something I feel that Bond represents: someone who’s there, trying to do the job, and doesn’t want any f---ing publicity,” he said. “And this is a joke, because he drives a f---ing Aston Martin and does all these ridiculous things. But these people exist... It’s the ambulance service. I know it’s terribly kind of romantic. But they are people who are just getting on with it and saving people’s lives.” He despairs of the grandstanding of Trump and Boris Johnson and the generalised hysteria of social media – the absence of a certain adult indifference. “But that’s not the way the world works now,” Craig said. “It’s about humiliating others to save one’s own skin. And it’s cowardly. It’s just f---ing cowardly.”

‘No other actor would have attempted to play Bond in that
way, that sense in which he is incendiary’ – Sam Mendes

Making his first two Bond films, Craig experienced, at times, a suffocating sense of responsibility. When he accepted the part, he had insisted on having a say in the creative process, but this sometimes left him feeling like he had to control everything. With Mendes, Craig found he could relax. “He reminded me that my job was to act,” he said. “It loosened me. It took the rod out of my arse, whatever.” He began to experiment, playing with the script and adding other flourishes.

On set, Mendes witnessed an actor wrestling with one of the most familiar, and hackneyed, characters in celluloid history. For some reason, he came to think of Craig as one of those slightly frightening guys at a protest, wearing a T-shirt despite the cold, decorated in tattoos, telling everyone they are not extreme enough. “That’s Daniel. That’s actually who he is,” Mendes said. “The truth is, there is something wounded and hurt about him.” Shooting Skyfall, Craig confided that he was trying to play Bond as if he were burning up. “Really no other actor would have attempted to play Bond in that way,” the director told me, “that sense in which he is incendiary.” And it is by that arduous road that Craig also discovered his own version of the old Bond swagger. In the film’s opening sequence, Bond is chasing an enemy on a Turkish train. He rips off the roof of the train with a mechanical digger and drops into a crowded carriage. His suit is dusty and smeared with blood. He straightens his cuffs.

Craig added the gesture mid-stunt. “It wasn’t in the script,” he told me. “I realised why that came in, why he did it: because he’s scared. He’s f---ing terrified. He’s just jumped off the back of the train. He’s just like, ‘Everything’s fine.’” The moment is pure Bond, yet differently so. Craig’s Bond isn’t detached from the moment; he is fully immersed, holding himself together. “Otherwise he’s just shooting his F---ing cuff,” Craig said. “Isn’t he cool? He’s not cool. He’s really not cool at that point.” When I mentioned the cuffs to Mendes, he remembered the improvisation straightaway. “Because it has come from inside,” he said. “Anyone else doing that, it would have been a cliché, and somehow he manages to make it real.” And that is Craig’s art. “It’s very difficult to achieve,” Mendes said, “finding a way to reimagine those things so they feel real again. It takes unbelievable willpower to do that.”

Skyfall made more than a billion dollars. It also had a solid script. Craig’s tough times as Bond were on the movies that never quite came together, where scenes and dialogues and plot twists were being written and rewritten on the fly. Since Casino Royale, there has been a lot of attention paid to Craig’s body and physical preparation for the films. At times he worked out relentlessly because he had nothing else to go on. “I’ve got to do something,” Craig said. When we met this winter, Knives Out, in which Craig plays an eccentric gentleman detective, was in the cinemas. For the part, he had practised a Southern accent and played with an ornate screenplay by Rian Johnson, also the director, for several months. “You’re learning the script and it gets into you like that,” Craig said. “With Bond, you don’t get the script, so the physicality of it is a preparation, in a way. It’s making my head go, ‘This is what it’s going to be.’” Trying to inhabit a cipher, in a plotless blockbuster, with the world’s eyes upon you, is like living out a very particular anxiety dream. “I have suffered from it in the past,” Craig told me. “I have suffered because it’s been like, ‘I can’t cope. I can’t deal with this.’”

His body has taken the brunt. On Quantum Of Solace, Craig tore the labrum – the connecting cartilage – in his right shoulder during a stunt in a plunging aircraft. Then he bashed it again jumping through a window in Italy and crashing into a wall. “I was just nervous and overcooked it,” he said. “At that point, my arm was kind of useless.” Early in the filming of Skyfall, Craig ruptured both his calf muscles, meaning that he had to undergo rehab in a swimming pool during the shoot. “It’s not about recovery, because you know you can recover,” he told me. “It’s about psychologically thinking that you’re going to do it again.”

‘I felt physically low. The prospect of doing another movie
was off the cards. That’s why it has been five years’

Over the years, Craig has caught himself swaying 60 feet in the air, wondering what the hell he is doing. He burned out on Spectre. In March 2015, he blew his anterior cruciate ligament – heard it go boink – while fighting with Dave Bautista, a former professional wrestler, on the set of a train at Pinewood. “I was like, ‘Dave, throw me for Christ’s sake,’ because he was being light with me,” Craig said. “So he threw me and, God bless him, he just left my knee over there.” Craig spent the rest of the shoot wearing a bulky knee brace, which was disguised during the edit. “That was a drag,” he said.

It was also why, when Craig was asked in an interview two days after filming ended whether he would make a fifth Bond movie, he said that he would prefer to smash the glass he was drinking from and slash his wrists. Craig has never been comfortable selling Bond. “You’re front and centre while filming and then they tell you to go and sell the movie. Literally, you’re standing in a crowd of people,” he said. “And suddenly they’ve all pushed you forward. And they’re like, ‘Go on!’ It’s really disconcerting. And you think you’re responsible. And actually, of course, you are.” Mendes has long sympathised with Craig, who is not a smooth PR man. “He is by nature a much more anarchic person and he is not allowed to be that within the franchise,” Mendes said. “His natural position is to tell the truth.” After Spectre, Craig told the truth. “I was never going to do one again,” he told me. “I was like, ‘Is this work really genuinely worth this, to go through this, this whole thing?’ And I didn’t feel... I felt physically really low. So the prospect of doing another movie was just, like, off the cards. And that’s why it has been five years.”

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The hiatus between Spectre and No Time To Die has been the second longest in the history of the franchise. And the production of the 25th Bond has been no picnic. In August 2018, Danny Boyle, who shot Craig’s double act with the Queen for London 2012 Olympics, walked away from the film, citing creative differences with Broccoli and Wilson. “Danny had ideas and the ideas didn’t work out, and that was just the way it was,” Craig said. At least four versions of the script came and went. “I would love to have gone into this and had a script that we could shoot,” he said. “And it just didn’t happen. There were so many things that went against it.” Fukunaga, who is best known for making HBO’s stylish True Detective, came on board three months before production was due to begin. Then Craig injured his ankle. The release date was pushed back once, and now twice. Last June, an explosion at Pinewood injured a member of the crew. The British tabloids called it a cursed film. “It pisses me off,” Craig said. “Because I’m just like, ‘Don’t curse our movie.’ And also, we’re doing our best here.” (The decision to delay the release of No Time To Die until November because of the coronavirus outbreak was made by studio executives a month before the planned April-release – just as their star was embarking on a full press tour. I wouldn’t have wanted to be the person who had to deliver the news to Craig.)

‘The world outside Bond sort of ceases to exist.
When you’re in it, you’re in it’

“The James Bond of it all,” as Craig sometimes says, was clearly a monster. Craig was more involved in the writing than in any of his other Bond films. “This is my last movie,” he told me. “I’ve kept my mouth shut before and I’ve stayed out of it and I’ve respected it and I’ve regretted that I did.” Craig was instrumental in hiring Waller-Bridge to work on the script partway through the shoot. When things were rough, he didn’t hold back. “I’ve been very forceful in meetings and often way too blunt and probably completely rude,” Craig said. “But I’m like, ‘We’re here! Come on!’ And I always say sorry.”

‘Daniel’s very adamant that Bond is the driving force in
everything. He’s the jackhammer’ – Cary Fukunaga

Waller-Bridge was more diplomatic. “He is incredibly passionate about the work,” she told me. “Bond is very close to his heart and he fights for the integrity of the character every step of the way.”

Fukunaga said that Craig suggested dialogue for entire scenes of No Time To Die, trying to give a voice to a character who many writers find frankly intimidating. “Daniel’s very adamant that Bond is the driving force in everything,” Fukunaga said. “He’s the jackhammer.” Craig worked himself into the ground. “He is tireless,” Fukunaga told me. “He will work until he’s basically crawling home.”

The first time we met, a few weeks after the end of the shoot, Craig seemed almost too close to it all. The production was too large and too recent to make sense of it. “How much of Phoebe is in there, who knows?” Craig said. “We’re all in it somewhere. Phoebe’s in it, Cary’s in it, the writers are in it, but it’s a... We battled it and battled it and battled it. Who knows?” he said. “I’m talking to you now. I’ve seen bits of it. I haven’t seen it. Who the f-- knows?”

But the truth is that, after 14 years, busted shoulders, busted knees, the best part of £40m, a place in the pantheon, a happy home, Craig didn’t feel it so much on No Time To Die. “This one I was like, ‘Nah, it’s not going happen. It’s just not going to happen.’ It doesn’t mean I wasn’t as wound up and just as f---ing, like, mad,” he said. “Because the world outside sort of slightly ceases to exist. When you’re in it, you’re in it and that’s the thing,” he said. And now Craig is no longer completely in it. He can see a world outside. “I don’t know what it is, maybe having another kid, maybe just being older,” he told me. “But all of these things, I was just like, you know, f-- it. There are other things that are more important.”

I saw him again in London a few weeks later. Craig was wearing a large brown leather cap and carrying an empty suitcase. No one in the hotel lobby seemed to recognise him. He was in a sprightly mood. He was looking forward to the Golden Globes, where he was nominated for a best actor award for Knives Out. (The movie has already made $300m [£230m] and Craig is committed to being part of a planned sequel.) “The success of it, going into Bond, could not have come at a better time for me,” he said. Craig was delighted by the contrasting performances: a prolix, Sondheim-humming private eye next to his taciturn, tormented killer. “It’s not like, ‘OK, this is going to be my career after Bond.’ There’s no plan to it. It’s just kind of worked out.” Craig wasn’t about to shoot anything straightaway. Much of 2020 will involve an extended, slow-moving sign-off as 007. But unlike with some of the other actors who have played Bond, it doesn’t make much sense to worry about what Craig will do next – especially when he sounds so unafraid. “I’m pretty sure I can play just about anything,” Craig told me. “Yeah. I’m pretty sure I can, or at least I can make a f---ing good fist of it.”

It was early evening. We ordered some beers from room service. Craig had spent the day in a post-production studio in Soho, recording dialogue for No Time To Die. That morning, he had watched the film for the first time. It was the reason he had crossed the Atlantic. For security, the cut existed on only one or two hard drives. “I couldn’t see it in New York. I had to fly over,” Craig said. “Everything is on such lockdown.”

No Time To Die was projected onto the wall of an editing suite. There was no score, the special effects weren’t finished, but Craig’s final Bond movie was done. He had been allowed to invite a few people to the screening. But he chose to watch it alone. “I need to just be on my own, kind of experiencing it,” he said. The first few minutes are always unbearable: “Why am I standing like that? What am I doing?” Craig said. But it passes, and then he was the boy in the empty cinema by the sea again, transported by a big, wild movie – only now it was him who was up on the screen, doing whatever that is. “I think it works,” Craig said, pausing on every word. “So hallelujah.”

RichardTheBruce

March 12th

1923: Vladek Sheybal is born--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland.
(He dies 16 October 1992 at age 69--London, England.)

http://www.iainfisher.com/russell/rusard.html

Vladek Sheybal worked with Ken Russell from the early BBC days through to the early films and the classic Russell era. As well as his work with Russell, Sheybal appeared in films ranging from the Bond film From Russia with Love to Red Dawn and television series including the sublime U.F.O. and Smiley´s People.

This interview and article is by David Del Valle and originally appeared in Psychotronic magazine. Thanks to David and Psychotronic for permission to reproduce it.
[/quote]

Vladek Sheybal (1923–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792996/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (91 credits)

1992 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Lederman
- Sympathy for the Devil (1992) ... Mr. Lederman
1992 Double X: The Name of the Game - Pawnbroker
1990 After Midnight - Hiyam El-Alfi (The Hotel Manager)
1990 Strike It Rich - Kinski

1989 Le bateau bar (Short)
1989 Champagne Charlie (TV Movie) - Count Plasky
1987 Valtos or the Veil (Short) - Narrator
1987 Network 7 (TV Series) (Flesh and Blood segment)
1986 The Lost Secret (Video) - Professor Basil Sline
1986 Masterpiece Theatre: Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (TV Mini-Series)
Jinnah - 6 episodes
1984 Red Dawn - Bratchenko
1984 Memed My Hawk - Ali
1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Morjack
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Gen. Zorin
1983 Marco Polo (TV Mini-Series) - Prosecutor
- Episode #1.8 (1983) ... Prosecutor (uncredited)
1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series)
Otto Leipzig / Otto Leipzig (The Magician)
- Episode #1.5 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig (The Magician)
1981 Tristan and Isolde - Andret
1980 All About a Prima Ballerina - Marcus
1980 The Apple - Boogalow
1980 Shogun (TV Mini-Series) - Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.5 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
1980 Shogun (TV Movie) - Captain Ferriera
1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - Bengtsson
1979 Quest of Eagles (TV Series) - Priest - 7 episodes
1979 Avalanche Express - Zannbin (as Vladets Shebal)
1979 The Lady Vanishes - Trainmaster
1979 Running Blind (TV Series) - Kennikin
- The Deception Operation (1979) ... Kennikin
- Sixteen Rivers to Cross (1979) ... Kennikin
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Mr. Morango
- The Kitchen (1977) ... Mr. Morango
1977 Hamlet - Player Queen / Lucianus / 1st Player
1977 Supernatural (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Hubert
- Night of the Marionettes (1977) ... Herr Hubert
1977 Gulliver's Travels (voice)
1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Zarcardi
- Cat Amongst the Pigeons (1976) ... Zarcardi
1976 The Sell-Out - Dutchman
1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Boris Lubchenko
- Invasion (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Intrepid (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Minisub (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Crisis (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Taped (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
1976 House of Pleasure for Women - Francesco
1975 The Wind and the Lion - The Bashaw
1974 Invasion: UFO - Dr. Doug Jackson
1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Dr. Doug Jackson
1974 No, Honestly (TV Series) - Giovanianni
- Only Make Believe (1974) ... Giovanianni
1974 The Kiss of Death - Portiere d'albergo
1974 S*P*Y*S - Borisenko (Russian Spy Chief)
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Yerimenko
- The Man in the Middle (1974) ... Yerimenko
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Sobotnik
- Part Three (1974) ... Sobotnik
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Sobotnik
1974 Napoleon and Love (TV Mini-Series) - Prince Poniatowski
- Maria Walewska (1974) ... Prince Poniatowski
1974 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Mr. Miller
- The Deep Blue Sea (1974) ... Mr. Miller
1973 Scorpio - Zemetkin
1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Dr. Doug Jackson / Jackson - 10 episodes
1972 The Protectors (TV Series) - Sandor Karoleon
- Brother Hood (1972) ... Sandor Karoleon
1972 Innocent Bystanders - Aaron Kaplan
1972 Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag (TV Movie) - Kaiphas
1972 The Spy's Wife (Short) - Vladek
1971 The Boy Friend - De Thrill
1971 Puppet on a Chain - Meegeren
1971 The Last Valley - Mathias
1970 Play for Today (TV Series) - Hans Weider
- A Distant Thunder (1970) ... Hans Weider
1970 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Otto Zobel
- First, You Eat - Later We Ruin You (1970) ... Otto Zobel
1970 Leo the Last - Laszlo
1970 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Joseph Goebbels
- Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) ... Joseph Goebbels

1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Kulik
- Report 7931: Sniper - When Is Your Cousin Not? (1969) ... Kulik
1969 Women in Love - Loerke
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Psychiatrist
1969 Mosquito Squadron - Lieutenant Schack
1969 Callan (TV Series) - Dicer
- The Little Bits and Pieces of Love (1969) ... Dicer
1968 The Limbo Line - Oleg
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Max Kellor
- The Dark Island (1968) ... Max Kellor
1968 Deadfall - Dr. Delgado
1968 To Grab the Ring - Mijnheer Smith
1967 Billion Dollar Brain - Dr. Eiwort
1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers - Herbert (voice)
1967 Casino Royale - Le Chiffre's Representative
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Narrator
- Amerika (1966) ... Narrator (voice)
1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Nikita Roskin
- The Helpful Pirate (1966) ... Nikita Roskin
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Lt. Josef Dyboski
- Silence Is the Enemy (1966) ... Lt. Josef Dyboski
1965-1966 The Man in Room 17 (TV Series) - Yasha Saroya / Max Opals
- How to Rob a Bank - And Get Away with It (1966) ... Yasha Saroya
- Tell the Truth (1965) ... Max Opals
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Reiner
- And Suddenly You're Dead (1966) ... Reiner
1965-1966 The Big Spender (TV Series) - Lamarck
- The Twist (1966) ... Lamarck
- The Snatch (1966) ... Lamarck
- The Green Table (1965) ... Lamarck
- The Front Man (1965) ... Lamarck
- The Hard Sell (1965) ... Lamarck
1965 Return from the Ashes - Paul, Chess Club Manager
1965 Mogul (TV Series) - Herr Lenz
- The Schloss Belt (1965) ... Herr Lenz
1965 Monitor (TV Series documentary) - Pierre Louÿs / Film Director
- The Debussy Film (1965) ... Pierre Louÿs / Film Director
1965 Front Page Story (TV Series) - George Litdz
- Stateless (1965) ... George Litdz
1965 R3 (TV Series) - Jan Wolkowski
- A Whole Lot of Reasons (1965) ... Jan Wolkowski
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Tewfick
- Fish on the Hook (1964) ... Tewfick
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - William Jones
- Wild Goose Chase (1964) ... William Jones
1961-1964 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Klaus / Gutman / Mr. Prizborski
- The Other Man (1964) ... Klaus
- Camino Real (1964) ... Gutman
- Ring of Truth (1961) ... Mr. Prizborski
1963 Z Cars (TV Series) - Yador
- Daylight Robbery (1963) ... Yador
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Arva
- Meet My Son, Henry (1963) ... Arva
1963 From Russia with Love - Kronsteen
1963 The Birth of a Private Man (TV Movie) - Jurek Stypulkowsky
1961 Man of Rope (Short) - Prisoner

1957 Trzy kobiety - Gestapo Officer (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)
1957 Kanal - Michal 'Ogromny', the composer (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)
1957 Television Theater (TV Series)
- Grona gniewu (1957) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)

Director (5 credits)

1980 All About a Prima Ballerina

1961-1962 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- A Choice of Weapons (1962)
- Jeannette (1961)
1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Visitors (1961)
1961 A Brother for Joe (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- The Morning After (1961)
- Into the Dark (1961)
- The Knife (1961)
-
1955-1957 Television Theater (TV Series) (6 episodes) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal, directed by)

Writer (3 credits)

1980 All About a Prima Ballerina

1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (story adaption - 1 episode)
- Jeannette (1961) ... (story adaption)
-
1956 Television Theater (TV Series) (translation - 1 episode)
- Tristan i Izolda (1956) ... (translation - as Wladyslaw Sheybal)

Producer (1 credit)

1960 Pagliacci (TV Movie) (producer)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1980 The Apple (performer: "Showbizness", "How to Be a Master")

Self (1 credit)
1970 Review (TV Series documentary) - Himself - Reader
- Erté - High Priest of Camp/Bartok (1970) ... Himself - Reader

Archive footage (2 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Kronsteen (uncredited)
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Kronsteen

2002: The producers announce the name of BOND 20 to be Die Another Day.

2012: Local residents of Hankley Common near Elstead in Surrey, England, report a huge (Scottish?) manor-type structure being built there.

[mg]https://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Chapel-Construction-1024x730.jpg[/img]

2013: Skyfall released on DVD and Blu-ray.
2015: National Assembly for Wales rejects a request to film BOND 24 scenes in Senedd Chamber, Cardiff Bay, Wales.

Assembly refuses James Bond film access to
Senedd chamber

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-31861644
By Huw Thomas BBC Wales arts and media correspondent
12 March 2015

James Bond actor Daniel Craig filming in Rome in February

A request to film scenes for the next James Bond movie at the Senedd chamber in Cardiff Bay was rejected by the National Assembly for Wales.

BBC Wales understands that assembly officials were approached by the makers of Spectre, which stars Daniel Craig as 007, in late 2014.

But the request to film Bond in the Senedd's debating chamber was turned down.

The assembly said the chamber "is not a drama studio".

The Bond production team turned down its offer of using other locations within the assembly's estate.

Filming has already begun on Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, which is due to be shown in cinemas in November.

Sony Pictures has been asked to comment.

The debating chamber inside the Welsh assembly

The assembly statement said: "The Senedd's Siambr [chamber] is the home of Welsh democracy and seat of government for Wales.

"Some media activity is allowed in the Siambr when it relates to the work of the assembly or reflects the Siambr's status as the focal point of Welsh civic life.

"It is not a drama studio.

"Decisions on requests from the creative industries to use the assembly's estate are made on a case by case basis, and we are proud to have collaborated with many television and film companies on drama productions such as Sherlock and Dr Who.

"The request by James Bond to use the Siambr was turned down and they were offered alternative locations on the estate which they subsequently declined."

The Welsh assembly said it had offered filmmakers buildings other than
the Senedd as possible locations

2018: Work commences on the expansion of Ian Fleming International Airport, Boscobel, St. Mary, Jamaica, to make it a regional hub. Includes a police station.

RichardTheBruce

March 13th

1931: Toby Robins is born--Toronto, Canada.

1960: Ian Fleming dines with US Senator John F. Kennedy, shares advice to oust Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, 2002.
Chapter 11 - Cuba, Vietnam, and the Rhetorical Interlude

John F. Kennedy was already a leading contender for the Democratic
nomination when, on 13 March 1960, he hosted a dinner party at which
Ian Fleming was a guest. The newly ascendant Fidel Castro was on the
conversation menu—indeed, Kennedy was about to make an election
issue of the Cuban crisis. What could America do to rid itself of this
troublesome communist preening himself in its own backyard? Well,
what would James Bond have done? Fleming mischievously rattled off
a number of suggestions for “the James Bond treatment,” among which
were the exploitation of Cuban religious superstition and the emascula-
tion of Castro's image through the removal of his beard. With one
exception, all eyes were on Fleming as he rattled off his extempo-
raneous recipe.

That exception was Fleming’s fellow guest John Gross, a senior offi-
cer from the CIA. Gross was fascinated not by the British writer but bu
the reactions of one very important listener. Within half an hour of the
dinner party’s end, Gross was on the telephone to Allen Dulles, telling
how the possible future president had lapped up Fleming’s suggestions.

Kennedy could see the droll side of the Bond saga, and he was quite
capable of using spy mystique to enhance his own in a purely tongue-
in-cheek manner, In an interview with Life magazine published on
17 March 1961, he included Fleming’s From Russia With Love among
his ten favorite books—as a “publicity gag” according to his staff. But
the new president was in deadly earnest on the subject of the removal of
Castro. Within a month of the Life interview, he launched the Bay of
Pigs operation to topple the Cuban leader.

When Ian Fleming Met John F. Kennedy

By Matt Reimann. May 27, 2015. 9:00 AM.
https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/when-ian-fleming-met-john-f.-kennedy

1979: The Man With the Golden Gun re-released in the Philippines.

1996: Dan Petrie Jr submits his first draft screenplay for Tomorrow Never Dies.

2015: Sir Roger Moore, Daniel Craig, Michael G. Wilson, Sam Mendes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris(!), Rory Kinnear appear in a skit for Comic Relief.

jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/daniel-craig-and-sir-roger-moore-007-sketch-comic-relief

2015: The Guardian reports OO7 is credited for cleaning up Rome streets--literally.

When in Rome: James Bond team win
praise for litter-picking Spectre shoot

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/13/spectre-james-bond-rome-shoot-litter-cardiff

Producers on the new James Bond movie have had their efforts to
clean up the Italian city praised by locals, but Welsh National
Assembly denies 007 permission to shoot at Cardiff HQ
Ben Child | Fri 13 Mar 2015 05.35 EDT

A load of immaculate cobbles … a scene from Spectre is shot in Rome.
Photograph: AGF s.r.l./REX[/center]

Ahead of James Bond’s arrival in Rome to shoot new installment Spectre, some locals openly questioned whether the eternal city was in any state to receive the dapper British spy. But a month into the shoot, and despite misgivings over increased traffic from some Romans, director Sam Mendes’ team has won praise for helping to clean up rubbish-strewn, graffiti-plagued areas as part of the filming process, reports the Telegraph.

Producers are said to have worked with city council workers on the clean-up project, while their introduction of private security firms has helped rid the city of much-detested unlicensed parking attendants in the touristy Trastavere district near the River Tiber. Location fees have brought an estimated €1m into public coffers and news website Linkiesta last week summed up the positive reaction to the arrival of 007 production company Eon with the header “The mayor of Rome is Bond. James Bond”.

The picture is a far cry from the one painted last month by campaigners writing on the Basta Cartelloni blog, who suggested prior to Bond’s arrival that the state of the city was likely to shame Romans. They published photographs showing the 15th-century Ponte Sisto pedestrian bridge appearing dirty and adorned with graffiti and garbage, with the nearby Tiber Farnesina street (where a car chase was due to take place) appearing to be in a similar state.

Meanwhile, the makers of Spectre have received a less cheery welcome in Cardiff, where producers have been refused permission to shoot in the main building of the Welsh Assembly, known as the Senedd, reports the BBC.

A spokesperson for the Assembly said in a statement: “The Senedd’s Siambr [chamber] is the home of Welsh democracy and seat of government for Wales. Some media activity is allowed in the Siambr when it relates to the work of the assembly or reflects the Siambr’s status as the focal point of Welsh civic life. It is not a drama studio.

“Decisions on requests from the creative industries to use the assembly’s estate are made on a case by case basis, and we are proud to have collaborated with many television and film companies on drama productions such as Sherlock and Dr Who. The request by James Bond to use the Siambr was turned down and they were offered alternative locations on the estate which they subsequently declined.”

It is not known why Bond would have wanted to shoot in the chamber. Producers have been filming the 24th official 007 movie in London, Rome and the Austrian Alps over the past month. Daniel Craig returns for his fourth turn as Bond in Spectre, which also stars Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci. The film is expected to hit UK cinemas on 23 October and will debut in the US on 6 November.

2017: Scientific Games announces its exclusive licensing agreement for James Bond .

2019: Dynamite Entertainment's release date for James Bond: Origin #7.
Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

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RichardTheBruce

March 14th

1953: Ian and Anne Fleming depart Jamaica for London via Montego Bay, Nassau, then New York City. They leave behind Mr. and Mrs. Guy Charteris, plus Lucian Freud who establishes his moment of "Goldeneye folklore".

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 8 - Newspaper Romance

After lunch the following day, March 14, Ian and Anne left Goldeneye
for Montego Bay, from where they were due to fly out to Nassau, and then
home to London, via New York. Guy Charteris was amused by the way the
members of the staff were formally lined up to bid their master and
mistress goodbye. He, his wife, and Lucien Frued stayed a bit longer, during
which time the incident occurred which became part of the Goldeneye
folklore. At dinner one evening, Violet, the housekeeper, served some
vegetables in a Pyrex dish. When Freud tried to help himself to what he
thought were sausages, he discovered they were actually Violet's fingers
on the other side of the dish.

1962: Dr. No films Bond and Honey meeting Dr. No at his lair.

1995: GoldenEye films the first scenes featuring 006.
1998: トゥモロー・ネバー・ダイ (To~umorō nebā dai; Tomorrow Never Die) released in Japan.

1998: Bill Ackridge dies at age 72--San Francisco, California.
(Born 9 January 1926.)

Bill Ackridge (1926–1998)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010089/

2020: BBC airs radio drama The Man with the Golden Gun with Toby Stephens' ninth time as OO7.
2021: BBC One begins the 30th series of Top Gear (20:00 GMT).

Top Gear trio on James Bond, mid-life crises and UK-only trips

See the complete article here:

https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/top-gear-trio-james-bond-021206700.html

Steven McIntosh - Entertainment reporter | Fri, March 12, 2021

The trio filmed their links in a west London courtyard, with residents watching from their windows

Ahead of Top Gear's 30th series, its hosts discuss James Bond cars, mid-life crises, and why the show might travel abroad less often in future.

Unlike many TV shows, Top Gear actively thrived in 2020.

While other programmes lost their live audience, and therefore any kind of atmosphere, Top Gear's last season moved its crowd outdoors and filmed the series as a drive-in. It was perfect: a TV show about cars with an audience who were all, appropriately, in their cars.

Unfortunately, the further tightening of restrictions over winter has meant even the drive-in has had to go. Instead, Top Gear's top trio have been filming their links in a courtyard in west London, with residents able to watch from their windows.

"If Paddy McGuinness was performing in my garden, I'd shut my curtains," jokes Freddie Flintoff, highlighting one of the possible issues with the new set-up. "You can imagine some old lady opening her window, remonstrating, shouting, 'Shut up!'" adds Chris Harris.

But it's largely proved to be a good solution for the show, and the location feels particularly fitting. The residential complex where they've been filming used to be part of the BBC's Television Centre headquarters, before the area began to be converted into luxury flats in 2013.

The James Bond episode: Flintoff as Jaws, McGuinness as Bond, and Harris as Oddjob

The show has regained some previously lost ground recently, thanks to a combination of factors, including a move to BBC One and an improved chemistry between the three hosts.

McGuinness in particular has become the BBC's golden boy in the past year or two. In addition to Top Gear, he is fronting Saturday night game shows Catchpoint and the forthcoming I Can See Your Voice. He has also hosted coronavirus fundraisers and New Year's Eve coverage for the corporation.

We're only a few words into making this point when he interrupts with glee.

"You hear that lads?! The BBC's golden boy!" he shouts, laughing. "And I get to be associated with him, I'm blessed," Harris picks up, with a hint of sarcasm. "Sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that you're in the presence of greatness."

That greatness is confined to the UK this series due to travel restrictions, which is uncharacteristic for a show that usually ventures around the world. But the team certainly weren't stuck for ideas or locations for the new episodes.

"What's been surprising is how the UK has given us enough visual material to make the show," says Harris. "It's reminded us that a large part of the show is about how interesting the cars are, and the chemistry between us and the fun we're having."

He adds: "Always having to go further and further away to Timbuktu or wherever you want to go, maybe we got a bit too carried away with that in the past. Top Gear is a show that people expect to be filmed abroad at times, but I think in the new world, after Covid, maybe we won't go abroad as much as we did before. That's not a bad thing, because we all hate airports."

The trio take part in several more death-defying stunts this series

McGuinness particularly enjoyed the episode they shot in Scotland, with its "absolutely stunning scenery", while Flintoff highlights the Lake District in the north west. "It's only an hour-and-a-half from where I'm from," he says, "but it seems a lot of people don't know how beautiful it is, so it's just a chance to show off all these places in the UK. But I think we're all ready for a trip abroad at some point as well."

Also this series is what the trio refer to as the "mid-life crisis" episode, where they decide to embrace their middle-aged tastes.

"That's just a documentary piece that follows us around for a day living our normal lives," jokes Harris, pre-empting what viewers' reactions will be. "There was no plan for it. They said, 'Just be yourself, lads,'" adds Flintoff.

"The key thing is, we've taken the idea of the mid-life crisis, which all of us could stand accused of being in the middle of, and have said, 'It's not a crisis, it's an opportunity, don't be ashamed of the fact you want to buy a TVR, or a fake Ferrari, or a Holden Monaro,'" explains Harris.

"Celebrate the fact that this is the time in life when you are simply buying the things that you wanted to own when you were younger, which you can now because you've either got the money, or the children have left home. And let's face it, if we were to look at the Top Gear audience, there are probably quite a few men in that position."

The episode will feature the team taking part in a triathlon, including being kitted out in lycra for the cycling. "That's going to be a treat, watching that in 4K," McGuinness remarks.

McGuinness reckons Bond producers will want him to replace Daniel Craig

For him, the highlight of the new series was undeniably the James Bond-themed episode. "They gave us all the Bond cars, and as a Bond fan, that was dream-come-true time," McGuinness recalls.

"It was unbelievable. We all get dressed up, I was Bond, these two were the bad guys. Flintoff was Jaws, Harris was Oddjob. It was just so much fun, and it will be one of those episodes which is slightly different to what we normally do, but I think people will really enjoy it when it's on."

Flintoff agrees. "I'm not a big Bond fan, but I saw the cars, got a chance to drive the Lotus, I was dressed as Jaws chasing Paddy as James Bond, and you couldn't not enjoy yourself. I just laughed at the ridiculousness of it."

The new Bond film, No Time To Die, has been delayed so many times now that Top Gear's tribute to the franchise has leapfrogged its release.

"They might throw the film out when they see this!" jokes McGuinness, suggesting they might want to swap him for Daniel Craig. "It's no accident they've put it back, they've seen this episode and gone, 'He's our man.'"

We're looking forward to finding out what on earth is going on here

The new series will be the second to air on BBC One. Its move from BBC Two might not sound particularly important in an era where the power of terrestrial television is diminishing, but it has led to a leap in viewing figures to more than 5.5 million per episode (including catch-up).

McGuinness says they know from data that the show now has more younger and female viewers. "Not that that's what we were aiming for," he says. "But I always thought it would be nice to broaden the audience a little bit so you don't have to be a petrol head to watch the show."

Flintoff adds: "I think we're getting better as well, the more time we spend with each other, we know how each other works, from a production side as well, they know what it's like to work with us and know what makes us tick, so hopefully we can stick at it for a bit longer yet, because I think there's still room for improvement."

The 30th series of Top Gear begins on Sunday 14 March at 20:00 GMT on BBC One.

From 2020:

Driving the best Bond cars ever! | Top Gear

2021: Billie Eilish and brother FINNEAS win the Best Song Written for Visual Media 2021 Grammy Award for title song “No Time to Die” released 13 February 2020. (The latest film release plan is October 2021.)

RichardTheBruce

March 15th

1924: Walter Gotell is born--Bonn, Germany.
(He dies 5 May 1997 at age 73--London, England.)

Obituary: Walter Gotell

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-walter-gotell-1256876.html
Tom Vallance | Friday 20 June 1997 00:02

A familiar figure of authority or menace in over 90 films and countless television shows, Walter Gotell was one of those reliable character players whose faces are well known but whose names are familiar to only a few. His balding, severe countenance made him the perfect KGB chief in several James Bond adventures, and in war films his crooked smile could quickly become a cruel sneer when he portrayed a Nazi.

Born in 1924, he went in 1943 straight from acting with a repertory company into films, which were suffering from a dearth of young actors due to the Second World War. His first films all dealt with the war - The Day Will Dawn, We Dive at Dawn, Tomorrow We Live, Night Invader (all 1943) and 2,000 Women (1944). Deciding to pursue a more secure business career, he gave up acting for several years. A man of strong intellect (he spoke five languages), he was an astute and successful businessman, but in 1950 returned to the screen with small roles in The Wooden Horse (a rare sympathetic, if enigmatic, role as a member of the French resistance), Cairo Road and Albert RN.

He was to work steadily for the next 40 years, though still combining acting with business (he ultimately became business manager of a group of engineering companies) and, in later years, farming.

In John Huston's fine film version of C.S. Forester's The African Queen (1951), Gotell was one of the German seamen who briefly capture Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn near the film's climax. Subsequent Nazi roles included Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960, as an officer on the ill-fated battleship), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and a particularly chilling portrayal of ruthlessness in The Boys From Brazil (1978). In this last bizarre tale of Hitler clones, he was Mundt, an assassin despatched by Joseph Mengele (Gregory Peck) to kill the father of one of the clones. Recognising the victim (Wolfgang Preiss) as an old comrade from his days in the SS, he tells the man that he has a difficult assignment but lies about the identity of his intended victim. When his friend assures him that orders must be obeyed, he hurls the man over a snow-covered dam.

As Morzeny, henchman of the memorable villainess Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) in the second and most distinguished James Bond film, From Russia With Love (1963), it was Gotell who, in the opening "teaser" sequence in which Bond (Sean Connery) is apparently assassinated, peels off the dead man's mask to reveal that it was merely a double being used in a lethal training exercise for a Spectre assassin.

In the first Bond film to star Roger Moore [incorrect statement], The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Gotell had a more prominent role as the KGB chief General Gogol, a role he continued to play in other Bond films, including Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and the first Bond to star Timothy Dalton, The Living Daylights (1987).

Gotell's prolific television work included the recurring role of Chief Constable Cullen in the popular BBC crime series Softly, Softly: Task Force, which ran for 131 episodes from 1970 to 1976. He was also featured in the mini-series The Scarlet and the Black (1983), in which Gregory Peck played his first dramatic role on television as a real-life Vatican official who aided escaped prisoners of war in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Gotell's last films included the fantasy Wings of Fame (1990) with Peter O'Toole and Colin Firth, and the hit comedy The Pope Must Die (1991). In recent years he had devoted more time to his farm in Ireland.

Walter Gotell, actor: born Bonn 15 March 1924; twice married (two daughters); died 5 May 1997.

Walter Gotell (1924–1997)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331770/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (170 credits)

1997 Prince Valiant - Erik the Old
1995 The X-Files (TV Series) - Victor Klemper
- Paper Clip (1995) ... Victor Klemper
1992 Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) - Mr. Hertz
- Werewolf Concerto (1992) ... Mr. Hertz
1991/II The Nose (Short)
1991 Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (Video) - General Mueller
1990 Wings of Fame - Receptionist

1989 The Nightmare Years (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. Von Fritsch
- Episode #1.4 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
- Part 2 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
- Part 1 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
1987-1989 MacGyver (TV Series) - General Barenov / Starkoss
- Gold Rush (1989) ... General Barenov
- GX-1 (1987) ... Starkoss
1989 She Knows Too Much (TV Movie) - Foreigner
1989 Freddy's Nightmares (TV Series) - Kemmerling
- The End of the World (1989) ... Kemmerling
1988 Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) - J.F. Blackwell
- A Class Act (1988) ... J.F. Blackwell
1988 Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers - Uncle John
1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) - Kurt Mandl
- Home Soil (1988) ... Kurt Mandl
1987 The Living Daylights - General Anatol Gogol
1987 I'll Take Manhattan (TV Mini-Series) - Jonas Alexander
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Jonas Alexander
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Jonas Alexander
1986 One Life to Live (TV Series) - Dirk Keller
- Episode dated 4 December 1986 (1986) ... Dirk Keller
- Episode #1.4805 (1986) ... Dirk Keller
1986 Miami Vice (TV Series) - Max Klizer
- When Irish Eyes Are Crying (1986) ... Max Klizer
1986 Liberty (TV Movie) - Rabbi Goteyel
1986 Spenser: For Hire (TV Series) - Max Claus
- A Madness Most Discreet (1986) ... Max Claus
1985 Basic Training - Nabokov
1985 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Simon Carascas
- Knight Sting (1985) ... Simon Carascas
1985 KGB: The Secret War - Nicholai
1985 The A-Team (TV Series) - Ramon DeJarro
- Where Is the Monster When You Need Him? (1985) ... Ramon DeJarro
1985 A View to a Kill - General Gogol
1985 Lace II (TV Movie)
General Zedd
1985 Skuggan av Henry (TV Movie)
Grüner
1985 Robert Kennedy and His Times (TV Mini-Series)
Anatoly Dobrynin
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Anatoly Dobrynin
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Anatoly Dobrynin
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Anatoly Dobrynin
1984 Hotel (TV Series) - Douglas Sloane
- Intimate Strangers (1984) ... Douglas Sloane
1984 Memed My Hawk - Sgt. Asim
1984 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Edward C. Bass / Charles Childress
- Bojangles and the Dancer/Deuces Are Wild (1984) ... Edward C. Bass / Charles Childress
1984 Airwolf (TV Series) - Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert
- Fight Like a Dove (1984) ... Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert
1984 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Inspector Sekulevitch
- Olympic Quest (1984) ... Inspector Sekulevitch
1983 Masquerade (TV Series) - Kurt Steiner
- Diamonds (1983) ... Kurt Steiner
1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Curt Hollander
- Service Above and Beyond (1983) ... Curt Hollander
1983 Kalabaliken i Bender - Storvesiren
1983 Octopussy - Gogol
1983 Hallelujah! (TV Series) - Col Henderson
- Retirement (1983) ... Col Henderson
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Gen. Max Helm
1983 Crown Court (TV Series) - Peter Lindsey-Hewitt QC - 6 episodes
- Night Fever: Part 1 (1983) ... Peter Lindsey-Hewitt QC
1982 County Hall (TV Series) - Sir Michael Gunther
1982 Skulden (TV Mini-Series) - Misjakov
1982 Airline (TV Series) - Wing Cdr. Harrington
- Look After Number One (1982) ... Wing Cdr. Harrington
1981 Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Swinton
- What Price Churchill? (1981) ... Lord Swinton
- The Long Tide of Surrender (1981) ... Lord Swinton
- His Own Funeral (1981) ... Lord Swinton
1981 For Your Eyes Only - General Gogol
1981 Barriers (TV Series) - Karl Zuckmayer
- Episode #1.13 (1981) ... Karl Zuckmayer
1980 Cry of the Innocent (TV Movie) - Jack Brewster
1980 Flight Level 450 - Herbert Anchell

1979 Cuba - Don Jose Pulido
1979 Moonraker - General Gogol
1979 The London Connection - Simmons
1978 The Word (TV Mini-Series) - Hennig
1978 The Boys from Brazil - Mundt
1978 The Stud - Benjamin / Fontaine's husband
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - Sam Baker
- The Female Factor (1978) ... Sam Baker
1977 March or Die - Col. Lamont
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Gen. Anatol Gogol
1977 The Assignment - Frankenheimer
1977 Black Sunday - Colonel Riat
1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Sir Rackstraw Cammarleigh
- The Code of the Mulliners (1976) ... Sir Rackstraw Cammarleigh
1969-1975 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Chief Constable Cullen / Chief Constable Arthur Cullen / Chief Constable ArthurCullen - 54 episodes
1974 Funny Ha-Ha (TV Series) - Sgt. Needler
- The Molly Wopsy (1974) ... Sgt. Needler
1974 Special Branch (TV Series) - Morales
- Intercept (1974) ... Morales
1974 The Zoo Gang (TV Series) - Boucher
- Revenge: Post Dated (1974) ... Boucher
1972 Our Miss Fred - Schmidt
1972/I Endless Night - Constantine
1971 Misleading Cases (TV Series) - Judge Basil Bottle, QC
- The Sitting Bird (1971) ... Judge Basil Bottle, QC
1969-1970 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Raymond Berry / Gilbert Fletcher
- Settlement Day (1970) ... Raymond Berry
- Body and Soul (1969) ... Gilbert Fletcher
1970 The First Freedom (TV Movie) - Khmelnitsky
1970 The Borderers (TV Series) - Scott of Branxholm
- Where the White Lillies Grow (1970) ... Scott of Branxholm

1969 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Max Bronson
- There Must Be a Mr. X (1969) ... Max Bronson
1969 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Chief Constable Arthur Cullen
- We Shall Miss You (1969) ... Chief Constable Arthur Cullen
1969 The File of the Golden Goose - George Leeds
1969 Mogul (TV Series) - Ian Webster
- How Much Is One Man Worth? (1969) ... Ian Webster
1968 Cry Wolf
1968 Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Henderson
- Wisteria Lodge (1968) ... Henderson
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Captain Jost
- Operation Deep-Freeze (1968) ... Captain Jost
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Hamilton Tromp
- The German Song (1968) ... Hamilton Tromp
1968 Attack on the Iron Coast - Van Horst
1968 Pere Goriot (TV Mini-Series) - Baron von Nucingen
- Vautrin (1968) ... Baron von Nucingen
- The Mandarin (1968) ... Baron von Nucingen
1968 Z Cars (TV Series) - Jack Lane
- Out of the Frying Pan: Part 2 (1968) ... Jack Lane
- Out of the Frying Pan: Part 1 (1968) ... Jack Lane
1967 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Gooch
- The Old Pals Act (1967) ... Gooch
1967 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Klaus Wandl
- A Letter from Helga (1967) ... Klaus Wandl
1967 The Baron (TV Series) - Captain Brandt
- Night of the Hunter (1967) ... Captain Brandt
1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Brian / 1st Policeman
- The Three Barrelled Shotgun (1966) ... Brian
- The Scent of Fear (1959) ... 1st Policeman
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Major Stefan Miesko
- Silence Is the Enemy (1966) ... Major Stefan Miesko
1965 Redcap (TV Series) - Insp. Heller
- A Regiment of the Line (1965) ... Insp. Heller
1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Hendryks
- Four Days to Fireworks (1965) ... Hendryks
1965 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - The man
- The Stairway (1965) ... The man
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Holten (uncredited)
1965 Lord Jim - Captain of Patna
1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Hans Lasser
- The Hi-Jackers (1964) ... Hans Lasser
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Swenson
- Ring of Hate (1964) ... Swenson
1964 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Benton
- The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog: Who the Heck Is Hector? (1964) ... Benton
- The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog: Where the Heck Is Hector? (1964) ... Benton
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Souza
- A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Souza
1963 From Russia with Love - Morzeny
1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Cedric
1963 55 Days at Peking - Capt. Hoffman
1963 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Prince Otto
- The Castle of Prince Otto (1963) ... Prince Otto
1962 These Are the Damned - Major Holland
1962 The Devil's Agent - Dr. Ritter (uncredited)
1962 The Longest Day - German Soldier (uncredited)
1962 The Andromeda Breakthrough (TV Series) - Professor Neilson
- The Roman Peace (1962) ... Professor Neilson
- Hurricane (1962) ... Professor Neilson
- Storm Centres (1962) ... Professor Neilson
- Gale Warning (1962) ... Professor Neilson
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Dr. Zorbb
1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Gestapo Commissar Kehr
- The Cross and the Arrow (1962) ... Gestapo Commissar Kehr
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series)
- The Case of the Studio Payroll (1961)
1961 The Devil's Daffodil - Oberinspektor Whiteside / Supt. Whiteside
1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series)
Don Manuel Ortega, Captain of the King's Guards
- That Lady (1961) ... Don Manuel Ortega, Captain of the King's Guards
1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series)
Receptionist / Colonel Perar
- Under the Lake (1961) ... Receptionist
- The Leak (1960) ... Colonel Perar
1961 The Guns of Navarone - Muesel
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Sergeant
- The Avengers (1961) ... Sergeant
1960 Circle of Deception - Phoney Ballard
1960 Man from Interpol (TV Series) - Gerdhart / Karl / Demitri
- Death in Oils (1960) ... Gerdhart
- The Man Who Sold Hope (1960) ... Karl
- Escape Route (1960) ... Demitri
1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll - Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
1960 Biggles (TV Series)
- Biggles on Mystery Island: Part 3 (1960)
- Biggles on Mystery Island: Part 2 (1960)
- Biggles on Mystery Island: Part 1 (1960)
1960 Circus of Horrors - Baron Von Gruber (uncredited)
1959-1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Fischer / Zeist
- Payment in Advance (1960) ... Fischer
- The Money Game (1959) ... Zeist
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)

1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Lloyd
- Shadow Bomb (1959) ... Lloyd
1959 The Third Man (TV Series) - Rasmussen
- The Man with Two Left Hands (1959) ... Rasmussen
1959 Hot Money Girl - Hamburg Inspector
1959 World Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Catholic Lieutenant
- Mother Courage and Her Children (1959) ... Catholic Lieutenant
1959 Shake Hands with the Devil - Sergeant 'Black &Tans' (uncredited)
1959 No Safety Ahead (uncredited)
1959 The Bandit of Zhobe - Azhad Khan
1959 William Tell (TV Series) - Officer
- The Trap (1959) ... Officer
1959 Television Playwright (TV Series) - General Kerch
- The Dark Side of the Earth (1959) ... General Kerch
1959 Behind Closed Doors (TV Series) - The Obelisk (1959)
1958 Hell, Heaven or Hoboken - German Colonel
1958 The Man Inside - Profuno
1958 Dial 999 (TV Series) - Peters
- Illegal Entry (1958) ... Peters
1958 Ice Cold in Alex - 1st German Officer
1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Landlord
- Brothers in Arms (1958) ... Landlord
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Kramer
- No Survivors (1958) ... Kramer
1958 Television World Theatre (TV Series) - Dr. Jellinek
- The Captain of Koepenick (1958) ... Dr. Jellinek
1957 Sword of Freedom (TV Series) - Dominick
- Who is Felicia (1957) ... Dominick
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - Ray Dilling
- The Railroad Story (1957) ... Ray Dilling
1957 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Inspector Steiner
- A Hamlet in Flames (1957) ... Inspector Steiner
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Kommandant
- Operation Tulip (1957) ... Kommandant
1957 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (TV Series) - Gestapo officer
- My Favourite Kidnapper (1957) ... Gestapo officer
1953-1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Mir Jaffar / Manuel Ortega / Shylock
- Clive of India (1956) ... Mir Jaffar
- The Fugitive (1956)
- That Lady (1954) ... Manuel Ortega
- Will Shakespeare (1953) ... Shylock
1956 Potts in Parovia (TV Series) - Colonel Schmidt - 6 episodes
1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Police Captain
- Tangier (1956) ... Police Captain
1956 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series)
Le Drue / Florian
- Burgundy (1956) ... Le Drue (as Walter Gotel)
- Bordeaux (1956) ... Florian
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Matthews , Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
1956 1984 - Guard (uncredited)
1955 The Way Out - Policeman (uncredited)
1955 The Mysterious Bullet (Short) - Police Constable (uncredited)
1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Anton
- Murder of a Ham (1955) ... Anton
1955 Above Us the Waves - German Officer on Tirpitz (uncredited)
1954 Duel in the Jungle - Jim
1954 Count Albany (TV Short) - A strange gentleman
1953 Stryker of the Yard
1953 Break to Freedom - Feldwebel
1953 Paratrooper - German Sentry
1953 Desperate Moment - Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
1953 The Silver Swan (TV Series) - 1st Gestapo
- Elsa (1953) ... 1st Gestapo
1951 The African Queen - Second Officer
1951 Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared (TV Short) - Luzatto
1950 Lilli Marlene - Direktor of Propaganda
1950 The Wooden Horse - Francois - The Follower
1950 Cairo Road - Prison Officer
1948 No Orchids for Miss Blandish - Joe - Nightclub Doorman (uncredited)
1944 Two Thousand Women - German Soldier (uncredited)
1943 The Night Invader
1943 It Started at Midnight -Captured resistance member
1943 We Dive at Dawn - Luftwaffe Captain (uncredited)
1943 At Dawn We Die - Hans
1942 Secret Mission - Lieutenant Langfeld (uncredited)
1942 The Goose Steps Out - SS Guard (uncredited)
1942 The Avengers - German Soldier (uncredited)

Self (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself / Morzany

1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1942: Molly Peters is born--Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England. (She dies 30 May 2017 at age 75.)

Molly Peters, Bond Girl in
‘Thunderball,’ Reportedly Dies
at 75

https://variety.com/2017/film/global/molly-peters-dies-dead-bond-girl-1202448700/
By Stewart Clarke

CREDIT: PIERLUIGI/REX/Shutterstock

Bond girl Molly Peters, whose risque scenes in “Thunderball” caused much comment at the time, has died, according to the official James Bond Twitter account.

Peters, 75, played Pat, a nurse tending to Sean Connery’s Bond in 1965’s “Thunderball.” She was the first Bond girl to take her clothes off onscreen in scenes that were considered racy and controversial. Several were ultimately cut from the film.

The Bond Twitter feed said: “We are sad to hear that Molly Peters has passed away at the age of 75. Our thoughts are with her family.”

Peters’ death comes barely a week after that of Roger Moore, who played the part of the suave 007 more times than any other actor.

Peters, who was also a model, had a fleeting acting career, spanning just a handful of films and series in the mid-1960s. “Thunderball” was her most notable big screen role.

Her movie career ended with the 1968 feature “Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River.” She also had parts in various 1960s series, including “Armchair Theater.”

In later life, she talked about her Bond role in 1995’s “Behind the Scenes With Thunderball” and 2000’s “Terence Young: Bond Vivant.”

The cause of death has not been announced.

Molly Peters (I) (1942–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676601/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (7 credits)

1968 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River - Heath's Secretary
1967 Baker's Half-Dozen (TV Series) - The Girl
- The Guy Fawkes Night Massacre (1967) ... The Girl (as Mollie Peters)
1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Waitress
- Easier in the Dark (1967) ... Waitress (as Mollie Peters)
1966 Das Experiment (TV Movie) - Junges Mädchen
1966 Target for Killing - Vera (as Mollie Peters)
1965 Thunderball - Patricia
1964 Peter Studies Form (Short) (as Mollie Peters)

Self (3 credits)

2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Herself

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Herself / Patricia

1966 The Dream World of Harrison Marks - Herself

1944: Fleming associate Maud Russell writes about him in her diary entry.

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

Wednesday 15 March, 1944

This morning I heard Muriel Wright, I.’s girl, had been killed. Strange things happen. I heard in my room at the Admiralty that she’d been killed by debris flung up from a crater in the road coming through her roof and falling on her in bed. Most of the room was untouched. Appalled for I. and found it difficult to concentrate. I know he will be overcome with remorse and blame himself for not marrying her and for a thousand other things none of which he is to blame for.

1964: The Observer publishes Maurice Richardson's piece "Bondo-san and Tiger Tanaka".

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films ahead of principal photography. Actors on hand include Gerard Butler.

2002: A BOND 20 press release from the producers announces: "We are thrilled that Madonna, who is recognized as the world's most exciting songwriter and performer, has agreed to compose and sing the song for the first James Bond movie of the new millennium."

MADONNA WILL 'DIE' FOR JAMES BOND THEME, POSSIBLE CAMEO

SHE'LL WRITE THE TRACK; HOPES TO GET BEFORE CAMERAS.

http://www.mtv.com/news/1452934/madonna-will-die-for-james-bond-theme-possible-cameo/
Jennifer Vineyard | 03/15/2002

Madonna's no beautiful stranger to spy films — she's acted up a storm as Breathless Mahoney in 1990's "Dick Tracy" and contributed one song to the 1999 spy spoof "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." Now she's going for the real thing — shaken, not stirred — with the title track to the 20th James Bond film, Die Another Day.

"We are thrilled that Madonna, who is recognized as the world's most exciting songwriter and performer, has agreed to compose and sing the song for the first James Bond movie of the new millennium," said the film's team of producers in a statement Friday. "She has an excellent feel for writing and performing music in films and we are proud she will contribute her talents to Die Another Day."

Madonna had been in talks with MGM for over a month to contribute a song to the film's soundtrack, and now that negotiations are over, she's heading into the studio next week to record the tune. It won't necessarily carry the same title as the movie, despite it being the "title" song, her spokesperson, Liz Rosenberg, said.

There's still a question of whether or not Madonna might have a cameo in Die Another Day. Rosenberg said the singer/actress is interested in having a bit part, and since she's committed to the play "Up for Grabs," which opens in London's West End in May, she's trying to figure out a way to do both. Since the spy caper is shooting on location in Hawaii, Hong Kong, Spain, Iceland and London, Madonna might be able to meet up with the production on a European shoot.

Madonna will be joining a healthy list of past James Bond title trackers, including Duran Duran ("A View to a Kill"), Garbage ("The World Is Not Enough"), Tina Turner ("Goldeneye" [sic]), Sheena Easton ("For Your Eyes Only"), Paul McCartney and Wings ("Live and Let Die"), and the queen of Bond titles, Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger", "Diamonds Are Forever").

Her past soundtrack contributions, outside of the Grammy Award-winning "Beautiful Stranger" from "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (see "Madonna, Mike Myers Team Up For 'Austin Powers' Video"), include "You Must Love Me" from "Evita," "This Used to Be My Playground" from "A League of Their Own," "Who's That Girl?" from the film of the same title, "Live to Tell" from "At Close Range," "Into the Groove" from "Desperately Seeking Susan," and "Crazy for You" from "Vision Quest."

Madonna has returned to acting not only in "Up for Grabs," but also in "Love, Sex, Drugs & Money," the upcoming film by her husband, Guy Ritchie. The movie was formerly called "Swept Away" (see "Madonna 'Swept Away' To Star In Husband's Movie").

Die Another Day, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, is scheduled to open Thanksgiving weekend, November 22.

2015: The BOND 24 film crew remains past this scheduled date to continue filming the car chase in Rome.
2017: A competition to design the 27th letter of the English language, inspired by Ian Fleming, starts this date and runs through 25 April.

Could you be the designer behind the 27th
letter of the alphabet?

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/the-search-is-on-for-the-undiscovered-27th-letter-of-the-alphabet
By Dom Carter March 01, 2017

A competition conceived by Ian Fleming is looking for typographers to create a new letter design.

When he wasn't busy penning James Bond novels, Ian Fleming also experimented with typography. In fact, in 1947, while helping out at the typographical magazine Alphabet & Image, he hit on the idea of a competition that called for designers to create a 27th letter of the alphabet. Now, 70 years later, the contest is being run again in connection with The Book Collector.

The 2017 competition will follow Ian Fleming's original rules, namely that the experimental design must conform to the alphabet as known in English-writing countries, and that it must represent a recognised sound or combination of sounds. In terms of design, entrants must also demonstrate decorative, philological and typographical skill.

James Fleming, Ian's nephew, says: “I was intrigued to hear about the alphabet competition and I thought it was a good idea to give this another go. Creative heads don't need a professional qualification in order to enter. Anyone with an idea as to how the English language could be improved in a way that complies with the competition rules can take part.

"Last time submissions included '-sion', 'th' and 'st', but alternatives are yours to explore. Given that most people embrace the fast-moving world of social media, perhaps this time the new letter will become part of the alphabet."

Full rules and conditions can be found at The Book Collector, with the competition running from 15 March to 25 April 2017. The winner will be announced at the ABA Olympia Book Fair on 2 June, with a £250 cash prize up for grabs.
http://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/the-27th-letter

2018: Danny Boyle is confirmed to direct BOND 25. (These plans later change.)

2020: Kitzbühel Austria hosts its tenth James Bond Themed ‘Fireball’ event, ending today.

James Bond Themed ‘Fireball’ Event
Returns to Kitzbühel for Tenth Time

https://www.inthesnow.com/james-bond-themed-fireball-event-returns-to-kitzbuhel-for-tenth-time/
BY Patrick Thorne 2nd February 2020

Less than a month before the release of the new 007 movie No Time to Die, the Alpine ski resort of Kitzbühel in the Austrian Tirol is set to host the tenth edition of their Fireball festival.

Running from 12-15 March 2020, this James Bond-themed event pays homage to Ian Fleming, who lived in the town in the late 1920s.

It comprises events including a cocktail party, a Blackjack tournament at the casino, a themed ski race and a gala dinner.

Each year the festival has a different Bond movie theme. This year it’s Diamonds are Forever. Last year was Moonraker, 2018 was Live and Let Die and 2017 The Spy Who Loved Me.

2021: Yaphet Kotto dies at age 81--Philippines.
(Born 15 November 1939--New York City, New York.)

Yaphet Kotto, Bond Villain and ‘Alien’
Star, Dies at 81

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/arts/yaphet-kotto-dead.html

Well known for playing hardened personalities, he was also seen in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.”

Yaphet Kotto with Sigourney Weaver in the 1979 film “Alien,” in which he played a member of a spaceship crew doing battle with an extraterrestrial creature. Credit...
20th Century Fox, via Associated Press

By Neil Genzlinger | March 16, 2021

Yaphet Kotto, a versatile actor whose many roles included the wisecracking engineer in the hit science-fiction film “Alien,” the villainous adversary in the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” and a police lieutenant on the long-running television series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died on Monday near Manila. He was 81.

His agent, Ryan Goldhar, confirmed the death but said he did not know the cause. Mr. Kotto had lived in the Philippines for some years.

Mr. Kotto worked mostly in the theater for the first decade or so of his career. His bodily size made him a dominating figure in any sort of role, though it tended to bring him parts as a heavy.

“I’m always called powerful, bulky or imposing,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 1993, when “Homicide: Life on the Street” made its debut. “Or they say I fill up a room. I’m a 200-pound, 6-foot 3-inch Black guy. And I think I have this image of a monster. It’s very difficult.”
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Mr. Kotto as a police lieutenant on the long-running TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
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In 1969, still largely unknown, he had the formidable task of replacing James Earl Jones on Broadway in “The Great White Hope,” Howard Sackler’s drama based on the life of the boxer Jack Johnson. Mr. Jones had won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the lead character, who in the play is named Jack Jefferson. Mr. Kotto stepped into the role as the production entered its second year, and Clive Barnes, taking a fresh look at the show in The New York Times, was impressed.

“I had never even heard of the Hollywood-based Mr. Kotto,” he wrote. “But luckily someone had, for this is inspired casting, and Mr. Kotto will never be unheard-of again.”

It was two decades before he returned to the stage, and again it was as something of a shadow to Mr. Jones, who had received another Tony playing Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s “Fences” in 1987. Mr. Kotto tackled the role in 1990 at Arena Stage in Washington, again drawing raves.

“Setting the tone throughout is the thunderous Mr. Kotto,” Hap Erstein wrote of that production in The Washington Times, “a caged animal pacing the backyard, a bullying brute more expressive with his hands than his words. Away from the theater for many years pursuing film and TV work, he makes a scorching return to the stage.”

Mr. Kotto with Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die.”
It was Mr. Moore’s first film as Bond, and one of Mr. Kotto’s best-known movie roles.
Credit...MGM/UA Entertainment

In between those stage appearances, two movie roles in the 1970s particularly elevated Mr. Kotto’s his profile. The first, in 1973, was in “Live and Let Die,” Roger Moore’s debut as James Bond. Mr. Kotto played his chief nemesis, a dual role in which he was both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big.
Then, in 1979, came “Alien,” Ridley Scott’s outer-space horror classic, in which Mr. Kotto’s character, Parker, was part of a spaceship crew doing battle with a nasty extraterrestrial creature.

“The combination punch for my career of ‘Live and Let Die’ and ‘Alien’ was like wham, bam!” he told The Canadian Press in 2003, adding that those wildly different roles showcased his versatility. “I think the only other person who has a combination like that is Harrison Ford.”

Yaphet Frederick Kotto was born on Nov. 15, 1939, in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx. His father, he told The Baltimore Jewish Times in 1995, was from Cameroon and jumped ship as a merchant seaman, ending up in New York; his mother, he said, was of Panamanian and West Indian descent. His father had adopted Judaism, and his mother was Roman Catholic. The couple separated when Mr. Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents.

Mr. Kotto said his career path was set by a fateful trip to the movies.

“One day, when I was about 16, I walked into this theater showing ‘On the Waterfront’ and I saw Marlon Brando for the first time,” he told The Orange County Register of California in 1994. “I couldn’t speak. It was like somebody had punched me in the stomach. It was like someone had crashed cymbals in both ears. I was blasted out of the theater. I knew from that moment that I wanted to be an actor.”

The actress Judy Holliday saw him in a stage production and became a mentor, he said, “moving me around like furniture, telling me what to eat.” He said his knowledge of Yiddish earned him his only other Broadway credit, in the 1965 production of “The Zulu and the Zayda,” a comedy about a Jewish grandfather who settles in South Africa.

Mr. Kotto received an Emmy nomination for his performance as Idi Amin, the Ugandan strongman, in the 1977 television movie “Raid on Entebbe.” He appeared opposite Robert Redford in the prison movie “Brubaker” in 1980.

In the 1988 action-comedy “Midnight Run,” starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, he played the F.B.I. agent Alonzo Mosely, whose stolen ID becomes fodder for a running joke. And in “The Running Man,” a dystopian 1987 thriller set in what was then the near future (2019), Mr. Kotto played a resistance fighter alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fascist version of America.

Mr. Kotto married three times, Mr. Goldhar said. He and Thessa Sinahon, who is from the Philippines, married in 1998. A full list of survivors was not immediately available.

Mr. Kotto was always conscious of the image projected by his roles, something that led him to reject certain ones.

“I was offered a part in ‘Glory’” — a 1989 movie about a Black company commanded by a white office in the Civil War — “which I refused, because for me it purported to be about a Black experience and was really about the white guy,” he told The Globe and Mail of Canada in 1994. “Do you see me taking orders like that? I couldn’t see myself in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ either, playing the chauffeur, taking it from some old lady. Some other actor may be able to put that on and make it look real, but I couldn’t do it.”

“Homicide,” a police series that was innovative for its time, was a career high point, running for seven seasons. But things started off badly, Mr. Kotto said.

“The script was so good and the camera work was so different than what I was used to that I forgot my lines,” he told The Register. “I was really embarrassed. That had never happened to me before.

“But the other actors came over to me and told me the same thing had happened to them.”

Mike Ives contributed reporting.

Neil Genzlinger is a writer for the Obituaries Desk. Previously he was a television, film and theater critic. @genznyt

Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021)

Actor | Writer | Director
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RichardTheBruce

March 16th

1959: Ludger Pistor is born--Recklinghausen, Germany.

1961: A Thunderball serialisation begins in The Daily Express. Raymond Hawkey, illustrator. Robert Hawkey later designs the 1963 Pan paperback edition of Ian Fleming's Thunderball, setting a photographic style.

1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eleventh Bond novel You Only Live Twice, the last during his lifetime. Richard Chopping cover.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into
eternity the girl whom James Bond had
married only hours before, the heart, the
zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly,
from being a top agent of the Secret
Service, he had gone to pieces, was even
on the verge of becoming a security risk.
M is persuaded to give him one last
chance - an impossible mission far re-
moved from his usual duties - and Bond
leaves for Japan.

There, coming under the orders of the
formidable 'Tiger' Tanaka, Head of the
Japanese Security Service, the Koan-Chosap
Kyoku, he is indeed subjected to the
shock treatment his condition demanded.

Shock treatment? The reader will also
be subjected to it in full measure in this,
perhaps the most bizarre and doom-
fraught of all James Bond's adventures.

1965: A serialization of The Man With the Golden Gun appears in Italy's Sunday magazine "Domenica Del Corriere". Tabet, illustrator.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2009/10/italian-man-with-golden-gun-artwork.html

1965: Thunderball films Bond and Fiona Volpe in their love scene.

2018: BBC News reports and speculates on BOND 25.

Will Danny Boyle direct the next Bond
film? Here's what we know so far

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43430301
16 March 2018

Boyle and Craig previously worked together on Bond short Happy and Glorious

Danny Boyle has revealed he is working with Trainspotting writer John
Hodge on a script for the next James Bond film.

If made it will reunite the Oscar-winning director with 007 star Daniel Craig, with whom he worked on a short film made for the 2012 London Olympics.

Boyle said this week he and Hodge had "got an idea" and were "working on a script". "It all depends on how it turns out," the director told Metro US.

Bond producers Eon have been contacted by the BBC but have yet to comment.

Boyle and Hodge's agents have also been contacted.

The mini James Bond film Boyle made for the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
was capped off by a double parachute jump

Eon announced last year that the 25th official instalment in the James Bond series would be released in November 2019.

Craig later confirmed he would be returning to make his fifth Bond, having previously starred in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre.

When the release date was announced, Eon said the script for the new film would be written by regular Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.

According to the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, however, it is possible that script "now won't get made".

It is not uncommon for Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson to commission scripts that are not eventually produced.

Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli with Daniel Craig in 2011

Peter Morgan, of The Queen and Frost/Nixon fame, reportedly worked with Purvis and Wade on a film treatment entitled Once Upon a Spy.

That film was never made, though one of its key plot points - the death of Bond's superior M - did end up forming the climax to 2012's Skyfall.

The Bond series also has a history of bringing in writers to work on existing scripts. Paul Haggis worked on 2006's Casino Royale, while director Sam Mendes enlisted playwright Jez Butterworth to work on Spectre.

Boyle's other current projects include All You Need is Love, a Richard Curtis-scripted film that revolves around the music of The Beatles.

According to the Mail, it is hoped Boyle can begin shooting Bond 25 at the end of the year once All You Need is Love is completed.

Daniel Craig was last seen as Bond in 2015's Spectre

But what is the "idea" behind Boyle and Hodge's film? "It would be foolish of me to give any of it away," said Boyle this week.

With nothing whatsoever to go on beyond a knowledge of Bond's history, here are a few light-hearted suggestions.

Bond becomes M. After more than 50 years as a Double-0, it's high time 007 got a promotion. What if the new film saw him taking over from Ralph Fiennes in the MI6 hotseat?

Bond gets hitched. James hasn't walked down the aisle since 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service and it didn't end well. Could the new film see him dare to tie the knot again, as Page Six claimed last year?

Bond goes back to school. One aspect of Bond's literary provenance that has yet to be touched on in the films is his education at Eton. Could the new film see him return to his alma mater - possibly in the guise of a teacher? That would be one way of making sure the boys do their homework...

2018: Jonathan Dean in GQ guesses what a Danny Boyle James Bond film will be like.

This is what James Bond will be like
directed by Danny Boyle

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/james-bond-danny-boyle-director
By Jonathan Dean | 16 March 2018

There is a lot of guesswork ahead of how it will look. Our writer imagines what a Bond film directed by Danny Boyle will entail

So, Danny Boyle is going to direct the next James Bond film, but what the hell does that actually mean? If the producers had gone for, say, Christopher Nolan, fans would know what was coming: expensive action with macho pondering. Tim Burton’s 007 would have Johnny Depp as the spy, falling for an undead Bond girl. Sofia Coppola’s would be beautiful, MI6 kitted out in exploding Converse, a theme song sung by Phoenix...

After all, those directors have a distinctive style. A type of film they remake ever so slightly every four years or so. Boyle, though, is probably the most random mainstream director working today. His work can be exceptional (Trainspotting; Frankenstein at the National Theatre, Steve Jobs), excusable (A Life Less Ordinary; Millions; 127 Hours) or excrement (Trance; Trainspotting 2). Totally unpredictable levels of quality and such a scattergun approach to genre that he’ll probably make a Bollywood film before his time’s up.

Oh, he already did: Slumdog Millionaire.

Right. He has such a scattergun approach to genre that he’ll probably make an existentialist sci-fi film…

Oh, he already did: Sunshine.

I give up. He’ll probably do the Olympics one day!

Bond fans should not be so much worried as intrigued. So what can we be certain about, for when the biggest film of the director's career lands next year? First, it will star Daniel Craig. Secondly, the pace will be kinetic. Boyle is excellent at rhythm, with his films moving along to an oft-tribal beat, so his Bond will have far more clip than the stagey Sam Mendes films, probably a blend of Casino Royale's parkour scene and the whole of the underrated Quantum Of Solace. Thirdly, the theme song will be good; don't rule out the first hip hop track played over the opening credits. Maybe Stormzy, possibly with a female vocalist to placate the traditionalists. Stormzy and Florence Welch – watch this space.

Suddenly, this is very exciting. Yes, Boyle can be erratic, but more often than not he skews towards fresh ideas, which cannot be said of Mendes and the Bond franchise as a whole. Imagine this: an opening chase like the extraordinary start of 28 Days Later, in which Cillian Murphy walks across a deserted Westminster Bridge. Then the Stormzy and Florence song. Then a chase, similar to the one in Trainspotting when Renton gets hit by a car. Next, Bond meets a baddie, a slippery tech genius similar to how Michael Fassbender played Steve Jobs, but Russian. Given everything that's going on, the villain will have to be Russian. That is the setup, but what of the romance? How about something scuzzy, such as when Kelly Macdonald and Ewan McGregor met while high in Trainspotting. Maybe 007 will use Tinder on one of Russian Steve Jobs' phones and that is how he will take over the world. Later on, Bond gets his arm stuck under a rock, à la 127 Hours, and has to saw it off using a laser sword given to him by Q. Russian Steve Jobs gives him a replacement arm, made of phones, and starts to control him via The Cloud. In the end, they have a big dance in Mumbai, but I haven't figured out why.

There is a lot of guesswork ahead. Boyle is one of the most passionate directors around, and as one of the nicest in the business, too, everyone should wish him well. But, yes, the final result? Who knows? Yet the last time he tackled something this big and amorphous, which could have been a disaster and deeply embarrassing for both him and his country, he turned in the finest Olympic opening ceremony in history.

And who was in that? Bond, of course. James Bond.

RichardTheBruce

March 17th

1925: Gabriele Ferzetti is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
(He dies 2 December 2015 at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

Gabriele Ferzetti obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/gabriele-ferzetti
Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni’s L’Avventura
and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service
Ronald Bergan | Tue 22 Dec 2015 10.41 EST | Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 07.48 EST

Gabriele Ferzetti (right) with Lea Massari in Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura (1960),
in which he played Sandro, a wealthy playboy searching for his missing lover.
Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock

The Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 90, was never in danger of being typecast. He played a multitude of different film roles in every known genre, over seven decades, and just about the only constant in his long career was that he was perennially handsome and charismatic without being showy.

To cinephiles, he was most memorable for his intense performance of quiet desperation as the unfulfilled wealthy playboy seeking his missing lover in Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960). However, his most widely known roles, dubbed into English, were as the unscrupulous railroad baron on crutches in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and as James Bond’s father-in-law, a powerful crime boss, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), the one with George Lazenby as 007.

Ferzetti was born in Rome, where he attended the Silvio d’Amico drama school before winning a scholarship to the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art. However, he was eventually expelled for appearing with a professional theatrical troupe. After his role on stage as the young shepherd Sylvius in Luchino Visconti’s 1948 production of As You Like It, designed by Salvador Dalí, Ferzetti had small roles in several films, soon becoming a leading man.

He was first noticed internationally in Mario Soldati’s The Wayward Wife (La Provinciale,1953), although the spotlight was on the ascending star Gina Lollobrigida in the title role. Ferzetti made the most of the thankless part of her husband, a bespectacled science professor who realises his wife does not love him but who wins her round in the end.

In the same year he landed the title role in the sumptuous biopic Puccini, in which he portrayed the philandering Italian opera composer from his student days to a man in his 80s, with a little help from the makeup department. He reprised the role in House of Ricordi (1954), about the music-publishing house.

Ferzetti was then cast by Antonioni in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955), which won the director the Silver Lion at the Venice film festival. Adapted from a Cesare Pavese story, the film manages to hold the 10 bourgeois characters in balance, giving almost equal weight to their individuality and the shifting pattern of relationships. Among them is Ferzetti, giving a nuanced performance as a morose, frustrated artist, envious of his more successful wife, and the cause of a woman’s suicide attempt.

It would take five years and several mediocre melodramas and epics, including the elephantine Hannibal (1959), in which Ferzetti was impressive as a Roman senator, before he was reunited with Antonioni.

L’Avventura, the film in which the director’s style reached maturity, allowed Ferzetti to play a weak and disillusioned man, a failed architect who complains, while looking around his Sicilian town: “Who needs beautiful things nowadays? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then?” He later peevishly spills ink over a young man’s sketch of a church. At the film’s bitter end, not a resolution of the conventional type, he weeps pathetically out of guilt and emptiness. Nothing Ferzetti did in films subsequently equalled this.

L’Avventura led him to a number of English-language movies, including the paper-thin romance Jessica (1962) – set in Sicily, and in which he played a reclusive aristocrat who falls for a young midwife (Angie Dickinson) – and a conventional war film, Torpedo Bay (1963), in which he is a noble Italian submarine captain being stalked by a British ship commanded by James Mason. Ferzetti was suitably grim as Lot, fleeing Sodom with his daughters and wife in The Bible (1966), a bad film from the Good Book, directed by the self-proclaimed atheist John Huston.

Though dubbed, Ferzetti was convincing in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as the rail tycoon Morton, a smooth, cowardly baddie who employs a villainous hired gun, Frank (Henry Fonda), to frighten an owner into selling one of the rare pieces of land with water on it. Being disabled, Morton is vulnerable in his encounters with various unscrupulous bandits, at one stage having his crutches kicked away from him. He is last seen crawling towards a puddle of muddy water in the desert. It was Ferzetti’s favourite role.

He was Draco, a gentlemanly mafia boss in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), enticing Bond to marry his daughter (Diana Rigg), and offering to help 007 track down Blofeld. And he was chilling in Costa-Gavras’s The Confession (1970) as the head Stalinist interrogator who manages to extract a false confession from the Czech dissident Artur London (Yves Montand).

His Italian accent notwithstanding, Ferzetti was equally nasty as an ex-SS officer, now psychiatrist, intent on covering up his tracks in Liliana Cavani’s meretricious The Night Porter (1974), a study of a sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi (Dirk Bogarde) and the woman he raped in a concentration camp (Charlotte Rampling).

Ferzetti was kept busy throughout the 70s and 80s in supporting roles in mostly unremarkable Italian/French co-productions, as well as the occasional English-language film, such as the dreadful Inchon (1981), in which he played a Turkish officer in the Korean war with a miscast Laurence Olivier as General MacArthur.

In the 90s Ferzetti appeared more frequently on television, but played the Duke of Venice in Oliver Parker’s Othello on the big screen and won the Ubu prize for his performance in August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death on stage (both 1992). In 2009, aged 84, he gained much praise for playing the head of a wealthy Milanese industrial family in I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore).

He is survived by his daughter, Anna, also an actor, from his marriage to the actor Maria Grazia Eminente, which ended in divorce, and by two granddaughters.

• Gabriele Ferzetti, actor, born 17 March 1925; died 2 December 2015

Gabriele Ferzetti (1925–2015)

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Filmography

Actor (168 credits)

2010 18 Years Later - Enrico
2009 I Am Love - Edoardo Recchi Senior
1992-2007 A Wonderful Family (TV Series) - Nono
- Les adieux de Nono (2007) ... Nono
- Un Beaumont peut en cacher un autre (2002) ... Nono
- Panique à bord (2000) ... Nono
- L'amour en vacances (1996) ... Nono
- Nicolas s'en va-t-en guerre (1996) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des vacances mouvementées (1993) ... Nono
- Bonnes et mauvaises surprises (1993) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des jours ça rit, des jours ça pleure (1992) ... Nono
- Des vacances orageuses (1992) ... Nono
- Les parents disjonctent (1992) ... Nono
2006 Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (TV Movie) - Cardinal Siri
2005 Callas e Onassis (TV Movie) - Livanos
2004 Concorso di colpa - Vito Santamaria
2003 Lost Love - Tommaso Pasini
2003 Counselor de Gregorio - Alfonso
2002 Le ragazze di Miss Italia (TV Movie) - The Professor

1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) - Father Jacob
1997 Un prete tra noi (TV Series) - Ettore (1997)
1997 Porzûs - Storno vecchio
1997 Con rabbia e con amore - Leone
1995 Natale con papà (TV Movie) - Vittorio
1995 Othello - The Duke of Venice
1994 First Action Hero - Ben Costa
1994 Black as the Heart (TV Movie) - Signor Noé Alga Croce
1993 Private Crimes (TV Mini-Series) - Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
1992 Alta società (TV Mini-Series) - - Episode #1.3 (1992)
- Episode #1.1 (1992)
1992 Die Ringe des Saturn (TV Movie)
1992 Il coraggio di Anna (TV Movie)
1991 Suffocating Heat - Gaetano Castelli
1990 Pronto soccorso (TV Series)
1990 Una fredda mattina di maggio - Signor Mantoni
1990 Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (TV Movie)

1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
1988 Computron 22 - Il nonno
1988 Due fratelli (TV Mini-Series) - Procuratore
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Procuratore
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Procuratore
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Procuratore
1988 Gli angeli del potere (TV Movie) - Dr. Donhal
1987 Julia and Julia - Padre di Paolo
1987 La voglia di vincere (TV Mini-Series) - Professor Besson
- Episode #1.3 (1987) ... Professor Besson
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Professor Besson
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Professor Besson
1986 Follia amore mio (TV Movie)
1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - Piso
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.4 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Piso
1983 Die goldenen Schuhe (TV Mini-Series) - Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
1983 Le ambizioni sbagliate (TV Movie) - Prof. Malacrida
1983 Delitto e castigo (TV Mini-Series) - Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Prince Mataeo (uncredited)
1983 Il quartetto Basileus - Mario Cantone
1982 Quasi quasi mi sposo (TV Movie) - The Engineer
1982 Vatican Conspiracy - Cardinale Ixaguirre
1982 Grog - Alberto
1981 I giochi del diavolo (TV Mini-Series) - Mastro Gomin
- La mano indemoniata (1981) ... Mastro Gomin
1981 Inchon - Turkish Brigadier

1979 Anni struggenti - Prof. Bivona
1979 Bloodline - Maresciallo Campagna (uncredited)
1978-1979 I vecchi e i giovani (TV Mini-Series) - Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Flaminio Salvo
1979 Encounters in the Deep - Miles
1978 A torto e a ragione (TV Series)
1978 Porci con la P.38 - Max Astarita
1978 Last In, First Out - Herzog
1978 Mon premier amour - Georges
1978 Suggestionata - Gregorio Lori
1977 Man of Corleone
1977 The Psychic - Emilio Rospini
1977 Oedipus orca - Valerio
1976 La orca - Valerio
1976 A Matter of Time - Antonio Vicari
1976 Nick the Sting - Maurice
1976 The Hornet's Nest - Gaspard
1976 Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga - Father of Stella
1975 Jackpot
1975 End of the Game - Dr. Lutz
1975 Calling All Police Cars - Professore Andrea Icardi
1975 Un uomo curioso (TV Movie) - Moriondo
1975 Smiling Maniacs - Prandó
1974 La prova d'amore - Angela Father
1974 Processo per direttissima - L'avvocato Finaldi
1974 Kidnap - Don Francesco Salvatore
1974 Appassionata - Dr. Emilio Rutelli
1974 The Night Porter - Hans
1973 Secrets of a Nurse - Prof. Daniele Vallotti
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Fieldmarshall Keitel
1973 Divorce His - Divorce Hers (TV Movie) - Turi Livicci
1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator - M. Raphaël
1972 Mendiants et Orgueilleux
1972 Alta tensión - Pablo Moncada
1972 Ripped-Off - Tony La Monica
1971 Million Dollar Eel - Vasco
1970 Cold Sweat (uncredited)
1970 French Intrigue - Inspector Bardeche
1970 Die Welt des Pirandello - Liebe! - Liebe? (TV Movie) - Memmo Viola (segment "Wenn man das Spiel kennt")
1970 The Confession - Kohoutek

1969 L'amica - Paolo Marchesi
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco
1969 That Splendid November - Biagio
1969 Machine Gun McCain - Don Francesco DeMarco
1968 Il mondo di Pirandello (TV Series) - Memmo Viola
- Amori senza amore (1968) ... Memmo Viola
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West - Morton - Railroad Baron
1968 Bandits in Rome - Commissioner
1968 L'età del malessere - Guido
1968 Better a Widow - Don Calogero Minniti
1968 The Protagonists - Il Commissario
1968 Come Play with Me - Stefano / Lea's lover
1968/I Escalation - Augusto Lambertinghi
1968 Un diablo bajo la almohada - Anselmo
1967 Dossier Mata Hari (TV Mini-Series) - Bouchardon
- Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Bouchardon
1967 We Still Kill the Old Way - Avvocato Rosello
1966 The Devil in Love - Lorenzo de' Medici
1966 I Spy (TV Series) - Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 2 (1966) ... Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 1 (1966) ... Aldo
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Lot
1966 Luce a gas (TV Movie) - Rough
1965 Lo scippo - Gambetti
1965 Three Rooms in Manhattan - Comte Larsi
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Victor Dermott
1964 Crucero de verano - Carlos Brul y Betancourt
1964 Desideri d'estate
1964 The Warm Life - Guido
1964 Death Where Is Your Victory? - Max Gurgine
1963 Un tentativo sentimentale - Giulio, Carla's Husband
1963 Torpedo Bay - Leonardi
1963 The Shortest Day - Tenente in trincea
1962 Beach Casanova - Avvocato Leblanc
1962 Imperial Venus - Freron
1962 Cross of the Living - L'abbé Delcourt / Abbe
1962 Crime Does Not Pay - Angelo Giraldi (segment "Le masque")
1962 La monaca di Monza - Gian Paolo Osio
1962 Congo vivo - Roberto Santi
1962 Meetings - Ralph Scaffari
1962 Jessica - Edmondo Raumo
1960 Love, the Italian Way - Alberto Bressan
1960 Il carro armato dell'8 settembre - Tommaso
1960 Red Lips - Avvocato Paolo Martini
1960 It Happened in '43 - Franco Villani
1960 L'Avventura - Sandro

1959 Hannibal - Fabius Maximus
1959 Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne (as Gabriel Ferzetti)
1959 Everyone's in Love - Arturo
1958 Love on the Riviera - Giulio Ferrari
1958 Tant d'amour perdu - Frédéric Solingen
1958 Angel in a Taxi - Andrea
1958 March's Child - Sandro
1957 It Happened in Rome - Lawyer Alberto Cortini
1957 Honor Among Thieves - Desiderio / Plebari
1956 Il prezzo della gloria - comandante Alberto Bruni
1956 Defend My Love - Pietro Leonardi
1956 Donatella - Maurizio
1955 Un po' di cielo - Frank Lo Giudice
1955 Le Amiche - Lorenzo
1955 Adriana Lecouvreur - Maurizio di Sassonia
1955 Sins of Casanova - Giacomo Casanova
1954 House of Ricordi - Giacomo Puccini
1954 Camilla - Dott. Mario Rossetti
1954 Modern Virgin - Gabriele Demico
1954 100 Years of Love
Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segment "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
1954 Vestire gli ignudi - Ludovico Nota
1953 Empty Eyes - Fernando Maestrelli
1953 The Counterfeiters - Dario
1953 Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
1953 The Wayward Wife - Il professore Franco Vagnuzzi
1952 Three Forbidden Stories - Comm. Borsani (First segment)
1952 Inganno - Andrea Vannini
1951 Gli amanti di Ravello - Sandro Deodata
1951 The Naked and the Wicked - Giorgio Suprina
1951 The Forbidden Christ - 1950 Lo zappatore
1950 Sigillo rosso
1950 Mountain Smugglers - Lieutenant Berti
1950 Welcome Reverend

1949 Flying Squadron - Ufficiale D'aviazione
1949 Sicilian Uprising
1949 William Tell - Corrado Hant
1949 Fabiola - Claudius
1949 Vertigine d'amore (as Gaetano Ferzetti)
1948 Les Misérables - Tholomyes, un cliente di Fantina (uncredited)
1946 Lost Happiness
1942 The Countess of Castiglione (as Pasquale Ferzetti)
1942 Bengasi (uncredited)
1942 Via delle cinque lune

Self (6 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 An Opera of Violence (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 Something to Do with Death (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 The Wages of Sin (Video documentary short) - Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
1968 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Filming of James Bond Epic in Progress in the Swiss Alps (Documentary short) - Himself

1928: Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison (Eunice Gayson) is born--Croydon, South London, England.
(She dies 8 June 2018--London, England.)

Eunice Gayson obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/eunice-gayson-obituary
Stage and screen actor who found fame playing Sylvia Trench, the
first Bond girl, opposite Sean Connery
Toby Hadoke | Sun 10 Jun 2018 13.04 EDT | Last modified on Mon 11 Jun 2018 17.00 EDT

Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench in Dr No, 1962.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

Eunice Gayson, who has died aged 90, was an actor with a film, television and theatre career that spanned several decades. Despite this, she will be forever associated with her unique place in cinema history as the first Bond girl.

Exactly eight minutes into the running of the 1962 film Dr No, Sean Connery utters the words “Bond, James Bond” for the first time, in answer to a question from Gayson, whose character has introduced herself at the card table as “Trench, Sylvia Trench”. With typical efficiency, Bond adds Miss Trench to his list of conquests shortly after their casino encounter and he later finds her hitting golf balls in his apartment dressed only in his shirt. Their playful exchange is momentarily interrupted when he is summoned to Jamaica on a mission, a clear demonstration of Bond’s constant juggling of business and pleasure.

Unlike the other women on the Bond girl list, Gayson played the same character in more than one of the extremely successful franchise’s films. Trench turns up again in From Russia With Love (1963), when her afternoon punting with 007 has to be curtailed when he gets a call from headquarters. The intention was that Miss Trench would be a regular presence in the films, part of a running joke involving their assignations being cut short when espionage obligations arose at an inopportune moment. Guy Hamilton, the director of the next film in the series – Goldfinger (1964) – had other ideas however, and kiboshed the plan.

Eunice Gayson and Sean Connery in Dr No, 1962.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

No matter, for by then Gayson’s claim to cinematic immortality was unimpeachable, even though her voice was not heard in either film: she was dubbed by the actor Nikki van der Zyl. No criticism of Gayson should be inferred – Van der Zyl dubbed the majority of female voices in Dr No and many others in future Bond films. Gayson’s perfectly acceptable vocal performance, playful and seductive, can still be heard on the film’s original trailer. She might have had a different slice of Bond movie immortality had the original plan – that she play the recurring role of Miss Moneypenny – gone ahead. As it was, Lois Maxwell took the role (and played it for 23 years). Nevertheless Trench was an important part – Gayson received higher billing than Maxwell in both films – and the actor helped a nervous Connery during that crucial first scene.

She was born in Streatham, south London, the elder of twin daughters and the middle of three children of John Sargaison, a civil servant, and his wife, Maria (nee Gammon). The family moved to Purley, Surrey, then Glasgow and finally Edinburgh, where Eunice enrolled at the Edinburgh Academy. A gifted soprano, she trained as an opera singer and in 1946, aged 18, made her professional debut playing a small role in Ladies Without at the Garrick theatre in London.

That Christmas, she was Princess Luv-Lee in Aladdin (Grand theatre, Derby), with the Stage describing her as a “vivacious” performer “who sings, dances and acts extremely well”. By the end of the decade she was appearing regularly on television – in music shows, revues and television pantomimes. In 1954 she was selected to be a panellist on Guess My Story, a programme in the vein of What’s My Line but featuring disguised celebrities.

Her film break had come in 1948, in My Brother Jonathan, and her other work on the big screen included Melody in the Dark (1949), Dance Little Lady (1954), Basil Dearden’s Out of the Clouds (1955) and Hammer’s The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), in which she played the female lead.

When she was cast in Dr No she was having success on stage playing the Baroness in the original London production (at the Palace theatre, 1962) of The Sound of Music which ran for more than 2,000 performances (she was one of its longest running cast members).

Her other theatre work included Over the Moon (Piccadilly theatre, 1953) and Uproar in the House (Whitehall theatre, 1968, taking over from Joan Sims), Victor Spinetti’s production of Duty Free (on tour 1976-77), The Grass is Greener (with Richard Todd, 1971, in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Royal Shakespeare Company), and An Ideal Husband and Kismet (both 1980, at the Connaught theatre, Worthing). One final run in the West End as the grandmother in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Phoenix theatre, 1990-91) was followed by pantomime in the Isle of Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Gaiety theatre, 1992).

Her 1953 marriage to the writer Leigh Vance was seen by three million American viewers when it was part of the television show Bride and Groom (“sponsored by Betty Crocker’s Piecrust Mix”). The marriage was dissolved six years later and in 1968 she married the actor Brian Jackson. That marriage also ended in divorce but produced a daughter, Kate, who survives her. Kate appeared in the casino scene in the Pierce Brosnan Bond film GoldenEye (1995).

• Eunice Gayson (Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison), actor, born 17 March 1928; died 8 June 2018
• This article was amended on 11 June 2018, to add further details of Eunice Gayson’s early life

Eunice Gayson (1928–2018) [/b]

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311013/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (54 credits)

1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Countess Marie
- Thrust and Counter Thrust (1972) ... Countess Marie
1970 Turkey Time (TV Movie) - Louise Stoatt
1970 Albert and Victoria (TV Series) - Madame Aix
- Lovers' Quarrel (1970) ... Madame Aix
- The Gothic Church (1970) ... Madame Aix

1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1968)
1967 The Reluctant Romeo (TV Series) - Gina Darletti
- What's in a Name (1967) ... Gina Darletti
1967 The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series)
- Jim Cleans Up (1967)
1967 The Dick Emery Show (TV Series)
- Episode #6.3 (1967)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1967)
- Episode #1.2 (1967)
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Lucille Banks
- Quick-Quick Slow Death (1966) ... Lucille Banks
1963-1965 The Saint (TV Series) - Christine Graner / Nora Prescott
- The Saint Bids Diamonds (1965) ... Christine Graner
- The Invisible Millionaire (1963) ... Nora Prescott
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Louise Bancroft
- A Man to Be Trusted (1964) ... Louise Bancroft
1963 From Russia with Love - Sylvia Trench
1962 Dr. No -Sylvia Trench
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series)
- The Case of the Bogus Count (1961)

1959 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Liz Pleydell
- Let Them Eat Cake (1959) ... Liz Pleydell
1958 Adventures of the Sea Hawk (TV Series) - Carmelita
- Episode #1.25 (1958) ... Carmelita
1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein - Margaret
1958 Duty Bound (TV Series) - Arlene van Hoyk
- Cows Don't Fly (1958) ... Arlene van Hoyk
1958 Educated Evans (TV Series) - Lady Fanny Kozatski
- Musical Tip (1958) ... Lady Fanny Kozatski
1958 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Yasmin Rashied
- The Hand of Hera Dass (1958) ... Yasmin Rashied
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Thelma Thomas
- This Hungry Hell (1958) ... Thelma Thomas
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - June Hartley
- The Heiress Story (1957) ... June Hartley
1952-1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
Madame Caprice / Chris Cummings / Louka
- What the Doctor Ordered (1957) ... Madame Caprice
- The Whiteoak Chronicles #2: Whiteoak Heritage (1955) ... Chris Cummings
- Arms and the Man (1952) ... Louka
1957 Light Fingers - Rose Levenham
1957 The Ship Was Loaded - Jane Godfrey
1956 Zarak - Cathy Ingram
1956 The Last Man to Hang - The Story: Elizabeth
1955 Count of Twelve - Valerie Dyson (episode "Blind Man's Bluff")
1954-1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Angelia Clifton / Valerie Dyson / Julia
- The Bargain (1955) ... Angelia Clifton
- Blind Man's Bluff (1955) ... Valerie Dyson
- Death Pays No Dividends (1954) ... Julia
1954-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Nora Kenealy / Angela / Dolly / ...
- The Thoroughbred (1955) ... Nora Kenealy
- The Mix-Up (1954) ... Angela
- One Way Ticket (1954) ... Dolly
- The Apples (1954) ... Micky
- Johnny Blue (1954) ... Milly
1955 Out of the Clouds - Penny Henson
1954 One Just Man
1954 Dance Little Lady - Adele
1953 Both Sides of the Law - Janet (uncredited)
1952 Miss Robin Hood - Pam
1952 Down Among the Z Men - Officer's Wife (uncredited)
1952 Goonreel (TV Movie) - Various
1952 Nine Till Six (TV Movie) - Beatrice
1951 La belle Hélène (TV Movie) - Leoena
1951 To Have and to Hold - Peggy
1950 Dance Hall - Mona
1950 Mother of Men (TV Movie) - Jennie
1950 Treasures in Heaven (TV Movie) - Carol Benson
1950 Here Come the Boys (TV Series)
- Episode #2.1 (1950)

1949 Dick Whittington (TV Movie) - Alice
1949 The Director (TV Movie) - Katie
1949 Pink String and Sealing Wax (TV Movie) - Emily Strachan
1949 Melody in the Dark - Pat Evans
1949 The Huggetts Abroad - Peggy (uncredited)
1948 Lady Luck (TV Movie) - Faith
1948 It Happened in Soho - Julie
1948 Halesapoppin! (TV Movie)
1948 My Brother Jonathan - Young Girl
1948 Between Ourselves (TV Movie)

Trivia (7)

Appeared on stage in the musical production of "Into the Woods" in 1990.

Her daughter Kate Gayson later appeared as an extra in the '007' film GoldenEye (1995).

Initially cast as "Miss Moneypenny" (the role ended up going to Lois Maxwell) at the beginning of the James Bond film series, she instead was given the part of seductive "Sylvia Trench" which was to be a recurring role as well. She has the distinction of appearing in the opening casino scene with Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962), in which she says, "I admire your luck, Mr..." and Connery says, "Bond. James Bond". Her part was cut after the second movie, From Russia with Love (1963).

Originally trained as an opera singer, before entering films.

She was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl in Dr. No (1962).

Appeared on stage in London for many years playing The Baroness in "The Sound of Music" at the Palace Theatre.

For a long time, she was the only non-'MI6' actress to play the same character in more than one James Bond film until Léa Seydoux played the same character in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2020).

1961: Life Magazine presents US President John F. Kennedy's list of his ten favorite books.
From Russia With Love places 9 out of 10.

https://books.google.com/books?id=vUUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lord Melbourne by David Cecil
Montrose by John Buchan
Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill
John Quincy Adams by Samuel Flagg Bemis
The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins
The Price of Union by Herbert Agar
John C. Calhoun by Margaret L. Coit
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell
The Red and the Black by M. de Stendhal
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
Pilgrim's Way by John Buchan

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films scenes in the casino.

1975: El hombre con el revolver de oro released in Uruguay.

2015: Spectre teaser poster takes inspiration from Live and Let Die.

2020: Royal Mail releases ten new stamps celebrating James Bond films each decade, including No Time To Die.

Royal Mail stamps 2020: James Bond, 17 March 2020

https://www.allaboutstamps.co.uk/stamp-guides/royal-mail-stamps-2020-james-bond-17-march-2020/

Royal Mail has released ten new stamps to celebrate James Bond films
over the decades – and the release of the 25th Bond movie No Time To Die

Featuring the six actors who have played Bond over the years, the stamps take inspiration from the classic opening title sequences familiar to millions of film goers the world over.

As an extra treat for Bond fans, a mini sheet featuring four further stamps also forms part of the issue, celebrating some of the best known Q Branch vehicles. These include hidden features that are revealed when using a UV light – and also feature a special 007 perforation.

Iconic films
The first stamp (1st class) features the sixth Bond (Daniel Craig), who joined the film franchise in 2006 as the producers turned to Ian Fleming’s first novel to re-imagine a harder-edged 007 in Casino Royale.

Next, we move to the 1990s, with another 1st class value, this time featuring the 1995 Bond classic Goldeneye where a new Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and a female M (Judi Dench) take the stage as a former agent, 006, threatens the world with a terrifying space weapon, GoldenEye.

Timothy Dalton takes on the Bond mantle as shown on stamp three (1st) in the thrilling, lightning-paced adventure The Living Daylights (1987).

Back to the 60s and 70s
The first of the £1.60 values showcases the 1973 movie Live and Let Die, Roger Moore’s first film as James Bond. In this adventure, inspired by Ian Fleming’s work, 007 travels to Harlem, New Orleans and the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious Dr Kananga, known as Mr Big. Bond saves the day during a voodoo ritual and the stunt team sets a world record for a speedboat jump.

The penultimate stamp shows the 1969 Bond classic On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, as film-makers unveiled a new Bond (George Lazenby) and the adventurous Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) in a story that saw Bond marry.

The final stamp takes us back to 1964 and the release of Goldfinger, the third film starring Sean Connery. The story sees Bond track gold smuggler, Auric Goldfinger, dodging death in the form of Oddjob, as well as a terrifying laser beam. Bond, with the help of Pussy Galore, foils a bid to render Fort Knox worthless.

Secrets of the James Bond miniature sheet
See the hidden features that are revealed when using a UV light… perforation.

The mini sheet stamps also feature a special 007.

James Bond stamp details

Issue date: 17 March 2020
Design: Interabang
Format: Landscape
Stamp size: 60mm x 30mm
Printer: International Security Printers
Print process: Lithography
Phosphor: Bars as appropriate
Gum: PVA
1st: Casino Royale
1st: Goldeneye
1st: The Living Daylights
£1.55: Live and Let Die
£1.55: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
£1.55: Goldfinger

RichardTheBruce

March 18th

1952: Ian Fleming completes his Casino Royale manuscript. He shows it to ex-girlfriend Clare Blanchard.

Her advice: do not publish it. Or at least use a pen name.

1959: Ian Fleming writes praise to artist Richard Chopping for the Goldfinger cover.

"As you will have gathered, the new jacket is quite as big a success
as the first one and I do think Capes have made a splendid job of it . . .
I am busily scratching my head trying to think of a subject for you again.
No-one in the history of thrillers has had such a totally brilliant artistic collaborator!"

1959: Goldfinger starts as a serial in the Daily Express, with a drawing of Goldfinger by Raymond Hawkley.

1963: On Her Majesty's Secret Service starts as a serial in the Daily Express. Robb, illustrator.
1965: Thunderball films OO7 beating Largo at the card table.
1963: Richard Maibaum completes the From Russia With Love screenplay.
1968: Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis) starts as a serial in the Daily Express. Robb, illustrator.

1985: Aston Martin Lagonda chairman Victor Gauntlett registers number plate B549 WUU.

2012: Ian Fleming Publications confirms there will be no novelization of Skyfall.

thebookbond.com/2012/03/official-no-skyfall-novelization-dang.html

2014: The London Film Museum, Covent Garden, launches The Bond In Motion exhibition. In attendance: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Ken Adam, Naomie Harris, Caterina Murino, Maryam d'Abo.

2015: A Spectre press conference in Mexico City kicks off filming of the pre-title sequence with the backdrop of Dia del los Muertos--Day of the Dead.

2020: Nokia announces its new 5G device, to be featured in the now delayed No Time To Die.

Coronavirus may have delayed the next James Bond
film, but we’ve learnt what smartphone he’ll be using..

https://stuff.co.za/2020/03/05/coronavirus-may-have-delayed-the-next-james-bond-film-but-weve-learnt-what-smartphone-hell-be-using/
By Stuff writer on 5th Mar 2020

In some lighter news (remember to wash your hands anyway), the upcoming James Bond film will feature a smartphone brand blast-from-the-past. Nokia has announced that it’ll be the official phone of 007, partnering with the production house to celebrate the 25th James Bond film.

According to a press release, the film will feature Nokia’s upcoming, currently unannounced 5G smartphone. It looks like the brand will also feature some other smartphones, so expect to see Nokia’s in the hands of most of the major characters in the movie. The new 5G device will be announced on 18 March.

“Following the announcement to postpone the movie launch to 12 November, we now have a really exciting year ahead of us in the build-up to this much-anticipated release. Few cultural properties place technology at the heart of their appeal quite like No Time To Die. The film’s commitment to innovation, paired with the amazing technology built into each Nokia smartphone, making our devices the only gadget that anyone – even a 00 agent – will ever need, makes this partnership a real force to be reckoned with,” says Juho Sarvikas, HMD Global chief product officer.

Leading up to the announcement, HMD Global released a new commercial featuring Lashana Lynch as Agent Nomi. The advert shows Agent Nomi using Nokia smartphones as ‘The Only Gadget You’ll Ever Need’.

We’re excited to see Nokia’s new entry in the smartphone market on 18 January. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a little longer to get our Bond fix. The movie has been postponed due to Coronavirus fears, so it’ll only debut on 12 November this year.

Nokia aparece en No time to die

2021: Tease Industries and Rooftop Movies present the Casino Royale: Immersive Movie Experience in Perth, Australia. With burlesque performances.

Casino Royale: Immersive
Movie Experience

See the complete article here:

https://www.rooftopmovies.com.au/program-1/casino1

Thursday, 18 March 2021
6:00 pm 10:15 pm

Rooftop Movies 68 Roe Street Northbridge, WA, 6003 Australia
(map http://maps.google.com/?q=68 Roe Street Northbridge, WA, 6003 Australia)

Movie trailer


Iconic Bond-girl glamour is brought to life by Perth's best Burlesque entertainers this summer in the live immersive screening of Casino Royale, presented by Rooftop Movies and Tease Industries.

Suit up! Beautiful Bond girls (& boys!) await, as the thrilling and tantalizing world of James Bond is brought to life atop the Perth city skyline. Cast your bets and keep your poker face steady, these Bond girls would melt even Daniel Craig’s cold heart!

Burlesque Cinema is an immersive cinema event that includes live burlesque performances from Perth’s best, both before and during the film, bringing iconic movie moments to life before your eyes.

Doors for this event open at 6.00pm and entertainment will commence at approximately 7.30pm. The film performance will commence at approximately 8.00pm. Come early to nab a spot and grab some food and drinks before we kick off!

THE MOVIE
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

Director: Martin Campbell

Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini

Genre: Action | Thriller

Language: English

Duration: 1h 37m

Rated: M

Consumer Advice: Action violence

Year of Release: 2006

RichardTheBruce

March 19th

1935: Burt Metcalfe is born--Saskatchewan, Canada.
1936: Ursula Andress is born--Ostermundigen, Switzerland.

1958: Dr. No begins as a serial in the Daily Express, with an illustration by Robb. (Ends 1 April 1958.)

1962: Sports Illustrated prints Ian Fleming's article "The Guns of James Bond".

1964: The first day of filming Goldfinger for Sean Connery at Pinewood Studios, Stage D. Includes the pre-titles action at El Scorpio.

1994: James Duncan (Jim) Lawrence dies at age 75--Summit, New Jersey.
(Born 22 October 1918--Detroit, Michigan.)

Lawrence, Jim

See the complete article here:

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lawrence_jim

April 03, 2020

Working name of US teacher and author James Duncan Lawrence (1918-1994), active from 1941 until the 1980s; he was one of the main authors in the Second Series of Tom Swift books (see Children's SF), comprising the Tom Swift Jr sequence as by Victor Appleton II (see Victor Appleton); Lawrence's contributions begin with #5: Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster (1954) and end with #30: Tom Swift and his G-Force Inverter (1968), all as by Victor Appleton II (for list of titles by other authors see Tom Swift). Lawrence also revised various Hardy Boys titles as by Franklin W Dixon for 1960s reissue: see John Button for an example of mild genre interest. His remaining sf output consists of the unremarkable, mildly erotic Man from Planet X sequence – The Man from Planet X #1: The She-Beast (1975), The Man from Planet X #2: Tiger by the Tail (1975) and The Man from Planet X: The Devil to Pay (1975), all as by Hunter Adams – and two novels tied to Shared-World franchises: ESP McGee and the Haunted Mansion (1983 chap) for the ESP McGee series, and The Cutlass Clue (1986) for the A.I. Gang series. [JC]
James Duncan Lawrence

born Detroit, Michigan: 22 October 1918

died Summit, New Jersey: 19 March 1994

https://www.markcarlson-ghost.com/index.php/2019/09/12/friday-foster/

2001: The BBC reports a High Court jury awards Monty Norman £30,000 libel damages for a Sunday Times article stating he didn't write the James Bond theme.

Bond theme writer wins damages
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1229406.stm
Monday, 19 March, 2001, 14:25 GMT

Monty Norman: Libel case victory

Composer Monty Norman has been awarded £30,000 libel damages by a High Court jury over an article which said he did not write the James Bond theme.

"The Sunday Times always said that they were only interested in the truth -
well, now they've got the truth"
Monty Norman

Norman had sued the Sunday Times over the article in October 1997 which claimed John Barry actually wrote the distinctive twanging guitar tune - first heard in the 1962 film Dr No, starring Sean Connery.

It was described during the two-week court case in London as "one of the most famous pieces of music in the world".

Mr Norman said afterwards: "I am absolutely delighted - and vindicated. The Sunday Times always said that they were only interested in the truth. Well, now they've got the truth."

Sean Connery began his
Bond career with Dr No

He was present in court when the jury announced its unanimous verdict after some four hours' deliberation.

Mr Norman had told the court that the article, with the title "Theme tune wrangle has 007 shaken and stirred" had effectively "rubbished" his whole career.

Times Newspapers faces a costs bill unofficially estimated to be well in excess of £500,000.

A spokesman for The Sunday Times said: "This was always going to be a difficult case for a jury given the complexities of the expert musical evidence."

Awards
The court heard that apart from Dr No, Mr Norman was credited with stage and film songs such as Expresso Bongo, Songbook and Poppy.

He has won Ivor Novello, Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier awards.

Mr Norman's counsel, James Price QC, said the article damaged his client's reputation by suggesting he had dishonestly passed himself off as the creator of the Bond theme for 35 years.

Dispute
Mark Warby, for Times Newspapers, denied libel and said the newspaper article was neutral, sensibly balanced and a classic example of a report and comment piece on a live dispute.

He said the article reported only that Mr Barry was claiming to have written the tune.

The Sunday Times
alleged Barry composed
Bond tune

Mr Warby said Mr Barry had been brought in six months into the project to create a more memorable tune, because Mr Norman had run out of inspiration.

Mr Warby added: "In short, it was composed by John Barry with some input from an idea by Monty Norman."

Giving evidence, Mr Barry said that the producers of Dr. No Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had been "unhappy" with Mr Norman's efforts at a theme tune.

Flat fee
Mr Barry said that a deal was struck whereby he would receive a flat fee of £250 and Mr Norman would receive the songwriting credit.

Mr Barry said that he had had never challenged the registration of the songwriting credit with the Performing Right Society and had no intention of doing so.

He had accepted the deal with United Artists Head of Music Noel Rogers because it would help his career - and it was a "terribly good deal because the whole Bond thing took off."

Mr Barry composed soundtracks for many other Bond films as well as Born Free, Zulu and Midnight Cowboy.

2015: BOND 24 films the helicopter sequence at Zócalo main city square, Mexico City, Mexico.

2018: Manchester Univ Press publishes The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine by Claire Hines.

2019: BOND 25 scheduled date to begin filming with director Cary Fukunaga.

2021: Daniel Craig returns to the Bond role.

Daniel Craig confirmed to return as James
Bond, but not in another movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a35871059/daniel-craig-james-bond-comic-relief-catherine-tate/

He's teaming up with Catherine Tate for Comic Relief.
By Amy West | 18/03/2021

Daniel Craig is set to reprise his role as James Bond, having previously vowed that filming No Time to Die would mark his last appearance as the iconic character. It won't be for another 007 movie though, mind.

Instead, the actor has been persuaded to take part in a sketch for Comic Relief, which will be broadcast on Friday (March 19), and see the suited-and-booted super spy share the screen with Catherine Tate's foul-mouthed Nan.

In the skit, it's explained that Nan has taken up a part-time job as a cleaner. While cleaning the office of Bond's MI6 superior M, she finds herself unexpectedly face to face with the secret agent when he video calls in for a security briefing.

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Craig and Tate are no strangers to teaming up when it comes to the fundraising event. In 2009, the duo performed another short sequence that saw Tate's Elaine Figgis striking up a whirlwind romance with Craig, playing himself.

"Nan had a right old time meeting Bond. What a smashing fella! As ever, it was great fun filming this Comic Relief sketch, huge thanks to Daniel and all the Bond team for being such great sports," Tate told The Mirror.

"I hope it raises lots of money on the night."

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James Bond comes face-to-face with Catherine Tate's Nan
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March 20th

1911: Milo Sperber is born in Poland.
(He dies 22 December 1992 at age 81--London Borough of Camden, London, England.)

Milo Sperber

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

Milo Sperber (20 March 1911 – 22 December 1992) was a British actor, director and writer, who was born in Poland.

Early life
Sperber was born in 1911 into a family of Polish Hasidic Jews who fled anti-Semitism during the Second World War. His older brother was activist, author and intellectual Manès Sperber. The younger Sperber trained as a lawyer in Vienna before joining Max Reinhardt's school; there he played roles in Six Characters in Search of an Author and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among other plays. Martin Esslin was a classmate during this time. While on the rise as an actor in Germany, in 1939 he fled Germany and the Nazis with his family, eventually landing in Britain as refugees.

Career
Early in the Second World War Sperber joined the Oxford Pilgrim Players; he gained experience directing the company on tour in Case 27 VC and spending a season in London even during the Blitz. He also was involved in producing anti-Nazi propaganda for the BBC before the end of the war. His later career included stints in cabaret, theatre and television; in the last capacity, he performed as shoe salesman Mr. Grossman in four episodes of Are You Being Served?. In 1990, at the age of 79, he appeared in Series 2, Episode 7 of Poirot, "The Kidnapped Prime Minister," as Mr. Fingler, Poirot's kvetching tailor.

His big-screen career included performances in minor roles in such films as Foreign Intrigue, The Spy Who Loved Me, Operation Crossbow, In Search of the Castaways and Billion Dollar Brain. He taught for some time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and served as a scriptwriter for the BBC's German language service. Many of his students at RADA went on to succeed in the arts, including Glenda Jackson.

Sperber's last appearance in the West End was in a 1984 production of The Clandestine Marriage at the Albany Theatre; he spent his last years travelling Britain, giving readings from the works of his brother, writer Manès Sperber.

Sperber died on 22 December 1992, aged 81 in London, United Kingdom

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1942 Thunder Rock Mr. Hirohiti Uncredited
1944 Mr. Emmanuel Student
1948 Noose Taschlik Uncredited
1949 Golden Arrow Black Marketeer

1954 The End of the Road Uncredited
1956 Foreign Intrigue Baum

1960 Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons Librarian Uncredited
1962 In Search of the Castaways Crooked Sailor
1963 The Victors Concentration Camp Prisoner
1965 Operation Crossbow German Hotel Porter
1967 Billion Dollar Brain Basil

1976 Voyage of the Damned Rabbi
1977 Providence Mr. Jenner
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Prof. Markovitz
1978 The Stud Kamara Uncredited

Milo Sperber (1911–1992)

Actor | Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818269/

1942: Signed "F", Ian Fleming presents a paper to Admiral John Henry Godfrey recognizing successful efforts by Germans to send advance Commando forces that seized "documents, equipment, and ciphers" before they could be destroyed. He suggests a similar effort by the Allies. And later in civilian life collects important manuscripts for posterity.

Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Top Secret Story Behind 007, Brian Gordon Lett, 1995.
Chapter 4 - M and Ian Fleming.

Fleming remained a member of Naval Intelligence under
Rear Admiral Godfrey’s command, and continued to act as
their liaison officer with SOE. He clearly got on well with M
and his team, and was trusted by them. Thus when the
question arose of the cover story to be used for Operation
Postmaster, Fleming was the obvious choice to design it. He
continued in his liaison role until the spring of 1942, when in
fact a naval section within SOE was finally set up. Fleming was
not released to take up a job with them. In his mind, however,
he retained an in-depth knowledge of M’s Secret Service and
how it all worked, which he eventually came to use in his
novels. By 20 March 1942, Commander Ian Fleming was
signing himself off on memos and internal correspondence
simply as ‘F’, an affectation no doubt drawn from his desire to
serve as a Secret Agent under M.

After the war, Fleming remained on friendly terms with M
(now retired from the defunct SOE and simply known as
Major General Sir Colin Gubbins). In the late 1940s, when
Gubbins was hoping to write a definitive history of the Secret
Service that he had run, Fleming wrote twice to encourage
him to do so. However, with the Cold War between the old
Allies and the Soviet Union in full swing Gubbins was
Forbidden from wrting in the book, an attitude by the British
Government that did not substantially change until the 1990s,
after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ian Fleming's secret memo
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5 March 2013



1

Embossed emblem of Admiralty paper
2

MOST SECRET – British equivalent of the American term “top secret”
3

A.D.I.C – Assistant Director (Operational) Intelligence Centre
4

D.D.N.I – Deputy Director Naval Intelligence

D.N.I - Director Naval Intelligence - John Henry Godfrey, Fleming’s boss and said to be inspiration for M in the 007 stories

F – Ian Fleming, author of the document
5

N.I.D – Naval Intelligence Division
6

C.C.O – Chief of Combined Operations – Lord Mountbatten, Admiral of the Fleet
7

R.D.F gear – radio direction finding gear, used to determine where a radio signal is coming from
8

Operation “SLEDGEHAMMER” – plan for US troops to land at Brest or Cherbourg in France, later cancelled. But the idea evolved and Fleming’s proposed unit of commandos first deployed in Operation JUBILEE, the Dieppe raid of 19 August 1942 (operation names were always written in capitals)
9

F, N.I.D (17) – Ian Fleming’s codename, signed in pencil, of Naval Intelligence Division, dated 20 March 1942
10

Pencil note signed JHG - John Godfrey. It reads: Yes, most decidedly but we won’t “submit” [he draws arrow to (ii)] The principle be worked out in detail in collaboration with C.C.O. [Chief of Combined Operations]. He thinks the idea so good, he wants his team to keep hold of it, says historian Nick Rankin

1964: Daily Variety reports Goldfinger principal photography began 16 March with interiors at Pinewood. And location filming of Fort Knox (replica) in the London borough of Middlesex.
1965: The Goldfinger soundtrack reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 charts, remaining at the top through 3 April. The LP was released in October 1964.

1968: Lawrence Mukoare is born--Bastion Point, Auckland, New Zealand.

1976: Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe dies at age 61--Wimbledon, London, England.
(Born 1 October 1914--Bebington, Merseyside, England.)

Michael Goodliffe

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Goodliffe
Painted by Aubrey Davidson-Houston in the role of Hamlet,
performed while a POW in Germany.

Born Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe, 1 October 1914, Bebington, Cheshire, England
Died 20 March 1976 (aged 61), Wimbledon, London, England
Years active 1936–1976
Spouse(s) Dorothy Margaret Tyndale 1945-1976 (3 Children)

Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts.

Biography
Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire, the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Keble College, Oxford. He started his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. He joined the British Army at the beginning of the Second World War, and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940. He was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk. Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper. He was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany.

Whilst in captivity he produced and acted in (and in some cases wrote) many plays and sketches to entertain fellow prisoners. These included two productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noël Coward's Post-Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record of these productions exists.

After the war he resumed his professional acting career. As well as appearing in the theatre, he worked in film and television. He appeared in The Wooden Horse in 1950 and in other POW films. His best-known film was A Night to Remember (1958), in which he played Thomas Andrews, designer of the RMS Titanic. His best-known television series was Sam (1973–75) in which he played an unemployed Yorkshire miner. He also appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance.

Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of Equus. He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape while a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon.

Filmography

The Small Back Room (1949) as Till
Stop Press Girl (1949) as McPherson

The Wooden Horse (1950) as Robbie
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) as Col. Caillard - POW Escort
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) as Martens
The Hour of 13 (1952) as Anderson
Sea Devils (1953) as Ragan
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) as Robert Walpole
Front Page Story (1954) as Kennedy
John Wesley (1954)
The Crowded Day (1954) as Eve's Husband
The End of the Affair (1955) as Smythe
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) as Count De Dunois
The Way Out (1955) as John Moffat
Wicked as They Come (1956) as Larry Buckham
The Battle of the River Plate (1956) as Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires
Fortune Is a Woman (1957) as Detective Insp. Barnes
The One That Got Away (1957) as R.A.F. Interrogator
Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) as Coding Expert
The Camp on Blood Island (1958) as Father Paul Anjou
Up the Creek (1958) as Nelson
A Night to Remember (1958) as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews
Three Crooked Men (1958) as Shop customer
Further Up the Creek (1958) as Le. Commander Blakeney
The 39 Steps (1959) as Brown
The White Trap (1959) as Inspector Walters

Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Captain Banister
Testament of Orpheus (1960) as English narrator (voice, uncredited)
The Battle of the Sexes (1960) as Detective
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) as Father Desmaines
Peeping Tom (1960) as Don jarvis
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Charles Gill
No Love for Johnnie (1961) as Dr. West
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) as 'Jacko' Jackson - Night Editor
Jigsaw (1962) as Clyde Burchard
80,000 Suspects (1963) as Clifford Preston
A Stitch in Time (1963) as Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
Man in the Middle (1963) as Col. Shaw
Woman of Straw (1964) as Solicitor (uncredited)
633 Squadron (1964) as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
The 7th Dawn (1964) as Trumphey
The Gorgon (1964) as Professor Jules Heitz
Troubled Waters (1964) as Jeff Driscoll
Von Ryan's Express (1965) as Captain Stein
The Night of the Generals (1967) as Hauser
The Jokers (1967) as Lt. Col. Paling
The Fixer (1968) as Ostrovsky

Cromwell (1970) as Solicitor General
The Fifth Day of Peace (1970) as Gen. Snow
The Johnstown Monster (1971) as McNeil
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) as Thomas More
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) as Gen. Helmuth Weidling
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Bill Tanner, Chief of Staff (uncredited)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976) as George de Grass

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1955 The Lark play by Jean Anouilh The inquisitor BBC Sunday Night Theatre
1957 The Adventures of Peter Simple Peter's Uncle 4 episodes
1963 Maigret Dr Javet Episode: Maigret's Little Joke
1963 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre Episode: "The £20,000 Kiss"
1967 Inheritance William Oldroyd 10 Episodes
1969 Callan Hunter 5 Episodes (Series 2)
1969 Judge Dee Judge Dee 6 Episodes
1969 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Arthur de Crecy Episode 13 "But What a Sweet Little Room"
1970 The Woodlanders (BBC Series - lost) George Melbury ? Episodes
1973 Sam Jack Barraclough 39 episodes

Michael Goodliffe (1914–1976)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328982/

1978: Tom Mankiewicz submits his For Your Eyes Only first draft screenplay. (Some ideas return for the Christopher Wood Moonraker script.)

2002: BOND 20 films Jinx threatened by lasers.

2013: Danny Boyle declares to the press he won't direct the next Bond film based on concerns for creative control--and since he's already done a mini-Bond film for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Danny Boyle rules himself out of directing James Bond film

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/danny-boyle-rules-himself-out-of-directing-james-bond-film-8542164.html
Albertina Lloyd | Wednesday 20 March 2013 12:59


'The Queen' and James Bond parachute into the stadium ( Getty Images )

Danny Boyle says he has ruled himself out of directing the next James Bond film because he wants more creative control - and believes he has already had his 007 moment.

The Oscar-winning film-maker was creative director of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, which featured Bond star Daniel Craig jumping out of a helicopter with the Queen.

The director of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire admitted he would not want the constraints of working on a big franchise.

Boyle, speaking at the premiere of his new film Trance, said: "It's not for me. I like working under the radar a bit more, so you can take risks.

"As we do with this film (Trance) and the perception of the characters - who's the antagonist? who's the protagonist? - it keeps changing in this film. And I love that freedom."

He added: "We did a sort of mini Bond film already, in the Olympics."

Trance - starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel - tells the story of a fine art auctioneer who gets caught up in a robbery and has to enlist the help of a hypnotherapist when he loses his memory along with a priceless painting.

The film is set in London, which Boyle said meant a lot to him.

"I love filming here. I live here and it's a city I think I know, but there's always bits of it you don't," he said.

"So going out and finding a location for a film is fantastic because you discover new parts. So it's very special to have the privilege of working here again."

Film company MGM said yesterday that it expects the 24th Bond film to be released within three years, and will announce a director "soon". Skyfall film-maker Sam Mendes has already ruled out a return in the hot seat.

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2018: Daniel Craig's 2014 Aston Martin Centenary Edition Vanquish, numbered 007, goes to auction for charity at Christie’s in New York.

Winning bid: $468,500.00.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #5.
Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532505011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Rags Morales
Cover C: Adam Gorham
Cover D: Stephen Mooney
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Marc Laming
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: March 2019
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/20/2019

ODD JOB continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Firefly) and STEPHEN MOONEY (Grayson, The Dead Hand)!
007: Arrested! John Lee: Saving the world, solo! But when the time comes, will Lee be able to pull the trigger, or will his love for the mind-controlled Agent K prevent him from stopping her terrorist organization from succeeding in their world-altering endgame?